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09-11-2019 09:36 PM
my sons are both fire captains. That day they were new firefighters, just beginning their careers. So proud of them then; so proud of them now. Heartbroken still for the 343 firemen who died that day
09-12-2019 07:41 AM - edited 09-12-2019 07:54 AM
@sidsmom wrote:
@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@Anonymous032819 wrote:Let's try and keep this thread free of controversy, so that it can stay open, on this important anniversary.
@Anonymous032819. Nah, certain ones are allowed.
Yeah....don’t understand how a tweet today & a comment months ago relates to 18yrs ago....🤷♀️
Then just what exactly are we "remembering?" Random pain?
09-12-2019 07:57 AM
At the time of the 1993 Bombing my Dh was a Building at WTC, it took a while to get in touch with him, he never speaks of that day, this was 6 weeks before our wedding
Three week before that I spent the evening with him babysitting a project and we were all over the basement areas, I am sure that some of those areas did not exist after the 93 bombing
@chiclets wrote:I saw the towers as they were being built. Each day it seemed as though they were rising into the heavens.
I saw each tower as it was hurting, and as each came falling down from the heavens.
I stood by the first time in 1993 when they were bombed and the people were being guided out.
I saw the firemen and police and dogs go to the towers to help.
I saw, and watched each time, and the last time on 9/11 I knew that was the end.
Mine was on the 98th floor South tower.
Have not gone back to that area since, and never will.
09-12-2019 09:32 AM - edited 09-12-2019 09:33 AM
@I am still oxox wrote:
At the time of the 1993 Bombing my Dh was a Building at WTC, it took a while to get in touch with him, he never speaks of that day, this was 6 weeks before our wedding
Three week before that I spent the evening with him babysitting a project and we were all over the basement areas, I am sure that some of those areas did not exist after the 93 bombing
@chiclets wrote:I saw the towers as they were being built. Each day it seemed as though they were rising into the heavens.
I saw each tower as it was hurting, and as each came falling down from the heavens.
I stood by the first time in 1993 when they were bombed and the people were being guided out.
I saw the firemen and police and dogs go to the towers to help.
I saw, and watched each time, and the last time on 9/11 I knew that was the end.
Mine was on the 98th floor South tower.
Have not gone back to that area since, and never will.
Absolutely understand your last point! While I had to go to work the next day - and could smell the burning jet fuel (yes it was still burning) in the Pentagon, I could never bring myself to go to see the outside of building where the wedge was hit.
I had worked in that wedge and had been moved out during the renovation and different offices were moved back in. It was just way too painful.
09-12-2019 10:01 AM
I was downstairs watching the news when they announced that a plane had crashed into the tower. My husband, a retired military pilot of 30 years, was upstairs, and I yelled to tell him about the "accident". He came down and promptly announced that it was no accident!
09-13-2019 10:57 PM
It was a beautiful September morning on 9/11- I lived in CT and my children were 3 and 4 years old at the time. I had dropped my daughter off at school and was just tidying up the house when my sister called franticalyy--asking "where is John working today?" I said "he is in the office Boston today-why?" she repeated many times "are you sure?" "He is in Boston- you are sure?" I kept saying "yes he is --why?" She told me to turn on the news,
I could not believe what I was seeing, Just as the newscasters were discussiing that " this must be a horrible accident" the second plane came in to view on the screen. I couldnt talk- I couldnt think--I literally couldnt move-- I was frozen staring at the screen.
I then asked my sister where her husband was-- and he was home. He had been in the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center- 2 days before 9/11. He is in the restaurant business and called my sister and told her the view was absolutely breath taking from the top of the Tower,
We were both young mothers-on the phone with each other- in shock and disbelief.
My sister and I had taken a road trip to the city a year prior and we parked unknowingly pretty close to the Towers. I remember- actually touching one of the towers and trying to look up to see if you could see the top- and marvelled at its architecture--- how could they be gone?
My family and I were spared loss of life on that tragic day, It could have been my family easily. We were always in NYC. Just a magical, vibrant, exciting place to be. I chose not to watch the shows this year on TV. I chose to pray for the families left behind and those who perished that day.
I pray that this national tragedy is never forgotten or "brushed aside"
Thank you all for sharing your experiences and continued thoughts and prayers for those who suffered loss on 9/11.
Really- still unfathomable.
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