No 9/11 thread?

[henpecked]

Didn't see one so here it is for 2020

The pictures from that day bring back a lot of memories. RIP to all those that died and prayers to the ones left behind.

[buffalobo]

We will never forget. Many heroes rose that day.

[Bailey Guns]

Watched a bunch of old footage and coverage from that day on YouTube. Still saddens me.

[.455_Hunter]

I can still provide an hour by hour account of what I did on that day from the moment my E7 came running-up the motor pool stairs yelling "Sir! Sir! Turn on the radio!".

[FoxtArt]

The audio recordings from radio traffic, phone calls etc. are what always get me.

[roberth]

I watched a video about an FD rookie.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/NuKqKJaO5GeQ/

[hollohas]

Technically this was Oct 30, 2001, but it reminds me of how we were one, solid, united nation standing as one after 9/11. That tragedy 19 years ago brought us together. Chants of USA everywhere. Flags sold out.

I miss that.

Bush throwing the opening pitch at Yankee stadium.

https://youtu.be/bxR1tZ08FcI

[Irving]

There is an off-road club having a pretty decent sized cruise down the Las Vegas strip.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Technically this was Oct 30, 2001, but it reminds me of how we were one, solid, united nation standing as one after 9/11.

Except we weren't one solid united nation. The vast majority of us were united but we still had Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry and company all trying to do whatever they could to undermine Bush. They just knew doing it openly immediately after the attack would have been political suicide but there was a reason Hillary loudly defended herself against charges of being unpatriotic before anyone ever accused her of it. The political class was very annoyed that Bush beat Gore even when they did their level best to manufacture votes in Florida.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Watched a bunch of old footage and coverage from that day on YouTube. Still saddens me.

I did the same thing last night, and our results are identical. I would add still pissed off to it though.

[roberth]

Another article from a New Yorker, very well written in my estimation.

http://americandigest.org/the-wind-in-the-heights/#more-2808


AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY I lived in Brooklyn Heights in, of course, Brooklyn. The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge on May 24 of 1883 transformed the high bluff just to the south of the bridge into America’s first suburb. It became possible for affluent businessmen from the tip of Manhattan which lay just over the East River to commute across the bridge easily and build their stately mansions and townhouses high above the slapdash docks below. Growth and change would wash around the Heights in the 117 years that followed, but secure on their bluff, on their high ground, the Heights would remain a repository old and new money, power, and some of the finest examples of 19th and early 20th-century homes found in New York City.

[roberth]

Last Light: The Twin Towers on the evening of September 10, 2001.

http://americandigest.org/last-light-the-twin-towers-on-the-evening-of-september-10-2001/

http://americandigest.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/alastlighttowers.jpg

[TRnCO]

I watched some of the footage of the event yesterday. Really brought back all the same feelings I had at the time.

[flogger]

It's hard to imagine it was 19 years ago.

[Martinjmpr]

I don't know that anything more can be said that hasn't been said over the past 19 years.

Certainly it changed the trajectory of my life. I was a 2nd year law student at the University of Wyoming when the attacks happened.

A little over a year later I was in Afghanistan and a year after that I was in Kuwait.

[Great-Kazoo]

They used my Flag of Honor for the local 9/11 ceremony.
Local guy / CA transplant decided to clean up the area around it. Is not selling "bricks" you can buy with what ever inscription you'd like to place around the area, as a walkway.

https://i.imgur.com/JIm1yCll.jpg


This is a section of one of the beams from the towers

https://i.imgur.com/45t6pqwl.jpg