OT: Never Forget

Whats eiree is that the weather is exactly the same today as 11 years ago. Cool crisp morning with not a cloud in the sky. I remember 11 years ago this morning jogging in Hoboken at 6;00 am looking at the WTC and thinking what a perfect morning it was. Who would have known that 4 hours later I would be standing outside 4 blocks away watching them fall and then running away from the wall of smoke and debris. Never forget this day nor those who perished.

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Never forget this day

I understand the whole thing but I don't understand this sentiment.

We need to remember all those innocent folks who died that day, and this brazen attack on U.S. soil.

kworst- Funny you say that about the weather out East because here in WI the weather is identical too (sunny, crisp, beautiful) and I literally just made that comment to my wife because I remember thinking the same thing in 2001.


Tdog-Not sure if this is what you're asking...but I feel we never forget this day because I think it is human nature as the years pass to forget the magnitude of what happeneded on this day 12 years ago. I don't think people do it intentially to be insensitive to those who lost their lives, and like I said it's just human nature, that's why we are constantly remembered to never forget. It was an evil day in the World's history, and specifically American history, and it needs to always be remembered as such. Don't forget the heroes of that day and since as well.

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Originally posted by YATittle:
We need to remember all those innocent folks who died that day, and this brazen attack on U.S. soil.

We also need to remember the 360+ FDNY and NYPD that died trying to get people out. Those men and women were true heroes. Throw in the countless numbers of FDNY and NYPD who now have cancer and other illnesses resulting from the rescue and clean up. If you don't want to cling to the event or dwell on it, that's fine, but it's important to remember and honor those that died trying to rescue those innocent civilians.

I will never forget it as I'm sure most won't. Once the 2nd plane hit the cascading events were frightening and nobody knew just where it would end. Most of us were at work, nearly every news related web site was down.

I wish the aftermath of that tragedy had turned out better. The nation was unified but unfortunately some chose to capitalize on the collective fear of the country.

At least we can now say Bin Laden is dead.

National geographic channel had a great program - 9/11: The Fireman's Story. Learned so much about those heros. Must see. Thanks, GD.

As well as our soldiers fighting the beheading crucifying fascists ever since.

I was still a while from joining TimesFour, but I got a lot of first hand info from following the thread as a lurker. I really wish it was still available... it was in the archive for a while, but then it vanished.

God bless the men and women serving, both internationally in the military and domestic in police/fire/EMS, for their selfless acts.

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Originally posted by kworst:
Whats eiree is that the weather is exactly the same today as 11 years ago. Cool crisp morning with not a cloud in the sky. I remember 11 years ago this morning jogging in Hoboken at 6;00 am looking at the WTC and thinking what a perfect morning it was. Who would have known that 4 hours later I would be standing outside 4 blocks away watching them fall and then running away from the wall of smoke and debris. Never forget this day nor those who perished.

Same here. It happened on a Tuesday, if I recall correctly, right? Nice morning. I remember standing waiting for the bus as the sun was rising a little higher in a partly cloudy sky.

Then I got to work and saw on TV screen (across the room) a building with smoke pouring out and up. I asked my student employee, "what happened" and she said a plane flew into the WTC. I thought "hmmm, must have been a small plane." Then she said two planes flew into the buildings. At that time I knew was something bad and big was happening.

I watched almost all of it that morning at work.

I was so clueless at first. When someone mentioned to me a plane crashed into the WTC my first thought was that the pilot must have been an idiot. When the 2nd plane hit, then I was really confused. When the report of the pentagon being on fire due to a plane crash came out, I think we all knew that this was truly a nation at war. We just didn't know who we were at war with.

In terms of some of the 911 documentaries that have come out over the years, maybe the most moving thing I've ever seen is where they play a recording of one of the Fire Department dispatcher calls. Right after the towers fell, over the radio, he frantically starts calling different Fire Dept. divisions and trucks and asks what their statuses are... nobody answers because they have all been killed. Still gets me to this day. Even just typing it out right now I have some tears welling up.

Who could forget? X4 was also a big part of that horrible day as it was the only website I could access to get news updates.

The people on flight 93 prevented us from having to shoot down that plane.

I never watch TV in the morning, so Timesfour was my first indication that anything was going on. The days after were kind of weird knowing that nothing was flying around over head.

Let's keep this thread to the memories of the lives lost... there are sites available if you want to discuss other topics from that day.

I was there so there won't be any chance of forgetting.

Back to the topic at hand...

All I know is that there is a pre-9/11 world and a post-9/11 world. Forgetting 9/11 would be like forgetting to breathe. The repercussions are everywhere you look.

Went to Ground Zero a few months back...didn't expect it to hit me as hard as it did. Of particular sadness, saw this woman probably in her 80's in a wheelchair, someone had wheeled her up to the reflecting pool and all she did was rub a name with her hand over and over. Was there over an hour.

When she left, she left a pink flower on the name so I snapped a picture. "Moving" is an understatement.

How about I move this thread to the lounge

Sure, Boris.

Thank you all for your posts.

My sister resides in NYC. She was on her morning bus commute when the city dispatcher came on the air and requested a moment of silence... thought that was pretty cool.

Times Four was the only website I could get information from. CNN crashed for about an hour.