2008 September 11th remembrance thread

[dmc]

9/11 still hits home for many many people and it will for a long long time.

A couple weeks after 911 I flew to Arizona to meet a friend and spend some time on his boat on Lake Powell...
On the way there - we stopped at a Burger King on an Indian Res...

The place was decked out with 911 stuff... Boots from firemen to put donations in... Little paper flags for donations..

I put some cash into a boot and bought a few flags.. The woman behind the counter thanked me for helping all the people affected.. My friend told her that I was within sight of the WTC attack and lost friends, etc... She just walked around the counter and came up to me and hugged me... We both just sobbed... It was amazing.. She wanted me to take my money back.. i refused.. And thanked her..

It was an amazing moment...

 

[dmc]

I came across this story today. Pretty interesting and sad at the same time...

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/biggart_intro.htm

wow - poignant

 

[bigbog]

Where the F did that come from?

We will never move on... We must always remember ALL the people that died that day..

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting. Realllly misunderstood what I posted..
9/11 for a single occurrance was the largest loss, but that number of people has more than doubled since our occupations began...with Washington spindoctors proclaiming that short term successes will lead to successful strategy...lol. = Two 9/11s = I hope everyone's happy that we've bombed somebody...too bad it has taken so long to identify the right targets.

 

[billski]

In history classes we were always taught that our parents/grandparents would always remember where they were when they heard about Pearl Harbor or JFK's assassination.

My mother, rest her soul, said that 9/11 was much scarier than Pearl Harbor because it was so damn close. That those terrorists walked the same steps we did days before. Nobody is safe any longer.

 

[dmc]

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting. Realllly misunderstood what I posted..
9/11 for a single occurrance was the largest loss, but that number of people has more than doubled since our occupations began...with Washington spindoctors proclaiming that short term successes will lead to successful strategy...lol. = Two 9/11s = I hope everyone's happy that we've bombed somebody...too bad it has taken so long to identify the right targets.

"This is a very complicated case. You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder's head. Luckily I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug regiment to keep my mind limber."

 

[dmc]

My mother, rest her soul, said that 9/11 was much scarier than Pearl Harbor because it was so damn close. That those terrorists walked the same steps we did days before. Nobody is safe any longer.

yup. Close.. I could see it from my street. freaky..

I personally think we're safer now.. You can't get in a cockpit anymore thats a huge move.

I get on a plane almost every week.... I hope it's safer.

 

[Greg]

yup. Close.. I could see it from my street. freaky..

You know how pics/video never do live witnessing of things "justice"? Well, I watched a documentary of 9/11 this weekend with some unique footage I haven't seen before, and the it was a staggering thing to watch. I can only imagine what it was like for people in downtown Manhattan that day. The scale of actually what happened is difficult to fully comprehend unless you were there.

 

[bvibert]

You know how pics/video never do live witnessing of things "justice"? Well, I watched a documentary of 9/11 this weekend with some unique footage I haven't seen before, and the it was a staggering thing to watch. I can only imagine what it was like for people in downtown Manhattan that day. The scale of actually what happened is difficult to fully comprehend unless you were there.

The pics in that link I posted above kinda was like that for me. It's pretty powerful when you realize the guy captured scenes that in some cases were only seen before by people who died that day.

 

[jaja111]

I've had to let the anniversary just go by having been consumed with the new duties associated with bringing a newborn home, but there was one moment 3 days ago.... I was just sitting with him and flipping through the cable channels. I came upon something on the History Channel and it showed the moment the second plane hit the towers. As I welled up with tears,I looked down at my son, new to this world, and shuddered for one brief second thinking it was maybe an unjust thing to have opened his door on life here with all the other cruel monkeys... but realized quickly that it was the right thing, the needed thing to do, because I will raise him to be a good man... another man who would see this as I do with disgust and a yearning for a just and peaceful world... another man to carry the fire so to speak.

 

[Greg]

I've had to let the anniversary just go by having been consumed with the new duties associated with bringing a newborn home, but there was one moment 3 days ago.... I was just sitting with him and flipping through the cable channels. I came upon something on the History Channel and it showed the moment the second plane hit the towers. As I welled up with tears,I looked down at my son, new to this world, and shuddered for one brief second thinking it was maybe an unjust thing to have opened his door on life here with all the other cruel monkeys... but realized quickly that it was the right thing, the needed thing to do, because I will raise him to be a good man... another man who would see this as I do with disgust and a yearning for a just and peaceful world... another man to carry the fire so to speak.

Nice words. And congrats.

 

[Glenn]

You know how pics/video never do live witnessing of things "justice"? Well, I watched a documentary of 9/11 this weekend with some unique footage I haven't seen before, and the it was a staggering thing to watch. I can only imagine what it was like for people in downtown Manhattan that day. The scale of actually what happened is difficult to fully comprehend unless you were there.

Was that the one on the History Channel where they took all the footage from regular folks and stitched it together? No commentary, just what the camera holder and others were saying...and the clock they put on the screen ever so often.

If so...I watched that last year or the year before. It was excellent. An amazing account of how things happened. It was powerful.

 

[o3jeff]

Was that the one on the History Channel where they took all the footage from regular folks and stitched it together? No commentary, just what the camera holder and others were saying...and the clock they put on the screen ever so often.

If so...I watched that last year or the year before. It was excellent. An amazing account of how things happened. It was powerful.

I watched that one for the first time the other night.

 

[Greg]

Was that the one on the History Channel where they took all the footage from regular folks and stitched it together? No commentary, just what the camera holder and others were saying...and the clock they put on the screen ever so often.

If so...I watched that last year or the year before. It was excellent. An amazing account of how things happened. It was powerful.

That's it. Some of the footage was just from people in their apartments and their reactions. Those people that that had to make the choice to jump to their death versus burning alive is still one of the most eery aspects of that day. In one scene you can see a firefighter follow someone falling with his eyes and then he jumped back when the person hit with a look of disgust and utter sadness. Really powerful stuff.

 

[dmc]

I sopped watching those shows after I saw one where the guy was trying to get out and you could hear the bodies hitting the ground.. Just too much for me..

 

[deadheadskier]

I'm not sure I'd want to watch this particular video being discussed. Not sure I necessarily need to to appreciate the magnitude of it.

 

[dmc]

I saw bodies fall with my binoculars that day... I don't EVER have to relive that in any way shape or form

 

[drjeff]

I saw bodies fall with my binoculars that day... I don't EVER have to relive that in any way shape or form

I see those videos and it just shakes me to my core. Even though my house is over 100 miles away as the bird flys from NYC, I saw the towers for the last time from the Veranzano Bridge on Sept 9 as my wife and I were driving home from seeing my brother who lived in Philly at that time. I never want to feel that amount of emptiness again, but what I do hope happens again,is the unfortunately short lived, sense of unity that this country had soon thereafter :flag:

 

[SkiDork]

re: Fire vs. Jumping

I had always wondered why anyone would choose jumping instead of running into a fire. After all, if you're fast enough maybe you can make it out of the fire on the other side...

Well, a few years ago I was at the Snow Nymphs ski house for their annual May party. They traditionally build a huge bonfire. I happened to pass next to that and I felt the intense heat. I immediately started tearing up, as I finally realized that neither choice was any good. I guess jumping is ultimately less painful.

 

[dmc]

I see those videos and it just shakes me to my core. Even though my house is over 100 miles away as the bird flys from NYC, I saw the towers for the last time from the Veranzano Bridge on Sept 9 as my wife and I were driving home from seeing my brother who lived in Philly at that time. I never want to feel that amount of emptiness again, but what I do hope happens again,is the unfortunately short lived, sense of unity that this country had soon thereafter :flag:

When I'm driving around NYC - especially the NJ Turnpike I sometimes glance at the skyline and I swear for a brief moment i see the towers.. I guess it's was just so ingrained into my brain that the shadow remains..

 

[4aprice]

When I'm driving around NYC - especially the NJ Turnpike I sometimes glance at the skyline and I swear for a brief moment i see the towers.. I guess it's was just so ingrained into my brain that the shadow remains..

The skyline just seems so incomplete no matter how many times you look at it. I have worked alot on the Jersey City water front and still can't get used to it. I saw the towers from Rt 46 in Mountain Lakes the morning of the attack before they were hit. That last image remains in my mind.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ