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Karlynn

On the 5th anniversary of the attack on America, we remember those who lost their lives, those who lost loved ones, those who gave their lives in defense of our country and those who continue to protect our nation. May God bless the United States of America and all those who struggle to live free.
 
I'm with you Karlynn -

I'm with you Karlynn -

thanks for posting this.

Tomorrow, Wayne and I are putting our American flag out and keeping our car lights on during the morning hours to help honor the fallen of 9/11.

I cannot believe it has been FIVE years!!

Christina L
 
I wrote the following the night of 9/11 when I, like the rest of the country could not sleep. It still expresses how I feel 5 years later and I guess it always will. Remembering is so very important because the crazies are still out there waiting for their opportunity to repeat this tragedy. God bless the USA.

9-11-01 I thought I knew reality

I thought I knew reality
until today
I thought the world made sense
until today
I thought I knew compassion
until today

Reality has slipped away
today
Gone with the thousands
today
How do we even feel?
today

I watched the TV all day
today
It seemed like a movie
today
With great special effects
today

I cannot comprehend reality
tonight
My dreams are of horror
tonight
I wake up crying
tonight

How do we continue?
tomorrow
With so many gone
tomorrow
Will this insanity make sense?
tomorrow

Let's put aside hate
tomorrow
It's too much to ask
today
But we can't let them win
tomorrow

We are a nation of love
always
The world looks to us
always
We must pull together
always

I thought I knew reality until
today
My world was crushed
today
I will allow myself to grieve
today

I still cry for all the people
today
But I look for a means of peace
tomorrow
And I hold onto love
tonight

By geebee

© 2001 geebee (All rights reserved)
 
That's beautiful, Geebee! Says it all. I'll never forget that day when a co-worker came into my classroom from his planning and broke the news. How it took forever for the reality of it all to settle ...if it ever really has. How my little special ed kids just knew 'we' were next....at the middle school...in Hurricane, WV of all places! Trying to comfort them not really understanding it at all myself. Our reality was forever changed in such a few, short moments. Amazing it has already been 5 years. Has anyone seen any of the movies that have come out recently about 9-11?
 
Thanks for posting Karlynn and thanks for sharing Gina. God Bless all the survivors and our great country.
 
I remember the first day I went to work in the towers. As a native New Yorker I would see the buildings each day as I went to work. The first time I actually went to work there it was with a feeling of awe and a bit of trepidation. I will always remember the towers and more importantly I will always remember the people who lost their lives that day. Not just those from the towers but all of them and our soldiers as well. My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those we lost.

My flag flies proudly on this day as we remember.
 
The strangest thing that happened to me on 9/11 was one I still don't quite comprehend. I woke up, from a sound sleep, at precisely 5:45AM (I was living in Los Angeles at the time) with a crushing pain in my chest. I got up and starting walking around to determine if I was going to call 911 (no pun intended). Almost immediately the pain started to subside and, within a few seconds, was gone completely.

I had just returned to bed when the phone rang. It was my SO (Chris was in Ohio taking care of our home here) telling me to turn on the TV. We stayed on the phone and were watching together when the second plane hit.
Part of me believes that somehow, 3000 miles away, I felt the energy of that first impact into the WTC. Maybe it was just coincidence but I am sure there was a huge disruption in the "force" that day and that I felt it somehow. Maybe I just had a bad dream (I know the rest of the day seemed like a bad dream).

I do believe everything and everyone is connected and we all suffer when even one person suffers. I spent the rest of the day watching TV and writing poems. It is the one way I was able to keep my sanity somewhat intact.

I wish everyone peace on this anniversary of 9/11.
 
Weird Feeling

Weird Feeling

Watching the end of tonights ABC series "Path to 9/11", they asked the audience if they remembered where they were at when they first hear about 9/11. Then they showed shots of people pointing to where they were when they first heard- at a bus stop, a subway station, an bakeshop, etc. It sent a chill down my back, when I realized I was sitting in the same chair, watching the same tv as I was on 9/11. I was watching Bob Gaines doing the pre-market business news on CNBC when he said "we have breaking news that something is going on in across the river- we think a small plane has crashed over there"

The markets never opened that day, but I sat stunned in front of the tv
for the rest of the day.:(
 
Thank you for this post

Thank you for this post

And for the beautiful poem. God bless all of the victims and families. My heart just hurts for them today!

Just a thought...
I watched a documentary on 9/11 the other day. The show concluded with the father of a firefighter that died in the twin towers. He said, people are always asking "what can I do?" He replied by asking, "how many of you have called/written your representatives and asked them to implement the changes outlined in the 9/11 Commission Report?" Of course, no one had done it.
My point is - we are all responsible to help fix the problems, prevent another attack. It is easy to become complacent when it isn't on the news every night (myself included). I think a wonderful way to honor these people is to become more actively involved citizens - voting, calling, writing, educating, preventing, etc.

God Bless!
 
Steve and I were in Toronto, Canada on 9/11. It was a business/pleasure meeting and we had already been there for several days. I was awake and watching the Today program while Steve was at a meeting. I remember Matt Lauer was interviewing someone and then all of a sudden they stopped him and switched to the World Trade Center and the smoke coming from the building. They showed some footage of a plane hitting it, but the plane looked like a small private plane, and they were reporting that the small plane must have gotten in trouble and just happened to crash into the building. Little did we know...As the morning went on and we learned more, the Americans in the hotel gathered in a large room and together we watched the TV and cried. The hotel staff brought in food and were very sensitive to our feelings. Steve and I wanted to get back home (the U.S.) as soon as possible. Of course, for the next three days we kept trying to get a flight home (all flights had been cancelled for a while), but we finally were able to rent a car in Canada (with a lot of begging and bargaining) and drove home to Atlanta. We sat in a long line to cross the border into New York, but I still remember just how relieved and happy I was to be back on U.S. soil. LINDA
 
joey and i will never forget 9/11/01. we arrived downtown nyc for pre-op (joey's surgery was scheduled for 9/12) and upon parking in the garage, the attendant told us that a plane had just hit the tower. as we walked out of the garage and into the street, joey looked up at the clear blue sky and said "this was no accident, i bet it's terrorism". by the time we got up to dr. stelzers office, the second plane hit as we entered the door. we could all see it happening through this huge bay window in the office. he had a beautiful view of downtown and the towers, only now they were both aflame.

we tried pre-op, but with all the commotion decided to postpone the surgery a week. we stayed watching the buildings (we were in and out of the examining room each time we heard screams in the office).

my brother works on wall street and i was concerned that he might be in trouble. we called him and he told us that looking out his office window he could see people jumping out of the towers. he will never forget how upsetting that was.

the roads were all closed and joey and i had to walk around nyc. he had had a cath 2 days before. he was in afib and taking lovenox and his incision at the groin had bled the day before. joey was uncomfortable and i was worried about him. we searched pubs, diners, etc for a place to eat and sit.
we finally came upon a bar that was overcrowded. a group of women moved over and invited us to sit with them. that is how new york was that day. everyone pulling together.

our kids were hysterical since they knew we'd be downtown and had no idea how close we'd be to the towers. by the time we contacted them, they were at school, crying along with other students (some of whom lost parents that day).

by 6 pm we managed to get our car out to the upper east side to joey;s sister's apt. where we made all our calls to let everyone know we were ok and that surgery was postponed.

we finally walked in the door at about 8:30-9 pm. i couldn't hold back the tears. it was a surreal day and i was so glad to be with joey and the girls, safe and home.

joey and i just saw "world trade center" on friday night and were both very touched by the movie. it's a day that i don't think any of us will ever forget.
such a sad sad day in our lives.

we are so lucky to be alive.
be well all,
sylvia
 
Thank you, Randy, that was heartwarming and heartbreaking. As it states, we must remember that freedom isn't free (BTW I have a "ribbon magnet" on my car that reads the same).
 
What a difference 5 years makes, eh? Heh ... my goodness ... can hardly believe it HAS been 5 years. But, it has. And, our world did change that day.

I remember where I was ... and how that day unfolded. Yet, in some ways, a bit more interesting to me is how other events fall into that time sequence, including all that has happened in the 5 years since.

Several examples have been running through my mind all day long, but one that stands out in my mind, particular since Grandparents Day was Sunday, 09/10/2006, is:

Six days before 09/11/2001, we had moved my grandparents from their Elgin home in which they had lived since early summer 1983 to an assisted living facility 1.25 hours west in Mt Morris IL. Now, 5 years later, they are both gone ... and in between their deaths (Gram in October 2002, Gramps in December 2005), I had my 3rd open heart surgery (January 2003).


Time is elusive and surprising ... and loves to play mind tricks on us.



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"Driving down some cold interstate" ... Alan Jackson ... 'Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning?'
 
Sylvia, your family had be be going crazy waiting to hear from you! Your story will be a family legend, I'm sure.
 
I think everyone will always remember what they were doing when they heard of the events of 9/11.

For me, I was on my second flight of the day. I started in Pinehurst, changed planes in Charlotte and had a scheduled stop but no Plane change in Pittsburgh enroute to Grand Rapids, Mi. I was traveling alone to help my sisters with a yard sale of items for which my mom no longer had need.

We came down pretty fast into Pittsburgh and when I didn't leave my seat the Captain came back and told me I would have to leave also since the flight would not be continuing since there was terrorist activity in the area and all planes had been grounded. I left the plane and went to the nearest TV I could find and started to digest some of what I was hearing. That is when the news came that the Pentagon had also been hit. I headed for a customer service desk to find some more information and no sooner was I there than a security officer tapped me on the shoulder and said everyone had to leave because the airport was being evacuated. I had no idea where to go and decided I needed to find a place to stay and went to the hotel adjoining the airport. While in line the first tower fell. There were few rooms available and the desk clerk asked me if I was willing to share my room. I said yes if there was a woman traveling alone or a woman with small children but no smoking. Well, someone in line filled the bill and we shared the room. We had no luggage and both of our cell phones quit working as well as cell phones of other people around us. We were told that the Pittsburg airport was a possible target. By then we all knew about the missing flight 93.

My husband drove up the next evening and picked me up to get me back home. I was so glad to see him. My room mate kept the room since she didn't have a way home as yet. People did come together and strangers didn't seem like strangers somehow.

I ran across my plane ticket not long ago and it caused me to pause and reflect on all those who had lost their lives and how it was a day that changed America.
 
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