# What did you do to remember the 11th? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163 "2003-09-12T07:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163/21 "2003-09-13T16:53:32Z")
I woke up, went to work, prepared for class, then went to class. Same old same old. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163/22 "2003-09-13T19:55:24Z")
We had a brief ceremony, and then I flew for about 7 hours. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163/23 "2003-09-13T21:27:39Z")
I sent flowers to the family of my friend Moira, who died at the towers, and I watched some of the memorial coverage (not all) on CNN. In the evening, I sat and looked out my window, as Eve did, at the towers of light memorial, and prayed for Moira’s family, who are still grieving quite hard, and for every family devastated by that hatred and horror. ---
**Author:** ![Dogman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dogman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163/24 "2003-09-13T22:42:30Z")
September 11 is our anniversary. 21 years. Last year, I picked the gift, we went to Europe for two weeks. This year, she picked the gift, I got a vasectomy. I second everyone who has just moved on, although I can understand those who have been directly touched by the tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163/25 "2003-09-14T05:49:59Z")
I had a bed-in for peace, which involved sleeping the entire day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163/26 "2003-09-14T06:47:11Z")
I went to a comedy club with a couple of friends. No 9-11 jokes. Wusses. Walking around the village, we did see the lights in the distance. ---
**Author:** ![Zazie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Zazie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zazie)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163/27 "2003-09-14T21:16:50Z")
I am very glad I was super busy at work then has to fly (oh!) back home, so it was a non-TV, no radio day. I kind of feel a bit guilty about the fact that I did NOT want to hear about it at all. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163/28 "2003-09-14T21:32:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > \*\*I ate cake, and received phone calls and presents from friends and family…it’s my birthday. \*\* A belated Happy Birthday to you! We took our 6 and 8 year old boys out of school early and went to a Speed Zone that offered free rides/games for all firefighter and police families. (My husband is a firefighter for the city of Dallas). It rained all day, so we couldn’t drive the race cars, but we spent 3 hours playing arcade games. We said a special prayer at night. I remembered the night of 9/11/01, when my oldest (6 at the time) said his Catholic pre-school nuns had told him he should pray for the victims - AND the terrorists. I said, “the hell we will!” I am grateful that this 2nd anniversary passed with no further nightmares. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163/29 "2003-09-14T23:35:35Z")
I spent it the same way I have since 1991. Thinking about my Aunt. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163/30 "2003-09-15T00:00:57Z")
This wasn’t really planned, but Mrs. Thorp and I went to see the movie 11’09"01. It’s a compilation: 11 directors made 11 movies, each 11 minutes, 9 seconds, and 1 frame long, on the subject of 9/11. (The originator of the project is French, which is why it’s 11/09/01 instead of 09/11/01 as we Americans would have it.) Some of the movies were good, some weren’t. Seeing them was the first time I’d watched any 9/11 footage at all. I didn’t watch TV on the day itself and never saw any reason to seek out the footage after that, although I did see some still photographs. But some of the movies had brief snippets of the planes, of the towers collapsing, and even of people jumping. 11’09"01 was released last year to commemorate the first anniversary, but I think was deemed still to be too controversial for Americans to see, so we had to wait a bit longer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-do-to-remember-the-11th/201163.md?page=1)