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9/11 as it happened

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Batman, Sep 11, 2019.

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  1. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    It's the job, unfortunately. It's writing as things happen, in Dallas or Cape Canaveral or New York/Washington/Shanksville as a tragedy unfolds in real time. But that is a huge moment in history that will live forever. Like we just saw a couple of months ago with the moon landing and we saw how it happened in real time.

    But you're not thinking it at the time. Just as you watch as 9/11 unfolded you don't know what the true story is until after the fact. It's why watching the NBC replay each year and you *know* what's coming and how the reaction was in the moment. It's just surreal.

    Obviously, making comparisons to apples to oranges. But I've gone back to read the thread of my sister's family's deaths and to see what I wrote and reacted to in the aftermath of that and how things unfolded vs. how they turned out. And a year later I wrote a long post on Facebook of how that day unfolded vs. what later happened.

    I really stand in awe of those who can compose history as it's unfolding in the moment, to capture it.
     
    MileHigh, Sep 12, 2019
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  2. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Not just divorce themselves from emotion, but organize and filter through a mountain of information in mere moments. There were so many rumors and false reports out there that by the time one report was filed it might have changed, be out of date, or found out to be false.
    If you recall, 9/11 was the birth of the news crawl on cable news stations. Part of it, I believe, was to disseminate the volume of information the anchors could never do.
     
    Batman, Sep 12, 2019
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  3. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Corky did the work. I just have a good memory.
     
    Batman, Sep 12, 2019
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  4. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Also, if 9/11 happened today, it's beyond different. Social media has screwed up everything beyond belief. Lots of "journalists" don't stick with what they were taught. Or they did and they were taught wrong, going with bad information, Oh, I saw it on Twitter, well, that's what scanner traffic said.
     
    MileHigh, Sep 12, 2019
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  5. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Heard some mentions of the 9/11 anniversary on the radio today and two things struck me:

    1) How this seminal event that has directly steered the last 21 years of foreign and domestic policy in this country, and continues to do so to this day, is suddenly fading into the rear view mirror. I honestly hadn't thought about it until heading it mentioned today.

    2) Someone born on that day is old enough to drink this Sunday. There is an entire generation of adults with no concept of a pre-9/11 world.

    3) This is now a historical event, with historical context and visible fallout. I'm sure everyone on this board who is not in the generation mentioned in Point No. 2 remembers where they were that day, what they were doing, and what they felt when they saw it happened.

    With all of that, I figured the thread was worth a bump heading into the weekend. The running list of AP bulletins (thank you @Corky Ramirez up on 94th St. , wherever you are, for archiving them) is on the first page.
     
    Batman, Sep 8, 2022
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  6. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Go figure, I was talking to a writer friend this morning who lives in the northeast and he was talking about the (finally) un-humid weather and called today a "9/11 day." That's a context I had never heard before but of course I knew what he meant. When the sun came up, 9/11/01 figured to be just a very nice day.
     
    playthrough, Sep 8, 2022
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  7. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    I remember hearing "Beautiful Day," by U2 on the way to work that morning. Which it was.
     
    goalmouth, Sep 8, 2022
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  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Where are-were all the freedumbass lovers when it comes to TSA and their feeling up children and disabled people? Rooster sucking conservatives
     
    heyabbott, Sep 8, 2022
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  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Inky_Wretch, Sep 8, 2022
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  10. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Batman, Sep 8, 2022
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  11. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    Deskgrunt50, Sep 8, 2022
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  12. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Mmmm. Freedom Flounder.
     
    Starman, Sep 8, 2022
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