How many people on ISH lost a friend/family member at the WTC on 9/11?

[heyhey]

Originally Posted by bada bing

i know what you mean. I said all that because of what is normal these days. The racist attitude that is being allowed by everyone is just preposterous ( for some reason i wanted to use this word today). Just look at the comments being made by people on tv and during the hall meetings against islam and its followers. This needs to be controlled right away before its too late. This is how hate and marginalization of people starts. The right in this country is getting out of hand....

Now hold on there player. When people start suggesting infringement on people's freedom in order to preserve order and safety that's where the true horror begins. You can't control what other people think nor should you want to. His friend is entitled to feel anything he wants as long as he is not subjugating others to his whims and actions.

to echo A clockwork orange. Would god rather us be good or the choice of goodness.

Originally Posted by SCY

the sh!t is latex. When you are in the 5th grade there's nothing more fun than stretchy things

[Wally450]

I had an uncle who died in 9/11 Matthew Barnes Ladder 25, was in the South Tower when it collapsed, they didn't recover his body until St Patricks Day 2002

[kentatm]

Not personally.

One of my friends father would have been but he was sick that week and was at home.

I have quite a few friends that do though. (I lived in CT for 4 years)

[baseketball4life]

No i didn't but i was in the twin towers myself two weeks earlier on a visit to NYC, which is kind of freaky.

[boozehound]

Originally Posted by Wally450

I had an uncle who died in 9/11 Matthew Barnes Ladder 25, was in the South Tower when it collapsed, they didn't recover his body until St Patricks Day 2002

sorry for your loss. He was a firefighter I take it? It is a shame how the first responders who developed serious health issues as a result of their heroism have been treated.

[Erudus]

i dont know anyone but ill never forget that day.... twas a tuesday and I was in gr4 4. i went to st gabes elementary school portable 2 and my teacher was named mr dowds. it was ap retty intense day right after it happened we werent told why being only in grade 4 we would understand it........ there was no schoool the next day. i was pissed because that night i had a puck praccy and my mom didnt want me to go but at the time i didnt realize how seirous sh!t went down

[goldenryan]

Originally Posted by sunsfan1357

and to be honest I didn't even know what the twin towers were at that point in my life.

[GOBB]

How is it possible for someone not to know about the World Trade Centers? So the day the planes crashed into them that was the same day you had your heads removed from your ass? I didnt know anyone who worked at the WTC. But a close friends aunt died when the planes hit.

[kentatm]

Originally Posted by GOBB

How is it possible for someone not to know about the World Trade Centers? So the day the planes crashed into them that was the same day you had your heads removed from your ass? I didnt know anyone who worked at the WTC. But a close friends aunt died when the planes hit.

he was a 9 year old ya stupid dipstick.

methinks its your head that needs removing.

[bballer]

Art class in 4th grade with mrs trout.

crazy day.

my best friend was there on september 10.

[Rose]

I didn't lose anyone. But my mom lost a friend who she had dated in high school. She was pretty tore up about it, but didn't tell me why she was sad till awhile later.

I was in fifth grade was enjoying my tuesday, was getting ready to head to my next class when a teacher came in and rushed us all back into our classes because we went to lockdown. We got out early that day. and I, like the people my age, didn't know what the WTCs were. I knew the skyline, and in that essence I knew what they were but not the purpose behind them or anything.

[ROCSteady]

Originally Posted by Hawker

Ya, it was crazy. I didn't know the towers existed until it actually happened.

I didn't know anybody that died.

That's cuz u live another country (TX)

[GOBB]

Originally Posted by kentatm

he was a 9 year old ya stupid dipstick.

methinks its your head that needs removing.

I'll take the hit for that one. Lost track of how old hawker was. Didnt realize he is just 18.

[kentatm]

Originally Posted by GOBB

I'll take the hit for that one. Lost track of how old hawker was. Didnt realize he is just 18.

ehh, I think I'm the dummy here.

I went through the whole thread a bit quickly before I responded so I missed Hawkers comment and saw what Rose wrote and mixed his comment with your response. Hawker has got to be like 21 - 23 at this point so he was treading the line on it being a bit off that he didn't know they existed.

Then again, there are quite a few people in this country that have never left their home towns, states or regions and never watch the media that would have let them know what they were.

I'm not surprised young kids wouldn't know about the towers if they weren't from the region.

Anyway, I'm quite the stupid dipstick too it seems.

[MasterDurant24]

My parents were supposed to go on a plane to New York that day. They said the flight was either canceled or they decided not to go, can't remember. But this was hours before any of the tragic events happened.