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Your say: How did 9/11 change your world?
For our coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, we asked you how those events changed your world. Here is what you said:
- My partner and I were living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan when the planes hit on 9/11. We got a phone call from a friend telling us to turn on the TV, and watched in horror as the second plane plowed into the second tower. We lived at 87th & 3rd, so we weren't directly impacted by the attack, but the changes wrought in New York and American society led us to leave New York for Vancouver, Canada, my hometown, where married.
- We were delivering buses to Long Island before 9/11. Once the vehciles are delivered, all the drivers pile into one van for the ride back to Canada. On the return leg of one trip, the crew cheif decided to play tour guide. He veered off our normal route and took a tunnel to Manhatten. A couple of turns later and we were driving by the base of the World Trade Center. Everyone crowded the curb-side windows to take a look, but I was on the other side of the van and could see only the ground floors. "C'mon Mike," one of them said. "You can actually see pretty far up."
- >>note to self - do not hit return key<< Anyway, He told me to come over and take a look. I declined. "we'll be back this way again." I told him. "It'll still be there." That was late August or very early September, 2001. What it taught me? Take advantage of every situation and take nothing or no one for granted.
- My Dad was a captain for Canada 3000 which went under in the economic aftermath of 9/11. Airlines all over the world were going under at the time, especially in Europe, North America and Australia. We ended up having to sell our house and my Dad ended up welding in a car restoration shop for about a year before he could get another job as a pilot. In 2003 our family moved to Taipei, Taiwan because there were no jobs for experienced pilots in North America.
- Nothing much changed for me the day of, but later changes to immigration laws have directly affected my family. My in-laws are immigrants from the Netherlands. They have been here since the early 80s. They have not become Canadians because they cannot hold dual citizenship with the Netherlands unless they live there one year out of every 10, and if they give up their citizenship then they may not collect their government pensions from their careers before coming here. Being landed immigrants has meant going through lots of paperwork to get special documentation to cross the US border and return to Canada when they go on holidays, and each time they go to the US they have to be fingerprinted. It was, in fact, simpler for my husband to get his citizenship (he had only kept his Dutch citizenship for travel purposes), which he did shortly before our marriage. This is not anything compared to the woes of people who have been detained for little or no reason, or those separated from their families for lengthy periods of time, but the bureaucracy created by 9/11 and they effects of ease of travel has been a bit ridiculous at times.
- i watched when i was sixteen as the world trade centre towers fell down and didn't even know what they were. how naive i was to think that that event wouldn't mean anything to me. what has changed is that national security is now allowed to have blatant, government sanctioned precedence over an individual's freedom, without informed permission from the people (by informed, i don't mean media spin and hype, especially considering the 9/11
c. if you don't think this changes the world for the worse, you'd better hope you're never detained by the forces of the New World Order for your political beliefs or lack thereof, or for any other reason, because it will be then that you will realize national security is not greater than individual freedom and autonomy. - goddamn it, this enter button thing SUCKS
get a new format, if you really want our opinions, globe and mail. - Made me do my own research. Listen to my gut instinct and to use my grade 10 physics to figure out the reality. It perpetuated the military industrial complex of USA. Gave them permission to kill all prosperity to islam. When will we wake up. Still animals who control us. Man is to animal as religious animal is to human. Too many of the Man.
- I was born in 1965 and remember the cold war well. There was always the underlying fear that someone would do something stupid and that would be the end of it.
- Ironically I stopped reading a book on Afghanistan and started reading Bernard Lewis's, A Short History of the Middle East. I learned that Bernard Lewis has been basically writing the same thing over and over for the last 60 or so years.
- I still remember that Tuesday morning like it was just a year ago. I instantly knew that the effects of that day would be long lasting, but never did I imagine that it would dramatically alter international relations for over a decade. 9/11 and the affect it had on American psyches and policy will likely be studied for generations.
- Welcome to the Project for the New American Century?
- It brought our family together is such a way that we will never forget that moment in time. To this day we call each other during the anniversary and express our love and thoughts for thoes that were lost. "To remember is to never forget"
- <Don't hit 'Enter'> I Remember the cold war as a time of constant underlying fear. that the world could erupt into a hot war at any time with devastating results. Then, the Berlin wall fell, and the USSR broke apart and the feeling turned to one of optimism. Maybe we were going to get through it all in the end. On 9/11, I was at home sick and got a call from a friend. She said something about an airplane hitting a tower. I thought maybe a cesna had hit a radio tower. We didn't have a TV, but I hooked a set of rabbit ears to the VCR which was connected to the computer monitor so we could watch movies. As the VCR flipped through the channels scanning to find all available channels, the same images kept appearing. My thought was "Oh ****! Someone has done something stupid and the world is going to pay an awful price."
- It made the United States even more paranoid than it once was once. It has made air travel, particularly through the United States, more difficult and more unreasonable.
- I cost many people in Afghanistan and Iraq their lives, many more lives than perish on that tragic day in 2001.
- It remains the worst day of my life and marked the beginning of a hatred that I can't seem to shake.
- On 9/11 I watched in horror knowing that colleagues had been trapped in the North Tower. Five years later i began to look into evidence of what had happened and came to the conclusion that it had to have been an inside job. The terrible consequences of this have changed our countries for the worse, much worse.
- It was an unbelieveable shock!!! How two planes could simply fly through United
- States boundaries without be caught, stopped is beyond me. Spiritually, it destroyed the faith in Hundreds of peoples lives, destroyed many families,'
- As a Canadian I felt particularly sad as The great U.S.A. is our largest trading partner.
- Americans & Canadians are like cousins. When someone hurts your family you want to strike back - not with violence-with not giving anymore aid. 9/11 was not
- brought on my the Muslum Religion - by fanatical, vicious, radical, unbalanced
- maniacs . I pray to God that all peoples shall learn not to hate but to love.
- Barbara MacMahon-Firestone.
- Building 7 fell like a deck of cards. Only the front was hit. Like putting a pencil through a screen window. BBC said it was going to fall 30 minutes before. Planted demolition. It was a setup to invade, steal resources and kill millions.
- For me it was extreme sadness followed by anger. Also opened my eyes to how much of a joke the religion of peace is and how we should work at banning many aspects of it in our society.
- @you @you @you
- What is wrong with this web-site??? You took all my writings and made little sentences - left out half of what I was trying to relate!!!!!
- Directly the attack had no effect on me whatsoever, and even indirectly my life carries on unperturbed. While it was important to those closely imvolved, it was really not much different from the earthquakes in California or Chile.
- Anyone who watched the video coverage of building 7 and doesn't believe it was a demolition has their head in the sand...
- well, the various wars we started as payback have shattered western economies, definitely took a hit on my retirement plans, and i can't bring my swiss army knife on planes anymore, which sucks.
- It put religion and its divisive and often violent nature at the forefront of the world stage. Evil is evil.....and religion too often is the messenger.
- It didn't.
- It basically changed America more than it did my world, it allowed the Republicans to erode civil liberties and basically steal all the money as well as make it impossible for democratic rule in the country for the next 30 years and by then they will have destroyed the country(what they haven't destroyed already)
- For those who think that the attack was some sort of US government false flag operation cleverly kept secret, it would require a far higher level of performance, organization, and secrecy than the US government has ever managed before or since.
- I can't walk through security at an airport with a bottle of water. But, I can buy a $4 bottle when I pass through. I can then buy at 'Duty Free' a bottle of booze (flammable)......and hop on board my plane.
- It showed me extremes in human nature. From great compassion for one neighbor to blatant ignorance and hatred towards people
- It highlighted Islam as a backward and violent "religion" that is increasingly being exported to Europe and North America though unregulated immigration.
- It showed me that there is nothing worse than Christian white trash spouting obscene hatred at everything they cannot screw over.
- Governments have imposed ridiculous "security" measure that affect everybody while failing to achieve real solutions. Many people seem to feel that it somehow legitimized bigotry.
- I wouldn't say that 9/11 itself changed my world much at all. America had its share of enemies, and 9/11 just happened to be the day that one group of those enemies got lucky. As a Canadian, I sympathised with the people who had been killed but I certainly didn't take it personally. The aftermath of the attacks was a different story, as security theatre became fashionable around the world and America began to push harder than ever for global hegemony under the banner of the ill-conceived "war on terror". My world began to seem increasingly overshadowed by paranoia, belligerence and noxious self-righteousness, the largest share of it emanating from the United States.
- 9/11 just opened peoples eyes, The 'war on terror' effected my life a lot more.
- The coincidences that occurred on that day and leading up to it are too many to defy common human intelligence and comprehension. One day the world will learn about what really happened.
- Well, it's broughtmore conspiracy coconuts out, that's for sure. There's also no doubt that 9/11 caused a lot more deaths around the world. As for directly changing my world? Like most others, it just seems to have changed travel requirements.
