Never Forget: Living in a Post-9/11 World

[Serum]

Ten years ago something so horrible happened we prayed it would never happen again. 3000 dead, 6000 injured.
We lost the staple of downtown New York City to an act of violence and war. Don't ever forget September the 11th, 2001.

Where were you when the world stopped turning?

I remember it clearly, I was sitting in English class, my teacher was telling us about the book we'd be reading for class when she got a phone call from her husband in Manhattan. She told us he said that the top of the World Trade Center was on fire, nobody knew what had happened, yet. Throughout the course of the day, the whole school listened in on the radio to the destruction and chaos in New York because we didn't have a television with cable. I'll never forget going home that day and watching the mighty towers fall in replays over and over again. I watched the biggest buildings in the world fall like a house of cards on television one day in 2001 and have been afraid to "change the channel" for ten years, now. I'll never forget those images, burned into the back of my mind like a nightmare from hell.

The memories of the victims live on in the new World Trade Center Memorial opening today and in the new Freedom Tower Complex that's almost completed.
We lost a lot of good people, that day. We lost the most beautiful buildings ever constructed, too. May the new World Trade Center stand for all time.

Never forget.

~ Serum

[Redstar]

Thanks for posting this. I really didn't know what to say myself. It's been a long ten years, though in many ways it's felt very brief. The world is a very different place. I can't say it's much better.

When things like THIS happen to our own citizens you know that terrorists have truly "won." Where's our liberty? Our freedom? For one brief moment we were all proud to be an American. Now we don't even know what that means anymore.

I hope in another ten years we'll have learned from our own mistakes and come into a new age for this nation and the whole world.

[Serum]

When things like THIS happen to our own citizens you know that terrorists have truly "won." Where's our liberty? Our freedom? For one brief moment we were all proud to be an American. Now we don't even know what that means anymore.

It's a crying shame. I have a lot of friends who are Muslim and when I was growing up in the pre-9/11 world, Islam was truly a religion of peace. Now a few bad apples have dropped cyanide in the punch bowl leading to terrorism, civil wars and general unrest. Just remember: When the terrorists flew those planes into the World Trade Center they killed a lot of their fellow Muslims, thus defeating the purpose of the attack. I forget which Japanese general it was who after the Pearl Harbor attack said "Gentlemen, I'm afraid we've awoken a sleeping beast that we can not put down..."

Then again, look at Japan. For the longest time they were our enemy and now they're one of our greatest allies not just in military power, but truly a friend of America-- they gave us Super Mario Bros. and many other video games and even more cartoons. Maybe, in time, the Middle East will become our friends again, just as Russia did once the Cold War finally came to a close with a silenced whisper. And even though we've been at war with Korea for over 50 years, only the Northern part are really the troublemakers. One day the world will live in peace. But not in our lifetimes.

[Prime Evil]

Just remember: When the terrorists flew those planes into the World Trade Center they killed a lot of their fellow Muslims, thus defeating the purpose of the attack.

Or not. I do believe that, in the case of 9/11, the "No True Scotsman"--or, in this case, "No True Muslim"--fallacy applied in the terrorists' minds.

However, you and Redstar are absolutely correct on just about everything else. I remember some idiots in the Harlem Avenue area, near Palos Heights, actually defaced a mosque or two. I'm sure there were plenty of others, but this was closest to me.

[Serum]

Well, before this day is done, I think it appropriate to address the atrocities that happened twelve years ago.

Three thousand souls were snuffed into a cold oblivion on this day, twelve years ago. We watched the biggest, mightiest towers on the planet fall like a house of cards on our TVs and have been scared to change the channel since. But even among the bloodshed that happened and that followed in the subsequent wars that rage on to this day, there is hope. Seven towers fell quickly, but seven new towers will slowly rise.

Never forget the events of 9/11/2001.
Never forgive the monsters who did what they did to us on that day.

[Serum]

Here we are, again-- thirteen years after the bleak metamorphosis which transformed the world into a chaotic mess of technology and unfeeling, apathetic people satisfied with mediocrity.

In the world I wish I could see, there was no 9/11, no rush into this bastardized technology, these unneeded wars on others and unneeded wars with ourselves. In the world I wish I could see the towers still stand.

Never forget.

[Serum]

Fourteen years ago, today, the world was forever changed. Let's make it an important reminder to never forget and never forgive the people who hurled our world into darkness on this day.

[ultimateemail5000]

I was thinking of making a 9/11 level kn Mario Maker. Have two giant towers full of enemirs and objects, and have a giant bullet bill come crashing through them and it'd make everything jump out. Then it says, happy 9/11, never forget.

[Serum]

I was thinking of making a 9/11 level kn Mario Maker. Have two giant towers full of enemirs and objects, and have a giant bullet bill come crashing through them and it'd make everything jump out. Then it says, happy 9/11, never forget.

Um, no offense dude, but that seems highly inappropriate.