"Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif" (lumpy44)
09/11/2015 at 10:47 • Filed to: None
11
5|
"Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif" (lumpy44)
09/11/2015 at 10:47 • Filed to: None | 11
| 5 |
We all know the significance of today and will always remember where we were when we heard the news, but today, as an 11 year old kid, I was given the most heart-breaking speech by a teacher I will never forget.
I woke up with my cereal and toast as any Grade 4 kid may and turned on Sportcentre to catch up on last nights games. Something was off though, there was no ticker, the pre-recorded highlights played as usual and then the ticker returned with something along the lines of “Go to a news channel”. So I of course did and saw the fire burning. I do not need to tell you the rest of the story as you already know it but I was in the middle of calling my dad to tell him I was off to the bus when the second plane hit.
Something else I will always remember is turn from accident to deliberate in the newscasters tone. It will chill me to my last day, I know that women was never prepared to tell the millions what was going on and how she could not keep herself together. The bus was rolling down the street so I had to run out and jump on though I didn’t want to.
The small town Canadian school bus was half full of kids who had no idea two planes had hit the towers and the news I gave them sat a bunch of elementary school kids stone straight in there faux-leather seats. We arrived at school to a substitute teacher ready for a day of reading, writing and arithmetic but were all called into the gym. There was a 32 inch TV on the medal stand with CNN on and the images of people jumping out of building to their certain deaths.
The principal must of thought this was too much for us and sent us back to our classrooms. That was when our substitute teacher who I may of only saw once or twice more after that gave us one of the most bone-chilling and truthful speeches I will never forget (I will do my best to remember it all from 14 years ago).
The world is full of evil. Today that evil has put itself out in the open. That evil crashed those planes into buildings and that evil is making people jump from a hundred stories. I am not talking about the Devil or Arabs or crazy people, I am talking about evil. We all have some evil inside of us, that we control in order to keep life happy and moving. But some cannot control their evil and let it loose to kill or harm innocent people. Evil enjoys this, this is what evil thrives on. It is hard for me to understand how we got to this point, evil gets compressed down and builds until it boils over and we get something like this shit today. We have lived many days without it rearing it head and today will live in infamy as a day that evil won. I’m not going to stand here and say we can ever defeat evil either, it will stay hidden and come out only to remind us that is exists. Just remember you guys, we cannot ever let Evil win.
I think this was a day I grew up a lot, I started to understand the world. This speech contradicted everything we were shown as kids. It was the day I learned about hate and began to understand it, I knew I hated those people that did this to our southern neighbours and understood that I cannot let Evil get the better of me.
Steve in Manhattan
> Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
09/11/2015 at 10:59 |
|
The strangest thing for me was looking out the window of the Third Avenue skyscraper I worked in and seeing only one tower still standing. There should have been two. There always were two.
I walked home that night through Central Park. The wind blew north, and there was a metallic smell. And there was something else. A few dozen people gathered at the Imagine Circle. A truck banged over a metal plate, and all of us jumped.
G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
> Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
09/11/2015 at 11:02 |
|
It was kind of ironically sad that I read this while listening to Escape is At Hand for the Travelling Man. It just seemed surreal and melancholy at the same time. Never forget.
Wheelerguy
> Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
09/11/2015 at 11:03 |
|
Just how unnecessary is 9/11? Completely fucking unnecessary. It’s the last thing the regular world will ask for itself, and it happened.
Leon711
> Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
09/11/2015 at 11:40 |
|
I was 8 years old, it was just an ordinary day at school, we went into the computer room to do our weekly lesson and one of the kids told us it was on google or BBC (I forget) like you we were stone faced and horrified, thousands of miles away and the news still hit us hard, I had a similar situation on 7/7 only that time it was within our own country, it’s a shame that these events happened and the fallout is still being felt to this day. But know this, your brothers and sisters from the UK are thinking of you today.
Cash Rewards
> Steve in Manhattan
09/11/2015 at 11:43 |
|
I was in college a time zone over, but grew up a little north of the city. The first tower had already fallen by the time my suite mate came into the the room and told me. I remember telling him they had been bombed before and didn’t fall, it didn’t fall this time, it’s just that you can’t see both towers depending on the camera angle. The the broadcast feed switched to a different camera, and I had a similar shock. Like you said, there were always two.