Where were you on 9/11/2001
I recall 9/11, as if I could ever forget, because it was the beginning of the end of so many things in my life. It was the beginning of the failure of my IT consulting company, it was the awakening of my countrymen to the truth about the world we live in, it was beginning of the acidic cynicism in my heart that will no doubt be my eventual demise.
I awoke from my couch at the prodding of my 12 year old son. The television was on - FOX News. The cobwebs cleared to see one of the towers with a gaping gash. Debris spewing out of its wound, papers littered the sky line huge snowflakes. The news was still speculating that it may have been an accident when a second jet flew into the second tower.
My heart dropped. I wished ALL Muslims dead. Yes, I knew before they said it that Islam was responsible. I recall saying, and now regret, that "Millions of Muslims have to die to avenge what they have done" - be careful what you wish for.
As time went on I watched in horror as people leapt from the windows, preferring the fall to the fire - I can't blame them. Stunned I watched this massive World Trade Center collapsed, knowing that thousands of AMERICANS, men and women who just went to work, had died before my eyes.
Time passed. I called my children's schools - they wouldn't be going for the foreseeable future. I told my wife to take off from work - she did. My family wouldn't be leaving the house until we knew that at least the world around us was secure.
I drove to my office 3 hours late and dismissed everyone for the day - I told them to be home with their families. We didn't know what was going to happen next and I didn't expect many calls for service (how right I was). I remember sitting in my silent office and crying in anger.
My business failed as clients held tight their wallets for several months- uncertainty breeds caution, no one is to blame.
I am still angry.
I awoke from my couch at the prodding of my 12 year old son. The television was on - FOX News. The cobwebs cleared to see one of the towers with a gaping gash. Debris spewing out of its wound, papers littered the sky line huge snowflakes. The news was still speculating that it may have been an accident when a second jet flew into the second tower.
My heart dropped. I wished ALL Muslims dead. Yes, I knew before they said it that Islam was responsible. I recall saying, and now regret, that "Millions of Muslims have to die to avenge what they have done" - be careful what you wish for.
As time went on I watched in horror as people leapt from the windows, preferring the fall to the fire - I can't blame them. Stunned I watched this massive World Trade Center collapsed, knowing that thousands of AMERICANS, men and women who just went to work, had died before my eyes.
Time passed. I called my children's schools - they wouldn't be going for the foreseeable future. I told my wife to take off from work - she did. My family wouldn't be leaving the house until we knew that at least the world around us was secure.
I drove to my office 3 hours late and dismissed everyone for the day - I told them to be home with their families. We didn't know what was going to happen next and I didn't expect many calls for service (how right I was). I remember sitting in my silent office and crying in anger.
My business failed as clients held tight their wallets for several months- uncertainty breeds caution, no one is to blame.
I am still angry.
Previous comments...
I'm glad there's at least you, bassman, who cares and knows the truth about 9/11: that it was a false flag. The others here, like most objectivists, are too biased to reason independently about the contradictions in the official story about 9/11. You're a rare, autonomous thinker, bassman.
I immediately suspected collusion of some kind. This is not a case of some crazy individual in a crowd taking a shot at a public official. This was a situation where the competent military air defense in DC was absent. That was not an accident or a coincidence. The longer the coverup of the truth goes on, the more it becomes obvious that this was not merely the act of poorly trained, extraordinarily lucky Arab pilots armed with box-cutters.
I wish we could hear Rand's take on the known facts.
Your race baiting shows a major flaw in your mentality. You are an embarrassment to this conversation. To belittle such a major happening with something so trivial is shameful. Go troll somewhere else.
It is clear that Al Qaeda targeted White culture - no one else's - since White culture is White supremacist and no other culture is, or could be. White interference in the Middle-East was simply being paid back in accordance with the human nature that you reject: You hit me; I hit you.
Non-White fatalities are mere collateral damage - an argument Whites, themselves, use when those they do not target are killed in wars Whites foment.
You are race-baiting because you think the skin colour of posters here is relevant to 9/11 - you are mentally-disturbed and politically-naive. 9/11 was not a major happening - only Whites think so because it happened to them. Whites are the ones who want to erect monuments to White suffering, but refeuse to do so when the suffering is non-White; eg, Racial Slavery and Indian genocide.
Keep your biases off the board.
Your Ruling Class bigotry is showing, BIG TIME.
Whites have shown time and time again that they will kill anyone who does not agree with them. 9/11 changed the way Whites live in making them more overtly-White supremacist and paranoid than they have been in recent times.
If 9/11 is the most significant in your lifetime, then you are a White who needs to get out more and gain an objective perspective on life.
What you do NOT know about monuments proves nothing. Whites were incensed about Muslims planning to build a monument near so-called Ground Zero in New York, but have never shown such anger at Whites building over Indian burial grounds.
Because the Tuskegee Airmen were helping Whites - not the other way around - it would have been more fitting for Whites to have erected such a monument. But that would be to admit the need for non-White help in desperate times - a serious blow to the White ego.