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remember the incredibly massive amounts of death and destruction that the US brought to countless innocent people for the actions of a few dozen people.
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I remember the thousands of innocent deaths brought about by a "few dozen people".
Thanks for the reminder. It's a day I will never forget where I was and doing when I heard, then saw on TV the second plane crash into the towers. Every year I watch some of the programs about 9/11.
One World Trade Center, on the 43rd Floor at 8:46 a.m.
I have read the accounts you have given here in the past. We were watching one of the shows that my husb recorded last night and I thought of you. You experienced all that. I thought of you through every show we watched last year.
My brother was on his way back to work at the Pentagon and saw the plane hit. I was working at Quantico Marine base and we thought we could come under attack either by water (Quantico is on the Potomac River) or train (Amtrak have a stop on the base).
I also keep MQ's experience close to my heart. We lived in NJ at the time, one of my neighbors never came home. My son's classmate lost his parents. It was a horrible day.
Now we're living in GA, and our local high school students, who weren't even born when it happened, place a flag for each fatality on the front lawn every year. It's a striking reminder.
It was late night/early morning here in QLD (Australia) at my residence where several friends and I had been gathered for a casual meeting. Since the meet-up was winding down a couple of the guys went into the lounge room and turned on the TV to watch, as it turned out, a sports broadcast. Then, a news alert interrupted regular programming. One of the team called out excitedly, "Hey, come and look at this, a plane just flew into the Trade Center in New York!" This grabbed the attention of the rest of us and we rushed into the lounge to watch what was to become an unbelievable set of events. We, naturally, felt that it had been an unfortunate accident. This was until the second plane hit the second tower and we then knew that it was no accident ...America was under attack! Needless to say, we were just as numbed with unbelief by the events that unfolded on that day as were everyone else.
This event was felt by everyone around the world. Here in Australia (and England) where the date of this attack would normally appear as 11-9-2001 ...in other words, the 11th day of the 9th month ...the event "9/11" has been etched into the native mind rather than "11/9". We all know what "9/11" represents.
This song I always think of on 9-11. I am a Southern Ct native, who lived near Nashville 9-11-2001, but who still was in shock that day. A friend's brother (dad of over ten), a NYPD cop, rushed to WTC from Brooklyn, and I am delighted he got there after both towers were down, or he'd be part of the death toll. I spent quite a bit of time on phone trying to reach his brother, my ex Fordham U roommate, before finally connecting. His brother was busy, working for a news station that day, 3,000 miles from Ground Zero.
My brother was on his way back to work at the Pentagon and saw the plane hit. I was working at Quantico Marine base and we thought we could come under attack either by water (Quantico is on the Potomac River) or train (Amtrak have a stop on the base).
This reinforces the level of chaos from that tragic day where people literally did not know what to expect and had to prepare for the worst via any medium.
It was the worst day I can personally remember in American history. I sat glued to the TV crying for hours. At first I was just in shock but as the first tower fell, the tears came. This used to be my home town.
I visited the area in 2008 and the tears flowed again as I looked at the one remaining tree near the towers, the boot scratch marks on the wooden floors at the little church nearby where the rescuers went to rest and thought about that awful day. People who just went to work as usual, never to come home. It was just incomprehensible.
Below is the breaking news that I mentioned in post #26 as well as the later thoughts of Sandra Sully who was the first news reader to break the news to Australia via TV. Even now, 19 years after the event, the horror of what was occurring is still as chilling as it was back then and will, in fact, always remain.
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