Always enjoy your posts, Blood of Tyrants.
Will read the responses tomorrow or much later in the evening.
Can’t do this today.
The friends I/We lost that day...it gets harder instead of easier and who knows why?
Maybe the changes in thinking as one ages makes the losses more profound and harder hitting.
Maybe the fact that those that died shouldn’t be in pictures up at parties and gatherings to remember them, but they should be there ALIVE.
Maybe the subtle changes in children that I’ve seen grow up without their dads who never quite seem to smile all the way.
And the Beautiful, majestic Towers. Those of us who had the pleasure of working in them. Of marveling at them. Of enjoying watching them from the staten island ferry on the way home as the sun set.
What a thing of beauty!!! Showing what a Republic and a capitalist yet God fearing society could build!
And we replaced them with some kind of building though I’ll be damned if I know what that HORRIFIC monstrosity is supposed to be.
It makes one want to weep. Why? Because the Twin Towers WERE majestic and they WERE beautiful, at least to me.
And they will never be beautiful again.
To add insult to injury we waited and waited for a justice that never came.
BTW, a piece of history. Only ONE MAN built a prototype of what the new towers should look like that MOST NYers agreed with.
THEY WERE EXACTLY LIKE THE OLD ONES!!!!
This was a man of vision and greatness!! A man who thought like the average NYer and didn’t want the monstrosities that are there now to darken our skies.
His idea was turned down.
But he had some relative success later in life as he became POTUS in 2016.
Good day to all.
There is not a finer group of people to share this day’s pain/memories/love of country with than all of you people here.
Never forget.
Can’t do this today, as I knew some that were killed and know people who lost family and friends.
Thank you!
Communication totally different in 2001. Survivors waited on line to use pay phones. Most people used pagers not cell phones. Though BlackBerry worked that day. Bush was circling on Air Force One which had no access to communication. CNN had a live feed at the towers 3 min after first plane hit.