I'm not a religious man Hoo Yah, but I share the sentiment. So often your nation has borne the brunt of such murderous activity. We stand with you.

HooYah Deep Sea

For the Americans out there, and to all freedom loving people; tomorrow is the nineteenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and the targeted U.S. Capitol. Please remember to take a moment to honor those lost in the attacks, and since, because of the attacks. Also for the families and friends of those individuals. and may God Bless America.

 

Checked the morning news and its like it never happened.  Just a few blurbs about politicians pandering the event.  I guess we can forget.  Nothing was really mentioned throughout the country a few days ago about the signifigance on VJ day either.  Those who forget history are due to repeat it.  I take a moment every day to think and reflect on those who have sacrificed for the peace that I live in. 

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   This is hard for me. Lost four friends that day. Three on the ground and one in Tower One. The friend on the Ground were E.M.Ts assigned to the area and they sadly all succumbed to injuries that eventually took their lives. The one in Tower One was a long Time, Fishing and Hiking and Archealogical Research Fellow. Visiting His Wife's office that day.

  I saw the plane Hit Tower Two and just lost it. Yes, I am a man, But the sheer Waste because of some Extreme beliefs. NOT the beliefs of other friends Who I had to step up and Protect that Day. They were both Muslims and Sikhs, They wore Turbans. I cried that day and still do when I see the photo clips. I will NEVER forget that day.

     Today I go to the park in my favorite spot by the lake and remember. Then a silent prayer for their families and Home.

Gee friggin' whiz! It's been almost twenty years!?! 

I've always heard boomers talk about the Kennedy assassination being burned into their memory. I was too young for that. I sorta remember the attempt on President Reagan's life. But I remember 9/11 clearly. We were at work and there was a small B&W TV there in a storage room. We pulled it out and watched the plane slam into the second tower. I've seen a few TV shows advertised in memory of the event- but I've never watched them. It's burned into my memory- I don't need to watch it again- it's just too raw and painful even now.   

God bless those killed on that day and the first responders who were there. Bless those who died in the attack on the Pentagon. And bless those who attempted to seize the fourth plane from the hijackers and died in a Pennsylvania field.

Sorry to hear about your friends TB, thankfully I didn't know anyone who perished in the attack. 

 PS: And bless our brothers and sisters in Britain, Israel, Spain, Japan, and others who have also had to suffer though terrorist attacks.  

   I too remember it like yesterday, had an erie feeling when I woke up...something wasn't right...got my thermos of coffee, pretriped my flatbed and headed south for Salt Lake City. As I got on the highway the normally blustery CB radio was oddly quiet...agin somthing ain't right, called out to a west bound rig and got the news that a plane hit the WTC, very soon after my wife calls me in tears. I jump off at Twin Falls, go into the Flying J and watch in absolute disbelief as the second plane hits then still in shock as the first tower fell.

    My first thought unfortunatly was not of terror, the massive loss, nor tthe ensuing tragedy of a decades long war. My first thought was, how did demolishen crews set that up so fast.

   I regret that to this day, how utterly self centered and analytical I was about the whole situation, since then I have cryed for the fallen and pray that I NEVER forget the innocent who lost everything that terrible day.

Honor the fallen of that day, and those who have died in the ensuing years of the aftereffects of their experiences of that day. And take a moment to remember those still downrange in Afghanistan and elsewhere 19 years later  keeping the bad guys away from us here. 

My wife was getting herself ready in the bathroom for a business trip, and I was waiting to drive her to the airport.

She came into the kitchen and said to turn on the tv. Just then the second tower was hit.

It was particularly horrible because I know a lot about those buildings, they are the type I spent my career designing, and I knew they would collapse. I started to make some calls but others were already on it.