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Well, it’s about 9:11 am here. First one? where is everybody?
Can you believe that one entry in the Wiki?
It only takes one…
God Bless.
I remember that you could see the smoke from our dorms in New Jersey.
And the question remains. How do we change the hearts and minds of the people who did this, and who would do it again?
Peace to the 911 families.
I will neveer forget where I was that day - putting on a suit to go to my friend’s farthers funeral. My phone rang, it was my shop assistant,..’you better turn on the TV, boss”.
I jsut stoof there, in my suit, watching the TV for hours - I missed the funeral - I cound’nt move from that spot, I didnt even sit for 4 hours.
I wonder what the cute, little squirrel in the first vignette thought of 9/11. Frankly, if the squirrel could speak, it would be more interesting than what these people had to say. I say stop reminiscing and finish building the empty space at ground zero. Stop feeling sorry for yourself America - move onward and upward!
nice squirrel
It’s hard to balance the need for telling these stories with the media’s (both old and new) tendency to exploit the events of that day for entertainment purposes. You walked the line quite well.
God bless.
How can we change this world to the place where is with full of love and peace.
We have to think and do something for better little by little.
thank you
My prayers and blessings to everyone affected (directly or indirectly) by that day. Please take a moment to appreciate everyone special in your life. And if there’s someone not too close, let them know your thoughts are with them.
And may the souls of all those we have lost always fly free, and be in eternal peace.
Hi Joanne,
Very nice show today. I’m not very good at being serious, also not good at sharing my personal thoughts. Maybe if I say your name I’ll perk up, Joanne Colan, yep that always works. See you next time.
Joanne,
Thank you for not providing any commentary today. Hearing peoples stories is enough.
God bless.
I won’t forget the nameless, innocent civilians of Iraq who died in America’s reaction to 9/11, namely the pre-emptive bombing of Iraq for America’s security. One day I hope to see an advertisement board as I drive the Jersey Turnpike depicting firemen and Iraqi civilians with the title, “They died for freedom”.
I’ll always remember that day in NYC…and the following weeks, too. The aura around the city is what I’ll remember most. It’s hard to find the words for it, but I remember those days like they were yesterday.
how many 911 produced americans from hiroshima until now? you get what you give.
They say “time heals all wounds”. Not true.
I saw a rebroadcast of the 9/11/01 “Today” show this morning, which is where I first saw the tragedy unfolding live, and all those awful emotions that we always try to avoid…shock, horror, anger, came rushing over me as if I was seeing it for the first time.
The thought that kept going through my mind was: “how do you stop someone that has no regard for human life, not even their own. What do you do, say “stop or I’ll shoot”? They could care less.
That is another day that will live in infamy.
I was standing in soho and as the first building fell, the first thing I thought was to run up to the studio and grab a camera. I guess I was just so wrapped up in work that I did not even relize what was happening. My friend at the time grabbed me and gave me this look like”don’t film this one, it’s not worth it” then she started crying. I left the cam and headed down the street to see if we could help.
Here’s how the maggots responsible for 9/11 are commorating this tragic day. Somebody should pull the plug on Al-Jazeera, the mouthpiece for the cult of death: Jihadi Islam
Al-Zawahri: Gulf, Israel Next Targets
By LEE KEATH
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Osama bin Laden’s deputy warned that Persian Gulf countries and Israel would be al-Qaida’s next targets, according to a new videotape aired by Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera on Monday, the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060911/D8K2MC280.html
I heard about it when the clock-radio, tuned to NPR, went off at 8:00 Pacific time.
Kudos to the doorman, unlike our president, for correctly pronouncing “nuclear”.
Part of the problem is that there are less than 1% of the Muslims out there telling the other 1% of the Muslims who do this kind of stuff to cut the shit. Maybe if the other 99% stood up and had the balls (because we all know that they don’t let women do anything if they can help it) to tell the 72-virgin seeking martyrs to knock it off, then maybe they can change things. Because if they don’t start standing up, we will have to change it for them. The 8th Century mindset has no appeal to me. Sorry. Oh, and on another topic: Slick Willy sure did a lot more whining over his turn in the 9/11 Sun on ABC than Bush ever did over Michale Moore’s cinematic tussle. What a baby.
I feel both lucky and ashamed about where I was on that day - tucked safely away in Portland, Oregon watching it all on television. Like so many others, I wanted to help, but couldn’t.
The eerie absence of planes overhead and busy people on the ground for weeks after the event was strangely beautiful. For all the horror that transpired, I really appreciated the humanity that people rediscovered afterwards. Too bad it didn’t last. I miss that.
Some of the commenters above seem to have a television soul and look at other people’s pain and suffering like some weekly drama. I agree about how the media is mistreating the memories, but that’s why I don’t watch it.
I’m talking about the people who look at America’s problems and place their hatred of America on the people who died. Terrorism is a problem which won’t go away quickly, but to have such a calloused viewpoint where you feel those people deserved it is really sad and just wrong. It’s so easy to type some vitriolic comment and move on to something which selfishly entertains you, but understand that there are people here who are actually feeling something from all this. Just because you don’t feel anything doesn’t mean the poison you leave behind doesn’t hurt.
Please do us a favor and keep the negative comments to the more mature viewers who can express their feelings in a more considerate manner.
(and grow up)
Today is a day to remember what we our fighting for. We are fighting to bring down groups whose objective is to bring terror.
“It’s too simple to say that religion causes war and violence. As an explanation for what we see on the news it is inadequate.” “Sometimes it’s pretty clear that corrupt establishments or organizations use religion to justify crooked agendas.” Just because corrupt people use religion to justify doesn’t mean that religion is what kills people kill, and that is the beauty of free will.
One interviewee recalled how he his experience of 911 evoked images of a nuclear attack. Nagasaki (45,000 dead). Hirshima (45,000 dead). The fire-bombing of Tokyo (100,000 dead).
I doubt this will be posted but what the heck, people watch “loose change recut” at google video, what’s even scarier than the government’s conspiracy theory about Al-Qaida, is the apparent fact that our ‘own’ government did it!
dear humans,
i got back to my tree today and all my brother and sister squirrels were talking about my cameo on rocketboom. so i came over here to see for myself. there i was on camera! just like that day five years ago when there was a loud rocket boom. my brother squirrel went around frantically gathering up all the nuts he could find and hiding them in holes. he kept telling me it was a different world, that now nuts will be harder to find, to get ready for a big battle over nuts. but not me. i didn’t worry too much then. and i don’t worry too much now. i just went on licking the ground. pretty soon all the fuss settled down and i almost forgot about that day five years ago. well the trees are still green. nuts are still plentiful. occasionally i run out. but then i go looking for more. i know some people are sad today. others are indifferent. some have what they need. others dont. but if any of you are lonely and need a friend, i invite you to my tree in the park and you can eat my nuts.
bye,
Squirrel
thank you for a quiet, thoughtful show today.
That morning I was sleeping. I usually would wake up really late and miss a few classes at school and then figure out what I was going to do with the rest of my day. Was I going to eat or watch TV, maybe I was going to go to work or not but this day was different. I woke up and my mom was at the bottom of the stairs yelling my name. Oh geez, here she goes again, complaining that I sleep too much. No, that wasn’t it. She wanted me to watch the news. She wanted me to see what was happening not too far away. Horrible, simply horrible. My girlfriend now works in downtown Chicago about 2 blocks away from the Sears Tower. What if? What if? As long as there are people there will be evil. It’s so unfortunate. Thanks squirrel for the laugh I absolutely needed it today.
j: You left out one stat. Projected American casualties if we had been forced to invade Japan: 1 million.
BTW-Let’s not confuse Religion with fanaticism.
May God bless the firemen, Rudy Guiliani, and America.
It’s a shame that on a day where we are supposed to be remembering the dead, we still managed to fuck it up with rhetoric and in-fighting. How sad.
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First time poster, long time viewer.
I slept through most of 9/11. I was 29 and dealing with the realities kidney failure at the time. My fiancée woke me up and said something awful happened in NYC. Later in the day we walked the oddly grim streets of San Francisco, no one smiled, no one seemed to have any desire to laugh, everyone seemed to be wearing a mournful, dour mask that absorbed all the light and hope from their soul.
No good has come from that day in the last five years. Personally, I am a tired of the war on terror, we as a country have made some unforgivable mistakes and grievous errors of judgment.
After world war II we were handed the world on a silver platter, and like a “trustafarian,†we the successive inheritors of this booty squander our money, act with impunity, worship false morals and aggrandize our lives in spite of the reality that we are all just people on a planet spinning around a sun, in some jerkwater corner of the galaxy.
One other thing..9/11 and Pearl Harbor, are like comparing apples to Rubik’s cubes. I think if Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto were alive to say his famous quote after the attack on Pearl Harbor all over again, instead of saying “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve” I think he might say “All we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant with a terrible hangover”
I’m not a huge fan of the Non-Amanda RBs, but this is absolutely…
umm…
amazing and touching just don’t describe this.
That video brought tears to my eyes on so many occassions.
I was in my second year of university at the time and heard about the crash when I was in bed waking up. I didn’t think much of it because I knew that a small plane had hit the Empire State Building many years earlier and wasn’t concerned.
It wasn’t until I went downstairs and sat comatose in front of the television with my parents that I felt a wave of terror and the weakness of not being able to help.
That day my classes were all cancelled as soon as I arrived and I spent the rest of the day glued to one of the only communal TVs in my school. Though there were over 200 people in the cafeteria watching with me, no one spoke. The silence was deafening and the images here terrifying.
For weeks I cried. For months I imagined the walls of my workplace falling down like a deck of cards. Though, I knew no one who died on that day, I have been haunted by the pain of others.
I wanted to give blood, but due to being underweight and succeptible to Mad Cow disease, I wasn’t able to do so. All I could do is sit, wait and cry.
Powerful video. Well done.
Sept. 11, 2001 I was floating on my back in the pool during a water-aerobics class at the Univ. of Arizona. I was thinking, what a beautiful day it was. The kind of day nothing could go wrong….
Of course, I could remember where I was when Timothy McVeigh and company took down the Federal Building in Oklahoma. My bubble of security burst back then.
Zackuloso and his ilk are some sick puppies. But that is the downside of blogging. Issac Asimov too made a lot of hay out of making things up. It is called Science Fiction.
To some of the posters here: it is very important to begin to learn more about our Muslim brothers and sisters in this world and move away from the cruel and ignorant generalizations that are appearing on this comments section. The Muslim world is a multi-faceted, many cultured place without simple answers just as our country is or Latin America or Europe. It’s time to stop hating and learn.
Will you now interview people in Gaza or Lebanon about days they will never forget?
I can never call this attack a tragedy because the word sounds so innocent and blameless. They were murders.
My clearest images: The plume of smoke visible from here in Brooklyn on what started as one of the clearest, most pristine September days you could imagine - until the towers collapsed and the sky filled with ash. We had ash fall on us from miles away…The smoke rising from the smoldering ruins for months afterwards… The bells of the funerals every weekend until wintertime.
The newest chilling thing I heard this morning was an interview with a former football player whose first child (son) was born on September 11, 2001, and is celebrating his fifth birthday on 9/11/06. Imagine carrying a burden like that through your life! Imagine the mixed emotions on the parents’ part and the burden on them to talk to others about it!
I’m not a praying man, but I prayed that day, for the lost and their families…and for us all.
Hmm, what the people of Gaza and Lebenon were doing on 09/11/01 was dancing for joy in the streets that 3000 citizens of the “great satan” had been murdered! I feel about as much pity for them as I do for Neo Nazis and the KKK…
How sad a day it was. Sadder still that so many hate-filled people don’t get it. Just as God punished ancient Israel when they strayed too far from God’s truth, America faces similar judgement if we do not “turn from our wicked ways.” How many more attacks will we have to suffer before we all shut up and pray?
Convenient generalizations, leron. All I know is that prayer and humility before God brings peace with one’s neighbors.
This was a great peace. Letting the people tell the story without comment. The regular news media could learn from this. My heart goes out to all who were effected by that awful day. It’s day the world should not forget. For if the do they are doomed to repeat our mistakes.
I was driving to work that morning, and heard the events unfold on NPR. Three weeks later I was over Afghanistan in the middle of the night, doing the business. What a strange and sometimes sad world we live in today…