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I had just turned 21 a few days before 9/11. hosed up.
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Dec 19, 2016 04:21
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I lost my virginity on 9/11
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Dec 19, 2016 04:22
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I was playing Jane's 688, plotting a tomahawk attack on some Libyan or something idk, I had the tv on in the background when I saw then I went to intro to economics class and the teacher insisted we stop talking about it because it wouldn't have an impact on the economy lol also my mom was afraid I'd get drafted, in Canada, somehow
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Dec 19, 2016 04:23
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i had woken up early to watch the price is right on tv and was disappointed to see the news footage i still wonder to this day how gore would have reacted to 9/11 and would like to have heard his rationale for going to war in iraq
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Dec 19, 2016 04:26
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Biodome posted:miss? you forgot to collect yesterday's homework. this motherfucker
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Dec 19, 2016 04:26
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i have a weird out of place memory of my class discussing the plausibility of the Taliban coating bridges with "jelly made out of nerve gas" and the teacher insisting that that was just news outlets trying to scare everyone by being bombastic and me being disappointed because it sounded cool and science-y e: "like something a bond villain would do" was my exact words I just remembered
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Dec 19, 2016 04:28
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actually thinking back to it that was in the middle of my teacher explaining to us that news outlets sometimes say big scary but not really true things of what could happen because it gets people to watch and they're in the business of getting people to watch and we should always think about what was on the news critically, she was a real good teacher 
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Dec 19, 2016 04:31
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in that exact same vein, when NATO started bombing kosovo in 1999 we watched a news thing in class about it, and part of it was about all the increase in tension between the USA and Russia that was resulting. the news anchor said "russian nuclear missiles are now targeted on all major american cities" and a friend of my started hyperventilating and then ran to the bathroom and threw up ofc russian nuclear missiles have always been targeted at all major american cities since they were invented, that wasn't even newsworthy.
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Dec 19, 2016 04:35
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i saw 9/11 on a tv in the dorm common area, went to english class anyway, and then classes got cancelled like half an hour later so i hung out watching cnn the rest of the day and smoking weed
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Dec 19, 2016 04:39
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what hosed up thing will donald trump let happen so we invade iran i wonder
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Dec 19, 2016 04:40
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I was a junior in High School (class of '02) back then. I'm pretty sure I ditched out of school during the commotion and bought some Milano cookies from a Wawa.
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Dec 19, 2016 04:42
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they didn't cancel class for us in canada. the school chaplain came on the intercom and said a prayer and then we went back to doing classwork.
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Dec 19, 2016 04:45
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it was like my 4th day of high school and the ensuing afghanistan and iraq clusterfucks were basically my baptism into politics. most everyone forgot pretty quickly though because there was a big gang shootout a couple blocks up from the school a week later. we had more pressing concerns.
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Dec 19, 2016 04:49
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my friend and i ditched middle school and hit up a deli
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Dec 19, 2016 04:50
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uncurable mlady posted:what hosed up thing will donald trump let happen so we invade iran i wonder if theres a 9/11 during trump's 1st year the only thing that might save us from committing massive war crimes is if the opposition manage to redirect public anger onto him for ditching his intelligence briefings
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Dec 19, 2016 04:52
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I was in NYC in July 2001 for Macworld and it was kinda late on the last day and we hadn't gone to the WTC yet. I was like ah well we'll just go there next year. lol.
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Dec 19, 2016 04:52
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:if theres a 9/11 during trump's 1st year the only thing that might save us from committing massive war crimes is if the opposition manage to redirect public anger onto him for ditching his intelligence briefings hahaha you're adorable
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Dec 19, 2016 04:55
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I wonder how many middle Americans still think ground zero exists
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Dec 19, 2016 04:58
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:it was like my 4th day of high school and the ensuing afghanistan and iraq clusterfucks were basically my baptism into politics. most everyone forgot pretty quickly though because there was a big gang shootout a couple blocks up from the school a week later. we had more pressing concerns. r we the same age? it was a few days into high school for me too
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Dec 19, 2016 05:00
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fart simpson posted:r we the same age? it was a few days into high school for me too ur probably a year older than me cuz i skipped a grade. ill be 29 in a couple months.
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Dec 19, 2016 05:11
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:I lost my virginity on 9/11 Yeah, 9/11/2015!
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Dec 19, 2016 05:23
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Elder Postsman posted:I was in NYC in July 2001 for Macworld and it was kinda late on the last day and we hadn't gone to the WTC yet. I was like ah well we'll just go there next year. lol. 
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Dec 19, 2016 05:26
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lancemantis posted:living in nebrahoma nobody got picked up from school because we were all too manly to let the terrorists win 
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Dec 19, 2016 06:02
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i was, uh, in the air force on 9/11 just got stationed at beale, figured i'd have an easy last 2 years of my enlistment, get some college classes in etc first day at work was 9/10 lol i got off real fuckin easy anyway, being burnt the gently caress out is cool and good
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Dec 19, 2016 06:55
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Tayter Swift posted:i was, uh, in the air force on 9/11 how did your first day of work go
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Dec 19, 2016 07:39
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I was supposed to meet my buddies in Boston for some wild poo poo that morning but I overslept and they got to have a loving blast
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Dec 19, 2016 07:42
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for me, watching september 11 on tv was less of a big deal than "shock and awe" in iraq. i watched the bombs over baghdad in real-time, with commentary provided by cnn. it was fully sick. i literally puked
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Dec 19, 2016 07:50
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it is worth noting that sept 11 wasn't known to be a terrorist attack at the time. yeah, i watched that poo poo live on the news, but we didn't know what was happening. it was scary and weird "shock and awe" was scheduled in advance. we knew exactly what was happening. it was loving horrifying to watch coordinated strikes on a city scheduled like fireworks
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Dec 19, 2016 07:51
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:for me, watching september 11 on tv was less of a big deal than "shock and awe" in iraq. don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
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Dec 19, 2016 07:52
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ate all the Oreos posted:don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang idgi
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Dec 19, 2016 07:55
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it is worth noting that sept 11 wasn't known to be a terrorist attack at the time. yeah, i watched that poo poo live on the news, but we didn't know what was happening. it was scary and weird Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US, the term "shock and awe" has been used for commercial purposes. The United States Patent and Trademark Office received at least 29 trademark applications in 2003 for exclusive use of the term.[22] The first came from a fireworks company on the day the US started bombing Baghdad.
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Dec 19, 2016 07:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVehcuJXe6I
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:if theres a 9/11 during trump's 1st year the only thing that might save us from committing massive war crimes is if the opposition manage to redirect public anger onto him for ditching his intelligence briefings lol, no. if there's a terrorist attack that kills thousands of people on american soil, we're going to war and we're bombing a lot of people. someone in another thread once suggested that maybe america wouldn't have gone after bin laden if he'd holed up in pakistan just because pakistan has nuclear weapons, but the war fever after 9/11 was truly insane. i think we would have been eager to invade any nation that refused to hand him over short of russia or china, and if it happened to be someone with nukes like pakistan, we would have just said "gently caress you, if you nuke us or our troops we will annihilate you"
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Dec 19, 2016 08:46
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I had late start so I rolled in a bit after the first plane hit and all the tvs were on, plane number 2 hit and i basically just walked home lol probably played counterstrike or something
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Dec 19, 2016 08:51
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:for me, watching september 11 on tv was less of a big deal than "shock and awe" in iraq. yeah. id like to make a joke but it was completely bizarre.
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Dec 19, 2016 09:05
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i remember watching the afghanistan invasion a month or two after 9/11 and feeling like, this is righteous i also remember a year and a half later watching the invasion of iraq and thinking osama bin laden is in iraq now? why can't they just assassinate him if they know he's there? i was still wide-eyed and innocent
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Dec 19, 2016 10:50
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i remember arguing with my dad that going into Iraq was a terrible idea, it was going to be a worse quagmire than Vietnam and would destabilize the region for decades and just give rise to even more terrorists called that one pretty well imo
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Dec 19, 2016 13:46
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I was home, in my pjs, skipping class as usual. I thought "world war iii"
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i'd just came home from primary school because i was 9 i can also remember watching the crowd pulling down saddam's statue on my neighbor's tv and him joking that the two poles would get bombed because they looked like a gun turret
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