7 yrs...

Allie

it's hard to believe it's been that long. It doesn't seem like it.

my thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family members of those who were lost...

the wolf

Allie wrote:

it's hard to believe it's been that long. It doesn't seem like it.

my thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family members of those who were lost...

as are mine. its too bad that it has become such a political booster for a certain party.

they treat it like a national holiday !!! makes me sick.

anyway. yeah, i have been watching and reading about it all day. i still get the sick feeling when i think about it, just like that morning.

Allie

the wolf wrote:

as are mine. its too bad that it has become such a political booster for a certain party.

they treat it like a national holiday !!! makes me sick.

anyway. yeah, i have been watching and reading about it all day. i still get the sick feeling when i think about it, just like that morning.

both McCain and Obama are in the city. I believe they are both planning to be at the ceremony tomorrow?

I remember every single detail like it happened yesterday. It doesn't seem to me like that much time has passed, it went so fast. Where were you, wolfie?
I was at work in the city, but I worked uptown at the time. It was a scary day.



a friend of mine's brother died, he worked at Cantor Fitzgerald.

chiquimonkey

it's incredible to think so much time has passed, yet it doesn't seem like it. remember that day so vividly. my heart goes out to those who were lost and those who still suffer.

LONGRD

I still remember almost every minute of my life that day; where I was and what I did. I still can't believe all the events that happened that day, and still feel distress just thinking about it.

Allie

LongRd. wrote:

I still remember almost every minute of my life that day; where I was and what I did. I still can't believe all the events that happened that day, and still feel distress just thinking about it.

I'm sorry :(

jimed14

Allie wrote:

both McCain and Obama are in the city. I believe they are both planning to be at the ceremony tomorrow?

I remember every single detail like it happened yesterday. It doesn't seem to me like that much time has passed, it went so fast. Where were you, wolfie?
I was at work in the city, but I worked uptown at the time. It was a scary day.



a friend of mine's brother died, he worked at Cantor Fitzgerald.

Both presidential candidates will speak ... but not be on the stage at the same time.

I was working in Boston for a company with NYC offices, one of which was in the WTC .... lost 11 co-workers, one of which was on flight 11. So many feelings I can't even type them out.

My thoughts go out to all the families and friends that are hurting on this anniversary.

fuck

I remember that day, minute by minute. I have a friend who's dad actually died that day, and guess what, he was muslim! yep, muslims also died on 9/11. hard to believe, I know.

Allie

jimed14 wrote:

Both presidential candidates will speak ... but not be on the stage at the same time.

I was working in Boston for a company with NYC offices, one of which was in the WTC .... lost 11 co-workers, one of which was on flight 11. So many feelings I can't even type them out.

My thoughts go out to all the families and friends that are hurting on this anniversary.

whoa :( I didn't know that. I'm sorry.

the wolf

i slept on the couch the night b4 for some reason. i woke up and the tv was on, it was right after the second plane.

i remember just being shocked. when the first tower fell, i remember actually crying out and sitting down because i felt like i was going to pass out.

my drummer was staying with us at the time, i didnt even know he was in the house. he woke up a few hours later and came out asking what was going on. i filled him in really quick as we walked up to the store to get beer.

i remember it being like a ghost town here in cincinnati, because everything just stopped.

i also remember telling my friend on the walk back home, that "this was it, everything would change from here on out".

Allie

the wolf wrote:

i slept on the couch the night b4 for some reason. i woke up and the tv was on, it was right after the second plane.

i remember just being shocked. when the first tower fell, i remember actually crying out and sitting down because i felt like i was going to pass out.

my drummer was staying with us at the time, i didnt even know he was in the house. he woke up a few hours later and came out asking what was going on. i filled him in really quick as we walked up to the store to get beer.

i remember it being like a ghost town here in cincinnati, because everything just stopped.

i also remember telling my friend on the walk back home, that "this was it, everything would change from here on out".

that's for sure.
I had just gotten to work and I saw the smoke when I was looking down 2nd Avenue but I didn't know what it was.

My co-worker told me I didn't even believe her, I was like "what?"

and then my Mom like you had seen it on the Today show and she called me freaking out b/c she thought the whole city was under attack, and I was still like "huh?"

then I went to the conference room and I saw it on tv. I think everyone was in a combination of fear and shock.

I remember every detail of that day down to what I was wearing.

I'm a social worker and I was working in a hospital. They put us on like emergency duty and a bunch of us were in the ER talking to family members that came looking for their missing loved ones.

xavier mcdaniel

I worked across the Hudson River from the Trade Center in Jersey City. I might have in the area that morning had I worked nine to five. But I was in the shopping concourse six hours before going from the PATH train to the Subway, so even that is a little freaky to me.

the wolf

Allie wrote:

that's for sure.
I had just gotten to work and I saw the smoke when I was looking down 2nd Avenue but I didn't know what it was.

My co-worker told me I didn't even believe her, I was like "what?"

and then my Mom like you had seen it on the Today show and she called me freaking out b/c she thought the whole city was under attack, and I was still like "huh?"

then I went to the conference room and I saw it on tv. I think everyone was in a combination of fear and shock.

I remember every detail of that day down to what I was wearing.

I'm a social worker and I was working in a hospital. They put us on like emergency duty and a bunch of us were in the ER talking to family members that came looking for their missing loved ones.

god that must have been fucking horrible, seeing the family members coming in i mean. well the whole thing, but that............wow.

even watching all these things today and reading about it all day, its sometimes, like it didnt really happen. idk how to explain it. its so unreal, that in ways its almost like it didnt really happen.

Allie

the wolf wrote:

god that must have been horrible, seeing the family members coming in i mean. well the whole thing, but that............wow.

even watching all these things today and reading about it all day, its sometimes, like it didnt really happen. idk how to explain it. its so unreal, that in ways its almost like it didnt really happen.

I agree,
it did and does still feel surreal.

It was hard and so sad. They came with the pictures, like you know how you saw it on TV? They were going to every single hospital in the city. They kept up a wall where people had posted pictures outside the hospital for weeks afterwards.

I have to be grateful to God, I didn't work near there and it didn't affect me personally as it did those who worked in or near the towers.

I worked with someone who's friend's mother died, and the girl has an identical twin sister and today is their birthday. Could you even imagine?

the wolf

Allie wrote:

I agree,
it did and does still feel surreal.

It was hard and so sad. They came with the pictures, like you know how you saw it on TV? They were going to every single hospital in the city. They kept up a wall where people had posted pictures outside the hospital for weeks afterwards.

I have to be grateful to God, I didn't work near there and it didn't affect me personally as it did those who worked in or near the towers.

I worked with someone who's friend's mother died, and the girl has an identical twin sister and today is their birthday. Could you even imagine?

there are so many stories like that. i read something about a kid being born on sept 11th and his dad died that day, and how hard it is for the whole family.

very sad.

Allie

the wolf wrote:

there are so many stories like that. i read something about a kid being born on sept 11th and his dad died that day, and how hard it is for the whole family.

very sad.

whoa.

that's heavy.

or what about all those women who were pregnant, like that woman, what was her name? Lisa Beamer I think? The wife of that guy who led the passengers on the flight in PA. She was pregnant and he wasn't able to meet the baby. I can't even imagine stuff like that. I know several people who's birthday is today.

the wolf

Allie wrote:

whoa.

that's heavy.

or what about all those women who were pregnant, like that woman, what was her name? Lisa Beamer I think? The wife of that guy who led the passengers on the flight in PA. She was pregnant and he wasn't able to meet the baby. I can't even imagine stuff like that. I know several people who's birthday is today.

yeah. its all sad.

fucked up world we live in.

sponger

Of course, I couldn't feel worse for the victims and their families, but all of the attention that it still receives to this day just sort of reminds me of how good we Americans have it.

People who had to live through Beirut during the 1980's, for example, had to endure an insane level of stress from the violence there.

Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Africa in recent years also just kind of really puts things into a different perspective for me.

Of course, I don't pretend to be a "worldly" person, and I'm sure most if not all are well aware of what goes on beyond our borders, but I almost feel as though 9/11 happened because we as Americans had to pay our dues.

vedderfan10

Been watching all the shows on TV about 9/11 over the weekend.

I also remember every detail of that day (and I'm not trying to make this post about me, cuz it aint). Being on the west coast was strange...I woke up early that AM, around 630am or maybe a bit earlier. It was my 35th birthday and my hubby had a big day planne for me - and I always woke up early on my birthday. So, I flick on the TV to CNN and saw the 2nd plane hit the WTC...and at first I thought it was a movie, but then I realized that no, this was life going on...so I started yelling "Oh my god!", which woke up hubby in time to see the first tower fall...like, what the hell?

Afterwards, hubby went to work, because I wasn't in any mood to celebrate, it felt very wrong...and I went outside. We live across the water from an airport and it was SILENT outside. There weren't any birds chirping or crickets or anything...It was such a gorgeous sunny day and it was just so eerie outside.

So this weekend, I watched all these shows about what happened and what everyone went through and all the families and man, it's all so terrible...I really feel for the US on this "patriot day"...Huge empathy coming from this part of Canada to you folks tomorrow...

LONGRD

I don't think anybody mentioned this but we all owe a great gratitude to all the firefighters, police officers, and paramedics who were on the scene to support the people there.

jimed14

Vedderfan10 wrote:

Been watching all the shows on TV about 9/11 over the weekend.

I also remember every detail of that day (and I'm not trying to make this post about me, cuz it aint). Being on the west coast was strange...I woke up early that AM, around 630am or maybe a bit earlier. It was my 35th birthday and my hubby had a big day planne for me - and I always woke up early on my birthday. So, I flick on the TV to CNN and saw the 2nd plane hit the WTC...and at first I thought it was a movie, but then I realized that no, this was life going on...so I started yelling "Oh my god!", which woke up hubby in time to see the first tower fall...like, what the hell?

Afterwards, hubby went to work, because I wasn't in any mood to celebrate, it felt very wrong...and I went outside. We live across the water from an airport and it was SILENT outside. There weren't any birds chirping or crickets or anything...It was such a gorgeous sunny day and it was just so eerie outside.

So this weekend, I watched all these shows about what happened and what everyone went through and all the families and man, it's all so terrible...I really feel for the US on this "patriot day"...Huge empathy coming from this part of Canada to you folks tomorrow...

It's so odd at times talking about that day with people here on the west coast ... I went to work, had two meetings, the second was interrupted by a crying woman who told us what was going on ... online, all news agencies websites running slow ... down to the few tvs we had ... watching the collapses ... fleeing to the train to get out of Boston (my office looked over Logan airport, we were surrounded by a few federal buildings, you just had no idea what was going to happen, so yeah, we felt the need to leave Boston) ... all of this, before some of my friends on the west coast even woke up.

I usually don't even talk about it with them ... it's tough to make some of them really understand.