I'm surprised..

[Tmall]

Nobody mentioned what happened 8 years ago today.

[tommymac]

I was goin gto post something about it, its def a different vibe here being the worst of it occured here. They had a memorial today on the jobsite which was prety cool. Still remembe rmost of the details of my day like it was yesterday. Fortunatley no one I knew died that day but my sister was working in the trade center and got out well before the collapse.

Tom

[Tmall]

I visited ground zero in 05. We were allowed access to the section where family and service members would leave small memorials. My buddy Steve left a dress hat. While we were near there, I saw a poem written on a wall of a nearby building. It choked me up pretty hard. I took a picture of it. Unfortunately it's on a broken laptop of mine.

I wish I could post it. As tough as I try to be, just remembering it right now has my eyes welling up. It was from a policeman or fireman to his fallen friends..

[SoFlaSV]

I'll never forget.
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs228.snc1/7525_131034448699_700123699_2363177_2775980_n.jpg

[Tmall]

Fark archived the thread that started when it happened..

It's kind of creepy reliving it..

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=45086

[tommymac]

The daily news had a pic of a tattered flag that some fireman hung on some rigging that day. I think that was the most moving pic I had seen. Showed those fuckers that you could take your shots at us but were not going anywhere. I will see if I can find it.

Tom

[Trip]

the cleanup, heroes, memorial pics just desenitized the day for me. This is 9/11 to me with all the emotion of the day. All the anger and confusion for those that are now gone.

http://911allthetruth.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/falling-man.jpg

[Dave]

my day began in anger. They finally left enough of the free newspaper at the train station this morning and it didnt say a damn thing about what day it was on the cover. Two pages in they had a full page special about how badly weve treated muslims since. Fuck the metro

[Rider]

8 years ago today was my 9th wedding anniversary... Some anniversary date now... I don't feel right celebrating today anymore.

[lauralynne]

http://revver.com/video/59686/september-11-2001-what-we-saw/

[Dave]

8 years ago today was my 9th wedding anniversary... Some anniversary date now... I don't feel right celebrating today anymore.

the hell you say, dont give those bastards any power over you

[Rider]

the hell you say, dont give those bastards any power over you

This was my tribute to 9/11

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p192/edwardgray70/CR250/00_1.jpg

[Bluestreak]

I purchased a 2000 Ninja EX500 8 years ago today. My first bike titled in my name.

I can still remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard what was happening. All the media websites were overloaded so I ended up catching most of it from Howard Stern on the radio and Cycleforums.

[tommymac]

8 years ago today was my 9th wedding anniversary... Some anniversary date now... I don't feel right celebrating today anymore.

Todays also my sisters birthday so its kinda tough having any sort of party as well :(

Tom

[Trip]

My sister went out with her future husband for the first time today.

I had a blind date with a 25 year old girl that looked like a 9 year old boy, which it eventually tried to molest me. Bad day all around. Damn blind dates, that was the last time I went on one...

[Particle Man]

:(

Hard to believe it's been 8 years.

[Tsunami]

Hard to believe it's been 8 years.

Plus one

i was living at NYC at that time, some of my classmates never showed up the class again, I know of one that survived. I've me and known people since that lost their loved ones.

I was at home when it happened and saw the whole thing unfold on the news on TV. I remember seeing people jumping out of the buildings in the paper, on the news over and over again and to this day it still doesn' t seem real. There were posters everywhere looking for missing people and tributes everywhere, in the subway walls etc to the dead and missing.

A couple of years back before it happened, I used to work in the first tower that got hit, on the 83rd floor. My brother had transferred out of the Meryl Lynch building, next to the WTC, a year earlier to a branch in England. My best friend was also in a building nearby calling me crying under her desk because she was scared and they wouldn't let her leave. To think what if I had never quit that job or if my brother didn't transfer out?

It must be a coping mechanism, to this day I have never shed a tear about it, I feel no sadness, in fact I don't feel at all. I am just numb to what happened. It still doesn't feel real.

[derf]

I saw it happen, I worked there at one point, and it has impacted every day of my life since. I don't feel the need to discuss this here.

[derf]

My sister went out with her future husband for the first time today.

I had a blind date with a 25 year old girl that looked like a 9 year old boy, which it eventually tried to molest me. Bad day all around. Damn blind dates, that was the last time I went on one...

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http://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/random-funny-hilarious-afternoon-tt-6.jpg

[zer0t]

the hell you say, dont give those bastards any power over you

something positive and celebrate it.

I was a few blocks away (I worked in 7WTC for 8+ years before we moved and it was the last building to cave in); I was either smart enough or chicken shit enough to grab the only other two folks near me that morning and got the fuck out of Dodge. I don't think we were in immediate danger but I truly thought we were under attack--which ended up we were. It was a long f'ed up day getting out of Manhattan, but I have had ~2900 more since then--3000 people can't say that.

I worked downtown from 1988 until then and knew lots of folks......nuff said.

[2up]

I pretty much couldn't watch anything on TV yesterday, recounting the day. My sister worked in the WTC (I think 7WTC also, but can't remember for sure) and we didn't know until probably 8PM EST if she was alive or not.

Some of you know this story already, but for those that don't, she is a very high level Federal Agent and it is only through pure chance (she had her agents at a training the night before so they were all scheduled to go in late that day) that she wasn't in her office. And when she got there, because of her position, she was to help get people out. She was literally running towards 2WTC to go in and help moments before it collapsed when SOMETHING (not someONE, someTHING) threw her backwards with such force that she had bruises on her back from it, and then the building fell.

Anyway, I know I'm extremely lucky to have not lost her, and that I wasn't actually there, but the absolute horror of spending that day waiting for the phone call is something I'll never forget. I sat at work (they wouldn't let us leave) crying my eyes out all day. When my mom finally called me she was sobbing so hard I thought the worst. Thankfully she was crying with relief that my sister had finally been able to get through to her as she'd been evacuated to whatever that aircraft carrier is in NY to start working on the investigation into what happened. She spent weeks assisting in the rescue and recovery efforts. To this day she has barely spoken of what she saw, other than what I've written above, and when she had to testify as part of the 9/11 commission about what their findings were.

[Kaneman]

Jesus 2up, they made you stay at work through that? Fuckin scumbags.

[Dave]

I pretty much couldn't watch anything on TV yesterday, recounting the day. My sister worked in the WTC (I think 7WTC also, but can't remember for sure) and we didn't know until probably 8PM EST if she was alive or not.

Some of you know this story already, but for those that don't, she is a very high level Federal Agent and it is only through pure chance (she had her agents at a training the night before so they were all scheduled to go in late that day) that she wasn't in her office. And when she got there, because of her position, she was to help get people out. She was literally running towards 2WTC to go in and help moments before it collapsed when SOMETHING (not someONE, someTHING) threw her backwards with such force that she had bruises on her back from it, and then the building fell.

Anyway, I know I'm extremely lucky to have not lost her, and that I wasn't actually there, but the absolute horror of spending that day waiting for the phone call is something I'll never forget. I sat at work (they wouldn't let us leave) crying my eyes out all day. When my mom finally called me she was sobbing so hard I thought the worst. Thankfully she was crying with relief that my sister had finally been able to get through to her as she'd been evacuated to whatever that aircraft carrier is in NY to start working on the investigation into what happened. She spent weeks assisting in the rescue and recovery efforts. To this day she has barely spoken of what she saw, other than what I've written above, and when she had to testify as part of the 9/11 commission about what their findings were.

intrepid?

[tommymac]

intrepid?

Doubt it , intrepid is just a museum I doubt theres much on there thats actualy functional.

My sister worked for verizon at the time and was also stuck down there. She put in some insane hrs getting communications back up and going. her group had a lot to do with the hospitals in the area and with wall street and her group got to ring hte opening bell on wall street once things calmed down.

First few days a lot of the city was on lockdown they even shut down some of the highways unless you were FD/PD, military/govt or medical personel so my hospital ID got me through which was nice.

Tom

[2up]

Jesus 2up, they made you stay at work through that? Fuckin scumbags.

I know, right? Its not like anyone in the country was doing any business that day anyway. And I was literally totally useless that day. They said they wanted us to stay at work to show the American Spirit or some bullshit like that. On top of everything I went to the Dr that night and found out I had a raging sinus infection. God that day sucked!!!!! Ugh... and now I just remembered getting calls from my kids asking me if I knew if their aunt was OK or not. They had been pulled out of their classes because one of their friends told a teacher that their aunt worked in WTC and they didn't know where she was. Blah. Must stop thinking....

intrepid?

Could be. Is there more than one? I just know it was an aircraft carrier there and they had the agents gather so they could start the investigation and be safely contained in one spot since no one new who or what the threat was.

[tommymac]

I know, right? Its not like anyone in the country was doing any business that day anyway. And I was literally totally useless that day. They said they wanted us to stay at work to show the American Spirit or some bullshit like that. On top of everything I went to the Dr that night and found out I had a raging sinus infection. God that day sucked!!!!! Ugh... and now I just remembered getting calls from my kids asking me if I knew if their aunt was OK or not. They had been pulled out of their classes because one of their friends told a teacher that their aunt worked in WTC and they didn't know where she was. Blah. Must stop thinking....



Could be. Is there more than one? I just know it was an aircraft carrier there and they had the agents gather so they could start the investigation and be safely contained in one spot since no one new who or what the threat was.

The intrepid is now a sea and air museum thats docked not too far from the WTC, it was a WW II carrier that was converted into a museum. Not sure if they woul duse that as a meeting point but who knows with all that was going on that day.

[101lifts2]

:pat::pat: