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thanks Avenger, but i wasnt trying to 1-up you. i had the buildings design in my head at work since i saw your livery, and had to wait til i got home. i was even going to try to make the windows even more realistic, but thought this design was good enough. When the attacks started, i was playing NASCAR 99 on the N64. My mother popped her head in my room and told me a plane hit one of the World Trade Center buildings. i turned off my n64 and started watching, and watched the 2nd plane hit, the pentagon, and about flight-93 dissapearing somewhere in PA. (i went to see the crash-site in 2003 with a gf. heart stopper, lemme tell you)

Dan, i got your Koenigsegg ready. i got your FR from your 2605 gamertag, so which one should i send it to?

Send it to the DAN 2605 gamertag please mate!

u got it Dan.

great idea for the livery.

I remember my dad picked me up from school, I was in Primary 4 at the time. He said, the one of the tallest buildings in the world had fallen down. I got home, the second plane hit the tower, just seemed unreal.

Terrorists crash into Glasgow airport. Nobody in Glasgow even gives a damn. 9/11 is one of the defining moments of more recent history.

Lol, I know what you mean, I've been planning this for awhile, just wished it wasn't exactly a TEST I would be running it at, but it is what it is.
I was going to school, about a block away when something came on the radio. I was in 2nd grade and hearing something about planes crashing seemed like a joke. It sort of wore out until 11ish until my teacher just froze at her desk. We were doing work when she just froze, almost unnaturally and we didn't know what was up. I don't really remember much more, considering it was 2nd grade. It doesnt have the same effect on me as other people older than me, but watching some youtube videos in class, made it hard not to cry or want to get revenge.
Truly sad.

I was just gettng home from school n my folks were all in front of the tv watching events take place. As I walking in the first tower came down. I honestly thought they were watching a film
How wrong was I.
Mind you I was also sat infront of the tv when the bombs were going off in London. The sense of confusion from the reporters was tangible and frightening.

I was actually about 5 miles away from the pentagon when it happened as i was born and raised right outside of DC...when the plane hit the pentagon, rumors were flying everywhere that all the government agencies had been hit...i couldnt get in contact with my mom (who was working at a government agency building which had been rumored to have been destroyed/hit by a plane) because all of the cell phones in the area were completely clogged...I drove home and had to wait before my mom got home before i even knew she was alive.

i left school and drove home past the pentagon on the GW parkway and trucks with body bags were flying past me trying to get there...driving past it...seeing the smoke and ash billowing out...smelling the burning rubble....get home and just sit there watching the news and listening to the F-16's roaring overhead... thinking i'm gonna get drafted, not knowing if my family members are alive or dead...just so many feelings and emotions going through that day...honestly that was the worst day of my life...i hate memorials or vigils or any kind of that [Bad language is not tolerated - Mod Team]...it feels cheap and feels like it's exploiting the memories and victims of what happened.

put it this way...i've spent the past 8 years trying to forget what happened and put it behind me, and all everyone else in america wants to do is remember it and glorify it in some weird perverted way...

"never forget" more like "spending my life trying to forget"

i wasnt going to say anything anyway... and i really dont mind the memorial liveries, it's just everyone got to sharing their experiences on what happened that day. and i feel like that i had a very unique experience of it.

i'm not trying to rain on anyones parade. it's just every year around this time, this topic comes up and i happen to have a very strong emotional attachment to what happened that day...it's not offensive in any way...i guess i just dont understand why someone would want to hold on to a memory like that...

I get what your saying, its easy for people who weren't directly involved to speak about it so easily and the way they see it is that they are doing a good thing remembering the lives that were lost that day. I guess when you are involved in it you just want to forget it as much as possible. Sorry to hear that you were there at the time and it sounded horrible. But at least you and your family are still here and thats something you have to remember

http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/09/11/dont-tell-me-what-912-means-glenn-beck/

this sums it up rather nicely, i think..

My Dad has a government job and my mom was working at fort meade, (home of the national security agency) and on 9/11 both of them were at work, because i live so close to alot of government property, i was rushed home and since i waqs so young, afraid to come out of the basement,

I remeber that day as if it was yesterday. I was in first grade and I was living at that time in a small town in New Jersey called Cliffside Park. Cliffside park was a town near the Hudson River. We were on like a mountain type thing if you want to call it, and below us was another town called Edgewater and the Hudson River. So bassically if i walked down two streets from my house i could see Manhattan on the other side of the Hudson. So i was at school and my teacher gets a phone call from a friend. The look in her face was out of this world. I had never seen someone make a face like that. It was unreal the shock she was in. So she turned on the tv and we saw the buildings smoking. Everyone was like omg but we were little so we didnt take it so serious our comphrehend it that well. So everyone started getting picked up from school and when i got hom my parents were watching it. Since we were across the river from manhattan we smelled the smoke on my street. It was just horrifying...