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<blockquote data-quote="JohnBrown" data-source="post: 98110" data-attributes="member: 2243">I had always heard people a few years older than me tell me that they remembered what they where doing when they heard Kennedy was shot or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.&nbsp; I could always empathize, but I could never sympathize&nbsp; (the events happening just a few years before I was born, or too young to remember).&nbsp; I have seen many amazing and horrible things happen in my 35 years; far too many to mention here.&nbsp; None of which, however, had stuck with quite with the impression that those two events seemed to leave with people.&nbsp; After 9/11 I can, unfortunately, sympathize now.Two thoughts/observations/feelings stick with more than any others.&nbsp; The first was how much it looked “just liked the movies.”&nbsp;&nbsp; I was watching the news, looking at the towers, saw the second plane hit and thought, “Man, that just looked like a movie.”&nbsp; I kept waiting for that feeling to go away.&nbsp; I didn’t want to think that, but it just stayed with me.&nbsp; It was just how the whole thing looked.&nbsp; It just didn’t look real enough.&nbsp; I kept expecting someone to say “This is a preview for Die Hard IV.”&nbsp; I don’t mean to any disrespect, but my something in my mind just kept saying, it wasn’t real.That was until the towers started to collapse.&nbsp; Then it was really all too real.&nbsp; There was something in their collapsing that hit me even harder.&nbsp; When they came down it became more real than I care to think about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnBrown, post: 98110, member: 2243"] I had always heard people a few years older than me tell me that they remembered what they where doing when they heard Kennedy was shot or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. I could always empathize, but I could never sympathize (the events happening just a few years before I was born, or too young to remember). I have seen many amazing and horrible things happen in my 35 years; far too many to mention here. None of which, however, had stuck with quite with the impression that those two events seemed to leave with people. After 9/11 I can, unfortunately, sympathize now. Two thoughts/observations/feelings stick with more than any others. The first was how much it looked “just liked the movies.” I was watching the news, looking at the towers, saw the second plane hit and thought, “Man, that just looked like a movie.” I kept waiting for that feeling to go away. I didn’t want to think that, but it just stayed with me. It was just how the whole thing looked. It just didn’t look real enough. I kept expecting someone to say “This is a preview for Die Hard IV.” I don’t mean to any disrespect, but my something in my mind just kept saying, it wasn’t real. That was until the towers started to collapse. Then it was really all too real. There was something in their collapsing that hit me even harder. When they came down it became more real than I care to think about. [/QUOTE]

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