Remembering 911 20 Years Later

[AzScorpion]

It’s hard to believe it’s already been 20 years since that tragic day. Please take a moment to remember all those who died that day and those who risked their lives trying to save them. ??

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[GitRDone]

Thank you Dave for starting this thread. I agree it seems impossible that 2 decades have passed since this horrific event, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Here's to the fallen and the first responders, and let us pray we pass safely through this memorial anniversary.

 

[AzScorpion]

Thank you Dave for starting this thread. I agree it seems impossible that 2 decades have passed since this horrific event, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Here's to the fallen and the first responders, and let us pray we pass safely through this memorial anniversary.

What's sad Andrew is how the whole country came together that day. I've never seen anything like it! Now we're so divided I wish people would stop and remember 911 and what's really important. I think everyone will always remember where they were when they heard the news. I had just finished power washing a house and went home to change to meet my guys on another job. I called them and told them to all go home and was glued to the tv all day.

 

[Warlockez]

I was in 8th grade history class, Mr. Wishne. A kid ran in the room and told us to turn on the news. We turned it on in time to see the 2nd plane hit the tower. All classes sat and watched the news the rest of the day. I remember going home and not a plane in the sky (I used to watch the sky for planes). and all the gas stations being FULL with lines around the block. We even had stations raising the price of gas to MAJOR levels, $3 was average after the attacks in my area. Before that the lowest that I remember gas being was $.98 a gal. it was surreal to me, seeing the changes overnight,
I will never forget how quiet the skies were after that day.

 

[BladeRanger]

It’s hard to believe it’s already been 20 years since that tragic day. Please take a moment to remember all those who died that day and those who risked their lives trying to save them. ??

Thanks for starting the thread. I will always remember that day, 9/11. I did not have good sleep for days after that event.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Thanks for posting Dave,

I was on a cycling trip in the U.S. that terrible morning, on Martha’s Vineyard and later in the day in Wood’s Hole, MA. As I cycled up to Plymouth and Scituate over next couple of days, people barely spoke - no one seemed to smile. The only planes in the sky were the Air National Guard out of Joint Base Otis. It was strangely quiet as I road into Boston - hardly any traffic - Quincy Bay and Boston Harbor seemed deserted.

I went to see if I could book a train ticket to Toronto or Montreal to get back home - I think it was the Downtown Crossing station I went into and I couldn’t believe what I saw - Boston Police and Transit Police were everywhere down there, most of them in riot gear. The news channels were filled with tributes to the locals who had flown out of Logan a few days earlier. The people on the street all had the same strange look on their faces - one of grief, mixed with anger. Boston was not the same as in previous visits.

I attended a candlelight vigil in the Boston Common that night. No one spoke, people just showed up as others passed around candles. After taking a few moments in silence, people would pass their candle to another and move aside. There was not a dry eye in the crowd that gathered and the only sound you heard was the occasional sniffle.

I had my American friends, neighbours and relatives in my heart that night just as I do today. ??

 

[Fawnbuster]

I was in South Bend IN Treading water for an hour while we practiced drowning rescues in the University of Notre Dame deep pool. 1st day of a 5 day fast water rescue school. Beepers started going off all over the place...

 

[Bob902]

As Dave said, it was a horrible day. But, we were united. All you saw on tv was Americans helping Americans. Since that dsy, our politicians have done nothing good for us and continue to divide us every day. We need to get back to being united as Americans and tell the politicians, who only care about themselves, to F off.

 

[LagoCJ]

Dave, thanks for starting this channel. I agree that regardless of interest, background, politics, religion...that terrible day brought us all together with a single thought and single purpose.

I had been a police officer and paramedic in my early career, but left to pursue a career in high tech. My new life took me to IBM and Boston, where I sat in my office on 9/11 thinking it was just a Tuesday, like all the others before. We received the news about ten minutes after the first strike and were told to assemble all senior leaders in the briefing center to watch the reports. Within minutes of the second plane, IBM leadership was asking for volunteers to gather computer equipment, water, blankets, food, power strips, trucks, printers, network cables, routers....basically anything that we could think of to help both the people, and the businesses in Manhattan. We were stopped in our tracks when word came that the Pentagon had been struck and we started a whole new pile for the DC response that was expected. Then....that sudden gasp struck the entire country as we all watched the South Tower collapse. I remember looking at the television and there was the North Tower, still on fire, and just a building shaped cloud where South used to stand. Unbelievable silence....

Everything after that morning was about mobilization, support, rescue, restoration...as fast as possible and spare no expense. Everyone contributed, everyone helped, everyone worked....everyone CARED.

 

[VoodooRanger]

I was 17 years old in high school. I had just stepped out of my American History class, go figure, and was on my way to my computer class which had moved to the library. I heard a ton of commotion by the front of the school and saw a line of parents going into the office. Walking into the library all the tv’s were showing smoke billowing from one of the buildings. Not long after is when the second plane struck the second tower.

Twenty years. Hard to even fathom the amount of time that has gone by. People always say time flies, but that day feels like yesterday. A couple years back I visited the Pentagon, and took the tour that takes you to the chapel near the spot the plane came through. Then took a walk of the memorial outside. It’s a mixture of amazing and sad at the same time.

 

[AzScorpion]

Here’s a very good article, it's a little long but worth reading. So much truth to it and we need to find a way to get back to the way everyone felt and acted towards each other on that day and the days, weeks and months after.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news...e-patriotism-inspired-joe-hallett/5756626001/


9/11 essay: Remembering that day 20 years ago, and the pride and patriotism it inspired

Yet during the ensuing decades our path to “good” got pocked by, among other things, two wars, a great recession, climate-change-induced disasters, five rancorous presidential elections, hateful politics and a deadly pandemic. Now, instead of “together 100 percent,” we are a divided, angry citizenry.

How did we get so lost? How did Americans go from rallying against an attack on our country on Sept. 11, 2001, to attacking our country on Jan. 6, 2021?

It’s important to sift back through time and remember what you saw, what you felt and what you did on 9/11. Maybe then, we can begin to recover what we lost in the 20 years since.

 

[JTDay]

I was a wry 10 year old and don't believe I grasped what had happened at the time. I'd never heard of terrorism or alqaeda. A few years later on a trip to West Point, we went to ground zero and by that time I understood what I was looking at. It's interesting to stare into the memorial and look up where the towers had been. It's good to see a lot of flags out and a few memorial banners around my neighborhood in Atlanta! Nice tribute on college GameDay too! ??

 

[AzScorpion]

I was a wry 10 year old and don't believe I grasped what had happened at the time. I'd never heard of terrorism or alqaeda. A few years later on a trip to West Point, we went to ground zero and by that time I understood what I was looking at. It's interesting to stare into the memorial and look up where the towers had been. It's good to see a lot of flags out and a few memorial banners around my neighborhood in Atlanta! Nice tribute on college GameDay too! ??

It must have been nice to go to ground zero and really see it first hand, it makes it surreal. I never went to NY even while living in MA but we were in Winslow, AZ this past summer. It was special as we got to see a piece of steel from the WTC. It was depressing and enlightening all in one.

 

[MXGOLF]

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tracy Bowman]

I was on my way to work when the first plane hit. I could not understand how that could be an “accident”. How could that possibly happen? I had a bad feeling and when the second one struck, I knew. I literally fell to my knees at work and cried and prayed. My supervisor at the time could not understand why I was so upset. I said “Don’t you understand? Nothing will ever be the same. We are now at war. We have been attacked on our own land. How can we ever feel safe again?” I loved how everyone came together. How everyone seemed to show their love of this country and each other. How people turned to God. How could some people forget so quickly? I will never forget that day…the worst day of my life.

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