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Hey Andy. It’s been 18 years now.

TrailerParkRanger

TrailerParkRanger

Banned
Dec 24, 2017
2,399
Hey Andy, here we are again. This is about the same time I last heard your voice. I'm glad it was laughs and football and kimchi/fart jokes. I'm glad it wasn't you hearing my voice with everything that happened after.

I haven't been to the memorial. I just can't do it. I can't look up your name. This grief is 18 years old and I can't put it to bed. But, it keeps me thinking about you. And honestly I'd rather have that. It's worth bearing that grief to be able to remember our conversation the best that I can.

I hope you are well. I hope you know that you are loved and missed.
 
Nude_Tayne

Nude_Tayne

Member
Jan 8, 2018
3,678
earth
User Banned (1 Day): Drive-by insensitive joke in a serious thread
...sir, this is a Wendy's. Can I take your order?

 
RecRoulette

RecRoulette

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
26,044
Guessing OP lost someone in 9/11

Sorry for your loss OP, can't believe it's been 18 years already
 
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BearPawB

BearPawB

I'm a fan of the erotic thriller genre
Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,003
Jesus christ some people on this forum are idiots.

I'm sorry for your loss OP
 
Viewt

Viewt

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,824
Chicago, IL
As surreal as it was to experience 9/11 on television, it felt like it existed outside of normal life. For someone affected on a personal level, I can't even imagine how the grief can be compounded by annual memorial events or by the news.

I'm sorry for your loss.
 
TheBiInBilingual

TheBiInBilingual

THE STORE ENSURED ME THERE WOULDN'T BE FILM
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Feb 22, 2018
2,816
Incredibly sorry for your loss OP, may the fallen of this horrible event never be forgotten.
 
thecouncil

thecouncil

Member
Oct 29, 2017
12,394
Thread title made me think this was gonna be about Toy Story but it's a bit heavier than that. My heart breaks for you. Lots of people dealing with lots of stuff today. Rough anniversary.
 
TheGhost

TheGhost

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
28,137
Long Island
Sorry OP, unfortunately a day that we will never forget if we lived it because we never witnessed anything like that before in person.

Sorry for your loss.
 
P-Bo

P-Bo

One Winged Slayer
Member
Jun 17, 2019
4,405
There are no words for this day, I'm so sorry for your loss OP.
 
dark_prinny

dark_prinny

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned
Oct 26, 2017
5,374
sorry for your loss OP.

Also very sad and scary day for America and all the world. Never forget.
 
SolVanderlyn

SolVanderlyn

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Member
Oct 28, 2017
13,529
Earth, 21st Century
Had a friend whose uncle was one of the firefighters who got trapped in the collapsing building trying to save lives that day... he was so close to him, too. I will never forget how real that made it feel, the terror of death and instability.

RIP Andy and everyone else who lost their lives that day.
 
DIE BART DIE

DIE BART DIE

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,855
Bigg said:
This is maybe the most tasteless post I've seen on this forum, well done

Sorry for your loss, OP
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Not necessarily directed at that poster, but you have to remember there are now adults who have no memory of this event or weren't even born. People who can vote. To them, this is just something from a Wikipedia article.

RIP to your friend OP.
 
BringBackSonics

BringBackSonics

Member
Oct 27, 2017
45,558
Seattle
Damn dude. So sorry op

I was watching some 9/11 videos on youtube, and this remix video called 'Its been 10 years daddy' popped up. and that killed me. Brought it all back man..
 
Duane

Duane

Unshakable Resolve
The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
6,465
RIP Andy, and all the rest. And everyone since then who died as a result of that day in the events that followed and still do.

Sorry for your loss, OP. Thanks for sharing your touching words to him with the rest of us.
 
gagewood

gagewood

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,211
So sorry, TrailerParkRanger. :(

This tribute to first responders from a light artist on America's Got Talent last night was really touching and beautiful, as a way of also honoring the victims and heroes of 9/11.

I can't believe it's been 18 years.

 
Moppeh

Moppeh

Member
Oct 28, 2017
3,542
My condolences, OP.

Bigg said:
This is maybe the most tasteless post I've seen on this forum, well done

Sorry for your loss, OP
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DIE BART DIE said:
Not necessarily directed at that poster, but you have to remember there are now adults who have no memory of this event or weren't even born. People who can vote. To them, this is just something from a Wikipedia article.

RIP to your friend OP.
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Not to mention that not everyone on this forum is from the States. I had zero clue what this was about until I scrolled down. Can't really blame that guy for making some dumb joke when it probably didn't even register that it was 9/11 today.
 
The Albatross

The Albatross

Member
Oct 25, 2017
39,236
Sorry for your loss, OP.

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I don't blame people who this didn't connect with immediately, I didn't get it at first either, but have to think about it and then it clicked. There's a lot of silly threads on this forum, "Maybe it's the weed talking" or what have you, and given that it's usually a light hearted or dumb conversational forum, some people might not enter a thread in the right context to understand that OP is writing possibly to someone who they knew who died on 9/11.

I know we're supposed to "Never forget," and while there are details of 9/11/2001 that I'll never forget and will always be with me, each passing year, it becomes more distant for me. I didn't lose anyone close to me in 9/11, and half-my-life-later I do, infact, forget. It's human.

I think anybody who has the luxury to forget 9/11, like me, should be thankful every day that they have that luxury.
 
Nacho

Nacho

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,144
NYC
The Albatross said:
Sorry for your loss, OP.

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I don't blame people who this didn't connect with immediately, I didn't get it at first either, but have to think about it and then it clicked. There's a lot of silly threads on this forum, "Maybe it's the weed talking" or what have you, and given that it's usually a light hearted or dumb conversational forum, some people might not enter a thread in the right context to understand that OP is writing possibly to someone who they knew who died on 9/11.

I know we're supposed to "Never forget," and while there are details of 9/11/2001 that I'll never forget and will always be with me, each passing year, it becomes more distant for me. I didn't lose anyone close to me in 9/11, and half-my-life-later I do, infact, forget. It's human.

I think anybody who has the luxury to forget 9/11, like me, should be thankful every day that they have that luxury.
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Younger people on this forum probably don't even connect this day to '9/11'. Kind of crazy. The pain of it doesnt actually feel that distant as it feels looking at a calendar.
 
Lundren

Lundren

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Oct 27, 2017
1,745
The Albatross said:
I think anybody who has the luxury to forget 9/11, like me, should be thankful every day that they have that luxury.
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I don't blame you for this feeling.

It's only recently that I can hear an airplane overhead without having my heart skip a beat. I remember that day extremely vividly and wish I could forget.
 
Duane

Duane

Unshakable Resolve
The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
6,465
When I was in middle school, George HW Bush took the US into two brief wars. First was the invasion of Panama, then the following year the first Gulf War. When it happened, I remember sitting at the lunch table talking and people were all wide eyed, talking about how weird it was that we were actually, literally, at war with another country. Let that sink in. We were all too young to have any memory of Vietnam or anything like that. Peace among the world's developed nations was the status quo, and war was the strange exception.

Now, anyone 20-ish or younger literally has no memory of peace. The US invaded Afghanistan 18 years ago, and that invasion is still ongoing. The US invaded Iraq two years later, and ISIS sprung up in the place of the conquered Iraqi government, and the conflict, in its various forms and locales, is still ongoing.

The most powerful nation on Earth has fought 40 years worth of war in the last 18. 20 year old adults in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan have no memory of a time when that war wasn't happening. Because one day 18 years ago, some Saudi Arabians they didn't know attacked a city they'd never been to. And for various reasons, including corporate ones, the fighting since then has never stopped.

I get that younger people born since 9/11 might see it as just another piece of history, but it should be more significant to them than anyone since it's the reason (or one of the major catalysts, let's say) for the world they've exclusively lived in.
 
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