I served 14 years in the USAF and a Viet Nam Vet, but I gotta tell ya I was scared at first in a way and I didn't know why, but as the day progressed I got mad.
Have you reflected on that day when so many soldiers and money has been spent with progress as slow as it seems?
2007-03-03 19:59:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I will never forget that day! I was getting ready to go to work, had the news on and at 1st I thought this can't be real!!!! Then I was just sitting there watching the worst day in America! I was am still am shocked. I feel the war is slow and alot of money spent. But I respect all our soldiers, as a viet nam vet you are aware of the hell all our soldiers went thru, when they came home, from nam what a shame. They were in a hell hole doing what the country asked of them! I am not sure if there is a way to solve this, all wars are hell and to lose our men is so bad. I really wonder should we be there now? What can our men do? Will this country ever be the same? I doubt it, we will never feel as safe as we once did. Oh your question stirs so many emotions, it is not really possible for me to express them all.
2007-03-03 20:17:22 · answer #1 · answered by bodacious baby 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I didn't know what was going on when I got up for about an hour or so. I went to get food at the food court at college, and as I took the food back, I spotted coverage on the TV that the Pentagon had been hit. That was maybe the most jarring image at the time. Sure, the trade center towers were more iconic, but the fact that a group of people were able to attack our military center directly and succeed. When I got back to the dorm after seeing this, I still remember telling my roommate "Dude, turn on the TV, the world's coming to an end."
2007-03-03 20:14:27 · answer #2 · answered by Son of a Mitch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't believe it was as bad as it turned out at first.
I was on my way to work when I first overheard two guys talking. I heard a plane had hit the WTC. That's bad, but not a huge tragedy I thought, since I know many buildings had been hit by planes and remained standing. Then one of the guys said there were more hijacked planes "missing". I dismissed that as an unsubstantited rumor.
When I got to my office, everybody was working as usual. Then somebody said "the other tower just got hit." Everybody then got on the internet and began following the story.
A few minutes after the towers fell, my boss closed his door and left the office. Nobody else said much. We just shut everything down and went home to watch the news.
In hindsight, it was a horrific attack, but its significance has blown way out of all proportion by the government and the media. In the grand scheme of things it was just a pinprick. Certainly not sacrificing our freedom over out of fear of another attack. That's exactly what the terrorists wanted, and that's what we've given them.
I was gkad I wasn't travelling for work when it happened. I had been in South Dakota the week before. It would have really sucked to have been stuck there for weeks before the planes started flying again.
2007-03-03 20:15:38 · answer #3 · answered by chimpus_incompetus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i can but you might not like what you read but i'll tell you
i was in the middle of a 16 day streach working over nights at a hotel in austin texas we had been sold out for the last four nights and were going to be sold out yet again for three more nights, i go home and crash out then there is a loud banging at my door and my sister freaking out yelling something about we are being attack new york is all messed up,.. now being half asleep and wore out like old socks i said flat out : i don't give a rats a** and went back to sleep. yep that's it people i didn't care, and to be honest way to many people only cared about anything after we were attacked. it took showing us just how open we were to make a lot of you see that we are not some untouchable nation, i morn for all of those lost in 9/11 and the ones we lost during this war, and the ones who will be coming home to a totally different life from what they had before they left, america is great please don't get me wrong i just find it said that we only feel the need to unite when bad things happen
2007-03-03 20:16:27 · answer #4 · answered by Lazrus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be brutally honest,,i was expecting an attack
the al-qaeda had threatened the us for a very long time
it was just a matter of time
they all along said they would bring the war to the US,,and they did on the day that changed the world
it was very unfortunate though,,,,,as was the bloody aftermath
in afghanistan
and the unrelated ,,messed-up war in iraq
is the USA safer now??
i don't think so
i do wish they had handled it better
i think 9/11 was a day where not some people,,,but a little
bit of the world died
we all became much more hateful and cynical
which was what they wanted all along
2007-03-03 20:04:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i seriously didnt care i didnt really understand what was happening plus i live in australia so it didint affect me too much although my dad lived in manhattan at the time so it should have impacted
my mum was in a village in bali at the time and didnt find out for 3 weeks which was kind of amusing
2007-03-03 20:16:13 · answer #6 · answered by liz m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is still the saddest and most horrific thing I have ever seen in my life...I hope I never see anything like it again....
I was heartbroken and frightened and angry all at the same time....
2007-03-03 20:03:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
to be honest, I didnt even know what was going on...
I don't watch the news, etc.. and live in canada.
2007-03-03 20:12:23 · answer #8 · answered by Sammy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋