[Taltarzac725]

I sure felt elation when they nailed Bin Laden.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

I sure felt elation when they nailed Bin Laden.

I don't think you are alone?

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

I don't think you are alone?

Osama Bin Laden was the person who put all that horror together.

[Stu from NYC]

Just watched a repeat of the 60 minutes story on the burning and collapse of the twin towers.

The courage of the first responders was remarkable and their courage was amazing.

Also brought back to mind pictures that day of palestinians dancing in the street.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by LuvNH

Never forget. Do you remember where you were?

In London on a work trip, all meetings were immediately cancelled. My companies travel department immediately began trying to book me a flight back home, which ultimately took a week and a half. Flew there on 9/10 from Boston on 7:45 AM flight (about the same time the planes that were hijacked took off the next day). When I returned my car was not where I left it, all vehicles were towed away and ripped apart looking for evidence. Had to jump through loops to get my compounded vehicle back. Several people working for Investment Banking firms who I had long time professional relationships with died in the towers that horrible day.

[villagetinker]

I was at an off campus work meeting, and going back to my desk, when a co-worker stopped me and asked where I was going, then told me the building I worked in was evacuated and everyone told to go home. I got the full story about 25 minutes later when I arrived home. Scariest day of my life.

[Keefelane66]

Sad thing we bombed Afghanistan back to the stone age for 20+ yearsand we are back to square one. The terrorists came from Saudi Arabia on passports.

[Dusty_Star]

I was there. I think it unlikely that I will ever forget, even though I sometimes wish to. But I do understand your desire that the country as a whole does not forget.
This is a quote I found from a New York art history professor: "None of us has ever liked the World Trade Tower, but, when a very conspicuous building in our city, which we expect to outlive us, is destroyed by enemy action, then it’s not only the lives of the people who are lost in it, but the lives of all of us, and the hope of future life which is cut away. And they know it. They know what they are doing.”

[patfla06]

We moved to Florida in 1997 from N.Y. due to a corporate transfer.

Our Son was in his senior year of high school in 2001. That July we were doing the college tours and went to NYU. After he wanted to take his friend to the WTC and I refused due to the first try in 1993.

I will never forget that day.

[FredMitchell]

Yes.

[Jerry F2]

Originally Posted by LuvNH

Never forget. Do you remember where you were.

Traveling back from Pottsville, PA in car with my dad after visiting his brother. We pulled in an interstate rest stop (just outside of Shanksville, PA) the TV was showing the towers burning.
I asked someone "what is happening?" He said, "we are being attacked". My dad was an Army Veteran of WW2. At that time, I was an Army Veteran of Desert Storm, Somalia and Bosnia. Both of us had seen lots of combat. As we got back into the car my dad turned to me and said, "Keep the radio off, we will not talk about this until we get back to Cincinnati, which was 5 hours away." I said to dad "You know that I am going back and volunteer for active duty." About a year later, at 50 years old, I was in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban. Actions speak louder than words.

[Mrfriendly]

Originally Posted by LuvNH

Never forget. Do you remember where you were?

Eerily this year was exactly like 23 years ago weatherwise here in NJ/NY. Cool crisp morning with no clouds.
That day I was driving to a morning meeting and heard on local radio of plane hitting building and I could see the smoke across the river in New York from that crash. During the meeting a small black-and-white TV with rabbit ear antenna showed us the news and shocked us all that we should go home right away. While driving home I went past a blood center and a number of ambulance and fire stations in different towns. The line was around the block with people ready to give blood and every fire and ambulance station stood at the ready to accept the possible throngs of dead or injured from the attack. I got home and hugged my wife.
I’ll never forget.

[terryf484]

I was in Albuquerque to teach a class at the Enroute Air Traffic Control Center. I was staying at the Resident Inn and had just came into the breakfast area. People were looking at the television showing a picture of the one tower smoking. Someone said a plane had hit the tower. I was thinking how could a plane mess up and fly into something that big when the second plane came flying by and hit the second tower. By the time I got to the Center, planes were disappearing from the controller's displays. Never thought I would see blank screens on all of the displays. What always impressed me was how everyone came together in unity after 9/11.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by LuvNH

Never forget. Do you remember where you were?

I was two hours away in Pennsylvania, in my office. After the first plane hit, my department chair put a little portable television on a bench outside my office. So I watched the second plane hit live and watched both towers fall live. When we learned this was a Muslim terrorist attack, I realized at once that the real intent of the terrorists was to spark non-Muslim retaliation in the Middle East which would in turn lead to Muslim uprisings. I realized that this would last a generation or more. I was right. Yes, terrorists want to hurt people, but they are more interested in sparking retaliation that will lead to world condemnation. This is what has happened with the Hamas terrorism in Israel, as well. Hamas has probably succeeded even more than it had dared hope. Israel had little choice, but even so, it fell into the trap Hamas set.

[Sandy and Ed]

Sitting in the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance Operations Center in DC with a bank of tv’s tuned to every English speaking station. Saw the second plane hit live on tv as the first tower was burning. Had to interrupt a high level meeting in the conference room to report we were under attack. Brother was working on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange. No one will ever forget where they were nor will they forget the lives lost then and subsequently as a result of the attack