Did Everyone Forget Today?

CallMeAl · 2024-09-11T23:50:39+00:00

23 years ago All of our lives changed... What hits me most, is one of the lost in tower 1, was someone I had made a deal with on GEA...in essence, a brothe...

johnnydoom

sdandrea1 Par4QC Or horse racing.

I wondered what you called it .....,.

I think a Chicago reverend once referred to it as "riding dirty". Is the Shannon Sharpe tape already on TV🤣

Bravopilot

johnnydoom Really, people want to know what she looks like.😁

johnnydoom

Back to the topic, I haven't forgotten 9/11. I didn't have any relatives or friends directly impacted and so I don't have any personal trauma to reflect upon. My daughter's birthday is the very next day (5 years later) and we were rather happy that it didn't come on 9/11. Happy that there haven't been any more major incidents domestically since, sad that the spirit of the 4th amendment may have been shredded in the process. Will always remember the somber atmosphere among the people and the bus ride home from Denver with co-workers and customers from the trade show we were at.

KCee

I don't think I can ever forget that day. Drove by NYC when it was still smoldering and went into the city not long after and saw the ashes everywhere even though I was blocks away.

I remember probably 10 years ago my oldest, who was 2 when 9/11 occurred, had to write a paper about it and interview people that at least saw it on TV. I was actually crying as I talked about it....I'm not really a cryer. Then 6 years later my youngest has the same assignment. I won't cry this time as it's been a while....nope still crying. I can't really think about 9/11 or Sandy Hook without a lump in my throat and teary eyes.

ode

I know it's rhetorical......but never. Discussed on walk break with colleagues.and essentially a "where were you".....we have all been at current job🥺 for that long......celebrated a bday that week with a few of them at par 3 course and pizza in the bar after. Arriving to work that day many were huddled in an office discussing, that's how I found out. I got my mind right and.continied on with the day!

mulegolf

I was working in my 911 Center that day and watched it on the tv in the Center. No, I'll never forget that day. Two things
I'll never forget are this day and the day President Kennedy was shot and killed. My wife had a high school classmate
die at the Pentagon that day. I knew her slightly but my wife knew her well.

Taki27

I was working at 7 WTC and got in early that morning. Many of my coworkers were there for the 1994 bombing so they were visibly panicked. We were told that a plane hit the WTC but when you would see people in the Courtyard they would talk about how close Cesna planes would come. The WTC buildings were massive. Only a few floors taller than the Empire State Building but seemed to be twice the size. We weren’t able to get out but they were letting people in to avoid the falling debris. We were still in the lobby when the second plane hit and a few of the lobby windows blew in. The building security was awesome. They let us out but told us just walk in a certain direction and don’t look back. A lot of what happened next was a blur but will never forget the sheer number of jumpers holding suit jackets as a makeshift parachute flying down the side of the building. After we got out I saw some coworkers watching and I told them to head uptown because the tops of the buildings were gonna come down. I figured they would tilt sideways and come off from the weight and the structural issues. I never imagined they would come down. I can’t even imagine what anyone in those buildings went through, even the ones that got out.

What people don’t realize is that if the first plane hit at 10 instead of 8:45, approx 8,000-10,000 more would have died.

SVonhof

I was getting off a commuter train on the way into work when a guy with a walkman told people about a plane hitting the World Trade Center and I figured he meant a small plane. Got into work and turned on my radio and heard what was going on. Tried to get live feeds online and they were not good. After the second plane hit, they told us all to go home. The train wasn't going back home that early in the day so I got a ride from a coworker who lived near me (75 miles away).

My wife worked in the local ER and everyone was called in that afternoon, but we were in CA, so nothing happened, but they were ready.

We went to NYC in 2002 with friends and saw my wife's cousin and she was in a school where kids had parents that didn't come home. They were far enough away that the dust was not a problem, but they had to keep all the kids until parents came and how hard would that be to have kids with nobody to pick them up? She was in tears as we were leaving, heading down on the red line train to the WTC to see the place where it happened 14 months later as it brought back memories again.

potbunker

Watched the History Channel with footage sharing various perspectives and I can easily remember all the details from that day.

One of my wife's former high school students was in a tower.

The student left with her co-workers and separated from them to assist an unknown pregnant woman exit.

The co-workers made it out safely, the student was never see again nor her remains recovered.

Mattyv

Always a strange day for me. My birthday is on 9/11 and it has never been the same after. I was working in the Air Freight business at the time and our business came to a screeching halt until the skies opened back up. Our country hasn't been the same since that day and it is sad.

Bravopilot

I was a pilot with American Airlines then, flying the Airbus 300 out of JFK. Was on a Delta 767 at Dulles Intl outside of DC catching a ride to work at JFK. Later, Nov 12 2001, An American A300 crashed after take-off from JFK. At that time, it was too easy for anybody to get into the cockpit.

Airline life sucked and that was it for me, my kids were scared already, and I did not enjoy the lifestyle.

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