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Sorry, that's part of another project I'm working on.
The name is Chris and how I found this site took a lot of hours so I'll do my best to abridge it (previewing this post: I fail).
I'm a huge pro wrestling fan, 16 of 24 years, and frequent many blogs/websites about it. One post somehow involved half a line about 9/11 Truthers being incredibly cynical. A replier stated 9/11 was an inside job. I quickly grew enraged and replied, since the topic is incredibly sensitive to me as had my stepfather gone to work on time that morning he would have been at Merill Lynch, and I would have elected to hang out there rather than go to school (it was the second day of 9th grade for me).
Dude told me I needed to do my homework. I lived in Jersey City and could walk to transportation capable of taking me to Manhattan easily (less than a mile). I offered to take it off the boards, giving him my e-mail. No response yet. This was two weeks ago.
After 9/11 happened, I watched almost a week of non-stop coverage as almost every channel was covering it from my recollection. Long story short, it was incredibly poignant to even look at an image of either tower being struck from 2002-two weeks ago.
After moving back to North Carolina in 2004, my PTSD intensified. I had nightmares, and couldn't look at a clock when it was 9:11.
Back to the replier, he had nothing for me to consider and somehow annexed Hitler into the conversation. I could have let it go, but something compelled me to investigate, to finally conquer this fear I had of staring at those images and watching videos. After an hour of mental preparation, I spent 9 hours straight (I had the next day off from work so it was fine) watching Loose Change I and II, and also reading two different word by word breakdowns of the movies that ripped them up. I'm almost certain one of them was from Mark Roberts.
After that, I had enough to safely say I could hold my own should someone bring any part of 9/11 up.
However, since I recently got into a car accident and don't have a working vehicle for another week, I went on another all night binge starting late Sunday night and concluding an hour or so ago (with breaks obviously). Plus, it was raining like crazy and I can hear all the fireworks I want to since I live so close to the Fairgrounds.
I came to this site, sifted through maybe 250-275 pages of material (100 of which, I believe, came from Mr. Roberts where he quoted the filmmakers in public interviews), and viewed other conspiracy films that essentially regurgitated Loose Change's beliefs.
I was almost tempted to challenge a 9/11 YouTube inconsistency video from NuffRespect, but figured something far more constructive could be done with my time (as I've found through this site, arguing with conspiracy theorists wouldn't benefit me much). Plus, I figured I could get sleep if I opted to introduce myself here rather than get involved with dissecting those videos, as it could easily become 10 AM EST before I realized that I had been staring at the stuff for such a long period. Granted it takes medicine to make me sleepy, I could use some snooze having been up 39 hours.
I wanted to come here primarily to thank the folks in the 9/11 conspiracy section for their extensive work. It's impossible to read 300 pages of threads, but evidence collected has convinced me that most conversations would go much the same: evidence presented by you guys, no legitimate rebuttal from him/her, back and forth, insults, an exit stage left from him/her.
I'd love to join those who will attend the 10th anniversary, since I read a few pages of those who attended the 5th, but if I came across a CT, I'd likely get arrested for assault. I can't remain that composed just yet.
I still look at the day with a great amount of tragedy, as any sensible person would, but at least I can say this site has gone above and beyond giving me reassurance and knowledge that I can go about my life with one of my only fears thoroughly conquered and put to bed (which is where I need to be right about now).
So again, a big, big thank you. I'm sure in the future I'll come back as this is a very interesting and incredibly diverse community, but the purpose of this message was to give my story, save myself another sleepless night, and applaud those who work tirelessly to head smack all the 9/11 conspiracies.
-Chris