9/11 - Never Forget

[SS Junk]

Pic I took when in NYC a few years ago...



If anyone gets the chance, definitely visit the memorial for Flight 93. The area fenced off where the crash was is huge. I asked one of the guides why that was since it seemed the debris field was more concentrated and they said they had found plane and human remains all over where it has been marked off. They also have all the phone recordings of the passengers calling relatives. Couldn't even bring myself to listen to those.

[svauto-erotic855]

The truly sad thing about 9/11 is that the lesson that we should have learned from it was forgotten because of politics.

Thanks to Obama the next major attack will be with a nuke supplied by Iran. Maybe the lesson will not be forgotten after that.

[juiceweezl]

The truly sad thing about 9/11 is that the lesson that we should have learned from it was forgotten because of politics.

Thanks to Obama the next major attack will be with a nuke supplied by Iran. Maybe the lesson will not be forgotten after that.

NK may beat Iran to it...thanks to Clinton.

[Jose]

I still remember where I was that day. Drove into work at the City Place building listening to a CD and had no idea what was going on until I go into the building and was picking up some breakfast in the cafeteria. I saw a bigger than normal group all around the TV that they played the news in the morning and finally saw what was happening. Working for a brokerage company, we didn't do much of anything as the markets were closed that day but we still got a few calls in from customers that were wondering why there was no trading. Crazy to imagine that these people were wondering why the markets were closed but had no idea what was happening that day.

I wish we could bring up the threads from the old Canada days. I remember we did that for a while every 9/11. Couldn't get any of the news sites to come up at work and DFWStangs was my only source of internet news. Damn.. still crazy to think about it all.

[Strychnine]

I watched The Road To 9/11 last night on the History Channel...

[helosailor]

Today, I am reminded of the words of John. John was with the ESU (Emergency Services Unit) in NYC. He was off on 9/11. As soon as the first plane hit, he geared up, jumped in his truck, and headed towards Manhattan from Long Island. He was still bothered by not being able to get there before the towers fell. He lost 71 close friends that day. He would stay at "the site" for 16 straight days, only leaving when his wife threatened him with divorce.
When we talked about where we were and what we did on that day, he said some of the most powerful words to me that anyone has every said. He told me "You and me, we're the same. We're haunted by not having been able to get there in time to do something. We're brothers, you and me." In five minutes, this man knew me better than almost anyone else.

[ceyko]

I remember being upset about being woken up early when a small plane probably just crashed into a building. I had literally just said that and we both watched a second later live the second plane striking the tower.

Ya, I was low-mid 20s - in Bosnia doing contract work for the Army, reloading a KIV-7. We ALL thought the exact same thing and that it was just another media circle jerk. I transitioned from one base to another and as I entered the other base it was mass hysteria. Return to our work area to find out the second plane hit and the base was going on a no-fuck-a-around lock down and preparing for an attack. I believe all our SFOR bases never reduced security levels until we left the Balkans.

For some reason, the US allows the circle jerk at the airports but forgets about everything else when it come to border security. I will never understand. It's like folks believe this will never happen again.

[Cobraman]

Did the 9-11 memorial stair climb this year. Got to speak with a NYFD firefighter that was buried in the rubble for three days. He is also testifying in the trial against the five perps at Guantanamo Bay. Met families of fallen first responders from that day. Powerful stuff.

[Sean88gt]

Do they still read the names annually?

[TX_92_Notch]

Every time I think about 9/11, I think less about where I was or what I was doing than about the way I felt. Before that day, I'd never felt anything like it. Bewilderment that it even happened, a huge pit in my stomach thinking about the number of people that must've died when the towers came down (the news stations were saying the towers could hold as many as 50k people on a normal business day IIRC), the sense of booming pride and "let's kill every one of those fuckers" listening to GWB's "I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you" speech from Ground Zero, the eeriness of not seeing any planes in the sky, and so on.

[svauto-erotic855]

Another unfortunate issue about 9-11 is that the terrorist have won.

They spent a few hundred grand and in response we spent a few trillion. Militant Islam almost did not exist in any functional form before 9-11 and today they control large swaths of the world.