I was here, when somebody on MarketForum posted that the 1st building was hit.
oh what a day it was------on my way to office ---b4 reached office ---heard ---twin tower hit -lot of people lost their lives God bless those souls- i had positions in dow --what a day it was ---still remember it as yesterday
Thanks, fays!
Previous threads on the anniversary of this date. The archives from the old forum before 2018 no longer exist:
2023 Remembering 9-11-01
19 responses |
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/98875/
Started by metmike - Sept. 11, 2023, 12:33 p.m.
Remembering 9-11-01 in 2022
1 response |
Started by metmike - Sept. 11, 2022, 7:09 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88759/
What were you doing the morning of 9-11-01?
16 responses |
Started by metmike - Sept. 10, 2021, 10:17 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/74759/
Remembering September 11, 2001
6 responses |
Started by metmike - Sept. 11, 2020, 7:39 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/59035/
September 11th, 2001.
3 responses |
Started by TimNew - Sept. 11, 2019, 6:55 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/38724/
September 11, 2018 This day in History
6 responses |
Started by metmike - Sept. 10, 2018, 7:40 p.m.
I was on Long Island that day. You could see forever that morning. I had the tv on when the second plane hit. Drove to the west end of Jones Beach. People were stopped along the causeway. The towers were belching black smoke that drifted like a ribbon along the shore. Then they were gone. My friend George Howard was murdered that day. He was Port Authority police. G W Bush held up George's badge during his speech. I'll never forget.
Thanks very much for sharing that extremely powerful and vivid memory, gurf!
The one positive thing about this event was that it profoundly united our country.
We weren't so politically divided 23 years ago, like we are today but after this unprecedented attack on our nation, people didn't care what party you affiliated with.
This article is 3 years old:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/09/02/two-decades-later-the-enduring-legacy-of-9-11/
This is a good one!!!
Our corrupt government and the military-industrial-political-media complex exploited 9/11 to get us into Middle East wars.
Look how long we stayed in Afghanistan AFTER the majority of people wanted us to get out.
Sadly, the risk of terrorism has been ramping up again, especially with our open borders and involvement in wars that incentivize the other side to attack us )-:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/worldwide-caution.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Terrorism_Index
| Rank | Country | Score (2024) [5] | Rank change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Burkina Faso | 8.571 |  1 |
| 2 |  Israel | 8.143 | 24 |
| 3 |  Mali | 7.998 | 1 |
| 4 |  Pakistan | 7.916 | 3 |
| 5 |  Syria | 7.890 |  |
| 6 |  Afghanistan | 7.825 |  5 |
| 7 |  Somalia | 7.814 | 4 |
| 8 |  Nigeria | 7.575 | |
| 9 |  Myanmar | 7.536 | |
| 10 |  Niger | 7.274 | |
| 11 |  Iraq | 7.213 | 5 |
| 12 |  Cameroon | 6.980 | 1 |
| 13 |  Democratic Republic of the Congo | 6.514 | 1 |
| 14 |  India | 6.324 | 1 |
| 15 |  Mozambique | 6.267 | 3 |
| 16 |  Colombia | 6.188 | 1 |
| 17 |  Chile | 5.679 | 1 |
| 18 |  Kenya | 5.616 | 1 |
| 19 |  Philippines | 5.383 | 1 |
| 20 |  Egypt | 5.221 | 3 |
| 21 |  Chad | 4.987 | 1 |
| 22 |  Palestine | 4.966 | 6 |
| 23 |  Yemen | 4.951 | 1 |
| 24 |  Benin | 4.898 | 3 |
| 25 |  Togo | 4.67 | 5 |
| 26 |  Iran | 4.464 | 1 |
| 27 |  Uganda | 4.377 | 22 |
| 28 |  Thailand | 4.219 | 5 |
| 29 |  Turkey | 4.168 | 8 |
| 30 |  United States | 4.161 | 1 |
| 31 |  Indonesia | 3.993 | 7 |
| 32 |  Bangladesh | 3.317 | 14 |
| 33 |  Sri Lanka | 3.072 | 2 |
| 34 |  Greece | 3.028 | 1 |
| 35 |  Russia | 3.016 | 8 |
| 36 |  Tunisia | 2.914 | 4 |
| 37 |  Germany | 2.782 | 2 |
| 38 |  France | 2.647 | 4 |
| 39 |  Libya | 2.469 | 7 |
| 40 |  Burundi | 2.434 | 4 |
| 41 |  United Kingdom | 2.373 | 3 |
| 42 |  Tanzania | 2.267 | 3 |
| 43 |  Angola | 2.254 | 48 |
| 44 |  Algeria | 2.197 | 6 |
| 45 |  Nepal | 2.163 | 8 |
| 46 |  Ivory Coast | 2.060 | 5 |
| 47 |  Peru | 2.045 | 6 |
| 48 |  Djibouti | 2.035 | 3 |
| 49 |  Brazil | 1.988 | 2 |
| 50 |  New Zealand | 1.947 | 2 |
| 51 |  Belgium | 1.904 | 11 |
| 52 |  Canada | 1.753 | 4 |
| 53 |  Norway | 1.747 | 3 |
| 54 |  Ukraine | 1.686 | 20 |
Institute for Economics & Peace
Measuring the impact of terrorism
https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GTI-2024-web-290224.pdf
The United States, at a 4.1 risk is rated as a MEDIUM RISK on the graph below and the 30th highest country in the world!
