Posted on 09/09/2011 5:18:16 PM PDT by usconservative
Wondering if anyone else still gets emotional on Sept. 11th.
I do.
The emotions for me are still pretty raw.
I'm not a New Yorker, I didn't lose friends or family on that day. I didn't lose a wife, daughter, son or father. I can't imagine the pain of those who did.
I'm not a first responder, I didn't dig through the rubble of the fallen towers looking for survivors. I don't know what it's like to be a first responder who's dealing with life threatening illness today as a result of being there, or working on the piles of rubble. I can't imagine the pain they or their families are going through.
I haven't been to Ground Zero since the 9-11 terrorist attack, but I've been to New York and seen the Twin Towers first hand. There was nothing else like them in all the world, they left an impression. I've stood in the plaza where the towers ultimately fell.
I don't know what it's like to walk past the site where the towers stood on a daily basis on my way to work like countless thousands or millions of New Yorkers do on a weekly basis.
I'll never know the pain of those who managed to get out alive, only to question "why did I survive?" when learning of friends and co-workers who perished in the attacks.
What I do know and feel, is that on that day our country fundamentally changed in ways I couldn't begin to imagine on that day, but have experienced since. Like many of you, I watched in stunned horror as the second plane hit the Twin Towers. As we watched the towers burn, we learned of the attack at the Pentagon, and the crash in a Pennsylvania field where a bunch of brave passengers upon learning of their impending fate, took action to prevent another attack, surrendering their own lives in the process. Then, about an hour later we watched the first, then second of the Twin Towers fell to the ground.
I stood there in front of my television that day shaking and crying first in fear, then in sympathy for those who lost loved ones on that day, then rage set in upon realization of what had happened and knowing my young children (5 and 3 at the time) would grow up and live in a world very different from the one I grew up in.
Every year since then on the anniversary of 9-11 I've felt all these same emotions. I still cry and pray for those lost on that day. I still get angry at the muslim terrorists that attacked us, and I still mourn the fact that my (and your) children aren't growing up in the world that we grew up in prior to that day.
Now that the tenth anniversary is coming up, I've been watching and noting the events that will commemorate that day in New York City, and I'm angry that the brave first responders who rushed to the scene, and families who lost loved ones on that day are not invited.
It makes me ask the question "why are they trying to erase the memory and emotions felt on that fateful day, September 11th, 2001?"
And then I just get angry all over again. How dare the Mayor of New York City and the current America-hating President slap the faces of the brave souls who braved conditions they couldn't have known would later impact their lives in devastating ways, and the families of those who lost fathers, mothers, sons and daughters by not including them in the memorial ceremony.
This Sunday, are we all New Yorkers again? Do you still feel the emotion?
I do, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Yes
Yes.
yes, completely. I was listening to Glenn Beck today and he was playing the 911 of the woman looking for her husband and he walked up, covered in ash, while she was still on the phone. It was very emotional and moving. I know I’ll cry alot this weekend.
Yes.
My wife was in the process of leaving me when it happened.
Within the month I would be laid off.
But I no longer get emotional from grief, it comes from a place of being able to survive it all and gratitude for all we have.
Yes
I didn’t think I would until I heard some recordings
of broadcasts during the event itself. Brought it all back.
The emotions evoked were not sympathy or sadness.
Not even close.
Mad as hell.
Yes and I am still mad too.
Yes It piss’s me off
I will never be a NYer, but I am an American. Yes, I still get emotional, and I want to fight back against the ones that did it.
>>>This Sunday, are we all New Yorkers again? Do you still feel the emotion?
Hell yeah.
Go back and read the FREEper Threads from that day if you want to relive it i have done so over the years
You are not alone
I do and while the actual event will always twist my guts, what upsets me even more is that so many ‘Americans’ just don’t care anymore. I didn’t lose anyone on that day but my heart goes out to those who did every time some idiot on tv or in the media minimizes the day, goes off into to muslims whining about their ‘fear and persecution’ and like situations.
And every year some friggin moron like Bloomberg and Obama tries to push that memory further from our minds in the name of ‘healing’ and to further their political goals.
Some of us will never forget.
I was three blocks from ground zero, and the second plane flew right by my apartment window before it hit the second tower. We were evacuated, moved back in weeks later, then I moved to a different building. But I spent the next five years walking the loop around Broadway and the Hudson River, as I had done before it happened, so I saw it all pretty close up.
I will certainly never forget. And there are many personal stories I could tell about it, things I saw or heard from friends.
I have, I can't bear it. I just can't.
Yes. I think I always will. I couldn’t look at the list of victims. A classmate died, I know that because she was an officer in the Port Authority and she was climbing one of the towers with firemen when it collapsed and it was in the news. A cousin by some miracle was running late to work that day and she survived but we didn’t know for about 2 weeks whether or not she was okay. Years ago when working in trust operations I use to wire large sums daily to some trust related businesses in the towers.
Yes, very.
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