Sept 11, I'm sad :(

[miss missy]

I just watched the show on TV about that day. I had to force myself to watch it because I knew it will bring me right back to that day and make me sad all over again. BUT I also felt that is just what I should do- NEVER FORGET. Now I sit here, sad- so sad, the feelings came back, I remember. I did not know anyone personally that lost their life that day, but I still feel sad as they were innocent people, were are all in this world together and they were part of us all.

I don't know what to say right now, other than it is my hope that we all never forget the people who lost their life on Sept 11. I can't find the words to express the loss I feel, the loss of our people...

It changed us forever.

 

[dreamscometrue101]

I lost a really good friend on 9/11 and every year is just as hard as that first day. I think about our last conversation and the fact that I'll never talk to him again. I also think about his wife and 3 daughters who's lives were turned upside down.

My thoughts go out to everyone affected by that terrible day. I know the world will never forget but I'm afraid that individuals will.

 

[disneyholic family]

every time i see a picture of manhattan, before or after, i get that feeling...

 

[cccm]

We lost a neighbor and a co-worker that day. Neighbor worked in WTC. Co-worker was flying to west coast for business. That day and the days that followed were just so numbing, I can't forget. If you get me talking about work and the things that happened that week, my eyes fill, tears of sadness and tears of amazing stories.

Last night DD and I were playing Scrabble. I was flipping past the sox game and I caught the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. I had DD watch that scene and explained to her about Normandy. Explained about the rows of crosses and stars of david. As soon as it kicked to the invasion portion I switched...she is not quite ready yet. She asked some questions, I told her I would take her there since I also want to see it (2011).

There are many things we cannot forget.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

 

[dpuck1998]

There are many things we cannot forget.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

SOOO True! I try to teach my kids when they ask. I have a large collection of WWII memorabilia so my kids know a lot about it. They haven't asked or seen much about Sept 11th, they were very young when it happened so we avoided telling or showing them at the time.

WWII was such an amazing time for so many reasons, something that will never be repeated and something (and people) that should always be remembered.

 

[miss missy]

I think that is a big part of it all, teaching our kids history and making sure they know. I am glad we all are doing that part

 

[JCandKT]

Yeah, I'm watching a couple of shows on A&E today about 9/11. It always fills me with such a strange feeling, as we were married shortly afterwards.

It's hard not to remember our upcoming wedding when I think about 9/11. I was alone in the office that day as my co-workers were at a golf-outing and I was holding down the fort. I worked in television at the time and when I got into the office, I flipped the televisions on and they were already tuned to the news stations from the night before. That's when the 2nd plane hit. I remember thinking to myself that there had to be something wrong with the computer systems----never in a million years did I think it was a terrorist attack. I sat in that office with 7 tv's set to all the news stations in disbelief. We, as a church family, met at someone's house to pray/process through it all that night. I told my pastor that I was going to call off the wedding - because how could we get married in a time like this? Of course, I was reminded that we should celebrate life...but it was such a hard thing! My parents and maid-of-honor were to fly out of Logan...but then Logan was closed...so there was a time I thought that the wedding wouldn't happen...but they opened Logan the day my family flew out to Indy. My bachelorette party --- man, all I remember is the tv's on at the restaurant playing the coverage over and over again.

We took time at the beginning of the wedding to pray for the victims, survivors, workers and the country in general -- which was beautiful, but very sobering. Our honeymoon at WDW was nothing short of freaky. NOBODY was there.

It's hard to believe that it's been 7 years already.... it still takes my breath away seeing the coverage of the planes and the people in the streets of NYC, DC and that field in PA... and the feeling in the months afterwards where everyone was a little nicer to each other, people lined up to give blood, flags sold out at stores and we all put our petty differences aside and acted like we should as Americans and human beings.

I hope that somehow we can find that feeling/state-of-heart again... but it shouldn't take an attack to get us there.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

The day was very frightening and surreal for me, certainly...my brother flew out of Logan on his way to CA that day, and I was sure he was on one of those flights (he wasn't, thank goodness), but what was worse was the days and weeks following, with no air traffic overhead whatsoever except for the occasional military jet. The day I wept was the day I first saw a commercial airplane fly overhead after the no-fly period. I realized at that moment that our lives and our illusions of safety had been forever altered.

 

[tlcoke]

On 9/11/01, I was in Chicago attending a conference for work that ill-fated day. We were still at the hotel in downtown, when the picture of the hole in the WTC came on the screen. At first, I was trying to figure out what building in Chicago that the plane had hit, initially not realizing it was in NYC. Luckily, we had rented a car and drove up from Louisville, so I didn't get stuck in the Windy City like many others did. 9/11 was our last day in Chicago, so after going for our morning session, while the Downtown Business District of Chicago was being evacuated, we went to a stunned McCormick Center - everyone was standing at all TV's watching the latest. We attended our last session that morning staying a couple of hours before hitting the road back towards Louisville. The traffic jam leaving the city was bumper to bumper for two hours inching our way towards the Indiana - Illinois border. It was a very somber day, and I will always remember where I was on that Tuesday Morning in 2001.

 

[firemanx]

One way i always try to remember 9/11 is to learn something about one of the 411 emergency workers who responded to the scene, and died as they attempted to implement rescue and fire suppression efforts. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) lost 341 firefighters and 2 FDNY paramedics. The New York City Police Department lost 23 officers. The Port Authority Police Department lost 37 officers. Private EMS units lost 8 additional EMTs and paramedics. All these people were somebodies mother, father, brother or sister. The least we can do is learn something about them, and there families to memorialize them.

 

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

I too have personal feelings from that day. My uncle was actually working in the Pentagon that day. We had no contact from him until hours after the incident. It was very scary for all of us. I also live about 1/2 hour north of the Dover AFB and it freaked me out watching all the fighter jets fly over my house every 15 minutes. I dont think anyone will forget exactly where they were and what they were doing that day. I know I will never forget.

 

[dpuck1998]

Since we are sharing. My brother was working at the Pentagon at the time. Luckily he was out of the country in Dubai with the Seargent Major of the Army. The area that was hit at the pentagon, the Public Relations Dept, was his home the year before. Many of his former co-workers that he was in charge of before being promoted were working at the time. Lots of good people lost that day. In all parts of the country....including a field in PA! Lets Roll (I can barely say that anymore without getting a little choked up)

 

[kab407]

The Saturday prior I was in the City. I took the PATH to the World Trade Center to get into lower Manhattan.

That Tuesday, I was at a consulting job. Someone walked past my office and mentioned a plane hit the WTC. I didn't think anything about it. Single engine planes fly up and down the Hudson River all the time and a couple have hit the WTC. Things in the office got very quiet. I clicked on to MSNBC and the whole picture of 9/11 began to unfold.

They closed the office. I got home and was talking to the neighbors to make sure everyone was safe when military helicopters and fighters jet started flying over head. Life as I knew it would never be the same.

I was coming out of Jersey City one night last weekend. As I was getting on the NJ Turnpike, I looked over to Manhattan that was all light up. I still cannot get use to lower Manhattan skyline seven years later.

 

[katscradle]

I remember that day well.
It was my 2nd wedding anniversary.
Our little one DS now 10 had just gone to school for his first day of JK.
DH was supposed to be leaving on business to the US.
I had just gotten home from the school , DH called from work to tell me to turn on the T.V. I asked what station he said it didn't matter.
I knew it would be bad but never imagined.
I watched and cryed all day long.
I will never forget, our hearts went out to all Americans.
We have not celebrated a wedding anniversary since, probably never will again.
I had thought about remarrying on a different date, but it would not change things as this will always be with us.
I doubt that it will be a day that anyone will forget.
My thoughts and prayers go with the ones that were lost on that day, and for the ones that were left behind and had to go on.

 

[sjbvan]

I was just talking about this to someone yesterday. They mentioned that their child's history book still has pictures of the Trade Center and how hard it was for her to look at it. My dad was across the street that day, came home safely thank goodness but was covered head to toe in ash and soot. He had spent 20 years working in the Building 1 and had just recently moved to another location. I spent most of my first years working in Manhattan around or in the Trade center and it's still very hard to look at it all these years later, there are so many memories tied up into that area. My husband's friend made it out alive, which we are very thankful for every day. My father in law (welder for the city) was asked by the city to make crosses for the firefighters after the cleanup had started, he told them he had some nice steel to use for them, but they told him that they had some for him to use. It was steel from the Trade center. He told us later that he had to stop a number of times because he thought he had burned himself, but realized the smell of burned hair and skin was coming from the steel itself. He was able to make five extra crosses (after ALL the firefighters had gotten one) one for each of his children and then he asked for one for my dad. My father donated it to to the church they attend because it was the parish that sustained the highest number of people lost that day. The survivor group that meets at the church said it helped them to have a small piece of their loved ones final resting place. Unfortunately, coming from Staten Island, I have too many stories about people who were lost, my family attended funerals for months afterwards. I think like most people have said, we can just never forget and make sure this never happens again.

 

[TanyaLovesPooh]

We watched a show on Discovery last night about it. No matter how many times I see that 2nd plane crash into the tower it just takes my breath away. It still is just so shocking to see.

 

[Wild4Walt]

I agree. It's hard and painful and it sucks to relive, but we need to. I think it's our responsibility to never forget what happened and how it made us feel. I'm sure there are others out there that would disagree, but how will we teach the future if we forget the past.

 

[aGoofyMom]

It is still surreal to me. My Mom was staying with us. As soon as DH & I got up she came running to tell us. This was just after the second plane hit. I sat and watched the towers fall with her. My 9-day old DD was sleeping on the floor, being watched over by her "mama cat" (Our one cat was very maternal and adopted all infants as hers to watch over). Mom had been staying with us to help with our first baby. Mom was born in Europe in 1941. She remembers things. She was very upset & called my Dad to come up right away. I am a civillian member of a local FD. I was torn - to be at home with my newborn or be at the firehall with my brothers & sisters whose pain from a distance I understood.
I was a member of an on line Mommies group - all due in September that year. If I recall correctly, one watched it from her hospital room.

The life and death and knowing my Mom was having wartime memories from her childhood swirling all around me - it was just very surreal. I can't imagine what the families of the thousands went through that day and in the days that followed. And I hope no one else ever has to find out.

 

[SamIAm21]

I work in an office building directly across the street from the Sears Tower. Needless to say, upon my arrival at work that day, we were all sitting near the TV when they announced there could be other planes in the air. Well it didn't take an evacuation announcement, we all started hightailing it for the door. If the Sears came down, it would take this building with it.

It was hard to leave the city, watching the Sears Tower fade into the distance while on the Metra train. I couldn't help but think that I may never see it that way again.

I got home two hours later as the train made every stop to accomodate anyone who jumped on board that day. I didn't mind the ride though, packed in like sardines, because I was safe. I tried to call my DH, but the cell lines were jammed, but oddly, I was able to call down to Florida to tell my parents I was okay. I rushed to pick up my DD from day care and just went home.

I didn't really "lose it" for a few weeks though. My dd was walking in our yard and the grass had seeded, but it left brown powder on her shoes. I panicked thinking we had been sprayed with anthrax... which was a very freakish thing to think, but that's when I had a complete meltdown. I cried for about an hour because I felt powerless to help or do anything. That's when I realized, I had to give it to God and just trust that he would do right by me and my family. I couldn't control this or handle it in anyway. I wasn't big enough to change and simply had to have faith.

 

[kimbac3]

I still have trouble thinking about it without crying. It was so close and so real. My dad has been a firefighter all my life and Dh is a firefighter as well.

I can still hear the beeping from all of the firefighters' personal safety devices - they start beeping when the firefighter stops moving

Also I remember cringing every time a plane flew overhead - I did that for months.

It's still so raw - it sure doesn't feel like it's been 7 years.

Kimba