Posted on 09/10/2014 6:28:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Upon request, I have collected links to many of the earliest threads from September 11, 2001 below. I reviewed threads from the very first FR report (http://www.freeRepublic.com/focus/fr/520255/posts)through thread number 520326. Feel free to add other significant threads, including photo archives. Bumping this thread periodically instead of the original threads will also avoid scaring people with the headlines.
Bookmark this thread, and bump it from time to time when the nation and the press seems to forget why we need resolve in the face of evil. Forgive some of the early misinformation and broken photo links, and recall the horror and fury.
(Excerpt) Read more at freerepublic.com ...
BTW, consider this an idea, ask FRpers where were they when the first got the news on this thread as well. Thank-you.
TY for posting. I wasn’t a member of FR back then.
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There are many sites that carry this most famous of the 9/11 memorials, the Steve Golding memorial. After so many years some do not work. If neither site works, look up 'America attacked 9/11." It is well worth your time. It should be required viewing for every American. Be prepared for a good cry, though.
The second site carries a 'message' and a description of 'that day' in his own words from the creator of the website, Steve Golding, and reference to the Pentagon attack. Be sure to see them. Very powerful.
Steve, may God rest his soul, has since died from an injury sustained on 9/11. God bless you, Steve- and thank you for leaving us this wonderful and moving memorial to the heroes of 9/11.
Read Steve's message to Americans and the 9/11 attackers here
And read Steve's account in his own words of 'That Day' here
Dear God
Bless the innocent Americans who lost their lives on 9/11 and all the departed veterans who gave their lives in the service of their country. Grant that through the passion, death, and resurrection of Your Son that they may share in the joy of Your heavenly kingdom forever.
We humbly ask Your protection for all our men and women in military service. Give them unflinching courage to defend with honor, dignity, and devotion the rights of all who are imperiled by injustice and evil.
Thank You for our veterans, for their willingness to risk all so that our nation might dwell in peace and safety. May they find the honor and recognition they truly deserve.
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Thank you. It’s sad that so many of our younger generation were either not yet born or are too young to remember. And they won’t learn about it in school, except maybe that 9/11 is our fault.
One thread, post-9/11, that I particularly remember was some guy whining because his mean old boss was making him fly for business reasons. He sounded pathetic while most Americans were getting on with their lives, and other Americans were preparing to go to war for us. I think he was eventually shamed off of the forum.
I heard the news about a plane hitting “the north tower” on the radio while on the way to work, but I thought they were referencing the antenna on top of the building, not the building itself.
Anyway, my leftist coworkers were laughing and goofing while watching it on the big TV at work. That made me angry, and it hardened my heart against leftists.
I immediately called my dad and we went to donate blood, but the line to donate was out the door!
Anyway, those events and the way leftists reacted to those events was a major motivator for me to move from California to Texas. I am glad I did, as I am among “my people” now, and life is a lot simpler, with less day-to-day hostility.
Thus, 9/11 is the reason my daughter will be raised a Texan, away from the moral filth that is the San Francisco Bay Area. Oh yeah, I also married a Texas woman. That's a bonus too.
Saving BUMP.
Thanks for posting this (((ping)))
So we went and had a good time. But it was eerie. Vegas is usually wall-to-wall tourists, but at that time, there were a lot fewer people on the Strip. Our hotel, stung by so many cancellations, upgraded our room at no additional charge. We had booked just a basic room. We ended up in a spa suite.
Still makes me boil thinking of what those goat-humping pedophile worshipers did.
I was having my coffee , had FNC on , and FReeping , when the first plane hit . When the second plane hit we began recording the coverage . We recorded most of the day until we ran out of tapes .
I was 13 years old and in 8th Grade, since this was before the Era of ubiquitous Cell Phones and Media, both on Students and in the class rooms. I had to wait until 5th Hour History Class around 10:30 Central Time before I got to see what Rumors I had been hearing about all day.
At First I heard a Plane had crashed, Then a Plan had Crashed into a Building, then it was the World Trade Center and it had "Caved In".
So Imagine my Shock when I watched them fall.
I was worried they would come to my school since we have a War Memorial Adjacent to Rosedale.
I was also worried about my Father that afternoon when he went to work since he worked a power plant (I would attack the power stations if I were a terrorist)
I also remember that afternoon, being puzzled in Orchestra class why we were not playing our Pro-American Music we had been practicing.
Never forget!
I was at work for the FAA when all this happened. We had a new guy a Marine and it was his second day at work. He asked where he could get a cup of coffee to I took him upstairs to the cafeteria. I was over at a table talking when the the second tower was hit. An Air Traffic Controller walked away greatly disturbed saying to himself how could he hit the tower with 15 mile visibility? It was a long strained day to follow and dragged on for months.
I was at work. Right across the water from the airport in Boston where the planes took off. Then I watched as plane after plane landed at the airport, and none would take off again for a week.
Thanks for the ping to this great thread, dear KC.
I had just dropped my kids off at school. Came in to the house and saw the news.
Called hubby, crying, got back in the car and went back to the school. Many of the other parents were there, too. We just wanted to have our kids in our arms...to hold them tight.
I was in Texas with my husband and two little kids. He lost his job in July and we had just returned from Wisconsin the night before from a job interview (he wound up taking that job). We sat on the floor in front of the TV all day while our daughter took her first steps. She had all day to practice between the two of us and learned to walk that day. Bittersweet.
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