Remembering 911

[Lepplady]

Tribute only...
This is the commercial spot Budweiser produced after 9/11. They only aired it once, during the Super Bowl of 2002 - they just wanted to acknowledge the tragic event. I remember being incredibly moved when I saw it.
Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words.

 

[morgan]

I have seen this before and still cried.

 

[not_nadine]

God that made me cry again.

I listened to this tonight. I know its Howard Stern, but it you listen long enough its horrible and it is just as we all felt.

 

[Flat Matt]

Even after all these years, and regardless of how many times I see the footage, it still sends a shiver down my spine.

I'll never forget that day or those who lost their lives in the most unimaginably horrific way.

RIP

 

[arista]

I know most people remember where they were when the tragedy happened. Let us never forget that Freedom is a precious gift. RIP those who lost their lives on that horrible day.

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[arista]

 

[Spideyman]

 

[HollyGolightly]

Nothing has been the same since. In memory and honor of the lives lost and the families and friend they left behind. Those brave people.

 

[FlakeNoir]

 

[Houdini]

There are times in our lives when we are shaken to our very foundations. We always remember where we were and what we were doing at that moment in time. Kennedy's assasination was the 1st such time for me and 911 was the 2nd. I was a steel detailer and I was walking from the building where I worked back to the main office when I saw all the employees huddled around a TV set. I was quickly brought up to speed. Was it just a very bad accident? My answer came within seconds. I saw what I thought was a replay of the jet airliner hitting the 1st WTC Tower. It wasn't. It was a live shot of the 2nd airliner hitting the other WTC tower. Question answered. And things just kept getting worse. Another airliner collides with the Pentagon, another is downed by a group of courageous passengers over Pennsylvania who prevent an attack on the White House. And then the 2 towers collapse. Not a good day for the USA.

I remember this tribute was posted shortly after the attack and pretty much summed up what we were all feeling at the time:

9/11 and September 11 Tribute and Memorial Video - Can't Cry Hard Enough

Houdini in Omaha

 

[DiO'Bolic]

We spent the morning on the phone trying to locate my boss’s daughter who worked in the WTC. I organized a blood drive in our company for the local hospital that was originally designated to treat the overflow of causalities from the WTC. I remember the hospital telling me later there was no need to come in and give blood that day as “There were no survivors.”

 

[Out of Order]

We spent the morning on the phone trying to locate my boss’s daughter who worked in the WTC. I organized a blood drive in our company for the local hospital that was originally designated to treat the overflow of causalities from the WTC. I remember the hospital telling me later there was no need to come in and give blood that day as “There were no survivors.”

Did she make it out?

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Did she make it out?

Yes, security originally wouldn’t let anyone out saying they were safer inside. But emergency crews got everyone to leave and she immediately headed down to the ferry to get out of the city into NJ before her building collapsed. The vision of people jumping from the towers and the sound of them... still haunts her to this day.

 

[Jojo87]

9/11 will never be forget. RIP to those who passed. I watched a video from internet this morning, where they explained and showed how all this happened this day 13 years ago.

 

[Ragan]

"The flames are all long gone
But the pain lingers on"

I think that's how 9/11 will always be here in America. At least for us who were alive to witness it and old enough to comprehend the horror of it.

 

[mustangclaire]

RIP all those that died. Never ever forget.

 

[not_nadine]

I was working for Mars, the candy company. But in the Engineering side of it. There is one.
I was surrounded by big giant stuffed M n Ms..

Someone told me that a plane crashed into the tower. I said no way. really? Went to the caf. I just thought it was a little tourist plane. And then I saw the second. and the helicopter flying by

It gave a visual perceptive of just how big the plane was. I was horrified

I said Oh No. We are at War. I could not stop seeing the people in the floors above waving stuff to get help. We all knew that they were going to die.
O God.

I was so worried as the day went on. I could not call anyone, phone lines down. Most TV down. Everything was down for days.

Horrible. Those **********ers.

 

[Lepplady]

I was at home. When the news broke, I immediately went and pulled my son from school. One of the teachers scoffed at me for doing so. "What has that got to do with us?"
I trust that he has since learned the impact.

 

[arista]

I also remember visiting a client that was working at the Country Club. There were two huge screens that showed the devastation. I immediately cried.