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By: Jeremy MuncyWednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 10:15 am
It’s been seven years since the towers fell, but to many it feels just like yesterday. We know many of you out there have been greatly affected by 9/11, and our hearts go out to you.
This is why we’ve created this memorium, so people can tell a story about a family member, something a friend did that made them laugh or just share how you felt when you found out what had happened.
So, please take a moment and leave a comment below.
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:25 am
I was on a military installation on 9/11. I was working, I woke up and on my way to my duty i saw that the Threatcon posters all read Delta. I thought to myself “this must be wrong”. I walked into the office and spoke to my superior and was informed there was a bomb threat to our base and that it was not a drill or scheduled base security check. I was told to go back to my dorm room and that my training for the day was canceled.
I turned on my t.v. and started to drink my coffee. Then breaking footage began as a plane hit the first tower. Convencied it was a random pilot error i prayed for the pilot and other people injured. I continued going on about my morning planning how to make the most of the random day off. then the news got worse.
as I watched paralized with friends in the room we all grabbed our cell phones calling home to talk to our families and friends. My mom and i talked as we watched. cried and discussed fears of where they might hit next. Being on a military base for the first time in my career felt scarry. I told my mom i was scared that if we were under a full attack our military bases would be targeted. She told me not to over react and stay calm.
I looked around and every sound was a shot of fear. I worried what might happen. I told her i loved her and i told her that if anything was to happen to remember that. I cried and told her to tell my family i loved them all. I was frighted and told her i had to get off the phone.
I returned to the training building and sat with my fellow military members and watched and waited. I am lucky I was harmed and our base remained safe. I have lived each day since with a drive to live my life for all its worth. I have since left the military and I live everyday for the most it has to offer.
I will never forget how in one moment life for not just me but for the world had changed. It will always carry with me that we are given each day and that each day is our last day until we awaken to the next one.
God bless the survivors and the memories of those we lost and those we are still losing overseas.
February 16th, 2010 at 8:50 am
I live in Norway, but I am almost crying every time I’m reading about it, or watching it any places. I can’t belive how to be under the towers and see them fall down in front of you, and specious if you know any one inside there…
February 11th, 2010 at 3:07 am
Hey,just want to say that this 911 disaster sure was a disaster.I am from the long plains ojibway reserve located in the central part of Manitoba,Canada.I sure clearly member that day of 911.I was still snoozin from the night before,all hung over from a nights drunk,when the next morning,watching CNN as I always do.All of a sudden 2 planes end up crashing into the 2 W.T.C. towers.This was a horrific thing for any human being to do to another.Bin laden seems to justify his little pups for doing a “great” job in getting rid of the enemy.Since when does an ordinary civilain become an enemy.Head scrather on this one.The other thing to that puzzles me is why these people pray to GOD and ask GOD for his hand in helping them carry out their sinful deeds.The GOD we civilized people of this earth preach to don,t encourage to kill,maim torture.Not my GOD.My GOD is full of love,forgiveness.As for these idiots god,well,hahaha,their god is gonna burn their ass when they get down there in the fire pits.We have the last laugh.I can just see their faces when they start burning…………..hahahaha.Idiots should have walked a straight line when they walked this earth……………
February 7th, 2010 at 7:38 am
I remember 9/11 as if it was yesterday. I remember the feeling of anger that came up that day and has never left. I remember watching over and over again those the planes striking the towers, the people running and screaming. I remember the utter shock felt when the towers fell and the realization of the magnitude of what had happened.
I remember vividly seeing images of people falling to their deaths. How can you ever forget an image like that? The horror that must have been in their minds to have to make a decision. God Bless them all!!!
To this day, I have not shed a tear over this. I have come close but I cannot do it. My anger drives me, it keeps me focused. It will be with me until every last beast who plotted, planned or in some manner willingly participated in this grotesque attack on humanity; until the deaths of the men, women and, for me, most importantly, the children have been avenged, I will remain steeled and resolute in my willingness to do whatever it takes and go wherever it takes me, to do my part. Then, and only then, will I cry for the lost.
God Bless ALL of the innocents lost that horrid day!
January 21st, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Ever heard of the sterling club in white plains NY?
January 18th, 2010 at 12:36 am
hi, my name is david, i am 13 years old now. on 9/11 i was in kindergarden.. I remember being sent home and smoke everywhere. i lived in queens, NY…my dad worked in manhattan that day next to the WTC… but he was safe and didnt get hurt.. i lost a couple of friends that day and till this day i will not forget them. God bless America
January 11th, 2010 at 12:45 am
Here’s a great song by Alan Jackson (country artist) called “where were you(When the world stopped turning)
Where were you when the world stopped turning
That September day?
Out in the yard with your wife and children
Or working on some stage in L.A.?
Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke
Risin’ against that blue sky?
Did you shout out in anger in fear for your neighbor
Or did you just sit down and cry?
Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones
And pray for the ones who don’t know?
Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble
And sob for the ones left below?
Did you burst out in pride for the red, white and blue
And the heroes who died just doin’ what they do?
Did you look up to heaven for some kind of answer
And look at yourself and what really matters?
Chorus:
I’m just a singer of simple songs
I’m not a real political man
I watch CNN but I’m not sure I can tell you
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young
Faith, hope and love are some good things He gave us
And the greatest is love.
Where were you when the world stopped turning
That September day?
Were you teaching a class full of innocent children
Or driving down some cold interstate?
Did you feel guilty ’cause you’re a survivor
In a crowded room did you feel alone?
Did you call up your mother and tell her you loved her?
Did you dust off that Bible at home?
Did you open your eyes and hope it never happened
Close your eyes and not go to sleep?
Did you notice the sunset the first time in ages
Or speak to some stranger on the street?
Did you lay down at night and think of tomorrow
Or go out and buy you a gun?
Did you turn off that violent old movie you’re watchin’
And turn on “I Love Lucy” reruns?
Did you go to a church and hold hands with some strangers
Did you stand in line and give your own blood?
Did you just stay home and cling tight to your family
Thank God you had somebody to love?
Chorus:
I’m just a singer of simple songs
I’m not a real political man
I watch CNN but I’m not sure I can tell
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young
Faith, hope and love are some good things He gave us
And the greatest is love.
Chorus:
I’m just a singer of simple songs
I’m not a real political man
I watch CNN but I’m not sure I can tell
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young
Faith, hope and love are some good things He gave us
And the greatest is love.
And the greatest is love.
And the greatest is love.
Where were you when the world stopped turning
That September day?…
January 11th, 2010 at 12:38 am
That day is hazy to me, i remember bits and pieces of it.. I was in 4th grade at the time. I live in South Jersey, i remember sitting in the back of my fairly small classroom, and i remember my teacher Mrs. Shadd talking about something, i wasnt really paying attention, because I seen a teacher across the hall running around class to class crying, and I was curious of why she was crying… then on the PA, i heard our principle come on, she said ” something horrible has just happened in NYC..the Twin Towers (WTC)just got hit by an airplane…” And at that time, i had no idea what the Twin Towers were, i just knew they were buildings with people inside, and i teared up, just thinking about all who were hurt.
I went to a catholic school, so later in the day we held a candle light service for the victims that had passed that day, we walked outside our school, facing our school’s patron saint. Before the service I remember the principle coming to class to class saying what students were allowed to watch the news and those who weren’t…my class got to watch a few minuets of it, because of our age.. what i remember seeing is hundreds of pictures of people on the TV, saying they were missing… and seeing live video of the buildings….i couldn’t help but cry. Our teacher then walked back to the TV and turned it off and continued with class as best she could.
I am currently 18yrs old.. and as i grew, my concern about the towers bothered me, so i would ask my dad what happened that day and all else that happened.. And what relief i had too on that day too, because my dad was a police officer for Middle Twp police, in my town, and he told me that if needed them they would contact their police station for help/ back-up, but we have a very small county and we were like the last resort kind of deal, but my dad came close to go to NYC to go help…im relieved that he didnt go, im my daddy’s little girl..i couldnt imagine losing him, if he did go.
I prayed to God while in school an announcement came on TV saying if any local police stations from anywhere could help, come and call us at &@7&%$$#..i said to God i hope daddy is okay, he’s working today too. thinking he was heading there. God listens, and for people who say they were praying to him said he didn’t listen…he doesn’t care..when they had loved ones at that site.
well in the words of a country artist Garth Brooks (Unanswered Prayers)—Sometimes I thank God For unanswered prayers remember when you’re talkin’ to the man upstairs that just because he doesn’t answer doesn’t mean he don’t care.. some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.—
Never Forget 9/11!!
God Bless all who have been forgotten, and never found..and those perished on 9/11.
God Bless Life. God Bless America.
January 10th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
I find it a little eerie that the current post count here reads: “119 Responses to “September 11, Victims Remembered, 9-11 Attack Comments”. 119 posts so far”
….9-11 backwards.
Unless someone completes a post before me, I will be post 120. Anyway, I just want to say 9-11 changed me forever. I did not lose anyone, nor directly know anyone who died of lost a loved one. However, it woke me up to reality and enlightened me to the greater world going on around me. Prior to then I could only see as far as my bubble in the world. Life was going to work, coming home and wondering what was for dinner and if anything interesting would be on tv. The nightly news was an abstract box for me. I knew that things were going on around the world, but because I could not see them, nor did they inject themselves into my “bubble” of daily life, they were just 30 second sound bites that had no bearing on me.
That all changed September 11, 2001.
What for me began as spectacular water-cooler talk first thing in the morning at work quickly gave way to confusion and then real fear. We had no tv or radio where I worked, only internet. We had trouble getting the latest updates because the web was over crammed with users and refreshing took forever. I managed to lock in Yahoo radio, and I alone in the office listened live. I sadly and fearfully announced a second hit…towers falling, Pentagon hit.
The boss finally told us to go home. Like a previous poster I watched the sky, not the road as I drove. Word on the radio was all planes were landed…except one, and it was unaccounted for. I wondered if that plane was aimed somewhere near me, or my family.
I arrived home to find my wife and four month old daughter sound asleep still. I burst into our bedroom and said something along the lines of “Jesus Ch****, wake up! We’re under attack!” My wife was pissed because she had only gotten the baby to sleep a few hours earlier and was tired, and afraid I would wake the baby. It didn’t take long before she too was in shock and staring in fearful awe at the images of the towers falling on our tv. We were living our generations Pearl Harbor and I couldn’t believe it.
As the days passed I was always listening to AM news talk radio hoping to learn more as the situation unfolded. Over time as the news faded from coverage of the 9-11 events to the political ramifications I became a very aware news junkie. For years after I only listened to news talk radio and had become very aware of the world around us and very interested in the political machinations that would affect my life and everyone else’s.
I had been reborn that day. I had been awakened to the world outside my own. My bubble grew exponentially from what I could see around me, to encompassing the entire world. I was 28 years old on 9-11, and that is the day I grew up.
January 8th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
I rember when…….I was a very young boy at the time the towers were hit.It was so still almost if the world had stopped, and in a way it had. Now that I am older I realize the severity of the attack and my heart feels sadness for those who lost their familys in that horrid event. I feel if we continue to be a nation who pulls away from god, I think that we will lose the bond that all american citizens used to share to bind are nation and make us who we are. As I read about the plans for the freedom tower it gives me the feeling of hope that we can stay the strong dependebale nation that we have been.”the best friend to our brothers and the biggest shadow to our enemys”. I no America will pull together and solve this problem with terrorisim.we WILL punish for the wrongs done to our great country.
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS, OUR FAMILIES AND AMERICA. AMEN
January 6th, 2010 at 1:51 am
I feel compelled to add my thoughts here. I remember Feb 26, 1993 when the world trade centers were bombed for the first time. I was living in NY at the time and as we drove by I remember watching the smoke rising out of the building. I was truly upset even though I was only 6 years old. It seems as if most of the people posting here were to young to remember this but I do. I loved buildings when I was a kid. I remember standing at the top looking down on the city, I remember the feeling of almost rasing off the ground when the elevator was going down. I remember Sept 11th but was not in shock that the same men had finally realized their plans 8 years after their first attempt upon our nation. My only regret is that we did not do more to prevent this when I was still young. It is unfortunate that it took a second Pearl Harbor for us Americans to realize we are not alone in the world. As long as tyranny and injustice exsist in the world we will be in peril. We must build a long-lasting peace such as exsisted after WW2 and thank God I believe we are on the right track. Almost every person here ended their comment with God Bless America and we will never forget and this shows our undaunted spirit in the face of such tragedy.
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:16 am
I was an eighteen year old in 1968, attending college for the first time at Pace college (now University). I grew up in this city, and remember all the construction at the time. Later when it was open I went all the way to the top and looked out over the skyline. It was stunning. For me this loss represents a part of my youth gone. No one died whom I was personally related to or friends with, but there was and remains tremendous feelings of loss regardless. Since 9/11 I have never visited Ground Zero…too much pain and loss there. Even when the buildings are built, opened and occupied, the horror of what happened on that day can never be covered over and silenced. It remains a graveyard of the innocent.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I remember it as if it were yesterday, I was in the kitchen, going to prepare a meal. I turned on the tv abit late into it and it was only a few mins and I saw the first tower collapse. I felt sick, unable to speak or move, it seemed unreal like a movie, then the second tower collapsed. Finally the reality of what happened had set in. I had called my own Family, yet being far from that particular danger, it was heartbreaking that those in the midst of this tragedy could not do the same at that point.
Considering tragedies before and 9/11 itself, I realized it is not those in gov’t or other authority that possess the greatest power alone, it is the *religious* leaders for even figures in authority are counseled by the same.
As a born American, I see flaws in every area of life and governance w/ in its borders but what I see best is not only *American* but even *human*, that is, unconditional love and compassion, especially in times when its needed most!
There were others from around the world mourning w/ *us* that day and days previous and days to come.
I can say as a born American, that I’ve been blessed, not w/ monetary riches but Family/Friends and necessities, I’ve known no other life or country than this one, its often easy to complain when you dont *know* conditions any worse than those you’ve experienced or that you can attain any better.
My heartfelt prayers go out to all who suffered loss on that day, days passed and days to come.
Again, America is the only country I’ve known and as people shuffle over flaws and the beauty in the design of the memorials, I say let it stand representative of both even as there are flaws in this country, there is beauty also, a diverse people of countless ethnicity/cultures/religions, willing to unite for the sake of love and compassion w/in and w/out its borders. If anything, I would say, that is what makes me proud to be an American! Perhaps out of such tragedies, it is the realization of that fact, that is at the least, a positive.
December 14th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
The world trade center,did not collpase beacuse of a psycho beam but the jet fuel buring hot,which caused the steel to weaken and cause a collpaced.
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:24 pm
How long it would be, before the entire site,inculding the freedom tower is finished?
December 1st, 2009 at 12:18 am
I was studing and i had the tv on , without audio and i watched suddenly a airplane entering into the tower!
i tought: what film is this?
but in few seconds i realized it was a real scene, it was a “BREACKING NEWS”
It was so terrible, i left everything and i watched the tv for all the day, passing from a channel to another, it was incredible, every channel was talking about it, i felt lost, i tought it’s the 3 world war, the end of the world, what it’s happing??
My tought was soon to all the people there…watching that big airplane going into the tower..how many people was there…
then the second one air crash…even more lost, i felt really alone in that moment, alone with the death and disaster!
when the first tower crashed down i cried a lot, it was my myth, i study architecture, i had the NYC skyline in my room, it was one of my dreams to visit NYC and visit those towers…terrible again when even the second tower …down!!
terrible terrible, i passed the rest of the day watching the tv millions of times… those air crashes and those 2 towers going down, million of times on all the channels!!
RIP all that innocente people, they will be all angels.
November 7th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
I Was at Trade center 2 B-1 Level. Morgan stanley had a work shop down across from PAPD Office down there When WTC1 Got hit I never heard anything or felt anything. roughly 10min thereafter there was a pounding on our double doors
when i opened the door PAPD rushed in and demanded if anybody else was here
I said just a few other people,PAPD ran past me and shouted that we were being evactuated THIS IS NOT A DRILL !!! Instantly we were being rushed out of the
B1 Basement up to the lobby level. 10 Min after we were ordered to run for it.
As we were running across Church Street by Brooks Bros, Tower2 Was hit. It sounded like a sonic boom And the rest is history
October 28th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
i remember that day. it was about 8:50 in the morning. i was just getting ready to start school. my mom was at my house and and getting ready for nursing school when she recieved a call for my grandma. she said that ” julie, my moms name is julie, did you hear what happend in new york what she says a plane hit the world trade center. and the minuet my grandma said that my mom turned on the news. then my mom called my dad who was at work, and said rick a plane just hit the world trade center. i will never for get that day
October 16th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
My name is Matt, I just turned 8 years old 5 days before 9/11/01 & I still remember that day like it was yesterday.. I was living in Myrtle Beach, SC at the time & I was in school that morning, it was just a normal day until the teacher tells us at around 9:30am the PTA meetings were cancelled & we were getting out of school early, so my dad came to take me & my brother home from school, when we got home my mom was watching CNN & she was so upset, she told me & my brother to go to our rooms & watch cartoons, I asked her what was happening & she told me planes crashed into the World Trade Center, I knew about them because I’ve always loved NYC, so she let me watch some news with her but when the first tower fell (South tower) she wouldn’t let me watch anymore, so I went into my room to watch cartoons & later that day she told me both of the towers fell.. I didn’t really understand how bad it really was but as I got older I understood more about what happened that day & why the planes crashed into the Twin Towers..
October 7th, 2009 at 7:24 am
I was 11 years old at the time, and I live on the other side of the country. Despite my age and, at first, my inability to comprehend what had happened, I remember the details clearer than I can remember days a month ago.
My dad was out of town. He ended up driving 4 of his colleagues home due to the airport closures. The first I heard of it was on the car radio, when, instead of music, a solemn announcer started talking about a plane crash in Pennsylvania. I left the car to go to class just as he began to mention something about more crashes.
I entered my classroom for ASB just in time to watch, live, the first WTC building fall. I remember being horrified, though I did not comprehend how many people died.
I remember the moment of silence the next day for the moment the first plane hit. I remember no one giggling during the pledge of allegiance- a rare case in 6th grade. I remember the choir singing patriotic songs and the large banners we had around campus to sign with our condolences. I remember being terrified and unsure of the future for a long time.
It’s strange to think I now have a sibling who wasn’t even alive when it happened, for this memory will be one that will stay with me to the end of my days.
God bless America.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Greetings, AS a minister I was aware that since we support Israel we were subject to attack. I would like to establish an office at the Freedom Tower. Please read the following: Oppression in the World We hold these truths to be self-evident by the light of the Holy Scriptures: Almighty God, the One True God and Father of Adam, made, formed and created mankind for fellowship with Him by giving man physical life and spiritual life by the gift of holy spirit, freedom from oppression in the bond of peace and the pursuit of happiness by living a godly life in the bonds of fellowship with Him; that Adam compromised the integrity of his fellowship with God and lost his gift of holy spirit; that Adam’s disobedience put all mankind in estrangement with God and under the oppression of Satan; that in due time the Messiah of God was born of the “seed of a woman”, a male child begotten of God whom was named Jesus; that Jesus was faithful to the truth and obedient to God his Father and sacrificed his life to make peace with God for all mankind and deliver mankind from the oppression of Satan; that God established spiritual fellowship for all peoples of the earth by the gift of spiritual birth of holy spirit on the day of Pentecost and in the course of events will judge all men impartially by His righteousness; We hold that it is also self-evident that no fellowship of the Church of His Body or government of the earth instituted by men has the right to usurp our unalienable rights to life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness endowed by God; that the purpose of fellowships and governments is to secure these rights and that those who serve to promote our rights derive their just powers from the consent of those served; God defines oppression for us. Please read Exodus 3:9,10 in the Holy Scriptures - the Bible. God commissioned Moses to go to Pharaoh to deliver the Hebrew slaves from oppression and return them to the land He had promised Abraham. God tells us in this account that His heart is to deliver us from oppression. He saw the Hebrews were oppressed by Egypt - which here God defines oppression as being under the pressure of evil. The Hebrews were under the influence of tyrannical and oppressive rulers suffering great deprivation. Today, there are three evils in the world I want to point out: China and Tibet, Radical Islam and Water Deprivation. I. China has been a lawless neighbor of Tibet - breaking the treaty of 823A.D. between China and Tibet. Since the Dalai Lama has had to flee Tibet for his life, the Chinese have tortured and killed over one million Tibetan people. Is this liberation of the Tibetan people as China claims? Where is freedom of religion????? Where is shown the respect for the dignity of individual human beings????? II. Radical Islam God tells us in the sixth commandment of the Ten Commandments to not commit murder. It is to the shame and judgment of Christianity that so-called Christians tortured and killed people whom refused to confess the lie of a polytheistic, trinitarian False God in 325A.D. An Islam adherent is beheaded for converting to any other religion??? Is this freedom??? Did not Jesus say: “Love one another as I have loved you?” Woman are abused and killed by their husbands. The Apostle Paul states - “Husbands - love your wives” What is honor killing??? It is intolerable children are killed in the name of religion!!! Is not this the influence of evil?? Jesus said to pray for God to deliver us from evil - he actually said “deliver us from the evil one” - meaning Satan - the Prince of Darkness. III. The Earth’s water. The world bank and multi-national companies have oppressed the poor with their water for profit agenda. When one child out of 10 dies before the age of five for lack of clean, fresh drinking water - is this not the influence of evil????? It is amazing that Americans think they have to drink bottled water as opposed to drinking tap water. Americans are also subject to pollutants that enter their skin when they bathe. Water is essential for life. Therefore, Please adopt Article 31 to be included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 31: Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, Adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family; and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstances. Furthermore, All mankind has a directive from God whom is “Spirit”. God states “You shall not oppress one another but you shall fear (respect) your God” Leviticus 25:17 God states in verse 19 that when we live in peace there is the blessing of prosperity. James, Ordained Minister of Jesus since 1975 - written Monday, 28 Sep, 2009
September 24th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
I was only 9 years old when it happened. I was watching TV at my grandmothers house and at the time I remember it as watching a movie. I was waiting for my mom to pick me up for school and I ran down to the car to tell my mom about this “movie” I thought I was watching. She told me we were running late and we had to go. But I managed to drag her up stairs and she looked at the TV and realized what it was. It wasn’t a movie. It was real.
She told me what was happening and the rest of the day at school I was the only one that knew about what happened. I was told by all the teachers not to tell any of the students. They would tell all of us at the right time later in the day once everyone was there.
Several of the students joked about it, not realizing the magnitude of what had happened, and lets face it, at 9 years and 10 years old, it’s hard to realize the seriousness of such an event. But I knew. My heart was racing pretty bad the rest of the day. I was only 9 years old and I don’t remember the full day, but I was terrified for many days to follow. I think I’ll be telling my grandchildren about this in 40 or 50 years. I know I won’t ever forget.
God Bless America.
September 19th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
My name is jeffrey.I remember the twin towers when they fell,i remeber that horrible faithful day.i was about 8 years old when that happened.I really miss the twin towers.America’s foundation will be rebuit with a great looking Freedom Tower.At first i diden’t like the design of the new world trade center.I like the freedom tower design how ever, i don’t like the other designs.Well the world trade center will be rebuilt better and stronger than before.America will be ready and is coming up with a plan to protect the new world trade center from future attacks.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:02 am
My first trip to NY was in June, 2002 after the clean up was complete. I was with The Salvation Army MoKan Gospel Choir from Kansas and we were performing at the Spring Valley, NY Corps (Church). We got a day roaming around Manhattan with a local Salvation Army officer, Captain Mike Himes. We were going to visit the ramp at Ground Zero in the afternoon, but we ran out of time and had to get back to Spring Valley for a sound check and dinner at the Church. We performed our Gospel concert and afterwords the bus driver was moved by the spirit took us by bus up to Manhattan. He said that the choir needed to be there.
Unfortunately, we got there at 9:30 p.m. when they closed the observation deck to the ramp. Our executive officer Major Barb Carrol and the then Spring Valley corps officer Captain Mike Himes when and spoke with the NYPD and National Guard. Since we were with The Salvation Army, we could get a private access after the ramp had been closed, they just needed id from everyone in the choir.
While we waited for access to the observation deck, we looked at the walls of remembering left by loved ones who lost people on 9/11 and then we were granted access. I remember going up the ramp to the deck. It was so very quiet especially for the largest city in the USA. We looked around and a lot of us, including the guys were crying for what had happened just 9 months earlier. Then our leader Randy Bonifield, gathered us around in a circle. We prayed one by one for the families of those who died. We sang our benediction and lingered for some time.
I will never forget that for as long as I live.
God bless New York City.
God bless the FDNY, NYPD, NY Army National Guard, the US ARMED Forces.
God bless America.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:18 am
I hadn’t been to New York prior to sept 11th. On my first visit, it was one of the first places I stopped. This was before the plans of the freedom tower, and before anything was alive anywhere around the building. I saw a piece of graffiti not too far from the site that read: ” you cannot stop new york city ”
After a while of sitting in awe, I stopped by a local firestation where they had a small memorial for the brothers they lost that day. A firemen saw me and walked over, this massive Bronx raised, New York hardened fire fighter pointed at one of the men and said ” thats my brother “. With the tears in his eyes, My heart just dropped.
I knew then what September 11th meant. Not to us that watched on Tv… That stood in awe as these buildings collapsed and lives ended. To those on the ground, who lost friends, family, and managed to save complete strangers.
For sometime after, everyone was so proud to be American, and so proud to wave the flag. Never knowing any of those people, any of those lives that were lost. I can’t even pretend to grasp, or even imagine what it’s like for those people, those families, to go after a day like that.
To all those families, and friends, and even enemies of those lost on that day. I just want you to know, some of us will never forget. Most of us won’t. you are forever in our prayers, and with love in our hearts.
God bless you all.
September 11th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
WE are in the land of the free and the home of the brave for all those people who died the victums and the heros may you be in a better place, and for those who reported that day may you recieve blessings.
September 11th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
May those who died on 9/11 be at peace. You will never be forgotten.
September 11th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Eight years ago today, I did not know what it meant to be a proud American. I was 26 years old and a group of terrorists changed my life forever and gave me an appreciation for how lucky I am to be a U.S. citizen.
When it happened, I was working for a German company in America and spent my afternoon listening to the news coverage on the radio with my best friends at the office…Hitesh, an Indian man, Luma, an Arabic woman and Roger, an African-American man. I realized at that moment how wonderful the country I lived and worked in was.
One of the things I remember most vividly from that day was my husband’s seven year-old daughter coming home from school innocently asking “why did they fly airplanes into those buildings?”. Today, eight years later, she is learning why. We had recorded and saved “Inside 9/11: Zero Hour” and saved it for a time when we thought she could understand. Now she knows…and sadly, a piece of her innocence has now been taken as well.
God Bless America and those who perished at the hands of evil that day.
We will never forget!
September 11th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I was watching the news after bringing my son to kindergarten and hearing about a plane that had crashed into one of the Twin Towers. I was in my livingroom folding laundry with my then 3+1/2 year old daughter. I remember while the news coverage was going on the next plane came in and hit the other tower…as I sat there shocked to see what was happening it only got worse when the 1st tower started collapsing. My heart sank into my feet and I was in tears. That by far was the worst day of my life. I will never forget the many lives lost on that horrific day.
May God Bless and keep them close to him
September 11th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
The morning of September 11, 2001 I was driving a school bus here in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Part of the route is a short 10 miles away from Mount Rushmore National Memorial. While picking up my kids for school, no mention was made on the radio station I was listening to, and aparently no one else heard either, or their would have been massive chatter on our two way radio.
After dropping my kids at their schools, word did start to come thru, but I was almost parked at our bus yard. The next few hours will always stand out in my memory. We turned our TV on in the break room, and as a group witnessed what had happened in New York. A lot of us saw the video footage for the first time and together. Crusty old bus drivers broke down and cried. Many of us were in shock. Together we watched as they replayed the impacts over and over, then watched one by one as the towers fell.
I left for my part time job doing some cleaning at a retail store downtown. I had to keep moving and funtioning, I had to stay viable for the kids, they might need a ride home sooner than expected. When I arrived at the part time job, the manager wasnt there. I let myself in, and did a hours cleaning. The store was supposed to open at 10 am, and the manager still wasnt there. I knew where he lived, and went to check on him. He was even more thunderstuck by events than I, and he got drunk. I envied him the luxury as I drove away from his house.
The next hours and days a whole nation lived thru, no planes in the air, the gas prices skyrocketed the first night, the fear, the questions.
Time passed.
Before 9/11 a cousin of mine had sent out a short form asking how many copies of the family tree I would like. He was keeper of the records, a job passed down from his dad. I sent the form back with my request. 2 months later, I came accross the envelope from the request, and realised I hadnt gotten my family tree yet. I checked the return address, then the internet maps. He lived several miles from ground zero, so I relaxed. Then I looked again, the letter head on the note that came with the form was company letter head.
Bruce Johnson
NDRI
2 World Trade Center Plaza
Thank god for the internet! I did some searching, found National Development and Research Institutes had a website. The website assured everyone who read it that the company was rebuilding in another location, all employees made it out safe, and things would be up and running soon. A week later I got my cousins email off the website and we started corisponding.
Shortly before 9/11 the copies of the family tree were printed and waiting to be mailed out, for convience he was using facilities at his building organize things. I think he had a professional printer in the building put them together. When 9/11 happened, several hundred copies perished with the people and the towers.
Bruce had everything backed up, and we all got our family trees by Christmas, but I will always remember how 9/11 and my family history
are forever connected.
Bruce passed away last winter.
NRDI has a memorial on their website.
http://ndri.org/highlights/20090301.html
Rest well cousin.
September 11th, 2009 at 11:46 am
I was in between jobs, living in San Diego. I woke up and went outside, and I noticed that there was no air traffic at all which was odd for my area. I went back in and turned on the TV to see the one tower on fire. I turned on the radio and heard the broadcast live and watched to see the second plane crash into the building… shocking. I will never forget seeing that or how I felt afterwards when I quickly realized that it was an attack.
They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom!
September 11th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I remember that day so clearly. A co-worker of mine ran into my office talking about the first plane to hit the World Trade Center. My initial thought was that it couldn’t be anything more than a tragic accident. I turned on my small television, and witnessed the second plane hit. At that point I knew this was no accident. My brother-in-law was working in Manhattan that day on business, but luckily he was running late that morning and did not even make it to his office. He called everyone in the family to let us know he was okay. My company closed down for the rest of the day and sent all of us home. From that moment, I was glued to the t.v. and watched in horror as the towers fell to the ground. I was in the World Trade Center towers in December of 2000 for the first time. I could not believe anyone would do something like this. All of the people who perished in that tragic event have remained in my heart and prayers each and every day. I thank all of our heroic soldiers who are overseas and here at home who fight for this country and put their lives on the line each day. Thank you to all who have lost their lives to protect this country. You are gone, but you will never be forgotten. May God bless this amazing country and all of its citizens and may He keep us all safe on this 8th anniversary of the attack on American soil. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!!
September 11th, 2009 at 10:55 am
-True freedom…This isnt a place for your rhetoric. If you are a citizen of the US then hand in your citizenship and leave our country. Dont sit there and demean the memories of our loved ones lives.
September 11th, 2009 at 10:38 am
What is not even 5000 victims? Boohoo
USA killed HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS people in other countries!
Maybe over a million by now, who knows millions…!?
USA was gonna get what it asked for!
These attacks never surprised me.
And stil USA is continuing the killing…
and is gonna get what it stil asks for!
September 11th, 2009 at 3:53 am
May God Bless all those who lost or gave their lives on a day of such horror but also such spirit of Liberty from those who have fought and for those who have served to find those who survived. My love goes to who those involved I remember watching on Newcastle High street in England thinking what i was watching couldn’t be real I didn’t understand why people had attacked New York and the people of the world who all worked and lived around that area. I believe we have to make this day a day for the world to keep as a day of Liberty, Freedom, & Honour. I am thankful for all the troops from around the world who fight and give me these things and the right to have a freedom of speech and rights thank you and God bless all of them. 9/11 changed the world let it not be in vain we must not forget the imensity of that day upon the world and why we can’t have predujdice to all people of our small world. My prayers go to the families who lost someone they loved so dearly on this day which wasn’t so long ago.
September 10th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Gone… not forgotten
and overdramatised and heavily exaggerated!
September 7th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
London,England. I was having my bathroom renovated, Robert the guy who was carrying out the work said he had heard on the radio that a commercial passenger jet had crashed into one of the WTC towers. I switched on the television so we could watch CNN.
When the second plane hit this voice in my head screamed ‘TERRORISTS’this event was beyond comprehension.
It still feels like it happened yesterday. It has dominated this decade and continues to shape events.
My wife and I visited NY in 2000 and could not decide which we wanted to see more. WTC or Empire State. In the end ES won.
One day we will visit the freedom tower. For now I look at my 2&4 year old daughters and THANK JESUS for every day he gives my family.
September 5th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
“Where were you when the world stopped turning, that September day?”
The first time I heard that Alan Jackson song, driving alone in my car, I broke down and sobbed.
And as I read the many comments here, it occurs to me how deeply impacted we all were that day, as we watched 9/11 unfold. Yes, I too remember exactly where I was. I hadn’t had the TV that morning, nor listed to the radio on my way to work. I was scheduled to be there (a restaurant) at 10:30am.
When I showed up, my friend ran up to great me and said (erroneously) “Did you see what happened? Someone’s bombed the pentagon!”. The TV was on in the dinning room and I saw 2 WTC just in the final seconds before it’s collapse. I stood there in shock, speechless. It felt like I was watching the beginning of WW III. I remember being angry throughout that day, at the people who’d come in for lunch. They sat there, drinking their drinks, eating their food, chatting about mundane things. I though “How in the HELL can you SIT THERE when our country has been attacked and people’s lives have been lost!!!??”
I went home that day and watched CNN for 10 hours straight. And then the next three days, same thing. I looked at my children, then 10 and 8, and wondered if they had any idea the enormity of what they were seeing.
I’m moved by the comments of those who lost someone that day. Moved by the comments by the young people. Moved by the comments from those in other countries. I remember seeing on TV the reaction of sympathetic people all over the globe, and I wish I could have told them how much their heartfelt expressions meant to the citizens of America.
Next Friday is the 8th anniversary of 9/11. And while I live in Western NY, I have never been to NYC. But I will someday go. And I will think about, as I do so often (even after all these years) about the many lives lost and the many lives that continue to be affected by that day.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
August 26th, 2009 at 3:00 am
The morning of september 11th i was 14 yrs old wow its been that long…i was in school and i remember the hallways between classes were being usually quiet that morning which i found very suprising. I walked into my math class and i tried talking but i seen everyones eyes exerted on the tv, i couldnt make out anything at first then i figured it out….america was under attack! i just remember sittin down in my desk and saying a silent prayer for everybody who had already lost their lives and just kept on praying when i seen the people jumping out of buldings. I was in total shock. the rest of the school day went by pretty quick. i went home and i remember praying w my family and for the families who had lost loved ones, my thoughts and prayers are still with you guys. now what did this mean for america? we are goin to war! my thoughts and prayers go for the soldiers also and as an army wife i appreciate everything they do for the country, may god bless the families of the victims, may he bless the soldiers, and may he bless amearica
August 24th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
I am a teacher in Northern Virginia and I clearly remember 9/11. I was teaching my class when my principal came into my classroom. My principal hardly ever came into my classroom without my knowledge so I knew something was wrong. She handed me a note. The note read, “The United States is under attack. Two planes have hit the World Trade Center. Don’t tell the students and teach your class as if nothing is wrong, but we alert if we need to go on lock down.” I was terrified. In America, we always feel so safe. We had never really been under attack(since Pearl Harbor). Soon after I dropped my students off at P.E. and immediately went to the library. Everyone was shocked. Some of my co-workers had sons and husband who worked downtown so they were really terrified. Luckily, we didn’t have anyone in our school who’s family member died on 9/11. I will never forget that day. I wish I had saved the note that my principal had given me because it was an historical moment in history. I hope I never see a day as horrible as 9/11 God Bless America!
August 19th, 2009 at 2:06 am
I was 14 years old this day, now im 22, but, i remember everything like it happened yesterday..We were in english class at school when a good friend of mine that was in the library came back to the class yelling that a plane just crashed into one of the towers of the wtc.. at first we thouth he was joking but he was like never before serious!.. everybody thought it was an accident and all of us ran out of class.. went to the library running! and just when i saw the tv! booom!! the next plane crashed into the second tower!! and everybody was stuned into the tv.. nobody couldnt believe it! we all went back to class after a few minutes of watching but nobody could recieve class beacause the teachers and students were all impacted!! by such a serious event that just happened in new york!. when i went back home everybody!! every single person was watching cnn for hours! in every news station it was the same!.
That happend for months until people began to let it go and remember.. I thought about this every single day at least once.. but time goes by.. i cant imagine how americans.. specially new yorkers could feel about this but.. god bless you and god bless america. By the way im colombian and this events happened in Ecuador
August 15th, 2009 at 12:40 am
I remember that day very clearly. I was at work and heard something on the radio about the WTC. I remember thinking to myself, “hmm, is today the anniversary of the WTC bombing…” Then all of a sudden another coworker comes running in and screaming that someone just flew a plane into the WTC! We quickly ran to the kitchen area and turned on our small tv. Just then, as if in slow-motion…ANOTHER plane! We all began to cry. I called my mother and told her of what was happening. Then I hear about the Pentagon! My cousin, Carrie works there so I begin to freak out and try calling family to see if she was at work. They flash a 1-800 number for family to call. I call but they want her social security number. “I don’t have it! Please! My cousin!”
Just then the phone rings. It’s my mother. Another cousin, David had an interview today in Tower 2! My heart breaks. She continues that my father and uncle have been trying to get ahold of his father, but he is out of the country. We hang up. Then I remember where I live. My house is so close to Fort Dix Military base as well as another coworker. We fear that our children will be harmed if something happens! I call my husband, and tell him of my fears and he reassures me that everything will be alright. Phone again! Mom: I got ahold of Carrie. She was in her offce at the Pentagon when the plane hit. Her secretary was a civilian, so she rushed her to safety. The fire spread fast, stopped right outside of her office! She is fine but has started smoking again. And, we got ahold of David. His alarm clock never went off this morning, so he never made the train to New York for his interview. Thank god my family was safe, I remember thinking. Then I quickly feel so selfish. Thousands of families will not be so lucky. A well known customer of my mother’s perished in the WTC. He was a janitorial maintenence worker. His wife and children were left devastated. Another local man Leroy was one of airline pilots on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. So many others, and many continue their fight to live…whether it be those brave men and women that responded their call of duty..sick…or those selfless volunteers that help recover and clean up “Ground Zero”…sick…or our brave men and women of our armed forces still continuing to fight the people whose sick and twisted minds try to destroy our way of living…God bless you and God bless the United States of America.
August 14th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I was in fifth grade and i lived in Piscataway NJ. I remember everybody getting picked up by there parents. I remember not having recess. I remember what i wrote in my journal. I wrote about all the kids that were going home and that i did not understand. I remember catching wind of what happened towards the end of the day. I remember the ride home on the bus, it was silent. I remember remembering that one of my best friends, John Marrero, was sitting write next to me. I remember his dad worked on the 76th floor. I remember him being in third grade and not knowing what was going on. I remember getting off the bus with him and telling him to run home. I remember the funeral. I remember all the funerals. Charles Costello, Jose Marrero and Frank Withers. I remember the hate i felt for who ever did it. I remember crying. I remember my mom crying. I remember and always will remember 9/11. Pray for all those who lost their life on 9/11 and in the War on Terror.
August 9th, 2009 at 12:31 am
My goodness that morning I didn’t want to get up because it was my second week of college and I just wanted to sleep in. My radio woke me up which is usually a bunch of pop songs that are in your face ‘GOOD MORNING!’ I remember thinking how odd it was that the djs were subdued and quiet, and all I heard was the words ‘bomb and pentagon’ so I thought to check my tv and when I turned on my tv I seen the first images of the towers coming down and was like ‘those are some awesome special affects’ then quickly realizing it wasn’t. That day for me was such a blur and haze and I was so confused and sad for those people that lost family members in the tragedy. I’m still confused and I get overwealmed every September 11 because it just brings back memories of that horrible day. God Bless you America and my sympathies goes out to all the families that lost someone on that horrible day.
July 28th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
My name is Mark Worrell. I was driving in to work in Modesto, California when I heard about the towers. We spent the rest of that day listening to the news. That was one of the things that God used to make me want to be a US Army Chaplain. Eight years later, to the day, I was to report for my first assignment as a Chaplain. I am now serving in Iraq and hoping to be able to be there for the opening of the Freedom Tower in 2012. Thanks to all who continue to strive to show the world that freedom is worth it!!
July 27th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Turner is my birth name, Weston was my husbands name.
July 27th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
My name is Kathleen Turner. My husband was in New York on business and was scheduled to come home Sept. 14, 2001. He was in the South Tower Sept. 11th for a meeting to finalize a merger between my husbands bank and another. I had woken up in our home in Chicago to about a hundred missed calls both on my cell, and my home phone at about 10:30 a.m. By that time both towers had collapsed, and my husband was presumably dead. The next day I got a phone call. I now had to plan a funeral for my husband of 26 years. I was a widow at 47. We had a few vacation homes around the US, I sold everything and now live alone in a home on the beach of Key West. Not one day goes by that I don’t think about my husband.
July 27th, 2009 at 1:44 am
It was a dull day in Sydney where i lived and i woke up on september the 9th and i saw that lleyton Hewitt had won a tennis championship against Pete Sampris and it was in America. 2 days later I woke up and it was yet another dull day and my brothr and mother was saying America was attacked by terroists. 2 hours later i went to school I was in kindergarten and all the kids in my class were talking about it. Later that evening I sat awestruck in front of the tv watching the horrible things unfold my mum asked me if i wanted to eat dinner but my stomach was turned inside out to worry about eating anything. The next day i was bugging my mum saying is the world ending. I am 14 now and i dream of living in New York i am An Australian and i love Americans and I love new york i dream of working in the freedom tower God bless America Australia and America united we stand.
July 20th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Hi, I 13 now, but at the time I was 6 years old off to school till we saw the news on TV. I was at my house in Tracy, CA. I remember seeing it, but not realizing the severity of the situation at first. All I saw when I walked into the room was a smoking building. Later it hit me, they fell. It was tragic, but I’m glad we are finally rebuilding.
July 18th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I am dutch, and I had a meeting with my accountant from deloitte & touche at 3 in the afternoon in Leeuwarden. A small town in the nrh of the Netherlands. We talked about the company when suddenly his secretary came in and told us to put on the tv. Deloitte had an office in the twin towers. We couldn’t believe what we saw. My stomach turned up-side-down. We kept on watching for over an hour than I had to go, but instead of going back to my office I went home and watched all day cnn and talked with my wife about it.
Al those horrible pictures of people jumping out of windows a fell dead on the pavement. I think it was the most horrible experience in my live.
I went to NY city several years later and stood aside ground zero.
I hope the Freedom tower will give NY city back what it lost.
A shame that so many innocent had to die for nothing…
Sidney
July 14th, 2009 at 7:46 am
I was 6 years old when the towers went under attack. My school was evacuated… at the time I didn’t know why. I remember being at home and watching the news… America was under attack. I had asked my mother what it meant but she didn’t tell me. I have friends whos parents lost their lives trying to help and I just have to say that it is one of the worst things that could ever have happened in the history of the United States of America.
July 12th, 2009 at 12:58 am
I was only 5 when the tragedy happened. I was still in kindergarten. I used to lived in Germany at the time. Although I was only 5, I could remember it. It was 15 o’clock in Germany when my whole family watched in the front of the TV, with breaking news titled: “America under Attack” or something like that. I also saw the second plane hit the WTC 2. It was a very horrible day for the USA and the whole world.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:00 am
MY 9/11/01
By Mark Nelson
The date was september 11th 2001, i was asllep in my bed, when mom woke me up
swearing, “a plane just hit the World Trade Center”. I didn’t know what she meant at that time because i didn’t know what they were at that time.
So i’m sitting up still…groggy, walk out to the living room, and then i see on the tv, a huge…tall building on fire!
I asked mom what was goin on, and she said it was terrorist. As we sit there looking at the horror, i heard the tv say “another hijacked plane has just hit the pentagon”. Oh my god, i said, “call the family”. All i could think was this is scary… the world is coming to an end.
We watched a bit more, before we decided we need to go to the store and get emergency stuff ready… ready for what? i did not know; nobody knew what would happen.
Walking into fred meyer store, there was an eerie compete silence as if the store was closed! We looked around and found five people…five… As we left to head home, we waited and watched the news, changing the channel for something happy to watch;
Nitefall came and so did the did the clean up of Ground Zero. I stayed up all night watching the CNN report, man was it a mess. Before i could go to sleep i watched alot of fameous people sing and give sorrow. There was a very familiar song i remeber from pastime that they showed on MTV. The song was “crossroads” By Bone thugs N’ Harmony. I said to myself this is the saddest song to go with what is happening now.
People said i used to be such a li’l asshole when they met me, but something broke my cold heart outta the shell…it was…Septemember 11th,
2001.
Eight years have past, i was 17 now im 25, It’s still in my memory and to me, it does’nt feel like 8 years. I’ve seen so many movies and stories on that day, and alot of people to me seem like have you forgotten? or are they just moving on? There have movies i love, and books i’ve read but i know one thing that makes my feelings come out…
“I’ll never Forget”.
July 5th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I’m a teenager and I live in France…One of my relatives who lives in the USA was on the Flight 93…
God bless America…Respects from France…Respects venus de la France
Deora Rest in peace…
Deora Repose en paix
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I will never forget the heroes and the innocent people who died
June 24th, 2009 at 7:54 am
I had been out in Brighton, England all day on September 11th, oblivious to the tragedy that was happening. It was a beautiful sunny day and I wish with the 2 people I loved most in the world, my parents. Arriving home that day, as we always do, my dad switched on ITV for the news and all I saw was a plane hitting a building, then another surrounded by smoke and people screaming and crying and terrified and we all thought we had turned on a movie. It was like that moment had been frozen in time and we were all tying to get it into our heads what exactly had happened. I was 17 at the time and did not know what the Twin Towers were although I’ve always dreamt of living in NYC. When the realisation finally hit that America had been hit by terrorists it just felt so surreal, at 17 you don’t really think about things like that and I guess I never really thought I would be a witness to something like that in my lifetime. My heart went out to the families and those news images are still so vivid in my mind. What I thought was truly amazing was how America pulled together, NYC was devastated that day, but the city came together, everybody helped and leaned on each other and as a British Citizen I was proud of our stance to stand shoulder to shoulder with the USA.
But I don’t think the reality of that days events really hit me until January 2nd 2007, my first trip to NYC, my parents and I visited gound zero and what struck me first is how cold I felt, I got chills and it was almost like you could feel those that died that day around you, the second thing to hit me was how big the Twin Towers site actually was and the fact that it was several feet below ground level, the realisation that it wasn’t just a a place for business, but that there were transport lines into the towers and such!
When I saw the plans for the Freedom Tower I was so thrilled, the building will mark a new beginning for NCY I think and the building will stand for so much.
I think rebuilding shows that no matter what, we won’t bow down to terrorism, we can’t. When the 7/7 attack happened in London a few years after 9/11 it was such a scary time because my best friend should have been on that train, but she took the train home the day before, thank God she was safe.
When I think back I am also angry, angry at the fact that our way of life was cast aside, lives worth nothing, our religion ignored. I was raised a Catholic and although I don’t follow a strict catholic regime I believe in God, heaven, etc, and I also believe in living in the moment, living for the here and now. The extremists that gave no consideration that day they took thousands of lives may or may not now be living in Paradise, which is their belief, but I was raised to respect all religions, we are all different, things happen in our lives and we have faith in different ways, but one thing we all share is we belief in ONE GOD, regardless of what shape or form he/she might take. It shouldn’t matter whether a person is Protestant, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Atheist or follows no religion at all. Only God has the right to take life as well as give it.
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 pm
i remember that morning getting ready for work, when i saw this on the news felt like all dreams,hope for mankind came to an end ,sank many hopes took away many dreams ,,,,,,,,,, as time passes i still think still hurt wonder why , hurt for those who lost a loved one , hope in the end what happened makes seance i pray those children who lost there dad , their mom , their brother, sister grandma the person who mattered made difference which they now years later feel a difference comes to peace , hope keeps the dreams that were apart of their lives lives on i go on everyday as many do but when a song a picture a thou8ght comes into the memory of that day . as our hearts feel with tears , loss we are thankful for we never forget who we are and those lost those who gave much more in the clean up those who live each day not having their loved one here ,, those as someone like me thinks of those who lost so much and those who picked up the pieces i cant fathom the hurt only can think its very hard , lonely at times god bless you all…
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May 22nd, 2009 at 7:29 am
I was fist grade in washington D.C when it happened.In first grade to be eact,my school 10-15 miles away from the pentegon.I remeber the pricinple running in saying the towers had been it and so had the pentegon.We have already informed your parents and they will be picking you up.I got to friends house and saw the jet just fly over it was one of the scariest moments of my lie. for days after i did not have school,during that time i looked at the pictures and the names of all the people who had givin their lives.In the end they were the true heroes and I hope they will never be forgotten.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:23 pm
i ws on my 30 minute drive to work and listening to kgo radio as i did every morning. i heard the entire events as they unfolded over the airwaves. i drove past my job in sacramento and without thought really, i continued driving an hour and a half south to my parents home, listening to the radio all the way. i guess i just needed to be with people i loved. we watched it together on the tv for a while, and then i wanted to go home and be with my two teen daughters. two hours back to my house, and i called in to work and said i would be out for awhile. i pulled up a chair right in front of my tv and rarely left it for the next three days solid…….to this day i find it absolutely stunning and still when i think of it i move from terror to disbelief, to anger and to great sorrow….the humanity and the families who were destroyed that day, for what? for what?…God bless them all, and please God, bless America.
May 19th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
i still cannot belive what happened to newyork that day, still to this day it still on my mind as the day itself thats probably because i rencently changed my middle name by uk deed poll to NYC, i also have just finished reading the last man standing book if you have not read it yet belive me it is brilliant. about a nyc firefighter i am not a big reader but honestly i felt like i went through the things he and others had to endure, i also recently had my tattoo finshed its on my arm with newyork skyline and the twin towers 1 with the american flag wrapped round and 1 with the englands st georges cross with united we stand, now i will have to find a spot for the new fredom tower but lets be honest can anything match up to the world trade center i think not, personaly they should have rebuilt them, anyway 1 day my dream to live a work in newyork shall come true, all my thoughts and wishes are to everyone who was there,involved or lost someone on that infamous day, i hoped i can meet the people who let me stay at there apartment when i flew out from manchester to newyork a couple of weeks after the attacks to lend my hand there for a month the family where brilliant. god bless america and united we stand uk-us,
May 19th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
There are certain things in life that I have seen, felt, been through with the rest of america. When I was in 3rd grade I witnessed the space shuttle challenger explode on jan 28th, 1986. On sep 11 2001, I witnessed are countrys defences get penetrated by evil, terrosist attacks. On feb 1, 2003 I witnesed another space shuttle disaster when columbia went down. America is always the superpower to step in and help the weak, I feel alot of things are coming to pass and will get worse because of the ultimate foundation of what this country was built on is slowly being removed, that foundation is the beleif and trust in the ultimate being which is GOD. ” if we are not one nation under God, then we are nation that has gone under”.. Ronald Reagan 1985
April 27th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Today i am still sad of when i think of what new york went through that day. I was in Omagh in Northern Ireland and i came home from school and my dad and my family were just staring at the TV. I asked what was going on and they said that the “Twin Towers” in new york were on fire.
I could not believe my eyes. I was planning on seeing these towers!! but i thought that the fires would be put out. Little did i know they were going to COLLAPSE!!
I still cant get my head around it. I did not want these towers to collapse. I wanted to see them and take pictures of them.
But now its too late… i don’t like the idea of the freedom tower! they should rebuild the twin towers like they were!
I miss them
God bless all the families and survivors.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I live in Australia and it was the day after my 21st birthday. I was watching TV with my mum and all of a sudden it went to a live broadcast of the towers. At first we didnt know what was going on - we thought the TV station had stuffed up and it had gone to the middle of a movie when all of a sudden we saw the second plane hit. Chills went down my spine and I could not believe what I was seeing. I was watching but I couldnt believe it, I changed the TV to look at every channel and the same thing was on all of them. I have never felt so sad, scared, angry and numb at the same time in all my life. Obviously I didnt see the worst of it, but what i did see will be with me forever. Rest in Peace.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
i was a surviver and i escaped
April 8th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
i was just getting my papers for discharge but i reinlisted in the army.
April 7th, 2009 at 9:51 am
I am from Long Island, and I am currently 16. 9/11 is still clear in my memory, although I was young, it had a big impact on me. On September 11th, 2001, at approximately 8AM, I was sitting in my 3rd grade class doing an activity. Suddenly the tragedy was announced over the loudspeaker, and we were all sent home.I didn’t exactly know what the chaos was about, but when I arrived home, I found that every channel was broadcasting the collapse of The World Trade Center. I was in pure disbelief, and didn’t know how to react at first. Ever since I was young I’ve had a strong passion, and love for New York City, and to see it falling apart on live television was a very disturbing sight for me. Seeing people screaming,crying, jumping off buildings for their lives was all that the television was depicting on this day. On this day tremendous amounts of lives were terminated and sacrificed.. I admire every hero that participated in saving lives of innocent individuals. Although we cannot bring back the ones we lost, they will always be kept in our hearts for the rememberence of this day that will go down in history. When i grow older I want to make a difference, and help the city become a safer environment for all New Yorkers. My heart goes out to all the police men, firefighters,soldiers and heroes who sacrificed themselves to save lives, God bless you<3.
March 30th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I grew up in NJ right across the Hudson from Manhattan. I watched the towers being built and we were all so happy when they changed the TV tower from the Empire State Building to the WTC. For the first time we had crystal clear TV. Such a small thing to think about but its what comes to mind. In 1977 I moved to the West Coast and it was pretty early in the morning on September 11, 2001 when my sister called. “Do you see it?” I couldn’t imagine what she was talking about. I was watching an arts and crafts show and all was quiet and peaceful - I couldn’t imagine what had her so excited. When I turned the TV to a network channel I could not believe my eyes. Throughout the day I watched and cried and watched some more - disbelieving my own eyes and amazed when the towers fell one at a time! I felt so bad for New Yorkers and for the people trapped in those buildings and for the firemen, police and other service workers who died trying to help. A tremendous loss of life - a horror to watch!
After that day the country grew closer together then I ever imagined that we could! We were as one in our grief and in our anger and in our resolve to bring the mastermind of this abomination to justice! Bin Laden is still free and hiding in his dirty caves but he is the most hated person on the planet - a title he may revel in but many of the human race think of him as despicable, as scum!
No matter what we do we cannot bring all those innocent people back….if grief could do it they would all be alive and happy. Every September 11 I put a large round pin on my front door that depicts the WTC and says “We miss you”. In my own way I keep the memory of those people alive. All we can do is carry on and never ever ever forget!
March 29th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Zietgiest The Movie. Watch It. Believe It.
I Believe America, Has To Start Asking Qeustions Before the Freedom Tower Is Built , Or the goverment will get away with the lies. Everybody Know’s Deep Inside , They Knew About it.
March 28th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I was at work in a steel mill in Birmingham, Alabama when a truck driver broke the news he had heard on the radio. Being from New Jersey and having a view of the towers growing up on the Jersey shore made me think about the magnitude of it all. We turned on a television in our office to watch. I was horrified to see the towers come down. I have a very good friend who is a fire fighter in N.Y.C. at the time, and I worried for his safety and the others as well. I was a volunteer with him in New Jersey and just knew that he and the others would charge head first in those buildings because that is what firemen do. Firemen tend to think that they are indestuctable. That moment changed my own opinion. This was a collapse which nobody would ever believe would happen. Those brave souls never once thought about this because they belive that they can deal with any obstacle. God bless them all!!!!! P.S. My friend is still kicking it with ladder 4 near times square!
March 27th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I was living in Florida on 9/11/01 and was at work early that morning. I work for a publishing company, and there were televisions all over the building - suspended from the ceilings, always on and always tuned into one or other of the news channels. I heard someone say that “something” had crashed into one the WTC buildings so went over to one of the TV’s and saw the second plane hit the other tower. Everyone in our offices spent the entire day doing nothing but watching those TV’s in silent disbelief. It was the most tragic event I’ve ever witnessed and I hope never to see anything like it again. Exactly one week later, our building was evacuated due to a bomb threat, and two weeks after that one of my co-workers died by yet another form of terrorism - anthrax. Our company was the first to receive one of several anthrax-laced letters sent that fall. God bless those people killed that day, their families and loved ones, and all of our soldiers fighting to maintain our freedom, and those who have died doing so. God bless America and God bless us all…may we all rally again during these awful times and bring this nation back to what it once was and can be again.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:52 am
God bless you Norman Hayes. Finally a voice of reason. I wish there were a way that we could turn back time to a better day but alas, we cannot. I agree with every word you have said and that gives me some hope for the future that there are more than 2 of us left. I am deeply saddened by recent events and have a hard time loving my country as I once did. I have actually thought of moving to another country where people do not care about who I believe in or what I think. I miss the days when people didn’t try to force you to be like them and think like them.
March 27th, 2009 at 3:14 am
I was living in Australia when I received the call from my sister at approximately 2:30Am Australian time. I could not believe what I was seeing and yet there it was as plain as day. I watched the newscast from the time of the first impact and was watching when the second plane hit. I knew it was going to be bad and yet thanks to the heroism of the firefighters, police and first responders the casualties were remarkably low all things considered. Of more significance is the direction the country has gone in since that tragic day. We as Americans have still taken for granted our freedoms and liberties and we are now a much more complacent people unwilling to make sacrifices for the good of the country. On that terrible day events would be set in motion that would bring Osama Bin Ladens words to fruition. We have indeed defeated ourselves, compromised our principles, forsaken our God and surrendered our freedoms by allowing our Government (past and present administrations included to sell our country out in an unprecedented manner and we the American people are to blame. We have allowed the media and Hollywood to dictate to us whom we should put in power. By not taking the time and effort to think for ourselves, pray for our fellow man and stop with the partisan bickering that has made us the laughing stock the world over we have spit on the graves of all of the brave men and women that have fought to protect this country. Our military is vilified for doing their job and it pains me to say that everyone of the lives lost and sacrificed for this once great nation has been in vain. We have allowed our Government to give away our sovereignty, at the same time our brave men and women are fighting and dying to protect the very constitution that these reprehensible members of our government are sworn to uphold and yet violate at every turn purely for power and political expediency. So to all of my fellow Americans I say this. You are playing right into the hands of the evil people that perpetrated this heinous act. You are losing and will continue to lose as long as you keep allowing others to think for you. 09/11/01 was the first offensive in a war that will see the fall of this once great nation but the sad thing is that it will be by our own hands. Osama was right when he said we will destroy ourselves from within. I just did not think it would happen this quickly and with such celebration and fanfare. It is only fitting that the Freedom Tower is no longer called the Freedom Tower as we as a country are no longer a free people. And to any detractors whom might feel that I am way off base just look at what is happening. Not just America but the entire world is being reshaped before our eyes.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:47 am
Me and my brother had recently been working on a fair size addition to his Long Island home and I was on the second floor reviewing help wanted ads online. My sister-in-law came in the front door exclaiming that a plane had flown into the twin towers. My immediate thoughts shifted from is she just trying to get me to log of the computer to was it a small plane?
I came downstairs and as I sat on the sofa, as my legs were bending, the second jet airliner came into sight and struck the other tower. My body dropped into the sofa. I was horrified and mesmerized at the same time and stayed that way for the next several days. I remember watching each tower crumble wondering if my brother Dan had been in the city that day (He had actually done work in the WTC), I thought about Steve and the Gery twins that I had grown up (whom at last contact were NYC Transit Police and firefighters) also. I had never watched so much news in all my life. I had never felt such a loss and emptiness as the days turned to weeks and so few remains had been removed from the site. Our family had just moved out of Rockaway when the twin towers were completed but my aunt Pat remembered watching them being built. To the best of my knowledge no one I knew had died or was injured that day. I am the exception with so many of my seven brothers and sisters and dozen or so cousins, not being perhaps as fortunate as I. It was a horrible day that I can not forget. Many heroes came to be that day, how I wish they hadn’t. I have been near ground zero once, I couldn’t stay; it was worse than the sadness and emotion I felt upon my first visit to the Vietnam Wall in DC and more so than my last visit to Pearl Harbor. I no longer live in NY, mainly for other reasons, but in the aftermath of this day September 11, 2001 I could not stay.
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I was sitting in shock in my livingroom/lounge in a small village west of Glasgow, Scotland, trying hard to take in what I was seeing. I would liked to have seen the reconstruction of the WTC in an act of defiance to the maniac’s who think that we, as a civilised people, would blindly follow, have another think comming.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I was in Kindergarden when this terrible attack took place. I remember everything so clearly though. My grandmother came to pick me up early when we were eating lunch in the school. She came in and took me home. Everyone’s parents did. I asked what was going on, and she told me that New York City had been attacked. I asked for some details, but she just said, “Just wait, you’ll see what I’m talking about in a moment.” We were just 1 minute away from the house anyway.
We got inside, and she had left the TV on. I immediately sat down and watched. I then remembered how my dad had been working in the buildings with Sentara, and I became very woried. My mom came into my grandmother’s house, after checking the mail at hers. She came in, and ironically, she was holding a Post Card from my dad. I asked if he was ok, and she said that he had gotten home about 5 days before.
I called his house, he was ok. I still have that post card.
This is my closest connection to the Twin Towers, and I sadly have never seen them. When the Freedom Towers open, I am definately going to see them.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I’ll continue to believe that the Freedom Tower will be built. September 11, 2001 my unit was preparing to do honors for a veteran. I was a 1100 o’clock funeral. I was watching the Today show. We watched those people die and left and performed a honor funeral for a fallen veteran. No…you will not let them humilate and expose us as evil men. I will fight. The Freedom Tower is my symbol of freedom. Never Again.
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I dont think that i will ever forget what i was doing on that horrific day. I WAS AT WORK IN Barnardos shop in Hitchin in the UK when about 2 pm my friend called me and told me that a plane had flown into the Twin Towers in New York. I siad that she must have been mistaken as there is no way that would happen as the towers are not that near to airports. she said put the radio on so i did and i could not beleive what i was hearing. they just talking about the first plane when she saw the second plane hit theother tower. I just could not beleive that this was happening one plane yes there could have been an explanion but two no way. Then over the radio thay stated saying about bthe pentagon. I thought that World War 3 was about to break out. we closed our shop early so that we could go home to see the news because none of us could concentrate on work. THey were evacuating all the high rise buidings in London it was like the world had gone mad. The worst part of the day was seeing them poor people make the desion to jump rather than burn. I am going back to New york in may and one of the most important sites i want to see is groung zero now hom to the Freedom tower. New york does not look the same i remember going in November 1998 and flying into JFK. The first building that you could see as you was about to land was the Twin Towers and then you saw the Empire State Building. I loved going up the towers and miss them but new york need more icon buildings andi think that the FREEDOM TOWER is it.
GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THIR LIFES ON THAT DAY AND ALL THE SOLDIERS IN IRAQ AND AFGANISTAN
February 28th, 2009 at 2:09 am
The New world Order will be announced about the same time this building is complete. Do not have faith in your elected officials in the highest offices (bush, Obama, Clinton, etc). These are the same people orchestrating chaos in this world. Trust Jesus - the only one who knows you best and loves you very much. And yes, 911 has disturbing questions surrounding it’s event. God bless to all who were lost on that fateful day, as well as those who have perished since that tragic event in human history. Peace.
February 8th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
They should make the freedom towers not just 1!
February 7th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
nice story….
I
HATE FREEDOM TOWER
February 7th, 2009 at 7:08 am
I remember that day it was my sophmore year in high school in a small town south of Topeka,KS in science class, suddenly a student came in saying that the twin towers had been hit by a plane. For a second I thought it was a joke, and at the time I really didn’t understand what the twin towers were. Moments later we turned on the tv to learn it was no joke, this horrible event was happening right before our eyes. The classed had stopped and was fixed to the tv screen, you could even hear a pin drop from the silence. Later we learned that other planes were missing, the pentagon had been hit, america was under attack. The real heros that day that will always be remember are our firefighters, law enforcement, medical services that died that day to save all the people involved and was willing to lay down thier life to save a stranger. Let us remember all the ones that were killed that day and pray for thier families that expected them to come home, our blessings and prayers go out to these people. I will not forget you, america will not forget you. Let us all remember that on that day forward you will always been remember as heros. God bless this great nation, and know that at the end of the day america stood tall with our flags hung high!!
Fallen heros….Let us salute you saying thank you for we can not repay you for what you done that day and still continue to do!
January 20th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Personally, I am an empire state building Fan.But I do miss those 2….
And I don’t find the freedom tower healing at all. GEEZ , people all over NY are complaining because because everybody says the freedom tower looks like SH** and everybody hates it ,BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO they don’t listen,and they are making it ? WHATs WRONG WITH THESE F****** PEOPLE ?
If you guys want to show our freedom , well, BUILD THE TWIN TOWERS BACK . geez is it so hard to get construction workers to understand that ?
- signing off.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I remember sitting in my ninth grade global history class. The principal of the school announced what had occurred on the loudspeaker. He assured us that we were safe and then when I got home we spent the entire day checking on friends. I feel sorry for all of the victims of that tragic attack.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Although I live in New Orleans and have witnessed destruction with Katrina, I still think about 9/11 often. The question that is most asked is “Did you lose anyone special to you that day?” My answer is always the same, “Yes, every single one of them.”
January 5th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
9/11 was an inside job.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Waking up at ten in the morning,my brother pounding on my door.Something happened to the wtc.Not knowing what i was waking up to changed my life for ever.I did not lose enybody close to me, but my mother lost a dear friend.My brother witnessed it from 6 blocks away.I live in florida now,but i am from new york no matter how meny years im gone.It is good to see such progress in the rebuilding and healing of our great city and nation,and for the strong resilience of evil we stand strong and move on.For this i’m proud to be an american
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 am
I remember going to school and i didnt understand what was happening all i knew was a plane crashed into a huge tower called the world trade center and then another crash into another tower the north and south towers have been hit and then i really got scared because i live in virginia in newport news and like it hit the pentagon to i thought we were next when i hit about first grade i understood what happened know that i know im happy i live in america when i go to school im 11 and in the 6th grade all kids wana do is play on 9/11 we all understand wat happened we sit down pray take a moment of silence everything
December 17th, 2008 at 1:44 am
I’ll still never forget that day and will always pray for all those killed and injured. It must be so difficult for those left behind this time of year. Let the world never forget and let there always be peace on earth. God bless xx
December 6th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Amazing video showing how a city and a country is suffering and stands up again. Why? Because we are living in democracy? This has to stop and hoping we may stand united in a western world of peace and freedom.
Everytime I see the images of 9/11, I still can’t believe what has happened and how somebody is able to do this.
I look forward to visit this amazing city and to see how they are building this nice sample of freedom and force.
“Dedicated to the many victims of 9/11″.
Ignace Soenen - Belgium.
November 25th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I remember at around five o’clock Las Vegas time my mother waking me up and telling me to come into her bedroom.I looked at the television and i did not know what was going on I did not really understand it because i was in kindergarten but now that im 13 I am very honored to live in this country. When i got to school on September 11 of every year I do not understand how everyone can just sit around and pretend likes its any other day sometimes i even cry about.
November 24th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I was a woken by a friend who said “Turn on the TV” I did and tomy horror I sawthe first tower on fire. It was when they still assumed it was an accident involving a small plane.Then the second plane hit and the tragedy unfolded as an attack. I was glued to the TV during all of the first part. I am a teacher and had to get to school. I teach 5th grade. As I was driving to work I listned as the announcer said the towers were falling. And then he said in a stunned voice that they simply weren’t there anymore where they had been. I got toschool and the staff was watchingthe TV and it was decided not to bring this up to the children. But they knew and saw. We did not turn on the TV for them to see the gory details. But we discussed how they felt and let them draw pictures of what they had heard. It is truly a day, like when Kennedy was killed, that I, for one, will never forget where I was that day and what I was doing. I cannot see a picture of the towers and not think about all the people especially those onthe plane being hurtled to their deaths and how they must have felt and my heart grows heavy.
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I was in first grade. I noticed that alot of the kids in my class were going home. Then my teacher told me to go to the office because I was going home when my mom and I got out of the building there was soo much smoke. We were running fast. Then when we got home i asked my mom what happened. She said look out the window.( we had a great view of WTC from brooklyn). I saw one building on fire and then all of a suden I saw a plane coming toward the other tower when it hit I started crying. I was sitting by the window until the first building collapsed.
(sorry for the mistakes)
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I was in first grade. I noticed that alot of the kids in my class were going home. Then my teacher told me to go to the office because I was going home when my mom and I got out of the building there was soo much smoke. We were running fast. Then when we got home i asked my mom what happened. She said look out the window.( we had a grea view of WTC from brooklyn). I saw one building on fire and then all of a suden I saw a plane oming toward the other tower when it hit I started crying. I was sitting by the window until the first building collapsed.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:30 am
When the WTC was hit, i was in the third grade at Trailwoods elementary. I was doinig Math, and then my principle came on the school intercom, and said for us to turn on the TV. At my age, then, i didn’t even know what the World Trade Centers were, and i didn’t even know where they were. At that time, i didn’t even understand what the big problem was, or why it was such a big deal, that was until that night, when President bush told us that we were ghoing to war against terrorism then did i understand what was going on. From that moment on, I’ve read as much as i can about the world trade center, or freedom tower. I don’t think that we should rebuild only one tower, but that we should rebuild both towers, to show Al Quida that we are still strong, and that we will always stay that way.
God Bless America, I FULLY SUPPORT OUR TROOPS.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:13 am
I dont feel like a long time has passed since this tragedy…
I live in Sonora, Mexico…At that time I was sleeping, my mom wake me up at 6 am(Pacific time) shouting “The new york towers are falling! An airplane hit the new york towers! wake up now! Someone attacked new york” The first time I thought that she was talking about the “new york new york hotel” in las vegas, because we visited that place that summer… I was confused and I went to her room to watch the news… yes… a big building was burning. At that time I barely knew that those towers existed… I couldnt get ready to go to school, I was shocked because the second plane crashed… I remember that I thought “It will definitely collapse”, I didnt know how, I was a kid and I imagined that It could fall from one side, or just one part… but then it started to collapse .-. … _-_ then It was time to go to school. all that day I wanted to watch the news, but somehow people didnt realize how important were those things for everyone.
And the same… before that, I never thought such amazing buildings could collapse…
November 15th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
though it is long time ago, i remember it, as if it was just yesterday! i was working and a thierry mugler-representative told me, that there have been planes flying into the WTC. it was just after it happened because she got called from n.y.c., only moments, after the second plane hit.
i thought she was kidding me!
i’m quite interested in architecture and loved the twin towers (though i rather like the stuff, i.m.pei does); i guess i loved the simplicity ..
in my break i talked to a friend of mine: we could not believe it, where both shocked and thought, this would be the beginning of the third world war!
so many thoughts rushed through my brain ..
then i saw them fall ..
it was such an awkward moment .. disbelief!
i never thought, such high buildings could collapse ..
i never thought, i would “witness” a tragedy like this ..
November 7th, 2008 at 6:58 am
I live in Perth, Western Australia and remember the first time I visted NYC in 1999 and I was awed by WTC.As a skyscraper fan, it was one of my Icon buildings to see. I visted NYC again in early 2001 with my sister and brother-inlaw. Having been to WTC I could identify with the area. Tragically WTC now has a more symbolic and personal link as my brother-inlaw was killed in February 2002 serving our nation in Afghanistan.I hope that the freedom tower memorial will remember not only those lost on 9/11 but all the men and women who have lost their lives in the war on terror including non-american nations.
November 6th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Sept. 11th is the day that I will never forget, even after I die. I lived in Tampa, Fl right down the street from Macdill Airforce base. I had just given birth to my son June 13, so I was at home taking care of him. I was watching the mouring news when “Breaking News” enterrupted normal programming. A few minutes after, was when the second plane hit. All I could think was “Oh my, GOD, Please save all those people!” and all I did was cry and hope that everything would be alright. But they weren’t. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about that day and all those lives lost in attack and the heros who risked their lives. GOD is and will always hold those who lost their lives close to his heart and in his hands as he watchs over the surviors and the familys of victims and heros. We all need to remember every day; that this is the reason way we are The United States of America, because we will prevail, and nothing will hold us down, we will fight for our loved ones lost! Also, prayers go out to all the men and women overseas who are fighting for us, and for all those lost in 9/11. My boyfriend is currently in Iraq with the US Army and every day I tell him to stay strong and that he is fighting for us and what we stand for!
United We Stand!
GOD Bless America and all our People!
I love you!
October 31st, 2008 at 2:12 am
I was in vail colorado on vacation. I was watching tv when the tv channel changed and headlines were saying the twin towers have fallen.
October 27th, 2008 at 3:51 am
My name is Carl and I still have very vivid memories of that tragic day.
I’m a New Zealander who flew to complete his last year of high school in California. I arrived on sept the the 4th and remember waking up thinking a new version of die hard was being televised and Bruce willis would soon show up. He never did.
I was very prowd and will always be, to be part of a country that really embodies togethernous and the patriotism know writer could write about.
God bless all families that have tragically lost family members, friends or any one directly or indirectly involved on this day.
Your country and the day will always hold a special place in my heart.
Thank you America for standing up and rising and showing me how to be come a better person.
9.1.1 rest in peace.
October 19th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Terrosits? Well we all know that we certainly should be very fearful of them. They have infiltrated every power structure that controls every facet of your life. They really DO hate your freedom (At least the freedom you once had) and they have a religious dedication to destroying them along with any ‘contaminated’ values you may have.
What we don’t know is that the terrorists in this world are not suicide bombers flying planes into building in pursuit of 99 virgins, burn American flags while chanting death to America or have any affiliation to Islam whatsoever. No, the real terrorists in the world wear $5000 suits and sit at the heighest levels of your governments and corporations. They are the men behind the curtain and you are living through the end of the begining of their very old plan foir a New World Order; a planned society in which you will have no rights to the point where you will not even be authorized to breed unless there is a requirement for another human to exist to serve the state.
But don’t listen to me, I’m just a crazy conspiracy theorist and the people that make your laws and write your news really care about you and work tirlessly to fix the problems of the world (Which they create) and serve as a perpetual santa clause to make your life easier.
Don’t say you weren’t warned
October 19th, 2008 at 10:27 am
One of the most sophisticated controlled demolitions in history. Magnificent performance, straight out of Hollywood. Freedom Tower?HA! quite the joke seeing how it will represent the total eradication of the few rights you once had. Completion in 2012? Just in time for when UN laws will supersede all national laws. Wakey-wakey sheeple! time is running out.
October 19th, 2008 at 10:18 am
9/11 was an inside job and you people are the ‘cannon fodder’ for the new world order
October 17th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I hope whoever is responsible for 9/11 i hope they suffer the way people did on that day especially the loved ones who had died in the tragic date. I love new york and i am only 16 i was 9 years old when it happened and i still remember to this day i was having a biscuit and then suddenly i decided to turn over the tv and then suddenly a 2nd plane crashed in the wtc and the headlines were AMERICA IS UNDER ATTCK i could not beleive my eyes. I feel really sorry for the new yorkers on that day that had to cope with lost love ones and i hope that whoever did this feels pain very bad and dies but that still will be not enough for the anger i feel, i love new york especially the spectcular twin towers and to tell the truth i don’t agree with the freedom tower i think they should build the same structure but more floors like i heard from the internet to show that america can heal and can show that they ignore terrorists and make a whole area around the two towers dedicated to all those people that died. I am from the United Kingdom
October 17th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I hope whoever is responsible for 9/11 i hope they suffer the way everyone one especially the loved ones who had died in the tragic date. I love new york and i am only 16 i was 9 years old when it happened and i still remember to this day i was having a biscuit and then suddenly i decided to turn over the tv and then suddenly a the 2nd plane crashed in the wtc and the headlines were AMERICA IS UNDER ATTCK i could not beleive my eyes. I feel really sorry for the new yorkers on that day that had to cope with lost love ones and i hope that whoever did this feels pain very bad and dies but that still will be not enough for the anger i feel, i love new york especially the spectcular twin towers and to tell the truth i don’t agree with the freedom tower i think they should build the same structure but more dloors like i heard from the internet to show that america can heal and can show that they ignore terrorists and make a whole area around the two towers dedicated to all those people that died.
September 24th, 2008 at 9:03 am
my cousin best friend was in the second tower she was killed in just under a few seconds
September 20th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I was wakeing up and my daughter called to ask her mom
what was going on she worked at the airport as a TSA in indianapolis
so we turned on the tv
I was shocked to see the news unfold.
I looked at my wife and she was displaying a face i have never seen before
I droped to a cold eary fealing and said to my wife i should have told someone
about the nightmares i had been having
I kept waking up in the night and telling her about it
two weeks before the 911 i told every one that i keep seeing people
taking planes and crashing into buildings
I dont know what to think of it never less its true.
I still feal sick to this day that i couldnot do something about it
the world needs to thank every one that helped in this tragic moment
its been seven years and i feal that it only happend yesterday its
something hard to forget.
A message to all terrorists::::YOU HAVE AWAKEND A SLEEPING GIANT…….WE WILL NEVER FORGET 911…WE WILL BE WATCHING YOU
You have made us stronger ,Bringing more people together in time of need
and showing the world how mutch love they have for each other in helping others
in this time of need
You have only made us stronger and wiser showing love for each other.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
we were running late for school that day and my mom turned on the car radio and we heard that a plane hit the north tower. my mom turned around and came back home to turn on the news. 10 minutes after we turned on the TV called relitives and friends in NYC a second plane came into the corner of the screen and slams into the south tower. if we hadnt moved months befor september 11th my dad would of been in the south tower 10 floors above impact. after lots of crying and confusion the south tower crumbled. speechless we just watched. it was horrible we had just watched thousands of people die 5 being our old neigbors. the north tower slid down to ground zero and that thought never escapes me. why? why did this happen? 72 virins? would you kill thousands for 72 virgins. i know the whole story it wasnet only for the virgins but still why. i cant say much more but that that day 9-11-01 will never be forgot by me,god, or America. god bless america and god bless us all.
September 16th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
i was devestated on september 11th 2001 and all of the evidence and facts prove that our own government made these attacks and the collapse of all 3 wtc buildings were controlled demolitions.
it really upsetsmeto see what this nation has come to and how many secrets the government holds from citizens.
r.i.p EVERYONE who lost their lives on september 11th 2001<3
you’ll all be remembered and no new “tower” could ever replace the remarkable world trade centre that once was..
9/11/01. gone but nnot forgotten.. ever
September 15th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Hi,My name is lori brumfield.It’s hurts me to see everyone,or republicans being so joyful with these candiates that representing republicians.if america doesnt wake up where going to be doomed quick.vote obama he seems like he’s living in my world with my god,so vote honestly and truthfully.no more 9/11 in this lifetime
September 15th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I can remember that fateful day so vividly. Just as i went to collect my children from primary school, one of the other mothers i knew came rushing over to me and told me that the World Trade had been hit by a plane. My first thought was that it had to be a light aircraft, or the worse case scenario a malfunctioning plane that had taken off from either Newark or JFK. We rushed back home ( I live in SE England) to put on the BBC news. What i saw unfolding was something beyond words, it was almost unrealistic….it couldnt be happening, it couldnt be true. All i thought about were the people in the towers…how would they escape, someone do anything quickly to help them…..i wanted to be able to plunge my hand into the screen and help them in anyway i could, like some sort of bizarre sci fi movie. I was screaming at the TV screen.
I sat and watched it happening…helpless and frustrated, the whole damn thing!which made me feel guilty, that i couldnt do anything to help those people, or rescue services get to these people. It all unfolded at such an alarming rate, hijacked planes, the pentagon….unbelievable.
7 years on, i still think about that day, and think about all of those people affected by the small things such as having an empty seat at the dining table, or not buying their loved ones favourite snack in the supermarket anymore.It hurts me to think that i couldnt help anyone to this day…
My love goes out to all those affected by the attacks. May those who perished rest in peace. WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I was sitting with my 10 month old daughter watching Bear in the Big Blue House having breakfast when my brother-in-law called to tell me an airplane just hit the first tower. I said, “Oh, I’ll have to turn it on” When I turned the channel, unbeknownst to me, I was watching the second plane crashing. However, I thought it was a rerun of the first plane. Once I realized what was happening, I began to cry. I cried all day. I called my cousin to find out where her brother, a Marine, was stationed. She told me he was at the Pentagon. I cried harder. I cried and cried…and then prayed and prayed…
September 14th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I was at kindergarten and at around 9:05 I fell of the monkey bars and broke my arm. I remember very little other than I lay on my couch cry in pain watching it on the news.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:28 am
I was working in Bensalem just outside northeast Philadelphia that day. My shift was over at 7:30 am but we had a meeting that lasted past 8:00. The traffic along Interstate 95 was still at it’s rush hour density so I turned on the CB radio in my pickup to hear the trucker’s chatting. There was something unusual at the the time because the radio traffic was intense. I remember hearing the words plane crash, New York, and building. Because of so many people talking, it was difficult to discern what was actually occurring even as one trucker simply keyed his mic in front of his AM radio to broadcast the news reports.
I had no idea of the historic magnitude of what was actually taking place but I knew that any plane crash into a building would make the news. Since there was construction on the I-95 southbound lane I was in, I knew it would be some time until I reached home. So I turned off the CB radio and used my cell phone to call my retired Father and asked him if he knew anything. He replied that he hadn’t and that after a few chores were done, he would turn on the TV.
At this point, I was getting through the heaviest of traffic and approaching the Ben Franklin Bridge when the though occurred to me of the warplane that struck the Empire State Building as I admired the newest skyscrapers that pierced the Philadelphia skyline. But my thoughts eventually turned to the subjects raised at the meeting I just attended while I continued along the remainder of my 41 mile trip home.
When I arrived at my Fathers house, the first thing that was out of the ordinary was the fact that he was waiting at the door with a look I had never seen on his face before. My Father is a very strong man with a lot of character and to see him this way was a bit unsettling. That was after the 2nd plane crashed into the WTC and upon hearing that, things began falling into place about my experiences of that morning thus far.
As I sat and watched CNN or MSNBC I learned along with the rest of the world that the Pentagon was attacked and later confirmed that it too was done so with a plane. Subsequent reports of all air traffic first being diverted to Canada and then all takeoffs being banned heightened my already raised anxieties about our country. Then the reports of yet another plane headed toward Washington came in and the eventual discovery of it’s crash in Shenksville made the day seam like a movie or nightmare.
Suddenly as the first tower fell I was finally struck with amazing disbelief unlike anything I experienced in my then 41 years of life. I felt guilty for my amazement at witnessing it almost as if I were there. I felt terribly bad for those who had chosen to jump from the buildings. And most of all, I felt anger toward those that carried out the attacks. I thought I would live my life without a Pearl Harbor and felt fortunate not to be old enough to remember the assassination of JFK.
For myself, this was a stark introduction to just how small the world is and how our freedoms are a precious gift in our lives.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
The first time i heard about the towers being hit by the planes i was at work. my supervisor was in one of the conference rooms watching it on tv. I couldnt believe what was happening. I was in complete shock to see our country being attacked and innocent people losing their lives. God bless all the families that lost loved ones on 9-11-2001.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I am from Wheeling, West Virginia, and I was a 19yr old sophomore in college, and I remember everyone going to the student union watching the vidoes of what was happening in NYC, and then in Washington. Classes were cancelled for the day, and well I commuted to school and I went home and just watched the news for like 4 days straight. I cant believe it has been 7 years.. now im a 26 year old..not married, but one day if I am lucky enough to marry and have kids. I can tell my kids about the terrible acts of terror on this day, but I will also tell them about how the country rallied together to help one another.
God Bless all who were lost on 9-11-01.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
hi,
im from erie,pa and on that day sven years from now i was in the 3rd grade. once my school got wind of the towers we were sent home and told to stay there.
when i got home the news was on and i was watching the towers fall. even at that age i was amazed that the country that is sposed to be an undefeatable country…. i felt defeated that day and worried about the families that were there. i dont get why there cant be peace around the world cause theres not point in war, look back to WWII theres not point in trying to be the best in the world.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Im from Ireland and I was liveing in Cork City and as NY is 5hrs behind us I remember going out to my lunch and everyone was cramed into the tv sales shops so I just thought that there was a sale on DVDS or tv’s but to ,y horror I was looking at a live broadcast of the 2nd plane hit the tower and I really only thought that it was a movie as It was on such a big scale only somethimg like a movie maker would make but sadly it was all real….oh my God I really still cant believe it but but my thoughts are with the familys and the victims of 9/11…(not the terrorists)hope they rot in eternal pergatory …….God bless us all, I mean we keep comeing up with wasy to kill each other, ants and humans are the only 2 species on the earth that kill there own kind 4 no reason……R.I.P. VICTIMS OF SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001….
FROM: TERENCE GLYNN
lIMERICK CITY , IRELAND IRE
September 11th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
On the day of the Sept 11th atrocity I was working in a shopping centre in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. It was a normal busy day plenty of people buzzing around when all of a sudden an eerie silence fell over the centre. We had started to notice people gathering outside an electronics store watching the televisions, I left the shop to take a look. What I saw was the news reports of the attacks and the live footage of the second plane hitting, we were thousands of miles away from ground zero but I felt the shock and then the horror hitting me like a sledge hammer. It is a day that will live with me forever, as will the day last year when Glasgow Airport was targeted by terrorists. I was working in the airport that day but thankfully their plans didnt quite work and there was no casualties apart from the terrorists themselves. My thoughts will always be with the families and victims of 9/11 even though were so far away - were are all united against these acts of terrorism. Gone but never forgotten. Rest In Peace.
September 11th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
7 years ago it was my first semester and first year at World Harvest Bible College. I was sitting in one of my classes called Moral Ethics/Clarity and my instructor was teaching. Suddenly, a young man came up to the instructor and whisppered something in his ear. His face changed instandly and silently told everyone in the class that the planes had crashed into the WTC. He stopped his teaaching and asked everyone to start praying! There were about 200 students in that class, and we all started praying to God. Our God who we say “God Bless America!” The same God who we know answers prayers, yet we do not know the answers to everything to why things like the WTC had happened.
Class was dismissed and cancelled for the rest of the day. Everyone was to head to our church’s sanctuary to meet our Pastor, as our Pastor addressed to every Bible College student, staff, and children who attended the Christan school there. At the end of Pastor’s addressing us, we all took a moment of silence and prayed for those who suffered the crash and building fire. We prayed for the Policemen, Firemen, the Pentegon, Pittsburg, etc. and it lasted for about two hours of prayer.
The Bible says that “in the last days perilous times will come” Perilous means a season of trouble. Well, on Sept. 11th 2001, America had entered in a season of trouble.
Let us continue to pray, fast and seek God for help, direction and comfort in this time of America, lost loved ones, our children, the people who fought the WTC destructions, and never forget! Pray for our enemies also, those who did what they did and their country. For their need to change their minds, hearts and purpose to who they are, what they did, and why they did it, and still wants to this day! Pray that goodness, light will overcome our darkness in America!
September 11th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Today in Houston we are watching the skies for Hurricane Ike. Seven years ago I was watching the empty skies over Houston. Empty because the skies were cleared of aircraft by the time I left work. That morning in my office I had no idea what had happened. I worked in an office alone. I had no TV and my radio wasn’t on. I called another office to ask about something and the man made an off handed remark about planes flying into buildings. I asked what he meant and he told me to turn on the radio. I got on the web and the front page of Yahoo had a still picture of the Towers; on fire and smoking. I turned on the radio and listened as a reporter reported live the unfolding events. A client walked into my office as the reporter yelled that the building was falling. I tried to hold it together, my hands shaking so hard I could hardly type out the changes the client needed on their document. Then the reporter said “they are gone”. The trembling ran up my arms and into my chest. My teeth started chattering because I was shaking so hard. My client put her hand on my shoulder letting me know I could stop and I buried my face in my hands and wept. The picture was still unchanged but we knew they were gone.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
My husband, our 8-month old son and I were in India visiting our families and also getting ready for our son’s baptism and my sister’s wedding. It was evening in India when the planes hit the twin towers. I remember walking into the living room and seeing it on TV. At first, I thought it was a movie but quickly realized what it was when I noticed that it was being televised live. I remember walking around in complete shock and worried for my parents and for members of my family that live in NY. there was so much pain because I have an emotional attachment to New York: I worked in long Island and my husband went to NYU. we had just moved to Maryland in July 2001. The only though I had was about how could such a thing happen? what kind of twisted, psychotic monsters would do such a thing? I though of all the people who died that day and how they had left their homes and loved ones, never knowing that they would not see them again! As we remember the 7th anniversary of that tracig day, I am grateful to every single man and woman that ensure the freedom of this wonderful land. Even though my heritage is Indian,my country is the USA. I am proud to be an American to have the freedom to raise my children in a land where they can be anything they want to be and go whereever they want to go. God bless all those who lost their lives that day, those that mourn the death of loved ones, every single one of us and most importantly, GOD BLESS THE USA.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I was living in CT at the time driving to work and heard it on the radio, thought it was a prank until I got to work and we turned on the TV. This is a tragedy that never should have happened and one that we will never forget. God bless all those lost and all the families left behind to mourn them!
September 11th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
“The World Trade Center is on fire” was heard screaming down the halls, a slight giggle in the class, is this some kinda joke we thought, then while walking into another class we saw, the first plain hit, silence. What happened news flash a plain hit. Confusion whats going on? The bell rings the day transfers back to normal, off to English. I told the teacher something happen in New York and she let me hook up the TV to the news. “Buzz” the screen turns on same image one tower smoking then out of no where another impact a fire ball ripped half way up the building, moments later 6 plains missing, pentagon hit, crash in a field, the US is under attack. The finger pointing, the X generation lost its innocents. My name is James Harmon and in a few weeks i’ll be heading to Iraq a deployment in which I volunteered for I joined in the Marine Corps in 2004 and reenlisted in October of 2007 and now I got my wish. I see those who degrade what we have and are doing over there. Theirs even a women who protest at my brotheren funerals, well we are the ones who protect her right to do so, and though I don’t like what she does millions over the US’s history have died to give her that right I still don’t like it. So remember this day for those who died on this day, for those who died as a result of this day, and for those who are fighting because of this day. Remember never leave a love one angry at you never leave with a fight because you never know when the moment maybe there last. Remember NEVER FORGET!!!!!
September 11th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Of course I will never forget where I was when I heard the news… I was 16 years old. I was a sophomore in high school in Decatur, AL sitting in American History class. A voice came on the intercom saying that a plane had hit one of the twin towers. I didn’t fully understand what that meant at the time but my teacher said that it is ironic that we were sitting in American History class because this day would forever be burned into our minds, hearts & American history. She turned on the television so we could watch and every other class I was in that day had the tv on so we could witness this awful occurance. Even today while watching the same news coverage 7 years later I cry for all the families who lost loved ones. And I hold my 2 year old son up to the tv and tell him what happened years before his birth and he says “Oh no! Look Mommy, smoke”.
Even a toddler can tell its terrible. I pray for America and all the families with lost ones. And I also pray that no one who was alive that day will ever forget what transpired. I know I will never forget!!!
September 11th, 2008 at 4:31 am
HI,
I always thought people were exaggerating when he or she would say they knew exactly where they were when JFK was shot. Now, I know what they mean.
I left my home, north of Pittsburgh, and was in the parking lot of a Walmart when I heard on B94 that a plane had hit the towers. I thought it was a joke or radio stunt at first, but then I tuned into the NBC radio station and listened to the Today Show.
I was speechless. I had classes that day at college, so I listened as I drove. When I got to campus, everyone was on a computer or watching the TV. My Prof. tried to start class but it didn’t work. He is a Muslim and was very upset by what was happening.
Those on a computer read about a possible missing plane in the Pa/Oh area. Just then a Security Guard came to our classroom and said “There is a missing plane somewhere near Pittsburgh. The college is closeing in 10 minutes. Get your stuff and go home immediately.”
I was scared out of my mind. I drove home looking at the sky, not the road.
My parents called and wanted my brothers family and I to head north, away from Pittsburgh. But we stayed home and watched the rest of the day unfold.
September 11th was a tragic, dark day for everyone in America. We can only hope that something like this won’t happen again.
God Bless to everyone who lost a loved one and God Bless America!!
September 8th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Hi,
My name is Alok and I am from India. I very clearly remember where i was when this horrible event took place. I was in my office in New Delhi, India when one of my colleagues saw the news on the internet of a plane hitting one of the towers…for the first few minutes we could not believe what is happening. Very soon others confirmed what we were hearing.
I remember running down to our office’s cafeteria and i saw that almost the entire office had gathered down there. There was pin drop silence as we watched in horror the events unfolding. My heart still feels the sadness and anger that i felt that day - i will never forget it.
9/11 was a tragedy for the human race - it exposed the worst in human minds and depths of depravity that one can go to. I will never forget that day nor those images. I offer my personal support to those who directly suffered in this - no words can replace what you lost but the world understands your pain.
In India, we have suffered from terrorism since the last 50 years and have seen our cities bombed, innocents killed number of times. We empathize with what happened in America. America has been always a friend of India and we condemn in the strongest possible terms fundamentalism and terrorism. We need to resolve to stamp out of existence such elements and groups who spread and thrive on nothing but blind hatred.
May God bless the free nations of this world, and our nations India and America. Amen.