My Irritated Series Of Rants

Military Haters Part One. 9/11

I live in the US, so this is all pertaining to united states people and soliders....

So for starters, my man is Army, so i may just be biased, but i do believe this was still my opinion before we got together, i just may be more open about it now. 

Our men and women are out there FIGHTING FOR YOU. fighting for your rights, your freedom . they're deployed fighting there so there isn't a fight here! 

I was seven when it happened, but how many of you remember 9/11? how many of you remember seeing the planes hit, the buildings fall, the videos of people SCREAMING in terror because of what happened? do you remember that? how our country STILL is effected twelve and a half years after. TEWLVE AND A HALF and we still have a moment of silence, we still think back to it.

if you're young like me, do you remember feeling so fucking confused because you just didn't understand what was going on? adults were in tears and everything just felt off. people were quiet, there was mourning, the news casts, a parent crying? and then when you got older and were able to comprehend it, feeling that all over again?

that happened HERE. that was ONE freakign attack and it effected us like it did. 

do you have any idea how many people died that day? how many innocent lives, how many children who had a parent, brother, sister, child, grandparent, friends, spouse?

Number of 9/11 Deaths

More people are added to the list of fallen every day as a result of their efforts at Ground Zero during the weeks and months following the attacks.

At least 2,985 people died in the September 11, 2001, attacks, including:

As many as 10 of the reported 19 terrorists 2,966 victims [2,998 as of Spring 2009]

All but 13 people died on that day. The remaining 13 later died of their wounds. One person has died since the attacks, of lung cancer. It is suspected to have been caused by all the debris from the Twin Towers. 


There were 266 people on the four planes:

American Airlines Flight 11 (crashed into the WTC): 92 (including five terrorists) United Airlines Flight 175 (crashed into the WTC): 65 (including five terrorists) American Airlines Flight 77 (crashed into the Pentagon): 64 (including five terrorists) United Flight 93 (downed in Shanksville, PA): 45 (including four terrorists)

There were 2,595 people in the World Trade Center and near it, including:

343 NYFD firefighters and paramedics 23 NYPD police officers 37 Port Authority police officers 1,402 people in Tower 1 614 people in Tower 2 658 people at one company, Cantor Fitzgerald 1,762 New York residents 674 New Jersey residents 1 NYFD firefighter killed by a man jumping off the top floors of the Twin Towers

There were 125 civilians and military personnel at the Pentagon. 
1,609 people lost a spouse or partner on 9/11. More than 3,051 children lost parents. 
While it was mostly Americans who were killed in this horrific attack, there were also 327 foreign nationals. Here is the breakdown, according to country: 
Argentina: 4 
Australia: 11 
Bangladesh: 6 
Belarus: 1 
Belgium: 1 
Bermuda: 1 
Brazil: 3 
Canada: 27 
Chile: 2 
China: 4 
Cote d'Ivoire: 1 
Colombia: 17 
Democratic Republic of the Congo: 2 
Dominican Republic: 1 
El Salvador: 1 
Ecuador: 3 
France: 1 
Germany: 11 
Ghana: 2 
Guyana: 3 
Haiti: 2 
Honduras: 1 
India: 1 
Indonesia: 1 
Ireland: 6 
Israel: 5 
Italy: 4 
Jamaica: 16 
Japan: 26 
Jordan: 2 
Lebanon: 3 
Lithuania: 1 
Malaysia: 7 
Mexico: 16 
Moldova: 1 
Netherlands: 1 
New Zealand: 2 
Nigeria: 1 
Panama: 2 
Peru: 5 
Philippines: 16 
Portugal: 3 
Poland: 1 
Russia: 1 
South Africa: 2 
South Korea: 28 
Spain: 1 
Sweden: 1 
Taiwan: 1 
Ukraine: 1 
Uzbekistan: 1 
United Kingdom: 67 
Venezuela: 1 

Updated Answer from Another Contributor:

In total 3,497 people died in the attacks on September 11, 2001. 

2,735 civilians in the World Trade Center died 87 passengers and crew members aboard American Airlines Flight 11 that hit the North Tower 60 passengers and crew aboard United Flight 175 that hit the South Tower 343 New York City firefighters and rescue workers and 23 New York City law enforcement officers, 47 Port Authority workers and 37 Port Authority Police Officers, lost their lives when they rushed in to save the victims in the World Trade Center 36 passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93, who gave their lives stopping four hijackers over Pennsylvania 64 passengers and crew aboard American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon, killing them and 125 people in the building.

In addition

19 cowards - the terrorists who hijacked four airliners and murdered 3,497 people - also died.

read those numbers right there, from ONE attack and tell me there was nothing worth fighting for. tell me that deploying soldiers is a waste of time and money. when you do nothing, when you don't fight back, that's when they attack. 

 Daryl Wolley, have you forgoten. look up that song on youtube.