Anonymous
09/12/2024 05:48
Subject: Re:September 11
Anonymous wrote:The beginning of the end of our Repunlic.
Brought to you by the Patriot Act.
Anonymous
09/12/2024 05:45
Subject: Re:September 11
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Can you show me declaration of war issued by Congress?
Ah yes a literal poster I should have been clearer, of course. The war is over of course but, the issues that we fought over ( state rights vs federal rights) and many others are still being fought. That's what I meant. The north 'won' the war but, the south with it's jim crow laws/segregation really won because they kept Blacks down for so long. And even in the north it wasn't great for Blacks..poorer education, health care and red lining.
But any of the ancillary issues around September 11 have been completely resolved and people should move on?
Anonymous
09/12/2024 01:35
Subject: September 11
I had planned to buy a new TV that day and went online to shop and saw the news on techbargains.com. They said all planes were grounded and to expect shipping to be delayed. After spending 6 hours watching all the bad news, I decided to go to Costco and bought my new 24 inch TV.
Anonymous
09/11/2024 23:17
Subject: September 11
I was in grad school in the Midwest and remember exactly where I was in the highway when I heard the radio DJ say something about one of the town towers being hit and looking almost like a “burning cigarette.” It was one of my first days working as a grad assistant, so I went to my assigned computer lab and tried to get on the internet. I couldn’t get a connection, so I went to the lobby. I stood watching the soundless news feed of CNN with a growing number of students and faculty. We stood in shock and horror watching the towers fall and then a split screen with the Pentagon.
I distinctly remember students in class looking out the lecture hall door at the growing lobby crowd and thinking “they have no idea that everything just changed.”
I distinctly remember students in class looking out the lecture hall door at the growing lobby crowd and thinking “they have no idea that everything just changed.”
Anonymous
09/11/2024 22:51
Subject: Re:September 11
I was 26 years old, working for a social service agency in the Midwest. My coworker was a combat Vietnam Veteran and his PTSD came back with a vengeance that morning. He told all of us we were going to war, he was certain.
Anonymous
09/11/2024 22:34
Subject: September 11
I was in college, in the middle of my history class about the Civil War.
The rest of the day classes were canceled. We went to an assembly and heard some college speakers. It was really a daze, endlessly watching the news and making sense of it all.
I knew that day my childhood was over, and things were not going to be the same.
The rest of the day classes were canceled. We went to an assembly and heard some college speakers. It was really a daze, endlessly watching the news and making sense of it all.
I knew that day my childhood was over, and things were not going to be the same.
Anonymous
09/11/2024 22:09
Subject: September 11
I was 23 then working at my first job out of college, living in Bethesda. I had been in NYC just two weekends prior to 9/11 over Labor Day w/e to visit my then boyfriend’s (now husband) family and when we drove home, we took the expressway that runs right along lower Manhattan. We didn’t normally take that route but this time we did and drove right past the towers. They looked huge that day and extra sparkly in the sun. I remember looking up at them as we drove past. Two weeks later they were gone. On 9/11, I came home from work and went for a bike ride along the capital crescent trail not sure what else to do with myself. Not a soul was out. I was the only one-biking on the trail with the sound of fighter jets above me. We’d hear them circling above for nights to come. The next month, my friend and I took the train from DC to Dallas for work because no one wanted to fly and on the way back, a group of steelworkers boarded in Pittsburgh. They were going to nyc to help out at Ground Zero. I’ll never forget how friendly they were and eager to go and lend a hand. Everyone in my train car was celebrating them and we all felt so patriotic.
Anonymous
09/11/2024 22:02
Subject: Re:September 11
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
Can you show me declaration of war issued by Congress?
Ah yes a literal poster I should have been clearer, of course. The war is over of course but, the issues that we fought over ( state rights vs federal rights) and many others are still being fought. That's what I meant. The north 'won' the war but, the south with it's jim crow laws/segregation really won because they kept Blacks down for so long. And even in the north it wasn't great for Blacks..poorer education, health care and red lining.
Anonymous
09/11/2024 21:56
Subject: September 11
I was working at a law firm near metro center. Remember walking home with police on every corner. My bf was in his apartment in Pentagon City and could see the smoke. I still can’t think of that day without getting emotional.
Anonymous
09/11/2024 21:37
Subject: September 11
I was in 3rd grade here in the DMV area. In the morning, kids in my class started one by one getting called down by the intercom to get picked up by their parents “for a doctors appointment.” It was so odd and it became clear the teachers were being weird about it too. Then I remembered my name was called through the intercom too and my mom came, but I obviously didn’t have any appointment that day. I remember listening to the radio in the car with my mom and then watching tv at home. It was so crazy and felt so real, especially since my family had just went up the WTC 3 months prior on a small NYC vacation. So devastating and scary.
Anonymous
09/11/2024 21:15
Subject: September 11
Today’s weather in DC reminded me so much of 9/11 in NYC. I was a student walking to class at NYU and the first plane flew right above my head; it seemed like it was only a few hundred feet in the air over Washington Sq Park. I watched it fly south straight into the WTC. You don’t forget the visual of that day.
God bless every survivor and hero and those grieving a loss.
God bless every survivor and hero and those grieving a loss.
Anonymous
09/11/2024 20:45
Subject: September 11
Anonymous wrote: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.
Your sister’s story made me cry. I’m a native New Yorker and New Yorkers can be so kind to strangers. I’m glad they helped her and she and the baby were okay.
Anonymous
09/11/2024 20:00
Subject: September 11
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Whenever we have clear blue sky, sunny, warm, but low humidity days, I think - ah, Sept 11
You are not alone. Lots of us do. Memory is a weird thing.
I definitely do this. I'm in the NYC suburbs and the weather today was almost identical to the day of the attacks.
I feel like it has been almost every year. I was in DC then and in nyc since 2005 and I cannot remember a rainy anniversary.
It poured in the NYC area in 2007 and 2009.
It rained 0.14 inch on 09/11/09 in NYC. That is not 'pouring', buddy. Settle down.
https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/KLGA/date/2009-9-11
Anonymous
09/11/2024 19:46
Subject: September 11
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Whenever we have clear blue sky, sunny, warm, but low humidity days, I think - ah, Sept 11
You are not alone. Lots of us do. Memory is a weird thing.
I definitely do this. I'm in the NYC suburbs and the weather today was almost identical to the day of the attacks.
I feel like it has been almost every year. I was in DC then and in nyc since 2005 and I cannot remember a rainy anniversary.
It poured in the NYC area in 2007 and 2009.
I’m sure it did. I said almost every year. I was out of the country on this day in 2007 and about to give birth to my eldest in 2009 so I don’t remember.
Anonymous
09/11/2024 19:16
Subject: September 11
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Whenever we have clear blue sky, sunny, warm, but low humidity days, I think - ah, Sept 11
You are not alone. Lots of us do. Memory is a weird thing.
I definitely do this. I'm in the NYC suburbs and the weather today was almost identical to the day of the attacks.
I feel like it has been almost every year. I was in DC then and in nyc since 2005 and I cannot remember a rainy anniversary.
It poured in the NYC area in 2007 and 2009.