9/11....Don't Forget
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aw2x3
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I was home, on leave, helping a friend pour concrete in KY. We heard it on the radio and within an hour, leave was cut short and I was ordered to report back within 24 hours. 3 days later, I was in the Middle East.
I watched a NatGeo special, about 9/11, yesterday. Listening to the recordings, answering machine messages from husbands to wives, etc. still made me cry, 8 years later.
They had another special, on NatGeo, that was just about the conspiracy theories and the people saying 9/11 was all staged and planned by our government and that those people really didn't die, etc. That just pissed me off.
I watched a NatGeo special, about 9/11, yesterday. Listening to the recordings, answering machine messages from husbands to wives, etc. still made me cry, 8 years later.
They had another special, on NatGeo, that was just about the conspiracy theories and the people saying 9/11 was all staged and planned by our government and that those people really didn't die, etc. That just pissed me off.
nw2salt08
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I will never forget. I was in high school..my senior year. I was in dance class when one of the teachers ran into the classroom and told us to stop what we were doing and turn on the tv. We stayed in that class the rest of the day...watching and talking about it.
This is the reason my husband is overseas to this day. This is the reason why our men and women do what they do to keep us free and safe. This is why 4 of my friends lost their lives in Iraq. We can't forget. If we do then everything that everyone has done or everyone that has lost their lives....then it was all in vain.
This is the reason my husband is overseas to this day. This is the reason why our men and women do what they do to keep us free and safe. This is why 4 of my friends lost their lives in Iraq. We can't forget. If we do then everything that everyone has done or everyone that has lost their lives....then it was all in vain.
I had just gotten into work, about 30 miles east of NYC when people started running around stating that a plane had hit one of the towers. We didnt have any TVs in my office so everyone crowded around a radio to listen to what was going on. A few minutes later they said we could leave it we wanted so I went over to my folks house to watch it. I got there a few minutes after the second plane hit. I didnt know anyone personally that passed away that day but I was a bit freaked out because I was in 1 World Trade, somewhere around the 60th floor just a week previously visiting some potential customers.
jennythebugg
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i was 7 mos pregnant with my son and had just dropped my girls off at school when i heard about the first plane so i pulled in at my moms and woke her up and we saw the second plane hit.
ophiura
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Hey, it is a national day of service for green energy and such....
That ticks me off more. I am all for remembrance, including remembering and continuing the things we did in the days after to help each other. Service should be something we always strive for, but that day was coming together as a country, as Americans.
I remember the radio waking me up and it wasn't the "usual" broadcast. I don't remember what network but I remember the reporter almost screaming "the building is falling" and the anchorman asking "part of the building?" and the reporter just screaming the whole building! I don't think I even knew it was the towers at that time.
I made my way to work, at the LFS then, and a coworker opened the door. She was somewhat the "mom" to us. I remember saying something about it being a horrible day, and she said "God has given you another day, so it is a good day."
I remember there being no planes around, and how truly strange that was. We brought out a TV and watched all day in the store.
I of course worried about friends and family in DC and NYC. At that time they were talking tens of thousands may have died...I remember the like assistant assistant fire chief in NYC, now the fire chief, being nearly held up by Guiliani as he announced the losses in the NYFD.
It should be a day of true remembrance. We have lost that on Veteran's day...Memorial Day. They are shopping days, party days!!!!
It is tragic that American's seem to remember so little these days. Most will not even pause on the day's mentioned to think about the REAL reason. That is what this day may be destined for, especially if it morphs into a day of service. The president just said...a day of service (pause) and remembrance. Like an afterthought.
Remembering comes first! Remembering is the motivation! Let's not stand for this becoming lost and reaching a point where we have 9/11 furniture sales!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember the men and women serving this country!!
That ticks me off more. I am all for remembrance, including remembering and continuing the things we did in the days after to help each other. Service should be something we always strive for, but that day was coming together as a country, as Americans.
I remember the radio waking me up and it wasn't the "usual" broadcast. I don't remember what network but I remember the reporter almost screaming "the building is falling" and the anchorman asking "part of the building?" and the reporter just screaming the whole building! I don't think I even knew it was the towers at that time.
I made my way to work, at the LFS then, and a coworker opened the door. She was somewhat the "mom" to us. I remember saying something about it being a horrible day, and she said "God has given you another day, so it is a good day."
I remember there being no planes around, and how truly strange that was. We brought out a TV and watched all day in the store.
I of course worried about friends and family in DC and NYC. At that time they were talking tens of thousands may have died...I remember the like assistant assistant fire chief in NYC, now the fire chief, being nearly held up by Guiliani as he announced the losses in the NYFD.
It should be a day of true remembrance. We have lost that on Veteran's day...Memorial Day. They are shopping days, party days!!!!
It is tragic that American's seem to remember so little these days. Most will not even pause on the day's mentioned to think about the REAL reason. That is what this day may be destined for, especially if it morphs into a day of service. The president just said...a day of service (pause) and remembrance. Like an afterthought.
Remembering comes first! Remembering is the motivation! Let's not stand for this becoming lost and reaching a point where we have 9/11 furniture sales!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember the men and women serving this country!!
darthtang aw
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There is one radio station doing a remembrance all morning long. I am glad and proud to call the two DJ's of the morning show my friends....since they have a sense of honor to actually acknowledge and remember what happened.
reefraff
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There have been news flashes about the Coast Guard firing on a boat on the Potomac near the Pentagon. Turns out it was a training exercise that occurred right about the same time Obama's motorcade had crossed the river on the way to a event at the pentagon. Somebody has some splainin to do.
crypt keeper
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I was up at school, Shepherd College, Walking to class. I was a tad late. So I decided to stop by the Rams Den and grab a bite to eat. I remember seeing my girlfriend at the time and I walked over to her and asked her what was going on. She started talking and the second plane hit. I said really loud that is no accident. I instantly got on the phone with my dad who called my Aunt who worked in the pentagon. She was okay but had to go. She attended 14 funerals.
Class was cancelled for a few days. I just consumed myself with the TV. Rough times.
Class was cancelled for a few days. I just consumed myself with the TV. Rough times.
ophiura
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Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3133112
There have been news flashes about the Coast Guard firing on a boat on the Potomac near the Pentagon. Turns out it was a training exercise that occurred right about the same time Obama's motorcade had crossed the river on the way to a event at the pentagon. Somebody has some splainin to do.
Yeah, I heard something that they do that every day. Logically, just maybe on 9/11, you should hold off...
http:///forum/post/3133112
There have been news flashes about the Coast Guard firing on a boat on the Potomac near the Pentagon. Turns out it was a training exercise that occurred right about the same time Obama's motorcade had crossed the river on the way to a event at the pentagon. Somebody has some splainin to do.
Yeah, I heard something that they do that every day. Logically, just maybe on 9/11, you should hold off...
darthtang aw
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t316
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Originally Posted by Darthtang AW
http:///forum/post/3133138
http://www.patriotwatch.com/911.htm
That is an excellent link/memorial...the people jumping out of the buildings, all of the faces, all of the caskets...what a senseless act.
http:///forum/post/3133138
http://www.patriotwatch.com/911.htm
That is an excellent link/memorial...the people jumping out of the buildings, all of the faces, all of the caskets...what a senseless act.
zman1
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Originally Posted by Darthtang AW
http:///forum/post/3133138
http://www.patriotwatch.com/911.htm
Good link Darth...
http:///forum/post/3133138
http://www.patriotwatch.com/911.htm
Good link Darth...
ophiura
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Still one of the greatest speeches:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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This last paragraph - I don't think anyone can say much that is more appropriate today as it was then.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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This last paragraph - I don't think anyone can say much that is more appropriate today as it was then.
darthtang aw
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I think today those of us politiheads hould refrain from any political debate/discussions today out of respect and remembrance.
I already heard the radio talk show hosts of air america and conservative using this day as a political talking point today to bash current and past administrations... and I got sick....
I already heard the radio talk show hosts of air america and conservative using this day as a political talking point today to bash current and past administrations... and I got sick....
reefraff
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Originally Posted by ophiura
http:///forum/post/3133133
Yeah, I heard something that they do that every day. Logically, just maybe on 9/11, you should hold off...
Or maybe let other agencies know.
http:///forum/post/3133133
Yeah, I heard something that they do that every day. Logically, just maybe on 9/11, you should hold off...
Or maybe let other agencies know.
