On September 11th, 2008 at 10:51 am, Perfesser said:

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.

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.

On September 11th, 2008 at 10:49 am, skwired said:

I will never forget who did it.

Amen.

On September 11th, 2008 at 10:53 am, guitarplayer said:
On September 11th, 2008 at 10:49 am, skwired said:
Your story gave me chills. Do you happen to know if your friends got out ok?

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.

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.

The video offered here from AP on YouTube is a fine example of what Americans need to focus on today and throughout the years. ‘Never forget’ and the slide show rememberance featured on blogs and other sites around the country and the wo…

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Thanks for the links.

guitarplayer said:

On September 11th, 2008 at 10:49 am, skwired said:

Your story gave me chills. Do you happen to know if your friends got out ok?

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.

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.