REPLAYING 9/11 IN ALL ITS AGONY

New York Post ^ | 5/26/02 | PHILIP RECCHIA

[kattracks]

People flee a nightmarish rubble cloud on Sept. 11. HBO's "In Memoriam" will air dramatic footage shot by 118 New Yorkers.

May 26, 2002 -- Bodies tumble from the Twin Towers. "God almighty!" a voice cries out. "Holy s---!" yells another.

[areafiftyone]

Oh I don't know if I can watch it. Its going to be so heart-wrenching re-living that day. I can remember going into my building and complaining about a truck driver not stopping to let me pass thinking that my day was gonna be rotten. Then I hear screams and crying from my co-workers and I look out the window and see the smoke and stuff while I posted on Free Republic. I can remember that day from beginning to end.

[Senator Pardek]

Remembrance Archive: Free Republic Threads From 9-11-01

[Cicero]

I'm not sure if I can watch it, either. Just reading about 9/11 makes me tear up, and I still can't walk in that part of Manhattan without remembering the dead and what happened that day.

But I think it's a good thing that the media are reviving 9/11, because a lot of Americans seem to have short memories, or at least a lot of media commentators, politicians, and intellectuals seem to have short memories. Bush said we are in this war for the long haul, and maybe people need to be reminded why.

[areafiftyone]

Oh my god I just re-read my posting. Thanks for the archive.
FREEPER VOICES FROZEN IN TIME!

[abner]

I remember worrying about you. I'm glad you are still with us.

Check out something I wanted to do before 9/11, but I went and did it after 9/11.

US Flag Balloon Inaugural Flight

[Dec31,1999]

Islamic Jihad bump. They are winning.

[areafiftyone]

WOW! Words can't describe how cool that is! I am glad you did it after 9/11 (there was a reason for the delay from god above) Thank you.

[VOA]

Then, amid the horrified exclamations, comes a third, angry voice: "Don't take pictures of that!"

But pictures were taken. Video was shot

I really understand those who objected to recording the horrors of that day.

But I remember when Gen. Schwarzkopf hosted a 50th Anniverary of Pearl Harbor special
on ABC (just months after Desert Storm).
He said that the US government had seized press photographers film used
to photo garbage cans full of amputated limbs from the hospitals that took in the wounded
in the aftermath of Dec. 7th, 1941.
(I suspect this was to not offend the sensitivities of the American public...AND...
to make sure that all Japanese-Americans won't lynched en-masse in one night of
mis-directed revenge.)

Knowing how august, elite institutions including the likes of The Smithsonian Institution
like to re-write history...I then determined that no matter how hideous, history must be fully
and faithfully recorded.

Thanks to all the cameras and video-cams in the hands of professionals and amateur
citizens...there most likely won't be a successful revision of what happened
9-11-01.

[areafiftyone]

If they took pictures of what I think they did its going to be very graphic. My co-workers had to walk around the bodies that fell out of the windows. The said the ground was full of blood and very slippery. Sorry for the graphic words but that is all we talked about when we went back to work.

[abner]

(there was a reason for the delay from god above)

Sometimes you just need someone to point that out. Thanks for being the one. LOL!

You are right about words not being able to describe how it looks. I still can't.

[CyberAnt]

"I was grabbing the dust from the ground, thinking he was in it," she says"

This statement is ripping me apart.

[rwfromkansas]

It is very graphic, but it is also the truth.

[July 4th]

I've always wondered how many horrifying answering machine messages there are out there, after people in the WTC tried to contact loved ones unsuccessfully. Keeping things like this on record are important.

[EggsAckley]

I just read one thread in the archive, the one where we just realized what happened, before the
second plane, and it was like being there again. I started breathing heavily and shaking.
How innocent we were before 9/11.

[areafiftyone]

Try not to torture yourself. I re-read it cause I know I posted on that day from my office but I couldn't read the whole thing either. HBO will broadcasting the special in 45 minutes. I will probably turn it on and off according to how I take it emotionally. I am already sick in my stomach thinking about the program. But my need to deal with it is making me watch.

[fnord]

I hope some will post after the show, and let us HBO-less know how it was. I need to find someone with HBO so I can tape a rerun ...

[redhead]

CLICK

CLICK

[rintense]

I just watched the first part and saw footage of the planes I had never seen before. And with every frame played, September 11th came crashing back into my memory.

The exact moment I found out.
Who I was talking to.
Where I was.
The frantic search for a television.
The eyewitness accounts on freerepublic.

Every detail, every minute, and every second of that day came back... and so did the tears, the continual crying, the sorrow, and the anger.

I am still crying as I think of that day. It's etched into my psyche forever- in our psyche forever. We will never forget.

If you don't have HBO, have someone you know tape it for you.

[BILL FROM TROUT CREEK PASS]

EVERY STINKING DEMONCRAT IN THE COUNTRY, TUM DASHOLE, DICKY GEPHARD ET AL SHOULD BE FORCED TO WATCH THIS SHOW OVER AND OVER. IT IS THE TRUE LEGACY OF THE CLINTON ERA. MAKES ME SICK AFTER SEEING IT LIVE AND NOW THIS SHOW, THEN WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE DEMONCRATS COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR BEING LEFT OUT OF ALL THE INTELLIGENCE. FROM EVERYTHING I HAVE SEEN AND HEARD IN THE PAST MONTHS, I CAN ONLY CONCLUDE THAT THE LIBERAL DEMONCRATS IN THIS COUNTRY WERE THE CAUSE OF 9-11, BIN LADEN AND THE SICK MUSLIMS WERE ONLY THE TOOLS.