9/11

[Zemo]

9 years ago this morning, I won't ever forget or forgive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKqO0FeaCFQ

[BENDY]

same here.

[renegade]

They're showing it in real time on MSNBC today. Great change to put your kids in front of the TV that were not born or too young.

[Mikey]

Still remember where I was when I heard the news that morning.
Standing in the line at the post office mailing a Mego Museum member's package.
A Mego Mr Fantastic to be exact.

[The Toyroom]

Saw some commotion in the break room at work as a few people passed by and huddled around the TV....Never thought those towers would crumble down like that.....

[LadyZod]

I was getting ready to to go work. We all thought it was a small private plane. It wasn't until I notice the highway was pretty much deserted that I switched on Howard Stern and listened to him describe the chaos.

I reached a co-worker's home to pick him up and he told me to come in and we stood there watching it on the TV as the second tower fell. Again, we thought we were watching a replay of the first tower until we saw the word "Live" in the corner.

When we reached work we all just stood there watching the TV, and when the boss walked in we downright told him he wasn't going to get any work from us and we wanted to go home. So we closed up shop for the day and went home to spend the rest of the day at home with family.

[johnmiic]

I worked a few blocks away at Standard & Poor's on 55 Water Street. We didn't see the first plane hit-or feel it. We did see thousands of pieces of paper floating in the air like snow-flakes. We didn't know how or why. We all ran to the opposite side of the floor an saw a huge hole in one of the towers with smoke & fire pumping out. We saw the second plane hit. The explosion created a shock wave that shook our building and made the windows quiver like jello. That second explosion may not have seemed so large as viewed on NBC from a traffic helicopter but in person, staring up from beneath it, it was pretty huge. After that every employee ran for the nearest stairwell and elevator. People from work who stayed close-by at a local bar said the ground shook like an Earthquake when the buildings fell. I managed to walk to Houston Street when people started yelling, "Look! Look!" and you could see the diamond shape of the first tower's roof tumble down and the rumbling was far off but sounded a lot like a subway train stopping too short in a tunnel. I can recall all of this because it's all very surreal to me. However, people working at Moody's Investors Services were right accross the street from the towers and were close enough to see people jump from the buildings and land in front of their own building. They will be having a tougher time than me today.

[TEXASFETT]

I was in the back of a A/C supply shop was slow that day but was taking inventory and the news of the first plane was crazy.I was what are the odds of that happening but then the second plane hit I was shocked. I was O boy I think where gonna go to war with somebody. Time flies but a very unforgotten day to us all and may God Bless the lives that where lost that day!

[Megospidey]

I was driving in my car on the interstate and a buddy of mine called me and said, "You are not going to believe this...."

[AAAAA]

3,000 souls never went home that day.

[Cmonster]

Remembering my good friend Neil Leavy today, a NYC firefighter, who died when the towers collapsed. I grew up with him, we were in the same class at St. Roch's on Staten Island and played little league together. We used to eat whatchamacalit's and drink yohoo every day after school. I miss that guy... Rest in peace, Neil. You may be gone, buddy but never forgotten.

SC

[johnnystorm]

We had just walked out of the Doctor's office after my wife went for a sonogram and they showed us the first look at the beauty who was our baby daughter. We were so happy, got in the car, radio came on and...

a day never to be forgotten. God bless all those who passed that day, and God bless all who still live with it.

[Bizarro Amy]

I was working a split shift at a daycare, and had just come home from the morning session and dozed off when my mom woke me up, having seen the first plane hit on the news. I sat up just in time to see the second one hit, and like many people, assumed it was just a replay. The school where our daycare was held had a half-day, so we had to go in early, call parents to come get their kids home, and close up again.

[Mikey]

Was looking at plans for the memorial on the site.

Man, it's going to be big --- 2 huge square waterfalls falling into the 2 WTC basements.

[Joe90]

I remember that morning so vividly. The first tower had been hit and I tuned into the news to find out what happened. By the time I got to work the second tower was in flames. I got bits of news throughout the day but was spared from seeing the truly horrible. I heard about it, but I didn't want to see it. The networks had agreed not to replay that footage. It was only 2 years ago, while flipping through television channels that I was confronted with the horror that some of the 9/11 victims went through before they died. It was only a few seconds, but it shocked and angered me. I understand there's a documentary called "The Falling Man" and in it they investigate and discover who that poor soul was.

I'm ambivalent about that: I believe that these people need their story told because it is one of the Horrors of 9/11, but a part of me feels that those video shots should remain left unseen in honour of their final moments.