9/11 as it happened

[Inky_Wretch]

Never forget … to get a deal on seafood!

Virginia Restaurant Apologizes After September 11 Themed Food Menu

 

[Batman]

Never forget … to get a deal on seafood!

Virginia Restaurant Apologizes After September 11 Themed Food Menu

Did the owner used to run a mattress store in San Antonio?

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Never forget … to get a deal on seafood!

Virginia Restaurant Apologizes After September 11 Themed Food Menu

How does this **** happen every year? It's mind-boggling. Morans.

 

[Starman]

Mmmm. Freedom Flounder.

 

[Della9250]

Never forget … to get a deal on seafood!

Virginia Restaurant Apologizes After September 11 Themed Food Menu

Yes I'll start off with a Remember-tini before trying the First Responder flatbread.......

 

[Inky_Wretch]

How does this **** happen every year? It's mind-boggling. Morans.

Within my daughter’s lifetime 9/11 will become just another excuse for a sale. If we can do it for a day dedicated to our war dead, we can do it with 9/11.

 

[lakefront]

 

[heyabbott]

Yes I'll start off with a Remember-tini before trying the First Responder flatbread.......

If you don’t eat pork on 9/11 the terrorists will have won

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I don't remember any Pearl Harbor sales, although perhaps there have been some. I'm sure there will be the same stigma for 9/11 for many years to come.

 

[User 149557]

It hit me in 2020 that the pandemic relegated 9/11 to a mere couple of paragraphs of an American history book. The Trump Presidency and the invasion of Ukraine only made that clearer. The problems 9/11 created, the wars it spawned now seem almost quaint and relics of the 20th century, whereas in the moment they seemed like something new. The human cost remains as terrible as ever, of course.

 

[DanOregon]

I would like to see Biden and the Congress sunset the AUMF - don't know how many US and international deaths are the result of this short and tragically open-ended law passed when they were still recovering bodies out of Ground Zero. My guess it's been the authorization for 95 percent of military actions around the globe in the last 20 years. How many of the legislators are even still around?

https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf

 

[MisterCreosote]

Never forget … to get a deal on seafood!

Virginia Restaurant Apologizes After September 11 Themed Food Menu

Holy ****.

“Flight 93 Redirect” crab dip might be the worst one of these I’ve ever seen.

 

[Cosmo]

I can't believe they didn't put some "Let's Rolls" on the menu.

Also, that's a restaurant at one of our member clubs, so giant facepalm.

 

[dixiehack]

I can't believe they didn't put some "Let's Rolls" on the menu.

Also, that's a restaurant at one of our member clubs, so giant facepalm.

This time next year it will be a Spirit Halloween.

 

[TigerVols]

Never forget … to get a deal on seafood!

Virginia Restaurant Apologizes After September 11 Themed Food Menu

Too bad it’s not a Chinese restaurant, then they could have had The Terrorists Have Won-Ton Noodles.

 

[goalmouth]

On 9/11 I was web editor for a B2B weekly which had moved from the WTC across the Hudson to Newark a year earlier. In the hour or so after the second plane crashed there was a lot of misinformation and confusion, reports were coming in by the minute, no one knew what was next, and it was utter chaos. The U.S. was in lockdown, and reports then came in that more planes were ready to drop out of the sky. Our veteran chief of editorial operations stood in the middle of the newsroom, clasped his hands to his face and with a wide-eyed, white-faced look of terror screamed,

"WHAT IS HAPPENING?!"

I said, "Maybe we can get our **** together, make calls, and start covering this news as our readers expect."

I moved on from the company years ago, but that craven ***** ***** of a journo is now senior VP.

 

[Justin_Rice]

I can't believe they didn't put some "Let's Rolls" on the menu.

Also, that's a restaurant at one of our member clubs, so giant facepalm.

Holy ****. Just looked. I grew up in that neighborhood and have played that golf course countless times (very, very, very average course .... but they charge a fair price).

How much does that course mean to me? This statue is by the fifth tee box, and was placed in honor of my mom, who was a regular and in the community.


What a facepalm.

 

[Azrael]

no thanks

 

[maumann]

I'm certain I've told this story before, but NASCAR.com was located on the 18th floor of the Centennial Tower building in Atlanta on 9/11, so halfway up the tallest building closest to Hartsfield Airport, which at the time felt like we were right in the crosshairs.

I showed up in the office just moments after the first plane hit. The other editors had the television on, and CNN was in the process of switching all non-essential servers over because their website couldn't handle the volume of queries. So our VP makes a quick call to NASCAR to tell them we're trying to build a dummy front page with a black border and American flag for our site, and then we'd shut down our end.

The entire Turner security force locked down CNN Center, so we were sitting there with nobody guarding us.

About that time, the managing editor waltzes in and immediately wants to know why we're watching TV when the NASCAR Trivia column needs to be posted. He was completely oblivious to the manic scrambling we're trying to do to make sure everything is correct before CNN shut us down. Even after the towers fell, he still didn't have any idea why we weren't posting new content because "that's not NASCAR news."

He wasn't the only clueless person. It took NASCAR several days to finally postpone New Hampshire, which would have been a Rozellian decision. Turner basically told Daytona Beach that the website wasn't going to be available if they raced (and I think TV put some pressure on as well). Later, President Mike Helton admitted they weren't convinced until the last possible moment because they didn't want to lose the money.

And the ME got fired about three months later for using a company AMEX card at the strip club where he was seeing one of the dancers.

 

[CD Boogie]

I'm certain I've told this story before, but NASCAR.com was located on the 18th floor of the Centennial Tower building in Atlanta on 9/11, so halfway up the tallest building closest to Hartsfield Airport, which at the time felt like we were right in the crosshairs.

My ex-wife was in the Empire State Building for a conference that morning. Saw the second plane hit and then had to walk all the way down the building while thinking the Empire State Building was getting hit next. I can only imagine what that feeling must have been like. Like being in a war zone and expecting a missile to hit your location at any second. **** me.

She could never watch any footage of 9/11 without freaking out and would demand the channel be changed whenever footage came on. Was in therapy for a while after, severe anxiety.