Remembering...

[RashoFan]

Today is the fifth anniversary. Still hard to believe that happened.
Please take a moment to remember those that are no longer with their friends and families because of this terrible event.
Please take another moment to pray for those that are protecting our freedom and pray for those who gave their lives to protect our freedom.
Never forget...
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[spurschick]

http://www.spurschick.com/america.html

[Taco]

http://www.spurschick.com/america.html
:tu

[samikeyp]

Good stuff Spurschick.




Never forget.

[MannyIsGod]

CNN is replaying thier coverage from that day on their internet service pipeline. I believe the service is free today if you want to watch. Its probably not easy to watch, but I'm watching it none the less. Can't believe its already been five years.

[KEDA]

CBS Made a book and it came with a DVD with the live coverage from Sept 11

very hard to watch, even 5 years later.


NEVER FORGET

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[CharlieMac]

CNN is replaying thier coverage from that day on their internet service pipeline. I believe the service is free today if you want to watch. Its probably not easy to watch, but I'm watching it none the less. Can't believe its already been five years.

Thanks for the heads up.

[PakiDan]

My brother and I were at the WTC site in NYC last weekend... What an emotional site. How quickly everyone forgets.

[samikeyp]

True.

I was visiting my family in July of 2002 and we went there and it was very powerful...I imagine it is still as powerful today.

[1Parker1]

I can't believe it's been 5 years. Looking back after all this time, I still can't believe something like that happened.

[tlongII]

What does Remebering mean?

[trueD]

Thanks for the thread RashoFan. Sad day indeed, and memories are being refreshed all over the world watching the CNN online coverage, myself included.

Of the 2,973 people confirmed killed, the following is a breakdown of those public servants and civilians:

NYFD: 343
NYPD: 23
PA Police: 37
Pentagon: 125

American Airlines Flight 11: 88
United Airlines Flight 175: 59
American Airlines Flight 77: 59
United Airlines Flight 93: 40

World Trade Center: 2,199 (of course, the World Trade Center was where Flight 11, Flight 175 and most-if not all-the NYFD, NYPD and PA Police were lost but for the purpose of my point I have left the number of those victims in their own category above)

Estimated survivors of the WTC: 16,000

Still missing: 24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks#_note-5

Please forgive if this take sounds crass: Only 2,199 civilian deaths in and around the WTC, in an attack of this magnitude, is remarkable. Especially considering that an estimated 50,000 people worked at the WTC. If this attack had been later in the day many more would have lost their lives, as it wasn't yet 9:00 a.m. when the attacks began.

Good Bless those family members who were left behind, those who helped to save lives and also those who managed to escape with their lives.

Edit: in italics

[jman3000]

i remember that morning i learned during football practice before school. i thought cesna's when they said a plane had crashed into the building... but when i finally got to a tv my mind was blown.

[trueD]

i remember that morning i learned during football practice before school. i thought cesna's when they said a plane had crashed into the building... but when i finally got to a tv my mind was blown.I was driving to work when I heard the news, during which time the Pentagon was hit. My daughter was living in L.A. with her dad at the time (I live in Sacramento) and I almost just kept driving to L.A. to pick her up and bring her home!

It was very scary being separated from her during the attacks. She was able to get home the next day by road.

[trueD]

P.S. All reports were, at the beginning, that a Cesna had gone into the building.

[jman3000]

i think that's pretty much what you have to had thought. the idea of somebody doing that with such a large aircraft was foreign to a lot of people.

[trueD]

i think that's pretty much what you have to had thought. the idea of somebody doing that with such a large aircraft was foreign to a lot of people.So true, and before the 2nd plane hit it wasn't even known yet that the first plane was an attack.

Did you feel safe for a year afterwards? I know I didn't.

[samikeyp]

I have an uncle who lives in manhattan and not being able to talk to him was rough...luckily he was out of town but I didn't know that until later.

[alamo50]

I put up a little American flag on my computerscreen at work together with a remeberance magnet of the Twin Towers.
Some colleagues laughed at wtf I was doing.
I felt sorry for them.

Always remembered September 11, 2001

[samikeyp]

another reason why Jurgen is cool. :tu

[RashoFan]

What does Remebering mean?
Sorry...hard to type and cry at the same time, I should have used spell check...

[samikeyp]

Its ok Beck...we all understand. :)

[2Blonde]

It's still very hard to process. It took my husband three days to drive home from DC after the attack on the Pentagon. We were very lucky he had a rental car since there was no way he was going to get to fly back. The scariest part was not being able to get in touch with him for hours and not knowing if his meetings were at the Pentagon or off site. Luckily they had been moved off site.

In 2003 we visited up and down the East coast and saw the Pentagon and the WTC site. It was very humbling. I couldn't get over how large that hole in the ground was.