Six months

Although this doesn't pertain to Cedar Point talk, it has been half a year since America was first attacked Tuesday, September 11th 2001 at 8:46 A.M. Just thought you'd all like to know.

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Cedar Point, the cure for the Summertime blues!

Yeah Also i got a Single Today called Osama Yo' Mama by Ray Stevens and it is pretty Funny.

"What Do You Think Sirs? IT STINKS"

For me, it seems like just a few weeks ago. I just watched a documentary on the attacks last night. (It was a 2 hour special) Sometimes I still can't believe it.

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Thank you Jeff for your work to make and run this site!

It still terrifies me, too. I didn't catch the last half hour of it, though. But what I did see was beyond belief. Like the Firefighter Tony said in the show, "Somebody sure has b***s."

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Cedar Point, the cure for the Summertime blues!

I'll always remember that day for as long as I will live...It does feel like yesterday...Me sitting glued to my tv set that morning and talking to my girlfriend on the phone...what a horrible day that was...I hope we never experience that again...

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That day was very odd for me, since 9/11 is my birthday, I was happy, but yet sad. I will never forget it. I watched all of the documentary, and I am still amazed it happened.

I saw the documentary also. The worst part on there would have to be the people jumping out the windows. It's so sad and horrible. I just hope nothing like this ever happens again. God Bless America!

~Twin Towers: Forever Standing in our Hearts~

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I will also remember that day for a very long time.I did not have a class so I woke up kinda late (for me anyway) I turned on the t.v. only to witness the plane crash into the twin towers.I was taken aback by what I saw.it was horrifying.Then to see the towers collapsing I did not know what to think.Then as if the news did not shock me enough already then i heard about the plane crashing in PA.I was in shock that whole day.Then I hear that some of the passengers on that flight said "We Are Being Hyjacked But Were Going To Do Something About It".I just lost it.but I do remember that after hearing of the plane crashing itno the pentagon I remembered that I have pictures of the pentagon from my senior trip not even a year earlier.Needless to say even to this day the events of 9-11 still bring feelings of shock and horror and i sincerely hope that we never have to experiance anything like that again.

September 8th: Spent a few hours at a magical place named Lake Compounce. Enjoyed ny first Boomerang, my first Top Spin, my second CCI, a pleasant surprise named Wildcat and my first Rotor in years. Didn't want to leave.

September 9th: Drove to DP...where Talon became my #1 invert, Laser my #1 multilooper and Thunderhawk became another pleasant surprise. Still spent most of the day in the waterpark though.

September 10th: Drove from Carlisle, PA back to Minnesota...a 16-hour marathon that broke the family record for single-person distance. Swore I would never do that again.

September 11th: Suddenly none of the above was important.

-'Playa

I lost my uncle to the attacks. I remember it all so well, but it still seems like a dream. I was so scared for my two friends at college and my uncle too. My uncle worked on the 83 floor of the WTC. I was calling around to family wondering if they had heard from him. Two days later, no one had heard a thing. They never found his body, but he lives on. The way NY rose up and banded together after the tragedy made me cry out of pride. I love the USA and NO ONE will ever be able to change that. I have a personal message to Osama Bin Laden...when we find your punk a**, you're gonna wish you had died on 9/11.

"If the intent of terrorism is to destoy our way of life, then the defeat of terrorism, is to live our way of life."

"We who are truly brave, will never live in fear."

This post is for you Uncle Rommie, may you forever RIP

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Challenge Park '02

I was also at home when it happened. My school was administering the ISTEP test for certain grades, but grades that didn't take it could stay home for 2 hours. I was watching a video and when I stopped it, I saw the image of a plane hitting the tower. It didn't really hit me until I saw it on all the stations, radio, and everywhere. What's amazing as that special showed, was how many people actually got out alive.

My friend's birthday is also 9/11, and he said, "Some birthday" when we got to school. He'll never truly be able to have a happy birthday any more.

It's times like Sept. 11th that you sit back and reevaluate all that was once important and unimportant to you. Suddenly the unimportant becuase important and the important becomes unimportant.

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Annie

CP & LE RR Crew '01
ATL Swings and Swans '02
"We have no food..we have no money..OUR PETS HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!!!"

Well Put Annie,Well Put

"We Gonna Get Yo @&& Mr. Bin-hiden."

We were on vacation in NC walking on the beach when a lady fishing asked us if we had been watching the news. I walked into the beach house just as the second plane was coming at the tower. Then I got a phone call from my parents asking if we were going to have enough money to get home because the gas prices jumped to $5/gallon at home.

Sorry, but I need to vent this somewhere.

As if the attacks weren't sick enough, the people at my school are even more sick. The ***holes at my school started talking Monday about the 9|11 show on CBS Sun. night. I was just listening in, and it sounded OK. But I was just sickened and was ready to punch these guys when they were saying stuff like "Wow hearing the people jumping out of the tower and hitting the ground was really cool." Sorry but WTF? That's just plain terrible and sick. I hate people like that. Let's see those people standing on the 78th floor of Tower 1 when that plane hit. I'd like to hear them say "Woah, cool" when that plane hits.

Sorry, just had to vent some steam.

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Tommy Penner - http://www.phuzzy-logic.net/~vx3k
"Yes. The Force is strong in that one." -- Stifler, AP2

I agree it's insensitive, but at the same time it's a "normal" reaction because that's the way some people deal with things, especially teens. Do these kids really think it's "cool?" I doubt it, but around each other, trying to deal with something as illogical and horrible as this, it's the way they deal.

9/11 was the day I built the server you're visiting right now. I remember sitting there on the couch watching the news, since I stayed at work until about 3. I remember holding this 1.4 GHz Athlon CPU in my hands, marveling at how mankind could pack millions of transistors into this little thing, and how it would server trillions of zeros and ones to people in just a few days after that. All the while, the contrast was in front of me how this same species could senselessly kill so many of its own.

It's true... what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

I'm really glad that a post like this showed up...It's nice to hear everyone's opinions and takes on this horrible event...It's like the Kennedy asassination...Ask anyone who was alive and old enough to remember it and they'll tell you exactly where they were at that moment when they heard the news...For us, Sept.11 is going to be that way...Years later when people ask us about it, we will be able to remember where we were on that horrible horrible day...I agree with you MilleniumRider, many people are insensitive about this topic because it hasn't had a direct impact on them, family wise...But in a way, this attack effected everybody...Can you all just imagine what was going on in the heads of the people trapped in the WTC and the thoughts that convinced them to jump...Just imagine jumping out of a building 80 floors or higher up...I know nobody would ever even consider jumping off the top of Millenium Force knowing you're going to die...but what choice did they have...that took some serious guts because the WTC is like 100 times taller(sorry about the exaggeration)and these people knowingly jumped to their death...The sounds of their bodies landing must have been a horrible sound...God Bless everybody who lost their lives on that horrible day and God bless everybody who witnessed this...Especially to you MainChallengeMan, may your uncle rest in peace...I say that when we capture Osama, we take him to Ground Zero, string him up upside down over the rubble and let each family member who lost someone that day get one chance to beat him really hard with a whip or something...I hope he burns in hell....sorry about this being so long...Just wanted to let that all out...I'm done now..... :)

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Be wary of falling shoes while waiting in line for Raptor

does anyone know if their gonna replay that 9/11 show on CBS?

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Fear the Mullet!

Jeff someone @ work said they heard CBS may be selling the tape. It was indeed a very intense show and I used 1/2 a box of Kleenex watching it. My oldest daughter and I watched the events of 9-11 as they happened, I remember seeing the 2nd plane hit the tower and immediately became physically ill.
Being NY born and raised, even my high school was in Manhattan the "loss" of the twin towers hurt me deeply. My company (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter) only lost 8 out of over 1k people who worked in the 2nd tower hit, and the only reason we didnt lose more was due to their security guard telling them to leave the building despite the announcements the building was safe. That security guard died a hero. I do not believe there will be 100% closure of this tragedy until I go to Manhattan and see the skyline myself. At this time when ever I see an old shot of the skyline I lose it, truly. "Working Girl" (an old but one of my fav chick flicks) has awesome shots of the twin towers in the beginning and ending of movie (tons in the middle too) and it will be a while before I can watch it again. I had thought in my lifetime the most horrific events I would know of would be the Challenger explosion and the FBI building in Oklahoma City. Even THOSE didnt cut as deep as 9-11 did for any of us :(
I myself know since 9-11 I dont let a day go by without telling my family I love them. I cherish every minute with them even more.

What we all need to really remember about 9-11 is United Flight 93, what the passengers did on that flight made showed the true American spirit. To us flight 93 was our way of saying "F you" to Osama and any and all who chose to follow him.

Jo

I was wondering the same thing. I wanted to tape it but not having cable the tape would have been just as fuzzy as the screen I was watching. So if anyone knows if it will be on again or if CBS will let you buy a copy of the tape I am interested.