9/11 on CNN.com

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:31 pm

CNN.com is showing real time streaming of the story as it unfolded on 9/11

Tragic.

Massage...Bored · Post by **Massage...Bored** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:35 pm

"This is too soon."

WBOB · Post by **WBOB** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:42 pm

Remembering that day.

Especially when watching the 1st tower burning and
thinking that,.. "Oh it must have been a individual
small plane that accidentally hit it",... and then
witnessing the 2nd plane barrelling in and striking
the 2nd tower.... that feeling in your stomach.

7WetCigarettes · Post by **7WetCigarettes** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:41 pm

I just watched nearly all of the coverage.....and what struck me the most....was how naive the reporters were several minutes after the second attack. They were searching for reasons for how two planes could accidently crash into the WTC. I guess I wasn't in their shoes, but it just seemed crazy to me that they couldn't understand that it was a planned attack.

Also interesting were the reports of "fire on the Washington Mall", "explosion at the Capitol Building", "car bomb at the State Deptartment", and "The Pentagon is monitoring a second hijacked plane en route toward The Pentagon". I wonder what made these reports come to light, and what was the final explanation for them.....probably just sheer confusion....but I would like to know.

I need a burrito and a hug.

Al Quandt · Post by **Al Quandt** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:24 pm

i dont want to remember it. was just way too wierd

Post by **cwallace** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:27 pm

What happened?

Chris

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:30 pm

Al got so drunk that he passed out and pissed himself while we wrote all over him in permanent black marker.

Oh, the humanity.

Post by **cwallace** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:31 pm

Shaming!

Chris

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:49 pm

Yeah, I loved the interview with the guy from the NTSB...

CNN: So could this have been a navigational issue?
NTSB Guy: On a clear day like this, no one is flying on instruments.
CNN: So what is the traffic pattern like around NYC?
NTSB: They fly nowhere near south Manhattan.
CNN: So how could a plane end up in this area?
NTSB: Only if someone did not want to follow air traffic control rules.

GoDownProductions · Post by **GoDownProductions** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:54 pm

I downloaded "Howard Stern - 9-11 a Rememberance" last night. They were on the air while it was happening. You get to see and hear the events unfold from a non-news perspective. It was really good to watch. It got me all pissed off again.

G Fresh · Post by **G Fresh** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:57 pm

I remember that I was homeless at the time (though still working) going from friend's couch to friend's couch as I was able. I got a call from my best friend which woke me up telling me to turn on the TV so I did, just in time to see the 2nd plane hit the North Tower.

In stunned disbelief I showered and dressed and then listened to the radio as I drove to where I was working at the time, Wooden Nickel Music on N. Clinton. By the time I got to work they were already speculating on the news that it was the work of terrorists.

I was wearing my long black trenchcoat, as I have always worn in the fall weather for the past 12 years or so, and when I walked in the back door, my boss, the owner of all of the Wooden Nickel Music stores sees me in my trenchcoat and jokingly says, "You're not planning on hijacking any planes later today are you?" and then chuckled like it was the funniest thing in the world.

Those of you who know me know that I am not a violent person (not a pacifist by any means, but not a violent person in general) at all, but I have never wanted to put my fist through someone's face as much as I wanted to at that moment.

Later in the same week, the owner, (we'll call him Bob because that's his name), lamented that because all air travel had been halted he wasn't able to get his CD shipments in and oh woe is he, look how the attacks were already affecting his business.

I felt so sorry for him then, knowing that he had to drive his Porsche (or one of his two Lexuses) to his huge house and wife and kids having made a little less that week than he had normally. Screw those people who were pulverized when the towers collapsed and would never get a proper burial or the kids who lost their mothers or fathers or the sons and daughters who would never see their parents again. What was that compared to Bob's bottom line?

I quit that job a few months later.

=^-..-^= · Post by **=^-..-^=** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:30 pm

Weirdness, I was in N Clinton Wooden Nickel after work that day, because 9/11 was the day that the long-awaited Ben Folds ROCKIN THE SUBURBS was released, and I had to have it.

I went to the counter to make the purchase, and the counter guy was watching the oft-repeated footage on the TV, and I realized right then how insignificant getting that CD was in light of what had happened that day.

Rockin the Suburbs is still a modern classic depite its release date. . . .

7WetCigarettes · Post by **7WetCigarettes** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:34 pm

system of a down toxicity was fittingly the #1 album that week.

Bob Dylan's Love & Theft was also released that day.

Massage...Bored · Post by **Massage...Bored** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:54 pm

Lest we forget who really got screwed that day.....

Jettingham.

It is rather odd that you can trace back the beginning of the music industry's decline to around and including that date.

matthewsturm · Post by **matthewsturm** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:56 pm

wasn't that also the release date of Jettingham's "Jettingham"? If I'm not mistaken Gabe and Dave were in NYC that day, with a first hand look at what went down.