In Memory of 9/11 a 11 years pass

[yubba]

[Oberon]

May they all rest in peace.

[Takeda Shingen]

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. Dreadful is indeed the word to describe those events. May the innocent departed rest in peace. And may the perpetrators find anything but.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing.

Yes. It was a clear September day all along the Atlantic coast that day. I was at a construction site and someone told us. I went home and watched in disbelief as the two buildings fell. Hope I never see anything like that again.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by u crank

Yes. It was a clear September day all along the Atlantic coast that day. I was at a construction site and someone told us. I went home and watched in disbelief as the two buildings fell. Hope I never see anything like that again.

I was in my first job out of grad school teaching elemenatry school here in southeastern Pennsylvania. When I heard that the first tower was hit by a plane, I admit that I didn't think much of it; thinking it some guy in a Cessna that was either confused or intoxicated. All that changed when I was between classes and came to the faculty room just in time to see the second plane hit the South Tower on the TV. At that point, I knew that our world had changed irrevocably; a defining watershed moment in history that I had never personally witnessed up until that moment. I don't think that I could quite adequately describe my feelings.

[mookiemookie]

Cooking eggs in my apartment and getting ready for my Tuesday morning english class. I still vividly remember frantically trying to get through the phone lines to reach my parents who were supposed to eat at Windows on the World that day.

[soopaman2]

As a born and bred New Yorker (Staten Island) with ties to the city even in my Jersey exile. With friends whos wives I hugged at funerals. Or whos fathers have buried children. I give my utmost respect and rememberance to the 246 people on board the planes, 2606 that died in the WTC and surrounding areas, due to falling debris, and people jumping from windows, and the 125 from the Pentagon.

Props to all the emergency responders who sacrificed their personal lives to help out in the aftermath. (Only to have Congress, not approve a bill to help these people with medical care from all the dust they inhaled, and Yes I mean R's, but wish not to start a partisan pissing contest.)

Our politicians will pay in time, but for now it is about remembering the dead, and the true American unity that the aftermath represented. For at least a few months, Fellow Americans didn't want to kill one another.