9/11

[CamG]

What about this day just stokes the fire that has burned since that day!
I can not stop being angry or want to see guilty repay!
I am not a hateful person but it feels like it was yesterday all I could muster was a thirst for justice boarding on revenge which is not a place I want to go.
Those lives lost in the tower were fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles,children, families who will never be the same.
Some things in life never change or go away even when we wish we could just stop and hit the rewind and start over.

Just as lost today as that morning and even more for the families of those left behind.
In our hearts the fires burn everyday!
Not enough is all I feel, enough tears, not enough.
We move on scared trying to believe in a better world for our children.

To those at home and abroad securing freedom I am greatly indebted and offer thanks and gratitude.
To the police and fireman I feel the same while hell was burning they ran into the flames to save others not worrying about there own safety.
On that day we saw as a nation the worst of people and the absolute best the human condition has to offer!
The memorials are poignant reminder but we only have to close our eyes to see what has become 9/11!

I hope and pray in the future our children's children never forget the lessons we have learned and this history never repeats itself!
To the members who lost loved ones, I am so very sorry for your lose!
I know no words will bring peace but know today and everyday our arms are around you!
We grieve with you.

CamG:depressed:

 

[DA Aquamaster]

I had similar thoughts in the shower this morning - 11 years ago and it seems like yesterday in some respects.

I agree that the actions on that day represented the best and the worst of what it is to be human, but my anger mostly lies in the incredibly poor response our government made and the ensuing decade of sacrifice still being imposed on military members and their families as well as the crippling debt still being imposed on all Americans, all to no real or positive effect.

We can conclude that we clearly do not learn from history, or perhaps we could conclude that we've learned wll from the past and that our foreign policy is more about making money than it is about achieving any larger or more permanent goals in the public/national interest.

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Jeremy Vrooman
Killed in Action July 15, 2008, Kn’an, Diyala Province, Iraq
Operation Iraqi Freedom

 

[Bratface]

I was living near by the Pentagon on that day. We were in a meeting when it was quietly interrupted and the news was told to all of us. We are nurses. All of the younger women began to cry and the older women just shook their heads and held the younger ones. The room was filled with overwhelming sadness. We then prepared to receive injured people, but none came. There were no survivors.

I remember sitting on the beach a year later. I was talking to this Canadian woman when her husband joined us and the conversation turned to September 11. This man said to me, "don't you think Americans are being over sensitive?" I told him what I thought and told him to go to hell. He was a fireman. I couldn't believe it. I refused to talk to him after that and his wife told him to get up and leave us alone. She was just as astonished by his stupid, insensitive reply as I was.

Healing takes time. The memories of that horrible day will stay with all of us forever. You have to let go of the anger for healing to begin. That day took too many innocent citizens in the most unthinkable way by some crazy terrorists. We, as Americans, can never forget. It can never happen again. I, too, am thankful for the men and women serving and protecting our country.

 

[DandyDon]

My memories from 11 years ago have faded some, and I hate that. I was on Roatan Is, Honduras for my first international dive trip, turned on my room TV and saw the news coverage about the tower crash. I was watching the scene live when the second plane hit. It was so unreal, and I felt so detached being so far away. It was odd that all of us still went on with the day's dive plans, but at least we were together - altho unable to speak about the attacks. We did two dives that morning, had the afternoon off, so went back to our rooms to turn on the TVs and see if the news had straightened it out yet - only to learn it had gotten worse.

Again, being so far away and then unable to get back even if we felt it appropriate to try, we just sit it out on the island, in shock over the news, useless - so we just went back to the daily dive plans. So weird. Fortunately none of us got hurt that week and needed an air ambulance return to the US - which I have seen a couple of times since. I think that emergency flights were still allowed, but the chaos was so great - I'd hate to have tried to get one. At the end of the week we were supposed to all leave on Saturday, but of course that was impossible as TACA still was not allowed to fly in the US yet. TACA did get cleared to fly to the US after that cancellation, but we had to fly to El Salvador first and overnight there - something I was very hesitant about, but they actually took good care of us, getting us to a nice hotel and back to the airport for the continued return on Monday.

 

[DennisS]

I was in Hawaii at the time, I got up and turned on the TV. I thought it was trailer for a movie when I first saw the buildings going down, then it hit me. Flights had already been grounded but there were some enroute to Hawaii that couldn't turn around. Everything felt unreal, it was far away and several time zone in front of us. It became real when you realized what those fighter planes escorting the commercial flights into Hawaii were there for.

 

[EastTNDiver]

I was under a self-imposed lock-down in my office trying to finish up an intense project. I took a break, and walked in to our break room just in time to see the second plane hit. I remember that scene like it was yesterday. Because of the ensuing confusion and rumors of additional air attacks, the first thing I did was call my wife and have her take our son out of school. My first thought was that they would then go after the "every day" sites...common places people visit on a daily basis as just a part of living in our country. It was weeks before I stopped "expecting" something else everyday.

 

[DandyDon]

NBC News Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence On 'Today'

 

[dmoore19]

I was preparing to go to work. I was drinking a cup of coffee and watching a bit of news before leaving. There was live video of the first tower that was hit and commentators surmising what had just happened. It had my attention as I thought about the people in the building. As I watched intently, the second plane came into view crashing into the second building. I watched for a few minutes trying to understand what I had seen. I left for work, it was about a 4 hour drive to the site. As I recall most if not all of the radio stations soon picked up coverage of the events. The memories are very vivid. My pickup broke down on the way to work and I was forced to wait for parts until the next day. Luckily I had a friend that lived in the town where my pickup broke down and spent the night with him. We watched the reports late into the night. Unrelated part of the story is that my friend died a few weeks later, it was the last time I got to spend time with him.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

I was on afternoon shift that week and was awakened by a call from my ex wife. She told me to turn the TV on. I saw the second plane hit and knew we were now at war. And we will be until every Al Quiada, Taliban, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and all the other cowards are dead and rotting in hell. I will be angry, I will not forget, and I damn sure will not forgive. Their god can forgive the basturds if it so chooses. I just want us to keep arranging the personal audience with it for those sub human scumbags. I imagine they will be surprised when it turns out to be a woman. And all those virgins are well equipped wild boars that are horney and not taking on the female role, If you know what I mean. I imagine Osama's soul is screaming right now and it makes me smile.

 

[Blackwood]

I was packing up my hotel room to fly home from cancun. Finally made it three days later by flying into Tijuana and walking across the border. I also saw the second plane hit live, and both towers fall. It's something I'll never forget.