WORLD TRADE CENTER COLLAPSES!!!!

[Paul L. Hepperla]

Holy Shit! God Help US.

[JohnHuang2]

Re: #80 -- Amen, my friend. Well said.

[DM1]

Some of us will never forget that tragedy
this war is just
this war will be won assuming the enemy from within (aka the liberals) don't destroy us first.

[McLynnan]

I've told The Dose regulars before that at least once a week I go to my WTC folder and scroll through the horrific pictures of that day. It may be perverse, but I like to keep my anger stoked. The pictures of WTC workers hanging out the windows enrage me. I can't imagine their desperation and horror and that final free fall. Evil is alive and well and our worst mistake would be to become complacent as time goes by without another terrorist attack. Thank God we have a President who understands this.

[hellinahandcart]

I remember choking it down, pissed.

Lucky you. I still have no real-time recollection at all of anything that happened during the two hours after the first tower fell and the entire area disappeared under that cloud.

I guess there's an area of my brain that's been roped off and has a "Do Not Enter" sign on it. I wonder if I will ever remember it.

[Alouette]

I gave my daughter $20 to buy her high school yearbook. You know how these schools go all out with their yearbooks with the leather bindings, padded covers, gilt edge pages, etc.

She brought home a stapled-together little folder of xeroxed pages. On the first page it said:

Our memories of high school will never be as vivid as our memories of 9-11. Therefore we have taken the money we collected for the yearbook and send it to Hatzolah (a volunteer EMS service that was on the scene at the WTC)

[katnip]

Your awesome live coverage of what was happening that morning saved my sanity I think.

I was driving over the Throgs Neck Bridge on my way to work when the second plane hit. I could see the smoke. I almost crashed my car.

I had to continue on to work in Scarsdale as I couldn't turn around and go home. They had closed the bridges so quickly.

I logged on to Free Republic as soon as I got to my office. Most of our phone lines were down and FR was my link to what was going on.

I hung on every post you wrote.

Thanks.

[CasearianDaoist]

Me too! I worked in midtown and my only real source of information was FR. I remember reading these very posts.

[katnip]

You were surely in the midst of hell being in mid-town that morning.

Thank God you were not harmed and got safely home :-)

[hellinahandcart]

Thanks, but I didn't hold it together for too long, as evidenced by my little memory lapse beginning around 10:15 that day. I also had to get off the computer and call relatives and friends out of state well before that time. Other people kept the thread going.

I do remember trying to get back to FR later in the day and it was moving like a crippled snail because of the sheer number of people on board. Thank God it stayed up, though, I think I would have flipped out altogether if it had gone down for any length of time.

[KSCITYBOY]

It is amazing to think back on that day - Now I watch people fret over the markets and the democrats trying to make political hay over Enron/Worldcom... Which is really just a hill of beans compared to 911. I remember W with the megaphone standing with the firefighters at ground zero and throwing out the first pitch at Yankee stadium. I was very proud of him. I remember the liberals worried about how we were treating the terrorists held in Cuba. It made me sick. They did a quick about face on that issue once they realized that 99% of the American public didn't want to hear about the "poor terrorists". I remember peter jennings on 911 and have not watched him since. September 11, 2001 was a terrible day - a huge day - and so when I see the media play up the market downturn or Enron I just see it all as such petty crap. The media should be doing stories about our servicemen and women that are quitely doing their job, but I guess that would be too much to ask of such petty people. Really to me it boils down to; America is our country and anyone who attacks it can go to
hell. May bin laden, those in hamas, the palestinians and others who attack America suffer the worst of deaths a thousand times over.

[Brad’s Gramma]

A ping to ya....post #90.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Whoops.

[Richard Kimball]

I was just thinking last week how wonderful it was that we had all forgotten about the WTC and terrorist attacks and could get back to important things like declaring the Pledge of Allegience unconstitutional.

[jjm2111]

with tears, bump.

[McGavin999]

It's amazing. My anger hasn't left me, I'm not "moving on", I have no intention of losing my focus, I don't plan on forgetting, I still want these guys dead. All of them.

No scandal, no economic hardship, nothing will make me lose my focus. It's not the economy stupid!, It's the terrorists.

[geege]

Nuke e'm all.....I feel the same way.....I refuse to drive over the GWB because I can't look at the skyline....I think we're alittle too "pansy" about this.....not enough rage!!!!!!!!!!!

[hellinahandcart]

Bump.

I had other plans for today, but after seeing this thread earlier I watched the "9/11" documentary again and then reread the sermon our rector gave on 9/16.

I'm not about to forget.

[hellinahandcart]

Don't ever drive down the West Side highway the; it's like getting kicked repeatedly in the stomach.

[KSCITYBOY]

I agree there isn't enough anger. I was just thinking that on September 11, 2002 here in KC they will probably have a few "candle light ceremonies" where liberals bleat on about how we must respect other cultures etc... Why couldn't we have a patriots rally where Americans stand up and say any attack against America will not stand! I guess it wouldn't be PC enough - I'm sure the mayor of KC would be scared to death to attend such a rally and the Dem wuss governor of MO doesn't have the guts to stand up for America. Still there are one hell of alot of Americans out there who are fighting mad and support our military.

[geege]

You must mean the potholes as well as the view......when I was a kid visiting grandmother my dad's toyota dodged holes all over the place....