ally77 said on September 7, 2005 10:06:

The world has got worse.... I can’t see how those that committed the crimes of 9/11 thought they where doing good....

Kathrin said on September 7, 2005 10:41:

I will never forget the moment either cuz I am Half US american(My Father is from Alabama) and half German(My Mother is from here) and I also have an aunt
and Uncle that where very Lucky that they had work traffic(that was before car bomb at the Pentagon and my uncle used to work at the Pentagon and my Aunt used to Work in The Capitol in Washington DC, but when I saw that the World Trade Center Collapsed I had to cry for the people that where in it and they’re Families!

eBay said on September 7, 2005 11:21:

Fahrenheit 911 was shown in the US and a big hit, wasn’t it? But that was more a documentay, not a blockbuster holywood film.. was it? Or am I mixing things up?

pwbbounce (moderator) said on September 7, 2005 11:36:

There’s a movie in the piplines. Oliver Stone is due to direct

coyboyusa said on September 7, 2005 13:14:

there are perhaps now only 3 things that will ever move me to tears in my lifetime. The first is the explosion of the challenger shuttle, the second is Kartinas wrath , and the third is 911. I was just emerging form the lincoln tunnel on my way home from work on a bus when the first plane hit tower one. When i got home a friend was frantically messaging me on the internet I cracked a joke about his impetiousness, and he said i need to turn the tv on immediately. Those first images of tower 1 engulfed in flames were haunting, but what was to come was even worse, and names of people that i knew who lived or worked in the area or in the towers ran through my head the frantic call of a newperson as a helicopters camera focused on a second plane approaching tower two and subsequent explosion was just numbing. I grabbed a camera and ran down the street, i live less than a mile from the towers along the east river and on that clear clouless day you could see evey inch of manhattan. As I clicked away it became so sobering that this was real, I ran back to my housew and frantically called my mom who had no idea what had happend. After talking to her, my best friend elizabeth called, worried that our best friend peter and his brother, both of who were employees in tower one might have been caught in the attack, and i rember my friend nick worked in the area of 7 world trade center. I spent a good hour calalling people frantically checking to see who was ok, who we couldnt’ contact. My friend and his borther missed the attacks by 10 minute because liek many people that mornign the left for work late. My friend nick wasnt’ working that day. There was some personal relief in that, but that was very short lived. That night after the attack was one I’ll never forget. There wasn’t a single sound except for that fo the f16’s fying over the city and of emergency vehicles heading into and out of the city. There were no children in the park across the street from me, no buses, no epople walking their dogs. The day after was just incredibly heart breaking. 6 people in my apartment building were missing loved ones. All along jfk boulevard makeshift memorials were cropping up with pictures of husband and wives and daughter and sons missing or presumed lost. The silence was soon replaced with alot of tears, candelight vigils, and alot of fear over what was ” next”. I know it sounds selfish but for people who didnt live in the vicinity of the city you’ll never truly understand. You’ll never know what it was like to see the mass transit parking lot a mile from my home with some 250 cars in it belonging to prople who never came back from the wtc, sitting there like gravemarkers. What more scarey now is that this sets a new mark for what terroism is a bar that needs to be raised or exceeded, and as long as there is evil left in the world there will be more burning building and people dying, and never an answer to why

pwbbounce (moderator) said on September 7, 2005 14:48:

I was also in NYC on holiday on 9/11. It was my 2nd day....

So I know what it was like to be there. Okay, so it wasn’t my home town, but I still saw what happened first hand. Not nice. The smell was the thing which sticks out in my mind the most. I’ve have never and I never want to again, smell something that bad. It was disgusting. We didn’t go down to Ground Zero though as a mark of respect for families. We weren’t local, and had no right being there at that time.

I’ll never forget that day, the rest of the holiday was amazing, even with everything that happened. A couple of days passed, and I think the city residents were pleased to have tourists still there. They seemed pleased and happy to see us.

Still waiting for my return trip though

ally77 said on September 7, 2005 18:57:

I was working at Powergen, and it had been a busy day on the phones... it suddenly went quiet and at first we where all like “wow we could do this all day”, then I heard someone mention a plane crash in the US, then as time went on all you could hear was people talking to others on the phone, and mobiles bleeping with text messages.... It was only when I left work at around 4pm that day and heard in the car radio what had really happened, I got home and sat in front of the TV for the next 6 hours just watching it unfold....

ally77 said on September 8, 2005 05:33:

That was the 3rd thing..... I’d forgotton about Anna Lindh! thanx for reminding me Santi....

Kathrin said on September 10, 2005 14:45:

ebay u r mixing stuff up!