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/)eathKiller · 09-10-2002, 11:56 PM

So, in honor of the date, which is today, why don't we start things off by describing where you were when you first heard about the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I don't want this to turn into some political argument or anything. Some people recomend having jubuliouse celebrations while others want nothing more than a few seconds of silence nation-wide. I think it would be best to just pass the ball around and describe, as an international community, what if felt like and what we were doing when the news came to us. No story is too boring or too long to hear.

I'll start:

When I first heard of a plane hitting the world trade center I was in woodshop, one of my least-favorite classes but I had to take something for credit that period and taking Algebra and Spanish II over again didn't really appeal to me. Anyway, so in the door came these people who I hated due to their constant ignorance and bliss which they celebrated, not caring about what others though of them, they were always rambunxiouse and ill-mannered, but that period they came in with their faces cold, still, one in tears, wide-eyed they could only stare off into space, they didn't make eye contact and sat down slowly, appearing to take in the moment, I, as I usually did, ignored them and continued to draw out plans for a chess board... Then they started talking about it, and as always, I coulnd't help but overhear their conversation... They spoke of the obviouse facts which we all know today but came to my ears first via their mouths. I then recalled a certain writing from nostradameuse about an Iron bird, which I'd always thought to represent a Nuclear missile, but his predictions haven't been wrong yet, though this last one was some 19 years off... and then again that's all with interpretation, after all, he did write his predictions in code. Well anyway, somehow all these thoughts went through my head and I knew then and there that the tower was bound to collapse, I sort of expected it to take out half of NewYork, Times Square included, but then again, interpretation... Aaanyway, the period right after that was lunch, so I went home and turned on the television, everyone around was worrying about what would happen, if the skies were all goign to start raining jet air liners, the Base went to a hightened state of alert and for 2 weeks nobody could even park their cars near buildings... >_> Since then, nothing similar has happened, though life has certainly changed, because of the war in alqueda we get prisoners, with prisoners come troops, lots more people around now than there were then... It changed life in ways which could not have even been expected to have occured on september the 10th, or even at 8:00 AM September the 11th... It truley will be a day that will live in infamy for us all...

*tosses ball into crowd hoping some one will catch it*

09-10-2002, 11:56 PM	#1
/)eathKiller Dracolisk Join Date: January 5, 2002 Location: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Age: 40 Posts: 6,043	So, in honor of the date, which is today, why don't we start things off by describing where you were when you first heard about the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I don't want this to turn into some political argument or anything. Some people recomend having jubuliouse celebrations while others want nothing more than a few seconds of silence nation-wide. I think it would be best to just pass the ball around and describe, as an international community, what if felt like and what we were doing when the news came to us. No story is too boring or too long to hear. I'll start: When I first heard of a plane hitting the world trade center I was in woodshop, one of my least-favorite classes but I had to take something for credit that period and taking Algebra and Spanish II over again didn't really appeal to me. Anyway, so in the door came these people who I hated due to their constant ignorance and bliss which they celebrated, not caring about what others though of them, they were always rambunxiouse and ill-mannered, but that period they came in with their faces cold, still, one in tears, wide-eyed they could only stare off into space, they didn't make eye contact and sat down slowly, appearing to take in the moment, I, as I usually did, ignored them and continued to draw out plans for a chess board... Then they started talking about it, and as always, I coulnd't help but overhear their conversation... They spoke of the obviouse facts which we all know today but came to my ears first via their mouths. I then recalled a certain writing from nostradameuse about an Iron bird, which I'd always thought to represent a Nuclear missile, but his predictions haven't been wrong yet, though this last one was some 19 years off... and then again that's all with interpretation, after all, he did write his predictions in code. Well anyway, somehow all these thoughts went through my head and I knew then and there that the tower was bound to collapse, I sort of expected it to take out half of NewYork, Times Square included, but then again, interpretation... Aaanyway, the period right after that was lunch, so I went home and turned on the television, everyone around was worrying about what would happen, if the skies were all goign to start raining jet air liners, the Base went to a hightened state of alert and for 2 weeks nobody could even park their cars near buildings... >_> Since then, nothing similar has happened, though life has certainly changed, because of the war in alqueda we get prisoners, with prisoners come troops, lots more people around now than there were then... It changed life in ways which could not have even been expected to have occured on september the 10th, or even at 8:00 AM September the 11th... It truley will be a day that will live in infamy for us all... tosses ball into crowd hoping some one will catch it __________________ [img]\"http://membres.lycos.fr/th8or/ZeroSigForIronworks.gif\" alt=\" - \" /> o.o;