[Jim Robinson]

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[Crazieman]

Creeps the hell out of me rereading these old threads. I was still a lurker, going to junior college, and my homepage was Drudge.

I was driving to class that day, was clear and sunny. I heard the second plane hit live on the radio.

[Bullish]

Let’s all pray we never have to make any threads like these ever again.

[Repeal The 17th]

I got married in September 1976.
Me, the wife, and 3 kids to Hawaii for 25th anniversary in 2001.
We all went to Pearl Harbor Memorial on Monday 9/10/2001.
Then came 9/11/2001.
Air travel came to a halt, and we could not come back.
No one had sympathy for us being stranded in paradise.
May God bless the family of Todd Beamer.
May God Save The Republic.
May God bless you, Jim Robinson.
“Let’s Roll”.

[JDoutrider]

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[brothers4thID]

Thanks Jim. I wish I’d know about FR on that horrible day. As it was, we sat, terrified and horrified, in the Hart Senate Office Building getting our information from CNN and Fox. Capitol Police were as in the dark as the rest of us. We received multiple conflicting evacuation “recommendations”, but no clear plan of action was available or suggested. Finally the Senator I worked for ordered us all out (while steadfastly refusing to leave himself!)

Years later, after joining FR, I re-read these threads. I remembered calling my mother to tell her we were being evacuated—because there was another inbound plane—and that I loved her. I couldn’t call my husband until 5pm because all of the cell circuits in DC were flooded. Had I been a FReeper that dark day, I’m sure I would have found some comfort in the community of brave souls that offered both prayers and information.

God bless the passengers of Flight 93 and God Bless Free Republic.

[Read Write Repeat]

Thank you Jim.

I wasn’t on FR that day because I was frantically trying to get in touch with my mother. Unknown to me, she had jury duty that day.

[bd476]

Thank you Jim for posting this helpful list of remembrance threads.

Prayers extended today in memory of all who lost their lives, their family and
friends.

Prayers for our military, for our veterans and for those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our great Nation.

God Bless them all.

[Sir Gawain]

Here is an article I found in Reader's Digest a few months later and transcribed:

"Death is nothing at all" and misc. quotes from fire and rescue workers...some that didn't return
Reader's Digest

Posted on 01/07/2002 6:31:18 PM PST by Sir Gawain

Death is
nothing at all.

      I have only slipped away into
the next room.
      I am I, and you are you,
      Whatever we were to each other,
that we are still.

      Call me by the old familiar name.
      Speak of me in the easy way
which you always used.
      Put no difference into your tone.
      Wear no forced air of solemnity
or sorrow.
      Laugh as we always laughed
      At the little jokes that we
enjoyed together.

      Play, smile, think of me,
pray for me.

      Let my name be ever the
household word that it always was.
      Let it be spoken without an effort,
      Without the ghost of a
shadow upon it.

      Life means all that it ever meant.
      It is the same as it ever was.
      There is abslolute and
unbroken continuity.

      What is this death but a
negligible accident?
      Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
      I am but waiting for you,
for an interval,
      Somewhere very near,
      Just round the corner.

      All is well.

                       -Henry Scott Holland

"It's my calling."

--CAPT. TIMOTHY STACKPOLE, Division 11, Brooklyn. Severely burned and near death after a 1998 fire, he insisted on returning to full-time duty. Perished in the Twin Tower collapse. New York Post

"Every fire is scary. That's the way it is. You're a damned liar if you say you're not scared."

--LINCOLN QUAPPE, Rescue 2, Brooklyn. Perished. New York Times Magazine

"We'll see things today we shouldn't have to see, but listen up, we'll do it together. We'll be together and we'll all come back together."

--ANONYMOUS FIRE LIEUTENANT. New York Times

"Guys, be very careful, because firemen are going to die today."

--CAPT. DANIEL BRETHEL, Ladder 24, Manhatten. Perished. New York Times

"I saw a piece of metal the size of a football field coming at us..."

--RICHIE MURRAY, Engine 205, Brooklyn. Men's Journal

"We were greeted by a frantic mass of people, covered in gray soot, fleeing the city. Many of them reached out to touch our coats, and a woman said, 'God bless you and may He watch over you.'"

--DANIEL BIVONA, Ladder 84, Staten Island. Staten Island Advance

"I was praying to die fast."

--RICH PICCIOTTO, Commander, Battalion 11, Manhatten. Survived collapse of North Tower. Times Herald-Mirror, Middletown, N.Y.

"Sometimes in this job, good-bye is really good-bye."

--RAY DOWNEY, FDNY Chief. Missing. New York Post

"Anyone who had any hand in this should go straight to hell."

--JIMMY CANHAM, Battalion 31, Brooklyn. Albany Times Union

"Most guys want to be here. If they can find one person--cop, civilian, it doesn't matter--it's worth it."

--ANONYMOUS FIRE MARSHAL, Manhatten Base. U.S. News and World Report

"I said to myself, Oh my God, they're all in there. All the firefighters are in there. This can't be happening."

--ROBERT CHYRIWSKI, Engine 3, Manhatten. Men's Journal

"They killed all my friends, guys who I grew up with. We were all kids together."

--LT. BRIAN GILLEN, Ladder 34, Manhatten. Philadelphia Inquirer

"I know I will probably relive this every day of my life."

--BILL SPADE, Rescue 5, Staten Island. Saten Island Advance

"I said 'Thank you' to the volunteers. 'Thank you' to the skilled ironworkers and wreckers. 'Thank you' for all the firm handshakes and the much-needed hugs."

--DANIEL BIVONA, Ladder 84, Staten Island. Staten Island Advance

"In the first one hundred years we filled a wall with the names of fallen firefighters. On the eleventh of September we created a new wall."

--KERRY KELLY, Chief Medical Officer, FDNY. Opening Statement to U.S. Senate

[Sir Gawain]

This is a must read (article used to exist on FR but my bookmark says it was pulled):

The epic life story of Rick Rescorla: immigrant, war hero, husband, and head of security at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter, occupant of 22 floors in the South Tower.

The Real Heroes Are Dead
A love story.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/the-real-heroes-are-dead

[OwenKellogg]

[The KG9 Kid]

This is still my own personal mind-blower thread which no longer exists in the FR archives but can still be found on Archive.org:

Strange Dream

See post #16 in that thread from SamAdams76. It pre-dated the 9/11 attacks by four months to the day.

Sorry to ping you into this thread, SamAdams76, but it's only proper etiquette considering the context of this thread.

[DocRock]

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[RginTN]

Lots of smart Freepers ID’d bin laden & islamic jihad early in those threads.

[Biggirl]

Thank-you and God Bless.

[PJBankard]

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[S.O.S121.500]

BOOKbump

[trebb]

It was the day I discovered FR - was at work and a co-worker was on the site and saw the first news about the first plane hitting the WTC.

Been irritating folks here ever since.

[musicman]

BFLR

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Never forget!