Vanity - September 11 - in our memories, in our hearts

Smithsonian Institute ^ | The Center for History and New Media/American Social History Project

[Alkhin]

Help the Smithsonian commemorate the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks by sharing your September 11 experience. Submissions will be permanently archived in the September 11 Digital Archive and will be made available online on September 11, 2002, when the exhibition "September 11: Bearing Witness to History" opens at the National Museum of American History, Behring Center.

[Alkhin]

I have no idea if this has been posted before...but I ran across it while searching for sites on September 11 and thought it would be a good thing, since there was so much CRAP coming from the NEA about it. I keep thinking how on that moment I saw the second plane hit, how THAT moment changed EVERYTHING...not just for me, but for everyone. And how it was such a palpable feeling that I could feel it when I went outside my house and saw the rest of the community.

It is a moment in my life I will never forget.

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[Dog]

Television coverage from the morning of September 11,2001 as it unfolded LIVE...

LIVE TV from Sept. 11th.....

[Alkhin]

Thank you, Dog. I am trying to spread the word about this...this in light of the fact that I am angry and determined not to let the NEA muddy the waters about September 11. I think it would be great if the 800 could swell to 8,000 and we could all spit in the NEA's face and say, 'if you want a history, this is where we will direct our children!'

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PASS IT AROUND....

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Also, a tribute made by someone who knows the REAL event...it was NOT a tragedy...it was NOT a bad day...IT WAS AN ATTACK. It takes about 30 minutes to load...but it is honest...it is graphic...it is the truth.

America Attacked 9 11

Creator's Statement

[HairOfTheDog]

That piece still brings me to tears. Good.

Thanks for sharing... And the file on that page is 7 megs.. took only a minute or two for me to load it. Well worth a wait though...

[Alkhin]

So all of this has been posted before??

[HairOfTheDog]

I know I have seen the piece you posted at 10 before, either here or recommended by a friend. That is OK, it is a great piece we should watch over and over again.

[Alkhin]

BTW...I couldn't finish listening to it...I was okay until they started playing the radio traffic...it hurt too much.

And it makes me want to find a terrorist somewhere and violate him in every concievable way with a huge hunk of raw rancid and maggotty pork.

[HairOfTheDog]

The answering machine message from the woman in the tower kills me.

How do we prevent it? - How do we kill the desire to do these things? We can never catch them all if the desire is still out there breeding.

I have to say I am still favoring killing every last terrorist and sympathizer, but we do seem to create two new ones for every one we kill, and the country is already back to its old squabbling. I shake my head.

[js1138]

I don't have anything earth-shaking to contribute, but my son was walking to work that morning (he worked a few blocks from the WTC). He called home -- Florida -- to find out what was going on, since he couldn't see anything from street level.

By pure chance the conversation was captured by the answering machine.

[Alkhin]

I don't believe we can *prevent* it...at least, we cannot stop the rise of terrorists. Hell, *we* were considered terrorists at one time, on New World soil. I think what we can do is prepare...and respond with as much purpose as the terrorists. If they are going to pick a fight, they'd better be prepared to finish it. I rather like what Mark Steyn has to say about it...that the best reason for us to go to war with the Middle East (and it *will* be the MIDDLE EAST) is to bring those a**holes to the 21st century.

I am often torn between admiration/confidence in our present President and his ability to lead us, and the seeming quiet there is on anything affirmative or proactive in putting the screws to the terrorists. It is even more disheartening when it seems no on in the domestic agenda has the cajones to set things straight. I dont think all immigrants are bad...I just wish it were a really TOUGH thing to become an American citizen. The %&%#@^%$^&% damn socialists have cheapened it so. I don't worry that our civil rights will be taken away, but I find it alarming that so many people are willing to give up their first ten amendments in the cause of 'safety.' As far as I remember, the First Ten were in full force the morning of Sept. 11...and none of us felt safe.

[HairOfTheDog]

Are you guys going to write something to submit? - I am thinking about it and I don't have anything near as personal as your story js... I am just another person watching it all on TV from the other side of the country. But I didn't go to Seattle as scheduled that day. I thought there might be more. I was afraid to be in the city. I was transfixed to the television. My Dad and I sat on the phone with each other watching and not saying anything, just didn't want to be alone.

[Alkhin]

I have already written mine...and it was not all that exciting either, but I figure this archive is a collection of what was going on for EVERYONE in the United States. It's like what they were saying "Everyone is a New Yorker" on September 11. Even if all I was doing was driving my daughter to school that morning...I can still remember what I was thinking...that that was the day I was NOT going to spend hours reading Lucianne and Free Republic...I was NOT going to waste my time scrolling through the internet. I was going to do some REAL time work...and how events that day completely shattered that plan. If I was addicted before that day, I was hopelessly gone by the afternoon.

and all my nightmares since then. So I don't think any of us who consider ourselves to love this country should think our story doesnt matter. I see it as all part of a HUGE mosaic that was falling into place that day.

[js1138]

My son sent us an email that covered 8 printed pages, detailing his fears and the confusion of the day. He lived a couple of blocks from the Empire State Building, and everyone thought it was a target. He left on foot that afternoon, and that evening the area was evacuated due to a bomb threat.