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Remember Today and Always

Cakers3 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:14:55 GMT

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Cakers3 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:50:28 GMT

Do you remember how you felt that day?

Do those feelings surface every year?

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reiki604 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:07:39 GMT

@Cakers3 wrote:
Do you remember how you felt that day?

Do those feelings surface every year?

The feelings surface almost daily as I look at change in the skyline

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Jordan2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:32:53 GMT

@Cakers3 I am watching the ceremony right now, I feel I owe it to all that died that day, to hear their names and see their faces. I remember exactly what I was doing when I heard the news. I came back from the grocery store and put on the TV. This was before we got cable in our area, I thought oh no what did my mom do to the set? The only channel I could get was CBS ( I live in NYC the antennas from the stations must have been on top of the Towers). My parents were both still alive and they were at the eye doctor. I called them and kept them and the office staff up to date about what was going on. My brother ( now deceased) worked in Manhattan, he came home thanfully, but he got home really late that night, he somehow got into a group cab ride as no trains were going in or out of the city.

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emmygrace — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:56:03 GMT

@Jordan2 wrote:
@Cakers3 I am watching the ceremony right now, I feel I owe it to all that died that day, to hear their names and see their faces. I remember exactly what I was doing when I heard the news. I came back from the grocery store and put on the TV. This was before we got cable in our area, I thought oh no what did my mom do to the set? The only channel I could get was CBS ( I live in NYC the antennas from the stations must have been on top of the Towers). My parents were both still alive and they were at the eye doctor. I called them and kept them and the office staff up to date about what was going on. My brother ( now deceased) worked in Manhattan, he came home thanfully, but he got home really late that night, he somehow got into a group cab ride as no trains were going in or out of the city.

My son had broken his wrist the night before this happened... my mother and I took him to the doctor that morning..(after dropping the twins off at school)..(they were very young!) When we got to the doctor's office...everyone was watching this tragedy in the

waiting room on TV! We were all in shock!!!!!

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Patriot3 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:18:26 GMT

Yes, I remember........I had just taken a shower and was getting dressed and had the TV on in my bedroom. The first pic I saw was the person jumping from one of the buildings, surely to his death...........and then came all the other sickening pics after that. I felt my heart race and called one of my sons. All I said was "Bin Laden"

I was glued to the TV the rest of the day with one of my many rosaries in my hand, praying. And then the other plane crashes that came after that.........What a horrible day and many days after that!! All those pics stay in my mind. Can't forget.

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Patriot3 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:15:46 GMT

@Cakers3 wrote:

@Cakers3 Love this pic.....thank you!!!

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Cakers3 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:22:42 GMT

@Patriot3 Same here. I had just stepped out of the shower and had GMA on the TV. I heard Diane Sawyer reporting a plane and a tower.

After that all h*ll broke loose.

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Gorgf — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:30:17 GMT

I get the same recollection and feelings as when JFK was shot. Where was I? What was I doing? I was an Elementary student and sent home early after coming around to each classroom with the news.

Today, I am recalling being in the High School with students during 911. Many more Televisons on ,so we knew right away. I felt apprehensive and worried both times.

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Patriot3 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:33:37 GMT

It's good to read the posts here and other places about the feelings of everyone on this day. It helps to know we are not alone and America sticks together!!

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Pearlee — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:34:18 GMT

@dulwich. I'm wondering what your experience was on this day 19 yrs ago? Were you in the USA or England? If the latter, what was the reaction there?

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GoneButNotForgotten — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:56:36 GMT

I live all the way across the country--Washington state--so it didn't affect us the way it did so many people who were there. I'm so sorry for your pain and the terrible shock it must have been to have experienced it first-hand.

Some our relatives live in Manhattan and a few aren't over it, not even to this day. Sad and tragic.

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Lali1 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:03:28 GMT

My husband was on the treadmill watching the Today show and I was downstairs watching the same. After the first plane hit I said oh my god what a horrible accident. He piped up that it was not an accident. I was so naive at the time. I think many people were. It was just utter shock and horror for days on end. I don't know how anyone who watched it could forget.

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jubilant — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:41:04 GMT

I remember a whole range of emotions. I think the first thing I felt was shock. At first I was questioning if it could possibly be a terrible accicent but when the second plane hit I knew it was no accident. After that I can't really explain all the emotions I felt. About everything you can feel and then some. I just wanted the people to get out and as far away as they could. Sadly, for many they didn't. I think I have come to grips with it but I don't think one ever truely forgets such a horrendous thing.

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corita — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:40:02 GMT

I will never forget this day! It is as clear in my mind as if it happened this morning!! My son and I were eating breakfast getting ready to go to work. We had the news on and both saw the first plane.

We really thought we had seen some trailer to a movie!! And then watched all the news coverage and the second plane crash into the building! It was such a shock!! Seeing the people covered with ash...I immediately got teary.

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Spurt — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:21:30 GMT

@Cakers3

I was working and also taking a college course. I got to work early that day and had gone into a Conference Room to study for my class that evening ....A friend came and knocked on the door and said "You won't believe what happened, its horrific!!!".....she took me to the lounge area and pointed to the TV and I couldnt believe what I was seeing as they replayed the plane crashing into the tower....I felt a combination of SHOCK, SADNESS, FEAR and even ANGER....And I get the same feeling each year on the anniversary of this tragetic event...so many lives lost.....😥

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Pearlee — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:25:53 GMT

@Spurt I'm thinking your class was called off that evening.😔

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Spurt — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:26:50 GMT

@Pearlee wrote:
@SpurtI'm thinking your class was called off that evening.😔

@Pearlee

Yep, it sure was................

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Pearlee — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 23:37:28 GMT

Thanks to those who shared their experiences of 19 yrs ago today. I've told my story of the day many times over the years so don't feel like reliving it again publicly but do appreciate those who shared.