My sister who was scheduled to start maternity leave on 9-14-2001 got caught in lobby as doors they were near at lobby level to get out had bodies and debris coming down. She still recalls the horrible sound of bodies hitting payment.

The firefighters took and AX and busted through glass on a section of wall on ground floor they could safely exit from. She was actually in a business suit with heels and briefcase and pocketbook as she was doing a Insurance presentaton.

She was covered in soot and dust and started walking to midtown. Eventually she went into an Irish Bar that was giving out sodas and waters to the survivors and they arranged is she could walk to 59 street bridge they would find a way across. She made that walk in her barefeet and a guy volunteered to go with her and carry her briefcase and bag.

The police got in touch her husband who worked on Long Island told him to get as close as possible 59street bridge Queens side.

They took her across the closed bridge in an Ambulence. She gave birth a few days later.

She told me she knew 100 percent tower was coming down. She worked there during the 1993 WTC bombing. and they felt that blast. But this time the whole building moved with the crash. Was a violent impact that really shook whole building.

My uncle died in building and my sister got out.

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Anonymous wrote:Here we are on this day.

I know. I really don’t need to be told to remember it. I lived it. And I find the treacle to be insensitive and abhorrent.

Then don't read through the thread. People process grief and trauma differently. If "treacle" is cathartic for them, and not for you, let them have it. Peace.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over it. Moved on. Yes - I remember it like D-day but I'm not dwelling on it. I "remember" it each time it takes me an hour to get thru security at the airport.

Just move on then. There are family members that are being mourned. You can always skip a topic that you have 'moved' on from.

Yep like every other single war - even the Iraq, Iran, Palestine, etc etc etc etc since 9/11

Move on

Does this also include the Civil War or will you keep harping about that one?

Yes, we are still fighting the Civil War

Anonymous wrote:23 years after Pearl Harbor was December 1964.
I don't recall much remember signaling. Of course, there was only the newspaper.

Ok?

Anonymous wrote:Where were you 23 years ago this morning?

I walked into my law school building at around 9 and saw everyone standing around the tv in the student lounge. Joined them and shortly after that we all watched the 2nd plane hit. All of us shaken to the core, watching our world change on a tv screen.

Elementary school at a school in Vienna VA. All of the sudden, parents were coming to pick up their children and the teacher just put some movie on I believe. She told us a “terroist attack” happened but I was too young to know what that truly meant until I got home. We didn’t have school the next day

9/11 was a tragedy but pales in comparison to the "reaction" by the US warmongers.

10x the number of people have died in Gaza and there is barely a tear shed for them.

At a conference on the west coast. Woke up to the news a couple of hours after it started. I remember how scary it was to be that far from home. That is something I still think about sometimes when traveling.

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Anonymous wrote:Here we are on this day.

I know. I really don’t need to be told to remember it. I lived it. And I find the treacle to be insensitive and abhorrent.

Please share your story. It is important and you are important

In Skyline Tower that morning. A friend with a window office literally watched the plane hit the Pentagon in horror.

I have zero tolerance for the conspiracy nutjobs who try to claim “it was a missile” or an inside job.

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Anonymous wrote:23 years after Pearl Harbor was December 1964.
I don't recall much remember signaling. Of course, there was only the newspaper.

Radio was used after Pearl Harbor to announce to the world what had happened.

Misunderstanding.

I meant in 1964 every single entity on social media didn't have the obligatory We Remember posts. In 1964 there may have been newspaper ads or stories but you read the paper once a day at best.

Anonymous wrote:Here we are on this day.

I know. I really don’t need to be told to remember it. I lived it. And I find the treacle to be insensitive and abhorrent.

It was an absolutely beautiful day in Northern Virginia, clear blue skies, low humidity, fall around the corner. The teacher had just turned off the TV for the school morning announcements and we were working on some activity when we heard and felt a really strong BOOM. Some kids went to the window to look out at the road in front of school because it was just so loud, but we didn't see anything and went back to our seats.

Then a teacher poked her head into the classroom and told our teacher to turn the TV back on, right now.

Lots of kids had parents who worked at the pentagon and in NYC. and we truly thought we might be next, because we absolutely didn't know.

Only a few kids had cellphones and they were allowed to go to their lockers and retrieve their phones. Back then kids had to lock up their phones during school hours.

How many people made decision to leave NYC permanently after that day?

The frantic running to get hom/pick up kids. DMV scene was something else.