lhalliday wrote:The best answer anybody has ever given me to "where were you on 9/11?" remains "Give me a break! I grew up in Northern Ireland."
...laura
Love it! Some healthy perspective.
9/11 was a tragic and a large event, but only one of many, many other events far more profound, both before and since. It's been chosen for some reason to be the poster child of such things.
Hate to say it, but mostly because...it happened in the US, to Americans.
This. My first thought when it happened was: "Great, they'll blow this way out of proportion" (no pun intended).
And they did. Oh god they did.
It is of course a gigantic traumatizing event for everyone who was involved, but if you compare it to other events in other countries done to other people, it puts things in perspective.
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As an AvCanada discussion grows longer:
-the probability of 'entitlement' being mentioned, approaches 1
-one will be accused of using bad airmanship
In the hallways of my high school when someone first mentioned that a plane had crashed into the world trade centre. It got crazy for the rest of the day from there.
I had just woke up and turned the TV on and the first thing I saw was a news flash that an airplane had hit the tower and shortly after that the second tower was hit while they were filming live.
An unbelievable event that will never be forgotten by those who witnessed it.
Was sleeping after an night medevac to Phoenix. Wife called and woke me up to tell me to turn on the TV.
Flew a medevac later that night... liver patient to London, Ont. We were told that we were one of 2 civilian aircraft flying in Canadian airspace at that time.
Had just returned to Atlantic Canada from Portsmouth NH after the first tower hit. Had we delayed a half hour, we would have been stuck on the ground...
DanWEC wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2016 6:12 pm
To make us dudes feel old- High school students today, right now, are studying 9/11 as a historic event that happened before they were born.
I had just started teaching a recurrent ground school session at a hotel near the airport. I got a call from our operations desk asking me to get to the ER centre ASAP. It took 90 minutes to get there because the police were searching every person and vehicle trying to gain access to the airport area. Everyone in the line was milling about near their cars. Some were silent, some were chatting with acquaintances, some with complete strangers. More than a few were wiping away tears as they came to realize the depth of the tragedy from news reports on the radio. I didn't sleep well for many days thereafter.
I already answered your question. It did not benefit Israel. You’re starting with a premise that Israel wanted this to happen and are trying to make the pieces fit.
Yeah, Israel and Iraq weren’t exactly friends but it’s all about the devil you know. Iraq was strategically and militarily impotent in the wake of the Gulf War. The words “power vacuum” and “Vietnam” were all over people’s mouths in late 2002 as the war drums beat... how much more so in the Mossad?
Syria was as a result of the spillover of the Iraq War. Considering the huge comedy of errors and unintended consequences of the entire Middle Eastern sojourn it borders on the edge of the impossible that Israel would have planned 9/11 to give cause to invade Iraq (even though the two events weren’t at all related) so that an insurgency taking advantage of the chaos of the Arab Spring would destabilize the Syrian Government so the Israelis could intervene militarily.
I was in high school and heard the news of a plane hitting a building on my drive to class. In the time it took me to park and go inside the news had gone from curious to serious (I think the second plane had hit) and I remember finding out when my friend in the seat beside me said, “It’s on every channel right now. I think the Cartoon Network is probably even drawing it.”