9/11 - Never Forget

JohnInCarolina

22 years ago today.  Hitting me harder this year than it has in the most recent past.  Perhaps because it's a Monday, and a beautiful day outside.  Like many of you I'll never forget where I was that day, the bravery of the first responders, the innocent lives lost, or how the country came together in response.  

I will reflect more tonight, perhaps with a bit of brown water, in remembrance of that day twenty two years ago.  For now I'll leave you with an image from the Pentagon this morning:

lkapigian

The Tragedy that United This Country, we all need to be mindful that We Are All In This Together 

lousubcap

Seared in me.  I will never forget and never forgive.  

It changed dang near everything, and not for the better. 

22 years on-a whole generation and more have come of age not knowing a different perspective than post 9/11. 

At some point in your time here you need to visit the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.   https://www.911memorial.org/  Very powerful. 

Edit to add the following article:

https://dnyuz.com/2023/09/11/the-343-reasons-a-small-town-in-ireland-mourns-on-sept-11/

caliking

It took this monumental tragedy for Americans to show their true mettle. We must always bear this in mind. 

GrateEggspectations

Even as a Canadian, the impact was profound. We were taken from our classrooms and led into a common area to watch the live reporting. Saw the impact of the second plane in real-time. Horrific. 

Mark_B_Good

Most people around the world that are over the age of 30 will remember exactly where they were that day, and how they received the news ... that's how impactful it was.

I believe what came out that day is that there is real evil out there, and we must stand united against it. In the end, we get to debate first-world issues, only because others have sacrificed ... and we shouldn't undermine their sacrifice.

ColbyLang

22 years ago I was sitting in a chair. Chemo IV in my medi port as the second plane hit the building. Never forget, won’t ever forgive. 

This memorial made me very somber this morning as I was delivering to a buddy’s pizza place. Downtown in my hometown. Lafayette, Louisiana 

lousubcap

Fuel for the never to be extinguished fire:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/full-moon-over-twin-towers-ron-eckert.html 

Gulfcoastguy

Yes it was a clear day and I was at my computer trying to finalize a project. There was some noise from the conference room and the television was on. My feelings and beliefs about, many of which would surprise people, have to many third rails for this subforum.

NJ_BBQ

I really miss seeing these lights in the sky. They should have remained a permanent part of the memorial.

Ybabpmuts

I was at home in my butlers pantry developing a functional test, stress test, and performance test harness for a web application. My boss called and told me I should stop working and go watch the TV. That's all he said. I spent the rest of that day in shock, staring at the TV, watching the second plane hit the tower, then watching them collapse. As everybody already stated, the sheer horror of the lives lost and the terror they must have felt, the families that had been devastated within minutes, but also the horror that people can be so filled with so much hate in their hearr to do that to their fellow "man", horrific, let alone the twisted evil that someone has to have in their heart to even hatch such an attack as that.

I'll never forget that day,


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Battleborn

The event that changed the trajectory of my life, like so many others. I woke up to go to school right after the first plane and was eating some cereal when the second hit. 

Ozzie_Isaac

I heard about the first plane one the radio heading into class.  Nobody knew what it was and local news kept talking about an accident.

Then I got to class and the professor had the projector playing the news on a giant screen in an auditorium.  We all watched the 2nd plane hit.  Stunned silence.  Then murmmering, then I don't remember.  Next thing I remember is walking blankly to my truck.  Then sitting in a bar with friends.  Mixture of WTFs, crying, anger, confusion, etc.  That whole time is just an emotional blur.

RRP

I was in my office with my door closed as I was feverously working on my initial annual budget presentation for the next night. My secretary knocked on my door and said something like "you need to see this"...

RRP

RRP said:

I was in my office with my door closed as I was feverously working on my initial annual budget presentation for the next night. My secretary knocked on my door and said something like "you need to see this"...

And here in "fly over country" little did I know that one of my wife's beloved and QUITE brilliant students was one who died in the first building brought down. 

Ybabpmuts

Sorry Ron. That sucks, long time ago but you never forget something like that.

Ozzie_Isaac

RRP said:

RRP said:

I was in my office with my door closed as I was feverously working on my initial annual budget presentation for the next night. My secretary knocked on my door and said something like "you need to see this"...

And here in "fly over country" little did I know that one of my wife's beloved and QUITE brilliant students was one who died in the first building brought down. 

It is amazing how many people this has effected and also over so many years on so many levels.  It just brings immense sadness to me.

lousubcap

It's one thing to be fighting a war and the known potential outcomes, quite another to realize that you have been attacked without warning leading to the deaths of 2,977 innocent people on a Tuesday morning in New York and Shanksville, PA. 

F'em, F'em all.  No quarter given, then, now and always! 

SamIAm2

We should also remember the Pentagon. Thought the heroes of United flight 93 spared the Capitol building from the final planned terrorist attack. 

hondabbq

One thing that always sticks with me, is the countless people who took their own fate in their hands and jumped. All of it was a terrible thing to see either as it was playing out or videos and pictures after, but to see those that jumped give me the chills. 
There was a doc on Netflix about it and they were following a fire chief into the towers. they commented that all the banging above was people landing after choosing their fate.  I almost puked when he said that.