9-11 Never Forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[empliau]

A day or two after 9/11, I was driving and Ray Charles's "America the Beautiful" came on the radio. I had to pull over, I was crying so hard. It wasn't the version we dutifully sang in grade school - it begins:

Oh beautiful, for heroes proved
In liberating strife
Who loved their country more than self
And mercy more than life

I couldn't stop thinking of the first responders, who went into the towers to try to save people and never came out. I still get misty when I hear it.

 

[joe2]

 

[Karl_K]

Another year is past and as in years past I sit here reading the stories, listening to the songs, looking at the pictures, and watching the videos, well trying to through the tears.
I don't really need the pictures or the video because it is as clear in my mind as the day it happened.

Bless you one and all.
Never Forget!!!!!!!!

 

[AGBF]

Good morning, everyone. I have been thinking about this site and this thread for a few days now. I know that Karl sometimes puts the thread up before he goes to sleep to make sure it is ready for people waking up on the morning of September 11 after a full night's sleep. I almost posted before midnight, but decided to wait. (Unlike @Daisys and Diamonds I don't live in a country where where anyone was observing the day before midnight.)

I am always pulled here by tradition. I was on a diamond site with some of the people still on Pricescope today when the word came in from the first poster to tell us that a plane had hit The World Trade Center. It was a long, wild, ride from there.

I will never forget.

Thank you for the thread, @Karl.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Good morning, everyone. I have been thinking about this site and this thread for a few days now. I know that Karl sometimes puts the thread up before he goes to sleep to make sure it is ready for people waking up on the morning of September 11 after a full night's sleep. I almost posted before midnight, but decided to wait. (Unlike @Daisys and Diamonds I don't live in a country where where anyone was observing the day before midnight.)

I am always pulled here by tradition. I was on a diamond site with some of the people still on Pricescope today when the word came in from the first poster to tell us that a plane had hit The World Trade Center. It was a long, wild, ride from there.

I will never forget.

Thank you for the thread, @Karl.

its just about tomorrow here already
im scanning the news

Fire and Emergency NZ on Instagram: "Kei te mihi atu ki a rātou, ngā kaipatu ahi kua riro ki te pō - special acknowledgements to our fellow firefighters who have travelled into the night. Today we stood together as we honoured the 343 New York City

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[dk168]

I can still remember that day vividly, being in Vancouver and on my way to the airport to pick up a hired car, and was wondering why the airport was so unusually quiet.

Then I heard the news, and experienced the aftermath especially its impact on air travel that affected my return trip to UK from Calgary a few days later first hand.

I shall never forget.

DK

 

[MissGotRocks]

I will never forget - where I was, what I felt, what I feel today. Just an unimaginable event resulting in so much loss of life. What came after that was more loss of life in war. The sadness never seemed to end. . .

 

[AGBF]

I couldn't stop thinking of the first responders, who went into the towers to try to save people and never came out. I still get misty when I hear it.

I wonder if the image of those firefighters is the one most imprinted on many of us. Perhaps I should just speak for myself, particularly today. It is an image one had to live through that day (albeit perhaps connected only by television) to have indelibly marked in one's mind. Those firemen, loaded down with heavy gear, starting to climb the stairs up towards the fire and the victims to rescue people.

 

[empliau]

I remember the New Yorker profile of Rick Rescorla - a Cornishman who was a veteran of Vietnam. He worked in security for Morgan Stanley, and after the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center he was sure there would be another. He drilled the employees on evacuation procedures regularly. When employees were being told after the 9/11 attacks to stay at their desks, he got a bullhorn and began the evacuation, and because of his insistence on preparation and practice they knew what to do. They say 2700 employees were saved by him - and he went back in to make sure no one was left behind. He died in the collapse.

 

[Star gazer]

I remember I had it somehow on t.v. as they were reporting. Can't remember the station, but I was home and watching after first plane crashed. Called my husband at work, and he said he had heard. As I was talking to him and watching live on my t.v., second plane came careening in! We were in even more shock, as I told him. I felt sick. I'll never forget that feeling. I had and and still have very close family where it happened.

 

[Rebel Rebel]

Another year is past and as in years past I sit here reading the stories, listening to the songs, looking at the pictures, and watching the videos, well trying to through the tears.
I don't really need the pictures or the video because it is as clear in my mind as the day it happened.

Bless you one and all.
Never Forget!!!!!!!!

I want to thank you for this thread and your heartfelt sentiments.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

 

[pearlsngems]

I remember the New Yorker profile of Rick Rescorla - a Cornishman who was a veteran of Vietnam. He worked in security for Morgan Stanley, and after the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center he was sure there would be another. He drilled the employees on evacuation procedures regularly. When employees were being told after the 9/11 attacks to stay at their desks, he got a bullhorn and began the evacuation, and because of his insistence on preparation and practice they knew what to do. They say 2700 employees were saved by him - and he went back in to make sure no one was left behind. He died in the collapse.

I didn't know about Rick Rescorla. Thank you for posting that! So many lives he saved.

 

[Gypsy]

I was in DC. Like many, I thought it was a movie. I really did. But then I changed channels and there it was, on every channel. And slowly the reality sunk in that it was real. Surreal, but real. The pentagon was less than a handful of miles from me. My fiance's family worked in the towers. One of this cousin's died. We went to funerals. My SIL was absolutely traumatized, and still is, of watching people jump out of the towers to escape only to fall screaming into rubble.

My dog trainer was one of the ones who took his dogs there for search and rescue. All the dogs died prematurely. Then he too did, of cancer from the fumes and flames.

There were so many ripples that reach out, even to today. I watch Home Alone and see the airport scenes. Or Die Hard 2. And I am like: this is what it was like BEFORE.

We don't forget. We just move forward, and carry it with us. My heart goes out to all.

 

[Cinders]

I also lived in DC at the time. The plane crashing into the Pentagon caused my whole building to shake. One of my former co-workers was on that flight and died.

It's been 24 years and I'm still not okay on 9-11.

 

[monarch64]

I can’t ever forget. Either dementia or amnesia would be the only things to erase that day from my mind.

I never felt more united with my country than I did the following weeks/months/years. It is an entirely different place and experience now.

 

[Calliecake]

If you had told me 24 years ago this is where we would be today as a country, I would have never believed it.