9/11 8:46am NEVER FORGET...OR FORGIVE

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It's a holiday in Afghanistan. Heard that on the radio today, not sure if its correct or not. Bad day for sure. RIP victims and first responders.
 
It was an awful day for sure. The images I'll never get out of head are of the people jumping to their death. Absolutely heart breaking. The optimist in me likes to think it brought the country closer together. The pessimist in me knows better.
 
I was just reading that Steve Buscemi
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the actor was NYFD in the early 80s and volunteered at Ground Zero with his old engine company.
 
My son designed and built these for our local dirt track, his corporation he works for agreed to let him build these , stainless steel towers.

So proud, we will never forget, and this should be a holiday, at least for every first responder.

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It brakes my hart to hear a list of family members that lost there lives in the reading of names they have going on live on the news :(:(:(:(:(
 
The weather today in nyc is exactly like 20 years ago
Sunny warm skies clear
The stories never stop, talked to a buddy from my old job I never knew the guy we worked with a great guy apprentice welder
Left job to become a NYFD. Fireman
He died which I knew but to this day they have never found a trace of his remains
I was at ground zero that day and got to work there for only one day afterwards
We’re pictured here on a boat returning home
Someone told us our pictures were in the Times You can see lady liberty in the background
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Our pastor had the opportunity to lead chapel at a local Bible College yesterday

He mentioned 9-11 and the fact that most of the students he was talking too weren't even born when it happened

Said it was like pearl harbor to them
 
memike said:
It brakes my hart to hear a list of family members that lost there lives in the reading of names they have going on live on the news :(:(:(:(:(
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I heard a news report a couple days ago that said during the 20 year since, more people have died from the after effects of the air pollution, etc.., than in the event itself.
 
I don't believe anyone that seen it, could forget that day. I remember it like the birth of my child. RIP all who perished that day and those who have passed because of the aftermath. Been to NYC and visited ground zero. The water falling is so beautiful, peaceful. They got it right.

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We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about the USA
Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title 'C'ntarea Americii, meaning 'Ode To America ') in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei 'The Daily Event' or 'News of the Day'.

~An Ode to America ~
Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs.
On 9/ll, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the Army, or the Secret Service that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about.
Instead the Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.
After the first moments of panic, they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing. On every occasion, they started singing: 'God Bless America !'
I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.
How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put into collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy. What on earth unites the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their history? Their economic Power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace, I thought things over, I reached but only one conclusion... Only freedom can work such miracles.

Cornel Nistorescu
(This deserves to be passed around the Internet forever.) It took a person on the outside - looking in - to see what we take for granted !


GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!
 
I watched it on the news. So horrifying. I will never forget that day or the image that is burned into my brain. I salute the hero’s of 9 11. Some just ordinary folk that came to lend a hand to bring victims to safety as well as the many medical professionals. Kim
 
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As a firefighter for 33 years here in Tampa there is no way I can EVER forget. Lost a FDNY friend that day!
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I was a Sophomore at UT when it happened. Saw the 2nd plane hit the building live on TV with my roommate. I remember hearing them scramble the fighter jets from MacDill AFB. There was a girl sitting in the hallway of our dorm just sobbing uncontrollably by herself, turns out she lost a family member in the towers. She left a few days later and she never came back. Her dorm was never cleaned out either.

And then a few months later, that kid flew his parent's plane into the BOA building downtown. Do you remember that? I think it happened over Thanksgiving or Christmas of that year.

2001, much like the last 1.5 years, has been a lot to process. I think we're all still a little traumatized by it.
 
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