its been 7 years

[YosemiteSam]

A friend called to tell me to turn on the news, that a plane had hit one of the towers. I was watching that coverage when the 2nd plane hit and I knew neither was an accident.

I'm not sure what was eerier for me. When the faces of the 19 hijackers were on TV and I recognized one of them. Or not hearing planes flying for the next week. It was a sad time in our nation. One that I will never forget.

That had to be gut wrenching the very moment you recognized one.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I was at work and just turned the radio on when the first plane hit. I thought they meant a small plane so I didn't think much about it until I saw the news coverage. The weird thing was when I got home the power was out for part of our cove. It made me stop and think for a second. Luckily it was a quick fix for the power company.

 

[WV Cowboy]

I can't believe that during those 7 years we have not been hit again in some capacity.

I felt like they would do something again, pretty soon after 9/11.

I just can't imagine the horror that the victims went through, nor the pain that their families are still going through.

God, please bless America.

 

[YosemiteSam]

It still pisses me off.

I was medically discharged from the USN because I got hurt during a training mission.

I was so angry that it happened I was trying to figure out a way to get back in.

I lost a lot of friends since that time.

HM2, SEAL TEAM 3
Hooyah 195!

 

[kapolani]

:laugh2:

 

[YosemiteSam]

I can't believe that during those 7 years we have not been hit again in some capacity.

I find the fact that they can't get anything done where the towers were even more unimaginable! The committee for it is extactly like the Dallas city council. All they do is argue about what should be done and actually get nothing done. This is the reason the military has rank and one commander and cheif, otherwise you would never get **** done.

:bang2:

 

[Temo]

I find the fact that they can't get anything done where the towers were even more unimaginable! The committee for it is extactly like the Dallas city council. All they do is argue about what should be done and actually get nothing done. This is the reason the military has rank and one commander and cheif, otherwise you would never get **** done.

:bang2:

Last I saw the site, about a couple weeks ago, there were some signs of construction.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Last I saw the site, about a couple weeks ago, there were some signs of construction.

After 7 years it's still a hole in the ground. 7 World Trade Center also collapsed and it was rebuild and reopened on May 23, 2006.

So, it collapsed, was cleared, redesigned, and rebuilt (52 stories), and reopened for business in about 4 years and 7 months.

Even if they go full bore today, it will still take well over a year to reopen (probably closer to two years) That means it takes close to 9 years to rebuild. That is freaking stupid. There are imbeciles running the show.

 

[links18]

I was in NYC that day. In fact, I thought I lost my partner for awhile, because she worked just a few blocks from the Towers. I spoke to her right after the planes hit the Towers, she said she was going to leave the office and try to get out of Manhattan, but right after that I heard on the radio that one of the Towers had collapsed. Those buildings were so huge that I couldn't imagine them not falling down and crushing her as she tried to make her may out of Manhattan. Just about that time, all the cell-phone lines got jammed, so I didn't hear from her for several hours, after she was able to walk over the bridge to Brooklyn. She still has her shoes from that day covered in World Trade Center Dust. That night, we sat in our apartment with the windows open (a pleasant September evening otherwise) not realizing we were breathing in a toxic cloud of fumes and dust that drifted our way. Our health hasn't been quite the same for either of us since, but that pales in comparison to the thousands of lives literally torn apart on that day.

 

[Hostile]

That had to be gut wrenching the very moment you recognized one.

It was. My wife actually thought I was kidding at first. I was interviewed by the FBI for 6 hours. Took them to an apartment and as soon as the door was opened I knew it was bad.

 

[stealth]

It was. My wife actually thought I was kidding at first. I was interviewed by the FBI for 6 hours. Took them to an apartment and as soon as the door was opened I knew it was bad.

I am really interested in more of this story, I understand if you can't or won't though.

 

[gambit187]

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

WE ARE STILL HERE, UNITED, STRONG AND STILL STANDING.
GOD BLESS ALL THAT LOST THEIR LIVES THAT DAY AND IN THE EVENTS FOLLOWING THAT DAY.

GOD BLESS AMERICA


I was working across the street from the World Bank in DC, I walked all the way from the White House vicinity to South East DC

 

[Hostile]

I am really interested in more of this story, I understand if you can't or won't though.

The one I recognized was Hani Hanjour. I used to manage some apartments for students and he was for a time a student at the University of Arizona. He had brought some guys to the apartments I managed. I remember thinking about Johnny Quest because of the character Haji. There was nothing scary or suspicious about Hani at all.

I called as soon as I recognized him and at first I think they thought I was making it up. Finally one agent asked me if I could remember what kind of car Hani drove. I told them it was a black 5.0 Mustang. Suddenly they all looked at each other and the questions intensified.

I was no longer involved with that apartment community, but I knew which apartment it was so I took them there. The manager said that she had not seen anything of them since the attack.

When the door to the apartment opened the first thing I saw was an overhead map of Tucson with several strategic sites highlighted. Including Hughes Missile systems (now Raytheon), Davis Monthan AFB, and the "airplane graveyard" near where I work now. There was a picture of Bin Laden on the wall and I remember one agent talking about a flight manual.

To my knowledge neither of those two guys was directly linked to 9/11 but it still freaked me out.

Just a couple of years ago I was contacted again about another former resident who had links to an Al Qaeda operative in Iraq who had been killed. His PC had messages sent to that guy. I shared that with the other Mods.

It is just my opinion but we honestly don't have any real idea how deep these terror cells run. In my wildest dreams I wouldn't have suspected that guy of any link to these things.

My absolute best memory of 9/11 though happened a couple of days later. I live in a very diverse community. I am a Christian (this is not a religious discussion), a neighbor named Harvey is a Buddhist, another named Fethi is Muslim, and a former neighbor named Yoav was Jewish. We had a community prayer meeting where the four of us all held hands and prayed for the people affected by 9/11. It was powerful to see Yoav and Fethi not only hold hands but hug afterwards.

Not long after that Yoav, a free style sky diver, was badly injured in a tandem jump when his head hit a big rock trying to shield his student jumper. He had amnesia so bad he didn't even recognize his own fiance'. He was deported back to Tel Aviv, Israel. So far he has not been able to come back to America to finish his degree.

 

[stealth]

Thanks man, I too find it remarkable when being a human being trumps everything else and we can just love and support one another.

 

[DallasEast]

We can never forget. God bless our troops as well.

:signmast:

God bless the fallen, and those that protect us.

:signmast:

"For it is the doom of Men, that they forget..."

:signmast: EDIT: I loved Excalibur back in high school.

 

[DCBoysfan]

I was working that day, here in DC it was mass hysteria, no cell phones and fighter jets all over the sky.

 

[tomson75]

Sacred Steel.

 

[Chief]

It's impressive to me that we haven't been hit again in seven years. Credit goes to a lot of people, including some at the top who aren't very popular these days.

Anyway, this is good use of the materials ...

http://www.ussnewyork.com/

 

[pgreptom]

You know..

I too was in highschool. I was sitting in a trig class when it happened..

We weren't let go early, but we sat there the rest of the day.

It does feel like it was just yesterday. To think it was seven years ago blows my mind. I can STILL remember the footage(which I've never watched after my initial exposure) like it was yesterday.

To keep this kind of clean, I'll just say God Bless America, and those who lost their lives on that day. And those who spend every day defending it.

 

[DCgirl13]

I just realized that today was 9-11...

That day hit me so hard because I loved those buildings for some reason. I wanted to be an architect when I was a kid and whenever we went up to North Jersey I made my mom take the east side of the Jersey Turnpike just so I could see the Towers better.

http://i12.***BLOCKED***/albums/a243/jensgts03/38878015tIavqm_fs.jpg

We took that pic 3 days before the attack when we were coming back on a cruise. I had no idea that they would be gone 3 days later.