Remembering 9-11-2001
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more like a nightmare for most seeing that horror unfold
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I remembered it well, like it was yesterday. Such a tragic event in American history !!!
We cannot forget because if we do, the tragedy will be repeated. Unlike Germany and Japan, these enemies cannot be rehabilitated. They will never give up because the radical wing of the religion has been indoctrinating their youth to do this for over 1,100 years.
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Never forget......NEVER
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Will always remember. I just started 7th grade that year and I still remember when the teachers told us what happened. Being in Queens, NY we all could smell the smoke.
So do I and it does seem like yesterday. I still feel a tremendous amount of anger over what happened all those years ago, enough so that I will never forget. I remember exactly what I was doing and where I was. With all due respect to the OP, I do not need a token or coin to help me remember.
When I turned the TV on this is what I saw:(
I remember like it was last week. I saw the second plane hit live on TV. It was insane to see that!
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I don't mean any disrespect and I understand these coins are history, and we collect history, but I don't like these coins. Every time I see one I get angry at the lowlifes that perpetrated this cowardly act against innocent people.
The lyrics from a Michael W. Smith song come to mind: "When evil calls itself a martyr."
Today is a day to reflect and honor the victims. God bless them all and god bless the USA.
i remember it well and never will forget.
Posted this on another 911 thread here yesterday.
So many movies that I have seen since that tragic day have these in the background. My wife and I usually set a sleep timer and go to sleep to "Friends" on tv at night. It is unreal how many times that they are shown...and the reality that they are not there.
we bought a flag a few days ago and a flag pole. it's flapping in the wind right now
I just looked out of my window here in my office. I lowered ours at 7:30 this morning and it has been flat most of the day...the wind is blowing now and Old Glory looks good!
Let's please remain civil, especially today and on a thread like this.
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When 9-11 happened we were staying in a small village in Ukraine, a very slow and unreliable dial-up connection and no TV, we only heard about what had happened from doctors at the clinic. Of course we were the only Americans in town, and a lot of people knew we were there so we had old babushkas coming and praying for America, us and promising to protect us. Just then I felt like we were in the safest place in the world.
God bless those individuals lost and their families, to this cowardly senseless crime.
This was indeed a terrible day in our history.
It was just so shocking; everyone remembers where they were when they heard about it, just like when JFK was shot.
My dad woke me up saying we were under attack. Being an 80's kid my first thought was the Russians. I was on the university newspaper and it happened to be that that day was my day on as the photography editor so I got to the newsroom as quick as I could, grabbed another photographer and we went onto campus. Most people were coming out of classes with no idea what was going on and we were the first people to tell them. Eventually I left the photographer and went back to the newsroom to help coordinate with the other editors. They closed the school at some point in the day but gave us special permission to remain on campus to put the issue out. That was a long day of looking at photos I didn't want to see, but had to because it was my decision which ones we pulled from the wire to use. That issue ended up being chosen for inclusion in a book of newspaper front pages from all over the world from Sept II. I think we were one of only 5 university papers chosen. I'm proud that we were able to do that, but it was also the day I realized that I no longer wanted to be a newpaper photographer. I finished my degree in photojournalism a year later, but I never went to a paper.
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Approximately, two hours before American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, I was driving to work. My daily work commute on I-395 would take me by the Pentagon at approx 7:30 AM.
Had a really bad day at work 17 years ago. My office/armory (Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment ) was couple miles away at Lexington Ave , NY . Anyhow, total chaos, and lost two of our members in the rescue operation that morning.
We avenged this attack after federalized for combat duty first time since WWII at the cost of 19 KIA and many more wounded a few years later.
Many of us were in Manhattan that morning, including myself, for the Stack's Vermille Sale. Harvey Stack cancelled the sale for that evening (only the 2nd time this had happened, the other cancelled auction was the day JFK was shot in 1963).
It was surreal, and definitely something that will never be forgotten. I will never forget how beautiful and sunny the NYC morning was until the chaos began....
17 years ago I was on my way to work. My office was at Old Slip, downtown Manhattan. I was running late, waiting for my bus in the East Village. My neighbor told me not to try to go to work. My roommate’s sister called telling me not to go to work.
I never made it to work. Instead, I spent the next couple of hours looking for colleagues and friends streaming uptown on 1st and 2nd Avenues (my roommate’s sister came over; she worked near City Hall then). We found 2 or 3 people we knew, invited them in to shelter, send email, wash up and eat a bit. Eventually phones started working again.
For the next bit of eternity, lower Manhattan below Union Square was like a ghost town. Walking my dog in Tompkins was uncomfortable because of the acrid air. People were so sad. Even in the East Village, a bastion of antiestablishment sentiment, locals started appreciating police and the roaming soldiers.
Due to the damage and the rescue operations downtown, every major artery into Chinatown was closed. They were losing massive business but never complained. Two or three times a week, my friends and I would gather ourselves and walk there for dinner.
Eventually life returned almost to normal. Rescue operations largely ceased. Union Square Park cleared up as a gathering point for victims’ families looking for loved ones. The debris got less and less. The acrid air got less acrid.
Since then, I have deliberately avoid the site and memorial on each anniversary of 9/11. Today I had planned to make an exception. I had a meeting near the WFC today and I decided to show my respect at the memorial.
I changed my mind. I went back to my office instead. Maybe in another 17 years I’ll finally be able to go there on 9/11.
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Ran across this song a few months ago. Was not paying any attention to the lyrics at first until I read a comment saying it was "beautiful and horrifying". Listening to the lyrics "horrifying" then made sense.
It's written from a fictional perspective of someone who had to choose how to die - to jump or burn. Don't recall hearing that in a song before. Thinking about that decision which many had to make is a sickening, angering thought.
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The events of 9-11 and after bring to mind the fierce, defiant eagle design.
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My own modest tribute. I use my "9/11" counterstamp once in a while to stamp up a small pile of coins to put into circulation.
Here is a 2001 Sacagewea, and a 50 euro cent coin I made for a European vacation:
I love New York. Always have, always will. Walking in Manhattan is being in an International City. It is America but people from the World are there. I met a Pen Pal from England there in 1985 before she returned to England after working on Long Island for a short time. We visited the World Trade Center, the only time I ever went to the top of that Structure. Who could imagine that 16 years later, it would be no more. And now, 33 years later, l still have never been back to the site of the Trade Centers. I've been back to New York on a number of occasions since then but aside from noting the absence in the NYC skyline, I've never felt a need to go near the place where the Building used to be.
Maybe one day. The new Building has been up for a while now. Maybe one day soon I'll go back to contemplate the beauty of Life in New York City.
In 2001 I lived a few blocks from the WTC and my GF at the time 4 blocks away . I was in Paris when it happened. It’s was impossible to believe what I was watching on TV from foreign soil. When I was finally able to make it back it was like out of a bad dream. Tanks rolling down Chambers St, armed forces with check points and the smell of burning metal and wire. I can still taste it. We lost a lot of friends.
I still have a box from that nightmare with masks we wore, newspapers from Europe, photos, pieces of shrapnel etc. It remains unopened. While I frequent the area often I have not been back to the actual grounds. Too soon
Those poor souls. Remember? It’s impossile to forget
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I know that the box is full of painful and bittersweet memories, but I strongly urge you to open it once and do an inventory of what is in there, do a write up of what everything is, and have the document notarized. Your collection of personal mementos is also very historical, and the provenance is necessary to preserve that connection for future generations.
I have been to the Shanksville Flight 93 Memorial (back when it was a temporary memorial made up largely of mementos people had left behind), and also the Ground Zero museum in NYC. I would recommend both.
The NYC museum might not provide too much in the way of new information for people who lived through it, but it is still a very worthwhile pilgrimage. There is one small alcove which you can enter to see images of those who were trapped in the towers jumping to their deaths. There is some text from witnesses displayed on the walls of the alcove that is unforgettable. One passage from a witness explains the incongruous sight of a woman preparing to jump who held her skirt down out of a sense of modesty so it would not blow up as she fell. Another witness explained that he felt compelled to watch the inexplicable horror of people jumping because he felt he needed to be there with them in their final moments so they did not die alone.
These scenes are sill impossible to process all these years later.
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Seems like 'we are forgetting'; not much talk on the most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor.
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My sister was working in the Pentagon City on 9/11. Believe me, she'll never forget.
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I wanted to post a picture from last years 9/11 remembrance thread but looking at my 1200 posts count, I can now only see one page, and no longer see an option to go back further in time like before (to grab the photo).
Huge remembrance to all the lives lost. Much respect.
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edited to add. Remembered someone liked it so I went through like history to find it.
Here are coins that were found post tragedy. I put them in date form.
We remember when we get figuratively strip searched at the airport. Not a good legacy.