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I don't really remember the actual day but i remember after how the whole country came together and support New York and DC. I remember Red Sox fans singing "New York, New York" at a Red Sox Yankees game.
Very proud to be from this country knowing how we all have each others back.
That part was cool. I did think it was cool that so many people in the "red" states reached out to the people in the blue state of New York. I also thought it was cool that so many "blue" state people started putting US flags on their car.
I don't really remember the actual day but i remember after how the whole country came together and support New York and DC. I remember Red Sox fans singing "New York, New York" at a Red Sox Yankees game.
Very proud to be from this country knowing how we all have each others back.
And then the Yankees fans returned the favor at Fenway Park by singing "Sweet Caroline" with Red Sox fans a couple of days following the Boston Marathon Bombing back in April. That truly was a beautiful sight seeing two of sports biggest rivals united for one day in the face of tragedy.
That part was cool. I did think it was cool that so many people in the "red" states reached out to the people in the blue state of New York. I also thought it was cool that so many "blue" state people started putting US flags on their car.
Yes that was nice brief moment to be able to unite as a country after a tragedy like that.
And then a year or two later everyone hated each other again.
Yes that was nice brief moment to be able to unite as a country after a tragedy like that.
And then a year or two later everyone hated each other again.
Yep. By 2003, we were probably more divided than we ever have been. As a liberal, I felt like my patriotism was being questioned constantly (which I highly resented since I was a soldier who was actually fighting the war that flag waving "troop supporters" loved so much). In fairness, my dislike of conservatives was at an all time high back then too.
For me the world "stopped turning" a couple of times during my lifetime. The first was when JFK was shot. I was in band practice in college in a town away from home. Everyone wanted to take the next train home. There was dead silence all over the campus where before there was happy chattering about football games and Thanksgiving. How could this have happened. This was America, these things didn't happen here.
But it stopped again when decades later terrorists flew planes into the twin towers and the Pentagon. I was just about to leave my apartment when my neighbor called me and told me to turn on my TV. I did just in time to see the second plane hit the second tower live on the CBS news broadcast. Dan Rather exclaimed "Oh Sh$t!" which was later removed from the audio in subsequent news broadcasts. I turned off the TV and ran over to the neighbor who had first called. We spent the better part of the day watching the events on the news.
Later that evening I joined another friend for a candlelight ceremony down at a waterfront park in memoriam for those who had lost their lives in the attacks.
If you were to ask my mom, before she died a few years ago at the age of 94 when the world stopped turning for her, she would have said when she first got the news about Pearl Harbor. She was ironing my dad's work shirts and pregnant with my older sister.
9/11 was not America's first "world stop turning event" for Americans and tragically, it more than likely won't be the last.
Just a quick answer, I was on my way to school as a Freshman in highschool. Honestly I had no idea at the time what this meant, all I knew is that there was some commotion about terrorism.
For me the world "stopped turning" a couple of times during my lifetime. The first was when JFK was shot. I was in band practice in college in a town away from home. Everyone wanted to take the next train home. There was dead silence all over the campus where before there was happy chattering about football games and Thanksgiving. How could this have happened. This was America, these things didn't happen here.
But it stopped again when decades later terrorists flew planes into the twin towers and the Pentagon. I was just about to leave my apartment when my neighbor called me and told me to turn on my TV. I did just in time to see the second plane hit the second tower live on the CBS news broadcast. Dan Rather exclaimed "Oh Sh$t!" which was later removed from the audio in subsequent news broadcasts. I turned off the TV and ran over to the neighbor who had first called. We spent the better part of the day watching the events on the news.
Later that evening I joined another friend for a candlelight ceremony down at a waterfront park in memoriam for those who had lost their lives in the attacks.
If you were to ask my mom, before she died a few years ago at the age of 94 when the world stopped turning for her, she would have said when she first got the news about Pearl Harbor. She was ironing my dad's work shirts and pregnant with my older sister.
9/11 was not America's first "world stop turning event" for Americans and tragically, it more than likely won't be the last.
I was in middle school getting ready for school and my parents were watching the news. I assumed it was one of those accidental crashes and that it would all blow over in the next few days. I was naive to what terrorism and terrorists were, I was still fairly young and didn't understand. Then I went on the bus and the bus driver shaking her head and was listening to the radio and the DJs were talking about how the Pentagon was also hit and how the first tower was collapsing. I then realized this was no accident and was serious. Everybody was talking about it when I got to school and our principal came on the intercom and reassured us we were safe and far away from what was happening(we were in Washington state). Some teachers had the news on and others didn't. I remember that basically being the only topic anybody talked about for the next week or so. We had moments of silence and people had their American flags out.
ETA: Just realized I replied to this last year.
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