Posted on 09/09/2011 5:18:16 PM PDT by usconservative
Wondering if anyone else still gets emotional on Sept. 11th.
I do.
The emotions for me are still pretty raw.
I'm not a New Yorker, I didn't lose friends or family on that day. I didn't lose a wife, daughter, son or father. I can't imagine the pain of those who did.
I'm not a first responder, I didn't dig through the rubble of the fallen towers looking for survivors. I don't know what it's like to be a first responder who's dealing with life threatening illness today as a result of being there, or working on the piles of rubble. I can't imagine the pain they or their families are going through.
I haven't been to Ground Zero since the 9-11 terrorist attack, but I've been to New York and seen the Twin Towers first hand. There was nothing else like them in all the world, they left an impression. I've stood in the plaza where the towers ultimately fell.
I don't know what it's like to walk past the site where the towers stood on a daily basis on my way to work like countless thousands or millions of New Yorkers do on a weekly basis.
I'll never know the pain of those who managed to get out alive, only to question "why did I survive?" when learning of friends and co-workers who perished in the attacks.
What I do know and feel, is that on that day our country fundamentally changed in ways I couldn't begin to imagine on that day, but have experienced since. Like many of you, I watched in stunned horror as the second plane hit the Twin Towers. As we watched the towers burn, we learned of the attack at the Pentagon, and the crash in a Pennsylvania field where a bunch of brave passengers upon learning of their impending fate, took action to prevent another attack, surrendering their own lives in the process. Then, about an hour later we watched the first, then second of the Twin Towers fell to the ground.
I stood there in front of my television that day shaking and crying first in fear, then in sympathy for those who lost loved ones on that day, then rage set in upon realization of what had happened and knowing my young children (5 and 3 at the time) would grow up and live in a world very different from the one I grew up in.
Every year since then on the anniversary of 9-11 I've felt all these same emotions. I still cry and pray for those lost on that day. I still get angry at the muslim terrorists that attacked us, and I still mourn the fact that my (and your) children aren't growing up in the world that we grew up in prior to that day.
Now that the tenth anniversary is coming up, I've been watching and noting the events that will commemorate that day in New York City, and I'm angry that the brave first responders who rushed to the scene, and families who lost loved ones on that day are not invited.
It makes me ask the question "why are they trying to erase the memory and emotions felt on that fateful day, September 11th, 2001?"
And then I just get angry all over again. How dare the Mayor of New York City and the current America-hating President slap the faces of the brave souls who braved conditions they couldn't have known would later impact their lives in devastating ways, and the families of those who lost fathers, mothers, sons and daughters by not including them in the memorial ceremony.
This Sunday, are we all New Yorkers again? Do you still feel the emotion?
I do, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
That's an emotion, and I hear you loud and clear.
Yes.
I’m still angry.
I’m still sad.
I’m still shocked at the level of evil in the world.
I will never forget.
I cant watch anything 9-11 related without breaking into tears. Then this rage sweeps over me. Sometimes It shakes me.
This 9-11 I will be thinking about that day and all those killed.
I read this story at work. Bad mistake as I suspect I was sniffling loud enough for my co-workers to hear.
I have to work this weekend but was off today, so I've been making myself cry all day with videos of the attack and the aftermath. I watch through these every couple of months, so I'll never forget what happened that day.
Interestingly, I seem to notice something new each time I watch them. This time it was a young businessman with an interesting red and gold tie who was standing beside a fire truck, just staring up in horror. A while later, after the first tower collapsed, you can see the same man helping to wash dust out of a firefighter's eyes. I'll probably never know his name, where he lived and worked, or even if he survived the collapse of the second tower, but he personifies America on that day; he shook off his initial horror of the situation and rushed into action, helping those in need.
All I need to know about islam, I learned on 9/11.
Yes. That day I felt worse in my body and soul than ever in my life. I feel some of it back when I watch documentaries or live coverage of that day. I hope not to live long enough to experience that horror and loss again in my life.
And I agree with you that the MSM / administration wants to turn the day into a bland volunteer or diversity day instead of what it is: a national day of mourning the victims, mourning our loss of innocence, and saluting the heroes of that day.
Also, earlier today Mark Steyn gave a most excellent rant about how pathetic it is that 10 years later we still don't have a building built on the site. At one point he mentioned Todd Beemer and "let's roll", and for some reason, when he said "let's roll" was the only good news of the day, I started getting raw emotionally.
So yeah. I'm glad I don't have tv. I don't want to relive it. I still remember. I haven't forgotten. But I don't need to go through that ringer again.
Yes.
Yes. Know the tears will flow especially hard this year.
I can still remember so many details from that day: getting an email from a friend that an airplane had crashed into one of the towers, and picturing a little single-engine plane accident. Driving to where I was working that day and listening to the radio and slowly starting to get the picture but not really comprehending. Stepping out of a room at work and hearing on the radio that the first tower had just fallen, then looking across the room at the woman sitting there at her desk and asking "Did they really just say that the tower fell?"
That was when it really hit me, the magnitude. (I did not see any pictures nor video till that night).
It makes me angry that we are still buying oil from countries which spawn and support this sort of barbarity. As far as I'm concerned, if we import a single drop of oil, we are not drilling enough here.
It bothers me tremendously that we have bent over backwards to accommodate this "religion" that wants nothing more than to subjugate and/or kill the rest of us, to turn the remainder of our nation and its population into the same dust that the WTC was reduced to. It irritates me that to be realistic, to take the Muslims at their word, is to be called narrow-minded, bigoted, prejudiced, an "Islamophobe."
I also find it alarming that, 10 years after 9/11, some on the tolerant, multicultural left seem to think that the Islamic term "infidel" only refers to Christian right-wing Conservatives and practicing Jews. They don't grasp that "infidel" pretty much means "everybody besides me and Achmed here, and I'm not too certain of Achmed at times."
Haven't forgotten, and I do get emotional, on several levels.
You're probably right in as psychologists or shrinks define it, however that's not the way I use it.
I have found that I am far more effective when I'm not angry, (and I feel better), so I make a special effort to not stay angry, and have gotten pretty good at it. It really helps in the planning.
I was listening to a local talk-radio show on WLS-AM in Chicago during my train ride home from work. As the "Roe and Roeper" show closed they played a tribute to 9-11 and I listened.
Thankfully it came on as my stop approached, I couldn't stop the tears as I was stepping off the train in a crowd of people. It took me a few minutes to compose myself before driving home from the train station.
If I ever meet you in person, the bar tab is on me.
I know what you mean. I was hopping in the shower. I had to jump out and shut it off. I just don’t have a need to relive it. FWIW, I was there that day. I don’t know if that makes a difference or not. I guess it does.
Unless you nationalize US oil, we'll still be importing. US oil isn't ours. It belongs to the oil companies, and is sold on the world market.
God Bless and Keep you safe from all harm. (I don't know what else to say...)
You know what’s crazy? I was a few blocks from Times Square the night of the recent failed car bomb attempt. Walked right by the police barricades that night not knowing what was going on. I don’t go into NYC any more.
Watching the Nat Geo special programming has made it all seem like it happened yesterday.
Every year, there has been some special programming on History Channel too.
No matter when I’ve seen the footage, 10 years ago or today, the same raw emotion is felt.
It usually starts with a comment about the terrorists
“You bastards...”.
This afternoon my mother in law and I were at lunch, and 9-11 came up in conversation. Like nearly every American we both said “Oh yes, I remember exactly where I was that morning...”.
She said her German nephew was visiting us in the USA, and he was supposed to have flown home that day. Of course that was not possible. He was very shaken up by what happened to America that morning as he saw it on TV. He called home to Germany to talk to his mother. I remember him telling me how sorry he was for what happened. He loves America. He visits every few years.
Yes I do. Anger is the predominant emotion. I still want to get the bastards
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