United 93... watched it... cannot calm down...

westmanguy

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Anyone seen the movie United 93 (not the A&E docu-drama Flight 93, although it was effective too)

My God... my heart was pumping and I was breathing heavy.

Its not like Red Eye where its just a fiction, this actually happened... all movies that are based on something true get me wound up.

Just makes you think that most Americans do not realize the significance of that day.

Our world changed for ever on 911... and shall we never forget that day and forever defend our freedom.

What would your actions had been if you were on United 93.
 
westmanguy

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Conspiracy theories are hogwash, they are FAR, let me emphasize FAR left people who want to push their own agenda by trying to convince the stupid (anyone who believe in 911 conspiracy is stupid) that their own gov. caused the terrible events of that day.

Anyways, I am still breathing heavy, 911 was a day to remember.

Next question: What were you doing when you first heard of the attacks.

I was in High School at the time, and I came home after classes around 4 turned on the tv, surfed the channels, landed on CNN, and became obsessed with it for the next 3 weeks...
 
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Yeah, anyways that movie was great and a must see.

I saw it on Movie Central (only available in western canada, digital cable and satellite tv only)
 
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I slept through it all. I actually went to sleep about 20 minutes before the first plane hit. I was working a job unloading freight from 830pm to anywhere between 7 and 1 pm, horrible job. Anyways, I wake up to non-stop doorbell ringing, at about 2 in the afternoon. My buddy runs in the house telling me it's world war 3 and I have to turn on the television. For the next hour or so I sat there dumbfounded.
 
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westmanguy said:
Anyone seen the movie United 93 (not the A&E docu-drama Flight 93, although it was effective too)

My God... my heart was pumping and I was breathing heavy.

Its not like Red Eye where its just a fiction, this actually happened... all movies that are based on something true get me wound up.

Just makes you think that most Americans do not realize the significance of that day.

Our world changed for ever on 911... and shall we never forget that day and forever defend our freedom.

What would your actions had been if you were on United 93.
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I will never, EVER watch the movie...a hollywood exploitation of the events of 9/11 with a feel good, pro american twist that may or may not actually have happened.
 
westmanguy

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how is 911 pro american, feel good...

They died in the end. No-one survived, they depicted the lack of organization and authorization between ATC - Military - Government - not pro American

And 911 did happened and the gov. did not cause it.

I like to hear about what were you doing on 911 and what were you thinking stories!
 
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On the morning of 911 my daughter and I had just arrived at the golf course. We went into the
clubhouse, and there was something on the TV about a plane hitting the trade center.
We began to golf, had a short conversation about how a plane could go off course and actually
run into one of those high rises, then forgot about it. Golfed 18 holes, came back into clubhouse
and then learned the truth of what actually happened. I will never forget, and I know it was not
any kind of conspiracy, how stupid.
 
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I was in University at the time. I was eating breakfast at the cafeteria and a friend of mine told me about it. I remember I was glued to the TV for the rest of the day.

What would your actions had been if you were on United 93.
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Find someone who knows how to fly a plane, make sure that person is safe & protected, then try to take out the terrorists.

westmanguy said:
Just makes you think that most Americans do not realize the significance of that day.
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Why is 9/11 more significant than something like This ??
 
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I heard about the first plane hitting one of the WTC towers on CBC Radio while I was getting my breakfast--I was eating a bowl of Cheerios, actually, with a banana diced up in it--and preparing to go to work, and I thought "Gawd, what a dreadful accident." A little while later I heard about the second one and thought "Twice is not an accident" and went to the living room and flipped on the tv. It soon became apparent that it was a deliberate assault, and I remember thinking something like "Somebody's going to get thumped for this, nobody does this to the USA and gets away with it. This means war, somewhere, in some form, soon." And my next thought was of my son, who was 19 at the time, the same age as a lot of the Canadian kids who died at Vimy Ridge and Ypres and Paaschendaele and on the beaches of Normandy and in Sicily and Italy and the Netherlands... and I was afraid for him.

I was several hours late for work that day. So were a lot of other people, for the same reason. I watched the images on the tv in horrified, stunned fascination. When I finally got to work, everybody seemed in about the same mental state I was in. Not much work got done that day.

I do not, however, think the world changed on that day. There's nothing particularly unique about terrorism or acts of war. All that happened was that some of the worst behaviour humans are capable of impacted a little closer to home than usual.

And I'll never watch that movie either. I know what happened, I saw and heard about most of it almost in real time and saw multiple replays afterwards. I have no interest in seeing an agonizing dramatization of it.
 
westmanguy

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Thanks guys! Keep 'em coming! I really enjoy the "On 9/11 I was" stories.

On High School that day, very little went on, and the teachers could not calm down the students... everyone was screaming "WORLD WAR THREE!!!"

So to give into the curiosity and because the fact most of the students could not at all concentrate, the tech teachers wired in the CNN feed onto the projector screen in the gym and everyone went their... this was at 9am CT, and people were crying, huddling... interesting thing to see.....
 
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snfu73

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westmanguy said:
Thanks guys! Keep 'em coming! I really enjoy the "On 9/11 I was" stories.

On High School that day, very little went on, and the teachers could not calm down the students... everyone was screaming "WORLD WAR THREE!!!"

So to give into the curiosity and because the fact most of the students could not at all concentrate, the tech teachers wired in the CNN feed onto the projector screen in the gym and everyone went their... this was at 9pm CT, and people were crying, huddling... interesting thing to see.....
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What were you doing at school at 9pm....and why was everyone just seeing the events a full 12 hours after they happened?
 
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