[luvie]

MY REMEMBRANCE

I was walking through the house while getting ready for work, when I glanced at the TV, which I don't usually watch. There was a view of the WTC with smoke pouring out the upper floors, and the reporter on Fox News was saying that a plane of some kind had hit the building. There was no panic, just reporting the incident and wondering how it happened and what kind of plane it was. While I stood there, the 2nd plane hit the other tower. My heart nearly stopped and of course, like everyone else, I KNEW that was no accident.

I went on to work and everyone was scared and glued to the tiny TV we had in the back room of the store. I worked in the mall, and we finally closed at 1 PM and went home, because it was pretty much empty. Not only did I work in Bush's hometown but his mother-in-law still lived there, and we all feared that Midland, Texas, would be a prime target for people who hated the president. We also found out that the Pentagon had been hit and flight 93 had gone down in PA.

For the rest of that day and the rest of the week, I, like the rest of the world, was glued to the set, my heart breaking.

[left that other site]

Good Evening, Everybody.

Never Forget.

(((HUGS)))

[The Mayor]

Our Daily Bread

Wednesday,
September 7, 2022

Finding Refuge

Read: Isaiah 25:1–9

You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm. Isaiah 25:4

My wife and I once stayed in a lovely old seaside hotel with large sash windows and thick stone walls. One afternoon, a storm ripped through the region, churning up the sea and pounding our windows like angry fists on a door. Yet we were at peace. Those walls were so strong, and the hotel’s foundations so solid! While storms raged outside, our room was a refuge.

Refuge is an important theme in Scripture, starting with God Himself. “You have been a refuge for the poor,” Isaiah says of God, “a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm” (Isaiah 25:4). In addition, refuge is something God’s people were and are to provide, whether through Israel’s ancient cities of refuge (Numbers 35:6) or by offering hospitality to “foreigners” in need (Deuteronomy 10:19). These same principles can guide us today when humanitarian crises hit our world. In such times, we pray that the God of refuge would use us, His people, to help the vulnerable find safety.

The storm that hit our hotel was gone the following morning, leaving us with a calm sea and a warm sun that made the seagulls glow. It’s an image I hold on to as I think of those facing natural disasters or fleeing “ruthless” regimes (Isaiah 25:4): that the God of refuge would empower us to help them find safety now and a brighter tomorrow. — Sheridan Voysey

When have you taken “refuge” in God or found it through His people? How can you play a part in helping those facing a crisis today?

God of refuge, please empower me, Your child, to help the needy find refuge and hope.

 

Bible in a year: Proverbs 1–2; 1 Corinthians 16

[Dr. Sivana]

I was driving to work and listening to NPR (I know, I know), after the first tower was hit. I’m sorry, but like with OK City I had only two thoughts initially. How is the government going to clamp down on us, and what else is going to happen in the near term? Especially after the Pentagon hit. Was it going to be four, or 54?

To this day I have never seen the actual video of the hit. I didn’t want an emotional reaction.

[Fai Mao]

In Hong Kong watching the Singaporean comedy “Living with Lydia”

[left that other site]

I was watching Greta van Sustren on Court TV coverage of the Scott Peterson Trial, as the bug exterminator was doing the monthly treatment of owr house (Florida).

Suddenly the program was interrupted with the report of the first plane going in.

The Bug-Guy, who was from pakistan, said:

“Why do they think that they are doing this for GOD?”

And so, even before the second plane went in, and even before the reporters spoke of it being an attack, this pakistani knew what was going on.

Chilling.

[PROCON]

Thanks for remembering, luvie!

[NetAddicted]

I was waiting for son to get ready for school, watching Good Morning America (didn’t know about Fox&Friends at the time). They talked about plane hitting WTC. Then, another plane hit! I watched constantly, for days. Two night was ago, I watched Nicholas Cage movie, “World Trade Center.” I cried at the end, like I cried while watching, during and after 9/11. I thought it was an excellent movie.

[Repeal The 17th]

It was my and Mrs. R17’s 25th wedding anniversary.
We had saved up and cashed in my frequent flyer miles
to take a week long trip to Hawaii, along with our 3 kids.
Greeted at the airport in Honolulu with welcoming leis, etc.

Rented a house right on the beach at the north shore of Oahu,
where all those surfing movies were made.
A few steps to the beach, Private pool, Private Hot Tub,
Pool Table, the works...

Monday, Sept. 10th, went to see the Pearl Harbor Memorial.
Remarked to everyone...
“No one today knows what an impact this had on everyone at the time...”

Next day Sep. 11th...slept in, got up and turned on the TV.
It was maybe 9 o’clock Hawaii time, (3 o’clock East Coast time)
Hawaii time is 6 hours earlier than East Coast time.
Could not believe what was on the TV.
Everything was already over.
All of the events of the day hit us in 10 minutes.
Total shock.

All air travel was cancelled; no way to get home.
Phone calls to work and family were met with>>>
“Oh, you are stranded in Hawaii?” (no sympathy)

Call to owner of rental house...
“We can’t leave...there are no flights out.”
Reply:
“Well, no one can fly in either,
so I can’t rent it to anyone else, Good Luck!”

Airport finally opened up Friday (9/14).
Instead of the welcoming leis,
there were humvees, M16s and explosive sniffing dogs.

[mountainlion]

I was working for the FAA and saw the second plane hit the tower. We had a new guy and he asked where to get a cup of coffee and we were in the cafeteria when it hit. How would you like that for a first day of work?

[lightman]

Pumping gas at $1.43/gallon.

That evening it was over $1.85.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Getting ready to ping now. My day has been horrible and it's not over.

Thanks for today's Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning?

[lightman]

A couple of days later I was placed on a standby list for doing a one week tour in metro NY/NJ as part of a national debriefing team.

Despite living less than four hours away I was never called because too many fellows decided (against regulations) to “self activate”.

Yes, I am still somewhat bitter...

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning? ~

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[Clay Moore]

I was on duty at the fire station that day. The officer was off so I had the paper hat. I was outside doing morning clean up and someone came out and announced a building had ben hit. We were allowed to turn on the TV and watch the events unfold live.

I remember thinking that there was so much fire load in those buildings that they were going to come down.

Lost 343 brothers and sisters that day.

One of my most vivid memories was looking out over DFW airport flight path and seeing zero aircraft in the sky when there would normally be dozens.

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

[montanajoe]

Had dropped my first wife off for a flight a couple of hours earlier for a convention in SFO.

Her flight got off but by then they had issued the nationwide no fly. Ended up driving down to pick her up a few days later.

When we got back I tried to rejoin but they said I was to old...

[roving]

Woke up, turned on Fox, one tower was already hit. My sister called. I told her a plane must have flown into the building. Then I saw the 2nd plane. I was yelling at her to turn on the TV.

I had to go to work that afternoon. I didn’t want to. It was a long day.

[Dust in the Wind]

There I was living alone on the family farm. Was having a lazy morning as I had just finished planting our winter wheat and things were going to be winding down for the year. On the high plains I remember it being the day the sky-ways went silent. No airliners, no small planes, nothing airborne but birds. Very eerie, very worrisome after seeing the mess on the TV screen a little while earlier. Was actually glad both my parents had passed, not having to see this.

Heartbeat Away

[NorthMountain]

I was at work on 11SEP2001 ... and on 12SEP2001 the entire focus of my work was changed.

[Fiji Hill]

For me, September 11, 2001 started early. At around two in the morning, a friend of mine called me to announce that he had acquired a couple of hard-to-get tickets for the USC-Notre Dame game, and he considered it important to wake me up to tell me the good news. I was overjoyed, and it was hard to get back to sleep.

I woke up later than usual, and when I was taking out some trash, I overheard something on a neighbor’s TV about a calamity taking place in New York. When I turned on my TV, the World Trade Center had already been destroyed, but Flight 93 was still in the air. I looked at my 1956 calendar (which read the same as a 2001 calendar) hanging on the wall and noticed that it was September 11, which would from that point on mark a historic anniversary. I had always celebrated that date as the anniversary of the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s Communist regime in Chile, a major Cold War victory for the West—and I still celebrate that event.

One of the first things I did that morning was to log in to FR, where I was posting under a different handle. Later in the day, there was joy expressed on FR at the news of an air raid on Kabul, but it turned out to have been launched by Afghan rebels rather than our Air Force.

By the way, we made it to the Notre Dame game—at South Bend, Ind. When we rented a car after landing in Chicago, we noticed that nearly every car on the lot had an out-of-state plate, and they were from all over the US. This was probably the result of travelers using rental cars to reach their destinations after President Bush ordered all airliners to immediately land.