9/11/2001

[WaveDomer]

I remember.

My dad worked on Wall Street for almost 20 years, including DLJ and Cantor Fitzgerald. I remember going in to his office, taking the elevator all the way up, almost to the top floor, and hanging out while guys traded and threw around footballs and such. Thankfully he was in Dallas on 9/11. I also went to high school in Jersey City and could see WTC every day.

 

[greyhammer90]

Middle school. History class. I'll never forget that day.

 

[Veer option]

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Not a bit. If we stopped blowing up so many fcking people 9/11's wouldn't have happened.

First of all RIP to the victims of 9/11

Not to turn this too political but 9/11 has nothing with blowing people up, it has everything to due with the Western worlds centuries of presence in the Middle East. The fight between the Western world and the Middle Eastern peoples has been happening since the start of the Greco-Persian wars (499 BCE) and has been raging since then. There will never be peace when there is over two millennia of bad blood.

 

[bigedefense]

RIP, I too will never forget.

I was in my office watching film of Murray State. That is who we were playing that Saturday. All of a sudden, one of the custodians came into my office, cut my video off and turned the TV to CNN. For about 10 seconds I was ready to tear this guy a new one. Then, I saw...... As the minutes passed, more people came into my office and pretty soon, it was no room left. Not a word was said. No one could speak. a room full of grown men shed many tears that tragic day. I will never forget the Americans that lost their lives, the people that made it out alive, the families, and the BRAVE men and women that saved many lives that day at the cost of some of their own.

 

[Rhode Irish]

I was walking out of Philosophy class, one week into my freshman year, when I was told a plane had hit one of the towers. Made it to a TV just in time to see the second plane hit. I knew my father was in New York for a meeting, and waiting for the phone network to come back so I could get in touch with him was the first time in my life that I had experienced real panic (it turned out he had been in the Towers on Monday, but he had been in midtown on Tuesday morning). Was certainly a defining moment in my life.

Today I woke up on the 26th floor of the Hilton, the window to my room overlooked the WTC site. I'm working out of 2 World Financial Center today, right across the street from the site, in a building that was badly damaged in the attack and closed for months afterward. It was 11 years ago, but it hardly feels like any time has passed.

 

[rikkitikki08]

Ill Never ever Forget......EVER


A terrible day in which was honestly one of the low points in my life at most americans.

God bless america

 

[BGIF]

I was on the phone with Cantor guy and click.

One of 658 Cantor men and women who never came home.

 

[Irish4Life09]

RIP to all the people killed and families affected
I will certainly never forget.

I was a junior in HS in Knoxville,TN at Bearden HS. I was sitting in my Music Appreciation class being bored with people I hated, when all of a sudden we heard about the 1st plane. We found a tv,plugged it in, and came on just in time to see the 2nd hit live. The rest of the day during all of my classes our teachers and us watched and discussed how this would change the world we live in.And it certainly has.

God Bless America

 

[irishff1014]

No matter how many years go by i can remember all the events just like it was yesterday. Still to this day it is hard to believe this happened. But one thing is for sure it brought the USA together like no other evernt could.

 

[Quinntastic]

I was a freshman in high school. I had just sat down in US History class (seems fitting in retrospect) about to take our first test of the year. The teacher had the news on talking about how the first plane hit, and then we saw the second plane hit live. It was a really surreal moment.

And she still made us take that damn test.

 

[kmoose]

Jesus......

All of you "kids" reminiscing about being in school on 9/11? I was already 33. But I do remember being in high school history class, and having our teacher bring a TV in so that we could watch the coverage of the Challenger disaster.

 

[WaveDomer]

Jesus......

All of you "kids" reminiscing about being in school on 9/11? I was already 33. But I do remember being in high school history class, and having our teacher bring a TV in so that we could watch the coverage of the Challenger disaster.

I remember watching the Challenger disaster in school too. Not quite high school though.

 

[autry_denson]

the two beams of light rising up from the site of the towers is something I spend a few minutes looking at each year - this year I took my son out to take a look together.
also this year the freedom tower was lit with red white and blue as well, which was cool to see.

 

[PLACforever]

Never Forget

Never Forget

 

[BGIF]

He was a good man. A husband and father. He went to work on 9/11/2001 and never came home.

I remember.

CNN.com - September 11 Memorial

12 years

 

[BGIF]

We don't.


http://www.irishenvy.com/forums/leprechaun-lounge/55074-9-11-2001-a.html

 

[tko]

was a sad day and still is. i will never forget that morning on the trading desk. the Cantor light just went poof. i'm watching golf channel at work b/c i can't fkn stand all the coverage.

 

[T Town Tommy]

The events of 9/11 became real and personal for me when I visited downtown Manhattan a few years back. Meeting and talking with people who lost loved ones on that day was something that will be with me the rest of my life.

Prayers to all who's lives were changed on that dreadful day.

America should never forget.

 

[BobD]

This is just my honest opinion while I'm sitting here watching the news this morning.

IMHO I don't want to relive it like this every year. The news coverage is too much. I agree we should never forget, but we also need to move on. I know the day my parents passed away, so I say a prayer, enjoy a good memory or two, then carry on. I think they are creating a national day of depression.

What do you guys think?

 

[Irish#1]

Never shall we forget. And yeah I do have a little bit of a mushy side too.

A quick story for you all. A friend of mine worked at Morgan Stanley in the first tower on the 82nd floor I believe. He stepped out to have a cigarette and just as he was lighting up the airplane hit. He trew up immediately because he knew that the impact of the plane was just below Morgan Stanley. He felt helpless. There was nothing he could do. There was nothing anyone could do. At the end of the day that cigarette saved his life. He has since quit smoking.

WOW.....Talk about divine intervention.

Definitely one of the saddest days in the history of our country. We need to continue to hunt down and eradicate these extremist who murder those who believe in any other religion and ways to live their lives.


BobD.....I guess it depends on your makeup. Unless there is something new and unique, I probably won't watch any coverage since I've read and seen all of it before. I don't think we're creating a national day of mourning. I was born in '52 and I can remember the stories about Pearl Harbor. Both of these incidents are similar, except one was done to a military base while the other to a civilian location. "Lest We Forget" is often used in reference to Pearl Harbor and I think it's appropriate for 9/11 as well. It basically means don't forget the past or it will happen again.

 

[sharksamardzija8345]

This is just my honest opinion while I'm sitting here watching the news this morning.

IMHO I don't want to relive it like this every year. The news coverage is too much. I agree we should never forget, but we also need to move on. I know the day my parents passed away, so I say a prayer, enjoy a good memory or two, then carry on. I think they are creating a national day of depression.

What do you guys think?

I agree with you. I woke up this morning, knew the day, said a prayer and hoped all of those affected by the tragedy have a better day than me...

 

[NDBoiler]

This is just my honest opinion while I'm sitting here watching the news this morning.

IMHO I don't want to relive it like this every year. The news coverage is too much. I agree we should never forget, but we also need to move on. I know the day my parents passed away, so I say a prayer, enjoy a good memory or two, then carry on. I think they are creating a national day of depression.

What do you guys think?

I think the simple answer is that regardless of news coverage, everyone will still remember or treat it in their own way. But you can't ignore the fact that it is deeply woven into American life ever since then, whether it be how you go through airport security, a renewed special feeling for those serving in the military, or by the millions of people who have a connection in some way to someone that was killed that day. The fact that it was such a wide reaching event is hard to avoid unfortunately.

 

[FDNYIrish1]

This is just my honest opinion while I'm sitting here watching the news this morning.

IMHO I don't want to relive it like this every year. The news coverage is too much. I agree we should never forget, but we also need to move on. I know the day my parents passed away, so I say a prayer, enjoy a good memory or two, then carry on. I think they are creating a national day of depression.

What do you guys think?

It's a tough one BobD. One side of me wants to really move on past just a little. It's so close to home for me. Every time they show the towers collapsing its like watching my friends be murdered all over again. I was working that day and have vivid memories of the sights, sounds and smells of lower manhattan. All of the coverage brings me right back to that day and all the feelings that accompany it.

On the other hand, it is a day that changed the modern world we live in. I'm not into politics or religion, but nothing has been the same since. It's one of those historic events that will be looked at as before and after. I honestly don't know how to feel sometimes on this day. I look at pictures of friends smiling faces and remember good times, and then I'll have moments of sadness where I remember being on that pile passing human remains back treating them with as much dignity and respect as I could. It's think it's a day that no one is quite sure what to do with any more.

 

[Irish#1]

I was just speaking to a co-worker who lived in Boston at the time. He told me how he was called into his managers office that day and there were two FBI agents there to question him. They showed him a picture of one of the terrorist involved and asked what he knew about the guy. He said it's a day he'll never forget.

 

[phgreek]

I remember...My prayers to the families affected, and my gratitude to first responders.

This day was our Pearl Harbor...a day to remind all men evil exists and that our capacity for heroism and good will rise to any occasion evil visits. We mourn the lost, we celebrate the heroes, and we always...always remember, and we carry on.

 

[Irish Insanity]

Remembering September 11, 2001: Bradley Hoorn Obituary

Never Forget, I won't.

 

[IrishLion]

I remember I was late leaving math class in sixth grade when one of my teachers came running in to tell my math teacher to turn on the TV. I watched for a minute, and had to head to my next class.

Once I was at my next class, our principle was walking room-to-room and talking to the teachers and making sure the TVs were on so we could watch.

As soon as he left the room, our teacher said "I'm only leaving the TV on because I was told to. I'm still teaching class and expect your full attention."

I was only in sixth grade, but I understood enough to be pissed at her.

 

[Junkhead]

This is just my honest opinion while I'm sitting here watching the news this morning.

IMHO I don't want to relive it like this every year. The news coverage is too much. I agree we should never forget, but we also need to move on. I know the day my parents passed away, so I say a prayer, enjoy a good memory or two, then carry on. I think they are creating a national day of depression.

What do you guys think?

I get the weird feeling that everytime it is covered in this detail, Al Queda gets a laugh. There has to be some balance of remembrance and moving on.

 

[Eddie.Smith Irish]

agreed Junk.... It should be remembered. I know it's a catch-22, but those that lost their lives didn't deserve to do so. They deserve to be remembered and their story needs to be told.


While that day was tragic and major wake up call to the reality of the world, I was very, very proud of the residents of the United States of America.... It proved what can be accomplished when religion, race or party affiliation don't muck that up.

USA

 

[Sherm Sticky]

He was a good man. A husband and father. He went to work on 9/11/2001 and never came home.

Never forget