September 11, 2001
 

Please take a moment or two to remember those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. God Bless America!

Salem1912. Thank you for this post. I would just like to add, as we remember those who lost their lives on September 11 2001, let us also remember the family's left behind. God Bless America

sept 11
 

God Bless first responders and everyone affected by this horrible terrorist act.God Bless America.

Reviewed a bunch of 9-11-01 videos on youtube thia AM.

I saw this story last night on the news and it hit home.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...-memorial-nyc/

NEVER FORGET!

Thanks for posting this!

God Bless America

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Never forget. Have this decal on my TA and trucks. Has been a positive talking point at shows, gas stations etc.

Although I was never really affected by this I will never Forget what I was watching on the TV. I was in disbelief as to what was happening, thought it was some sort of joke. As I watched and realized this was real life. Saddness came upon my thoughts. Now my thoughts are with those affected by this, we did send supplies and our Hearts but that may not have been enough.

I am now a retired firefighter but was active when this event took place. I watched it unfold on TV but had to turn it off because I just couldn't watch it. Today was the first time I have watched some of the programs about it and it still gets to me. God bless all those who lost their lives and the families that have lost their loved ones.

Also remember that Benghazi was 10 years ago today.

Lest We Forget

I too will never forget watching this unfold on TV. I remember saying to myself, the world has changed forever on this day from here forward. I watched a video yesterday morning on survivors tell their story. Pretty sad. Rest in peace.

I can't think of too many things that has made me so sad and so angry at the same time. RIP

Always a sad day here, my Wife's brother died that day. Worked for Marsh Mclennan on the 97th floor of the North Tower. Marsh lost 295 people, every single person that worked there. Their offices covered the entire impact zone from floors 93-100. Basically a direct hit on their offices.
Had a wife and two children, one brother and three sisters. No remains ever recovered.

I still remember watching the news as the second plane hit the other tower. It is hard to believe it has been 21 years since that happened. The images of that day and everything that unfolded are still hard to watch. It was amazing to see how all Americans came together to help one another through the day/weeks/months/ years. That is the second time the world learned what it is like to wake a sleeping giant

I saw the site in April, if you haven’t see it, you can imagine it.

I was in Kosovo at Camp Bonsteel when it happened. I was in my office (I was the Battalion Motor Officer) trying to read on the internet what was happening while listening to AFN radio. I have never been so mad, sad and confused in my life as I was later that day. We had a Company Commander who had a sister that died that day in the North Tower.

My home town Memorial
 

This is set on the Highland Hills overlooking Sandy Hook bay.
You can see lower Manhattan from most of the coastal towns around where I lived. It is an emotional spot to visit.

https://www.monmouthcountyparks.com/page.aspx?ID=2495

Yea, my wife mentioned them today because she works for one of their subsidiaries.

My aunt flies for American Airlines. 2 weeks before that day she switched her schedule up because she had something going on. Well just about every person that made up the flight crew on AA11 she knew. Amy Sweeney was one of her best friends. A friend of mine growing up lost his uncle who was also from our town.

My aunt had flown out to San Diego the day before. I was working at a vendor assembling Mach 3 Turbo store displays (I worked for Gillette) and we learned a flight from Boston crashed in NYC. I knew my aunt flew BOS to LAX. I didn't learn until later it was that flight to LAX. Because of the phone lines being jammed we didn't learn that she had flown to SD the day before until much later in the day.

A few weeks later we had a gathering at my parents house and my aunt was there and she had pictures of the last trip she had taken with the crew of Flight 11 when they were in LA. She has major survivor guilt and she drinks a lot now. It has been very hard on her.

At the time I worked @ Putnam Investments, part of MM. We all watched it unfold at work. One co worker was on the plane.

That must have been brutal. My father also worked at Gillette (south boston) and when I finally got through to him he told me they were evacuating the Pru and he was heading home.

I was somewhere like Chelmsford where the vendor was and I worked until 4 or so. I remember driving home on 495 to Taunton and no plane in the sky, everyone on the road looking somber and feeling like WTF just happened.

Ironically, I live about 8 minutes to Sarasota Bradenton Airport and 6 minutes to Booker Elementary school which is where Air Force 1 and President Bush was that day.

One of my older maternal male cousins was training police officers in Kosovo when the attacks took place. A Marine sergeant came to his office to inform my cousin that he was supposed to meet an Air Force C-21A( Lear 35) for transportation to Frankfurt, Germany then a flight back to the U.S.. My cousin had worked with John O’Neill during his tenure with the FBI Counterterrorism task force in NYC. When he arrived back in NYC, he was whisked to a briefing with the current director of the task force. My cousin was in his office, which overlooked what had been World Trade Center Plaza, when the FBI director at the time, Louis Frehe called him and ordered him to D.C. After he arrived at FBI headquarters in D.C. Frehe briefed my cousin on what was taking place with the military response to 9/11 and what his duty would be. He( my cousin) was flown back to NYC to say goodbye to his wife and to get his shots current. That evening, he was flown back to Frankfurt, Germany where he boarded a military transport to Uzbekistan, where he would join up with a Special Forces team for infiltration into Afghanistan to work with the Northern Alliance fighters. He spent the next year “in country” before returning home. He still won’t talk about 9/11, but he knew from the start it was Al Qaeda.

i met some former northern alliance fighters at bagram in 2003. they sat us down on some mats, served us green tea, and we watched CNN footage of the US assault on Bagram from two years prior while they yelled "hoooah" at the TV screen. I will never forget that.