Anyone still have 9\11 fever?

[cactus]

Is anyone still have those fervid community/outradge/sad/patriotic feelings about 9/11? It seems like everyone said they wouldn't forget but they have forgotten about it. But I am still awake, I will never forget.

 

[MorganLeFey]

Cactus, you're very young, aren't you?

Here in NYC it's kind of hard to "forget" 9/11. Especially when you travel trhough Ground Zero on your way to and from work every day.

The intensity of the feelings has diminished over time, but no one has "forgotten" 9/11.

I'm 46. Ask people my age where they were the day Reagan was shot.

Ask people about ten years older than me where they were wneh Kennedy was shot.


Ask my parents' generation where they were when Pearl Harbor was bombed.


You'll find people do remember significant events, and the feeling that went along with them

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

I haven't forgotten. But it is hard to live life while standing on your tiptoes. I don't dwell on it every day, but noen of us can really "forget" because it was a series of events that left a mark on the world for generations to come. It's imprint is on the culture and society in an unmistakable way.

 

[sajetto]

I sure haven't forgot it and I dont think anyone else has either. However, I don't dwell on it on a daily basis. If I did I'd ruin my life worrying about when the next attack is going to be. You're given a short amount of time on this earth and there is no sense wasting it with worry over something that cannot be changed. I pray that it doesn't happen again, but in life there are no promises.

 

[AuntieM03]

Cactus, you're very young, aren't you?

Here in NYC it's kind of hard to "forget" 9/11. Especially when you travel trhough Ground Zero on your way to and from work every day.

The intensity of the feelings has diminished over time, but no one has "forgotten" 9/11.

I'm 46. Ask people my age where they were the day Reagan was shot.

Ask people about ten years older than me where they were wneh Kennedy was shot.


Ask my parents' generation where they were when Pearl Harbor was bombed.


You'll find people do remember significant events, and the feeling that went along with them

I agree. This to me was that moment that defines our generation. I think now in terms of before 9-11; after 9-11. I live in California, never have seen ground zero and I don't know anyone who was lost on 9-11. Yet, when I look at a clock and it says 9:11 my heart still skips a beat.

 

[Sherri]

I will never forget what that day was like and the many to follow. I remember standing outside discussing it with my neighbors. I never thought I would have that feeling of feeling safe as I always had but as time went on I never forgot, but some how I did get that feeling of being safe back. Maybe its a false sense of security, but thank God nothing like that has happand again.

 

[eclectics]

I'm a New Yorker and I will never forget . Please don't confuse going on with your daily life and apathy.

 

[Robinrs]

I'm a New Yorker and I will never forget . Please don't confuse going on with your daily life and apathy.

aMEN....

Amen to MorganLeFey, too... I DO remember the day Kennedy was shot and the day Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were killed, too. These thoughts stay with me forever but life goes on.

I buried my Mom on 9/11/02. The day means so much to me. No, we cannot forget but we have so much of our own lives to continue. Traumatic times in our lives will always define us, but they must not control us.

 

[LukenDC]

I have not forgotten 9/11 and still have a keen sense of outrage over the events of that day. I live in Washington and life in my city was changed, probably forever, by the events of that day.

I feel the sense of loss most poignantly when I visit NYC. I take the train or bus to NYC from Washington. In the past, as soon as I passed Trenton I would start looking for the Twin Towers. Gradually they would begin to materialize in the distance, rising from the horizon like a modern day cathedral. Now they are gone and their absence is still surreal to me.

I will never forget and I will never forgive.

 

[DVC Sadie]

I remember not only 9/11 but being a child and having JFK assasinated. Oh do I remember. I remember the assasinations of MLK and the visuals nightly on tv of the Vietnam War. Yes, I dare to remember. I still choose to remember the beloved family members who have died.

I also remember the vacant stares of people who were searching for loved ones after Katrina, and the cries of hungry children in the arms of scared parents.

Sometimes I remember too, too, much and I cry. The days I choose to not remember so much are days I feel blessed.

As a person grows older they have so much more sadness to remember, even if it appears as if they living their lives in a "normal" way. No one truly knows what another person truly remembers.

 

[diznygirl]

No one truly knows what another person truly remembers.

So true. When I am outside playing with my kids and an airplane flies by, I remember the planes that became weapons. I also remember how quiet it when all the planes were grounded, and how weird it was when they started flying again.

I look perfectly normal standing there with my children saying, "Yes, look, it's an airplane" but I'm not having perfectly normal thoughts.....

 

[AmazingGrace]

I agree. This to me was that moment that defines our generation. I think now in terms of before 9-11; after 9-11. I live in California, never have seen ground zero and I don't know anyone who was lost on 9-11. Yet, when I look at a clock and it says 9:11 my heart still skips a beat.

I'm the same way. I find myself wathcing the clock and ever so slightly relaxing when it switches to 9:12.
I don't think anyone has forgotten. I know I haven't, and I'm sure no one in NYC or the Penatagon has either.

 

[PixiePop]

I agree with the others, just because it is not discussed daily, does not mean it is forgotten.

I live in Virginia and I still think about the sniper case that happened here. One of the shootings took place near a place that I pass by very often. Sometimes I think it could have been me or a family member.

You have to go on with your life and try not to focus on all of the what ifs.

 

[MAKmom]

I'll never forget. I will never be the same. I have the Franklin Mint
"Lest We Forget" statue on the armoire in my living room. It is an Eagle on a Fire Department hat with a flag. I have an 911 charm on my Italian charm bracelet. I went to Ground Zero. It took me a long time to be my new normal.

 

[mrsstats]

I live on Long Island. Was on vacation in California on 9/11. I will never forget that day. Whenever I hear our anthem it brings to my mind 9/11. I did not lose anyone on 9/11 but have many friends that are in the FDNY and/or volunteer firemen on LI. I will never feel the same as I did prior to 9/11.

 

[Tracey1974]

I look perfectly normal standing there with my children saying, "Yes, look, it's an airplane" but I'm not having perfectly normal thoughts.....

I keep my eyes on planes the entire time they fly over me, terrified that something will happen to them. I remember driving home that morning before the flights were officially grounded. I can never forget.

 

[polly p]

My family can never forget. My dh is a fireman, it was extremely traumatic to him. He had a close call the april before and after 9/11 it really changed his way of thinking. I will tell you we try really hard not to put things off. We vacation BIG every other year and spoil the kids on christmas. He doesn't want to ever say" I should've" We save a little but not like a lot of our friends who don't do anything with their kids.

My dh says you never know what will happen tomorrow... so don't put off showing the people you love how much you love them.

 

[Dan Murphy]

9/11 is our wedding anniversary. 2001 was our 30th. We had plans. We did not celebrate until 2002. Each year now is is difficult to celebrate, but we do, but not like we use to. I do not think there is anybody who has forgotten, never will.

 

[MorganLeFey]

my cousin got married on 9/15/01. he and his wife felt it was necessary to go on with their lives and celebrate a new beginning -- despite the tragedy in the world. years from now, when they watch their wedding video, there will be no doubt about when they got married.


right after 9/11, Shea Stadium was being used as a depot for supplies for the ground zero rescuers. major league baseball suspended games for awhile.

the first game played in NYC after 9/11 was a Mets gzme. I have no recollection of who they played. but I do remember that Mike Piazza hit qa home run, and I cried...how something so "normal" had become so prescious.

bo, cactus, we don't forget.

 

[cactus]

yeah, I guess I didn't think that deeply about it. It is hard to live life standing on your tip-toes.