Can we stop for a moment to remember 9/11?

[BadDaddy4007]

I remember.

So should we all, no matter who we are. Thanks.

 

[UntamedRose]

 

[Eranda13]

I remembered to put my US flag out today.... Strange no one does that anymore.

kena, I have had my flag flying in front of my house 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year since 9/11/01. I replace them often so they are always bright and in good shape. I have gone through dozens of flags at this point.

Thanks everyone for this thread

 

[thewrightstuff]

As a new yorker, I remember it each and every day. I was lucky enough to be away from Manhattan that day, although I could have easily been there, as the Firm I worked for at the time had offices downtown and on Long Island. Since my wife was pregnant at the time, I was working on Long Island. Watched the whole thing from start to finish as it happened in shock. I was just there the Friday before at a meeting with Cantor Fitzgerald, I was in software development at the time, and we were doing a joint venture with them. They were so proud of their stature so high up in the buildings. I had been to countless meetings and events at windows on the world. I was very lucky to have no close friends or relatives die that day, but there were some business associates and acquaintances, the weeks following, the wakes, the funerals. It is all still vivid. Even worse are the 3 friends that I have that were first responders and have passed on in the last few years from all kinds of ugly cancers, from breathing in that dust.

I wanted to go and help that day, but my wife, being pregnant, was so scared that something would happen to me. I went about a week later and could not believe it.

still cant.

 

[Vapolith]

I will not, I can not forget that day. I was off work and I kept my ringer off on my phone at night. Checked my answering machine when I got up and my friend Bill had called and just said "Turn on your TV." Spent most of the day staring at the TV in shock and horror.

 

[mommafish]

May we never see a day like that again

 

[WarHawk-AVG]

Tear of Grief, Bayonne, NJ

WOW...

Didn't even know this existed till a few minutes ago
http://www.911monument.com/

 

[bhswmc01]

I was a few weeks into my student teaching semester - was assigned to a high school in Missoula, MT. Was eating breakfast and saw the second plane hit. Puked up breakfast, got in the car, turned off the radio, and went to school. My kids told me about the Pentagon when I got there...thought they were kidding at first. The classroom I was teaching in didn't have a TV, so we listened to the radio in silence most of the day, while I consoled kids who couldn't get a hold of family in NYC. The last period of the day, the kids asked, "Can we just do something normal?", so we played theatre games. The next few weeks were the hardest of my life, and are probably a main reason why I chose not to go into teaching after I graduated.