How often do you think about the terrorist attacks?

[XemaSab]

I mean *really* think about them: hijacked planes, buildings on fire, and eventual collapse.

Chaos in the streets. Worrying about friends in New York and Washington. Feeling afraid thousands of miles away. Learning about the people who died. Wondering for hours, days, and weeks if it was really over.

Enough time has elapsed that "September 11th" is mostly a phrase, a buzzword, for me. I can hear the words and not feel anything at all. The phrase has been repeated so much that the words have lost their original impact.

For years after the attacks, I thought about September 11th every day, but I just don't really think about it much anymore.

:(

[Skittles]

1. I'll never forget it, that's for sure

and anytime I think about the horror those people on the planes and in the towers felt it makes me feel like blubbering. That being said, I have been so sickened by 9/11 being used as an excuse for more death and distruction that my feelings of sadness are tempered by feelings of absolute anger and disgust now.

[leftstreet]

2. What color is our "threat level" today? I can't remember. n/t

[XemaSab]

4. Aqua.

Time to start working on the Ark.

[bliss_eternal]

3. Everytime this admin is in hot water--

I wonder if there will be a 'terrorist attack.' You know, kind of like during election of 2004--the last weekend, ALL OF A SUDDEN here's Osama on television with comments about the election. Riiiiight. No one in * admin had a thing to do with that stunt...

Shameless how they trot Bin Laden out when they need to scare middle America...

Other than that, occasionally--but not like I did after 9/11.

I'll be interested to read the other posts about this.

[Digit]

5. I'm ready to go already.

I don't look forward to begging for money and living out of a cardboard box.

With no job, no health insurance...what in the hell is there to look forward to?

[bluestateguy]

6. For about two years, a lot

I didn't lose any relatives or friends that day, nor was I in NYC or DC, but I was shaken for awhile. But I'm adult, I've moved on. I never let my fear of what happened on that day scare me into supporting bullshit wars of aggression all over the world.

[XemaSab]

8. I don't support bullshit wars of aggression

But when I think about it, I do get really angry that Osama is still out there.

[KitchenWitch]

7. Whenever Bush's approval rating dips below 40%

[RoyGBiv]

9. Never.

[Jamison]

10. Same here.

I don't live my life in fear like most freepers do.

[RoyGBiv]

11. Exactly.

I get up. I live my life. I sleep. Repeat.

Fear fuels this bullshit. I will NOT live in fear. Freepers and their ilk are nothing but slaves.

[XemaSab]

13. You don't have to be a freeper

to think about the attacks.

There were people of all nationalities and political stripes killed.

Just because W has turned it into a partisan game doesn't make it right!

[RoyGBiv]

17. Let me put it this way ...

A friend of mine had a child who died in OKC when the Murrah building was bombed. That child was, to me, a part of my family. The child was destroyed by terrorists. Those terrorists happened to be white guys.

Do I think about that? No. I think about the child and how happy he made the people around him. I think about how cool he was. I don't think about some piece of shit that thought it would be a great protest statement to blow up a fucking building full of children in it until it is shoved down my throat that I *should* think about it and start hating everyone who even resembles or might have ideas in common with the people who did it. So, to live a better life, I don't think about it, because it doesn't help. I think about the wonderful human being I knew, and that's all.

[RoyGBiv]

16. Dupe ... delete

A friend of mine had a child who died in OKC when the Murrah building was bombed. That child was, to me, a part of my family. The child was destroyed by terrorists. Those terrorists happened to be white guys.

Do I think about that? No. I think about the child and how happy he made the people around him. I think about how cool he was. I don't think about some piece of shit that thought it would be a great protest statement to blow up a fucking building full of children in it until it is shoved down my throat that I *should* think about it and start hating everyone who even resembles or might have ideas in common with the people who did it. So, to live a better life, I don't think about it, because it doesn't help. I think about the wonderful human being I knew, and that's all.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. For the US?

Not very often, for other countries, I just wait.

[NMMNG]

14. I don't

I'm not saying I put 9/11 out of my mind, but I refuse to keep it in the forefront of my life as some excuse to keep a burning hatred alive. As justification to keep killing American soldiers and innocent Iraqis, to continue spending millions per day, to ceaselessly erode the civil rights we as Americans once held so dear. And I do not look for terrorism around every corner, in every Mosque, under every cloth-wrapped head. I couldn't tell you what the "terra-alert" color is on any given day because I don't give a damn. Frankly I think it is all a big scam created by the biggest bunch of criminals ever to hit the White House.

[radfringe]

15. no sarcasm intended

I think about it every time bush*'s numbers take a significant drop.

I pass by 3 huge oil depots on the way to work. There are homes and businesses all around it -- makes me wonder if this would be a target. I also mentally go over my plan for "evacuation" should something like this occur.

so, yes I think about it, and I also think about how little confidence I have in the bush* mis-administration's credibility and capability to address the issue beyond sending in troops to invade yet another country.

Call it what you want - terrorism is rooted in belief and ideology, blowing things up is just a tool. Military operations alone is not the answer.

We will never be able to eliminate terrorists or any other form of ideology. Best we can do is to tamp it down and deal with it when it flares up again.

[Faux pas]

18. Only when bushco is in trouble....Wait they're in trouble all the

time. Only when the freeps, creeps and sheep(s) try to ram it down my throat.

[flordehinojos]

19. i really don't think about terrorists attacks--what i do think about is

about how bush has gotten away with putting iron bars on our democracy and how we are fast becoming that iron curtain country ronald reagan so despised when he was alive--and all thanks to the bushes.

that is what i think about.

[Swamp Rat]

20. Almost never

... but I can't get August 29th, 2005 outta my mind.

[REP]

21. Not As Often As I Used To, Thanks Be

I live on the opposite side of the country. My friends in NY were not injured or killed. I still can't watch anything about it, and can't stand to read much about it. I don't even now why; things like that have never bothered me like that before.

[Kickin_Donkey]

22. Immediately around me?

Never.

I live in a rural, agricultural area of the Central Valley. What are the terraists gonna do, bomb the almond orchards?

If I fly, the odds of being a victim of terrorism -- before and after 9/11 -- are so small as to be virtually nil (but obviously not absolutely nil).

[Kickin_Donkey]

23. Immediately around me?

Never.

I live in a rural, agricultural area of the Central Valley. What are the terraists gonna do, bomb the almond orchards?

If I fly, the odds of being a victim of terrorism -- before and after 9/11 -- are so small as to be virtually nil (but obviously not absolutely nil).

[sandnsea]

24. I do, I'm pissed off

That was like a rip in the time continuum, a moment to go one way or another. While I firmly believe we had to strike Afghanistan, that's just realpolitik, I also believed we would spring into action to help the people of Afghanistan and show the Muslim world that we are not monsters out to destroy them. Instead we're in this endless hell, the Muslim world rightly hates us more, and we WILL be hit again. The lost opportunity, when the world was at our side, when a whole new political map of peace could have been drawn, I hate George Bush for the loss of that, more than anything else. Yeah, I think about 9/11 all the time.

[rucky]

25. I just KNOW Osama is looking at a US map of right now, saying

"We must DESTROY Sidney, Ohio!"

[LWolf]

26. Only when someone else mentions them. n/t