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9/11 where were you?

Written by tha - bang from the blog blah blah on 11 Sep 2008
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It's 7 years since the planes crashed into the towers,do you still remember what you were doing on that day when u heard of the "attack"?

As South Africans we've lived through memorable world historic moments in the past 20 years. From the collapse of the Berlin wall,which signified the end of the cold war, to the release of Tata, the Rwanda genocide and the marvelous day of 27th April 1994 were all South Africans cast their vote for the very first time.Irrespective of Race, creed or religion.

But today 7 years ago we also witnessed one act of global terrorism that will go into the history books along the above mentioned events. When the two aeroplanes crashed into the trade centre's two towers.

I used to be one of those who thought it was "payback time" for the US for all the attrocities that their state has caused against other countries.But when thinking of the human factor, the lives that were lost and the families that were touched and forever changed by that event.With time my stance has changed from "pay back time" to sympathy and wish for such acts never to happen again.Unfortuneatly with guys like Bush as president,I don't think he has cultivated such an enviroment

As for where was i when i heard about this? I was in a train travelling back from wits and my friend Reneilwe left a voicemail to watch CNN, 'it's going down'. the voicemail beemed. When i got off the station,Benoni was deserted more than ussual.When I got home I sat there enjoying the fact that ,"ja at long last" someone has suck it to the americans.I remember seeing pics and videos of guys in Gaza celebrating too.But the more i stayed watching; the 'falling man', the dust and peoples reactions on the ground. The sadder it got,"imagine if it was your mom at the office and a plane just crashes like that into her building".
The next four hours I spent watching CNN over and over again.My mom came back from work and we just sit there quiet watching the news until like 10pm.And as they say the rest is history,so where were u on 11 september 2001?

31 Comments

tha - bang
11 Sep 2008 05:04

anyone else wants to share? if u dont want to talk about 9/11 we can talk about the other milestones like 94 elections and when uTata was released.Where were you and what were u doing?

carino
11 Sep 2008 05:10

yipppeee.... first to reply... now, lemme read...

blakrose
11 Sep 2008 05:12

I was in an accounting lecture and my cellphone was going crazy people telling me to watch CNN, the world is ending. Everyone that year forgot it was my birthday for the first half of the day, except the one that gave birth to me. When i got home and turned the TV to CNN, i understood why, ish was about to hit the fan.

MADENZA
11 Sep 2008 05:15

Thabang, I will never forget the ellis park incident, my cousin was at the stadium, i can just remember all the pictures on tv.

tha - bang
11 Sep 2008 05:16

aga shame blackrose at least i hope these days people remember your bday

Username
11 Sep 2008 05:22

Happy Birthday Blackrose and wishing you many more to come.

Most memorable was the assassination of Chris Hani, felt like the world was standing still in my neighbourhood.

Toxic
11 Sep 2008 05:25

Happy Birthday Blackrose!!!!

i cant recall where i was or what i was doing then. i've never really had an interest in news so i only saw the news that evening. i was in the office and heard people talk about the twin towers, bush, osama and i guess i kinda tuned out.

Dimago
11 Sep 2008 05:42

Ka 9/11 I was at work and was thinking "its the end of the world, and they should let us go home"

The 1st elections stands out for me, i really wanted to vote and i couldnt as i was not eligible, but i accompanied my parents to the voting stations and spent the day there....

Cnglemother
11 Sep 2008 05:45

I was at home miserable from not finding a job and actually watched the 2nd plane hitting the other tower. I was a bit immature back then and actually found the whole thing funny and entertaining like i was watching an action movie. I kept hoping for more action and drama. When they mentioned the other plane in Pennyslyvania I kept thinking it can better than this.Only later i realised human life is involved, it was just my TV view of america and never really grasping that they are actually humans and not TV gimmicks and its happening for real.

Happy birthday blackrose.

carino
11 Sep 2008 05:50

9/11/2001... I was at school...... watching CNN... English class... then our teacher explained to us what was happening wara wara and we had to debate about it.... quite a boring lesson that was, if you ask me.... coz the rest of the school got to go home and thina we remained talking about whether America deserved it wara wara what do we think will happen next......

Now looking back at it i think....what was our teacher thinking? ... what exactly would a bunch of 15 year olds have to say about global terrorism?? What??

Luksta
11 Sep 2008 05:51

Eish September mara...
I remember the Bisho massacre.
There I was dodging bullets in Bhisho, while I was supposed to be @ school.

Luksta
11 Sep 2008 05:51

Eish September mara...
I remember the Bisho massacre.
There I was, dodging bullets in Bhisho, while I was supposed to be @ school.

carino
11 Sep 2008 05:52

Happy birthday Blackrose...

Toxic
11 Sep 2008 05:56

LOL Luksta!!

Mathaz
11 Sep 2008 05:58

I was at home watching CNN and everything seemed so unreal. I could not believe it and still cannot fathom why people would resort to such cruelty to get them listened to or recognised.

Cnglemother
11 Sep 2008 06:04

@Luksta? was there a shooting in Bisho on that very same day?

andi01
11 Sep 2008 06:05

ROTFLMAOL-@ Luksta I remember the Bisho massacre.
There I was, dodging bullets in Bhisho, while I was supposed to be @ school. The imagery is killing me. Viva comrade Luksta Viva, I am glad you survuved LOL

felfel
11 Sep 2008 06:05

I was watching at home with my mum in complete shock..............feeling grateful for being in Mzantsi, I decided then that I'd never leave Mzantsi and reaffirmed my decision when the Tsunami struck................will rethink after our elections..........lol

andi01
11 Sep 2008 06:09

I was busy preparing for my matric-trial exams at teh time, so I didnt really have time to digest teh whole thing. but I was hurt

Luksta
11 Sep 2008 06:13

@ Cnglemother - No the massacre was in 1992, 7 Sept.
@ andi01 - that was nothing compared to the beating I got at home, yho!

myname
11 Sep 2008 06:14

I remember i was dating this guy who was doing his 1st year in GP & nna i was in high school in EC. Naye he was born on the 11 Sep. He called & told me. To b honest i was lost & i couldnt ask him uba,where do we get into bcoz its not happening in SA. And i thought uyandiphaphela lo bcoz he is in tertiary uzenza tsoro kum nxxxx.....Talking about ignorance. So i followed the story late & sana it was sad.................Guys its lunch so later

Cnglemother
11 Sep 2008 06:20

LOL@ myname.

Cande
11 Sep 2008 06:26

Happy birthday BlackROse.

I was in Grade 10 then, and there was a rumour that R Kelly was also in those buildings, i was impatiently to hear the real truth by the end of the day..

Sana Lwam
11 Sep 2008 06:32

11 Sept 2001, my first year at tertiary and I was staying with my uncle in PTA all we watched was CNN (tx SABC3). I was so pissed off needless to say when I went home for the Sept holidays the first thing I said to my mom was " mama ndifuna ukuhlala eflatini"
So it was good and bad for me becoz the following year I was staying in a flat with friends but bad thing was now I had to budget.

Cnglemother
11 Sep 2008 06:37

cande making us feel old damn! grade 10 nogal = std 6 !

Cnglemother
11 Sep 2008 06:37

no that's std 8 right?

Cande
11 Sep 2008 06:42

no man Cngle, thatz Std 8..

Cande
11 Sep 2008 06:46

I was ehostel sana, and we didnt have access to the TV as much as we wanted, so the day-scholars were our only source of information...
I was releaved to hear it was a lie about R Kelly being in those buildings..

Sobza
16 Sep 2008 00:53

I remember this one very well, I was a first year journalism student @ Border Technikon. I was busy abusing i internet as always.

Best-Achiever
16 Sep 2008 01:44

It was my sister's worst birthday ever. we woke up in the morning to prepare for her birthday, while busy doing that aunt called us to come see what was happening and yho everybody at home was in tears we even forgot about the birthday thing for my sister. It was such a horrible thing i haveever witnessed.

tha - bang
16 Sep 2008 01:53

ag shame BA i feel for your poor sister

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