My memory? Where was I?
I was walking through the house while getting ready for work, when I glanced at the TV, which I don't usually watch. There was a view of the WTC with smoke pouring out the upper floors and the reporter on Fox News was saying that a plane of some kind had hit the building. There was no panic, just reporting the incident and wondering how it happened and what kind of plane it was. While I stood there, the 2nd plane hit the other tower. My heart nearly stopped and of course, like everyone else, I KNEW that was no accident.
I went on to work and everyone was scared and glued to the tiny TV we had in the back room of the store. I worked in the mall and we finally closed at 1 and went home, because it was pretty much empty. Not only did I work in Bush's hometown but his mother in law still lived there, and we all feared that Midland, Texas, would be a prime target for people who hated the president. We also found out that the Pentagon had been hit and the plane had gone down in PA.
For the rest of that day and the rest of the week, I, like the rest of the world, was glued to the set, my heart breaking.
1 posted on
09/11/2017 6:00:15 PM PDT by
luvie
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To: LUV W
Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list
Taking the First Step
September 12, 2017
God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting peoples sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:19
Tham Dashu sensed something was missing in his life. So he started going to churchthe same church his daughter attended. But they never went together. In earlier days, he had offended her, which drove a wedge between them. So, Tham would slip in when the singing started and leave promptly after the service ended.
Church members shared the gospel story with him, but Tham always politely rejected their invitation to put his faith in Jesus. Still, he kept coming to church.
One day Tham fell gravely ill. His daughter plucked up the courage and wrote him a letter. She shared how Christ had changed her life, and she sought reconciliation with her dad. That night, Tham put his faith in Jesus and the family was reconciled. A few days later, Tham died and entered into the presence of Jesusat peace with God and his loved ones.
The apostle Paul wrote that we are to try to persuade others about the truth of Gods love and forgiveness (2 Cor. 5:11). He said that it is Christs love [that] compels us to carry out His work of reconciliation (v. 14).
Our willingness to forgive may help others realize that God desires to reconcile us to Himself (v. 19). Would you lean on Gods strength to show them His love today?
Is there someone you need to try to reconcile with? What practical first step can you take today?
Our willingness to seek reconciliation with others shows Gods heart to them.
The ministry of reconciliation Paul describes in 2 Corinthians 5:18 is the story of the gospel. We were alienated from God, but in His mercy and grace He reached out to us. In sending Jesus, the Father extended the greatest offer of peace in human historythe Prince of Peace Himself.
For more on reconciliation, consider What Do You Do with a Broken Relationship? at discoveryseries.org/q0703.
Bill Crowder
2 posted on
09/11/2017 6:00:35 PM PDT by
The Mayor
(Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
To: LUV W
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CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (Jan. 14, 2008) The first major snowfall of the New Year blankets the USS Constitution. Despite the weather "Old Ironsides" remained open for free public tours. At 210 years-old, USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, manned by 67 active-duty United States Sailors and visited by nearly half a million visitors annually. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Brown (Released)
GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!!!
Boston, Oct. 21, 2009 - Boatswains Mate 2nd Class Philip Gagnon pipes as USS Constitution performs an underway demonstration in honor of the three-masted wooden frigate's 212th birthday. (U.S. Navy photo by Airman Mark Alexander/Released).
USS Constitution's 1812 Marine Guard fire vintage Springfield flintlock muskets during the ship's underway. "Old Ironsides" was underway for the "Constitution Day Cruise," which is conducted to thank the family and supporters of Constitution. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Nick Lyman (Released)
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3 posted on
09/11/2017 6:00:37 PM PDT by
ConorMacNessa
(FMF Corpsman - Lima 3/5 RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: LUV W
4 posted on
09/11/2017 6:01:17 PM PDT by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: LUV W
At 20,000 feet in a private plane when I was told to land immediately. See, it was general aviation that took the hit from 9/11, closed down all GA airports for months.
5 posted on
09/11/2017 6:01:58 PM PDT by
SkyDancer
(Notice How Our Symbol Of America Is Brown And White?)
To: LUV W
Thank You so much for posting Luv W.
It was so long ago, yet I remember it better than I do yesterday.
6 posted on
09/11/2017 6:03:00 PM PDT by
KC_Lion
(If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
To: LUV W
I was actually on FR when I first saw what was happening.
I did not have a computer but had just purchased a WEB TV device and was hooked up to my television. At first I wasn’t sure what was going on.
14 posted on
09/11/2017 6:12:56 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: LUV W
The clock radio had just woke us up, my wife turned to me and said something is happening in New York.
I made coffee, showered, got dressed and turned on Fox News and watched in amazement as the twin towers were on fire.
I went to work and my boss and I spent the morning at a customers house but we both decided to call it a day at lunchtime and I went home, and with the rest of America, watched the events unfold on the TV, watching in horror and disgust as America was under attack.
15 posted on
09/11/2017 6:13:27 PM PDT by
PROCON
(#MAGA)
To: LUV W
I was in my car on the way to work and listening to the news on the radios. The electronic signs on the highway said something like “Airport Closed - National Emergency.” The first thing I did when I got to work was call family to make sure that my pilot relatives were okay (one flies for American, the other for United).
A pox on Muhammed Atta, Osama bin Laden and gang, and the false “religion” Islam.
17 posted on
09/11/2017 6:15:25 PM PDT by
Cecily
To: LUV W
I was on Amtrak's
Coast Starlight traveling from Seattle to San Jose to attend a conference of West Coast passenger rail advocacy groups. I was on my way to the dining car when I received word from one of our members on the train that the two WTC towers had fallen and that the Pentagon had been attacked.
Our California counterparts were at their emergency stations, and our Oregon counterparts who were flying down from Portland were stuck at the airport because the skies were shut down. As a result the conference was canceled. One of our members lost friends at the WTC. I ended up at the motel watching the carnage unfold on CNN and marveled at the silence of the skies except for the fighter planes making regular passes over the area.
Getting home the next day was another tale.
According to CNN, people stranded away from home were hitchhiking, renting cars or searching for interstate buses. Nobody outside the Northeast Corridor knew that we had a national network of passenger trains that was still running.
The Coast Starlight was three hours late into San Jose. We were placed "in the hole" on a siding in the Sierras for five hours because of a rail terror scare in Utah that turned out to be nothing more than an engineer running a red block signal. We missed every dispatching window on the Union Pacific and were 12 hours late into Portland. Once we got onto the BNSF tracks in Washington state, I could feel the dispatchers in Fort Worth moving us from track to track to get us around slow moving freights. We held to 12 hours late into Seattle, which meant we arrived at 4:30 AM. But the Amtrak employees were there to serve us despite the hour, and the lights of King Street Station never looked more welcoming. I was glad to be home.
Without the train, we would have been stranded in San Jose for weeks or thumbing it up old Route 99.
19 posted on
09/11/2017 6:15:58 PM PDT by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
To: LUV W
I was sitting in my room switching back and forth between an episode of Mash and Fox News. I got back to Fox News and they announced an aircraft had struck the WTC. They initially reported the aircraft as a Cessna...
22 posted on
09/11/2017 6:17:33 PM PDT by
W.
(What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
To: LUV W
I was working for the FAA then. We had a new guy that asked where he could get a cup of coffee so I took him to the cafeteria. I was talking to some friends drinking coffee watching the smoke form the first tower when the second plane hit. It turned out to be a busy historic day.
24 posted on
09/11/2017 6:18:22 PM PDT by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: LUV W
I was upstairs getting my youngest son ready for school when my wife came upstairs and said “A plane just flew into the World Trade Center.” My immediate response was “What do those people have against those buildings?” I instinctively knew who what and why. What happened later of course was stunning.
As the day went on, I thought it must have been how my parents felt on December 7, 1941. But thinking about it more, this was worse. At least the Japanese intended to properly declare war first, but botched the timing. They also attacked a legitimate military target, and were under orders to scrupulously avoid inflicting casualties on the civilian population. They also offered an opponent we could fight and defeat in traditional combat.
So much of this war was and is so different and so wrong. Admiral Yamamoto apocryphally stated “We have only awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” He was right; our terrible resolve laid waste to his country. After we’d killed him of course. But nobody said that about us 16 years ago. The resolve wasn’t there. How else can you explain that only seven years after being attacked by Muslim extremists, we put one in the White House?
28 posted on
09/11/2017 6:23:53 PM PDT by
henkster
(We are living in an Orwellian era.)
To: LUV W
Drove my husband to work and on the way back stopped at my mothers house. She asked at the door, “Did you see the plane that crashed in NY?”
I thought it was like when the plane crashed into the Empire State Building in the 40s (mom worked in the building at the time). It did not bring the building down.
So I said, ‘yeah, I heard part of it on the radio’.
I came in, saw her tv, saw the Twin Towers crumbling, and sank down onto the Ottoman. Could not speak for about 30 min as I watched the news unfolding.
Btw, I live in Phx. On the way back in a Big Lot’s parking lot I saw 5 guys dressed in the same manner as Osama Bin Laden. They were all in the middle of the parking lot, in a little circle, laughing.
Before anyone knew of the connection.
31 posted on
09/11/2017 6:25:06 PM PDT by
Beowulf9
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We lived on the West Coast. I was in the shower when my husband came in and said ‘you’ll never believe what just happened!’. I figured it must have been a small plane until I saw the destruction of the first plane. Then the second plane hit and everybody knew it was terrorism. The third plane hit as I was taking our son to high school. I did go to work and, as I drove, I heard the Towers had gone down. I called my good friend, who was a long time flight attendant for American, and she answered.....I have tears in my eyes now, remembering the relief that she wasn’t working on one of the planes. How did this country go from recognizing the evil that hit us, to buckling under for so many petty demands by snowflakes AND terrorists? It boggle the mind. Nearly 3,000 innocent Americans who only went to work or got on a plane. Prayers for our country, may she rise again!
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Sitting in my cubicle on Ft. McNair, across the river east of the Pentagon. I had calling LTG Maude’s office to arrange a visit on Army business for later in the week on my schedule for the day. The airliner struck just below his office killing him and everyone in it.
35 posted on
09/11/2017 6:30:54 PM PDT by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: LUV W
For many, the world continued to turn on 9/11/2001 but stopped turning on a much more traumatic event in their lives, such as when suffering a stroke or heart attack.
38 posted on
09/11/2017 6:32:17 PM PDT by
353FMG
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39 posted on
09/11/2017 6:32:20 PM PDT by
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I was at my parents’ house that morning, having spent the night there because I had been involved in a car accident on the afternoon of September 10th; I woke up, quite sore from the ordeal, and walked into the living room just in time to see the second plane hit the Twin Towers as the news was running live. In disbelief, I turned to my dad, who was sitting forward on his recliner. “We’re being attacked,” he said, getting up from his chair. “We’re at war.” My mom was in the kitchen, praying.
46 posted on
09/11/2017 6:42:08 PM PDT by
Patriot777
("When you see these things begin to happen, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.")
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I was starting my shift at the fire station over a thousand miles away. We were outside doing the normal morning chores and getting ready for the days duties and running calls.
Someone ran out and announced that the first tower had been hit. We went inside and realized that the tower was going to fall and then the second plane hit and that tower and would soon fall. Steel loses roughly 1/2 or its strength at 1000*F.
After the ground stop, it was really odd looking out over DFW Airport approach and departure paths and not seeing a single aircraft in the sky instead of 6 or 8.
It was a very sobering day. We lost 343 of the brotherhood that day.
To: LUV W
I was installing an am/fm radio in a new container lift machine our company just bought.
Listened to reporting all day.
Was one of the most quiet days of my life.
Weird that no commercial planes were flying, but Offutt was super busy.
Saw Bush’s plane fly into the AFB.
56 posted on
09/11/2017 6:49:20 PM PDT by
MountainDad
(A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others. Support your local militia.)
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