ITS BEEN 8 YEARS SINCE OUR WORLD CHANGED FOREVER
THIS IS OUR MOMENT OUR LIVES CHANGED FOREVER
DONT EVER FORGET WHERE YOU WERE WHEN THE NEWS BROKE
AND YOU SPENT A DAY IN FRONT OF YOUR TV
WATCHING YOUR COUNTRY AND FREEDOM COME UNDER ATTACK
REMEMBER THE PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT WERE JUST DOING THEIR JOB
REMEMBER THE HEROES THAT GAVE THEIR ALL SAVING THE REST
REMEMBER AND NEVER FORGET

Did not realize 9/11 was a Islander moment from the past :ph43r:

9/11/2001

I can remember having my breakfast then having my coffee watching TV.
My wife called me from work that a plane hit one of the towers.
I changed the channel to the news and sure enough one of the towers was on fire.
My first reaction was it must have been a small plane that flew into it.

Then like in a movie another plane out of the blue came into the frame of the picture
and flew into the other tower,
It was like I was dreaming.

Then one tower fell and you new the other would come down also.
Sure enough the 2nd tower came down.

It was horrible, I felt numb.
Continued to watch the TV, people calling to see if I was OK by phone and internet
Cause I do most of my work in Manhattan. fortunately not on 9/11/2001.

I remember going outside and everything was quiet.
My next door neighbor was outside and we both were just numb by what we saw.

I had stock that was scheduled to be picked up and had to travel on Hempstead turnpike to get it.
Heading east was no traffic
Heading west towards the city was wall to wall traffic.
Every few minutes Fire Engines, police cars came speeding by heading into NYC.

By the time I arrived at the printers to pick up my materials they were close due to the tragedy
As most places were by now, 11:30 - 12 noon.

Three times I was in the Twin Towers
Once for pleasure and twice for business.

The next year or two when I would go into Manhattan
Every time I would look up at the buildings all I saw was planes flying into them.

I'm still conscious of that horrible day every time I head into NYC.
:ph43r:

WE CAME BACK FROM DISNEY THAT SUNDAY
AND WAS STILL RECOVERING
MY DAD CALLED SAYING PUT ON THE TV A PLANE HIT THE WTC
WE ROLLED OVER AND SAW THE OTHER PLANE HIT
THOUGHT IT WAS A PIPER TILL WE SAW THE TAPES

THEN WE FOUND OUT ABOUT THE PENTAGON
AND THE FLIGHT 93
I WENT DOWNSTAIRS AND RAISED THE FLAG
I KNEW WE WERE UNDER ATTACK
WE JUST HELD EACH OTHER AND WATCHED IN SILENCE

WATCHING THE TOWERS LEAN THEN CRUMBLE
THINKING OF ALL THOSE LIVES LOST
DRIVING DOWN TO JONES BEACH AND SEEING THE PLUMES OF SMOKE
THEN LATER ON SEEING AN ACTUAL BATTLE SHIP PATROLLING THE COAST LINE
NOT HEARING A SINGLE PLANE IN THE SKY

ONLY IN NY BABY CAN A CITY PICK ITSELF UP
TRY TO HELP THE HELPLESS
THEN CONTINUE LIKE NOTHING EVER HAPPENED (ALMOST)
SAY WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT NEW YORKERS BUT WE HAVE BALLS

WE DROVE DOWN THERE TO SEE THE FRAMEWORK OF THE TOWERS STILL DEFIANTLY STANDING THERE
LOOKING AT ALL THE MEMORIALS OF THE MISSING
SEEING THE GLOBE THAT WAS IN THE MALL BASHED BUT STILL RECOGNIZABLE

YOU KNEW IT WAS YOUR PEARL HARBOR YOUR KENNEDY ASSINATION
YOU'LL ALWAYS REMEBER WHEN YOU FOUND OUT WHO YOU WERE WITH AND HOW IT CHANGED YOUR LIFE FOREVER

FOR MANY IT BECAME THE TIMESTAMP YOU BECAME AN AMERICAN

I worked across the street from Ground Zero. It wasn't my time to go that day. I saw it all with my own eyes and still can't believe it really happened. My God, imagine if the buildings fell sideways instead of straight down? Those a-holes wanted to take out the whole city, our whole economy, our government and our way of life.

For 3 months after I watched out my office window them haul the wreckage to SI and NJ. Heartbreaking. For weeks I smelled dead bodies and burning flesh and the stench is what remains with me. I thought the world was coming to an end. I found out what pure evil was that day and will never forget. Being home in the suburbs and seeing fighter planes patrol the metro area was surreal.

My office building was the first in lower manhattan below Canal to re-open after 9/11. We had soldiers patrolling the cafeteria and floors. Grief counselors and therapy. To this day, I freak out when a plane flies low. It was the worst day of my life.

NEVER FORGET. God Bless the victims and their families.

..........8 years not 9.


...and still no dead Bin Laden.

We have satellites that can find out what crumbs are on the floor from your dinner yet they can't find this scum? Why do they let this POS survive? There must be a reason.

THANKS FOR THE CORRECTION
TOUGH TYPING IN THE DARK
AND HAD TO FIX THE PICTURES
WHEN I CHECKED THEY RAN INTO THE NEXT ROOM
I FEEL SHAME

It was a terrible day for all of us. 19, that's some story, thanks for sharing that with us. I was at work watching on the internet and as soon as the second tower was hit I left work to be home with my family, not knowing what the extent was, what the capabilities of the attack were going to be, hell I didn't know what I was doing, what I was thinking, just that I needed to be home.

Once there I watched and watched and watched, riveted to the TV not believing the nightmare this country was going through. I remember being relieved when school let out early and the kids were home and we were whole as a family.

I also don't ever remember being as proud to be an American as that day and the days that followed. NYers are the toughest SOBs in the world, yet the most compassionate and giving of themselves in serious times of need, and I was also proud with the way we exhibited ourselves to the rest of the world on that day.

I got out at Penn Station, walked uptown towards rock center. Halfway up, I stopped at a crowd of people looking at the monitors at the NASDAQ marketsite in Times Square. No sooner had I stopped and saw one of the towers on fire than we all shrieked when that second plane hit.
People scrambled crying screaming. I rushed to get to my office calling people I knew who worked there.

My wife at home with my 2 year old called crying. I saw the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond
was in town to do the Today show and a taping for Rosie who rented space at 30 rock from abc for her talk show.
That bitch was the first to leave town immediately while her staff and guests scrambled only to have the audacity to make inane claims afterwards.
The cast from ELR was out on the street anxiously awaiting teir rides out f there while clueless tourists were trying to get autographs while others were collapsed on the street crying.

I got home late when the trains began running again only to help 3 LIRR subdue a woman
who was have a breakdown when her coworkers were stuck in tower 2. She went into detail about what she saw. I will never forget that. I will also never forget the friends I will no longer see because of people who use religion to hate.

God bless everyone who was affected by that day and everyone who's worked to make a difference ever since.

I was driving to work listening to Howard Stern...when Gary said "holy crap a plane just hit the WTC"... I looked towards the city and could see the smoke. I got to work and asked the guys if they had heard what was going on. We flipped on the tv and watched in horror as the second plane hit. Once the 1st tower fell and word came that the pentagon was on fire...my boss told everyone to go home & be with family because we were under attack. Spent the rest of the day on the phone, watching the news, and the smoke filled sky from my apartment (in NJ). Throught the day all the local town fire trucks were racing into NYC to help...I must say I was quite proud of those Jersey firemen who geared up and took their trucks to race into lower NYC within minutes of the 1st collapse.

I was at work, killing time since I was about to head home as the clock approached 4 pm. I heard the news about the first plane on the radio and thought it must've been a small private plane. At first they never said anything about the extent of the incident on the news so we just had to speculate.

Then when I had changed and was ready to leave I turned on the company TV for curiosity. Then it struck me how big the devastation was and suddenly they captured the other plane on camera and it flew into the second tower.

From that moment there were no other news on TV for probably two weeks, not that it should've.

I think it's hard to imagine how it must have felt for all you New Yorkers, or Americans for that matter, when a thing like this happens. Nobody had ever experienced it before and for me, sitting 4000 miles away, it's not at close quarters, like it is for you.

Though. I pray for everyone who lost their lives and for all their relatives and friends. I know I sound a bit naive when I say that I hope we'll live to see the day when we can look at terror and war as a thing of the past. But that's what I hope for and hope is the last thing that dies.