9/11/01

[keysersosay#1]

Always remember and never forget the lives of those murdered on that day and the sacrifices of so many fire fighters ,EMTs police and just plain folks who saved countless lives in NYC the pentagon and the heroes of Flight 93

They sleep with the angels...while the human debris that committed this mass terror ROT in hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gunslingerdick]

I'm embarrassed that this thread has no replies.

5 STAR THREAD!

The picture below is me and my family in 1985. Just soak this in for a minute and think about how after 9/11, no one visiting the Statue of Liberty can have this backdrop.

God Bless America.

 

[tazki]

Been on my mind all day. Will never forget the day, where I was (running on treadmill) when they broke in with the firs plane. Only time in my life that this country stood as one. While working out again today I watched an hour long special on Firehouse 10 which is right next to where the towers stood. What those firefighters, police and Paramedics did that day was true dedication. Somehow May God bring this country back.

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

Our SGA (working at a community college) had a 9/11 remembrance this morning. It blows my mind that most of today's college students probably have little or no memory of this. This year's freshmen would have been ~4 years old.

 

[gunslingerdick]

I was coordinating the United Way's "Day of Caring" on the campus of the alternative school for which I was a Rec Therapist when it happened. We had roughly 40 volunteers on the campus that day to do little projects. I was overseeing it all. I remember having to tell all 40 of them what had happened because they hadn't seen on account of them working. I went to each and every one of them and told them to go home. We dismissed the kids early that day. And the weirdest thing about that was that these were kids with a lot of issues. They usually were looking for a reason to punch somebody, spit on somebody, talk some trash, etc. But I remember them being eerily docile and tentative that day after we told them what happened and tried to organize early dismissal. The images of that day are forever burned into my memory.

 

[UNC71-00]

This may be the only moment in our lifetime that those of us who lived through it will never forget. Everyone knows where they were and what was going on when this happened.

I'm worried though that we will see much worse in the not too distant future.

 

[tazki]

This may be the only moment in our lifetime that those of us who lived through it will never forget. Everyone knows where they were and what was going on when this happened.

I'm worried though that we will see much worse in the not too distant future.

Could not agree more.

 

[Louigi]

I was working for a major financial firm. I spoke with folks with Cantor Fitzgerald almost every day because they did our bond pricing. They are all dead as they were on the top floor. I was doing a lunch seminar at New Bern Country club on that day. I was frazzled and showed up late and did not think anyone would show up. I walked into a room of 60+ already sitting at tables. I walked up to one of my clients that was a retired Episcopal minister and asked him to say a prayer. He declined and I was shocked. I started my speech and went into the unfolding events and soon realized that no one in the room knew what had happened and I was the one informing them. At the end, the minister stood up and apologized. He said he did not know we had been attacked and thought I was asking him to pray for the stock market. Which is funny, in hindsight.

Roughly a week later the first day planes flew again, work had me fly in to Newark, NJ. I will never forget being on an empty plane, being searched by National Guard soldiers, then seeing the smoke rising over the Hudson as I walked through an empty Newark airport.

 

[Raising Heel]

This may be the only moment in our lifetime that those of us who lived through it will never forget.

I sure hope so, but share your doubt it will be.

 

[Grayhead]

I tried to avoid the news outlets yesterday simply because of the raw emotions I feel. It is hard for me to watch any footage related to that day. Even harder to watch an older movie with the towers in the background. It always reminds me of the evil that is present in this world. Reminds me of the one time in my life how the country stood together. Reminds me of how quickly we forgot and started blaming our own and ultimately fortified the division in this country permenantly. The enemy won that day .