FEATURED September 11th Attack - 25 years ago today

[RustyBourneHorse]

Today is the 25th anniversary of 9-11. So, I think it is only fitting that a thread should be posted in remembrance of the victims and heroes of this day 25 years ago.

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[big dog cowboy]

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Most definitely

 

[Rockport]

 

[DallasEast]

The World Trade Center.
The Pentagon.
United Airlines Flight 93.

Never Forget.

 

[zrinkill]

 

[Runwildboys]

I remember I was at work, not on the road that day. Our maintenance guy walked in and said a plane just crashed into the WTC. He was a strange guy,so we all thought he was making a bad joke. Then he went upstairs and brought a TV down to the break room, just in time to watch the second plane hit.

One of our other drivers was in Manhattan at the time. As soon as he found out what happened, he hightailed it out of the city and headed home.

This is probably the thing I'm going to remember the most vividly until the day I die.

I know I'll NEVER FORGET.

 

[rags747]

I got engaged in 1989 at Windows on the World which was the restaurant in the North Tower 1 on floors 106-107. Bottle of champagne for courage before I got down on one knee! Had dinner and drinks there three times over the years, wonderful facility and of course the views were tremendous.

2001 I was on the trading desk at IBM, saw all of it happening as multiple tv screens throughout the trading floor. Immediately started calling all the banks for early recall of funds as we knew the markets would be shutting down fast, was able to get a little over $700m that day for future liquidity which immediately dried up. Most funds we requested never made it that day.

RIP to all that died that day.

 

[DallasEast]

My comment will be self-deleted if it derails this thread by even a little bit. I am a 60's baby. I grew up decades after Pearl Harbor, but I saw the old film clips of the destruction. Those visual images and the Arizona Memorial are visceral experiences that were born well before my birth. No December 7ths pass without me also saying, "Never forget."

It may be unfair and totally off-base, but I do not see the same emotional attachment to 9/11 in young people today who were not born when it happened. They do not have access to spare, grainy footage. There are VOLUMES of videos and photos that can be researched. Even so, the seemingly same reverence my generation had for Pearl Harbor does not seem as strong in the current generation for 9/11.

I don't get it. If you watch the towers fall... If you watch the invincible Pentagon on fire... If you look at the downed wreckage in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania... HOW are you not moved to your core?

Please forgive the rant.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

I was in 3rd grade when the tragedy occurred and had just come back from a funeral for my paternal grandmother. I remember being gathered into the music room, where they showed the footage on tv and because it was a central part of the school I attended. I then remember being sent home from school. Then seeing the footage when I got home. RIP to the victims, and thank you to the heroes.

 

[Jipper]

My comment will be self-deleted if it derails this thread by even a little bit. I am a 60's baby. I grew up decades after Pearl Harbor, but I saw the old film clips of the destruction. Those visual images and the Arizona Memorial are visceral experiences that were born well before my birth. No December 7ths pass without me also saying, "Never forget."

It may be unfair and totally off-base, but I do not see the same emotional attachment to 9/11 in young people today who were not born when it happened. They do not have access to spare, grainy footage. There are VOLUMES of videos and photos that can be researched. Even so, the seemingly same reverence my generation had for Pearl Harbor does not seem as strong in the current generation for 9/11.

I don't get it. If you watch the towers fall... If you watch the invincible Pentagon on fire... If you look at the downed wreckage in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania... HOW are you not moved to your core?

Please forgive the rant.

its a fair and true observation - i think the difference has to do with the dichotomy of the "foe" - ww2 had very direct and clear enemies in the axis and is considered the last "good war" - the situation with terrorism did not have as clear of an enemy and consequently didnt elicit the same visercal lasting national reverence unforutnatly.

I am moved on each day, i am also a student of history and have educated myself over the years - my children understand the signifcance of both events, and many more, and its our job to continue to educate so that the reverence is elevated and we truly never forget

 

[Coogiguy03]

Sad sad day, I remember I was in high school when it happen, teacher turned the TV on and my teacher just broke out in tears!!!


Much love to those who lost their lives, and to the first responders and all that helped!

 

[zrinkill]

I will never forget the outrage and anger I felt on that day.

I will also never forget the overwhelming pride I felt for those firefighter and police who gave their lives when their moment of Valor arrived.

And the humanity I witnessed, as normal every day New Yorker's, ran back into the overwhelming smoke a rubble to pull out and save complete strangers in the most horrifying conditions.

9/11

Never Forget

 

[Hennessy_King]

Im from north jersey and was in high school at the time. It is a day Ill never forget. And it still burns me up the real perpetrators were never brought to justice. RIP to all the heroes that are still suffering to this day.

 

[Amarth]

I was actually in the fire academy taking a test when one of our instructors came in and told us what happened.

It was before smart phones so everyone was calling family and friends to try and get more details. They didn’t let us out early and we had live fire training that day, needless to say no one’s mind was in the right place.

Just got on the stair monster at the gym to do my annual 110 “floors”. Obviously it’s nothing like they went through but it’s my own little tribute.

 

[Rockport]

My comment will be self-deleted if it derails this thread by even a little bit. I am a 60's baby. I grew up decades after Pearl Harbor, but I saw the old film clips of the destruction. Those visual images and the Arizona Memorial are visceral experiences that were born well before my birth. No December 7ths pass without me also saying, "Never forget."

It may be unfair and totally off-base, but I do not see the same emotional attachment to 9/11 in young people today who were not born when it happened. They do not have access to spare, grainy footage. There are VOLUMES of videos and photos that can be researched. Even so, the seemingly same reverence my generation had for Pearl Harbor does not seem as strong in the current generation for 9/11.

I don't get it. If you watch the towers fall... If you watch the invincible Pentagon on fire... If you look at the downed wreckage in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania... HOW are you not moved to your core?

Please forgive the rant.

Pearl Harbor was different. WWII was going on and the US was staying out of it until that day. It was different times. 9/11 also moved many thousands into joining the military so there were many shaken to their core.

 

[Rockport]

Im from north jersey and was in high school at the time. It is a day I’ll never forget. And it still burns me up the real perpetrators were never brought to justice. RIP to all the heroes that are still suffering to this day.

All the perpetrators are dead including Osama bin Laden and all his cronies. I think there’s 1 left but he’s hiding in some tunnel somewhere ******** in a bucket.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

My comment will be self-deleted if it derails this thread by even a little bit. I am a 60's baby. I grew up decades after Pearl Harbor, but I saw the old film clips of the destruction. Those visual images and the Arizona Memorial are visceral experiences that were born well before my birth. No December 7ths pass without me also saying, "Never forget."

It may be unfair and totally off-base, but I do not see the same emotional attachment to 9/11 in young people today who were not born when it happened. They do not have access to spare, grainy footage. There are VOLUMES of videos and photos that can be researched. Even so, the seemingly same reverence my generation had for Pearl Harbor does not seem as strong in the current generation for 9/11.

I don't get it. If you watch the towers fall... If you watch the invincible Pentagon on fire... If you look at the downed wreckage in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania... HOW are you not moved to your core?

Please forgive the rant.

You're totally right, but unfortunately kids the last many years aren't taught about 9/11 the way we were taught about WWII.

 

[Hagman]

I had stopped at a bagel place to grab something for breakfast when I looked up and saw reports on their television. At first, I thought it was some kind of a disaster movie, and my whole body tensed up when it became obvious it was not. Drove into campus and followed everything that I could on the radio and on the Internet. I had two freshman level classes that afternoon, and I told them that today would be to them what the JFK assassination was to my generation, and what Pearl Harbor was to my father‘s. And that they should go home and watch and learn everything about that day that they could.

Then I went home, sat on my couch, and watched TV late into the night, just sitting there with depression and rage

A few days later, my 13-year-old godson asked me what was going to happen, and I said that we would be going to war. He would grow up to be a captain in the Army Rangers because “he wants to fight bad guys “

 

[Carson]

I was a sophomore in high school, and I stayed home from school that day.

My mom worked at the Pentagon at the time. Those few hours of waiting to hear anything were horrible.