HEY GUYS DID YOU KNOW IT'S THE TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11?!?!?!?!?!?

I swear if I hear one more fluff story about 9/11 on NPR I'm going to drive to the American Tobacco Campus and rage in their office, and then probably get arrested

9/9/2011 8:49:43 AM

TERRORIST!

9/9/2011 8:50:13 AM

TERRORIST!

9/9/2011 8:50:50 AM

Wait, what happened on 9/11?

9/9/2011 8:51:14 AM

i'm glad i'm not the only one that feels this way

9/9/2011 8:52:37 AM

I wouldn't mind it if it's a story here or there but there might as well be absolutely nothing else going on in the world right now.

9/9/2011 9:03:59 AM

Well, it sounds like there could be a 9/11 V2.0 this year...

9/9/2011 9:08:32 AM

They say that every year.

9/9/2011 9:08:55 AM

9 – The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends.
506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
1185 – Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
1226 – The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.
1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.
1390 – Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
1541 – Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonko.
1609 – Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1649 – Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
1697 – Battle of Zenta.
1708 – Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish empire ceases to be a major power.
1709 – Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
1714 – Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1758 – Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War.
1775 – Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1776 – British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
1777 – American Revolution: Battle of Brandywine – The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
1786 – The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them.
1802 – France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
1813 – War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington D.C..
1814 – War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war.
1829 – Surrender of the expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown in order to retake Mexico, This was the final consummation of Mexican independence.
1847 – Stephen Foster's well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1857 – The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1897 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1903 – The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1914 – Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
1916 – The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
1919 – U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
1921 – Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine and creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
1922 – The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
1922 – The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
1922 – One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
1931 – Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
1932 – Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed when their RWD 6 airplane crashes during a storm.
1940 – George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
1941 – Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
1943 – World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
1943 – World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
1944 – World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
1944 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1945 – World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.
1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
1961 – Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
1970 – The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1971 – The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1972 – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system has its opening day of passenger service.
1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
1974 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel meet at Camp David and agree on the Camp David Accords a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
1980 – Voters approve the present Constitution of Chile.
1982 – The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit
1988 – The St Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1989 – Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps, were free to leave for West Germany.
1992 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
1997 – 14 Estonian soldiers die in the Kurkse tragedy, drowning in the Baltic Sea
1998 – Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
2001 – The September 11 attacks take place in the United States. Airplane hijackings result in the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, damage to The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the crashing of a passenger airliner near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
2004 – All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria).
2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.

9/9/2011 9:09:23 AM

What are you talking about, Football just started.

I've barely even thought about 9/11 recently because I've been so damn excited about Football.

9/9/2011 9:09:53 AM

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"i'm glad i'm not the only one that feels this way"

9/9/2011 9:11:31 AM

9/9/2011 9:12:36 AM

I agree with this.

9/9/2011 9:13:21 AM

my friends think I'm nuts because 9/11 doesn't move me in any emotional way at all

I'm so desensitized from it

this weekend's programming is gonna suck

9/9/2011 9:13:33 AM

you people suck

9/9/2011 9:14:21 AM

where were you when they built the ladder to heaven?

9/9/2011 9:21:03 AM

You assholes are anti-American!

9/9/2011 9:28:14 AM

I love America but I hate how America will turn a tragedy into a marketing tool. Gotta get those ratings up!

9/9/2011 9:32:53 AM

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" Wait, what happened on 9/11?"

Jay-Z's Blueprint

9/9/2011 9:33:45 AM

^lol yes

9/9/2011 9:34:38 AM

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"this weekend's programming is gonna suck"

Go outside and do something fun I plan on being nowhere near a TV or radio the entire weekend unless it's to watch football.

It's doubly bad for me because my work is having all these OMG LET'S TALK ABOUT 9/11 seminars that I get nonstop emails about

9/9/2011 9:37:05 AM

Well I plan on watching a lot of football this weekend, so I'll be fine.

9/9/2011 9:41:15 AM

y'all postin in a terrorist thread

9/9/2011 9:42:10 AM

Did anyone else read the title to the tune of "Black and Yellow?"

9/9/2011 9:44:37 AM

I, too, am like STFU about 9/11. Yeah, it was sad, but jesus give it a break.

And how convenient that a PLAUSIBLE BUT UNKNOWN THREAT INVOLVING THREE MEN, VEHICLES, AND EXPLOSIVES is being revealed so everyone is SUPER freaked and OVER dramatic.

The fucking terrorists won bitches

9/9/2011 9:46:09 AM

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"The fucking terrorists won bitches"

9/9/2011 9:47:17 AM

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"The fucking terrorists won bitches"

Truth

9/9/2011 9:48:11 AM

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"And how convenient that a PLAUSIBLE BUT UNKNOWN THREAT INVOLVING THREE MEN, VEHICLES, AND EXPLOSIVES is being revealed so everyone is SUPER freaked and OVER dramatic. "

Everyone is freaked out?

9/9/2011 9:51:46 AM

I, for one, appreciate all these stories of courage and bravery that I get to hear every year about this time. It keeps my faith in human beings strong. Also, there are many of us who are closely connected to NYC or DC and know people who were directly affected - perhaps those of us who are close to it have stronger emotions towards it.

But this is TWW so I don't waste time/energy arguing with the people who mock it.

[Edited on September 9, 2011 at 9:58 AM. Reason : X]

9/9/2011 9:57:16 AM

it's one thing to remember

it's another to turn it into a national fetish

9/9/2011 10:00:32 AM

Ehh one of my aunts was working in the Pentagon and had her office pwned by debris. After hearing the same stories 10 years in a row I couldn't care less. Like many things, media is good at desensitizing people to events.

Only interesting thing I've seen about 9/11 so far this year is this: http://www.livescience.com/15914-flashbulb-memory-september-11.html

about how flashbulb memories aren't as infallible as we thought they were.

9/9/2011 10:01:22 AM

It's not really like that aside from the 10 days preceding it. Plus unlike WWII onlyba shitty Nicolas Cage movie has been made.

9/9/2011 10:02:12 AM

So far...

9/9/2011 10:02:51 AM

stpid fucking cunt. dumb thread

9/9/2011 10:03:39 AM

So...while the media will overhype this (they over hype everything, so who cares?) it was the biggest attack on American soil for quite a while and attacked the cultural and economic center of the country. So yeah it's still a BFD you jerks.

9/9/2011 10:05:19 AM

^^

9/9/2011 10:07:14 AM

Maybe I'd feel differently if it didn't turn into shit like 'see something say something' or being reported to the FBI by mall rent-a-cops.

9/9/2011 10:14:35 AM

meh I started to explain my viewpoint on this event but I don't care if y'all think I'm mocking

I don't feel like typing that shit out

9/9/2011 10:18:11 AM

^^

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""The government is not going to protect us free of charge, so we have to do that ourselves," said Maureen Bausch, executive vice president of business development at the mall."

Wat. Remind me never to go to Mall of America if I get the notion.

9/9/2011 10:22:05 AM

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"I, for one, appreciate all these stories of courage and bravery that I get to hear every year about this time. It keeps my faith in human beings strong. Also, there are many of us who are closely connected to NYC or DC and know people who were directly affected - perhaps those of us who are close to it have stronger emotions towards it. But this is TWW so I don't waste time/energy arguing with the people who mock it."

exactly how I feel.

9/9/2011 10:24:15 AM

I do think it's interesting that thinking the deluge of media hyping is overkill = mocking. Does this apply to everything the media hypes or only this?

9/9/2011 10:30:41 AM

nevermind

9/9/2011 10:31:48 AM

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"Did anyone else read the title to the tune of "Black and Yellow?" "

yep

9/9/2011 10:35:41 AM

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"Wait, what happened on 9/11?"

Slayer released a pretty mediocre album.

And yeah, every time I turn on the news I wonder if it actually is 9/11 because of all the stories they are running, but then I take a glance at the calendar and remember that 9/11 is actually this Sunday.

All kidding aside though,

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"I, for one, appreciate all these stories of courage and bravery that I get to hear every year about this time. It keeps my faith in human beings strong."

Is pretty much me. The only thing is I've had a hard time keeping up with what day it is this week.

[Edited on September 9, 2011 at 10:48 AM. Reason : -]

9/9/2011 10:45:31 AM

you can bitch all you want to about this.

but many of these stories/shows are revealing information never seen/heard by the general public. much of it is very interesting. victim's stories that were overshadowed/never heard are very moving, but what I find more interesting are the shows regarding intelligence/gov't/military/etc successes, failures, history, effects, and changes.

9/9/2011 11:06:19 AM

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"but what I find more interesting are the shows regarding intelligence/gov't/military/etc successes, failures, history, effects, and changes."

I find those interesting as well. What I don't find interesting are stories like I heard this morning on the radio where they're interviewing this woman and it was basically:

Reporter: So you saw the Towers go down?
Woman: Well no, not really, I was in my office in midtown.
Reporter: But you could see the smoke that day?
Woman: Yeah I guess.
Reporter: That must have been terrifying.
Woman: Yeah I guess.

How does an editor listen to that and go, "Oh yeah, this is hard hitting journalism right here. Let's put it on the air." Just because you happen to be alive that day doesn't mean you have anything interesting or insightful to say on the topic

9/9/2011 11:12:42 AM

If 9/11 really is this big of a deal, then I definitely haven't processed it properly yet.

I believe this has left me emotionally crippled, and I want a disability check.

9/9/2011 11:20:24 AM

I know a guy who gets disability checks for acid flashbacks so you never know you might actually qualify lol.

9/9/2011 11:50:15 AM

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"Did anyone else read the title to the tune of "Black and Yellow?""

I came to post this. Well done.

9/9/2011 11:53:58 AM

Toby Keith would be pissed you un-patriotic bastards.

9/9/2011 12:00:34 PM