By Anonymous - 11/09/2015 10:51 - United States - Pleasantville

Today, while blissfully unaware that it was the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I was making paper airplanes during my free period in school. Next thing I know, I was reported for, "making jokes about the 9/11 attacks." FML
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lchollett 22

It's only making fun of 9/11 if OP purposefully crashed the paper planes. If they got upset just for him flying them, I'd say they're being a bit over sensitive. 9/11 was a tragedy, but it doesn't make such simple activities suddenly taboo.

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FlyingLeumer 19

My gosh everybody on top is getting down voted. Regardless of what they say OP, that is an exceedingly stupid thing to get in trouble for. It is a paper airplane. People are getting way to sensitive. I understand that 9/11 affected thousands and thousands of people, but it is a freaking paper airplane.

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Sheh_fml 25

You do all realize that 9/11 happen back in 2001, right? 14 years ago. There are a lot of people today that are too young to actually remember the event, and even if they know about it, it will never have the same impact on people. I'm not saying people need to get over it, but at some point, you just have to accept that the world will change and move on.

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Setareh23 34

To be fair, how many people do you think can name offhand the exact dates the holocaust spanned over? And I'm not talking about the years, but the precise dates. Also, the holocaust resulted in millions of deaths (much more than 9/11) AND it happened in more than one country, instead of one in particular. Not to mention, the holocaust included things like human experimentation, concentration camps, gas chambers, deliberate killing of children, etc... So it makes sense that the holocaust would be remembered 70 years later. Plus, people DO make holocaust jokes all the time (either really nasty ones, or for silly notions like "feminazi/grammar nazis") so I guess you can say that some people have indeed "gotten over it." Not saying people should forget 9/11 or anything like that, I'm just saying your comparison isn't really accurate.

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whassallt26 13

Really, you're going to compare 9/11 to the persecution and genocide of a people, what the ****

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Sheh_fml 25

Yofigful - Which part of "I am NOT saying you need to get over it" was so hard to grasp? Also, I agree with the other comments that comparing 9/11 to the Holocaust is insulting. A terror attack is awful, but it is in no way the same as a war that massacred millions and ravaged several countries for years.

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corky1992 33

It's one thing to not realize what date it is. That happens, but the fact that you're from New York I don't understand how you could have possibly forgotten.

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SPN_lover666 27

For all we know, OP could have been born a few years after 9/11 and had more important things to worry about.

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chinaski7628 32

If OP is making paper airplanes in school, it's possible he wasn't even alive when it happened (or at least was really young when it happened). I teach high school and I can tell you the 9/11 attacks were not the first thing on my students' minds this morning. For a lot of them, it's history. They didn't watch it on tv, they haven't watched the changing political climate, they don't understand the global implications. It's not a part of their memory (like it is for me). It's like the Challenger explosion or JFK's assassination-- learning about it in school isn't really the same thing as living it. And OP may not even live in New York City. There are other places in New York.

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corky1992 33

I just feel like New York as a whole would make a bigger deal out of this than any other state.

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SPN_lover666 27

#162, NY is not just NYC. My 10 year old niece and I live 4 hours north of NYC and her school didn't do anything. It was a regular school day.

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__coralbell 15

I'm pretty sure every single one of you who says he deserves it has forgotten what day it was some point in your life.. It's not like he intentionally did it. calm down

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pete9913 23

you didn't know that 9/11 was the anniversary of 9/11?

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sadistmonkey 19

To those people commenting about how the OP is from New York as if that means something here, you do realize that New York is a state that includes portions other than New York City right?

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SPN_lover666 27

Thank you. I live 4 hours from the city. Everyone automatically assumes anyone from NY lives in NYC or has been there.

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Rabidkid 14

I forgot also, no big deal. It's my best friends birthday so were going to celebrate :)

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Sangue0608 26

It's also my oldest sister's birthday and my first child (baby girl) was born one week ago, so I'm right there with you.

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talicaroxi 25

I get the best reaction my son's birthday my wedding anniversary are on 9/11 being in the uk that's 9th of November. try saying I can't wait for 9/11 or woohooo 9/11 with out people giving you shit.

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swanheart 35

Well to be fair saying "I can't wait for 9/11" is an unnatural way of phrasing that sentence. It would be much more natural to say "I can't wait for my sons birthday" or "I can't wait for Friday". If someone said "I can't wait for 9/11" In reference to their sons birthday I would assume that they were deliberately phrasing it that way to get a reaction from people and then I would think they were rather sad.

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talicaroxi 25

Kinda like the play ground bully finally had his ass kicked by the kid he's picked on all year then goes home crying and the little kid get hell over it

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thatonetribute 31

You definitely deserve it.

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buddy_J 16

Why does he deserve it? Do you know what 12-7 was? Or the date of all the other major tragic events throughout history? No? Then stfu

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mrlawlor7777 26

Honestly, your point about December 7th, 1941 is valid. As for all the other tragic dates, that's pretty irrelevant. We're talking about foreign attacks on the US. You could probably throw in a few from the Revolutionary War or the war with Mexico.

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