Never forget: North Tower collapse
The last moment of silence of the day marks the collapse of the North Tower seven years ago at 10:29am Eastern. Burned into memory:
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The news media won’t show this unless they have to. They seem to think it will enrage the American population. Or at least a part of it.
I think America needs a little enraging right now.
I just stopped in and viewed the DU web site. The lefties are frothing about Sarah Palin, but nary a word about the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
There is one thread that links an opinion piece in the NY Times that seems to say that we were at fault, and they’re eating that up, but that’s it.
I remember 9/11 too well. My father was four blocks away that morning (in the NYSE Building). When the second plane hit he had to walk up to Penn Station to get out of Manhattan (he was 65 and in not so great health at the time). My aunt had an office on 51st, and she wound up spending the night. I was frantic trying to call my Dad, my Aunt, my step-Mom, my sisters, but “all circuits were busy.”
I was a runner for AG Becker back in the 70s. Perfect job for a high school kid who likes to walk around. I used to deliver to various offices in both Trade Towers several times a day. I rode the PATH trains into WTC every morning. Twenty-three years later it was gone! I watched it from a coffee shop in my office building in Houston. The shock of seeing the north tower fall brought tears to my eyes. Moments later, the tears turned to a seething rage as building management announced that we were evacuating due to the threat of terror attacks to Houston’s Energy Corridor!
I am still resolved to NEVER FORGET that date!!
On September 11, 2001, I was in my office in Times Square looking out the window at downtown Manhattan. On my way in to work that morning, I saw what was thought to be an explosion in the North Tower as I sat on the train. Right before we went into the Hudson River tunnel, I heard on the small radio I had with me that a plane had hit the tower. When I arrived in New York and walked up to the street from Penn Station, the second plane hit and the radio DJ just started saying over and over “we’re under attack.”
I walked to my office, not knowing what was going on. I work on the 48th floor and the offices on the south side of our building have nice views of lower Manhattan. I sat in the office that morning and watched everything happen live. Not on TV. But with my own two eyes.
I wondered how many people were going to die that day. I wondered if my roommate from college who worked in the North Tower was ok. I wondered if my friend’s husband who worked in the South Tower would make it out. I wondered what I could do.
I will never forget what I saw that day. I will never forget who did it. And most of all, I will never forget the people who lost their lives because they got up and went to work.
I remember watching this live. Being late for leaving for work, while putting my shoes on. One tower was on fire. Suddenly a plane flew into the second tower.
Stunned, only one word went through my mind: Attack. Followed by “This can’t be..WTF!”
When the towers started to fall, my blood pressure spiked with anger and deep saddness.
Saddness for the loss. But also for what must inevitably follow – War.
All the networks should run the video – from the planes hitting the Towers, the people falling, the Heroes running in to save lives, all of it – every day until we’ve won the War.
Until we win the War on terror, we’re not free. And neither is anyone else in the world.
“America Alone” accurately states where we stand. It’s up to us.
Words fail me.
But remember what John McCain said in his acceptance speech, “My country saved me and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her as long as I draw breath, so help me God.
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We’re Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.”
I resolve to make sure my girls never forget. My youngest is watching a movie about the WTC at school and my oldest daughter’s HS NROTC had a ceremony this morning. All is not lost.
Your story gave me chills. Do you happen to know if your friends got out ok?
Here in Phoenix, we saw everything way after it happened. I was up getting my son ready for school when my husband called to tell me to watch the news.
When I did watch the Today show, I noticed only one tower of the World Trade Center standing and a lot of smoke billowing. I was confused. I knew there were two towers. Where was the other one?
That’s when I heard the local news talking about what happened. I drove my son to school (he was in 1st grade) and then I headed to church for our women’s Bible study. There we all stood together, held hands, and prayed about what happened that morning so far away.
Afterwards, I came home and watched the TV all day long. When I heard that Marines had perished at the Pentagon, I walked outside and hung up our US flag in honor of all those who perished. That flag remained out there for a full year.
God be with all those families of the victims of 9/11.
My family will never forget.
I was asleep in Kirkland, Washington when my favorite talk radio station woke me up. Kirby Wilbur, the morning host, was talking about a plane having hit one of the WTC towers. My first thought was “probably a small plane, not a big deal” so I got out of bed and headed to our family room. I turned on the TV and was horrified. When I was a kid, my family and I went back east in 1976 for the Bicentennial and I vividly recalled visiting the WTC. I was about 8 years old and remembered standing in the plaza looking up at these massive buildings the size of which I had never seen. We visited the observation deck of one of the towers and I marveled at being on top of the world.
Within about 5 minutes of turning on the TV, I saw the second jetliner hit. I started shouting at the TV in a combination of disbelief/anger/confusion/horror/rage/denial. By then, my wife was up and she and I watched coverage the entire day. She wondered what those things were that were plummeting from the building and, after some consideration, we both realized they were people choosing to plunge to their deaths. We were sickened. It was perhaps the most emotionally draining day I have ever had as we prayed for victims and and protection of those at and near the sites.
At the time, I was a partner in a law firm with 3 other Christian men. I got a call from one of our paralegals, scared and sobbing at what she was hearing on the radio as she drove into work. Our office was located in downtown Seattle and she was rightfully scared that more attacks were coming to more big cities, including ours. My partners and I telephoned everyone, gave our staff the day off, and prayed all would be well.
Our daughter was only 5 months old and I recall holding her very close that day.
Over the years, I have become increasingly angry at the media’s (and the government’s) sanitizing of this tragedy. They don’t show us the images, they don’t broadcast the video…they treat it as if it occurred in the distant, prior to the 24-hour news cycle. And what they show, they edit. We need to have available for us to view the raw media footage in all of its frightening and (unfortunately) gory detail. Not for shock or prurient value, but so that we NEVER FORGET THE TRUE SCALE, MAGNITUDE AND EVIL THAT WAS PERPETUATED AGAINST INNOCENTS. Otherwise, we are doomed to continue our forgetfulness.
And by “our forgetfulness”, I mean our collective forgetfulness as a nation, not us as individuals. WE will never forget.
I had to do it . I just had to .I went to the KOS to see if the was ANY sign of decency .I looked more than enough to get the point.Not a day goes by that I learn the shocking reality of liberalism.I did not see a sign of any reverence for the evil of 911.All libs care about is themselves ( sometimes by way of trees or polar bears ).Thier biggest concern is Jon Ensign…sad .
We will NEVER forget!
“Stand up to defend our country from its enemies. Stand up for each other; for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America. Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We’re Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.”
- John McCain September 4, 2008
I will never forget this day. The 9/11 attacks are forever burned in my memory. Yet, many Americans have moved on to the extent that the videos of that day are no longer shown and when they are shown, it is disrespectful.
How is it disrespectful to show what happened? To make people (including kids) aware that there are very bad people who want to annihilate us? Hell, 9/11 is our generation’s Pearl Harbor. WWII vets still participate in ceremonies recognizing that Day in Infamy, we need to do do the same for 9/11.
The North Tower has particular significance to me because that’s where two of my college buddies died. They were trying to get out through the stairwell. The only reason I know this is that they called their wives and families that day to tell them goodbye, let them know where they were if anything should happen.
Their bodies were never found. That’s why I think that there should be no building on that site. That’s hallowed ground, like Gettysburg. Ground Zero is my last connection to them and I plan on visiting in November when I see my in-laws in the NYC area.
You’re not forgotten. You will get justice. Even if everyone in America has chosen to erase the memory etched in my mind.
I was wondering the same thing, GP. Did they get out? I certainly hope so.
I’m fairly acquainted with NYC. I’m an upstate New Yorker, but at the time I had a lot of friends working in the NYC metro area. My sister-in-law, at the time, worked a couple blocks away from the WTC site. She saw the attacks and the eventual collapses unfold before her very eyes.
She was never quite the same after that. Some people found God that day. Others took stock of their lives and readjusted their priorities. She quit her job a couple of months later and went on to adopt a Korean baby girl when she and her husband dealt with a tragic miscarriage.
If anybody is interested, I think that at least the History Channel is running a series of 9/11 documentaries and programs all day long. There must be some raw footage in some of those shows.
Reading and viewing all of these remembrances is bringing back very harrowing memories. Please read this account, One View of Many.
Eternal thanks to the memory of Vincent Kane. Just one of 343 of the greatest guys in the world. One of the nicest, funniest and most musically talented guys in the NYFD too.
Thanks for the links.
My brother worked in 7 World Trade Center, (which everyone was able to leave before its collapse in the afternoon). That day, he had an important project to work on, and decided to work at home that morning.
When she was in London, my daughter took the Picadilly Line every morning. But on 7/7 the weather wasn’t so great, so she decided to go in later.
Both of them say that because they were at home at the time of the attacks, they didn’t consider it a close call – rather, they felt the same shock as the rest of us watching on TV.
They did, thankfully. My college roommate was a smoker and was having a cigarette outside before going up to his office. That’s when the first plane hit. He lost several friends and many co-workers. My friend’s husband was in his office in the upper floors of the South Tower. When the first plane hit the North Tower and the announcement was made in the South Tower, he left and didn’t go back. He lost many friends and almost 100 co-workers.
I was lucky in that living in this area I did not know anyone who died that day. I know many people who lost loved ones however. People I worked with lost brothers and sisters and one lost her husband. There were 11 people from my town who were killed. Almost 700 fellow New Jerseyans. And almost 3000 of my fellow Americans.
NEVER FORGET THE ATTACKS OF 9/11 AS RADICAL MUSLIMS ARE PLANNING THE NEXT ONE.
Amen.
I too wish they would run the video, at least to honor those who died by reminding those who have forgotten how they died.
It will never happen though. Far too many of them are invested in those who have been whining for the past several years about our reaction to those towers coming down, and the thousands who died.
I was in Kansas City at the time, had been watching the news all day. I was in the hotel bar watching the video when some 20 something kids sat down, and immediately started complaining about the news still being carried on all the channels, pre-empting whatever game they wanted to watch.
Their attitude was a precursor of the attitude of far too many today.