The girls went to a Yankees game, but I felt utterly compelled to stay and wander in lower Manhattan.
That smell was still in the air, and the dust of everything and everyone incinerated on that day of evil still clung to surfaces everywhere.
I was in Brooklyn, near Park Slope, visiting a Baptist Church. I can remember that horrible smell also. My other strong memory is the silence on the streets. No one was honking their car horns or playing loud music, everything was quiet as people listened to their radios for news.
You won’t beat it by calling it ‘Radical Islam’. Islam is the problem. Period.
Excellent post.
ISLAM is from the devil, period.
Thank-you for the excellent posting.
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I will never forget seeing those fleeing uptown from lower Manhattan
I will never forget the blood, tears, and dust smeared across their faces
I will never forget the silence a crowd of thousands can make when seeing fellow New Yorker’s die
I will never forget seeing the FDNY and NYPD rush to their deaths
I will never forget my first train back into Manhattan - viewing a black cloud over where the towers once stood
I will never forget the prayers and sobs as we all looked out the windows as we passed
I will never forget the smell that lingered in the streets for weeks thereafter
I walked from the U.S. Courthouse in lower Manhattan to my childhood home in Borough Park Brooklyn. Many Orthodox and Hassidic Jews live there now. As I waited on my old stoop for my sister and brother to get home our Jewish neighbor said, “it smells like Auschwitz”. She new the smell of incinerated flesh as she was a concentration camp survivor.
Just by sheer chance I happened to be working alongside the mortuary operations on the Pentagon victims and was asked to help with the IT portion. My remembrance of 911 will always be associated with the smell of burnt flesh, hundreds of burned body parts, and the row after row of personal effects taken from the victims to be identified and returned to their families.
Never forget, because the left/media has already changed it to “a few planes were out for a ride one day when suddenly buildings got in their way and they crashed. It had nothing to do with *slam.”
“I inhaled the air, expecting the crisp, fresh smell of a New York September morning, a scent that I loved so much. “
That’s her idea of a scent to love? More like a stench.
“The Falling Man” documents an aspect of the horrors of 9-11 hidden from the public by the media. I watch this documentary every September 11 and I remember and I cry - not as much as I did 9/11/2001, but the tears are still fresh. I have not forgotten, nor will I ever.
9 11 The Falling Man 2006 Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emYQEkc71iE
We went from: “I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” to where just about every one of our rights and freedoms all but taken away one by one, every single year since then.
Not to mention the trillions down the drain and the multitudes of American men who have been killed or maimed in the Middle East, and continues to this day.
Meanwhile, “radical” Islam, as the author calls it, is still alive and well.
Many ‘tributes’ this week will omit that it is also the anniversary of tge Benghazi terrorist attack on our embassy.
Democrats and the media lied about it for months to see tgat Barack Obama was safely re-elected.
What difference does it make at this time, anyhow? - sec. of hate Hillary Rotten Clinton
Recall that Barack Obama boasted of the lossless regime change on Libya. His third way.
In the days following we cam together as AMERICANS. Ever since the Left has attacked our unity.
We forgot a long time ago.
On 911 Day we are supposed to remember to do one good deed.
Really now.