September 11th 2010 (live). We shall NEVER Forget!

[jhw61]

I had just dropped my 2 year old off at daycare and one of the daycare workers told me about the 1st plane, I thought it was just a commercial plane type of accident. On to work and had to sit through a stupid meeting of two tenants not getting along...I couldn’t wait for the meeting to be over and me and the maintenance guy I worked with watched the coverage on the little b&w t.v. he had in his shop.

I couldn’t wait to pick my son up, hug him tightly and head home to watch my President Bush. Lit a candle on our front porch and watched t.v. for house. My poor little son saw his Mommy crying so hard for days and days. I’m crying today too!

FReegards

[Justaham]

I just woke up on the morning of 9/11/01. As force of habit, turned on the TV and I saw the second plane hitting the second tower. I thought I w as watching a movie preview and didn’t realize the hit was real. I was just glued to the TV. I was working for Oracle at that time and didn’t realize that Todd Beamer he was one of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93. He was an account manage at Oracle. He was one of the heroes of Flight 93 and his last words “Let’s Roll” became famous. I was a very sad day at Oracle.

I remembe going to Costco after work and the whole store was empty and you could hear everyone’s thoughts.

I will never forget and Let’s Roll!

[Forgiven_Sinner]

“I was right here on Free Republic.

I was in the shower. “

With a moose?

[Allegra]

Where were you nine years ago today?

Much more innocent than now.

[hoagy62]

I was a driver for an airport transportation company in Seattle. I was taking 4 senior citizens to a Caribbean vacation that morning. I had a news station on, and I’d heard that the first plane had hit the tower. We all remarked what a ‘sad thing that was’. During a lull in the conversation, almost to the airport, we got word of the second plane. One of the men then said “That wasn’t an accident”.

I dropped them off and started to pull out. On the company 2-way, A driver said “I just heard they closed the airport”. Another driver asked “SeaTac?”, and the dispatcher replied “ALL of them!”. We were advised to continue business and head for our next assignments. About 15 minutes later, I was headed into downtown Seattle, and the local news station was simulcasting WCBS-AM in NYC. Their ‘Breaking News’ sounder fired again, and the female announcer said “It gets worse...” That’s when I heard about the Pentagon. And I literally screamed, alone in my van.

After stopping at a Starbuck’s to call my wife and tell her (she already heard), I continued north. As I waited to begin picking up my guests, the dispatchers made an ‘all-vans’ call: “If you have guests inbound, turn around and take ‘em home. All vacant vans head to SeaTac to pick up stranded people.”

I finished my shift and went home. I sat on the couch with my wife, my 1 1/2 y.o. boy and month-old baby girl and watched the news for the rest of the day.

I didn’t cry until the day of the memorial service at the National Cathedral, when they sang the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”. When I hear the song now, it usually chokes me up, even just a little bit.

Sorry I’m a bit verbose, but it is one day I will NEVER forget.

And...I will NEVER forgive.

[Ballygrl]

Hubby and I work together and we were at a clients office, they had the news on their computers, we peeked a few times but at that time they thought it was a small plane that flew into the building, than when the next plane flew in you knew it was coordinated, we still didn’t grasp what was going on, we left that job heading to another job and we had the radio on in the car, we had to stop at the post office for a moment and they had the tv on, everyone in the post office was riveted and it was then that we grasp the magnitude of what was going on. The post office debit machine was down so I had to run next door to the bank and when I came back in the 1st tower had just fallen, and hubby who never seems to get emotional said I just saw thousands of people die in front of my eyes. We got into the car and went to our next job, we called our Parents to make sure they were OK, but we couldn’t work at all, so we left the job and went to see our Parents to just hug them and make sure they were OK, then we headed home and had the tv and computer on all day.

[mountainfolk]

An out of state friend called and told me to turn on the TV, which is how we got the alert while the planes were still attacking. We could not access news as our computer, rural dial up then, was again out. Glued to the TV for the next few days. Witnessing unbelievable carnage and human tragedy on US soil and furious anger setting in deeper by the minute. This AM FOX guy Cavuto talked to Andy Card who was the person that came to give Pres Bush the update on the first plane which had already crashed before Bush had entered the classroom and was thought to be an accident. This is the first time I have seen the full clip of Pres Bush reacting to the realization that America was under attack. His faceial expression was resolute, determined and showed a full grasp of the situation. His military background kicked in with discipline and reasoned action. Within about seven minutes he left the room , without panic and showboating. During those minutes his plane was being made ready, plans coordinated for departure to safer locations. The CIC must be protected, regardless of his wishes, for the preservation of this country. We have spent, and do spend an untold amount of money on security for not only the President, but members of govt and yet Bush was slandered as being weak and cowardly for not jumping up, running out of the classroom, jumping on his plane and going straight back to DC where the enemy could have a better crack at him. That clip I saw today reminded me of why I felt safe while Pres Bush was in office, and had a sense of forboding when the Kenyan Obama was foisted on this country.

[polymuser]

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No insult shall occupy on the hallowed ground of the towers so long as one real American man still exists.

[shield]

President Bush's Bullhorn Speech at Ground Zero on 9/14/2001

[mojitojoe]

I have to admit Obama has been a better CIC than I thought he would be.
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Did you forget the sarcasm tag of have you lost your mind?

[sissyjane]

I live in California, and woke up just after seven O’clock. Turned the television on as I walked past to make coffee. Tom Brokah was on the Today show, and there was video of the towers burning. I thought it was a movie at first...When I realized what was happening I was glued to the television for days.

I remember a story that first night about a little girl who was making peanut butter sandwiches for the rescue workers. I don’t know why, but that simple act of kindness made me sob as hard as anything.

God bless the victims, families, rescue personnel,our Military and George W. Bush.

I will NEVER forget!

[little jeremiah]

I have to admit Obama has been a better CIC than I thought he would be. WTF??????????? BETTER? why, because he has not declared himself Dictator for life?

[little jeremiah]

Reading some of this thread makes me hate 0thugga even more than I already did, which I thought impossible.

Tears streaming.

0thugga hates America and Americans and all values and principles that make America valuable. He wants to ruin and destroy everything that is good.

He is loyal to Islam whether he “believes” or practices or not.

He is an offense to all who have died at the hands of Moslems.

[Las Vegas Ron]

LOL...just saw that and said WTF??

Hot thread going on over here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2587408/posts?q=1&;page=101

[hattend]

Real Title: Obama avoids Ground Zero
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Obama commemorates 9/11 with appeal for tolerance

By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama appealed to an unsettled nation Saturday to honor the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks by hewing to the values of diversity and tolerance. "We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust," the president declared.

Speaking at the Pentagon, where nine years ago a hijacked plane smashed into the west side of the building and killed 184 people, Obama conjured a solemn remembrance of that horrible day but also spoke strongly in defense of religious freedom.

"As Americans we are not — and never will be — at war with Islam," the president said. "It was not a religion that attacked us that September day — it was al-Qaida, a sorry band of men which perverts religion."

His comments came on a Sept. 11 anniversary unlike others. In years past, the day was devoted to remembrances of the nearly 3,000 who died in jetliner attacks here, in New York City and in Pennsylvania, and to vows to serve in their honor and continue to pursue the terrorists behind the attacks.

This year, the common bonds rekindled by the memory of the attacks threaten to fray amid growing suspicion of Muslims in this country and controversies about a mosque planned near ground zero in New York and a pastor's threat to burn the Muslim holy book.

excerpted - Full story here

[meyer]

Just watching the chronological replay in Fox. It’s like re-living that day. I have a rekindled desire to beat the life out of everyone who claims to be a Muslem and everybody that claims to support them in any way.

I don’t think that anger will every go away.

Religion of peace, my ass!

[CondorFlight]

Sorry if this has been mentioned before (I haven’t read the whole thread) and I just learned what I never knew before—

the Russians donated a memorial to 9/11 in Sept. 2006, in New Jersey, across from Manhattan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ_8EXMEswM&feature=fvw

For some reason the media, which likes to forget about 9/11, hasn’t spotlighted this.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Religion of peace, my ass!

Ditto that!

If you're referring to the "Time line" special they're running I saw it last night, it was very well done.

[devere]

I was in my office in Jersey City, watching the World Trade Center burn and then collapse.

Certain Muslims may think they have defeated us because Obama sits in the White House, and their money controls our mass media.
Hence their plan for a victory mosque.

But as Yogi Berra once observed, it ain’t over ‘till it’s over!

[TheWriterTX]

I was holding my son, a little over a year old, and cradling my swollen belly, which contained my unborn daughter.

I wept uncontrollably; for the people in the planes, for the people in the buildings, for the families of all those who would never come home again or never be the same.

Then I got angry. Very, very angry. I have never stopped being angry, and I will never, ever forget.