I don’t know if this question belongs in this message board but I’m sure the admin’s will sort that out:
Do any of you guys share your b’day with the tragic events of September 11 & how does that make you feel? I hope this doesn’t seem like a thoughtless or stupid question. I just hoped to stimulate conversation. Will your special day forever be overshadowed by the horror of 9/11?
God Bless America. We will be thinking of you.
Moving to IMHO.
September 12th here.
Yes, it is.
However, I don’t attach any particular significance to my birthday (despite the efforts of my loved ones) so it doesn’t affect me greatly.
My best friend’s birthday is on the 11th. It actually helps in a way, because for some reason for like 5 years now I’ve been convinced it was the 8th. Now I remember.
Not me, but my brother. I could never remember what his birthday was; I just vaguely remembered that it was in early September.
He’s personally pissed, and plans to change it…
This Wednesday, Sept. 11th is my ninth wedding anniversary.
Sadly, I don’t think I’ll have a tenth one.
My birthday is on September 11.
While I’m sad that the attacks happened, it doesn’t particularly bother me that they happened on my birthday.
I rarely make a big deal of my birthday, other than going out to eat and having a slice of cake (I’m diabetic, so this takes a little planning). I get birthday presents, but they’re likely to arrive any time during the month of September. For instance, my husband got me a Smart UPS last week, and we’re going to install it when he has time off work and other duties. I haven’t had a birthday party since I was about 14 or so, and frankly, I don’t miss them.
You know what’s freaky? When you start your senior year of high school on Sept. 12, 2001, and find out your randomly assigned locker combination is 09-11-01. Now, granted, that’s less significant than a birthday, but while a birthday is roughly a 1/365 chance, my locker combination was a 1/64,000 chance. At least I never had a problem forgetting it.
Not my birthday. But I found myself staring too long at food products with expiration dates of 9-11-02, and somehow hesitated to buy them. Yes, quite ridiculous.
On television the other day they showed the parents of a girl who was born on September 11, 2001. So this girl, when she’s a little older, will no doubt learn about this terrible tragedy and people will mourn it while she is celebrating…
Her parents have said that they will tell her as soon as she’s old enough, but make sure she knows that while it was a sad day for many, it was still a happy day for that family because she was born, and that it’s still HER day and she can still be happy despite the terrorists.
I commend this people. That is a brilliant attitude.
My birthday is the 9th November which we crazy brits write as:
9/11
Its also often Rememberance Day in Britain (its actually the 11/11, but they move it to the closest weekend), so there’s a sort of symetry.
My birthday is on the 10th of September. So I guess I got the day before the world got a little crazier.
Not me, but I have a cousin and a co-worker who were born on Sep. 11. I also recently found an old email from an ex-coworker announcing the birth of his daughter on Sep 11.
Zev Steinhardt
My birthday is September 12. When I was opening my presents last year, I decided to sit in front of the fireplace, which is to the right of my television set. However, being that this was “the day after,” the TV was on, so every single picture my mom took of me opening presents also contains some image from 9/11.
My cousin’s birthday is September 11th. That’s also the day my Dad died last year (not related to the attacks) so she’s got a couple things to deal with on her birthday.
My 21st birthday was 9/11/2001. Needless to say, any birthday plans for that day got nixed–nobody was in the mood to go out to the bar with me.
Honestly, it pisses me off. September eleventh was a perfectly good day back in 1980, and every time I have to show ID (to cash checks, to buy alcohol, etc.), someobody says something stupid about my birthday.
It’s not PC to say this, but I’m tired of how self-centered us Americans are about this. We didn’t remember the one-year anniversary of the slaughter in Rwanda. We don’t seem to care that our president is considering “pre-emptive” strikes on Iraq, for no clearly defined reason. We aren’t aware of how many people die every day due to starvation,
land mines,
easily preventable diseases,
neglect,
genocide,
…well you get the idea. Why is it only important when it’s us?!
Why do we think this is something so out of the ordinary, when people die due to capricious despots and the bullies who operate for them?
No, Sept. 11th won’t overshadow my birthday. I’m turning off the TV and not reading the newspapers and am planning to have a nice birthday with my friends. Thank you for letting me rant, though.
My seventh anniversary would have been Sep 11, her sisters b-day is Set 11, and I started my current job on Sep 11. I think I should stay away from this day.
It is my birthday. I used to always make a big deal out of it. Last year I decided to cut my hair after 15 years. Don’t think I’ll cut it again. I think that’s my only way of sharing the day with everyone else. I suppose that sounds silly, but I think about the 11th a lot more anyway, since it’s my birthday. I’ll never forget.
I’m being very stubborn, but it’s MY day!! I know there’s tons of people with the same birthday & that’s fine. The thing that bothers me is that it’s “The Events of September 11th”. I met a woman & her sister’s birthday is the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. But see? I don’t even remember exactly what day that was. This had no easy sound-bite name.
I’m planning on avoiding any media coverage, & am spending the day with a friend & just concentrating on me, me, me. I’m not a self-centered person. This is my one day for me & I’m keeping it.
The 12th, I’ll be back to normal, volunteering & doing all I can to help others.
My birthday is september 11…born 1988. It doesn’t really make me feel anything. I just celebrate it as a regular birthday but too bad september 11 2001 my birthday wasn’t celebrated because of the events.