re: Yearly 9/11 Remembrance Post

One year during the remembrance thread, a poster shared that his dad was in one of the towers. His dad did not make it home and he talked about just having to keep telling himself that his dad was on a very long business trip. That was at least 15 (probably 20) years ago and he was a teen at the time.

So this poster would be I’m guessing mid/upper 30s with a family of his own. I just truly wish I could remember who it was.

I think about this guy every year.

I originally posted this on 9/11/08. I still feel the same:



re: In rememberance... (Posted on 9/11/08 at 5:34 pm to dukke v)

September 10, 2001 was my 50th birthday. I spent the evening with friends and we were discussing the fact that we were thrilled that our kids did not have to grow up as we did, worrying about the USSR and a possible nuclear threat; remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis; watching people being shot trying to escape from East Germany by trying to scale the Berlin Wall, etc. The Cold War was over and we had won it. Life seemed good.

On the morning of September 11, 2001 I received a telephone call from my secretary at about 7:00 am. She said that she thought that she screwed up and that I had two mediations in the District of Columbia Superior Court that morning. I asked her if this was a bad “day after 50th birthday” joke. I said that I was pretty sure that the mediations were on the 12th. She said that she would check and call me back. I hopped into the shower and when I got out she called and told me that I was correct and that they were on the 12th. I told her that I was going to wait out rush hour traffic and that I’d leave for the office around 10:00 am.

I was at the computer answering some emails (this was before I ever knew about Tiger Droppings). While at the computer, I heard on the Fox Morning Show that a plane had just hit one of the World Trade Center towers in NYC. The New Yorker in me did not even look up at the TV, I just thought, “Who is the idiot in the small plane that got too close to the WTC?” Shortly thereafter, I heard that the second tower was hit. At that point, like everyone else, I sat in horror watching the TV. Certainly, this was no accident.

About a half hour later, I heard a “BOOM”. At the time I lived a couple of miles or so from The Pentagon, as the crow flies. I went outside and saw the black smoke billowing from the direction of The Pentagon. It was so strange because it was a beautiful day. All I could hear were sirens (I had not heard so many sirens in D.C. since the Air Florida crash) and the sound of fighter jets overheard.

I tried to make some calls on my cell phone, but could not. I tried on a land line and it was still no use. I drove over to a 7-11 and used a pay phone to call some folks. I heard from my Mom that one of my sisters was supposed to have a matter in the Supreme Court in Manhattan that morning and was going to visit a friend at the WTC before her court appearance. We were both very frightened for my sister and wondered if she was OK.

I went into the 7-11 after making my calls and the rumors were running rampant. Some people were saying that the White House and Washington Monument had been hit. Some were saying that The Capitol had been blown up. I did not know whether or not any of what was being said was true.

I-395 was closed down and so I could not get into the office. I went over to Army-Navy Country Club to visit some friends. I was told that the American Airlines Flight 77 flew over the Club’s driving range at an altitude of about 250 feet on its way to The Pentagon.

At about 6:00 pm I decided that I needed to go to the office to get the files for the next day’s mediations. As I approached the 14th Street Bridge, I saw The Pentagon live for the first time that day. The smoke was still rising from the building and it was a horrible sight to see. All I could think was, “If this is what it is like here, what must it be like in Manhattan?”

As I crossed the 14th Street Bridge it was eerie not to see air traffic going up and down the Potomac. It was almost as eerie as when I saw the first jet landing at Reagan National after a few weeks of no air traffic.

When I got into D.C., I saw Humvees at each corner with manned .50 caliber machine guns. There were also armed soldiers on the streets.

After getting my files, I drove back to Alexandria and smoke was still rising from The Pentagon.

Prior to 9/11/01, the only building that I ever turned to look at in D.C. was The White House. Since 9/11, the only building that I turn to look at every time I pass it is The Pentagon. It saddens me every time I pass it and see the area that was struck.

Having grown up on Staten Island, I remember the NYC skyline before there was a WTC, and while the Towers were going up. I will never forget the day that they came down. I knew people who were killed in the Towers and the obituaries ran in the Staten Island Advance for months. A complete company of Staten Island Firefighters were killed in the collapse.

I had only been in the WTC once, for a dinner dance at the restaurant, Windows on the World (the top floor of the North Tower). Being afraid of heights, I did not like going to the windows (that went from ceiling to floor) and looking down. I cannot imagine what it took for some of those poor people to bring themselves to jump. I suppose in their minds it was better than burning to death. Nice choice.

Every time I go back to NY to visit family I tear up a bit when I see the Tower-less skyline.

Since that date, I have never prouder to be an American and a native New Yorker. I am saddened by the fact that it seems that a lot of people seem to have forgotten that there are people out there who mean us harm. We should all do anything that we can do to never forget that fact and the events of 9/11/01.

We owe a debt of gratitude that we can never repay to the men and women in our Armed Forces who are out fighting the good fight to keep us safe and to arrange a meeting with the Maker for all those who mean us harm. We also owe a debt to gratitude that we can never repay to those nameless people in our Intelligence Community who have dedicated their lives to thwarting subsequent attacks. It is not be coincidence that there has not been an attack on American shores has since 9/11/01.

9/11/01 -- Never Forget!

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Is anyone in here ready to talk about the planted explosives that brought down building 7 or are we still keeping our heads in the sand? Somehow we're still getting new and better angles of that day and at this point if you watch the footage its really not even debatable.

We're about to cross the inflection point of no return in this country. Debt per capita is higher than Rome's before they collapsed, faith in government is lower than Gorbachev's approval in the Soviet Union before it fell, the violence and hatred between the two political parties is on par with pre Civil war levels, the wealth gap between the top .1% and the bottom 90% is approaching the same levels as pre-Revolutionary France. America is losing its identity more every day, and there's no sign of it stopping. We don't make things here anymore, 33% of the country is on welfare. 99% of our DC politicians are putting Israel's wants and needs above the needs of its own voting constituents, and they face no backlash. We have no spine, no will to march in the street with torch and pitch forks. We accept whatever they hand us and say "Well, what can ya do?" The country will be majority minorities for the first time ever by 2050. Our ideals and values are being stripped away piece by piece. Israel is not your friend, they never have been they never will be. It can't be overstated how many people need reminding that the Jews killed Christ. There are no such thing as Judeo-Christian relations. We as Christians have more in common with Muslims than we do with Israel. Muslims acknowledge Christ's ascension into Heaven. Jews are taught that Christ is eternally boiling in excrement.

They want to push 9/11 as far into the past as they can. They don't want you to look up archived footage of interviews about the events where Bush said they planted explosives, or read about the dancing Israelis that told interviewers they were there to film the attacks. They don't want you checking out Chaney's neo-con playbook that said they need a "Pearl Harbor level event" to rally Americans behind a war in the Middle East (4 star General Wesley Clark, 5 countries in 7 years). They want you to wake up, pay taxes, talk about football and never fricking question anything I say or do. And you're all getting A+'s so far

Get off the drugs you use.

You’re in the wrong league.

Nothing but trash from the internet. No professional knowledge to support the stupidity you would present.

Get off the drugs.

As much as I cared back when it happened, I'm disgusted now every year on this date because I know that nothing we were told about this was true and that the 'war on terror' was just an open-ended contract for the MIC and Israel, ending with a whimper and some dead marines before returning the Taliban to power and ceding Europe to muslims.

We are ruled by demonic ghouls and live in a hell of their creation.

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Don't cast stones if you've never attempted to educate yourself.

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Blind belief in all of the garbage on YouTube is not "educating yourself"...

Did our government do a poor job of connecting the dots beforehand? 100%

Did the Saudis finance the effort? 100%

Were the buildings taken down as some type of secret controlled demolition?

Absolutely not and only a mental midget could believe such a thing.

Take this garbage and spew it on another day, not this one...