We will never forget 9/11

[Torps]

May all the innocent who lost there lives, rest in peace and the men and women who fought there attackers on United Flight 93 be remembered for the hero's they are.

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[bookworm_020]

I still remember waking up and seeing it on TV here in Australia (it happened just before midnight) It seemed like something out of the war of the worlds broadcast.

The sight of people buying and reading newspapers while waiting for the train to work is etched in my mind (everyone was getting one, wanting to know what was happening)

[nikimcbee]

Gee, this is deja vu, I was laid off when it happened.

[nikimcbee]

This stuff still makes my blood boil


This stuff is too depressing to watch.

[Stealth Hunter]

Though we WILL forget it if we contract Alzheimer's...

But besides trying to break the tension with a joke, I wonder how the world will look back on 9/11 in 2041 (which will mark the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)... IF we're even around in 2041; too much crap going on in the world... hope it will pass soon.

[LiveGoat]

I flew into NYC the night before and my last sight of the WTC was of it all lit up. A little boy was sitting next to me and looked out the window and was all "WOW!" I told him they were the trade center towers. The next morning my roomate woke me up and told me the news. I wish they'd just build them back. I still can't watch video footage from then.

[Jimbuna]

My memory is watching the live news channel and watching the horrific events unfold.

I remember feeling shocked and outraged as the reality of the situation set in.

[Konovalov]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

I still remember waking up and seeing it on TV here in Australia (it happened just before midnight) It seemed like something out of the war of the worlds broadcast.

The sight of people buying and reading newspapers while waiting for the train to work is etched in my mind (everyone was getting one, wanting to know what was happening)

Yep I remember it well when I was back home. I remember sitting onhe cuch watching the Channel Ten late night news with Sandra Sully who at the time I had a bit of a soft spot for. I wound up sitting watching this horrible event unfold into the wee hours of the morning. Many people in the office the next morning including myself looked like they had't slept at all. Just one of those horrible days in your life that you will never forget where you were and what you were doing.

[sharkbit]

My memories:

My wife and I went to the Monday Night Football game between the Broncos and New York Giants the night before and didn't get to bed until midnight. I was in no mood to go to work the next day and called in sick early that morning and stayed in bed.
Next thing I know, my wife, who had gotten up with my daughter who was 4 1/2 months old at the time, comes running in screaming that airplanes had hit the WTC and the Pentagon and that the buildings had collapsed.

Turned on the tv and watched as our world changed. My wife and I stayed glued to the tv all day, watching those images over and over. They were almost surreal. They are still burned into our brain.

I had a slight moment of panic when I realized that my sister, her husband, and some friends were supposed to fly out of Boston that morning. I called my mom and she had talked to my sister and they were driving their rental van back to Denver. (My sister hated flying before 9/11 but would do it if she had to, and now we will never get her on an airplane again ).

One last thing.
I work for an aircraft charter company. A few days after the attack, we were given authorization to fly some FEMA personnel, blood, and other emergency supplies to New York with one of our aircraft. Our aircraft was the only non-military aircraft in the skies over the US. I talked to the flight crew later. They said it was unreal to not hear any other aircraft on the radios. They said they could see the smoke from ground zero from about 200 miles out.

Yesterday, I was hoping to make it thru the day without watching anything about it...to no avail.
Got the kids to bed, turned on the tv and came upon a show on the History Channel called "102 Minutes That Changed America" and that sucked me in. All it showed was video of that day. No narration, no music, no commercials. The images spoke for themselves. It is still an amazing and heartbreaking thing to watch.

[Digital_Trucker]

I heard while on the way to the company terminal in Searcy, AR from Oklahoma. I didn't have a TV in the truck, so all my wife and I could do was listen to the radio reports and the chatter on the CB. We delivered a load a few days later in New Jersey close enough to see the huge hole in the skyline and the smoke and haze. Just listening to the reports and talking to one of our drivers that was up there when it happened was enough for me to want to avoid the video. To this day, I'm still seeing video that I hadn't seen before and it still brings back the anger and frustration we felt at the time.

[ReallyDedPoet]

I was in NYC recently, being at Ground Zero ( first place the group I was with went )
it was a very moving experience, one that I really don't have words for and one that
I will never forget. I'll leave it at that.


RDP

I remember when it happened, I was still in Uni and living not far from where I live now and woke up and didn't have any classes that day. Started to hear about it on the news. I remember being astounded but after a while I knew that what will be important in the long run will not be this thing but how the US will react to it. I remember people making the obvious question to some US officials that "You guys will not be running around like an elephant in a china shop seeking revenge?" and their answer was "Of course not". But you know, doesn't look like they were all that careful from today's perspective.

Anyway, a sad thing overall and a little surprising that they haven't built anything there yet.

[Platapus]

I posted this on another 911 thread but that thread died.

How's this for a creepy 11Sep01 story:

There I was (no Sh!t)

On Tuesday mornings I was supporting our war-gaming and exercise support people in Virginia. Tuesday 0900 was the team meeting. I remember walking down the hall and catching a glimpse of one of the towers burning.

"oh crap, there is a fire in one of the WTC towers, that must suck." And I went down to my team meeting.

It just happened that there was an exercise going on in my agency. The way they run these exercises is that they hand out script cards to people to participate. The card might say "at 0905 call the security office and report smelling smoke in stairway 7F" Stuff like that.

One of our exercise support people had such a script card and was supposed to participate in the exercise.

Just after 0900 we got word of the second aircraft crashing into the towers. Our exercise guy paled. His exercise card said that at 0915 he was supposed to call and report that an airplane had crashed into one of our towers. Our facility consists of a number of connected buildings referred to as towers.

Naturally the exercise was canceled, but this is very very eery.

[Foxtrot]

While remembering the departed, we should not forget the alive victims who went there without proper protection, and are still waiting for a decent compensation.

[Digital_Trucker]

@ Platapus That's just creepy. I'm surprised Michael Moore didn't use that to "prove" his "theory" regarding the attack.