WORLD TRADE CENTER COLLAPSES!!!!

[Paul L. Hepperla]

Holy Shit! God Help US.

[Valin]

BUMP

[old blue beemer]

To: Nitro

Speaking of nukes wait until the Chinese ones that Bubba was so kind to help them with start landing on the west coast. It will make this look like a walk in the park. News of a fourth plane down by Pittsburgh. I am not convinced that this will have any effect on the American people. Before long the pundits will be blaming this on us and we will be eating it up and atoning for our sins whatever they may or may not be. We have truly evolved into a strange nation. Hope I am wrong.

55 posted on 9/11/01 9:56 AM Central by willyone

seems more prescient by the day ...

[ChadGore]

Lest we forget.

[ChadGore]

Lest we forget.

[vikingchick]

bump

[rintense]

Never forget.

[Samwise]

Bump

[vikingchick]

I remember seeing it on TV here in SF. The people on the planes killed. The rescue workers killed. The workers in the Twin Towers killed. The airplanes all grounded. They even shut down Disneyland because the terrorists might have hit that too.

I'll never forget that day.

[rwfromkansas]

I remember seeing video of the first plane hit the tower on the CBS Early Show with speculation that it might have been a missile that hit the building (they didn't know it was a plane yet). Then, a few minutes later I was watching in the kitchen and my mom was reading the paper after just getting off work. Then, a second plane slammed into the tower and then the newsperson (don't remember who was speaking....I think it was Gumbel) said this definitely was a terrorist attack and they just went right into Full breaking news coverage. It was incredible and then I had to take off for school really fast.....

I got there and most people still did not know because it had happened during the first class period. A few knew because some teacher happned to hear about it and it spread to some classrooms. Anyway, myself and some others told the government class when we got there (the teacher did not know yet and couldn't believe when we told him). People were checking out VCR's to watch the coverage in their rooms. It was something else.

And then the principal came on and said that a plane was possibly headed to the White House and to pray and keep people in our thoughts. The principal was broken up almost....I will never forget the expecation of what was going on when the intercom came on and there was a long pause before he ever could say anything.

The next hour we were in shock watching as the towers fell (with several classes brought into the same room). My teacher kept saying this is something on the order of Pearl Harbor and we shoudl realize just how huge an event we were seeing.

THe only class that went normally that day was in English, where teachers don't stop for anything. We had an essay test that day in class. I couldn't believe they would continue like that.

It was an awful day and then to see news coverage 24/7 for a full week.....it is something I don't think will ever be out of my memory it was so huge.

[vikingchick]

Thanks for your account.

[Crispy]

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[dixiechick2000]

bookmarking...

[vikingchick]

bump

[Vicki]

Never Forget!! The terrorists are hoping we will go back to sleep. They will attack us again.

They can't imagine the power we have. We can crush them and we should. We should use whatever means to achieve our goals. Whatever it takes!!

[Cacique]

Bookmark, NEVER FORGET!!! BUMP

[zeaal]

God Bless those that lost loved ones to these homicide terrorist acts.

[My Favorite Headache]

I would have never gone to class. But that is just me. I would have told the English teacher a thing or 2 as well and then promptly told them to kiss my ass. The nation was under attack. Do an essay next week. Unbelieveable. Never forget.

[rintense]

I was at work when a friend IMd me and told me a plane hit one of the towers. So, I called a co-worker who was working at home and she was giving me the play-by-play from the TV. As I was checking FR and talking to her, she said, 'Oh my God! Another plane hit the other tower!' My reply was, 'You are lying! This is not real!' All she kept saying was, 'Oh my God...' and I got off the phone and immediately notified ouor team and our HR department. We went in search of a TV while co-workers scrambled to get one working. We went next door to the workout facility to see the latest... and when I saw the live coverage, something changed in me that I can't explain. It was like something was taken from me. We saw Jim Miklsheski (sp) freak out when the Pentagon got hit... I just stood there- transfixed, feeling helpless as the anger and patriotism slowly but steadily was reawakened.

We made it back to the office when the tv was set up- all the while in constant communication with each other via cell phone for the latest information. FR was a Godsend that day. All the latest was here and was reported before the networks knew a thing. So, everyone kept asking me what the latest was. I told everyone about the third plane hijacking and the eventual crash in Pennsylvania. And yet, we sat watching the television, hypnotized by the images we saw. When the first building collapsed, the entire office saw it... and everyone released a collective gasp. It was almost too much for everyone to comprehend. In a matter of two hours, our country changed forever. What had once been unimaginable had now become very, very real. And when the second tower collapsed, we just sat in silence. I calmly got up, walked over to my cubicle, put my head on my desk and began to cry for the first time that day.

When I drove home that day, everything was different. The sky was clear but not as blue. The once busy, intertwined jet trails were strangely absent. The grass seemed to be less green. Even the traffic, what there was of it, seemed to move along at a slower pace. And that thirty-minute drive home was silent except for the thoughts and images that kept replaying in my mind. As much as I wanted to forget seeing the horror, watching the grief, and living the emotion, I knew it was something I could never forget.

I knew it was something that we, as a country, could never forget…

[ohioWfan]

Tears fill my eyes reliving the horror of that day.

But America did respond. Our President did respond. Our military has made us proud. We are fighting a just war, and remembering that day when America was shocked out of its complacency is imperative.

We must NEVER forget!!