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9-11 - Ten Years Ago; 11th year update - Now 14 years
Topic Started: Sep 6 2011, 05:28 PM (4,094 Views)
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I am starting the thread for all things related to 9-11. This Sunday will be the 10th anniversary of that terrible day. I would like our members to share thoughts, personal stories, feelings, and anything you want regarding this event.

I know some of our members were personally affected by what happened. Some had neighbors and knew people who died. We all have seen the consequences, including the War on Terror, delays at airports, and in some respects our economic problems.

It is time to reflect and give our thanks who those that died, lost dear ones in that event, and what came after. It was a great loss for our country.
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What is happening at Ground Zero?

Here is an interactive graphic by the Wall Street Journal

Exploring Ground Zero, Ten Years Later
The rebuilding of the World Trade Center became most obvious from the air in the first years after the attack, but in recent months, progress has been visible at street level.

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Go to this site to enabled the functions.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904716604576546571601601298.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop
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kbp

The limit I have here is knowing someone who went to help supervise work after the accident, knowledge of who the SOB's were that caused it, who the SOB is that ruled out public prayer at the ceremony, and the SOB that outlawed calling Islamic extremist "terrorists".
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kbp
Sep 6 2011, 06:24 PM
The limit I have here is knowing someone who went to help supervise work after the accident, knowledge of who the SOB's were that caused it, who the SOB is that ruled out public prayer at the ceremony, and the SOB that outlawed calling Islamic extremist "terrorists".
I agree, but I like it when they say it is only 5 to 10 percent of the Islamic religion that are extremist. Well by my math that is 5 to 10% of 1.5 billion Muslims is about 75 to 150 million extremist. We are constantly reminded that the Islamic religion is a peaceful religion. No mention ever of their subordination of females in there society. No mention of freedom and liberty, no mention of freedom of religion. What is the life expectancy be of a person named Bloomberg in Iran?

My story is that a restaurant I used to frequent was family run and they had 2 daughters and a son, who worked there part time, while in HS and then college. Well, one of their daughters, a real nice girl, worked at the World Trade Center, on 9/11 and was one of the victims of the attack. She was a Penn State grad, an accomplished adult, hard working since the age of 16, as a waitress in her family restaurant and a life just wasted away by SOB terrorist. The restaurant was a small diner type that sat about 35 people. The whole family were hard working and the parents were immigrants from Greece. I remember the parents wanted a better life for their children.

Finally, I am sure that on 9/11/11, the Owebama will come out and say we all need to come together in peace and love, while his union thugs tell their fellow Americans, unless we support Owebama we need to be "taken out".
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I received a call out here in California from my Niece telling me to turn on the TV. She had just arrived in NYC a few months earlier to start her career. Fortunately I knew she was OK, but I sat mesmerized for the next few hours and watched as the second plane crashed into the Towers. Later watched the Towers come down.

I was later to learn from 25 year old we knew who was in a building across from the WTC. He e-mailed the horror of what he saw and how he escaped. He made the right decisions and barely escaped.

My Niece later described the good will that was prevalent in NYC as neighbors helped neighbors.

I was reminded of the stories from my father & his friends of them finding out about Pearl Harbor that Sunday Morning in 1941. The shock and the unknown of what had happened.
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As I watch the promos for the 9/11 remembrances that will be shown this coming weekend, I find myself near tears each time - perhaps it is because at the present Mr. cks is overseas and I always worry greatly when he is away. (I never am able to sleep whenever he flies).

I do think that the sadness that is almost overwhelming is the realization that life has changed so greatly since that sunny September day in 2001. The world, if anything, has become less safe. One has to wonder whether our children will ever know anything but uncertainty and fear.
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I was teaching my 8th grade American history class. Our school was in the final stages of remodeling. Each classroom had been outfitted with a television set but the cable hookup had not yet taken place (it was scheduled for that afternoon once the school day had ended). I had just finished administering a quiz when the math specialist motioned to me from outside my door. He told me that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center (the first plane). He said that he knew nothing more except that it did not look like an accident. He asked if I wanted to try to jerry-rigg the tv. We created a chain of paperclips and managed to get a grainy picture just in time to see the second plane plow into another building. My students were supposed to go to English and I was supposed to get another class of 8th graders. The original class remained and the next class crowded in - we watched in near silence for the rest of the morning until lunch. When I watched the flames at the Pentagon I tried to calm my fears as my cousin had an office at the Pentagon and I knew that she was in town (often she was India as she was assigned to the India desk) that day - we had talked just two days before. Little did I know that my brother was in Boston and was scheduled to fly out from Logan that morning (it turned out that he had a later flight which, of course, was grounded - he and several colleagues would be able to rent a car and they drove straight home to St. Louis). At lunch I was able to contact my aunt who had heard from my cousin - luckily she had made a stop in Crystal City that morning on some job-related issue which kept her from being at her Pentagon office that morning. Mr. cks was supposed to be at the WTC that fateful morning - he had cancelled his trip to NYC because we had Back to School night at three different schools that evening and as I told him, I could not be in three places at one time. (One of those was required for me - it was at the school which at that time employed me while the other two involved two different high schools where our son and daughter attended. So, reluctantly, he cancelled his meetings. He would know a number of people who were killed. Additionally a colleague who had only recently had his first child died on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania.
My youngest brother would serve in Afghanistan. Another two brothers would spend six years working in Iraq. One supervised the rebuilding of the electrical and water infrastructure of the country while the other was involved installling fiber optics for communication purposes. Four of my cousins have served in either Iraq or Afghanistan with another set to leave for a second tour of duty (he is with the Guard) before the end of the year.
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I was living temporarily in CA, working on a big project for my company. September 11 is my birthday and I had given myself a birthday treat by spending the week at Half Moon Bay and commuting to Palo Alto. Sometime before 6 a.m. CA time, my cell phone began ringing. I groaned, got up to answer, assuming it was someone calling to Happy Birthday and not realizing I was a couple of time zones away. It was a friend, urging me to turn on the TV. I switched on the TV and my computer….watching in horror as the building burned and then the 2nd plane struck. I was on IM with a friend in the DC area when he said he had felt an explosion and his windows had rattled and shortly there were reports of the Pentagon strike. Now I was really terrified as I clicked on the Arlington County Fire Department website and realized my firefighter son was on duty. About that time, all cell and internet service disappeared. I later found out that my son captained the first responding unit into the Pentagon and had been injured and hospitalized. He checked himself out of the hospital and went back to the scene. It was the best birthday present I have ever received.

343 of my other sons were not so lucky.

Please read the Pentagon story: http://www.amazon.com/Firefight-Inside-Battle-Save-Pentagon/dp/0891419055

http://www.arlingtonva.us/Portals/Topics/USSArlington.aspx

http://firefamilytransport.org/?p=147

Never forget!
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I remember being in the hospital on 9/11. We were just getting our day started when we turned on the TV and saw what was happening. I was sitting closest to the tv and saw the second plane hit the tower. The doctor came into the room and asked us what was going on. When we told him we asked if we could leave the tv on. He allowed it to stay on, then we would talk about what we were seening and how it was making us feel. Very sad day indeed.
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cks
Sep 6 2011, 07:02 PM
As I watch the promos for the 9/11 remembrances that will be shown this coming weekend, I find myself near tears each time - perhaps it is because at the present Mr. cks is overseas and I always worry greatly when he is away. (I never am able to sleep whenever he flies).

I do think that the sadness that is almost overwhelming is the realization that life has changed so greatly since that sunny September day in 2001. The world, if anything, has become less safe. One has to wonder whether our children will ever know anything but uncertainty and fear.
I have a dvd of the movie, "United 93." It's still in the wrapper....I can't bring myself to watch it.
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Sep 6 2011, 08:25 PM
cks
Sep 6 2011, 07:02 PM
As I watch the promos for the 9/11 remembrances that will be shown this coming weekend, I find myself near tears each time - perhaps it is because at the present Mr. cks is overseas and I always worry greatly when he is away. (I never am able to sleep whenever he flies).

I do think that the sadness that is almost overwhelming is the realization that life has changed so greatly since that sunny September day in 2001. The world, if anything, has become less safe. One has to wonder whether our children will ever know anything but uncertainty and fear.
I have a dvd of the movie, "United 93." It's still in the wrapper....I can't bring myself to watch it.
United Airlines Flight 93

After United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked, Beamer and other passengers communicated with people on the ground via in-plane and cell phones, and learned that the World Trade Center had been attacked using hijacked airplanes. Beamer tried to place a credit card call through a phone located on the back of a plane seat but was routed to a customer-service representative instead, who passed him on to GTE supervisor Lisa Jefferson. Beamer reported that one passenger was killed and, later, that a flight attendant had told him the pilot and co-pilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been wounded. He was also on the phone when the plane made its turn in a southeasterly direction, a move that had him briefly panicking. Later, he told the operator that some of the plane's passengers were planning to "jump on" the hijackers and fly the plane into the ground before the hijackers' plan could be followed through. Beamer also recited The Lord's Prayer with Jefferson. According to Jefferson, Beamer's last audible words were "Are you guys ready? Let's roll."

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I was getting ready for work when they switched to the WTC after the first plane struck the building. I watched as they showed the second plane. When i got to the office, there was very limited/slow internet access. Since I live close to the office, I headed back home to get a TV. We watched as the first tower and then the second tower came down. I remember standing there thinking that we had just seen thousands die. I'm still amazed that so many got out of the buildings. There were a lot of heroes that day.
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I was at work when an employee came in and said a plane had crashed into the WTC.

Everyone thought it was just a strange accident.

We turned the TV on in the break room and I got on the internet to find out more.

Of course it was soon obvious that this was no accident.

Sorrow and anger mixed. Then the first tower collapsed, and you just knew a lot of people perished. And you knew the other tower was probably going to go too...

Frankly, I'm still waiting for the US to retaliate...

Who would have ever thought we would almost be apologizing?

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/09/91111-ambiguity-and-ambivalence.php


http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/09/91111-how-to-remember.php
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I was working at home, when Mrs. Comelately called me from her car: both towers hit. As she put it "It is obvious what Bush should be doing about now - but he will not have the balls". I turned on the TV - both towers are burning. It is obvious what Bush should be doing - by about noon would be best, 4:00 PM would be acceptable, next day a little late - but better than nothing...

Ten years later, we still have done nothing - except sending Hussein to the White House.
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