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| anepalikt |
Posted
on 10-Sep-02 11:37 AM
What are you doing on September 11? What were you doing last year?
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| ????? |
Posted
on 10-Sep-02 11:47 AM
Last year I was working, this year I will be working :)
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| Dilasha |
Posted
on 10-Sep-02 02:23 PM
I was doing an internship that time and it was just another regular day for work and as I stepped out of my home, I saw this steam coming out of the vents outside from the laundry room at the basement, I had never seen that before so that just made me feel a little weird and go "hmmm what is that?" anyways as i was getting in the car, Charlie my friend's brother called out to me and said "hey i just watched on tv that a plane crashed on one of the twin towers in nyc" I replied, "oh that's shocking! there must've been something wrong with the plane, I wish I didn't have to go to work" but then I had to so i went and found out no one around then came Gloria the secretary who exclaimed "did you hear that?" "yes i did, what happened actually?" Gloria goes, "they're saying it's got to do with some terrorists go watch the TV in the conference room" went there and saw that all the people had flocked to the tv set and were watching in disbelief and i too joined them. then after a few minutes, "booom!!" another one hits the second tower!! at a moment I thought i was dreaming but no! i wasn't! it was for real!!!
Co-incidentally it's work day this year too 9-11. Don't have any plans, i guess i'll watch a program on TV later in the evening, hope they show one of those tribute performances. it'd be nicer if it's kelly clarkson this time coz i didn't get to hear her voice and my friend was saying she'd buy her CD if it comes out so she sure must be good!!
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| NK |
Posted
on 10-Sep-02 08:31 PM
I was on my way to work. As usual I was engrossed in my newspaper. The shuttle came and picked us up. I heard here and there titbits of conversation like, "did you see the smoke? Did you see the flame...?" I was trying to finish my newspaper but when I heard that, I looked outside. Did not see any flame. Mind you I don't live in New York! I stepped in my office *then* I find out what they were talking about. Switched on my computer and slowly panic started to seep in. My husband was in New York that day and they do meet in World Trade Center for their meetings. Nine of his colleague died.....
But, you know these events don't become so memorable just because these things happend. This kind of event becomes memorable by telling and retelling the stroy like what we are trying to do here.
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| DWI |
Posted
on 10-Sep-02 08:52 PM
I was driving up the Triborough bridge to my College, when a driver right to my lane pointed something to my left. The traffic was slow as always during rush hour, so I could scrolled my window pane down and asked what's up. He told me that WTC was on fire.
I looked left to me, where I saw smoke coming out of the WTC 2 building. At that time building 1 wasn't hit. I thought it was just an accident. I reached my class and everybody acted indifferent. I gave 'em the news and they already knew it but didn't take it seriously.
After an hour our Professor came to the lab and said the school was going to be closed and there were two attacks on WTC and a possible attack on Pentagon. I thought it was just a rumor until I saw it on the TV at my friend's house which is next to the college.
That day the whole upper bronx was clogged with people. For 2 days we felt like we were in a war zone. After 2 days a new fear invaded the Eastern world community. We felt that Americans were staring at us, may be ..may be not. But anyway, the fear sure has faded now and the sympathy has taken its place.
I still remember saluting the firefighter's ladder company , next to my house, on my way home everyday for a whole week. NY's Bravest proved they were the country's bravest.
A tragedy pulled the whole nation together. I hope it doesn't take that level of tragedy to pull the Nepal Together. Speaking of tragedy, aren't we living up Sept 11 everyday in Nepal, specially the rural place of the Kingdom?
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| blocKade |
Posted
on 10-Sep-02 09:49 PM
NepaliKT, trying to figure out the culprit here? If so, I didn't do it and don't have plans to do it tomorrow either.
If not - I watched TV last year. This year - will NOT watch TV. Why ask, what'd YOU do?
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| anepalikt |
Posted
on 10-Sep-02 10:21 PM
blocKade ho ki blockhead ho! "Trying to find the culprit?" what? chor ko khutta kat ki kya ho? Why ask "Why ask?" I asked because I asked, because I am interested. Because that is how you remember.
Last year I left work after having been there for less than 30 minutes. To get to where I had to go I walked down a street full of people in a state of silent panic as helicopters circled over the buidings.
This year, I plan to go to work. I plan to listen to the radio. Participate in a service project to remember those who perished and pray that the culprits get what is coming to them.
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| anepalikt |
Posted
on 10-Sep-02 10:34 PM
Thanks to the other folks for sharing what you remember.
DWI, I think I know what you mean. Everyday there is a tragedy in Nepal... the events just as devastating and the effects on indivudals and communitei concerned just as saddening, but what is happening in Nepal most times is happening in remote faraway places. The events still do not seem to have made the kind of public/visual/viceral impact that 911 made for people in the states. Again, that does not mean the events are not as tragic, maybe more so for the thousands killed and the thousands remaining families who now have to live without support from breadwinners, caretakers, lovers, wives, fathers, mothers and children, without a government able to aid the survivors and without the public funds that here in this country is ensuring that at least the families of teh survivors will make it economically. But also it is also more tragic that it is Nepali people killing other Nepali people... butchering them. Not that that sort of hatred (what else could it be?) that leads someone to drive a plane into a highrise in a city of millions, or a mob of 4000 to kill a few dozen makes sense to me! Both acts are inhumane.
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| fRank |
Posted
on 10-Sep-02 10:35 PM
hey.
LAst year I took the train to manhattan at 6:30 in the morning. I still remember it. I was wearing black pants, gray shirt and casual shoes. I had to reach somewhere in manhattan at 7:30. I did reach there on time. At 8:45, one of the women in the building shouted why is the plane flying so low? and after a minute. we heard the news over the speaker ,that one of the twin towers has been hit. I still remember chaos in that building .I myself couldn't believe that such a thing was happening in AMerica. AMerican mainland wasn't even harmed during WWs. ANd then war was home and more than 2800 ppl died. I wasn't allowed to get out the building till 3 o clock , but i watched it live on tv.. I still see ppl jumping out of the buildings.. 100 storeys high.. god bless them. Then at 3 i walked all the way to ground zero and of the 110 floors only 10 were left and they were in flames. Downtown manhattan felt like a graveyard with no ppl and cars on the road. The worst thing is i never got to go inside the twin towers let alone climb all the way to the top. If they hadn't crashed the plane i sure would have got the opportunity that day to climb all the way to the top. But unfortunately it din't happen.
This year I have to attend classes, however I will go to manhattan during the evening. I will walk to ground zero from grand central like i did that day and i will walk back. I will pray for the eternity of the souls of all those who perished. May God Bless them. AMen
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| blocKade |
Posted
on 11-Sep-02 10:18 AM
nepaliKT, its blockade (like cool ade?)-i knew it was coming at some point.
GOD willing, it won't happen again. So much on 9/11.
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| Poonte |
Posted
on 11-Sep-02 10:30 AM
Last year I was on a year-long break from school, catching up on family and friends in Nepal. Watched everything on TV, and I mourned for the victims.
This year, I will NOT watch anything on the TV--too many repetitions drive me crazy--and I shall not only mourn the victims of the WTC, but also the victims of US atrocities around the world!
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| Poonte |
Posted
on 11-Sep-02 10:41 AM
correction: meant to say "ALL", not just "US"
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| dirk |
Posted
on 11-Sep-02 10:45 AM
Last year I was in Elmhurst, Queens, staying over at a friend's place. After getting up and making a cup of coffee, I turned on the computer. One of my buddies in Florida was online and he asked me if I was anywhere near the World Trade Center. I said I was not...then, he just asked me to turn on the TV. There it was, one of the towers was burning. I then woke up my friend and we were engrossed to the tube all day long. I couldn't believe such a thing was possible.
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| Poonte |
Posted
on 11-Sep-02 10:53 AM
Smart a$$ DIRK...grrrrrrrr
Recorrection: Meant to say "US" nai...I was writing in the context of WTC attack. Get it?????
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| Euta Thita |
Posted
on 11-Sep-02 04:29 PM
This year: worked
Last year: was about to go to class when my roommate calls me that some tower got hit by an aeroplane. When the second aeroplane hit the building, I was watching it live.
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| soulfree_ |
Posted
on 11-Sep-02 06:15 PM
This year: Went to school. Actually I am writing this from School
Last year?? I hardly watch any news in TV. I hate watching news most of the time, coz it always shows the negative side. Last year that day, I don't know how but I was watching TV since 8:30, flippin' the channels -- Since I had to go to school only around afternoon. As I was flipping the channels, I stopped at some news channel which was showing the first plane crashed to the tower. I said to myself "what the heck, how could that happen?", and as I was watching it, second plane hit the tower, just like that... I could feel the chill running through my veins. I watched TV till afternoon, and went to school, not knowing school was already closed. I went thru the school lobby, and i could see some people crying, and rest sadly staring at TV screen. I stopped there, talked to few students... came back home .. watched TV till mid night.. wonderin' how could somebody do something like that... I still wonder in a same way when i hear killings in Nepal. How could people stoop so low to kill innocents for no particular reason? I just wonder--
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| paramendra |
Posted
on 15-Sep-02 02:31 PM
9/11: a year later
I was in a small town in Kentucky that day. Some locals called the cops on me! Their response to what they were watching on TV, I guess. (The cops were nice about it. As in, sorry, got to respond to the phone call, but we are not personally concerned you are here.) I was glued to a TV screen for hours at a local restaurant. And to the radio - NPR - for hours once I got back to Lexington later in the afternoon.
Did not know how to react. This thing had no context. It was like, okay, the cold war is over, a new war has begun. And it will last at least a few years, if not decades. Kind of like, okay, World War II is over, and the cold war has begun.
There might be temptations in the poor countries among the masses to look upon the wrong kinds of leaders. That exists also in the West, in America. Racist tendencies have surfaced in the aftermath.
The attack was so symbolic. Poor children in the Appalachia were raising money for the rich kids in NYC to "help." The reverse is not as well known to happen in better times. Americans everywhere felt attacked.
A stateless outfit after a state. That asymmetry seems to have worked in Osama's favor. The American intelligence agencies have been too hung up on technology - satellites - and too little has been invested in human sources on the ground. And they are not about to infiltrate the Al Qaeda. An intelligence failure?
Coupled with the downturn in the American economy? Greenspan in still there. Bill Gates in there. It is Bill Clinton who is not on the scene no more.
And the attempts to go solo. As in Cheney's assertions on Iraq. Is Powell having a hard time getting heard? On the environment. On security issues. And the UN can go to hell?
The Mid-East conflict. Civil wars in smaller countries. Mass poverty. Unfair trade. These have to be put into perspective.
The curious phenomenon of it suddenly have become "unpatriotic" to criticize Bush, even on dometic issues. Or "leaders" suggesting, if you love your country, go spend!
The anthrax scare. The suspicions for the longest time were abroad. Pointers say home.
Or that riot in the Afghan prison. Tens of Afghans from both sides dies. But all the western media attention was on the sole American.
Or the US military "mistakes" like when a wedding party got bombed because fireworks/celebratory gunfires were "misinterpreted." Or when a rival faction "tiptoed" the American troops into bombing a few vanfuls of Karzai supporters on their way to Karzai's inauguration in Kabul.
Or Osama still alive.
Or some people - politicos/citizens - finding an excuse in 9/11 to express the racism they harbored all along.
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| Nari |
Posted
on 15-Sep-02 03:52 PM
Last time I was in Nepal, this time I am in US.
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 15-Sep-02 06:23 PM
Anepalikt:
Thanks for asking.
Last year, I was attending an Educator's Conference near Andrew's Airforce base, when the code red alert went off. We had to report back to our respective schools and make sure all the children were picked up by their parents. It was chaos...buses were late...parents were stuck in DC area. We were frantic, we could not go home until the last child was picked up. Three of my colleagues had spouses working in the Pentagon.
This year, I had galey mei khitch khitch....took a vicks ki goli like you suggested ;)
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