Posted on 09/07/2006 4:25:59 PM PDT by NewLand
As the 5th anniversary of the cowardly and tragic attack on America approaches, let us look back and remember as if we were there.
Many people were here on FR, reporting events with lightning speed, with unique insights, with analytical accuracy, with sadness, with anger.
Here are some links to the "live" threads from 9/11/01 here on FR. For those of you who have never seen them, it is like watching a piece of history unfold before you, in the familiar style of FR. For those who have seen before but not in a long time, this will be a good memory. For those who have revisited these threads many times over the years, and have continued to post on them, please continue to participate.
This can also be a great place and time for people to share their unique and special 9/11 stories...where they were, who was there, who they knew...who they lost.
We all lost 3000+ fellow Americans that day. As said many times here on FR....
NEVER FORGET! ALWAYS REMEMBER!
Amen to that. Were you 'logged in'... :)
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Mark
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I can not blame the principal, at that point, we did not know what else would happen. We also had kids and teachers who had family working at the Pentagon and world trade center.
By the end of the school day I would say about 1/4 of the students went home early when their parents came and picked them up. Can't blame them either, we are about 10 miles from the 119th. They are the planes that were sent out to patrol the skies after the attacks. One of my students father was one of the pilots.
They are a merger of evil proportions.
Do you recaall where you were that day?
Thanks for adding the link.
Both my husband and I worked second shift at the time, so I was still asleep. He got up before me and came in and woke me up about 10 AM (central). He told me what was going on, but it was so crazy that I figured he had to be mistaken. I got up and they kept replaying the video over and over on Fox. I couldn't cry. I couldn't do anything, because I was just so stunned. It felt so unreal.
They shut down my office that day, so I just sat on the couch flipping between all the different news channels. In the following days I still was too stunned to cry (odd because I cry at everything) and what finally did it was when The Star-Spangled Banner was played at the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. It still chokes me up now.
ON THE NET...
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911news2.html
Oh my. How could you not at that point.
My wife (little rebel) remembers that well..and had the same reaction.
Keep your tissues handy...
After I got to the store, she called me, crying, to say the first WTC tower had fallen. People at the store were beginning to talk about it. As I drove home, she called again, barely able to speak, to tell me the second tower had fallen. "Please, please come home now!"
I got home a few minutes later and we watched it on TV as we prepared to leave (we were meeting her parents from Texas, so there was no consideration of cancelling). We made a decision to allow our two oldest children, at that time 14 and 11, to watch it all with us. That afternoon, we drove to Branson (about a 3 1/2 hour drive) and were surprised by the long gas lines and the rapidly escalating gas prices (many of those stations were subsequently prosecuted by the AG for price gouging, a crime in Missouri).
We met my in-laws in Branson, where we were renting a large cabin. We did Branson stuff during the days, went to shows at night, then watched Fox News until about 3:00 am each night. The Branson entertainers changed their shows to meet the emotional needs we all had. There was a lot of patriotism (even more than normal for that great town) and prayers. I will never forget that week and now, five years later, I am as angry as I was that day. I, for one, will never forget.
Late for work bump.
I watched them fall at the Mudd Hall.
Dude, we need to beer and chess.
Is there a link somewhere to listen to the 911 calls from that terrible day?
PLEASE EVERBODY FLY YOUR FLAG! SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!This country should be a shroud of red white and blue this weekend. Remember and fly that flag!
Here is one place to begin.
Incredible stuff. Amazing how many people have similar stories to tell.
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