World Trade Center-Plane Crash

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I know I will never forget.
This thread was my first GB interaction with a lot of folks that ended up being good friends. Such a sad day.
 
Hard to believe it's been 15 years already... it seems like only yesterday.

Never forget.
 
Hard to believe it's been 15 years already... it seems like only yesterday.

Never forget.

It DOES seem like it hasn't been nearly that long ago. It's odd though. Today I was thinking about kids being born now will think of 9/11 as ancient history, 15 years before their birth. I was born only 13 years after the end of WWII! That war has always seemed like ancient history to me.

Never forget. But someday, 9/11 will only be in history books and those of us who lived through it will be long gone. :rose:
 
Its FORGOTTEN

Shehadeh Abdelkarim....a MUSLIM
Public university washes away conservative group’s 9/11 chalk memorial:

Quote:
“When we asked why he was destroying our tribute to the victims of 9/11, [the employee] informed us that he had been ordered to do so by the university’s Director of Facilities Maintenance, Shehadeh Abdelkarim,” Roberts said.

Roberts added the employee also told her the memorial was being erased because “there is no chalk allowed on campus.”
And there you have the epitaph of academia in the 21st century: “There is no chalk allowed on campus.”


https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36614/
 
It's amazing not only that this thread exists after 16 years, but that it is still interactive. Like you can talk to those people on page 1 right now (well some you actually can ;) ) and talk about what's going on. It's like 16 years apart but at the same time we're still in the same moment.

Thank you for bringing this thread back every year.

Always remember. :rose:
 
Didja see those dirty Mooselimbs celebrating in New Jersey? It's true because Trump says it's true. :mad:
 
[Tromp -- hater and luzer]
Yup, the real DJT. We haven't enough expletives to delete when reacting to this.

I just read the first 200 posts in the thread, all from the first 90 minutes or so after the initial crash. Overwhelming. And taking me back to that day.

Circa 8:30 am California time, my partner and I were keyboarding laptops at our dining-nook table as usual, telecommuting to the firm's data center. The 20-inch TV against the far wall played music videos off VHS. The phone rang.

"Don't worry about your sister, she's okay," my mom said.
"What? Why shouldn't she be safe?"
"What, haven't you...? Go turn on the TV right now."

Sis was a NYC transit cop. Her office was in WCT. But she was rarely there, as she led early-morning crews searching tunnels for fresh overnight corpses.

So we flicked the TV to CNN and sat stunned, watching events of mere hours before. Holy shit! Two towers, Pentagon, Pennsylvania! The phone rang again.

"Oh fuck oh fuck, they're all gone!" my partner's sister whimpered.

Sis-in-law was a VERY senior financial exec based in Newark. Her major firm had hundreds of employers, her colleagues, in their WTC office. And she and some co-workers were stuck at a confab in Phoenix with all airspace closed.

It would not have been a happy day anyway. Their beloved father tragically died exactly a year before. It started as a mourning day, and got worse.

No, never forget. And I don't discount Saudi involvement.
 
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I know I will never forget.
This thread was my first GB interaction with a lot of folks that ended up being good friends. Such a sad day.
Hey, how did your join date get to be June 2004? You were clearly here before 2004!
 
It is now September 11th, seventeen years after the "9/11" event. I haven't been to Lit for probably 4 or 5 months but I always make time to come back to bump this thread for the day. Never forget. :rose:
 
Had a skylight in my bedroom in Boston. Saw & heard Flight 11 after takeoff from Logan, right after I got out of the shower.

Crystal-clear, sunny morning.
 
I thought the most amazing thing was flight 93. The people on the plane thought we will save or crash this plane before we let it be used in a terrorist attack.I hope I can summon the courage if the time comes.

Oh yes I remember when 9/11 happened. Where I was and what I was doing. My dad and I had plans for lunch and he called me and said "I guess we won't be going to lunch." He said turn on the Tv you have to see it. I did and saw the second plane crash into the building. Two more flights were missing and the news one more crashed into the pentagon and another crashed into a field (flight 93). I saw the towers collapsing.

I think what most people that weren't around for it don't realize is all the things we didn't know. is this was the start of WW3. Was everything about to become war. All we knew was for we were being seriously attacked in just one day. What's next?
 
It is now September 11th, seventeen years after the "9/11" event. I haven't been to Lit for probably 4 or 5 months but I always make time to come back to bump this thread for the day. Never forget. :rose:

Stop the BS of NEVER FORGET

Half America sides with MUSLIMS now
 
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