September 11, 2001 - A Remembrance

[Janice]

Please share your thoughts, recollections of that day, photos and anything related to the darkest and saddest day in America.

Please keep politics and conspircacy theories out of it. There are plenty of threads on the Politics board for that.

Let's honor those who lost their lives five years ago. Never forget.

http://www.beachwoodusa.com/images/twin_towers.jpg

[Janice]

The victims of 9/11.

http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/victims_list.htm

[Brian Damage]

My cousin Laura died on that day. She worked for Aon on the 101st floor of tower 2. She was 41 years old.

[Ireneparalegal]

My cousin Laura died on that day. She worked for Aon on the 101st floor of tower 2. She was 41 years old.
I always remember you sharing that with me when I was a newbie around here. I have never forgotten. Sorry Brian for your loss. God bless her.



I was 7 months pregnant and watching this unfold on television was horrific. It was surreal. I knew from the moment the second plane hit, WE WERE AT WAR. No doubt abt it. I thought to myself, here I am bringing a child into this world and what kind of world will it be by the time I give birth? Come November, I soon found out.

[Brian Damage]

Old New York City Skyline

[Brian Damage]

The "New" NYC Skyline (whenever they decide to start building again)

[Janice]

A video tribute. Turn up your speakers and grab a tissue.

http://attacked911.tripod.com/

[Brad]

What an awful day in the history of our world. It's still burned into my memory like it was yesterday.

[Brad]

Grab a tissue.

David Letterman reflects on 9/11 on his first show back after the attacks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGBNsTK_dis)

"The reason we were attacked, the reason these people are dead... these people are missing and dead -- and they weren't doing anything wrong; they were living their lives, they were going to work, they were traveling, they were doing what they normally do -- as I understanding it (and my understanding of this is vague at best), another smaller group of people stole some airplanes and crashed them into buildings. And we're told that they were zealots fuled by religious fervor. 'Religious fervor.' And if you live to be 1,000 years old, will that make any sense to you? Will that make any god damn sense?"

Jon Stewart's tearful speech after 9/11 (and that night's Daily Show in its entirety) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfO-Z1CuJ6w) [be patient; it takes awhile to load]

"The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center. And now it's gone. And they attacked it; this symbol of American ingenuity and strength and labor and imagination and commerce. And it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that."

This episode, by the way, has the greatest 'Moment of Zen' of all time.

[passionsfan79]

Yea same here remembering like it was yesterday can't beleive it happened still. I remember I was at my Mom's house and I happened to turn on the tv telling my Mom some planes crashed into the buildings. I didn't think nothing of it though till I got home and watched more of it. But its really sad what happened.

[passionsfan79]

I saw David's Lettermans first show I even got it on tape.

[sweetdiggity]

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I was in the ninth grade on the day of attacks. A teacher from another classroom came into my class and told my teacher, "Turn on CNN, you won't believe what's happening." She turned it on, and it was just after the first plane had hit. After that, no one said anything all day, we just sat there in shock and watched it all happen.
I'll never forget that terrible day.

[Jo_Luvs_Ketchup]

I was in 7th grade. I had just started a new school. We weren't aware anything had happened until about 3:00pm that afternoon, which was weird because the attacks happened at like 9:00am. I can't remember what happened throughout the day, if anyone knew what was happening. I do remember however, my 7th grade Reading teacher telling me planes crashed into the World Trace Center. Weird though, I didn't know what they were when I was in 7th grade. I had never been to New York and didn't know the buildings that well. So after reading class, I got on a bus to go home. I still didn't think anything of it. Surely didn't think thousands of innocent people died in those buildings. On the bus kids kept screaming "We're going to diiiiie!" My brother, who was in 5th grade, was sitting next to me, crying because of what the older kids were yelling. So we got home and saw my mom's SUV in the driveway. She wasn't due to get home for 2 hours yet, so we rushed in. We knew if she was home early, something was terribly wrong.

We came in and she told us what happened. She said they were considering letting all the schools out so her boss let everyone go home to get their kids. We watched the news and I was horrified. I was especially when my mom told me my two cousins (brother and sister) lived near each other and worked near the pentagon so we called them immediately to make sure they were okay. We got their machine at first so we were scared!!! Thank god they called us back later. I didn't loose anyone close to me in the attacks, but I still cried so hard. All those innocent people, for what??

When I was in 7th grade, I was a big time babysitter in the complex where I lived. We had a knock on the door. I answered and it was a little girl I babysat. She asked me, "Why?". I didn't know what to say, not to this day is there an explaination. :(

[Brent88]

Such a sad day. I can't watch anything much without crying. I was in school til about 11:30am ET, so I missed the major events happening live, but I have since largely seen the coverage.

Someone on YouTube posted large amounts of it from CNN/ABC/FOX/CBS, from when the news first broke til a couple of hours later. It's so surreal watching in those first moments when no one knew anything, thinking about how much worse it got after that. :(

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=goatpussy

CNN Pipeline will replay the 9/11 coverage from CNN in real-time on Monday, while MSNBC will repeat the Today Show broadcast from 9/11.

[Janice]

My cousin Laura died on that day. She worked for Aon on the 101st floor of tower 2. She was 41 years old.
I remember you posted Laura's picture, and she was so beautiful. I'm very sorry for your loss.

[Ireneparalegal]

An incredible story of a woman who suffered the unthinkable on her honeymoon, the death of her new husband on Sept. 8, 2001 and then THREE DAYS LATER the death of her father-in-law on Flight 93. THEN, dealing with CANCER! Please take the time to read this. I had heard of this story once a year ago and it took some time for me to find more on this story. Whenever you think you may have a bad day or a bad week, JUST REMEMBER THIS STORY!!!!!!!

Unbelievable Strength Through Unthinkable Loss -- Author Describes Death of Husband on Honeymoon, Father-In-Law's Death Days Later on Flight 93
NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2005

(PRIMEZONE) -- When Valerie Barlow met President George W. Bush in Shanksville, Penn., to remember the victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy, she mourned the loss of her father-in-law. In her new book, "Are You Alive?" (now available through AuthorHouse), she describes how Sept. 11 was one day in a string of painful events that began with the sudden death of her husband on their honeymoon and later brought a diagnosis of cancer.


As a child in Hong Kong, Barlow was full of energy and ambition. She broke the rules, traveled freely and set her mind to achieve her goals. She was drawn to the Western world. After a brief marriage, she found herself wondering what to do next. She met a kind man online named Alan. After speaking with each other over the phone for some time, Alan asked her to move to Brooklyn. She packed her things, left her teaching career and moved to New York.

Alan was the love her life. With a simple, touching wedding at City Hall in Manhattan, their life together seemed to be destined for happiness -- until their honeymoon in California. On Sept. 8, 2001, a car accident on a winding road killed Alan and severely injured Barlow. The last words she heard him say to her were selfless: "Are you alive?"

Flooded with grief, Barlow began the long road to recovery. Several limbs were broken, and she required many surgeries and physical therapy. On Sept. 11, 2001, the news came of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. The following day her suspicions were confirmed: Her father-in-law, who had been traveling to California to see her and recover his deceased son, had been a passenger on Flight 93.

Barlow, who had spent her life repressing emotions and being fiercely independent, had faced more traumatic events in one week than many ever would. When a doctor in New York later informed her she had cervical cancer, she tackled this problem head on.

In her new book, she chronicles her experiences in a moving, honest way. Her story is both horrifying and inspirational; its haunting photographs of Alan tell both of a life gone forever and a love that will always remain. In "Are You Alive?" this strong woman illustrates her courage and shows the adventurous spirit that helped her endure.

Barlow and her four siblings grew up in an apartment in Hong Kong. She received her education in the British colony's private school system and became an elementary English teacher after college. Barlow moved to the United States in 1999 and resides in Brooklyn, N.Y. More information is available at www.valeriebarlow.com.

[Parakeet03]

I was in school when it happened. I was in class like every other day when a boy came in late and told the teacher that he was late because he was at home watching the news and found out that a plane hit the WTC and the teacher didn't believe him at first. It wasn't until the teacher found out from someone else that worked in the school that she believed it. Everyone, including the teacher thought it was an accident at the time (I think it was before the second plane hit) When the second plane hit, the principal and the school psychologist came to visit the class and explain to us that it was a terrorist attack but I don't think I really understood what that was until I got home and actually saw what was going on on the news. It was a nightmare to watch and I just started to cry, thinking about all the ones who lost their life because of those people who have such a hate. I also hadn't known that the towers collapsed until I got home which shocked me and deeply saddened me when I saw them collapse on tv.

Yea, it's a day nobody will ever forget.

[Adamantium]

I was working at Kroger at the time. I had just finished sweeping the sidewalk outside of Kroger and came in and heard the radio on in the front office. The manager was talking to a customer about a plane that hit the World Trade Center and another plane that hit the Pentagon.

I was working at Kroger, too! I didn't actually know much about what was going on, but I remember my manager telling some of us about an attack. I knew it was terrible, but I didn't realize how bad it truely was until I got home and watched the news.

[Janice]

9/11 babies old enough to ask for dad

By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer

Four-year-old Gabriel Jacobs inherited his dad's sandy hair, long nose and blue eyes. The day they buried what was left of his father — a piece of rib, part of a thigh bone, a bit of one arm — the boy released a balloon into the air, then turned that familiar face skyward to make sure his daddy caught it.

This is how a son reaches out to the father he never met. Ariel Jacobs died in the World Trade Center attack six days before his only child was born.

"When he sends a balloon up to the sky and he finally sees the tiny dot of the balloon go through the clouds, he says, 'OK, the balloon found the doorway to heaven, I think he has it now," says Gabi's mother, Jenna Jacobs-Dick.

There are dozens of children like Gabi Jacobs, born to Sept. 11 widows in the months after the attacks. Five years later, as they approach kindergarten, they are just beginning to grasp the stories of their fathers and of the day that changed their lives forever.

The first baby arrived just hours after the disaster, and the last nine months later. Some mothers only discovered they were pregnant after the dads were gone — including Rudolph Giuliani's longtime aide, who was married to fire Capt. Terence Hatton. The firefighter's daughter was born the next spring, and her mother named her Terri.

Their fathers were rescue workers, cops, restaurant waiters and stockbrokers. Their mothers, pregnant and alone when the dust of the towers settled, worried about the stress on their unborn children from the agony and shock. Some miscarried. One went into labor during her husband's memorial service.

Many moms broke down in the delivery room, where they tried to fill that empty space with photos, a police badge, a piece of clothing. Friends, sisters and in-laws with cameras and brave faces stood in for all those lost dads.

Each delivery was, all at once, wonderful and awful.

Julie McMahon remembers her son's birth in early 2002 as a day of jangled nerves. "It wasn't supposed to be this way," she thought.

She delivered baby Patrick while her husband, Bobby, a firefighter with natural athleticism and a love of photography, looked on from a picture on the bedside table. The photo captured a moment of pure happiness — Bobby, wearing a cap and a giant grin, leans over their first son Matthew, clutching a massive tuft of cotton candy.

Patrick arrived with Bobby's curly hair and lanky body, and has sprouted into a miniature version of his daredevil dad. The child took his mother's breath away recently when he bounded by, swinging his arms and moving his head just so — it was Bobby's carefree strut.

When James Patrick's son was born, everyone agreed it was like looking at his father — the same fair skin, blue eyes and brown hair, that certain way he moved his mouth. The Cantor Fitzgerald bond broker, ecstatic about starting a family, died seven weeks before Jack entered the world.

The boy is also playful and silly like his dad. His mother, Terilyn Esse, like many of the other 9/11 moms, cannot explain how the children acquired their fathers' personalities — the social grace, the twinkling eyes, a love of words or music.

But there is a word they all use to describe it.

"It's bittersweet," says Jacobs-Dick, whose husband was attending a conference at the World Trade Center. "He's a reminder of Ari, not just the fact that he existed, but of who he was because they're so similar, and I can appreciate Ari in the present through him."

She is careful, though, that Gabi doesn't grow up with the sense that he is here to take the place of his father, who wept at the doctor's office when he learned that the blur on the ultrasound was a boy.

It is an unfair burden for any child who has lost a parent, says Marylene Cloitre, director of the Institute for Trauma and Stress at the New York University Child Study Center. And because of the public tragedy, children of 9/11 victims might always feel pressure to represent something even larger.

"Which is very hard to do when you're 17 and you hardly know what you feel and think yourself," Cloitre said. "Like 'Oh, my father's a hero so I have to carry the heroic memory,' when they don't even know what that is or how to do that."

Cloitre is tracking 700 children who lost parents in the 2001 attack, each a study in grief and hardship.

But the 4-year-olds are unique: They are building images of their fathers from the wisps of other people's memories and photographs, without even the subconscious sense of long ago cuddles or kisses on the forehead.

As each child discovers a lost father's life, along come questions: How did Daddy die? Who are the bad guys? Where did the buildings go? When they cleaned up the buildings, did they clean up Daddy, too?

Cloitre says the conversation will change as they grow up. In a few years they will probably want to know whether their fathers would have loved them. As teens, they may wonder about identity — how am I like him?

"It sort of exhausts people — they wish it could be over, that they could just say one thing, but really, what to say today pales in the face of the real challenge, which is a lifelong dialogue with their child about who this person was," she said.

Already, some of these children can tell you Daddy died when bad guys took control of some airplanes, and then flew them into the towers. Others haven't even heard the word "terrorist" and don't know there was anything more than a big fire.

"There are always questions and things that come up, and sometimes I'm thinking, 'oh my gosh' — you try to buy time so you can come up with an answer and do the best you can," says Kimberly Statkevicus, whose second son was born four months after husband Derek died.

Their child, named after his father, turns 5 in January. He knows that a piece of bone was recovered from his father's right hand, and is matter-of-fact about what happened. "My daddy went to work one day and some bad guys came and knocked the buildings down and crushed him like a pancake," he explains.

He wonders why there are no photographs of him and his father, like his brother has. Sometimes, it upsets him.

Some of the questions of these fatherless children are easy: Did Daddy like mayonnaise or mustard? When he played baseball, did he strike people out?

Other times, they're more spiritual: Does he see me when I ride my bike?

For those answers, Terilyn Esse has taught Jack Patrick there is a special thing he can do.

"When he started to talk, I would ask him, 'Where does Daddy live?' And he would say 'In heaven,' and I would say, 'Who does he live with?'" she said. "And he would say 'With God and the angels,' and I would say 'If you want to talk to Daddy what do you do?'

"And he would say 'I close my eyes and look inside my heart.'"

[Janice]

South Tower collapsing, different angles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR24kKaToio&mode=related&search= (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR24kKaToio&mode=related&search=)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mz0_x7313I&NR (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mz0_x7313I&NR)

[rusyd]

I will never forget that day. I just watched a special I believe it was on The History Channel called Inside the Twin Towers-I think. It was so powerful it brought me to tears again.

[Ireneparalegal]

Did anyone see the 20/20 update on the kids of 9/11 who were either not born yet or were born shortly after. They are now five years old. So sad the segment yet so uplifting as many of the widows have found love again, some have married, become engaged...others have not but they have found solace knowing they have children from their spouses to remind them of the love they will always have.

[GCW]

Everytime I think about that day a chill goes down my spine. Can you imagine being in that tower trapped just waiting to die? or being one of the passengers on the hijacked planes knowing they want to crash the plane again waiting to die. Pure terror. I get a feeling in the pit of my stomach just thinking about it.

[Yooch]

Was up early in the morning, (West Coast). No radio or TV on. The phone rings (never rings that early of course). It's my wife's friend.
she says, "What's happening in New York?" (I'm standing there thinking, why would this person be calling me in the morning asking such a question) "What? What do you mean, 'What's happening in New York?' I got the remote, turned on the TV and saw what was happening. You know the rest of the story. Like everyone else, I was shocked, sad and angry.

[Janice]

Did anyone see the 20/20 update on the kids of 9/11 who were either not born yet or were born shortly after. They are now five years old. So sad the segment yet so uplifting as many of the widows have found love again, some have married, become engaged...others have not but they have found solace knowing they have children from their spouses to remind them of the love they will always have.
I wish I saw it. I read an article about the 9/11 babies. It's posted on this thread, post #19. Those poor little kids.

[James"Thunder"Early]

One thing that I remember very, very well is one lady saying her sister called from her cell phone from inside one of the towers crying. She said the last thing her sister said to her was "take care of my kids", then the phone went dead as the tower collapsed. I really lost it when I heard that story.

[Scoobiedoo30]

I was going to to my Bedroom to go back to bed and my mom told me what happen with The Airplan with The World Trade Center so I put it on WVUE To watch The Coverage

[Brent88]

This is an incredibly sad video... especially the final few seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ugwtPkMH2U

:(

[PZelda]

I have a really good friend who was 18 and pregnant with her first child the week of 9/11. On 9/10/01, she went into labor, went to the hospital and her son was born that day. So, on 9/11, my friend was still in the hospital and she watched the 9/11 coverage from her hospital bed. But that was right here, and not in New York, so the father didn't die that day. But, it's really creepy to think that her son was almost born right on 9/11. Her son's birthday is today- he's 5 now.

Me... I had just turned 16 almost exactly a month prior, and I was three weeks into my junior year in high school. I missed my period 0 class the day before (9/10) so I had to get an excuse slip before class -- I still have it, the secretary wrote down the date, 9-11-01, on the slip -- and the only assignment I had that day was from that class- I had to do a simple one-page writing assignment. You could hear a pin drop at my high school that day- everybody was in shock. I was in my PE class during the time the attacks were happening, so I didn't get to see them on live TV but I did get to see live coverage after PE. In every single one of my classes after PE that day, we just sat and watched the coverage on TV. I remember going to my period 2 accounting class (9:40 - 10:30 Central time) after the towers had both just collapsed, and they were showing live coverage from across the harbor, in northern New Jersey. It was really creepy to see all that smoke... Oh man, it gives me the creeps just typing this right now.

My mom had that day off from work - on 9/11 - so she was home all day. She was watching CNN and popped in a blank tape after the attacks started, so she has original live coverage of the towers collapsing, etc. and it's really creepy watching it. :(

Oh, another creepy thing- I had just recently gotten done with helping out with a class fundraiser the week before. We sold stuff from Human i-Tees, and I had sold enough items to get a free T-shirt. I decided to wear my new T-shirt to school on 9/11/01... What was on it, you ask? A bald eagle in front of an American flag, it was a really pretty shirt...Still have it, but haven't worn it in 2 or 3 years. So when people started being patriotic that day, I was already dressed the part.

[TVFactFan]

I was always criticized by family members for being so affected by 9/11 because I didn;t know anyone who was killed. Even though I didn't know anyone, I couldn't sleep and couldn't get it out of my mind and felt strange going to work the next day on 9/12/01. Defintely a Day I will never forget

[Brad]

Watch this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnEBAzMI7-k).

[Kay Scarpetta]

I was in 7th grade, my social studies class. We were listening to the radio while working. All of a sudden, they interuppted to say that a plane flew into the WTC. We thought it was an accident... until the second one hit. We were only in 7th grade, but we were old enough to realize that our country was under attack. I will never forget it.

That day, my mother and I were driving to pick my sister up at school. My mother said to me, "You realize this will start a war, right?" and I looked at her and laughed.

How wrong I was.

[EmoJoe]

i still remember the day clearly, i was in the 4th grade. my parents were really scared because we only live like an hour from NYC and they were afraid something was gonna happen here. -_-

but yeah, the principal told us that 2 planes crashed into the world trade center and he was brief, and we were only like 9, so we thought it was an accident (well, i did). then my mom told me and my friend what happened when we got home from school.

[Courtnee]

I was in 5th grade. Math Class.

[gilligan fanatic]

7th grade, I have memories of watchiing it with the class, I remember seeing it all live, but I honestly can't remember how it came to be. I know there was an annoucement sometime during the day after we all knew about it, but I forgot which teacher came in the room and told us to turn on the news quick. One thing that has stuck with me is being afraid to get of the bus, I ran home. I couldn't sleep that night so around 2 or 3 am GI was on, it made me feel a lot better and safer for some reason.

[Pitooey]

Is there anyone who can pull up the
9-11-01 Sitcom online posts? In it we were all speaking about what happened and where we all were. It is something that I've never forgotten because we were all traumatized by what happened. We came here to SO to speak about it.

I personally would like to read it again.

I was taking my daughter to school at the time. I had just dropped her off and I jumped in my car and started to drive to the mall when I heard on the radio the news of the 1st plane that hit the tower. While I was driving I found it strange that a plane hit the World trade center. So I went to the mall and went to Sears and watched it on the Sears TV sets with other people who were shopping early in the AM at the time. I remember in Sears we all saw the 2nd plane hit the tower.

I decided to go home. When I got home (I lived near the mall at the time) I put on my own TV set and saw the chaos unfold and the towers fall. I remember the 1st tower fall......... I was in shock. Then the 2nd.

Today I cannot watch it anymore. It hurts too much.

You see I use to work in the towers. I saw King Kong (the movie being filmed at the towers). I used to eat at the towers, I took the train to the towers, I danced in the towers, I ate at the top of the towers, I shopped at the towers. :(

[TVFactFan]

Is there anyone who can pull up the
9-11-01 Sitcom online posts? In it we were all speaking about what happened and where we all were. It is something that I've never forgotten because we were all traumatized by what happened. We came here to SO to speak about it.

I personally would like to read it again.

I was taking my daughter to school at the time. I had just dropped her off and I jumped in my car and started to drive to the mall when I heard on the radio the news of the 1st plane that hit the tower. While I was driving I found it strange that a plane hit the World trade center. So I went to the mall and went to Sears and watched it on the Sears TV sets with other people who were shopping early in the AM at the time. I remember in Sears we all saw the 2nd plane hit the tower.

I decided to go home. When I got home (I lived near the mall at the time) I put on my own TV set and saw the chaos unfold and the towers fall. I remember the 1st tower fall......... I was in shock. Then the 2nd.

Today I cannot watch it anymore. It hurts too much.

You see I use to work in the towers. I saw King Kong (the movie being filmed at the towers). I used to eat at the towers, I took the train to the towers, I danced in the towers, I ate at the top of the towers, I shopped at the towers. :(



I already did and there wasn't a lot of members on the site on that day. I wasn't member yet, it was no activity on Chit Chat on that day

[TJL]

I wasn't in New York City that day.

As some of you know, in August 2001 I broke a collarbone in a bike accident.
I was on dissabilty for a while, and On Sept. 11th I was in New Jersey to visit my orthopedic surgeon for a checkup.
I awoke that morning to the sound of my parents reacting to the news that one of the twin towers was on fire. Then we all watched the second plane hit the towers on TV.
I watched the towers collapse as i sat in the waiting room at the doctor's office. Everyone there was really quiet; no one had any idea what to make of this.
I could see the smoke from the doctor's exam room.

[PZelda]

Is there anyone who can pull up the
9-11-01 Sitcom online posts? In it we were all speaking about what happened and where we all were. It is something that I've never forgotten because we were all traumatized by what happened. We came here to SO to speak about it.

I personally would like to read it again.

I was taking my daughter to school at the time. I had just dropped her off and I jumped in my car and started to drive to the mall when I heard on the radio the news of the 1st plane that hit the tower. While I was driving I found it strange that a plane hit the World trade center. So I went to the mall and went to Sears and watched it on the Sears TV sets with other people who were shopping early in the AM at the time. I remember in Sears we all saw the 2nd plane hit the tower.

I decided to go home. When I got home (I lived near the mall at the time) I put on my own TV set and saw the chaos unfold and the towers fall. I remember the 1st tower fall......... I was in shock. Then the 2nd.

Today I cannot watch it anymore. It hurts too much.

You see I use to work in the towers. I saw King Kong (the movie being filmed at the towers). I used to eat at the towers, I took the train to the towers, I danced in the towers, I ate at the top of the towers, I shopped at the towers. :(
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=18152 - started by Ags2000.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=154&page=414&order=desc - here's the page of threads from the week of 9/11/01.

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I am not much of a crier...The last time I REALLY cried was in November of 2004, I think. But anyway, that's besides the point. I was in NYC six months ago, in March. My group and I made a lot of trips down to Lower Manhattan. We visited Ground Zero during one of our trips down to that part of Manhattan. Oh man...seeing it for yourself...you can really feel that it feels unsettled, and you suddenly realize you are standing in the very spot that a very tragic part of history took place. That alone was enough to make me teary-eyed. I couldn't stop thinking about the people who jumped to their deaths on 9/11, and I couldn't stop thinking about it for maybe a month or two after I got back from NYC. :( It was so eerie walking down that part of Manhattan...it's all tall skyscrapers, and then suddenly there's NOTHING when you get to Ground Zero. :(

[TVFactFan]

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=18152 - started by Ags2000.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=154&page=414&order=desc - here's the page of threads from the week of 9/11/01.


You can see it wasn't that much activity

[DLevine2]

It's hard to believe its Five Years Ago that the Sept. 11 attacks happened. On 60 Minutes tonight Katie Couric was talking about the Sept. 11 attacks and reporting about it tonight. In 2002 for the One Year Anniversary of 9/11 I was in New Orleans, La. I was at work five years ago when it started.

[Shine]

I was still in college on September 11, 2001. Infact, it was my last semester. Even though I watch a lot of news now, especially CNN, I really didn't then. However, it just happened that I had the news on that morning in my dorm room and I more or less saw everything as it happened. The feeling that I felt at the time was...well, it didn't seem real. Nothing like this had ever happened in our country before (at least not on such a large scale) and it just seemes too impossible to be real. Following the events of that day, I have tried to keep up to date with what is going on in our country and the world as a whole.

A really sad story concerning 9-11 appeared in one of our local papers. A reporter went around asking teenagers what they thought of the September 11th tragedy and a high school girl said it really wasn't on her mind because she was more concerned with Homecoming dance. :(

[*Pleasant Tomorrow*]

I was in 7th grade, 2nd period, living environment class. I had absolutely no idea until school got out and my mom told me. I did notice there was something strange going, but I thought it was the fact that we were under some bad water advisory and couldn't drink out of the water fountains. I was wrong... I didn't even know what the World Trade Centers were, but the fact that something got destroyed like that was enough for me. I thought we were all gonna die or something, that it was WW3. I didn't know, I was so confused. And then I saw it on tv. I still remember a plane flying over the house while I was watching it and being scared ****less. And I'll always remember when we went to pick up my sister in elementary school who was in 5th grade, and when they let the kids out some wiseass stops, raises her hands in the air and shouts "We're gonna get bommmmmbed" Totally tasteless but it made me laugh for the first time since hearing it because I was so scared. And then I look to my left and see someone reading a paper in the car with the headlines. Target: US or something along the lines of that. Scary day mmmhm.

[Pus$y Galore]

I'll never forget that day. It was surreal and all I did was watch it unfold the entire day on t.v.. I was home with a migraine and my husband called me to tell me a plane had hit the tower. You figure it has to be something like a cessna, then when you hear otherwise you knew it was the worst. I watched as the second plane hit and the towers went down.

You can't even really compare it to my parent's generation of hearing of JFK's and Oswald's assassnations because of the massiveness of it all. Like some out of hollywood but it was true. This was Manhattan and it looked like it was covered in volcanic ash. Even five years later rewatching the imagines conjures up the same sickened feelings and disbelief.

God bless all who perished, God bless all who went in to save and God bless those left to carry on for all of them. I cannot imagine your pain.

:(

[Janice]

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[Brent88]

I was in 8th grade until about 10am when my dad came and picked me up. They told us nothing at school. I had not followed world events before 9/11 but immediately started watching and a day hasn't gone by since that I didn't at least watch a few minutes of news. I immediately started recording when I got home that day and still have the original tape.

[TVJunkie101]

I'll never ever forget this day. I never understood it when my mom or others would say "I remember the day Kennedy was shot" and granted, these are two very different things, but the point is, I remember that day like it was yesterday and I couldn't tell you what I did five days ago.

I was in highschool at the time, in science class. Somehow we got wind of what happened (you know the rumor mill) so the teacher went on the computer in her office and we saw pictures, etc. It still wasn't sinking in that this was happening. I remember just being confused and in gym all of us were just sitting there talking about it and the crazy rumors of a hundred plans hijacked, etc. It was just confusion. I went home and immediately turned on the news and just watched it all the rest of the night.

I jsut remember so many details about that day it's unreal. My heart still goes out to all of those that lost their lives. It's so hard to believe it's really been five years.

And Brent, what times are these going to air? It sounds morbid but I want to tape them.

CNN Pipeline will replay the 9/11 coverage from CNN in real-time on Monday, while MSNBC will repeat the Today Show broadcast from 9/11.

[TVFactFan]

I'll never ever forget this day. I never understood it when my mom or others would say "I remember the day Kennedy was shot" and granted, these are two very different things, but the point is, I remember that day like it was yesterday and I couldn't tell you what I did five days ago.

I was in highschool at the time, in science class. Somehow we got wind of what happened (you know the rumor mill) so the teacher went on the computer in her office and we saw pictures, etc. It still wasn't sinking in that this was happening. I remember just being confused and in gym all of us were just sitting there talking about it and the crazy rumors of a hundred plans hijacked, etc. It was just confusion. I went home and immediately turned on the news and just watched it all the rest of the night.

I jsut remember so many details about that day it's unreal. My heart still goes out to all of those that lost their lives. It's so hard to believe it's really been five years.

And Brent, what times are these going to air? It sounds morbid but I want to tape them.



What Time will MSNBC replay The Today Show from that Day? And what is CNN pipeline?

[Brieannas21]

What Time will MSNBC replay The Today Show from that Day? And what is CNN pipeline?


Tomorrow at 8:30am EST

[TVJunkie101]

Thanks Brieannas.

What about Pipeline? I'd assume the same time?

[Brieannas21]

Thanks Brieannas.

What about Pipeline? I'd assume the same time?

Yeah, I think they're going to try to follow the exact timeline.

[TVFactFan]

Yeah, I think they're going to try to follow the exact timeline.


What is Cnn Pipeline?

[Brad]

I'll never forget that day. Never.

I used to set the TV in my bedroom to turn on in the morning. That's how I woke up (still is, actually).

I had to be at work at 7:30, so I set my TV to turn on at 6:00 am (keep in mind, I'm in the pacific time zone). I woke up to a shot of one of the World Trade Center towers on fire.

In my grogginess, I thought they may have been talking about the 1993 bombings of the Trade Center. I sat up and put my glasses on, just in time to see the second plane hit.

I was glued to my TV. I even tried calling in to work, but my boss told me to to come anyway (at the time, I worked as a telemarketer selling small business equipment to SBC customers, and I thought it was very vulgar to sell when our country was under attack, the ****tiness of the job aside).

Before I left for work, it was announced that the Pentagon had been hit, and by the time I got to work (late), the first tower had fallen. Nobody was making calls. We were waiting word as to whether or not we were going to be working.

About fifteen minutes later, we were told that we wouldn't be making calls (thank God) and that we had the choice to either go home or take inbound calls. I chose the former.

The rest of my day, I spent my time mostly posting on message boards, but I also spent a lot of time watching Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings. I was in a very catatonic state the whole day. I knew that things were going to be very different from then on.

It was a horrible time, to be sure, but I have to say I miss the fleeting few weeks where the country united as one. I wish it didn't take tragedies on a national scale for things like that to happen.

[Brad]

What is Cnn Pipeline?

CNN Pipeline is CNN.com's streaming video service. One normally must pay a recurring subscription fee to utilize the service, but tomorrow, it will be free.

[tdf4077]

I was driving in to my Vietnam War (ironic) class...I had the radio on, but there was a strange silence...when they came back, it said that a plane had hit the tower, but I was picturing some little bi-plane that wasn't going to do anything...I don't know why...

We got released from our class just Tower Two came down...they had a huge-screen tv in the lobby of the building, and it was absolutely silent...we crowded around and watched...

The rest of the day, all I can remember is sitting in a big, silent, dark conference room and watching the tv...my teachers cancelled most of my afternoon classes...we met for band for a few minutes to play the national anthem...i stayed up all night watching peter jennings...

my dad had been flying that day, and i tried to call him to see if he was ok, but i couldn't get through. he wound up having to drive back since the planes were grounded...but he was just in indiana, so he was never in any danger...

[Holly]

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[Brian Damage]

The pain will always be with me. To have someone you love die in such a way is impossible to accept.

[Pus$y Galore]

The pain will always be with me. To have someone you love die in such a way is impossible to accept.


Brian, you, and so many others are in my thoughts and prayers today.

[Stormtracker TF]

Can't believe it's already been 5 years. It still feels like it was just yesterday, and watching footage is just as sad as it was 5 years ago today. I can't even bare to watch MSNBC.

As long as I live, I'll never forget that day. God bless America, and all the friends and family of those who died. We'll never forget.

[Janice]

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[Brian Damage]

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[Janice]

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[PZelda]

Can't believe it's already been 5 years. It still feels like it was just yesterday, and watching footage is just as sad as it was 5 years ago today. I can't even bare to watch MSNBC.

As long as I live, I'll never forget that day. God bless America, and all the friends and family of those who died. We'll never forget.
I'm watching the original footage on MSNBC right now. At this time five years ago today, I was just leaving my PE class to go to my history class, so I never got to see the footage as it aired because I was not near a TV at the time.

I've had goosebumps ever since I started watching. :(

[Janice]

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[Brian Damage]

patriot:

[Brian Damage]

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[Brian Damage]

WTC tower 2 collapsed at 9:59 am

[Janice]

:rip:
That's a beautiful picture of your cousin Laura and her husband. I don't believe you've ever posted that one before. I'm sorry for your loss. :(

[Janice]

I've got MSNBC on. I must be crazy. It's the coverage of that day.

[Brent88]

I've got MSNBC on. I must be crazy. It's the coverage of that day.

Yeah, I've been watching and recording as well. I never saw it originally. They should be running it for another hour or so.

:(

I just recently dipped into the CNN Pipeline feed.

[TVJunkie101]

I'm taping the MSNBC rebroadcast of the Today show as well. Heartbreaking. I hadn't seen it live the first time. I also had the Pipeline on. It's so chilling, even five years later, to watch this unfold. And it sounds odd but all morning I hear plane after plane pass over and just stop for a second. I did that before, after the attacks. It went away, the caution, except for today.

[Janice]

What strikes me about the coverage is how little the reporters knew....wondering how many people were in the planes and towers. They had no way of knowing of course....now we know it all. Tom Brokaw just guessed it was OBL.

I'm surprised that the terrorists didn't strike later in the morning, when there would be more people in the buildings. Thank God they didn't, just wondering why not.

[Pus$y Galore]

What strikes me about the coverage is how little the reporters knew....wondering how many people were in the planes and towers. They had no way of knowing of course....now we know it all. Tom Brokaw just guessed it was OBL.

I'm surprised that the terrorists didn't strike later in the morning, when there would be more people in the buildings. Thank God they didn't, just wondering why not.

I was thinking the same thing last night while watching the D'Niro special again. If they had really been thinking, they would have timed it for 11 or 11:30 a.m. - when the towers would have been packed. Can you just imagine how many would have been lost then?

And the other thing I thought, especially after the 1993 bombing, why weren't the daycare centres on the lower floors where the children could have been evacuated easier and faster.

All these things we now know.

[Seth]

And the other thing I thought, especially after the 1993 bombing, why weren't the daycare centres on the lower floors where the children could have been evacuated easier and faster.


Of course, in case of a lower-level attack, where would they have been. 100+ story buildings are always possible targets - particularly if the buildings around them aren't even remotely as tall.

[Brian Damage]

That's a beautiful picture of your cousin Laura and her husband. I don't believe you've ever posted that one before. I'm sorry for your loss. :(


The loss to my family could've been greater. My brother and my two Uncles worked at the WTC. They worked for Smith Barney in tower one. When the first bombing took place in 1993, my two uncles evacuated to the roof of the building. (Who knew?) My brother was on a break at the time of that attack and returned to utter chaos. It freaked my brother out so much, he quit his job. The company decided to move from the tower to WTC building 7. (Which also collapsed on 9/11)

If the company was still in the actual towers, who knows what could've happened?

[Pus$y Galore]

Of course, in case of a lower-level attack, where would they have been. 100+ story buildings are always possible targets - particularly if the buildings around them aren't even remotely as tall.


But that was just it. One of the firemen that was rescued said that the only reason they survived was because they were around the 2nd floor level at the time - that anything above that was gone and anything below. It occured to me that if the daycare centres were relocated to those areas, they may have been o.k.. Of course, this is all 20/20 hindsight - they felt the buildings had been structured in such a way that they shouldn't have collasped in the first place.

[Brian Damage]

I've got MSNBC on. I must be crazy. It's the coverage of that day.


I have been watching bits and pieces of it too. Old feelings of terror and confusion came to me watching it all over again. I must be an idiot.

[TVFactFan]

Can't believe it's already been 5 years. It still feels like it was just yesterday, and watching footage is just as sad as it was 5 years ago today. I can't even bare to watch MSNBC.

As long as I live, I'll never forget that day. God bless America, and all the friends and family of those who died. We'll never forget.


I know that I shouldn't be doing this today but I will anyway. On 9/11 we were dismissed and I didn't get home until almost 12pm. So I never really saw the everything as it happened from 8:48am to the second Tower collaspe at 10:32. So that's why I recorded this on MSNBC this morning while I was sleep and plan to watch it today. I also plan to record over it immediately after I'm done watching

[Karen64]

9-11-01 was my son's 9th birthday. I took him to a grocery store on the way to school to get some treats to share with his class to celebrate. After I dropped him off and made my way to work, I heard initial reports of what was going on on my car radio.

I got into work (a nursing home) and all the TVs in the living rooms were turned to the news. The nurses, CNAs, the rest of the staff and the elderly people who lived there were glued to the TV in disbelief. A few of the elderly people started having panic attacks; we had to divert them & get them involved in some kind of other activity.

I was later wondering where I was when all of this started to happen; I found my cash register receipt from the store and the time printed on the receipt (adjusting for time change between here and NYC) is the same moment the first building hit the tower in NYC. I still have that receipt.

[KissMyGrits]

I remember exactly where I was and exactly what I was doing. I remember everyone in the room and the feeling of tremendous fear.

My boss asked us to join her in prayer for those who lost their lives. I remember it being so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. I remember my husband calling me at work to tell me that it was a terrorist attack. I remember wanting to go home and hug my husband and son. Thanking the good Lord that they were safe. I remember knowing that our lives had changed forever. Nothing has been, nor will it ever be the same again. Life will go on, but it is nothing like before 09-11-01.

That was truly the day that changed America and our way of life. Until then terrorist attacks were always something that happened in far away countries. To people that were very different and spoke a different language. This changed me in ways that nothing else had before or since.

I pray for those that lost loved ones and those that were in NYC that fateful day. May we always remember and never forget.......

[MsOrange]

10th grade chemistry. I didn't even realize what happened until I got home that day and my mom explained it to me. Then just one day, it hit me when I wad riving to work that our country was under attack. I'll never ever forget that feeling.

RIP.

[Karen*]

OMG, I don't know what to say to everything in this thread. I actually have tears in my eyes right now from looking at all these pictures and reading all these stories. What a horrific day...so many lives lost. So many people hurt. ohno: :(

When 9/11 happened, I just started eighth grade. I always listened to the radio in the morning as I got ready for school. I do not remember the exact words that were said once I turned it on that day. Just something along the lines like, "Two planes have crashed into the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center is on fire." I remember feeling a range of negative emotions: fear, sadness, shock, confusion, and anger. Everyone else in my family didn't know about it, so I had to tell them and when we turned on the TV at breakfast, the nightmare became real as we saw images of the twin towers on fire. People at school kept on talking about it and our teachers talked to us cuz we had trouble coming to terms with what had happened. Instead of lectures and classwork and homework, we sat around and watched the news all day. To be honest, it sort of felt like a normal school day...just an extremely sad and solemn school day.

Now that I'm a bit older and have come to understand all this a little bit more, I am feeling more heartbroken about this tragedy. I still can't believe this happened.

[TV DVD Fan]

On this horrid day, we pause for a moment in our busy lives to remember the World Trade Center and the legacy it left behind. I don't think there was ever a darker moment in my life than when I saw that news coverage--- the destruction, the despair, the horror, the terror and in many ways, the end. Anybody who has experienced a loss has lost a part of them that can never be given back and you can only pray that there is yet hope for this savage and unforgiving world. People I know saw things that looked like ravens flying about the tower--- but they weren't birds, they were humans jumping off the building out of fear and certain of the grim death that awaited them. The news coverage piled on for weeks and weeks, depressing us more and more as new horrifying footage was released. This morning on the news, they showed footage of the Aftermath that my heart just couldn't take.

To think that I was once atop the World Trade Center eating dinner on the top floor and thinking that experience could've happened to me was simply and utterly devastating. The wounds still haven't been healed, and never will be.

Let us all now pause for a moment to commemorate the building, the people affected by it, and the people who lived their final moments in it. The terrorists may have our building and more sophisticated ways of blowing up national treasures, but we have something much more important than they can ever have--- our dignity and our peace.

I close with a rather ironic play on words that I've seen on commemorations and memorials alike--- ALL LOST SOME, SOME LOST ALL.

We will never forget.

Pat

Pat

[PZelda]

Does anyone else have the September 24, 2001 issue of People Weekly? I do, and I have held on to it since I first got that issue.

There are hundreds and hundreds of real, grimy pictures in this issue- this was one of only a handful of times People Weekly didn't focus on celebrity issues- the whole issue was dedicated to 9/11. There are also tons of stories from the people that survived the attacks. It's just amazing.

[TVFactFan]

Does anyone else have the September 24, 2001 issue of People Weekly? I do, and I have held on to it since I first got that issue.

There are hundreds and hundreds of real, grimy pictures in this issue- this was one of only a handful of times People Weekly didn't focus on celebrity issues- the whole issue was dedicated to 9/11. There are also tons of stories from the people that survived the attacks. It's just amazing.


What kind of Grimy Pictures? I remember getting Newsweek after 9/11. I would have never thought to buy People Magazine

[DLevine2]

Today is the three year anniversary of the death of John Ritter. In 2003 was so sad when John Ritter died at the age of 54. It was three years from today. In Memoriam of John Ritter (1948-2003) Tonight the president will be on tv about the five year anniversary of 9-11-01.

[PZelda]

What kind of Grimy Pictures? I remember getting Newsweek after 9/11. I would have never thought to buy People Magazine
You know... stills of the towers getting attacked, the Pentagon getting attacked, the towers falling, people covered in blood and soot... things like that. It's hard to look at it all the time... I still look through it every now and then, but it's not something I can read all the way through in one sitting, because it's too much.

I think I have a couple of post-9/11 mags too, but People Weekly is the first one I remember buying.

[Cactus Jack]

:(


I remember wherre I was too, but on the ardio goignt o shcool they said two planes had crahsed into the Wolrd Trade Center, I tohught it wasj ust an accident. But, then, all we didi n school was watch TV and coverage on it :( Very sad sday, nvere forget.

[Cactus Jack]

and oh yeah I cant blieve its been 5 years already either, really shows that time has flown by

[TVFactFan]

You know... stills of the towers getting attacked, the Pentagon getting attacked, the towers falling, people covered in blood and soot... things like that. It's hard to look at it all the time... I still look through it every now and then, but it's not something I can read all the way through in one sitting, because it's too much.

I think I have a couple of post-9/11 mags too, but People Weekly is the first one I remember buying.


Well it doesn't sound as bad as newsweek, they had photos of Falling Bodies from the WTC. I couldn't believe they would Photograph something like that. They could have tallked about it but the Still Photos of Falling Bodies was too much

[PZelda]

Well it doesn't sound as bad as newsweek, they had photos of Falling Bodies from the WTC. I couldn't believe they would Photograph something like that. They could have tallked about it but the Still Photos of Falling Bodies was too much
I THINK that issue of People has a pic of the jumpers too. But like I said, it gets to be too much to look at it after a few pages. :(

[Brian Damage]

This is what has replaced the Twin Towers (At least for the Anniversary of 9/11) It is called "The Tribute in Lights."

[Hollow]

i remember how bloody scared i was when i found out without having the whole story clarified....i just heard that the twin towers were destroyed by terrorists, the pentagon was attacked as well, thousands of people were dead, the white house had been evacuated and so on. i thought the ****ing world was ending.

when i see pictures of the planes hitting the towers and whatnot, knowing people did that to us on purpose, i just feel sick....and for some reason the fact that they attacked us kind of creatively (hijacking and crashing planes rather than using an explosive weapon or something) makes it worse. humans are just scum.

[Brian Damage]

This is for the terrorists

[phoebe7165]

I didn't even find out about everything that had happened that morning until about noon because I worked the night before and didn't get to bed until 5AM. My sister kept trying to call me. I don't answer the phone when I'm sleeping. She wouldn't even tell me at first what happened. I actually thought that maybe Bush or somebody really, really important had died. In fact, I asked her in a joking way "OK, who died?", and she said alot of people!!! Then she finally told me.

Before 9/11, whenever I was in the New York area, driving on the NJ Turnpike, the World Trade Towers, to me, were so mesmerizing. When I was right near them, it was hard to take my eyes off them because they were so immense(and yes, I was paying attention to my driving!!). Now it's still weird for me when I go up there to not see them anymore. Like a void. I really wish they had kept the 2 blue lights aiming up to the sky. At least has some kind of beacon.

[phoebe7165]

This is what has replaced the Twin Towers (At least for the Anniversary of 9/11) It is called "The Tribute in Lights."

Yeah, that's what I was talking about. I wish they had that all the time. When I was up there in April, they weren't lit.

[Number 9 Dream]

I can remember 9/11 like it was just yesterday. It's really hard to believe it's been 5 years because the memory of it is so fresh in my mind.

I was a freshman in college, just started my first year there, actually. My class was from 8-9:15 that morning (Freshman Composition) and was let out at the usual time. I must've gotten home around 9:30 or 9:40, I'd say. I immediately went in to my parents' bedroom so I could flip on some talk shows to watch. I remember being confused when I saw the special reports of a crash in to the World Trade Center. I wondered what possibly could've happened, and by the sounds of the newscasters, it appeared they were just as confused as I was. Everyone thought it was an accident at first. Then when the second plane crashed in to the south tower, I knew immediately that this was something to be worried about--there is no way that TWO planes could've crashed within minutes of each other and be anything but deliberate. By then I was shaking, completely and utterly dumbfounded and frightened. I watched the news unfold little by little, and by the time the Pentagon had been attacked as well, I was literally in a state of panic. I signed on to the computer and went on to a message board where everyone was spouting all these theories and claims about the world ending (which didn't help my state of mind, that's for sure. I signed off pretty quickly). I began to pace the house nervously--I was scared because my brothers were at school and my parents working. I was wondering whether or not the schools would be let out early. I called my mom and chatted with her a bit. I think I just needed to hear her voice and have her tell me everything was going to be ok.

Well, I certainly didn't feel okay. I had to leave the house and get away from the news coverage for a bit. I called my friend Bethany and asked her what she was doing--turns out she was working at her flower shop job, driving around town making her deliveries. She told me she would swing by and pick me up so that we could be together, at least. It was good to see her and feel comforted by another person, I'll admit. I drove around with her for some of her deliveries and we even stopped by a bank (where everyone was following the coverage on a small t.v., of course). It was just insane. I can remember her dropping me off about an hour later and I just sat outside for a bit, listening to how still the world was and how I was only about an hour and half away from complete chaos and devastation. Everything was just so surreal.

I remember spending the rest of the day glued to the t.v. with my family. I hardly slept that night (or for the rest of that month, for that matter). Every time I heard a fighter plane, I'd panic and think we were being attacked again. It was the worst feeling of unrest ever. I can't even imagine what it was like for the people in the city and D.C. that were going through it personally (or for anyone who lost a family member in the attack). All I can say is this--they picked the wrong nation to f*ck with. We are resilient and determined people and will not stand idly by as people attack our ideals and freedoms.

God Bless everyone. We are still standing.

[Janice]

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[Brent88]

TVNewser:

9/11/06: MSNBC Rebroadcast #1 In Demo
MSNBC's rebroadcast of the Today Show's coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was the #1 demo program on cable news Monday morning. Between 9am and noon, MSNBC topped CNN and FNC in the 25-54 demo, and topped CNN in total viewers. Here are the numbers:

9am to noon:

Total viewers: FNC: 1,126,000 / CNN: 754,000 / MSNBC: 776,000

25-54 demo: FNC: 385,000 / CNN: 367,000 / MSNBC: 429,000

MSNBC never does that well.

[Janice]

http://cagle.msnbc.com/working/060911/nease.jpg


http://cagle.msnbc.com/working/060911/davies.gif

[Brad]

Warning: Not for the faint-of-heart. Contains footage of the WTC getting hit, and the buildings collapsing. Also contains strong language.

http://www.revver.com/view.php?id=59686

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyqo4oh-AzU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJig1wj7oLI