#9-11

[yokelfelonking]

Post 9/11 Trivia

Most folks on this site were either children on September 11, 2001, or weren’t even born yet.  But America went crazy for about a year afterwards.  Here’s some highlights that I remember that might not be in your history books:

There was national discussion on whether or not Halloween should be canceled because…fuck if I know why.  After planes crashed into buildings in NYC it follows that 6-year-olds in Iowa shouldn’t be allowed to dress up like Batman and ask their neighbors for candy, I guess.  (Halloween wasn’t canceled, by the way.)

On a similar note, people asked if comedy - any sort of comedy - was appropriate anymore, ever.

People sold shitty parachutes to suckers “in case your building gets attacked and you have to jump out the window.” There were honest-to-God news reports warning people not to jump out of the window with shitty mail-order parachutes because they wouldn't work.

As a follow-up to the attacks, someone mailed anthrax to some prominent politicians and news anchors - you know, famous people - along with some badly-written notes about “you cannot stop us, death to America, Allah is good” and after that every time some random dumbass found a package in the mail they didn’t recognize they thought that the terrorists were targeting them, too.

Everyone was similarly convinced that their town was going to be the next target, even if they were a little town in the middle of nowhere. "Our town of Bumblefuck, South Dakota (population 690) has the largest styrofoam pig statue west of the Mississippi! Terrorists might fly planes into that too! It's a prime target!"

People started taping up their windows and trying to make their houses or apartments airtight out of fear of chemical and biological attacks. There were news reports warning people that turning your house into an airtight box was a bad idea because, y'know, you need air to breathe.

"[X] supports terrorism!" and “if we do [X], the terrorists win!” were used as arguments for everything.  "Some rich Arab you never heard of donated to his organization that backs Hamas which backs al-Queda, and also owns stock in a holding company that has partial ownership of the Pringles company, so if you eat Pringles you're supporting terrorism!" "The terrorists want to tear down our freedoms and our way of life and rule us through fear! Eating what you want is one of our freedoms as Americans! If you're afraid to eat Pringles, the terrorists win!" (I promise you that this sort of argument is in no way hyperbole.) (This argument is how Halloween was saved, by the way.  “If we cancel Halloween, the terrorists win!”)

People worked 9/11 into everything, and I mean everything, whether it was appropriate or not.  If you went to the grocery store the tortilla chips would remind you to support the troops on the packaging. Used car sales would be dedicated to our brave first responders. You couldn't wipe your ass without the toilet paper rolls reminding you to never forget the fallen of 9/11, and again, this is not hyperbole. My uncle, who lived in Ohio and had never been to New York except to visit once in the 70′s, died of a stroke about 8 months after 9/11, and the priest brought up the attacks at the eulogy.

On a similar local note, on the day of 9/11, after the towers went down, gas stations in my home town immediately jacked up gas prices.  The mayor had the cops go around and force them to take them back down.  I doubt any of that was legal.

Before 9/11, Christianity in America - and religion in general - was on a downward swing, with reddit-tier atheism on the upswing. Religion was outdated superstition from a bygone age. The day after 9/11? Every single church was PACKED. (This wasn't a bad thing, but the power-hungry on the Evangelical Right saw this as a golden opportunity to grab power and influence.)

EDIT: By Popular Demand - Freedom Fries. I initially left these off because they came a couple years after the initial panic and most people thought they were kind of absurd (and I don't recall anyone really going along with it other than maybe some local diners here and there). France didn't want to get involved in our world policing so some folks were like "TRAITORS!" and wanted to call french fries "Freedom Fries" instead, so as to stick it to the French.

Besides dumb shit like that…it’s really hard to overstate how completely the national mood and character changed in the span of a day, or how much of the current culture war is a result of the aftermath. (9/11 was the impetus for the sharp rise in power of the Evangelical Right, who made themselves utterly odious and the following backlash helped the rise of the current Progressive Left, for instance.)

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[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Mandatory post I always make on 9/11

9/11 was caused by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. We found that out 2 weeks after the attack.

But Bush blamed Sadam Hussain and 4,700 US soldiers and hundreds of thousands Iraq civilians died in the attempt to kill him. When people started asking questions they switched up their story of "Oh its because they have weapons of mass destruction" which they also did not have that all of those deaths was probably over oil.

And Hussein's rise to power as well as Al-Qaeda's rise to power were both directly caused by direct US interference in the 1950s

The United States sold Al-Qaeda weapons and overthrew the previous government.

And overthrowing the Iranian government was also over oil.

-fae

#9-11 #twin towers #iran #al-Qaeda #osama bin laden #saddam hussein

[floridaboiler]

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[viejospellejos]

En la película de Matrix, el pasaporte de Neo caducaba JUSTO el 11 de septiembre de 2001:

#neo #matrix #pasaporte #11 de septiembre #9-11

[dontpissoffpenelope]

Never forget

#9-11 #wtc #never forget #Sept 11 #world trade center #nyc

[correctopinionhaver]

the new theme this 9/11 is moving on

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[aunti-christ-ine]

#editorial cartoons #clay jones #9-11 #never forget #political cartoon

[rockyp77mk3]

Honors.

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[secular-jew]

According to this exhaustive report on Islamic terrorism from 1979-2019 (which doesn't include the last 5 years), the number of attacks by Islam on the world totals roughly 35,000 and the number of deaths, over 175,000.

https://www.fondapol.org/en/study/islamist-terrorist-attacks-in-the-world-1979-2019/

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[indynerdgirl]

Flight 77

Flight 175

Flight 11

Flight 93

The Pentagon

The Twin Towers

24 Police Officers

37 Port Authority Officers

43 EMT's and Paramedics

343 Fire Fighters

3,019 Civilians

Never Forget

#september 11 #September 11th #9-11 #9/11

[broadcastarchive-umd]

After 9/11 – A television mobile transmission unit parked in the same spot over many days became a bulletin board of missing person notices. (Don West Broadcasting & Cable photo archive)

Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture  |  Tumblr Archive

#9-11 #television #television news #broadcasting

[authorajalexander]

9/11 - Tribute - 2023

It has been 22 years since the horrible day, September 11, 2001. That day when the world crashed, when the U.S. was on fire, when people were killed, safety seemed to be an illusion, when cops, fire fighters, rescuers, medics and every first helper were working together to help, to search, to rescue! Do you remember what I remember from that day? I remember the words “UNITED WE STAND”. I…

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Remembering 9/11: Honoring the Victims (by Robert Mooney)

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Billy Collins Here is that poem, written by Billy Collins for a special joint session of Congress in New York commemorating the first anniversary of 9-11.

THE NAMES by Billy Collins

Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows, I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened, Then Baxter and Calabro, Davis and Eberling, names falling into place As droplets fell through the dark. Names printed on the ceiling of the night. Names slipping around a watery bend. Twenty-six willows on the banks of a stream. In the morning, I walked out barefoot Among thousands of flowers Heavy with dew like the eyes of tears, And each had a name – Fiori inscribed on a yellow petal Then Gonzalez and Han, Ishikawa and Jenkins. Names written in the air And stitched into the cloth of the day. A name under a photograph taped to a mailbox. Monogram on a torn shirt, I see you spelled out on storefront windows And on the bright unfurled awnings of this city. I say the syllables as I turn a corner – Kelly and Lee, Medina, Nardella, and O'Connor. When I peer into the woods, I see a thick tangle where letters are hidden As in a puzzle concocted for children. Parker and Quigley in the twigs of an ash, Rizzo, Schubert, Torres, and Upton, Secrets in the boughs of an ancient maple. Names written in the pale sky. Names rising in the updraft amid buildings. Names silent in stone Or cried out behind a door. Names blown over the earth and out to sea. In the evening – weakening light, the last swallows. A boy on a lake lifts his oars. A woman by a window puts a match to a candle, And the names are outlined on the rose clouds – Vanacore and Wallace, (let X stand, if it can, for the ones unfound) Then Young and Ziminsky, the final jolt of Z. Names etched on the head of a pin. One name spanning a bridge, another undergoing a tunnel. A blue name needled into the skin. Names of citizens, workers, mothers and fathers, The bright-eyed daughter, the quick son. Alphabet of names in a green field. Names in the small tracks of birds. Names lifted from a hat Or balanced on the tip of the tongue. Names wheeled into the dim warehouse of memory. So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

from AIMLESS LOVE, Random House, 2013

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[floridaboiler]

source -https://twitter.com/PurdueSports

#9-11 #Never Forget

[girlactionfigure]

September 12th legacies: Matt, Carl, Rebecca and Marc Asaro Hero father: Carl Asaro Sr.

Rebecca was 9 when her dad — along with every member of the 15-man shift at Midtown’s Engine 54/Ladder 4/Battalion 9 — was killed on 9/11. It was the heaviest loss of life suffered by any single firehouse that day.

“We never found my dad, so there was never really closure for us,” she said.

Today, all four of the firefighting Asaros serve in Manhattan: Carl, now 33, at Ladder 23; Matt, 32, at Engine 33; Marc, 27, at Engine 22; and Rebecca, 29, who was thrilled to be assigned to their father’s old outfit, Engine 54.

“I am literally following my father’s footsteps every single day,” she said.

“Some days I don’t think too much about 9/11,” she said. “But working that house, seeing the memorial there, you really can’t avoid it.”

To help preserve her father’s memory, she offers tours to visitors, showing off the bronze bas-relief panel at Eighth Avenue and 48th Street that pays tribute to him and his lost comrades.

: Nigel Parry/ Rosario family

Eddie Dvir

#USA #NYC #9-11

[mariewaltonrealtor]

NEVER FORGET!

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