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9/11
I have posted this in the past on this terrible day in thr past.
What were you doing on 9/11/01
RIP to those that lost their lives during the terrorist attack and to those that have been lost defending this country.
God bless the United States of America!!
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
-John Adams, 1775
Cstone 01/01/2015
"I believe that we are all one mistake away from tragedy...and the mistake made may not be ours."
Hard to believe its been 14 years. I was driving into work when the first plane hit and pulled into the parking lot when the 2nd hit. Knew then that something more epic was taking place.
Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to Fight, he'll just kill you.
I lived approximately 11 miles from Ground Zero at the time. My grandma was visiting and woke me up to tell me that a plane had hit. I watched the towers fall from my buddy Jeff's rooftop. Jeff lived on a hill.
Two days prior, on Sunday evening, I had just done my first ever shift as an EMT. When our squad sent in trucks, I ran down to HQ, but they laughed (in a nice way of course) and told me that noobs aren't allowed. I wound up staying at the building for 3 days covering shifts so other guys could go to the Javits Center for rehab operations. I helped clean the trucks as they would come back. I remember being pretty resentful at the time, but I was a punk kid. Now I know better. Glad I don't have lung cancer.
Whole thing was (and still is) surreal.
Three wars. Patriot Act. CISA/CISPA. TSA.
Doing? The same thing we do today NEVER FORGET. With so many friends & family personally involved. It's something we don't take lightly.Originally Posted by 02ducky
Remember..........................
PATRIOTISM IS MORE THAN JUST A BUMPER STICKER.
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"when you're happy you enjoy the melody but, when you're broken you understand the lyrics".
Celebrating my 11 year old's birthday before going back to work.
September 11th will never be a terrible day for me.
Bad things happen on most days to somebody. Remember those we have lost and do what we can to keep bad things from happening to good people.
Be safe.
I will always remember where I was. it was kind of surreal. Driving down Arapahoe going to a ford dealership for a service appointment. Get to the bay and nobody is here.... bunch of cars idling in the bay with the door open, coffee mug still on the desks with hot coffee and nobody in sight. I can hear some people talking in the customer lungee, so I make my way there and I see maybe 50 people standing, some of them visibly in shock looking above the entrance, watching on 2 large (for the time) flat screen the direct of the first tower burning.... Everybody was there: Customer, service folks, mechanics.... Then the second plane hit. I took off, trying to call my wife who was driving my old beater car with no radio, asking her.... I went to work, Citibank at the time, and because the head office in NY was evacuated they told us to leave for at least the day.... The kid school called and told me to come and pick up the little one.... It was pretty bad. A couple of weeks before I remember discussing how easy it was to get inside DIA’s concourse without passing any security, compared to how it was in other country…
"The French soldiers are grand. They are grand. There is no other word to express it."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, A visit to three fronts (1916)
My older son and I watched the second plane hit in disbelief. The events that day as a high school senior sent him on his military path which continues to this day. I can honestly say I don't have a single close friend that wasn't directly impacted.
Never Forget.
Eating breakfast in the cafeteria on Schriever AFB watching the second plane hit live on CNN.
I remember hearing the broadcaster stating that there may be something wrong with their navigation instruments.
Later watched them fall on the big screen in a conference room.
Got sent home for two weeks.
They actually brought in metal detectors to the portals afterward. If you know about Schriever, you understand how ridiculous this was.
Every morning, we'd wait in a line stretched across the parking lot for our turn to have our bags searched and a pass through the detector.
Not seeing/hearing any planes in the sky for a while afterward was strange to me.
Last edited by davsel; 09-11-2015 at 10:10.
My mom turns 85 today. She has been sad since 2001, saying now everybody will remember my birthday for something terrible.
Cstone, make sure you let your son know he will always have to deal with that on his birthday as he gets older. Just don't let his birthday become a sad event for him, he may have a hard time understanding why adults seem to not be happy around him.
Tell him happy birthday for me.
Life's hard when you're stupid
When the government came to take our guns, they knocked on the door. After our guns were gone, they never bothered knocking again - Holocaust Survivor
Thanks.
Other than 2001, we have always gone out of our way to celebrate his birthday. He is my oldest and the day of his birth was the proudest and happiest day of my life. He knows it because I remind him of it.
Let the dead mourn the dead. Life is for living.
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