Posted on 09/11/2019 7:13:04 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
I have a very emotional connection to 9/11. Although my wife and I have not personally suffered a close and personal loss, we do know many who did and still grieve. I remember the day like yesterday. Anyway, these songs give me comfort:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=god+bless+america&&view=detail&mid=8EDF0E137F695BD9ABBC8EDF0E137F695BD9ABBC&rvsmid=B71FAD258DD64F177DF8B71FAD258DD64F177DF8&FORM=VDQVAP
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=god+bless+america&view=detail&mid=283F424355EA74662B94283F424355EA74662B94&FORM=VIRE0
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ray+charles+america&view=detail&mid=4CE84295AF9D2D2900354CE84295AF9D2D290035&FORM=VIRE0
Amen.
I agree.
I am a tough guy who has been teary eyed all day long.
It didn’t help that the skies in southcentral Pennsylvania were as crystal clear as they were eighteen years ago.
Not one bit.
It was warmer and we had thunder showers here in NoVa today. I remember the weather that day, 18 years ago, as perfect as could be for a September day.
Thank you so much. One of the greatest tenors of our times.
At 8 AM who could have imagined that such beautiful clear skies were about to be marred with such ugliness, hatred, and EVIL?
Same in NYC suburbia: Bright blue skies and near autumn temps.
Excellent. Thank you.
I’m afraid people will forget all about what 9/11 was about.
On the news tonight, they said how today is the 18th anniversary of 9/11. They interviewed somebody from a school, who said they discussed with the students, that 9/11 should teach all of us to be nice to each other, and that you never know when life may change or end.
There was no mention of Muslim terrorism, no mention of Al Qaeda and Bin Laden, and no mention of exactly what happened on 9/11/01.
If one didn’t already know what 9/11 was about, you would never know it from today’s news.
I recall the D-Day commemoration mentioned that D-Day was the Normandy invasion during World War II. Why is it ok to tell us what D-Day was about, but apparently the news media playbook does not allow a full discussion of what 9/11 was about?
Some people did something. That’s all they need to know. /s
18 years later and sometimes I have nightmares of the poor souls who jumped to their deaths. It haunts me.
I live in New Jersey. One thing I will always remember on that horrible day was how stunningly and so strikingly blue the sky was. It made the smoke and flames all the more horrid and ugly.
And then we have this: https://nypost.com/2019/09/12/mets-pete-alonso-wasnt-about-to-let-mlb-stop-his-9-11-tribute/
I remember the blue skies and the silence, except for the occasional military jet patrolling the area. At the time, I lived within the landing pattern of EWR, JFK, LGA, HPN, and SWF, and at any given moment, there were usually several commercial jets circling the airports waiting to land. But then the skies shut down, and there was silence — blue skies and dead, eery, silence.
I also recall seeing what I later found out was AA Flight 11 flying low down the Hudson River Valley, low even for a jet landing at nearby SWF or HPN, the two closest airports to my house. A few minutes later, FR Breaking News reported the first crash into the WTC North Tower.
A few days after 9/11, the entire US Congress joined together to sing God Bless America. Eighteen years later, the Philadelphia Flyers will no longer play the song at its games because the PC culture has determined the song is a racist symbol of white privilege. So, what have we learned and what have we accomplished since “some people did something?” Not much, it seems.
My (late) father lost a friend on that horrible day. My father was a constructive executive who had renovated the offices of a very prestigious Wall Street law firm and got to know the buildings operations manager. On 9/11 the man John Ernst Eichler had been in the Windows On The World Restaurant having a meeting with his broker about setting up a scholarship for inner city kids. When the plane hit both men were trapped and perished. My youngest brother was a sous chef in NYC at the time and was teaching a class of developmentally challenged adults the basics of banquet preparation as part of a program run by The Port Authority and the New York State Dept. of Education. Many of his students later were given jobs working in The Sky Box Cafe in the South Tower. The woman who ran the program and was the manager liked my brother and offered him the job of managing the cafe but he had a better paying job at the time. On 9/11 at least 12 of his students were all killed when the plane hit the Tower. My brother says sometimes at night, in his dreams he see’s their faces, they call to him for help but he can’t do anything for them.
My other younger brother was in down town Jersey City at the building department that morning around 9am when someone ran into the building and yelled “The Trade Centers on fire!’’. He ran out of the building and looked east just as the second plane hit and watched the whole thing go down. He even saw people jumping. He said “It looked like wax dripping from a candle’’. He too suffers nightmares sometimes because of what he saw.And to round out this quartet of 9/11 horror 9/11 is my oldest brothers birthday.
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