the other eerie thing is you can see the sears tower from our house and his school and i kept checking to make sure........
Like you, I live within eyeshot of the Sears Tower and worked less than three blocks away. It was strange looking at the Tower, day in and day out, wondering if it would be my last chance. I did however take a trip to the SkyDeck the first week it reopened. I hadn't been in years and wasn't going to let any bastards stop me from trying.
The democratic government of Salvador Allende is torn down, and Augusto Pinochet starts his dictature.
That day the military airplanes bombed the presidential palace with an impressive precision. In the following terror thousands of people died (were killed). Many other simply disappeared, became "desaparecidos". In all the country concentration camps and torture roooms were built, and public execution became common. The dead became buried in mineral caves and in graves (?) without the stone. For seventeen years, the Chilean people lived in the fear that someone would come to knock their door at midnight, with the fear of becoming one day "desaparecidos", being suddenly arrested and horribly tortured.
Still today the guilty are free and have not been made pay for what they have done.
You know what the first thoughts that enter my mind are when I think about 9/11?
1) I broke my toe trying to do my human pretzel trick standing up in front of a webcam just hours before.
2) HOLY ****ING SHIT, THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERS HAVE TOPPLED AND DESTROYED HALF OF LOWER MANHATTAN. (some exaggeration here.)
3) Retaliation.
4) That nuisance of a doctor with the camcorder who probably had good intentions, but most likely just got in the way. "Can I have a toot on your respirator?" A toot? When he says out loud that he thinks he's going to die as the second tower collapses, I just remember him being pretty freaking poised as the big gray cloud engulfs him and everything around...
5) Dan Rather bawling on Letterman.
6) Howard Lutnick's (Cantor-Fitzgerald CEO) interview on Nightline.
7) The French documentary dude's footage of the second plane hitting the tower.
8) The people jumping from the tower.
9) GWB getting out of Marine 1 on the White House lawn, saluting the Marine escort, and walking off by himself toward the building.
10) The utter silence at McDonald's when I went to get a quick lunch.
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Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
the other eerie thing is you can see the sears tower from our house and his school and i kept checking to make sure........
Like you, I live within eyeshot of the Sears Tower and worked less than three blocks away. It was strange looking at the Tower, day in and day out, wondering if it would be my last chance. I did however take a trip to the SkyDeck the first week it reopened. I hadn't been in years and wasn't going to let any bastards stop me from trying.
Originally posted by Giaguara
September 11, 1973.
The democratic government of Salvador Allende is torn down, and Augusto Pinochet starts his dictature.
That day the military airplanes bombed the presidential palace with an impressive precision. In the following terror thousands of people died (were killed). Many other simply disappeared, became "desaparecidos". In all the country concentration camps and torture roooms were built, and public execution became common. The dead became buried in mineral caves and in graves (?) without the stone. For seventeen years, the Chilean people lived in the fear that someone would come to knock their door at midnight, with the fear of becoming one day "desaparecidos", being suddenly arrested and horribly tortured.
Still today the guilty are free and have not been made pay for what they have done.
Commemorative 11th September.
More about Pinochet.
-edit:link added.
11-9 for me is remembering a democratic elected president's assasination backed by the CIA..... "Venceremos!!!"
1) I broke my toe trying to do my human pretzel trick standing up in front of a webcam just hours before.
2) HOLY ****ING SHIT, THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERS HAVE TOPPLED AND DESTROYED HALF OF LOWER MANHATTAN. (some exaggeration here.)
3) Retaliation.
4) That nuisance of a doctor with the camcorder who probably had good intentions, but most likely just got in the way. "Can I have a toot on your respirator?" A toot? When he says out loud that he thinks he's going to die as the second tower collapses, I just remember him being pretty freaking poised as the big gray cloud engulfs him and everything around...
5) Dan Rather bawling on Letterman.
6) Howard Lutnick's (Cantor-Fitzgerald CEO) interview on Nightline.
7) The French documentary dude's footage of the second plane hitting the tower.
8) The people jumping from the tower.
9) GWB getting out of Marine 1 on the White House lawn, saluting the Marine escort, and walking off by himself toward the building.
10) The utter silence at McDonald's when I went to get a quick lunch.
11) Not having trouble sleeping that night.