9/11: Five Years On
I think you would probably remember exactly where and what you were doing the moment that horrible news came on September 11, 2001. Personally I was having my economics class back in ACJC. Instead of discussing inflation and plotting price-quantity graphs, murmurs regarding the attacks were circulating around the class. At that point in time no one had fully grasped the gravity of the situation yet. But from then on the world as we know it had been fractured, the New York city skyline changed forever.
For those people who were trapped in the towers hit by the planes, I cannot even begin to fathom the despair they felt. To feel so hopeless that their only hope was to leap 80 floors to their deaths. To the people who are still struggling to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones, please know that the world is with you! For those terrorists, did they seriously think that killing thousands of innocent people would bring them to heaven?
How about you? What were you doing on 9/11?
Sep 11, 2006
You are artistically inclined. that’s why I dropped in again.
And by the way, the postcrossing thing is intriguiging. Perhaps I will join it as well haha.
Sep 11, 2006
3472
You really, really should! Besides, It’d be an awesome way to deliver your poems around the world.
Sep 11, 2006
911? hmm…I was waiting in NUS waiting for a lecture to start in the morning when I read the papers. Five years on, I hope that those affected have gone on with their lives but never forget that live is fragile and treasure the moments you have.
Sep 12, 2006
3472
Wow, you’re the only person that answered my question. Like I said, no one really forgets that day, do they?
Sep 12, 2006
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Had a throat infection in Italy, so I was in bed. I wasn’t really surprised when I heard it, and felt no more sorry for them than I do for all the other people dying horrible deaths everyday, so it wasn’t really much of an event in my eyes.
Still isn’t. I only remembered today was September 11th ’cause CNN was doing a rerun of their coverage of it.
Sep 12, 2006
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I happened to be watching channelnewsasia when there was a bulletin of a plane crashing into the 1st tower. My first thought was that it was an accident. I was incredulous when I watched it “live” as the 2nd plane crash into 2nd tower. That is when I really know that something was really wrong.
Sep 12, 2006
Well, I was studying that night. When I suddenly heard exclaimations coming from the hall. (all in Chinese fyi)
“Oh my god! Can it be true!”
“What the!”
And I walked out. To a scene of destruction on the goggle box. The twin towers burning. Smoking.
I don’t think the terrorists are out to go to heaven by killing thousands. Terrorism exist because they are they oppressed. They want to make a statement. And the media is the best way to do that. What better way to catch the world’s attention to their plight by incinerating thousands of innocent lives?
Sep 12, 2006
Sorry for the spam.
I forgot to mention that I can’t churn out poems like Hallmark. =p. No poems flying around the world haha. But it will be interesting to compose a sentence and let it fly around the world for the next person to continue! Poem crossing!
Sep 12, 2006
3472
Thanks for sharing, folks.
Aristocrat, the poem crossing idea sounds great. I think by the time the poem finishes its circle around the world and comes back to you, it would probably be a multitude of different languages!
Sep 13, 2006
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That day I went to work and heard my boss told me that one of the tower was on fire. At first we thought that they were fliming a movie or something. He told me he saw it when he was riding the subway. Then later on around the afternoon my boss let us go cause of the terriost act. All I could remember that majority of the streets were block and no train was running at all. All I could see is people sitting on the streets clueless and sad, there were tears running through some people faces. I was shocked and scared and I couldn’t believe that this could happen in the US. I pray each day to stop these terriost act, wars in the middle east and stop the hating. I pray for those who lost their love ones and watch over them.
Sep 14, 2006
Yeah, that’s the whole idea =)
I read about it somewhere that someone sent a piece of art in between two people. They just kept sending the same piece to one another without any discussion while the person would complete it in stages.
I know it sounds rather vague but that’s where I got the poetry idea from! Speaking of which, where are your poems?
Sep 15, 2006
i was about to have my exams in the then-HCJC that day when news broke.
i think that by implying that terrorism is the result of terrorists wanting to enter heaven is over trivialising their motives.
portraying them as less intelligent only serves to reinforce the negativity towards them. and what solutions can possibly be conceived from hatred and ignorance?
Sep 15, 2006
3472
i wasn’t impying that terrorism is the result of terrorists wanting to enter heaven. like what aristocrat said above, they want to make a statement. but what they likely think is that going to heaven would be incidental.