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Cheyenne said:
I'm going to work. A few hours late, but I'm going. Take care, everyone. I have no doubt you will be here tonight when I return. God only knows if we will be at full war by then, or what the world will be like. The only thing I know for sure is that I feel my life has changed today.
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It's been awhile since I've read the whole thread so seeing my own posts are the same as seeing those from everyone else. I'm remembering as I read them.

I DO remember going to work in a panic, wondering what was still ahead of us. No work got done, we were all watching tv or following on our computers. Some of us tried to donate blood at lunch that day, as a group outing. The line to get in to donate was a mile long (figuratively.) We were asked to return in a few days. Funny, we thought there would be wounded people who would need blood from around the country to have enough. It didn't cross my mind that the people would be so obliterated that they couldn't even find DNA for them. Even now, there are still over 1,000 people who haven't been identified in the rubble. Not even a tiny piece of bone found for them. I realize trying to donate was a way to make us feel we were doing SOMETHING helpful, even when there really wasn't any such thing. I couldn't help by anything I coud do, other than by prayer. I did a lot of that.
 
RoryN said:
9/11/2001:





**sigh**
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Amazing, isn't it? It took our own citizens getting involved before the attack on the Capitol finally happened almost 20 years later. Never would have imagined THAT back then, either.
 
I can't believe it's been 20 years.
I can't believe I was at Lit 20 years ago.
I can't believe life and society...the state of affairs 20 years later.

:heart:
 
Cheyenne said:
I am a day early, but I've been watching some of the TV specials about 9/11.
The stories from 9/11 still can make me cry, 10 years later. I suspect they always will.
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History repeats itself. I can make this very same comment, another 10 years later. At the 20th anniversary, nothing has really changed since the 10th. I imagine in 10 years I wil be here on September 10th, again doing the same thing.
 
Cheyenne said:
History repeats itself. I can make this very same comment, another 10 years later. At the 20th anniversary, nothing has really changed since the 10th. I imagine in 10 years I wil be here on September 10th, again doing the same thing.
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The worst thing ever is allowing a mosque to be built there
 
I remember the news breaking on Australian TV in 2001. It was late, around 10pm and the second hit on the south tower happened live and shocked everyone. We all suddenly knew the awful truth. The horror that it was no accident. Finally, both towers collapsed and the Pentagon was attacked by another plane full of innocent poeple. I finally went to bed around 2am but deeply saddened at what had happened and wondering how many people died that night. As an outsider, I always saw America as a land of freedom and stronger for it, as well as dynamic, smart and brave. The saga of Covid has shown me America has changed for the worse, the people now fearful of change, ignorant of the facts, desperately clinging to the views of a perverted minority, spreading their evil thoughts via the internet. Trump did nothing to change the situation other than make it worse, by appealing to the ignorant, giving them a voice. 20 years have gone by since those wonderful symbols of American 'can do' philosophy fell in piles of rubble, yet the attack on the Capitol Building in January by its own citizens shows the people have now lost their way, the society fragmented by the GFC, natural disasters like Katrina, lost wars, political division and social issues like poverty. I don't envy Biden. It will take decades to pull the US together and all the time China is becoming stronger and more belligerent. They WILL become the next superpower, perhaps THE dominant force politically and industrially. The US may fall like Rome did, not conquered from outside, but defeated from within, by its' own accrued weaknesses. The last 20 years has not painted the US as a pretty picture, a happy portrait, but rather as an almost infinite series of individual vignettes, some content, many in pain, a few brave, most full of hate and ignorance.
As an outsider, I miss the solid, brave 'older brother' persona of the US of yesteryear, a reassuring force in a world poised on a nuclear war with the evil of communist Russia. I suspect Communist China feels far more confident than the USSR did about its' future on the world stage. 2041 will, I suspect, be a VERY different world.
I still find thoughts and the images of that attack upsetting.

(p.s. I saw the Twin Towers in February 1973 as a young teen. To me they symbolized the vigour of the free world, built by a powerful, democratic country that just 3 1/2 years earlier had landed men on the moon. Their collapse by an enemy who didn't even have a country, showed how vulnerable the US had become, outliving the mighty foe that was the USSR, only to be decked by a sucker punch from a scrawny kid. I've said enough).


62M, hopeful of a bright future. Fearful I may be wrong.
 
RoryN said:
This is insane. You can almost make out what sort of shirts and slacks the people jumping out of the North Tower are wearing. :(
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I could imagine making that choice because if I ever did myself in, I'd feel like flying off the highest cliff to emulate flying would be the way to go.

#morbidthoughts

But what else? You just watched your coworkers engulfed.

RobertMacie1979 said:
Appreciate the post, brother.
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