It's late, but
 

It's still 9/11. I'd just like to take a moment to share our thoughts, Americans and non alike.

I'm not very religious or patriotic. I still think, though, that the situation deserves a second or two of silence to remember those who senselessly lost their lives or bravely lost them to save others. No drama, no controversy, just a bit of respect from a guy who normally doesn't do this shit. This is probably what my great grandpa was talking about when he waxed philosophic about Pearl Harbor. Now I know how it feels.

It's 9/11, y'all. It's a sad day right now. Lest we forget down the road, just a moment for those who died for reasons which I will never understand. Good luck to the families that need it, regardless of race, creed or culture.

-Flayed

Peace

its funny - i almost started a thread about this but chickened out.

as for me its mixed emotions. the whole thing was so horrific i can't make fun of it or be flippant. . . i can't even watch the movies or tv shows . . it still just bothers me too much

but, i also get upset by the people who want to wrap it in the flag and use it to justify every war and military intervention they can think of. . . so the whole spectrum of emotions related to 9/11 are too intense for me personally

Basically it for me as well, glad somebody said it like this cause I don't even like thinking about it.

It's OK, dude. To be honest, I had to get drunk to do it. Sometimes it's just too intense to talk about, especially on the anniversary of it. I really like Haunteds response of just 'Peace' You can't sum it up a whole lot better than that.

I seriously can't think of many situations where a person living in the states wouldn't be affected by these events. Like I stated for my grandad, this IS our Pearl Harbor. It affected us all. We'll all remember where we were when it happened. It was terrible. The Seattle Center around the Space Needle was shut down for a week or so. It was so surreal, I couldn't believe it. I'm only 28, so next to the Berlin Wall coming down, this has been the biggest world event in my short life. Staggering and overwhelming. I'm not sure I'll ever live to see anything like it again. If it's that grim, I'm not sure I want to.

Peace... I'm going to share something with you...

It's a little bit of a "light in the dark" sort of thing. It's called "The Morrighan's Prophecy." As you know The Morrighan is The Goddess as I know Her in Irish Celtic terms... I won't go into all of that... However, what She's saying is that in then end, human beings will end up in Peace... She's not prophecizing some great war, or flood, or bloody violence, but almost as if, we'll just get past all of this bullshit... It's just a piece of Celtic Pagan Goddess lovin' hope...

Peace to Heaven:
Heaven over Earth
Earth beneath heaven
Blessed be all.

To the brim full:
Fullness of honey
Honey-sweet blessings
Summer in Winter.

Spears backed by shields:
Shields backed by forts
Forts ever ready.

Sod-thick wool,
Woods teem with antlers,
Finally, forever, destruction departed.

Nuts on the trees,
Tree branches drooping,
A drooping rich yield.

Wealth for a son
Yes, a son! (very learned!)

A bull in yoke,
Like a bull famed in song.

Knots in the wood
Wood for a fire
A fire when you want it.

Bright new palisades!
Their victory? Salmon!
The Boyne their dwelling
A dwelling unending.

New growth after spring!
Autumn? Horses increase.
The land held secure:
A land poets honor.

Blessed be the eternal
Most excellent forests;

Peace reach to Heaven, be nine times eternal.
Peace reach to Heaven, be nine times eternal.
Peace reach to Heaven, be nine times eternal.

We had the clock radio set to radio, so my BF and I woke up to the news. At first we though the DJ's were just joking around, because it seemed so obsurd that it could be real. Then we realized they weren't kidding and we just sat there for a long time with shocked looks on our faces, silent and listeing to the radio. We eventually got up and turned on the TV. We no longer wake up to the clock radio, in fact we can't even use that clock anymore. When I got to work, not many were working and a lot of people had radios going and news websites up.

I found out that a co-worker from our New York office was in a training class in a building right by the World Trade Center. He ran all the way back to our NY office, covered all over with the white/gray powder and just collapsed in the reception area.

My heart goes out to everyone that lost someone on that day. And what we lost as a country. It will never be the same.

Hug your friends and family and be grateful they are still here.

Peace,
-monalisa

I was a lot younger when this happened, so I don't remember a whole lot. I remember I thought the world was ending or something and I was scared.

Now days, I'm not sure how I feel on the subject. I feel sorry for the people who died, but I'm not a super patriotic person. What goes on out there is out of my hands, and it is thus left in someone elses.

Peace

I understand where you're coming from. like I said before, when the Berlin Wall came down, I was so young I had no idea what the significance of it was. Years later I did; but even though I lived through it it didn't affect me like it did my aunts and uncles who were about 8 years older than me.

It's crazy, I was 22 when it happened and at my then girlfriends house in Oregon. We stayed in the guest house, and her dad came bursting in at like 5am yelling about we were being bombed. I'll never forget it. He begged us to stay in Oregon for a week or so, but we still went back anyway. Crazy, even more so than the big WTO riots in Seattle that rocked the city for a week.