4 years since the disaster, 4 plane crashes - September 11, 2001 Attacks.

[Random Plushie]

Well.. I think it proves that we need better security and stuffies.

But it's really sad that we needed that to realize it.. So many people would be alive today. :/

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

The attacks proved that America was one of the most united countries around. Everybody came together to mourn the loss. We began to display our pride for our country by displaying American flags more often than just an occasional period of the year. 9/11 though a destructive tragedy, helped shape America.

 

[Jolteon]

Wow, its been 4 years?, I thought it was only 3 =P
Anyways, I dont go with politics, so I dun' know nuffin XP
All i can say is it was a day before my birthday =O

 

[Minako]

Sad day today. =/

I'm not much for politics, so I'm not really sure what to say in that catagory. All I know is that alot of people in the US will be thinking about that day today. It didn't get quite as much hype about the anniversary as it did two or three years ago... I haven't even heard mention of it recently. =/
Four years, huh? Hardly feels like it's been a week. o_o

 

[Eliana]

*sigh* I can't believe it's already been 4 years...it seems like a year or so...I was really affected by the crashings even though I was only 10. I was watching the news all day...All I can say is, may the hundreds of people who died rest in peace...

~Eli

 

[Wolf_Goddess]

Four years ago?! I remember it like it was yesterday. I was in school, and all of a sudden, so many people in the school were being called on the intercom for them to be picked up early. (I was in fourth grade). Then, we were given notes to bring home to our parents about the attacks, and we were sent home early.
I remember taking the bus to my friend's house, and walking in and seeing our moms watching the news, and we heard screams and the Twin Towers came down. That memory is forever burned into my mind.

Also, I forget when, but a couple days/weeks/months we had to say the pledge of allegiance in the afternoon, and our principal said that we recited it with over ten thousand students in our nation (or some other large number...).

I don't want them to rebuild in that area. I think that they should just put a large, stone book or gravestone on the area with everyone who died's names, or just put the words, "We remember." Its people's graves, not just an open lot to build!

And may all of those children who lost parents, relatives, and friends in those attacks find comfort, and those who died rest peacefully.

 

[Kurono]

The attacks seemed very well coordinated, because it seemed almost fool proof aside from the fact the were over 300 other people on the planes who could of easily regained control of the planes...god I wish I could have done something to stop it...well...to refrain from getting emotionally attached I think I'll just finish with a need for strict security...and it would be nice to keep all other people from being allowed to migrate here untill Al-Qaedahas been done in.

 

[Candelyce]

Wow, it's been 4 years already, the first night this happened, I stayed up thinking about all those people. They didn't deserve to die.

 

[Wolf_Goddess]

I find this perhaps one of the most hoepful and saddest pictures of all when you look up 9/11 on the computer. I remember when they did these lights, and I wonder f they'll ever do them again...
I don't know why, but when I look at it, it gives me...hope. I hope one day peace with be restored (though there truly was never peace to begin with) in our world before we destroy the most important thing...the earth itself. We all have to live together, so why can't we?

 

[Charizard_Fire_God]

It was a hard hit, right at the very heart of the innocent civillians of the US, exactly as it was intended, triggering a war that has not ended to this day. What their motives were and whatever may have triggered the hatred, causing terroris to emerge, wanting to hit a nation, I am deeply sorry it had come to this.

And what the victims and their families have had to go through, as well as any other form suffering caused by the war that followed and other terrorist acts to this day, I deeply regret.

Exactly where and who made what mistakes or had taken inappropriate actions that allowed such hatred to build up, I do not know. But was it worth it? Was it worth all the suffering and all the death? I know that their objective by hitting innocents is to scare nations and change politics, because they have no other way of getting what they want. But is it all worth it? To kill so many people, so many innocents... to make an entire world suffer for it?

War is that way. Many people over the ages have sought to avoid it, but failed. And because of that, I may never know. Perhaps it was inevitable. Perhaps something could have worked out...
...but right then, on that day, the people that looked out the window and saw those planes hit, and the people that heard the blast, tried to hurry down through all the smoke, and then heard the ominous sound as the building's gigantic structure came down and claimed their lives in a wink of an eye, they knew nothing. They died without knowing. They died without guilt. They were nothing but a target, and an objective for those who struck and killed them. But their death made an entire world cry.

It troubles us all to this very day... how in a supposedly "civilized" era such genocides can take place... but mankind has always undergone such moments of grief and rage... We are still a young race, learning. Like a child, it is still realising the consequences of its actions, and learning what to do and what not to do in the future.

And perhaps one day mankind shall be able to overcome its conflicts and live in peace. Perhaps then there will be no more wars. ...and perhaps then, the death of those innocent people will not have been in vain, and will have taught us something. Something about ourselves, and what man is capable of. A suffering that is too great to undergo again. Because we are all linked in one way or another. And the wound they've caused in the world has surely echoed back its pain to them as well. For they are part of it.

A lesson that we must all learn and remember. And they will never truly be dead, as long as mankind shall remember the lesson that 9/11 has to offer... about how easy it is to make the world suffer. And how we mustn't let our hatred destroy us...

 

[Pete]

Whoa, four years. Its really sad, but it brought the whole country together. I'm not much on politics, but I know is George W. Bush had his hands full.
God bless all the friends and family of the dead.

 

[Draik]

-_-
I remember it.
I was at school.
Nobody showed up after school and my mother picked me up and drove me home.
Later, I saw a video of the 9/11 plane crash, I though my dad died, he didn't.
I later was scared that I went there to the WTC a few months back before the event.

 

[EmeraldSky]

I remember my dad calling my mom from work and telling her "Turn on the TV! Turn on the TV!"...

To all those that lost someone that day I hold you in my prayers tonight.

 

[RoxasOld]

Wow. 4 years is a long time. It seems like only 1 since it happened. I remember looking out of my window, at school, and seeing a huge amount of smoke coming from one of the buildings. And then not that long after, the smoke just about tripled in size. We could barely even see the sky, looking out of the window. And then all of a sudden, the school saw loads of white smoke. After a couple of minutes, the smoke cleared up and one of them was gone. Being a life long New Yorker, this event really scared me. What really scared me, is that when I was taken home, by my father, my mom told me that my aunt her her mother were both in there, when it happened. But thankfully, they ran out of there and came back safely. Ever since that day, America has meen much more united, like it should be. I think I've only been to the Towers only once, before 9/11 happened. I was 5, maybe. I cant really remember much. But looking at the pictures I have from when I went there, it scared me, to think that now, there is nothing but a gigantic hole in the ground. The people who's lives were taken, will never be forgotten.

 

[Guest123_x1]

Thank goodness we didn't get another one this year (like i've been predicting

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But do expect something within no more than a few years, I'd say. With the increasing turmoil in Iraq, insurgents might try to find their way over here and do their dirty deed on our shores.

-ottermi619-
The insurgency on our shores might only happen if we lose most of our troops or withdraw from Iraq.