i thought it would be a good idea to post a thread so people can share their experiences of 9/11 and share their feelings / thoughts.
you can leave tributes to the thousands of people who died that day.....leave messages of courage.
tributes to the firefighters/ police departments and rescue workers.
share what you was doing at the time you found out about the attacks and you feelings at what you was seeing....
mods if this is innapropriate then feel free to delete this thread..
edited note
just thought i would share when i went to ground zero in 2005.....we had to pass there to get to battery park to get the ferry to the statue of liberty.....i will never forget the emotions i had. just stood there and remembering 9/11. i felt overwhelmed at the feelings i had...i cried and held my then gf as she cried too.
we prayed for those who lost their lives and for all the survivors and all the fire fighters and police officers who lost their lives that day. we even spoke to soem people working at ground zero and you could still see the emotion in their eyes of that day and they were saddened but also proud to be working at the site......they were proud of being american. i am still in contact with some of them after exchanging emails. and i am planning on flying out there next year to meet up with them again on the 7th anniversary of 9/11.
i will be posting pics on here soon of the memorial garden dedicated to the 9/11 victims.
Last edited by *Gothic*Angel* : 11-09-2007 at 03:40 PM.
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
I remember I was at work when I first heard about the attacks, but I couldn't quite believe what was happening. As soon as I got home, I switched the news on and all over CNN, BBC news 24 and ITN were the pictures from the attacks... even then though, I couldn't believe it...
"Damaged people are dangerous because we know we can survive"
i was working at the time and a member of the public came running in and told us what had happened...we didnt beleive him at first untill we put the news on....we closed the resteraunt and just sat there and cried......i have never felt such emotion like i did that day...knowing how many people died that day.
my thoughts are with the family of the 9/11 victims....and i thank the firefighters and police departments and rescue workers and rescua dogs for all there hard work.
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What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
i was in my dads shop. in the basement.
i put on the tv after school.
it was a bit insane.
tbh. at first i was just like "uhhh. so?"
even now a bit, i'm like "uhh, so?"
i was in year6 and i had had the day off because 'i was ill', it was really bad to one min verything be fine and watching normal tv, then everything going to a news flash and seeing them buildings go was really hard.
RIP everyone who lost there lifes.
" my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never, never leave you during your times of trials and suffering. When you see only one set of footprints it was then that I carried you" you were carried out of are lifes into the next and when its my time to leave this life I know i will be carried into the next life with you.
I wish i had my world complete again.
'Can we protend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars, i could really use a wish right now' BoB
My dad was in the states at the time on a business trip to Orlando, Florida. He had flown into Newark, New Jersey and was staying with some friends he had in New Jersey to then fly down to Florida the next day.
I hadn't heard anything of it while at school. I'd put the tv on to watch the children's program "Aquila" on BBC1 to find the news report on there. At first, i didn't actually believe it was real and thought it was part of another program until I turned over to BBC2, saw that "Aquila" was being broadcast on BBC2 instead. I then went up to my sister in her bedroom and she had the radio on with the news and then I realised that it had really happened.
My dad's meeting was cancelled as all the flights were grounded for three days afterwards and it was a little while before we'd actually heard from him. (New Jersey is only the state next to new York and he'd flown in that day; so not knowing initially which flights had crashed, we were a bit worried but he called us and we knew he was okay. He said he'd put the tv on after news of the first flight and so watched the second plane hit and the collapse of both towers live on tv. It really affected him, I think as when he eventually got home, he seemed really withdrawn and at one time said he was planning to move out and live somwhere else for a few weeks but that never happened and he got better quite quickly.
I remember I was in 8th grade. I just got done with band practice, and I got into my homeroom and saw my homeroom teacher crying, then she told us of the attacks. It hit her harder when they attacked the pentagon, where her dad works. But she had enough courage to go on through the day and teach all of us all the things we needed to know about science, and math. I still cry when I think of everything that happened that day, and how many people died for no other reason then because of someone else's jealousy of our nation.
Teagan
Life is what you make it so make it the best you can. Don't walk around thinking things won't change because if you think that way they won't change.
I was in work at the time, on a late shift.
My mate came over to me and said America had been hit by a terrorist attack. I remember telling him the people who told him were lying because it just sounded too weird to be true.
Then at the end of the shift a few of us made jokes about how they should attack our work, thinking it wasn't real.
Got home, chucked the telly on and lo and behold, it actually happened.
Shock and disbelief swept over me instantly.
When 9/11 comes up I always think of Scheuer's words "We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live."
As for what I did when I saw the news, it went like this:
Came home from school. Watched the news for twenty minutes, went upstairs and changed, went out and played football.
I remember 9.11.2001 well. I was a freshman in high school. I was in religion class, 2nd row from the wall, 1st seat. I remember exactly where I was when the south tower went down as well. It is a day I will never soon forget. During school that day, classes halted. Everyone was just in such shock. I still carry that rage within me towards those who attacked us. For the innocent lives lost, and the death of 343 of FDNY's bravest. Never Forget 9.11.2001
"..Say what you will but I believe in moments like this, they make us matter.
Look in my eyes and tell me you don't believe that I'm right.."
When 9/11 comes up I always think of Scheuer's words "We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live."
The same people are doing the genocide against blacks in Sudan (who haven't done anything in the Islamic world) - and the 13 other hot spots in the world constantly under attack. Their roots go back to organisations that existed since the 1920's.
Last edited by Isoverity : 15-09-2007 at 10:47 AM.
Second I got home the second tower collapsed. I just stood there gobsmacked. I didn't actually know what happened or what those buildings were but it looked like something out of a movie.
This still makes me end up in tears. I didn't know anyone who died in it but I went to school with people who lost family in the attacks. I think it was a more emotional loss because of the circumstances than another way would have been. Even just knowing people who lost someone in the attacks makes it seem so much more personal. Even the fact it was across the country worried me because California has some pretty big cities with huge buildings that would have probably been ideal for such an attack.
I had just woke up to get ready for school and turned on the TV to see the time. The second I turned on my TV the second tower was being hit by a plane and the first was burning. My only reaction was to turn up the volume and sit there in shock. I had no clue where it was at, could've been LA for all I knew, taking place in my own state.
All but one of my classes had us watching the news that day in school. One of our classes didn't do anything, at all, except sit there as close to the TV as possible. My teachers were sitting around crying.
It's so weird to think it's been six years since the attacks.
I was in year 6 and remember going to my grandma's after school as usual and seeing it all on the news and not knowing what was happening. And then I was upset because all the usual kid's programs had gone. Haha.
I was only in year 4 and I remember getting home from school and seeing all over the tv. I didn't understand exactly what had happened until the rents explained and I was really scared...
If we fall,
we don't need self recrimination or blame or anger -
thanks for making this thread.
i was on my way to work and heard it on the news.
i worked at a doctor's office.
we kept the news on all day.
it was such a shock to everyone.
i will be praying for all the families affected by this and the country as a whole.
much love.
xx
I remember it like it was yesterday.
I was on a family holiday in Florida at the time. We were pulling up to somewhere for breakfas when it came on the radio. When we went in to the resturant, they didnt know anything about it. We mentioned it to the waitress an she put the news on the tv.
Everybody just stopped and stared.
Then the second plane hit. The restrant was quiet. One of the waitress went to phone her son in New York. People where crying. It was really immense.
Later on there where just crowds of people around. All the parks and shopping centres had closed as Bush was in Florida and it was a huge risk.
People looked lost.
By afternoon there where loads of blood banks open everywhere. Signs outside of shops had messages on them. The news where showing pictures of missing people.
Im not American but I remember watching Bush make his speech. You couldnt get through on the phones for 3 days as they where all jammed.
It still brings a tear to my eyes now. None of them people deserved what happened.
My thoughts are with all of New York today. And to anybody who lost somebody in that terrible day. And to the emergency services who fought to help.
