Favorite 9/11 moments

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16 and had a shitty cashier job at Kmart. About a week after 9/11, a big display of patriotic teddy bears was placed in front of the registers. When you pushed a button on them, it played "God bless the USA." People walked by and pressed the buttons on all the bears, constantly.

Years later I can still hear the nightmarish chorus of dozens of bears, all off-sync with each other, going "AND I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE. AND I WON'T FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED AND GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME." My shifts ranged for 6+ hours directly behind them.

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Was in New York when it happened.
Saw the towers fall from the roof of a building in Queens. The day was unusually nice weather wise.
It was weird where I was, no screaming, no cars honking like mad just..silence.
It was like walking around in a zombie or post apocalypse movie.
You could have heard a pin-drop where I was considering all the chaos that was less than 10 miles away.
 
MrTroll said:
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But it was the North Tower (the one with the spire) that was hit first.

A big, fat -9/11 for historical inaccuracy. Try again.
 
My favorite 911 moment ...Getting deployed from Afghanistan to Iraq....because weapons of mass destruction something something it's connected to 9-11 and we get greeted as liberators.

I still do not understand how Rumsfield, Channey, and Bush II can show faces in public for selling that fiasco.
 
Having an awkward birthday

Also, some slow in the minds kid in my class getting in trouble for saying "that was awesome" immediately after we watched the first explosion on TV
 
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I remember my mom waking me up, telling me to turn on the news because we had just been attacked and the world would never be the same. I had thought at first that she meant someone bombed us with a nuke until I turned on the TV. I spent the rest of the day watching the news and trying to find out if there was some place I could volunteer to help with search and rescue efforts because I had just gotten my EMT license.

The funny thing about the whole thing that I remember is my aunt freaking out at my dad and me because we had a moose hunting trip planned for that October. She thought we were horrible people for wanting to "go kill an innocent animal after so many people had died" a month after it happened as if one had anything to do with the other. She hated hunting in general, despite growing up in a family of hunters, but she was extra upset that we were going after the attack.
 
K-7 said:
Because of the time difference, I was in front of my after school cartoons when the programs switched to a flash news, being the little gullible fuck I was, I thought they decided to put an action movie because cartoons can be boring at times. I could see my mother gasping at the images, meanwhile I was cheering when the second tower collapsed.

Years later, I was keen to research what happened, since it's pretty much one of my most vivid memory I had as a child, so I looked up infos and of course ended up on conspiracy theories. Now I'm a paranoid fuck who can't trust any government because of it. Fuck you talibans.

On a more "serious" note, I always felt like this segment of BOTW would be a good fit like the previously posted video, Rich Evans laugh always get me

https://youtube.com/watch?v=id=mbWTthXfdBc;m=24;s=26
EDIT: you know I had to fucking do it

https://youtube.com/watch?v=o773B5UF6N0
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And here is their immidiate reaction from the day it happened
 
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