9/11/01 Never Forgotten

[Ashley]

As we arrive on the 11th anniversary I'd like to make a to all fallen hero's and Americans. I will never forget that day. I was sitting in class my 7th grade year. I stayed in during recess to watch it unfold on TV. My mom then came along with many other parents and took me out of school for the day. I will NEVER forget!

God Bless America

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[kirk13]

 

[82brutus]

As we arrive on the 11th anniversary I'd like to make a to all fallen hero's and Americans. I will never forget that day. I was sitting in class my 7th grade year. I stayed in during recess to watch it unfold on TV. My mom then came along with many other parents and took me out of school for the day. I will NEVER forget!

God Bless America

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I was in Tokyo when it happened.  Got a call from our VP making sure I was okay because two other people that were supposed to meet me were in the air when it happened and were redirected to nearest airports to land.

Since they shut down the Tokyo airport anyway, I stayed two weeks until things opened back up and flew back home.  It's eerie seeing the airport that usually has hundreds of people in line to check-in only have 1 other person there for any airline and only about 5 passengers on the 777 coming back home.

God bless the people that were directly affected and the hero's during and after that dealt with rescue, clean-up, etc.   

PS (7th grade, really?)

[captain spaulding]

 

[Craig]

 

[jerseydevil]

Definitely not something to forget.  I watched both towers come down from across the river at Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange, just up the street really from where I grew up.  I knew someone in the South Tower.    Tonight we'll be able to see the tribute in lights from here.  It's always a day to say a prayer.  Never Forget. 

[ironraven]

Remember... I don't want to say "well", but it's hard to forget. I was laid off at the time and living under one of the approaches for the airport, like 600 feet below it. I was calling friends in the military to wish them good hunting about the same time the Air Guard put the ready flight in the air.

[MadPlumbarian]

I've been watching just about any show I can get my eyes on, and when my son came home from school he asked what I was watching, oh, really I watched them In every class except math, good you should have! So he watch what I watched also, he was only one when it happened, then when my little guy came home, his eyes got glued like mine, and even asked me to record what he couldn't watch due to having to go to bed, before today he never really knew what happened, and yet he's only eight. I was out on a construction site building a hotel, and my wife called me asking if I'm ok? Um yeah why so she explained, I thought she was pulling my chain, she was watching her morning show when it was cut off to spill the news. I was on the phone with her as the second plain hit, I had one of my workers find the radio and find anything with news, my crew froze still for half an hour, one was a firefighter and told me, if they call for help I'm off I don't care about my job, by all means! When I got home that day I didn't think my wife was going to let me go. God Bless!  JR

[Zed]

I will never forget that day, i worked a night shift and got home to my brother rining me saying watch the tv, i could not take in what was on the tv , thoughts to all the familys and friends of the departed from america and across the world,  .

[Sazabi]

I remember being in my sixth (or maybe seventh) grade reading class in middle school; I watched the replay of the first tower being hit, and watched the second in real time.  It was surreal, and I still can't do much to describe it, even now.  My thoughts go out to everyone affected.

My goes out to the rescue workers, likewise.

[Lynn LeFey]

It was about a month after I'd been 'downsized' from my job, and I was sleeping in late. My hubby called and said 'turn on the TV'. I asked what channel, and he said it didn't matter.

At the time, if someone said that, you know it was something major. Today, I wonder if folks could blissfully miss such an event stuck in cable TV hell (watching the cupcake network or whatever the smurf is out there now).

So I sat watching the first tower burn, like so many other people across the nation, wondering what happened, and watching live coverage. Being the kind of person I am, I had the previous attack at the WTC in mind, hoping it wasn't the case. Until the second plain hit. And then, in that instance, it was a really strange thought that went through my head. 'Someone just kicked a hornet's nest'.

I was frankly shocked beyond words when the South tower came down. I guess I somehow thought those buildings could and would survive, even after being hit by commercial aircraft. I had a good idea that those buildings would be packed with rescue personnel, and that they'd have all the emergency services staged right at the base of them.

I am the kind of person that would have gladly helped someone out. Maybe help carry someone who is wounded while evacuating if I had been in them, but I am not the kind of person that would have gone into those buildings to help others. I don't know what those people are made of, but the world needs them, and it crushes my heart when I think of so many dying all at once doing something so noble. I don't use the word noble much, because mostly I think it's overused and a lie. But what rescue crews did that day was truly noble.

In the days that followed, the thing I remember most vividly was the emptiness of the skies. The air traffic was gone, and when it came back, the sound of every jet set off a nervous fear in me. We lived in St. Louis at the time, in a place that was not a great target, but a tactically reasonable one.

If you feel a need to do some small part, I'd recommend donating to any number of very worthy funds for fallen rescue workers.

[Steinar]

I am not an American, but I would like to contribute anyway, that day was defining for the decade to come for all of us.

I was in the office, working at the job I had then. I dropped by a newsfeed on the web, and was told a plane had hit one of the WTC towers. I was flabbergasted, and mentioned it to a coworker, who didn't believe me. When the second plane hit, I remember the discussions about who could have done it, none of my friends could understand why anyone could want to do it. It simply wasn't a rational strategy, however you felt about the US, NYC, whatever. Ironically, when looking back at it, we didn't really understand how close we were to the truth.

My sympathy and condolences to everybody who lost someone that day or in the aftermath.