Do you remember where you were on Sept. 11th? Can you believe it's almost been 5 years?!?

Question

What do you feel the country has lost as a result? How was it handled or how should it have been handled. Serious answers only, please.

Answer 1

Of course I remember; I will never forget. I used to work in an office building by the Pentagon. My co-worker was watching her little telelvision that sits on her desk. She turned up the TV when the first plane hit and we all heard it and gathered around in time to see the second plane crash into the second tower. When they showed the Pentagon being hit we all rushed to the windows. We just stood there, silent, watching the smoke pour from the Pentagon. Most people left after that. The streets were filled with people leaving work early. The traffic jam lasted for more than five hours. Everyone was trying to leave the area because there were a lot of planes flying overhead. People kept watching the sky to see if another plane would crash.

This country has surely lost it's "innocence." Also, the economy has suffered tremendously.

Answer 2

I remember I was in the 5th grade (gonna be a soph. now). It was like 9:30 and all these kids were getting called down to the office to get picked up by their parents or guardians. We were getting really suspicious and before the teachers had all been called down to this room where they met with the principal. They all decided they wouldn't tell the kids and let their parents/guardians tell them about it when they went home. Plus us kids that walked home almost all had a parent/guardian waiting for us where we come out of the school picking us up, even the daycare lady that I would've gone to on a normal day.

It does seem like it's been 5 years with all the media stuff about it. It's been a long time. But I don't really feel the country has lost much as a result, instead it seems like we gained a lot of patriotism out of the whole thing. I remember seeing this add on TV with a clip of a city block the morning of Sept. 11, with only one flag. Then it shows the same block the next morning with almost hundreds of flags.

The handling to me was very confusing, the government really couldn't do too much since there really was nothing to do immediate except scorn the people who did it. But getting back to the 5th grade all the teachers met with us to discuss what we thought about the whole thing. I think they did a really good job handling it, making sure all of us kids weren't really shaken up by it like if we knew anyone who had been killed. I knew someone who was there but they were just outside the buildings when the first plane hit.

Answer 3

I was in my 10th grade high school World History class when I heard the news. I feel as if our country has lost a lot due to those attacks. For one how many of our nations troops have lost their lives while fighting. Children who are so young that have lost a parent wont even remeber what that person was like..their smile, smell, laugh. That just makes me really sad. Also another thing that has been dropped is the comfort of our nations security...if someone can hijack a plane with a box cutter or whatever and cause this much destruction just imagine what else they could do. I support our troops but at the same time I wonder why they heck they are still over there and why are they still sending more and more men and women over to that place. I really dislike president bush.

Answer 4

I think it was handled in the best manner it could have been handled. Several lives were lost. But feel that everything was done properly. Lots of people died trying to save the ones in the towers.

This world....God help us all.

No, it seems as if it were last month. Not 5 years ago. Just like the teacher and the crew of the shuttle that went up. In my minds eye, I can still see that shuttle explode, just like I can still see the one plane flying into the tower. When something of this magnitude happens, people will never forget. If they do, they don't have a heart....

Yes, I remember where I was. I was at home on my lunch hour. When going back to work, no one would believe me.

Answer 5

I was in my college dorm room, just crawling out of bed to get ready for class. When I got on the computer and realized what was going on, I began to worry about my family, which live in the Washington, D.C. area and about their safety. Thank goodness they were all fine, but it definitely has left a sad impression in my life.

I can't even begin to think of what this country has lost, other than the people who died that day and any subsequent deaths related to that fateful day. As for how it was handled, I am still not sure. It seemed like things were being handled okay at first, but now things seem to be continuing to spin out of control.

Answer 6

I was on my way to a seminar in college.Hard to believe it's been five years - makes me feel a bit old. As far as how it was and is now being handled, I suppose only time will tell. I will neither pretend to know nor look to accuse on a situation such as this where those officials who are handling it are privy to information the general public is not. As far as what we have lost - that would be a sense of security.

Answer 7

I remember getting out of bed to get in the shower and my parents were watching TV my mom told me the twin towers had been hit. I was like ok. I had no clue at that time what they where or what the meant to me but when i got to school that day it was amazing. all we watched and talked about for weeks and weeks at school was what was going on. We got into so many debates and arguments about what america should do. I dont know if what we did was right or wrong, it is a difference of oppionin. What we lost... We have lost a lot of amazing people

Answer 8

I live on the West Coast...so when it happened, I was in bed, feeding my four-week-old daughter, at 5:45 AM (8:45 eastern). I did not get up that morning until 11 AM (2:00 PM eastern) and that is when I first saw it on TV. I remember my mother saying "You have to look at this.." I didn't have my contacts in...had to put them in....went back to see the TV, and thought for sure what I was seeing was fake....I asked my mother if it was real...she said yes, and then they showed the towers collapsing, and my heart broke for all the people inside. =( That was a very sad day, not only for New Yorkers, but for everyone in this country.

Answer 9

I was working at IBM in Cambridge, MA, just a few miles from where two of the planes took off. My friend Jason called and told me a plane just hit the WTC, when I was talking to him, the other plane hit. I left work immediately and picked up my son at day care and went over to my sisters.

America has lost thousands of citizens because of September 11th. Both from the terrorist attacks and from the war on terror that followed. Beyond these precious lives, we have lost nothing. The terrorists though have lost many lands they once called home. From Pakistan to Iraq, terrorist safe havens have been dwindling. We are winning, they are losing, long live America!

Answer 10

I was on my way out of the door when a friend in America phoned and told me to turn on the TV (I had one in those days) and check the news. This I did, just in time to see that second plane bank and sweep in for the kill. I was on my way to work.

I never went to work that day. I could barely absorb what I was seeing and hearing, even though it was on the TV.

As an outsider, I stand in both admiration of America, and despair for her. As a nation, she could have risen like some dark and terrible engine of retribution and levelled entire civilisations to the ground. She didn't. She demonstrated a reserve and a dignity far, far beyond anything this red-blooded male could have summoned through rage and fury at what those creatures did to your people. My response to such wholesale murder would have been a savage revenge unlike anything this world has ever seen before. America COULD have gone that way. She has the military and financial power to do it.

I can only offer my admiration, for what it's worth, for the restraint America has shown.

The despair I feel?

FFS stop trying to please all of the people all the time and fight, dammit. You sometimes look like the big, strong kid, cowering defensively from aggressive little creeps half your size, and half your weight. For cryin' out loud, stop being so bloody civilised and flatten the little b******s - they deserve it.