Never Forget (9/11)

[fatcat]

Last month I visited Ground Zero with Kwitko and his family. It is something I had wanted to do for years now. Standing there made my heart heavy and I was for a moment, speechless.

I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news September 11, 2001. I will never forget that day.

Please take a moment today to remember those who died and to be thankful of the heroes who saved the lives of many others.

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And Ground Zero, one month ago when I was there

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Please keep comments mature and proper

[MAGIC]

Please take a moment today to remember those who died and to be thankful of the heroes who saved the lives of many others.


And the soldiers over seas now bringing the fucking pain to them. Fuck, every time i see this stuff it pisses me off so bad. :shakehead

[Thrax]

9/11 fills me with pride, rage, and sadness. The pictures, the video, where I was and what I was doing... I will never, ever forget it.

[UPSLynx]

I am filled with a rage every time I see those images. At the TV station I work at, you see the clips every few months, and it never gets easier. Though it does always renew a sense of pride, and reminds me why we're doing what we're doing.

It's the tragedy of our generation.

I visited ground zero a year and a half after it happened. It was one of the most humbling, gut wrenching things I've ever experienced.

[pseudonym]

9/11 fills me with pride, rage, and sadness. The pictures, the video, where I was and what I was doing... I will never, ever forget it.

QFT <3

[Shorty]

To my US friends.

Remember the day with the appropriate sadness and necessary hurt & anger but be proud that you have survived. You did not quit, you did not give in and you have not negotiated.

The attack into the heart of your nation will never be forgotten.

[Obsidian]

Jeez, you guys really care a lot about the day before my birthday. I wonder what it will be like tomorrow :O

I actually remember when it happened even though I was pretty young. All the teachers were whispering among each other and each one's eyes bulged when they were told. Most of them then left to the teacher's lounge I guess to see it on TV. They then let parents pick up their kids from school early; I didn't find out for a few more hours until I got home. This image is pretty chilling:

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[Crazy Joe]

I was getting ready for work watching the news... I called GHoosdum and woke him up and told him to turn on the TV something major was going down... He asked what channel and I remember that I said, "It doesn't matter." Then I left and spent the rest of the day in the restaurant that I worked in sitting at the bar watching the TV with the other employees. I think we had 2 customers come in to eat that day. I echo the thoughts of both fatcat and Thrax.

[RichD]

I too remember the day as I was on summer hols from uni. I was working in an office and was in the print room at the time. Didn't really get a handle of how serious it was until I got home and saw the TV. My thoughts go out to all my colonial cousins who have been affected by this. Keep your head held high and remember, they have thrown everything they have at you and you are still standing!

[Kwitko]

I know I'll never forget, especially seeing it from 2 miles away, looking down 5th Avenue. We were evacuated from the Empire State Building, the streets were packed and emergency vehicles were flying down to the World Trade Center. When the towers fell I felt sick to my stomach. The city was chaos. Nobody could leave, jets were flying overhead, emergency vehicles by the dozens. It was like a bad disaster film. It was so real it was unreal.

After that I walked with a few friends across the 59th street bridge back to my apartment in Queens. The bridge was crammed with cars, people walking, and over to the south was a huge plume of smoke and rubble where just moments ago a combined 220 stories of building once stood.

I was numb, tired, sad, and angry all at once. I kept watching the news, then finally around midnight I went to bed. I think my brain was protecting me from further mental trauma because I fell asleep in about 5 seconds.

The next day the news showed Manhattan. It was a ghost town. I remember still feeling numb. My birthday was the Saturday after the attacks. We went out for dinner and I remember that when the cake came out, the entire restaurant sang and cheered. I guess they wanted to put their minds as far away from what happened as possible. Any positives, no matter how small, were a welcome change.

My heart goes out to the families of those who lost loved ones, and I pray for the safety of our troops and for a hasty return to their families.

[kryyst]

It's hard to ever forget 9/11 it's one of those days the world officially became a much scarier place to live in.

[QCH]

I was at work... a government facility. I was in a remote facility with my co-worker. We heard it on the radio. We rushed back to our office and rigged up a TV to watch the live broadcast. We were there just in time to see the World Trade Centers collapse.

Now our main building is one of the tallest buildings outside Chicago and we're a federal facility. We were all freaked out. My wife worked in the main building... and it's in the flight path for O'Hare, Midway, and real close to a local airport flight path...

The day is etched in my memory and I will never forget the sadness, the anger, and sense of loss. I have the newspapers from 9.12.01 and will keep them locked away to remember. Today I am reliving the same feelings...

[pigflipper]

My senior year of high school had just started and we had been hearing from the Isreali kids in the school about how horrific things had been at times in their home country; we were all thankful that nothing like that ever happened in the US. Then, @ approx. 9am on 9/11/01, I was in the library of school, using telnet to check my staff email for Icrontic when the principal ran and and demanded the TV's be turned on in all of the library. I remember the librarian arguing with him, so he just stood on a table and turned on a TV; 15 seconds later the second plane hit.

We were let out of school about two hours later and the rest of the day is a haze. I think we ended up either @ Celcho's house or Mortin's, but I couldn't tell you for sure. I was in such a haze, worried about my cousins in NYC, sick to my stomach with worry about my cousin in the Pentagon (two broken arms, cracked rib, 75 stitches, was only officer in his department still conscious so he did his best to organize search parties until he could be extracted).

I also remember the day after, when I got to school early and some of the other seniors were on the roof of the high school, putting up American flags. I had never given two shits about my country before that day; I was apathetic about anything that didn't have to do directly with me. Not now, not ever again. 9/11 is one of the reasons I am pursuing my current education and future career path in International Relations with a hope to serve in the diplomatic corp.

As a side note, the Isreali kids were even shocked by the level of damage and destruction, though they seemed to bounce back from it more quickly than the rest of us. I guess they already had the armor that we had yet to develop, but I'm pretty sure a lot of us have that armor now.

[Winfrey]

I was in my first class of the day in 8th grade which was my Broadcasting class interestingly enough. We had just finished doing the morning show and several of us were still in the camera room when we heard some excited voices coming from the classroom where the TV was. It was on CNN and I was watching for only 2 or 3 minutes before seeing the second plane crash live. So crazy, surreal. My teacher simply said, "we are going to war."

I remember how in the months after America was better united, helpful and thoughtful to one another and how proud we all are of our service men and women and the people that saved lives on that day.

[LIN]

. . . After that I walked with a few friends across the 59th street bridge back to my apartment in Queens. The bridge was crammed with cars, people walking, and over to the south was a huge plume of smoke and rubble where just moments ago a combined 220 stories of building once stood.

I was numb, tired, sad, and angry all at once. I kept watching the news, then finally around midnight I went to bed. I think my brain was protecting me from further mental trauma because I fell asleep in about 5 seconds.
I was a few blocks from the WTC when it happened and made the same trek home over the Bridge as you, Kwitko... I, too, watched the news when I finally made it home, still in my ash-covered clothes. The unimaginable had happened and my mind couldn't or wouldn't take it in.

My heart goes out to the families of those who lost loved ones, and I pray for the safety of our troops and for a hasty return to their families.
Amen.

If I'm not mistaken, the photo of the cemetary you posted, fc, is part of Trinity Church.

[fatcat]

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[UPSLynx]

We were fortunate in high school to have televisions with cable in every classroom. We all saw it as it happened. I was between classes my sophomore year in high school when our principle announced over speaker that the two planes had hit and that the first tower had gone down. They held out on telling us for a little while, I think.

I remember walking past my best friend Norm (UPS Yuri) in the hall. he just looked at me, mouth agape, and eyes lost in shock. We didn't say a word. I ran to my next class in a small building across the street from our school, the engineering and CAD department. I was in advanced CAD that year. I ran in, we were glued to the TV. Mr. Dubios, my teacher, told us to boot our PCs and try to work. I couldn't focus, kept one eye on the TV. I remember seeing the second tower drop, screams and shout came out from everyone in the class. Mr. Dubois looked up and said, "the other one just went down? Well .... " he looked down at his computer, the class went totally silent. We all knew, this would lead to war.

I watched network news all night long with my brother and mom. Stayed up well into the wee hours of the morning, trying to make sense of it all.

I've worked at the TV Station in South Bend for three years, and every Sept. 11th I've worked a shift. It never gets easier. A few of my coworkers worked that day in 2001, they all agree it was the most difficult thing they've ever done at the studio. Complete chaos and shock.

[jared]

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jam this song. jam it loud.

[Cliff_Forster]

My recomendation to people that want to honor the memory of Sept 11th is to go to your local Red Cross, volunteer, give blood, a little cash, supplies, anything. The Red Cross was instrumental in helping to glue the pieces together after the tragedy. Remember the aftermath, the way people wanted to give of themselves, and people did, dollars, blood, supplies, time, whatever they could. Time to get back to that.

[QCH]

What Cliff said and I'll add that the fire departments around the country that sent equipment and personnel to help look for survivors and then bodies.