Let's take a moment to remember all those lives lost and all those lives forever changed on that awful day. Let's never forget and let's pray to God that it never happens again.

"Where were you when the world stopped turning?" -Alan Jackson

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God bless the families and friends who lost their loved ones that horrible day 8 years ago. May those lost :rip:. May God also continue to bless the USA!! patriot:

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Amen!

I was at work on that day and we watched CNN and witnessed the second plane crashing into the world trade center.:(

Terrible day. RIP to all who lost their lives that day. :(

God Bless all the families of people that fought for their lives, to save and help, and cure our beloved country. This little roadblock only brought us much closer as a country, with all the war on terrorism going on. God Bless everybody & thank you New York, and Mayor Guliani. RIP to everybody who saved us. You will be missed. Thank you.

911 was very sad day RIP to everyone we lost

I remember coming downstairs at home and having my mom tell me at 11:30AM (I worked 2nd shift) about the news on TV. I had an appointment to take a new kitten to the vet for a checkup but I cancelled it and just watched TV till I went to work, where everyone was quiet and very nervous.

I was so stunned and angry, like everyone else. You can't really put into words the way this event shocked the nation. I remember being afraid for a long time afterward.

And we're kidding ourselves if we think it's "over". We've been lucky and skillful too in the past eight years, avoiding further attacks. But it's true we need to remember this day as long as we live, because the only reason it doesn't happen again is because there are people out there giving their lives to make sure it doesn't.

Bless all those who perished that day, the families of the fallen, the men and women who have sacrificed themselves in service of our protection since then, and those who continue to risk all for our safety.

patriot:

A funeral home by me in Kettering put up a "WE WILL NEVER FORGET" banner outside. I thought it was very patriotic and appropriate.

May God bless us this Patriots Day!

RIP to those who died.

I was going to the bathroom to get a Drink or warter and my mom had told me what happen

I will never be able to forget that day. When I first saw those plans crashing into the WTC on tv, it didn't look real. I was only in ninth grade when it happened so I didn't understand why it happened-I still don't. But we must never forget those who lost their lives on those plans, in the WTC, or the brave men and women who tried to rescue others. Remembering not only keeps their memory alive, but it makes us more aware of attacks like this to help prevent them in the future. God bless all of the families affected by 9/11.

May we never forget that day!

Like Pearl Harbor, it's a day that will live in infamy.

:rip: R.I.P. to all of the people who were hurt and who died on 9/11/01.

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Who could forget??? America lost a sense of innocence that day that we will never get back.

There are three events in my lifetime that I will never, ever forget: the
assassination of President Kennedy, the Challenger space shuttle explosion,
and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Each had a profound effect on
our life. But the events of 9/11/01 had the deepest impact of them all, on
our nation and the world. Life as we all knew it changed that day, forever.
Let us never forget what happened that day. I know, as long as I live, I
will remember.

patriot:

It's still weird to drive north on the NJ Turnpike and not see the towers as you get close to the city. Those seemed like beacons to me, and as I got closer, it was hard to keep my eyes off of them. They were so majestic.

RIP to all lost that day, and thoughts to those still affected by it.

Seeing all those pics, almost made me cry. :(
Like everybody else, I want to pray for those who have lost loved ones and say thanks to the families who have given up a woman and/or man so that they can protect us. Your sacrifices will be rewarded. :)
God bless.

There were plenty of pics I could have chosen from as tribute. Though there's nothing wrong with it, I personally did not want to post a pic of their destruction and in effect, the deaths of thousands. With that in mind, even though this day marks the somber anniversary of a horrific event, I thought I'd show a photo of what was a beautiful and inspiring act and what makes the little, unexpected things in life, extraordinary and demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit.









Yesterday,
All my troubles seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.


Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me




oh, YESTERDAY, came suddenly...

What a crazy and scary week that was. I kept thinking how things were so different after that attack, and just days before everything seems so calm. I will never forget that week, or all the people who lost their lives. Even if it was brief it was nice to see all of us Americans come together.

it was a scary week

i watched the real time coverage on msnbc this morning. its still so surreal after all these years to watch what unfolded that day. i was switching back and forth between msnbc and the today show (the 4th hour with hoda and kathy lee) and although i detest kathy lee she said something real poignant. she told a story about how her assisstant's husband worked for cantor fitzgerald and died that day and how her assisstant remarked how sad it was to be 7months pregnant with his child, a child he'd never see. and kathy lee told her "imagine how sad it would be if you weren't pregnant with his child" and that was such a lovely sentiment to me, in so many ways. first, because even though at the moment he was dieing and and now 8 years after his death, a piece of him is still alive. and secondly, it was the basic message of life - life and death. that we must move on and live. though its important to remember the legacies and lessons of those who died, even in the most horrific moments life still continues.

lets see, on september 11 i was home by myself (i was still living at home with my dad)and i was watching tv from 7am on. looking back, it was weird because at 7am i was watching the looney tunes hour on cartoon network and all the shorts were patriotic themed. then at 8am i shut the tv off to do some housework and after 9 (it was after the south tower was hit) my friend called and told me turn on the tv. i was kinda like "leave me alone with this. im busy" then he told me why i should watch, what had happened so i put on the early show with bryant gumble and didn't turn the tv off for another 24 hours after.



my sister had gone to florida the day before and i called her immediately and she was being evacuated from disney world. they shut down the park as a precaution that day. she had been on the 'it's a smallworld' ride. and she said the lights came on revealing all the robotic equipment and sirens started blaring and lights were flashing and they were all evacuated and once they got into the main park the disney park attendants were tellling them to leave and that the park was closing. my sister and husband stopped and asked one of the attendants what was going on and she said "well, we're not supposed to tell anyone because we don't want to start any chaos or panic but the twin towers in new york were hit" my sister said when they went back home to ct a few days later they could see the smoke still from the where the towers were when they were flying home. of course getting back home was mayhem for them, you can imagine the delays and security measures at the time. my sister said there were national guard troops with machine guns standing throughout the airport and it was very tense.




it was a shock to them because they had just visited the twin towers 2 weeks before their florida trip and ate at that restuarant 'windows
on the world' and they had met a really nice waiter who served them that day and have since always wondered about his fate.







i don't travel much but i am lucky to say i had the privelege and honor of being inside the twin towers while they were still standing. i went to new york city the christmas after my mom died, a bunch of us rented a limo to see the sights of the holiday season new york style and for lunch we ate at windows on the world and i made the faux pas of wearing my coat in the restuarant and the maitre de told me to go back downstairs and have it checked so i got to ride alone all the way back downstairs and all the way back up, by myself in the elevator.




anyway, the today show also mentioned a site where you can purchase a special u.s.a. flag that has the names of all the victims on it. the proceeds go to funding for 9/11 victim's families.the site is called flags of honor and the web address is www.biellc.org.











i bought a flag to remember the event and can't wait to display it proudly, i was also proud to see that this org. is ct based. i also bought the documentary dvd 'man on a wire'. its about high wire walker philippe petit who famously walked between the 2 towers back in 1974 and by doing so the towers gained affection for the first time since their construction as they were regarded by many as too industrial and utilitarian at the time.

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RIP to everyone who died on this horrible event that took place upon our great country. God bless the people that lost families, friends and loved ones. 9-11, we will never forget!

I will never forget that day. I remember first hearing about the attacks as I was leaving a college class. I got into my car, turned on CBS 880 AM news and hearing that "both towers are now gone." :( As I was driving home for the day, all kinds of emotions were running through me, from sadness to fear to anger at the people who perpetrated this. I still remember thinking, "I pray there is a special place in Hell reserved for those terrorists that did this to us!".:mad:

God bless all of our troops. Never forget. :patriot:

yes Good bless our Troops.

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The day it happened...

We were taking a car to my grandpa's house and we heard that a plane crashed into a building. We thought it was an act...but it was real! It was also my grandparent's anniversary and the day that my Uncle died.

:(

Meet Me in the Stairwell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzg1qL6b4uk)
God Bless all those who lost their lives that day... and their families as well.
I will never forget this day, although I didn't really understand what was going on until years later. I was 11, home in bed, sleeping late as usual. A neighbor kid was home from school sick, and told my mom, who was outside watering plants. By the time I woke up, I saw my mom and sis sitting in the living room watching it. I just didn't know what was really happening until years later.:(

R.I.P. to everybody that we lost. It will be a day that I will never forget. My Mom called me that day and told me to turn on the TV. While we were talking the third plane crashed in PA. That startled me because that's where I live. She said that she thought at first it was a movie being played on TV. It didn't dawn on her that we had just been attacked. It's hard to believe it's been 8 years already. :(

I was a junior in high school. I was driving to school that day when the DJ on the radio come on and said that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center and plane crashed into the Pentagon.

Later on in school we watched the footage of the second plane crashing into the WTC.

RIP all that died that day.

Thank you SO much for posting this thread. I wasn't feeling well last night, otherwise I would have done it after midnight, but I've been thinking about this all day. I was so mad because I completely forgot to wear my "September 11th shirt" (as I call it) to work. Fortunately I have it on now, though.

I've told this story a million times it seems, but I hope you all don't mind reading it again. I will never, ever forget the moment I first heard about the WTC attack. I was driving down I-405 to work in Bellevue, Washington. It was about 6:15-6:30am and normally I would have listened to a cassette in my car. That day, I decided to listen to the radio. I was flipping through stations and I heard the Amy Grant song "That's What Love Is For". BTW, that is my signature, if it shows up on this post. I call it my 9/11 song. Suddenly, the DJ broke in, stopping the song, and he announced that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Then I heard President Bush saying the same thing, that it was an apparant terrorist attack. They never did go back and play the song again, but I was really confused about the whole thing. When I got to work, people were listening to the radio. They said that one of the towers collapsed. We didn't have a TV so I couldn't see what had happened. I imagined the tower literally falling over, instead of the way it happened. On my lunch break, I walked across the street to the K-Mart and ran over to the TV sets. People were standing there watching on sets that were so fuzzy, you couldn't make out the picture.
On my way home, I drove past a flagpole in downtown Mill Creek and when I saw that the flag was at half staff... well, that's when it hit me that this was REAL. My eyes filled with tears and I said "Those poor people."
For a while after that, all I could think of (selfishly) was "Oh my God, I've BEEN to the World Trade Center-twice. That could have happened when I was there." I know that's terrible to even think, but that's what I was feeling. That thought still haunts me from time to time.

I feel terrible that when I think of 9/11, mostly I remember the World Trade Center. It's only when I watch TV shows about it or see pictures, do I remember that many other people and places were affected by this horrific day as well'; the pentagon and the field in Pennsylvania.

There is a high school in Federal Way, Washington that was named after Todd Beamer. He was the passenger on Flight 93 who said "Let's Roll". I don't know if this was a new high school when they named it or they were just re-naming it, but here's a link to the school and a biography of Todd Beamer. He sure was a handsome man. Very brave, too. I think it's so cool that they named their high school after him.

http://schools.fwps.org/tbhs/info/about.htm

I don't know if any of you have seen the World Trade Center movie staring Nicholas Cage, but my husband rented it a while back. I watched about 10 minutes of it and had to leave the room. I hated it. I hated seeing a recreation of that horrific day. I know that other movies have been done about Pearl Harbor, the JFK assination, and other terrible events, but this one is the one I remember most vividly. I just think it was WAY too soon to be making a film like that. If anything, I'd like to see a movie about someone who was affected by 9/11 and how they coped with it. All the time you see movies about people who lost loved ones in various wars, so I could see them doing a film like this.

I've been to the WTC site (or Ground Zero as I still call it) twice now, and both times it's been very emotional. The first time after the attacks was back in 2004. Previously I had been there in 1982 and 1987 when the WTC was still there, so it was eerie to see that gigantic hole in the ground. Really it just looked like a big construction site, and if it weren't for the fence with all the pictures around it, that's all it would be to someone who didn't know otherwise.
I would like to go back to NYC after the memorial is finished. Every year I like to watch the ceremony that they have at Ground Zero on TV. I forgot to tape it this year, but I'm sure I can find a little footage online.

At work today, they passed out half sheets of paper with a big American flag on the front in color. They told us to write either where we were or what 9/11 means to us. I used up the entire sheet. They made a big American flag out of colored paper and put it on the wall. Then they put the smaller flag pictures around it. It was really cool, although I wish more people would have participated.

I was thinking this afternoon that I wish things could be the way they were immediately following 9/11, meaning that everyone was nice to each other (for the most part) and America (or at least Seattle) came together for just a little while. There were tributes and memorials at baseball games. NYC tourism was trying desperately to get people to come and visit, since a lot of people were afraid to fly and afraid to go to NYC. I really wish I would have been able to go to NYC right after that happened. It would have been interesting to see how different things were.

Sorry this is so long... I got carried away...

Andrea

PS My deepest condolences to anyone who lost loved ones on 9/11 and to anyone who was affected by the attacks.

I will never forget this day. May they rest in peace.

I don't know if any of you have seen the World Trade Center movie staring Nicholas Cage, but my husband rented it a while back. I watched about 10 minutes of it and had to leave the room. I hated it. I hated seeing a recreation of that horrific day.

I can't watch that movie, either. Still to this day. I also can't watch Flight 93.

I've been to the WTC site (or Ground Zero as I still call it) twice now, and both times it's been very emotional. The first time after the attacks was back in 2004. Previously I had been there in 1982 and 1987 when the WTC was still there, so it was eerie to see that gigantic hole in the ground. Really it just looked like a big construction site, and if it weren't for the fence with all the pictures around it, that's all it would be to someone who didn't know otherwise.

I've been there once, too and even though it does just look like a construction site, it's still eerie, especially that you know that's where the towers stood.

I would like to go back to NYC after the memorial is finished.

Me, too.

I can't watch that movie, either. Still to this day. I also can't watch Flight 93. .

Oh my God, I had totally forgotten about Flight 93. I cried during that whole movie. My husband rented it because he really wanted to see it. I found that Nicholas Cage movie so 'overdramatic' if that's possible. The Flight 93 was a little better but just as heart wrenching.

Oh my God, I had totally forgotten about Flight 93. I cried during that whole movie. My husband rented it because he really wanted to see it. I found that Nicholas Cage movie so 'overdramatic' if that's possible. The Flight 93 was a little better but just as heart wrenching.
I can't bring myself to watch either film - especially Flight 93, which I've heard nothing but good things about. I don't think I'm strong enough to watch them.

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I just want to clear up some things here that many people find confusing (sometimes even me):

Flight 93 was a 2006 made-for-tv movie that originally aired on A&E. It's been put to DVD.

The theatrical film was United 93 also from 2006.


I never did see Flight 93 but I did see United 93 which I thought was excellent.

Just to mention I did not care for Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. I saw it when it was first released and I didn't think it was that good of a film.

I just want to clear up some things here that many people find confusing (sometimes even me):

Flight 93 was a 2006 made-for-tv movie that originally aired on A&E. It's been put to DVD.

The theatrical film was United 93 also from 2006.


I never did see Flight 93 but I did see United 93 which I thought was excellent.

Just to mention I did not care for Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. I saw it when it was first released and I didn't think it was that good of a film.
Yeah, United 93 was the movie I meant (that was in the theaters).

i watched flight 93 when it originally aired on a&e. it was very gritty and raw and therefore i could not watch it in its entirety, i had to flip channles every now and then because it was that emotionally heavy. i've never before or since been affected like that by a movie. i think its because i watched the coverage for hours on end on 9/11/2001 and i had been so engrossed by what a national tragedy it was.

"United 93" was one of the most wrenching experiences I've ever had watching a film (I watched it alone at home as a rental). The horror those people went through, the knowledge of their almost certain impending death, the hell their families went through on the ground and also the incredible selflessness and peace of mind the passengers displayed during it all are absolutely unforgettable.

I think everyone in America should watch this film for many reasons, but chief among them to never forget how close we were to pretty much total meltdown on 9/11, and how crucial these people were to preventing it.

I just want to clear up some things here that many people find confusing (sometimes even me):

Flight 93 was a 2006 made-for-tv movie that originally aired on A&E. It's been put to DVD.

The theatrical film was United 93 also from 2006.


I never did see Flight 93 but I did see United 93 which I thought was excellent.

Just to mention I did not care for Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. I saw it when it was first released and I didn't think it was that good of a film.

Thank You. I think it was United 93 that I watched. Sorry for the confusion!

Thank You. I think it was United 93 that I watched. Sorry for the confusion!

Nothing to be sorry about. Just from my experience a lot of people mention "Flight 93" when it's really "United" that they are talking about.