Here is the reflecting pool that has the names of the victims engraved on the wall surrounding it.
Posted on 09/11/2001 5:52:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
21-year bump.
Over a five-hour gap between posts 208 and 209 in this thread, 9/11/02.
After what happened last year in Afghanistan, this thread just hurts.
Visited the site for the first time today. Overwhelming. Brought back, with vivid clarity, one of the worst days of my 73 years. I’ll post a pic soon.
I was encouraged by the bunches of young folks I saw at the museum, most who weren’t even born when it all took place.
Thank you for the note, and it is encouraging if young people are actually curious about this tragedy. We cannot forget.
Here is the reflecting pool that has the names of the victims engraved on the wall surrounding it.
Never forget.
Never forget.
Never forget…
All evidence suggests we have forgotten. Open borders, defund police, decriminalizing crime, corrupt FBI/DOJ/CIA, cultural rot, woke military, USD devaluation, marxist indoctrination in government schools, and on and on...
Never forget
Bump. Never forget!
Thank you for bumping this. I am crossposting as much as possible, in remembrance.
Today is 9/11/23 - Patriot’s Day. Never forget. On this day, in 2001, our world changed forever. For me, I came to this realization watching television news, as the second plane hit the tower.
My husband and I had taken time off from work that week to finish up some construction of our new house. I was the first one up, and listened to the news as I cared for our two year old daughter. Hearing about the plane hitting the first tower, I prayed for the victims, but assumed that it was some kind of accident. I began watching the screen, and saw the second tower hit. I woke my family, and said, “This means war.”
Like most Americans who were adults on 9/11, all these years later, I still see the sights and hear the sounds recorded as if it happened yesterday. Free Republic recorded real time personal reports, as a remembrance: https://freerepublic.com/focus/fr/620413/posts
Please continue to pray for America. What do you remember about 9/11?
We were on vacation and our 20th anniversary at a great Oregon Coastal hotel.
For some reason, the next morning, I was awake and watching tv with mute on.
I couldn’t believe the first plane slamming into the tower.
My wife woke up to see the second plane crash.
We decided to cancel our reservations there and back down the Oregon coast for the next 2+ weeks.
My wife called the desk to tell them we were checking out and that I was getting our Bronco gassed up.
The manager said no problem, and they would give us a basket for breakfast/brunch.
As I was checking out there were some librarians from Canada basically cheering what happened. With some help from other Americans and the management, they shut up and went back to their meeting room.
As we were loading our vehicle for the return trip, a couple from Portland were heading to the tennis courts as if nothing happened.
Our cellphones didn’t work and basically the radio stations down the coast were worthless.
We stopped at a MO’s for lunch and watched the TV news, stunned. Our family was scattered safely over Oregon, SF Bay Area and one son hunting for deer. Our phones were still worthless.
Later we pulled into the Rogue
River lodge where we had ressies for a week, the following week. We cancelled those ressies, and their desk people got us ressies at Brookings for at least one night.
We had just checked in at Brookings after seeing near fights over gas, a limit of 5 gallon per vehicle. When 3 black suvs pulled up with guys and gals in suits. The head guy and I looked at each other, and he said “No Such 5 years ago”. I said yes.
He advised that we spend the night there, and he would leave a message with us re staying or driving on home.
We had dinner at the Pizza place which was about the only open food place. Two groups were bravely celebrating 2 birthday parties. The pizza place gave us pizzas for breakfast and lunch the next day.
My New Such buddy and his crews had left to go to airports in Oregon and Washington.
He told the night clerk to tell us to head home the next morning if we hadn’t heard from him.
We left the next morning with our cold pizza and nothing from our new friend.
Basically there was minimal if any traffic for the next 400 miles. All of our family members and friends were safe and scared and mad.
Good point. We shouldn't have passed the Patriot Act. Even though George W. Bush was a "good guy". His successors are not.
Good guy my butt
It’s interesting to read the posts from that day. So much speculation. So many wrong “facts”.
Indeed. Which one did you notice the most?
Early on it was the size of the plane.
So many said small prop plane. I saw that gap in the North tower and knew it was much bigger.
I also noticed the gap in the thread from 9/11/01 to almost Jan 2012. No discussion of the towers crumbling down.
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