<p>My understanding is that 9/11 and 911 is just a bizarre coincidence. In most of the world, the day goes first, so it was 11/9 to them. I also don’t think the terrorists coud have predicted that we would refer to the attacks as “9/11” rather than by a location name. When you think of other horrific incidents - Columbine, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma City, etc - who remembers the exact date? It’s always the location. But maybe the 9/11 and 911 association is so obvious to us that is why the date is always referenced. But - we’ll never really know.</p>
<p>No one really knows the answer to that question. Osama Bin Laden is dead as, of course, are the men who got onto the planes.</p>
<p>“All of the men who boarded the planes had lived in the U.S. and knew what 911 meant. It’s just an extra layer of symbolism and another way that they said “screw you” to the U.S.”</p>
<p>An “extra” way? Lol. Yeah, boy, it wasn’t enough that 4 planes were hijacked, some of our most important buildings and cities were attacked, but the fact that the date corresponded to the number we dial for emergency services, boy THAT really showed us. @@ </p>
<p>Not afraid of 9/11 but I wouldn’t go out of my way to fly that day. I also wouldn’t book a booze cruise either. Someone in Rockville should be a little more aware. Amazing to think our kids who are just going to college now are the last to really remember that day. But different people have different views on it, some see it as empowering to do what we want to do that day, others feel more somber. I suppose it depends on your connection to the day. At what point did Pearl Harbor Day turn into a day on the calendar for most of us? </p>
<p>I’m on that wavelength. They didn’t care what day it was. They cared how many of us they could kill. </p>
<p>If they wanted to kill more people, they would have done it an hour later in the day. Only the early birds were upstairs at 8:45 when the first jet hit.</p>
<p>Oh good grief. They wanted to kill lots of people and make a grand statement. Precise numbers weren’t important. </p>
<p>“These past Septembers I don’t think about 2001 much because if I did I would be a walking wreck. My entire day, every work day, is spent in potential target areas; like thousands of other New Yorkers.”</p>
<p>Like everybody. There’s no law that says the next terrorist attack will be in NYC. Frankly I’m surprised they haven’t gone after smaller cities, because that’s more destabilizing and infiltrating - look, we are in Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis, Portland - no city is safe. </p>
<p>Who knows what was going on in those crazies’ heads? There are theories that they thought that hitting the WTC would somehow cripple the American economy. The day may have been rather randomly chosen…how far in advance did they buy tix? Maybe that date/time was when they all could get tix and be in the air at the same time?? I doubt that they knew/considered that only “early birds” would be in those upper floors…or in the bldgs at all. </p>
<p>They wanted to terrorize the country and they did. They probably didn’t know that the WTC building would be totally destroyed. It was shocking to all of us to see them melt-down (as if we weren’t already in a state of shock!)</p>
<p>I am just disgusted by what these crazies have done and are doing…including the most recent gruesome execution of journalist James Foley. The devil has been busy.</p>
<p>If you guys remember the attempted WTC bombing back in 1993 - I had a friend there who told me about it and I remembered it was winter so I googled the date and it was Feb 26. I guess the date was picked at random.</p>
<p>Another journalist beheaded today. There are no words.</p>
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I’m not sure that would be the day I’d want an anxious dentist to work on my teeth! </p>
<p>I was stranded in Manhattan for hours on 9/11 and there are countless streets in my neighborhood named for those lost in the attack. We were neighbors of the Siller family and lost several friends. it’s a very hard day for me and I expect this year to be exactly the same. Yes, I am worried, but not more than on other days. I believe it’s just a matter of time before the next attack, whatever it is going to be, and it is in God’s hands who will live and who won’t. There have been several near misses in the intervening years and one of these days the terrorists will get lucky. But life goes on and they are trying every day, not just September 11. I cry every year when the MTA announces a moment of silence at the exact time the first plane hit and I think I always will.</p>
<p>My DH is flying in and out of NYC that day and I am not happy about it. I do think it is somewhat difficult for people who don’t live in the NYC metro area or DC or even the Shanksville, PA area to really feel the same way about that day as those who are more geographically aligned. A close friend of ours was spared because he couldn’t find a quick parking space for the commuter railroad. He would have been on the 102nd floor. A father of a child in our son’s school was spared because he was bringing his son to the first day of kindergarten. So many stories like that come rushing back, along with the stories of those who were not as fortunate.</p>
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There’s a supposed Islamic connection with the date, and it’s hard (very hard) to believe that was a coincidence, however, to our western inclined minds it’s kind of nuts. But then, the whole thing is nuts to us.</p>
<p>CTTC, He did fill a small cavity, and I was nervous. I was there 5 or 6 more hours, until he heard DD was safe. I don’t think he touched another patient all day. He wouldn’t leave office, and his wife stayed at home, not knowing which phone the DD would call. His staff hung around too. His emotions were off the chart, as could be expected. </p>
<p>I found it interesting that most of us had real difficulty getting word to people that we were alive, walking home, staying at a friends, etc. for hours on our cell phones. You know what worked? The sneered at and soon to be extinct Blackberry. </p>
<p>Hah, IxnaBob, I didn’t have a cell phone yet. I had a landline and I called my kid’s school and other people with landlines.</p>
<p>@oldmom4896, the few pay phones in lower Manhattan had lines. Some shopkeepers did offer to let people use their landlines. </p>
<p>The crowd I was with didn’t want to slow down to get on a line for a phone, but we emailed on the Blackberries. Related to this: I was the only bald one in the crowd from work making the trek uptown together, so my requests to stay on the shady side of the street were not listened to by the people who didn’t realize what that strong sun could do to a fair-complexioned bald guy over the space of hours and they didn’t want to slow our progress to boats and ferries to get us across to NJ. I got a wicked and painful sunburn, but of course couldn’t mention it considering what others had been through.</p>
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<p>Sickening. </p>