6th anniversary of 9/11

[rex.]

Its 9/11. maybe only for a few more hours, but I think that it'd be a nice idea to just pay thoughts to the victims of the terrible tradgedy...




Here I go:
sept. 11, 2001:
i was sitting in my tech. class back in middle school. its was about 5th or 6th hour. The PA came on and my principal spoke to the school. He said 'Teachers, would you please turn on your Televisions to the news channel at this time...' and my whole class, along with everyone else in the world looked on at the screen as we watched something unbeleivable and heartbreaking. A friend of mine Began to panic, saying his Grandpa was there. Luckily His grandfather managed to evacuated the building before it collaped, but the other 25 thousand or so people who were trapped above flames didnt make it.
I watched a Video today on the science of WHY the towers collaped. The towers were built with a core of steel beams (where the stairs and elevators were located), and an outer steel beam wall. The truces that held the core and ouside together were bolted into place and then sprayed with fire-protectant foam. the walls around the core were made of dry-wall rather than concrete (maybe not such a wise choice)...but these buildings were MADE to withstand the impact of a plane!
When the planes struck the north and south towers, the splayed the outer beams which definatly unbalanced the towers to some degree, but not enough to knock it over. At impact, all the debree that hit the truces knocked off the Fire-proofing, making the steal voulnerable in the scorching hot explosion.
the bolts eventually weakened in the proceeding blaze and the truces sagged and fell out of place...eventually causeing a floor-by floor collapes
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May all those people who died in the terrible attack be remembered.
-Kash

[//Cindy// l u n a]

I would like to put in one story about how these events sometimes have the tiny silver lining of bring out the true best in people.

One of the people who worked on something like the fiftieth floor was in a wheelchair. A friend of hers helped her down the stairs, but she eventually couldn't walk anymore. Her friend actually picked her up and carried her down to the bottom level. Both people survived the attacks. This is an amazing story.

Also, if the climate continues to go up (due to Global Warming, which all top scientists agree exists and is caused by humans) the ice caps will melt into the sea, raising sea levels. If the waters of the world rise, the site of the World Trade Center memorial will be underwater. People have to start doing something about this; it's a terrible insult to those who died and their families if we don't stop the climate change.

[rex.]

here here,

[::Fawn::]

I had an aunt who almost died in the crash. It was horrible.

Moment of silence........
There we go.

[+~MoSsY~+(catsrule)]

my brother was up in new york when it happened and he would have been in it on one of the upper floors if my dad hadnt called and talked for a long time cause he missed him...my dad drove to new york as soon as it happened cause he made my brother come home .

[Azure]

I was in the 2nd grade when this happened......I don't understand why people in the world what to do this stuff to other people.......I probably never will......I hope this never happens again in yours, mine, my children's or my children's children's lifetime.

[rex.]

if terrorism doesnt stop, it will happen again. there is no garentee that something like this cant happen again.
if you were interested in WHY the towers were the target, it was because they were the two tallest sky scrapers in the world. they were very important, because they demonstrated our skills, and they were a huge business (as in floors would be rented to companies. if im wrong please correct me, but it was a big spot for commerse.)

and Catsrule, I'm happy to hear that your brother is alright. must have been a stroke of fate that he wasnt there, huh.

and Fawn, you mean your aunt was in the building right? im just making sure i am understanding. im glad she made it out okay

[::Fawn::]

Yes, she was in the building. She was very lucky...

[//Cindy// l u n a]

Here's a really interesting video that I suggest watching about how the official story of 9/11 seems to have some huge holes in it. [[C L I C K]]

[|g.O.l.d.Y|]

-sigh- We've been going over this in Current Events, there's so much I've learned about it all. So much I didn't know before. This all happened in about second grade for me, on my dad's birthday. I can still remember the footage then going to school. All the younger kids didn't understand, nor did I, but all the teachers were really grim. We've been watching documentaries about Bin Laden, I've had to watch the Twin Towers get destroyed over and over. I almost cried in the first video. It really affects me now, so long after. I wish we would have listened to what Bin Laden was saying all those years...

I agree Cindy! I believe in global warming! I'm not about to go hug a tree, but we've been covering it to the major in Science. The whole history, how it affected everything that's ever really happened in our civilization. d**n. Where I'm living now they're predicting will be a foot underwater in the next 25 years. My dad keeps telling me 'you believe everything you read?' but there's so much backup to it... We need to do something. Start burning natural gases, less coal! Take it easy on the forests! Our climate needs to stop increasing. In the video we watched the earth will take care of itself eventually through the oceans, but we'll have to live through the whole earth changes until it finally does. I don't want our future generations burning up in the sun and having to fear living too close to the oceans.

[rex.]

hopeful prediction: icecaps melting may shut down major sources of pollution, therefore, greenhouse would reestablish itsself and the caps would freeze again over the next thousand years or so until we can live on land

i really want to see an inconvinient truth. Al Gore is my hommie G

[//Cindy// l u n a]

It's an awesome book. I read it this summer... And I watched the movie in school.