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midnightman · 09-08-2002, 12:34 PM

Heh, I remember that topic too Sting.

I remember this like it was yesterday as well. I got up around 9 AM EST, and as usual went to the shower. Then my mom opens the door to tell me something, which always pisses me off, because I need a moment's peace in the shower. And it is always something that I don't care about.

So she breaks in and says "AARON. I have some bad news." I rolled my eyes. "Two planes hit the twin towers and one hit the Pentagon." "Ok".

Some reaction, eh? I didn't make much of it. The news is always sensationalized..making big deals over nothing. And my mom usually just adds to it, so I thought little of it. I came out and got dressed and watched the Today show. They were showing the helicopter view of the two buildings smoking like Hell. Then Matt Lauer said something, and I can remember it exactly:

"Now, it seems as though a part of one of the towers has fallen...?"

You couldn't really see it because the south tower was behind the north one. I think they eventually figured out that it fell. I still didn't really think much of it. I don't know why. I started to though.

As I got to school and met my friend he came up to me and said "The second one is gone." And...I thought a little more of this. I didn't think "war" because the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing was thought to be the work of bin Laden but it was not, so I wasn't just about to jump to conclusions.

In Chemistry class outside of the room people were spreading the word. I never heard the phrase "World Trade Center" used so many times at once before. Then when we went inside the teacher talked to us about it, and said that he probably wouldn't be surprised if we went to war over this.

In my other classes it was much of the same: radio and TV and talk were what dominated the day. I remember talking to my mom on the way home and calling her full of shit when she said that they had actually caught the plane ON FUCKING LIVE TV hitting it. I came home and turned on the TV and watched in utter shock and disbelief as I saw it slice right into the building, and then it didn't explode right then, but it went it and just stayed there for a fraction of a second. It was the eeriest thing I had ever seen.

THAT image is what conclusively propelled me into the state of shock.

I asked my dad how we can go to war if the next war was supposed to be "push-button, world ends" nuclear style. He didn't know.

The incident and the images that have been etched into my brain only compounded the beginning of when I really started questioning nearly everything and realized that nobody is right. I have had three 9/11 related dreams since, none of which made sense.

I know my country is not perfect by any stretch of the meaning, but I wish my government to do everything it can to kill all those who did it and plan on doing it again.