Writer's Block: 9/11
Sep. 12th, 2008 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I was mucking around on the computer after my sister's birthday gathering (I'm sure I've told this tale before). Matt ICQs me saying "A plane has flown into the World Trade Center" I replied, "Oops". I had no idea what the World Trade Center was, I just thought some person in a light aircraft had been careless.
Then I remember reading the MLPTP and someone (was it SkyeSurfer) had a post "OMG THE TOWERS!" or something. She was in New York. Now, I'm not sure if she posted before or after my brother rang and told us to turn on the TV.
I remember seeing the first tower go. It was like a banana unpeeling. We were all watching TV until about 1am when I finally went to bed. I was also refreshing the TP over and over and the posts just multiplied exponentially. It was amazing.
The next day it was all anyone could talk about at uni. A few American students talked about how they had to remove themselves from all the doom and gloom and some ended up singing "It's Raining Men" just to ease the tension (which of course offended some people - but hell, you have to laugh to keep from crying). Everyone bought the newspaper - their own little piece of history. I bought it for about a week after. Then I'd had enough. No more. I must have seen the footage 200 times by then.
I'm still amazed by the logistics of the thing. It's no secret that I'm fascinated by disasters of both the natural and man-made kind, and this was a doozy.
And despite it all, life goes on. Isn't it amazing? Yesterday I found myself giggling at a few macros made about the event.
I was mucking around on the computer after my sister's birthday gathering (I'm sure I've told this tale before). Matt ICQs me saying "A plane has flown into the World Trade Center" I replied, "Oops". I had no idea what the World Trade Center was, I just thought some person in a light aircraft had been careless.
Then I remember reading the MLPTP and someone (was it SkyeSurfer) had a post "OMG THE TOWERS!" or something. She was in New York. Now, I'm not sure if she posted before or after my brother rang and told us to turn on the TV.
I remember seeing the first tower go. It was like a banana unpeeling. We were all watching TV until about 1am when I finally went to bed. I was also refreshing the TP over and over and the posts just multiplied exponentially. It was amazing.
The next day it was all anyone could talk about at uni. A few American students talked about how they had to remove themselves from all the doom and gloom and some ended up singing "It's Raining Men" just to ease the tension (which of course offended some people - but hell, you have to laugh to keep from crying). Everyone bought the newspaper - their own little piece of history. I bought it for about a week after. Then I'd had enough. No more. I must have seen the footage 200 times by then.
I'm still amazed by the logistics of the thing. It's no secret that I'm fascinated by disasters of both the natural and man-made kind, and this was a doozy.
And despite it all, life goes on. Isn't it amazing? Yesterday I found myself giggling at a few macros made about the event.
