As I sit here prior to the Honor Guard detail I am a part of at one of our local churches, I wonder what others feel about 9/11 ten years after the fact. I for one still remember what I was doing when I first learned of the event. Regardless of your thoughts on military, law enforcement, firefighters, or EMTs I'm sure you can agree that we all have difficult jobs. While the rest of the general public is running away from danger, it is these folks who are running towards it. Keep them (especially if you have friends/family in this business) in your thoughts and prayers today. Should you see one today, thank them for their service. Theirs is a difficult life... I invite all to share their thoughts and reflect on how the last 10 years has affected them.
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Remembering 9/11
09/11/11 8:09 am | #1
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Re: Remembering 9/11
09/11/11 10:07 am | #2
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All in all 9/11 hasn't affected me much as far as I can tell, maybe because I was still a child then. Although I do remember waking up getting ready to go to 2nd grade with the clip being constantly replayed on the news.
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09/11/11 1:00 pm | #3
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Those people too young to remember are pretty lucky. Some of the images shown on TV that day were quite disturbing. Looking back on it now when they were showing the NYFD running into the buildings as people were running out, you know most of those guys never made it out.
It's also my daughter's birthday so it's real hard for me to not remember.
It's also my daughter's birthday so it's real hard for me to not remember.
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09/11/11 1:15 pm | #4
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I got a 3hr long Time Life DVD that one of the teachers at the school I work at borrows. She plays it for her class at the end of each school year. Most of them walk out in tears....Never Forget!!!
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09/11/11 1:29 pm | #5
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Those people too young to remember are pretty lucky. Some of the images shown on TV that day were quite disturbing. Looking back on it now when they were showing the NYFD running into the buildings as people were running out, you know most of those guys never made it out.
It's also my daughter's birthday so it's real hard for me to not remember.
It's also my daughter's birthday so it's real hard for me to not remember.
Agreed.... sometimes I wish I was too young to remember. The service just ended and I've changed into my "real" uniform to do what we were honored for this morning. It is with renewed purpose and a stronger sense of pride that I start my shift today. God bless all who have served and those who still do...
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09/11/11 3:56 pm | #6
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9/11. A day that defines our generation and America in the 00's. I'm honestly sad more isn't being done at my campus to remember the day, hell our military appreciation game (made because of 9/11) didn't even mention the event.
I remember everything from that day though, I lived on a military base then, my dad being the Senior Army advisor to the Wyoming National guard. I remember waking up long before I had to get on the bus to go to school (4th grade at the time) to see both my parents crying in their room across the hall and then the debate if they should tell me what happens. Eventually they said it was history being made and I needed to see it. It still hadn't sunk in.
I lived on an army base, to be more specific one that housed a missile wing, with access to nuclear weaponry, I didn't know that being in 4th grade but they locked down the base. I arrived at school hours late, just at lunch. But we didn't eat lunch, we all sat around and watched the news, all 25 4th graders quietly sat and watched the towers fall over and over. It takes a lot for a class of roudy 4th graders to be quiet that long. Why did we do this? We couldn't know what this would mean for us but a majority of the class lived on the same base I did and we knew what it ment for our parents.
School was let out early that day but I didn't get home untill long after dinner. They locked down the base, keeping a bus full of kids waiting outside the gate as the military sat there in full combat gear not allowing anyone in, this is when it hit me. I later learned my Dad stayed at work all day, long past quitting time consoling others, organizing the guard and crying. My mom was evacuated from our house as we believed the base may be a target.
When we all made it back to our house that night we were glad to all be safe and even I, being an immature elementary kid felt terrible for those people of NYC on that day. I remember everything about it, just old enough to understand but unable to do anything.
Remember 9/11. You may not be affected but others were, and not just those in the WTC or pentagon, we all we're affected.
I remember everything from that day though, I lived on a military base then, my dad being the Senior Army advisor to the Wyoming National guard. I remember waking up long before I had to get on the bus to go to school (4th grade at the time) to see both my parents crying in their room across the hall and then the debate if they should tell me what happens. Eventually they said it was history being made and I needed to see it. It still hadn't sunk in.
I lived on an army base, to be more specific one that housed a missile wing, with access to nuclear weaponry, I didn't know that being in 4th grade but they locked down the base. I arrived at school hours late, just at lunch. But we didn't eat lunch, we all sat around and watched the news, all 25 4th graders quietly sat and watched the towers fall over and over. It takes a lot for a class of roudy 4th graders to be quiet that long. Why did we do this? We couldn't know what this would mean for us but a majority of the class lived on the same base I did and we knew what it ment for our parents.
School was let out early that day but I didn't get home untill long after dinner. They locked down the base, keeping a bus full of kids waiting outside the gate as the military sat there in full combat gear not allowing anyone in, this is when it hit me. I later learned my Dad stayed at work all day, long past quitting time consoling others, organizing the guard and crying. My mom was evacuated from our house as we believed the base may be a target.
When we all made it back to our house that night we were glad to all be safe and even I, being an immature elementary kid felt terrible for those people of NYC on that day. I remember everything about it, just old enough to understand but unable to do anything.
Remember 9/11. You may not be affected but others were, and not just those in the WTC or pentagon, we all we're affected.
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09/11/11 4:45 pm | #7
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At that time i was not old enough to fathom the seriousness of the crime that had been committed against us.
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09/11/11 5:07 pm | #9
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I was headed into work at Fort Hood, TX...part of MI Battalion
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09/11/11 5:43 pm | #10
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I respect the military and what they do. But i was only 8 when it happened. And it was 7 in the morning so i was sleeping. Here is the kicker. My dad worked for an only company at the time. He was on a business trip in Canada and was supposed to come back on a play that day. Needless to say he didn't but luckily a guy he know gave him a ride down in his car. But being an 8 year old we had are dads TV and and wanted to watch cartoons because only he had cable. All i remember about the event was a burning building in New York, and no knowledge that it was a big deal so i went back to my cartoons with my 4 other siblings.
Now that i am older i understand it better, but i was young so it didn't have much of an impact on me than most people. So do the people who do understand i can respect the fact that it is a big deal, and now that i am 20 i wish i could help, but i am asthmatic and diabetic so no military for me. All i can so is Honor the fallen and respect the people who can make a difference.
Now that i am older i understand it better, but i was young so it didn't have much of an impact on me than most people. So do the people who do understand i can respect the fact that it is a big deal, and now that i am 20 i wish i could help, but i am asthmatic and diabetic so no military for me. All i can so is Honor the fallen and respect the people who can make a difference.
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09/11/11 5:44 pm | #11
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I was 9 years old and in the 4th grade. My school started early as hell that year... class started at around 7:15 am. I cant remember if it like a orientation type day or if we were sent home, but I remember leaving the school around 8am and getting in the car with my mom.
On the way home my mother kept saying America is under attack... not like in panic mode or anything. But she just kept telling me that the twin towers were bombed, and of course be a little ignorant kid... I had no fucking clue what the twin towers were. When we got home me, my mom and grandmother were watching the news coverage. Then of course I saw the second hit the building live... and watching that... plus my mother and grandmother spaz out... I got scared as hell.
With me being a little immature child, with all the video games I play, and my crazy imagination... I pretty much thought the world was over. But ten years later, I understand what happened now. I love the military and fully support the troops.... and if I was in good enough shape i'd be in the Army right now.
On the way home my mother kept saying America is under attack... not like in panic mode or anything. But she just kept telling me that the twin towers were bombed, and of course be a little ignorant kid... I had no fucking clue what the twin towers were. When we got home me, my mom and grandmother were watching the news coverage. Then of course I saw the second hit the building live... and watching that... plus my mother and grandmother spaz out... I got scared as hell.
With me being a little immature child, with all the video games I play, and my crazy imagination... I pretty much thought the world was over. But ten years later, I understand what happened now. I love the military and fully support the troops.... and if I was in good enough shape i'd be in the Army right now.
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