World Trade Center-Plane Crash

[Cheyenne]

Funny thread.

Ass hole.

 

[Saint Boner]

I just want to take this opportunity to thank George W. Bush and the right wing for bringing Osama Bin Laden to justice.



Oh wait, a new Osama tape just in today Sept. 11th, 2008.



Guess he's not dead. Another right wing myth busted.

 

[Cherry]

What an absolutely terrible day.

I will never forget the rush of emotions shared here as the whole day evolved.

Fear

Sadness

Loyalty

Courage

Hate

 

[raindancer]

I have never been frozen before. I sat here watching "Today" and watched the second plane explode. Now, the Pentagon has experienced an explosion of sorts. I've seen reports on the 6:00 news, where terrorism and death is recorded, but that's always OTHER COUNTRIES.
I feel ill.

I can't believe, 6 years ago, I was posting on Lit as the world as I knew it, changed.

 

[unregistered]

 

[kamuikamui]

Ass hole.

 

[Tati]

My City of Ruins ~ Bruce Springsteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_prLlrJl5o

There is a blood red circle
On the cold dark ground
And the rain is falling down
The church door's thrown open
I can hear the organ's song
But the congregation's gone
My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Now the sweet bells of mercy
Drift through the evening trees
Young men on the corner
Like scattered leaves,
The boarded up windows,
The empty streets
While my brother's down on his knees
My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!

Now's there's tears on the pillow
Darlin' where we slept
And you took my heart when you left
Without your sweet kiss
My soul is lost, my friend
Tell me how do I begin again?
My city's in ruins
My city's in ruins

Now with these hands,
With these hands,
With these hands,
I pray Lord
With these hands,
With these hands,
I pray for the strength, Lord
With these hands,
With these hands,
I pray for the faith, Lord
We pray for your love, Lord
We pray for the lost, Lord
We pray for this world, Lord
We pray for the strength, Lord
We pray for the strength, Lord

Come on
Come on
Come on, rise up
Come on, rise up
Come on, rise up
Come on, rise up
Come on, rise up

 

[B_Gus_Richards]

Why not check the FBI ten most wanted list and see how long others have been on that list. Instead of being a flaccid pretender, you need to be reasonable in your expectations.

So I guess it is safe to say that the Republicans are going to apologize for trying to blame 9-11 on Clinton the last 6 years. After all, they should be reasonable in their expectations, right?

 

[Faneros]

I had a friend/coworker die in the tower. He used his cellphone to call all of his friends and loved ones to say he wasn't going to be able to get out of the building. They talked to him until the roof finally caved in on him, saddest thing I ever heard. He left behind a wife and two little babies.

 

[Karen Kraft]

I had a friend/coworker die in the tower. He used his cellphone to call all of his friends and loved ones to say he wasn't going to be able to get out of the building. They talked to him until the roof finally caved in on him, saddest thing I ever heard. He left behind a wife and two little babies.

That's very sad. Do you still keep in touch with his family, or did you not know them before his death?

 

[Faneros]

That's very sad. Do you still keep in touch with his family, or did you not know them before his death?

I only knew him, So I don't keep in touch with his family although I did see them on TV at one point. We worked for the same company, not the same office.

 

[SheraQueen]

My City of Ruins ~ Bruce Springsteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_prLlrJl5o

There is a blood red circle
On the cold dark ground
And the rain is falling down
The church door's thrown open
I can hear the organ's song
But the congregation's gone
My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Now the sweet bells of mercy
Drift through the evening trees
Young men on the corner
Like scattered leaves,
The boarded up windows,
The empty streets
While my brother's down on his knees
My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!

Now's there's tears on the pillow
Darlin' where we slept
And you took my heart when you left
Without your sweet kiss
My soul is lost, my friend
Tell me how do I begin again?
My city's in ruins
My city's in ruins

Now with these hands,
With these hands,
With these hands,
I pray Lord
With these hands,
With these hands,
I pray for the strength, Lord
With these hands,
With these hands,
I pray for the faith, Lord
We pray for your love, Lord
We pray for the lost, Lord
We pray for this world, Lord
We pray for the strength, Lord
We pray for the strength, Lord

Come on
Come on
Come on, rise up
Come on, rise up
Come on, rise up
Come on, rise up
Come on, rise up

Thank you for reminding me of that song

 

[TheCleaningLady]

The bitch of payback has barely begun!

 

[unregistered]

 

[Karen Kraft]

I only knew him, So I don't keep in touch with his family although I did see them on TV at one point. We worked for the same company, not the same office.

I understand.

 

[Sallad]

I watched the video again today.
I still can't help but to sob uncontrollably.
I hope we never forget about this like we do so many things.
I hope this still makes me cry every year.

 

[Patriot911]

I read this whole thread and wept as I read the responses as it happened. Among all of the politics I have read here today this thread gave me hope enough to join this site.

 

[Lost Cause]

I keep wondering what I would have done if I was there faced with virtually no options~

http://xbip.com/911/jumpers3.jpg

 

[dolf]

I keep wondering what I would have done if I was there faced with virtually no options~

did that really need posting???

those are real people. i think it's sick to use pics of their last moments to illustrate a point.

 

[Somme]

The bitch of payback has barely begun!

Now what do you mean by this?

 

[JazzManJim]

I actually registered the evening ot the 11th. I had just come off a very long shift at work and was bone brain weary. I wanted some place to go - any place - where I could try to sort things out. I honestly can't tell you why I chose here, but in all, I'm not sorry I did.

For those who are curious this is my first-ever post . It's actually an interesting companion thread to all of this.

One of the very first times I ever posted here was on this thread. I can still remember the bone-weariness I felt and the compelling need to simply be around other human beings. I still can't tell you what brought me to Lit just before midnight of 9/11/2001 nor why I kept coming back, but I'm glad I came and I'm glad I stayed.

 

[JazzManJim]

I keep wondering what I would have done if I was there faced with virtually no options~

About a year after 9/11, USA Today wrote an article about the "jumpers". They found that at least 200 people fell to their deaths from the Towers. Some chose to jump rather than to burn or suffocate. Some were blown out of the building.

What strikes me as worth remembering is that, had Osama and his Islamist ilk had their way, there would have been many, many more than 200 dead on the Manhattan streets that day. Thousands more would have plummeted the 1100 feet to the pavement. Ten thousand or more in total would have been crushed or incinerated or suffocated. And that would have been just the beginning. The Pentagon would have become an abbatoir. The Capitol or White House would have been devastated and everyone inside - President and his family and the hundreds and hundreds of staffers and employees - killed.

The three thousand dead on 9/11 was a disappointment to Osama and his fellow barbarians. They wanted more. Much more.

The killing would have continued, not just in New York and Washington. Other attacks were in the works and we didn't find out about them until later in the year and into next year.

And not just in the United States, either. London, Madrid, Bali, Sharm el-Sheikh, Amman have all known the devastation of the Islamists in the past six years. We - all of us who claim to be free - are still in the middle of a war we barely even acknowledge exists. Hell, plenty of us are willing to turn our brains into knots to explain how we're not in a war and that the Islamists are really no big deal and, heck, they'd still be living peaceful camel-herding lives in the Arabian desert had we not foisted our prosperity, blue jeans, and rock and roll upon them.

A pox on all of that. Three thousand people who had no more concern than where they were going to eat lunch or what their sports teams had done the night before had their lives taken from them by a highly-motivated group of killers whose one goal is to kill or enslave the world under their oppressive banner. That's well-worth remembering in the starkest terms we can handle.

 

[Cathleen]

I am unable to read this thread, it is just too difficult. 9/11 is never far from my memory, prayers to those who suffered losses as well as those who are still suffering.


RIP S.R.

~Heavy sigh~

 

[chelleb]

Though I haven't forgotten what happened, I had forgotten some of the panic of what was going on and not knowing what was happening. I was at work and a co-worker called to say that there was a fire in one of the buildings. My boss and I immediately put on the radio and he called his sister-in-law. He thought she worked in one of the towers, but was actually a nearby building. Fortunately she made it onto the last ferry back to NJ (where she lived) and watched the towers fall from the ferry. However - he didn't know this till the next day. We left by 9:30 and went home because he wasn't going to be able to work anyway. But, I remember calling my mom and crying on the phone to her because I was scared. I stopped by my mom's office on the way home and watched the towers fall on tv.

Thanks for keeping this thread going and bumping it each year.

~Chelle

 

[Lost Cause]

And to the 115 countries that lost people in the WTC....



http://www.spiritofamericaparty.com/WTC%20FREEDOM.bmp