nikkmichalski: taboo-breaker!

[nikkmichalski]

Unless I missed a memo about 9-11-related posts, is this fair game?
I remember being in Kindergarten when the attacks happened. *sigh*


Also, on a cheerier note, I've compiled an anti-war/pacifist/just plain awesome playlist:

"Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" by Kingston Trio (Peter, Paul & Mary version isn't as good, IMO)
"Blowin' in the Wind" by Peter, Paul & Mary (I'm protesting use of the original because they use it as torture in GITMO)
"Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon
"Imagine" by John Lennon
"Give Peace a Chance" by John Lennon (I listened to the Toronto 1969 "Live Peace In Toronto" version this morning, but the original's preferred by me. Writing in the passive voice actually made me cringe.)

Enjoy your weekend everyone! and of course, R.I.P. all 9-11 victims.

--Peace; ☮.

[Whitney]

I'm glad Obama made 9/11 a day to support volunteering.

Kindergarten?...I feel old, I was in college.

[Reginus]

RIP to the thousands upon thousands of children who today died of preventable causes  

[iNow]

I remember being in Kindergarten when the attacks happened. *sigh*

Kindergarten?...I feel old, I was in college.

I feel even older.  I remember watching it as I got ready for work, and standing in the break room with my coworkers watching the second tower go down.  It was at my first job after college, but still...

[McQ]

Nothing wrong with your post that I see. Peace is good. Too many people have suffered due to dogma and religious fanaticism. 9-11-09 is one terrible example among far too many. It's still hard to believe that people will do this to one another.

By the way, your anti-war list is good, but you have lots of room for more!    So get cracking!

Here are some more:

"Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" - Pete Seeger (as played by PP&M)

"Bring 'em Home" - Pete Seeger

"If I Had a Hammer" - Pete Seeger (I'm sensing a theme here! LOL!)

"One Tin Soldier" - Dennis Lambert (performed by Coven is the version I like)

"Universal Soldier" - Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Oliver's Army" - Elvis Costello

"I Ain't Marching Anymore" - Phil Ochs

"Eve of Destruction" - Barry McGuire's version, which is the only one I know.

"Fixin' to Die Rag" - Joe McDonald


...and the list goes on.........

sadly.

[rlrose328]

I'm glad Obama made 9/11 a day to support volunteering.

Kindergarten?...I feel old, I was in college.

We had just moved to Oregon... I was 38.  I was playing with Bren on the floor when Joe called from work and told me to turn on the TV to CNN.  I turned it on just in time to see the footage of the first plane hit.  When the second plane hit, I called my parents.  Dad was doing dishes, Mom was playing on Pogo.  I told them to turn on the TV and then I just hung up.  I sat and held Brendan for the entire day, even as he struggled and cried.  I was paralyzed.  Couldn't move.  

I feel old.  Old and tired.

'Course when I try to hold Bren that hard now, he screams and kicks.  Some things never change.  

[Chimera]

Wow, kindergarten? I had just begun my senior year of high school. I remember watching it happen on the news as I was getting ready to head out the door, and I was freaking out.

Great song list, btw.

[Whitney]

I caught it on the news as I was leaving to take a physics test.  The professor did not cancel the test even though most of the students were obviously shocked/worried/etc.  I ended up dropping the class.

9/11 always reminds me of the Murrah Building Bombing since that was close to home for me.  Not only did I live in OKC at the time, I heard the bomb from my classroom (we thought the A/C had exploded since it sounded so close, my sister was outside and said it knocked her over...we were miles away from 'ground zero'), and my dad had been scheduled for a 9am meeting that day at the Murrah Building but it was canceled the day before.  I had a classmate who lost her dad after just moving to the area for his new job.  I was in 8th grade when that happened.

[nikkmichalski]

Here are some more:

"Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" - Pete Seeger (as played by PP&M)

"Bring 'em Home" - Pete Seeger

"If I Had a Hammer" - Pete Seeger (I'm sensing a theme here! LOL!)

"One Tin Soldier" - Dennis Lambert (performed by Coven is the version I like)

"Universal Soldier" - Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Oliver's Army" - Elvis Costello

"I Ain't Marching Anymore" - Phil Ochs

"Eve of Destruction" - Barry McGuire's version, which is the only one I know.

"Fixin' to Die Rag" - Joe McDonald


...and the list goes on.........

sadly.

Thanks! Those are some great ones. Most of them I haven't even heard of. I'll check those out.

[McQ]

Feeling kind of ancient myself, here. I was working in my office (which is in my home) on 9/11. One kid was home from school with a stomach bug. My wife called up to me from the family room and asked me if I was busy. She said unless I was REALLY busy doing something important, that I might want to come down and see what was happening. She had been watching NBC Today as it unfolded. We thought, from the earliest reports, that a small plane or medium sized jet had accidentally crashed in NYC into the WTC. But when I saw the first videos, my heart about stopped. I never imagined the buildings could actually fall though. That was the moment when life as I knew it would never be the same.

Then I got phone calls from friends living up there, and a call from two friends working at the Pentagon (they were safe). We had just seen them two weeks before at a picnic. They said they were in a room on the opposite side of the Pentagon, and actually felt the air getting sucked out of the room they were in via the duct system. The pressure wave was that strong, apparently.

I guess I really gauge my ancientness by where I was when other events took place: Space Shuttle Challenger destruction - I was flying an Army helicopter from Savannah, GA to Norfolk, VA. I guess I could have seen it had I been headed south instead of north, because I had just taken off from Savannah when it exploded.

The first Moon landing. in my PJs, watching it on TV. But then had to go to bed, because of my bedtime. Parents woke my brothers and I up a few hours later so we could see Neil Armstrong make the first step onto the Moon. It was cool, but the TV picture really sucked!