9/11 Silence

[Kimbles20]

Is there a silence today to mark 9/11??? if so when?

[wonderwoman1]

they normally do the silences for 9/11 at the times when the planes crashed into the buildings on that morning

[flubber]

Not seen anything here but I expect there will be in the USA and it will probably be at the time the first plane hit, and New York is 5 hours behind us and that will probably be the time that they have a silence to remember the day.

[Daisybabe]

12.46 I believe

[Pippa68]

When I was in NY this time last year they had silences for each incident ~ 4 in total.

I *think* the first one will be around 2.00pm our time.

[Pippa68]

http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documen tid=890875

[filthiestfis]

not a day for getting much work done then

[-Zorro-]

I completely forgot it was 9/11 today till someone mentioned it this afternoon

[naz_nomad]

-Zorro- ... that's exactly what they don't want us to do, forget.

Just when everyone returns to something resembling normality, the Yanks dump a big guilt-trip on the planet and we all have to endure a sh1tty day.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Ouch - harsh, Naz. The American's have every right to remember the 11th of September. It was a callous act of extreme barbarity and rightly was condemned by most of the world.

The only rational way to deal with terrorism is by using the same definition of what terrorism is for everyone. If it is an autrocity for X to do Y to Z, then it must therefore be equally atrocious for Z to do Y to X, and there's no way that the attacks on the World Trade Centre should be anything other than condemned. Equally clearly, it must work the other way around too.

That the American government has used the events of 11th of September as the catalyst for an illegal war and their other Neo-con adventures since shouldn't take away from the fact that it was an entirely appalling event.

[Pippa68]

Well put, Waldo.

naz ~ you do not have to 'endure a sh1tty day'. I remember it, and observed the silence. I was not personally effected (but know of a couple who were/are) but it still effects me as a human being. People still turn out to remember the world wars, various other battles, IRA bombings, the Tsunami etc. I find it respectful to remember. I don't think we should forget.

[jedimistress]

9 / 11 is such a pain. I keep writing the wrong date on everything and am still trying to adjust today. Today is 10/9, not 12/9.

[jedimistress]

NO not, 10/11 sorry...see so confusing.

[admarlow]

I think the ceromonies were quite understated actually and naz doesn't know what he is talking about, maybe he/she should explain themselves

[jedimistress]

I think Naz is perhaps saying that one country has one incidence of terrorism, and it seems to outweigh all others going on in the world in the past and still today.

[Pippa68]

I understand that way of thinking ~ however when you consider the enormity of it (almost 2,000 deaths) it isn't surprising that 9/11 outweighs other dreadful events..not that I consider this right, of course.

[dummkopf]

It was nearer 3,000 deaths, just ordinary people sitting at their desks, I watched the ceremony from NYC yesterday and it was very moving. Almost 70 British people died too.
I think it's right to remember............

[Pippa68]

Sorry dummkopf, you are correct with the number! I did indeed click on the wrong number....

As I have said before, I was there for the memorial last year & despite not being personally affected, it made me incredibly emotional and still does. The sheer enormity beggars belief.

[Kimbles20]

Thank you to everyone for your answers, I work in a government building so I was sure that we would be told (like we usually do) that there would be a silence and also when it would be.

I never received any notification and a silence was not done. Although I thought it should and so my colleagues and I in our office had a silence of our own at 11am