9/11

"DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!" (daft-ryosuke)
09/11/2018 at 09:09 • Filed to: None

I believe we all wish that this day was like any other, where we could relax and talk about 911s.

Alas, life doesn’t go that way.

I still remember the day like it was yesterday. I was six years old, and quite confused. It stings a lot in retrospect knowing just how naive I was.

For those who lived in New York, Washington, or were personally affected by this day, my condolences.

DISCUSSION (15)

Ash78, voting early and often > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 09:27

I was about to turn 23 and was finishing college at the time. I was at the end of my summer internship and we heard the news. The entire internet was frozen, so we just left, went home, and stayed glued to the TV for a couple hours. It was eerie because my roommate and I were both looking at each other saying “This has to be bin Laden” and we were terrified at what the US response was going to be. I was convinced we would just nuke Afghanistan completely. Thankfully it wasn’t quite that bad in the end.

I remember the commentators speculating about the death toll (“As many as 50,000 people!”) and thinking that was pretty horrific to speculate while the event was still happening.

Aremmes > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 09:32

I was at work when a coworker got the news of the first plane and turned on a portable TV in the lobby. My first reaction was to wonder whether it was real or not, being TV and all.

But fear not! We can still talk about parshs!

Q: What color looks best on a parsh?

A: Yes.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 09:34

And yet it is just another day. I was drunk and 17 years younger than I am now when it happened and was still able to process that it was the latest in in long line of shitt y things that people do to one another. Perhaps this is the N ot American perspective...but sometimes looking forward is a far better thing than looking backwards. Especially when you are six...

Rainbow > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 09:35

I was also six, but I’ll admit I don’t remember much of it at all.

I remember my parents telling me that some really bad people crashed airplanes into some buildings.

I remember asking if they let all the people get out first, and being very confused that they didn’t.

I slightly remember eating dinner at a pizza buffet because nobody wanted to cook, and I remember it being unusually quiet for such a full restaurant.

I vaguely remember watching videos of George Bush in school in the days following. Being in first grade, I’m sure they were really just for t he teachers’ sak es, but I do remember the surrealness of it all. The president was talking about those airplane crashes my parents told me about. That's how I knew it was a really big deal.

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Aremmes
09/11/2018 at 09:39

Ruby Stone Red.

Next question

DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often
09/11/2018 at 09:47

“Thankfully it wasn’t quite that bad in the end.”

What’s this “end” you speak of? A friend of mine just got back from about a year deployment in Afghanistan.

Wheelerguy > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 09:58

If it was just literally one errant plane we’d have little more than a wild episode of Air Crash Investigation . It wasn’t.

Though, in a morbid, supervillainous way (which I am, in the same mold as Fancy Kristen), I am impressed those arsecunts were able to nail the job at all. I don’t think any other group can pull any worse barring going nuclear.

Aremmes > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 09:59

Red, yes.

Kinja'd!!!

Ash78, voting early and often > DipodomysDeserti
09/11/2018 at 10:03

A friend of mine just got deployed last week. And my son’s teacher’s son is on his way to Iraq this week.

(when I said “the end” I meant “the end decision” to take a more thoughtful and tactical approach to the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afganistan . Not Iraq, though...that was — and is — a disaster)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 10:19

heard about it on the radio at work... figured the radio guys were just trying to get a rise out of people again

then i got home and turned on the telly.... O.o

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 10:19

heard about it on the radio at work... figured the radio guys were just trying to get a rise out of people again

then i got home and turned on the telly.... O.o

Spanfeller is a twat > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 10:26

I was four, and I didn’t understand what was happening, it was big news here too, and I didn’t know what was going on, I just know that for 12 years in my school we held a moment of silence. I didn’t get it until I was six or seven and it was explained to me more thoroughly

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 10:55

I was in sixth grade homeroom when it happened and i remember calling my mom from the school office telephone because I knew my grandma was in New York on a business trip. She was actually in Albany, New York, but being a panic stricken 6th grader who didnt have a strong grasp of geography of places outside chicagoland i thought the worst.

DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often
09/11/2018 at 11:57

Gotcha.

While the invasion of Afghanistan was more thoughtful than Iraq, it has still been a disaster. CJ Chivers just came out with a really good book called The Fighters which analyzes both theaters through the stories of infantrymen.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/13/638306913/correspondent-reflects-on-nearly-17-years-of-war-in-afghanistan-in-the-fighters

https://www.amazon.com/Fighters-C-J-Chivers/dp/1451676646

phenotyp > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/11/2018 at 21:16

Man. Seventeen years... like it was yesterday. I was in Austria, my first design internship, and most of the office had left for the IAA, Frankfurt auto show. The Brit I was interning with and I went to the upstairs conference room and watched CNN. I remember wondering whether I’d be able to go home in a couple weeks.

It’s funny how things can take on more portent, or just seem stranger, in retrospect.