Never forget.

[AMC RULES 37,130]

 

 

 

[JoeM 7,873]

Yes, never forgot!

[Pullstart 62,834]

[953 nut 55,188]

[WHX?? 48,814]

[SylvanLakeWH 25,535]

[pfrederi 17,723]

[rmaynard 15,434]

I'll never forget. However, my local paper seems to have all but forgotten. One small mention on page 7. After visiting the crash site of Flight 93, and listening to the actual recordings of the last words of passengers hoping to talk to loved ones back home before the plane crashed, has given me a mental image that I will never forget.

[davem1111 2,030]

Like many others, I remember exactly where I was the morning of 9/11/2001. I was working in a Data Center in Devon, PA, and when the news started coming in, everyone stopped working and congregated in the break room where there was a TV showing what was happening. We were all speechless. It's still hard to believe that all really happened. What a crazy world we live in.

 

A few years later I was doing some work for the NYC Housing Authority, which had offices next door to where the WTC was. From the windows on about the 5th floor, you could see down into the hole that was left when they cleaned out all the debris. Very sad and touching.  I took some time to walk through the memorial they had put up near there.  

 

[Mickwhitt 4,612]

I was at work in a police station in Sheffield when the news started to come in. I remember a colleague running into our office and saying something like "they've declared war on America" and we all went to the break room to watch the story unfold.. 

I'm a tough guy but when the towers came down I cried at the utter madness of this crime. I still can't watch the planes hit without crying now. 

I believe they declared war on humanity that day not just America.  

Never forget, thoughts are with you all on this day xx

[Stormin 9,981]

No, we shouldn't forget. Neither should we forget it wasn't just an attack on the US. There was so many different nationalities who lost their lives that day.

[formariz 11,987]

Never will be forgotten here. It is remembered everyday. 

 

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,297]

I was at work on the phone with Mrs. El and she said, " I am watching the morning news, and it looks like one of the towers is on fire "Oh my God a plane just crashed into the other tower " I'll call you back got to find out what is going on.  She called back and told me all the sad news.

[19richie66 17,500]

Sadly, like most important history it seems to get downplayed as time goes on. Definitely a day I will never forget. Remember it like yesterday. Also  remember the shuttle explosion like it just happened. 

[c-series don 8,688]

As I watched in disbelief that horrible morning, I couldn’t help but think what those people and my brother firemen must be going through. This morning at my firehouse we had our memorial service.I’ve now been a volunteer firefighter for over 35 years and this morning as I stood saluting the flag in full turnout gear I was trying to keep it together. When our fire whistle went off at 8:46, the time the first plane hit and the bell was ringing across the street at our community house I burst into tears. Let us never forget all those who so innocently lost their lives that day. God Bless America 🇺🇸 

[formariz 11,987]

On a personal basis it was a real bad day but also a lucky one. It changed my life for ever for it violated the country that embraced me, the city in which I made most of my livelihood and love, and the peace of mind which was so dear and treasured living here. The lucky part of it was that I was supposed to be in tower 2 that morning. Having been there the day before in an architects office picking up drawings, which were not ready, I was to go back there the next morning at around 10AM. However, that morning was a beautiful day, and since in my job I had total freedom of schedule and movement, I decided instead to travel to Pennsylvania to check on another shop which was doing work for us. Needless to say I did not inform anyone of it that morning leaving that for later that morning. Two thirds of the way to my destination I noticed that I lost all radio stations in van and cell phone did not work. Only when i got closer to destination I heard news in a local station which at first I thought it was a sick joke like it usually happened in a lot of morning shows. It was however real.I was not able to contact anyone for a couple of hours more. Found out then that everyone was going insane trying to locate me, since they knew I was supposed to be in the towers that morning. They called my wife looking for me which obviously was not a good thing to do, she being already in her classroom. It took until mid afternoon for me to be able to contact them. I got a very mixed collection of receptions anywhere from tears of joy to being cursed out for not informing anyone  of my decision that morning. A true stroke of luck for me in that respect in a otherwise catastrophic day.

[Mickwhitt 4,612]

Crikey Caz, someone was looking after you that day my friend! 

The world did change that day, it got uglier and a whole lot more unsafe.

I still hate travelling g to any city or site that may be considered a target, London is somewhere I will not visit, period. Call it over cautious but I'd rather not put myself in harms way unnecessarily.  

I know you can get killed crossing the road, but keeping away from likely targets makes sense to me.

Those poor folk involved in 911 had no choice, no notion that they would become targets of a twisted ideology that places zero value on human life, not even that of its followers. 

God bless America x

[stevebo-(Moderator) 8,330]

Always a sobering day especially watching documentary on tv re that day… 

[Handy Don 12,212]

I was a mile or so uptown of the WTC working. Upon hearing the earliest news, many of us went down to the street to where we could look downtown and see the fire in the first tower. Lots of bad luck, we thought. Then we went back to work.

After the second strike, the situation’s scope started to dawn on us and we decided we’d done enough work for the day. As we left we could see both towers afire. Gut punch.

My daughter’s high school farther uptown called me and insisted that a parent or guardian come and collect students who’d normally travel to and from school on their own. I went and was asked to also escort home the daughter of a neighbor who worked at the WTC and hadn’t been heard from. The day ended safely for us and for my neighbor friend--his much shorter adjacent building had evacuated completely before the tower collapsed and severely damaged it. He walked several miles before finding transportation home. Other neighbors and friends never came home.

A couple of weeks later, I went downtown to get as close as I was allowed. Something you cannot get from pictures, video, or audio was the smell of the still-burning “Pile”. That memory is etched in my brain.

Edited September 12, 2023 by Handy Don

[peter lena 8,609]

@AMC RULES  can relate , my father was was a  NYC FIREMAN , SPANISH HARLEM  30 YEARS , 17 TRUCK / RESCUE  retired / disability . very glad he did not see it , he would have been there to help in any way he could . a sad day for the world as well , and a verification of the  insanity thats a regular thing now .  we used to regularly go into the city , for all of its incredible  availabilities, we were about a  25 min drive out, a sad day indeed , Pete  

[Zeek 2,286]

I'm a little late to this post since I was out of town, but here are some first hand photos to bring it into perspective . . .

Edited September 13, 2023 by Zeek

[rmaynard 15,434]

Did you take these pictures? Wow, some great perspective I've never seen before. Thanks for sharing.

[Zeek 2,286]

On 9/14/2023 at 7:03 AM, rmaynard said:

Did you take these pictures? Wow, some great perspective I've never seen before. Thanks for sharing.

I didn't take them personally but got them directly from colleagues that were there that took them. I got them on a couple of DVD's so there are too many to share, but those were some of the highlights so to speak. There are more graphic ones as well, but they are not for general public posting.

Edited September 16, 2023 by Zeek