remembering 9/11

[AngelinaCatHub]

I always get sad and reflective on this day. Even though it's been 8 years, I can still remember everything vividly. It's weird not being in nyc this year. There everyone gets reflective, but here it's just another day.

A close friend of mine died that day, and I always felt so guilty for getting out safely. We worked for different companies and he was on a much higher floor of Tower 2 than I was.

I have moved on, and I am very grateful for all the happy times and great opportunities I have had. But I just want to remember my friend and all those who lost their lives on that day.

Nothing can replace actually losing a friend in that terrible tragedy. However, some of us (there are becoming fewer) who realize what a Country we have and her value system still feel a very huge loss. The next year, I attempted my trip up to Chi. When I passed that same Indiana motel, I called Mrs. and said, "I'm not going to Chi, I'm going to NY. And, I did. To see that hole in the ground and the immensity of the destruction, there are no words...... I had a three block long line to see the hole, when our line passed the Church that had the pictures and momentoes upon it in memory of the lost, there was NOT a dry eye in that line.

I am old enough to remember the day Kennedy got shot. It is burned into my mind like a branding iron. This was far more chilling as those were not soldiers but innocents killed for no good reason. 'Hub

[backtoschool]

I always get sad and reflective on this day. Even though it's been 8 years, I can still remember everything vividly. It's weird not being in nyc this year. There everyone gets reflective, but here it's just another day.

A close friend of mine died that day, and I always felt so guilty for getting out safely. We worked for different companies and he was on a much higher floor of Tower 2 than I was.

I have moved on, and I am very grateful for all the happy times and great opportunities I have had. But I just want to remember my friend and all those who lost their lives on that day.

[Annie4]

Not forgotten here either....

I still keep our boys out of school this day. We just hang out together and do fun stuff. (They're hardly ever sick so they have perfect attendance every other time of the year.)

We went and got a movie and lunch. This was the first payday we could actually do something extra since the BK, so it was even more special.

We also have alot of family in the military, so our boys really respect them for what they do. <3

[justbroke]

I was on a Boeing 757 in the air, traveling from New England to Detroit. We flew right past NYC on our way. When we landed, the news on the airport monitors was obvious. The pilots never told us anything.

[NoMoreCards]

I was in tower 2 on 9/11 am I am going through my yearly sadness today. I just wanted to post a post for some reason.

The weather here is just like it was on that day. This is the first year I haven't been in NYC on 9/11 and it's strange how the world seems to have forgotten all about it.

My heart goes out to you, for what you and so many others experienced on that terrible day. Please know, that it has not been forgotten. This event touched almost every life here in the US in some way. Like so many other terrible events in life, we must get through them and move forward. But taking a bit of time to reflect on what was, is a necessary part of that process. Today is indeed a day for reflection.

I wish you peace.

[AngelinaCatHub]

The year of 9-11, we plagiarized a bit of this show for the Library. Be forewarned, it is a tough show to watch.

It is a long download so be patient and it is a PowerPoint show.

'Hub

http://fofpa.org/Blackday.pps

[AngelinaCatHub]

Yes, I agree. I think Bush was worthy in the defense against the Terrorists. He just picked the wrong Country. His Pappy's unfinished work. If he had gone to the correct Country, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and a handful of others as in Somalia, I think it would have been quick and decisive.

I am a private pilot. While on a trip to Chi I was in an Indiana motel watching Imus in the Morning drinking my first COC. The news broke in about a small private jet that "accidentally" hit building 1. However being a pilot, knowing the flight rules, I then saw the second jet liner going left to right in back of both buildings. My thoughts were, he is too low for a city, then it made a right descending turn 180 degrees, and I KNEW what was going to happen. I jumped up from the bed in horror and screamed Stit NO, STIT NO! and witnessed the plane shaped ball of fire coming through tower two. I cried. I started my trip to Chi and about 10 I had to stop and went to a motel lobby and saw tower two crumble over at the top, then down. I saw the people coming down from the windows escaping flame for fall. Then, I saw tower one fall imploding on itself.

I turned my trip around so shaken that I went back to FL and canceled my trip.

It is a wonder that we cannot fathom that this ever happened here and on U.S. soil. So soon we forget.

[backtoschool]

I was in tower 2 on 9/11 am I am going through my yearly sadness today. I just wanted to post a post for some reason.

The weather here is just like it was on that day. This is the first year I haven't been in NYC on 9/11 and it's strange how the world seems to have forgotten all about it.