20 Years Ago Today . . . . September 11, 2001 . . . Lest We Forget . . . .

[Jerry Busse]

Our thoughts and prayers are with those individuals and families whose lives were so unjustly destroyed and changed forever on that fateful day 20 years ago.

God Bless America!

Jerry


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[Busto]

God Bless America....Our Memories of that day should reunite us now as it did on that day, and remember all the lives that were changed forever.

 

[Bigfattyt]

Well said.

I remember watching the planes hit. We had a work meeting right after (pre scheduled).

I remember the feelings I felt that day.

 

[Cobalt]

Hard to believe it's been 20 years. Changed many lives forever

 

[ScoMa]

Never forget.

 

[David Lennon]

I remember watching it on tv as it happened, it's still hard to believe.
And being in New York a few years later and seeing where the towers had been was very poignant.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

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[TENTEX]

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[Cobalt]

I have two friends that died as a result of being first responders on 9/11. One was NY and the other at the Pentagon. Both died of lung cancer and both left behind wife and young kids.

 

[JV Knives]

God Bless America and may we all live up to being deserving of the sacrifices made !

 

[tuica]

Remember - until I no longer walk the earth

 

[Andy the Aussie]

I was set to fly to the US on 14 Sept. Ended up leaving on the 15th.

 

[resinguy]

I know that there are members here that have close and terrible memories from that day. Things that they can't or won't share. It must be a great burden.

I was having a coffee break in the Technical Library at our R&D site in Strongsville, OH when Carol said that she heard from her daughter that a plane had crashed into a Tower. We dragged a large TV on a rolling cart into a meeting room and turned on the news. People gradually drifted in. IIRC we saw the second plane hit. (memory is fallible). The crowd got larger in the room, as we were all transfixed and quiet. When the first Tower dropped out of sight there was flurry of confused comments and then crying. At around the same time reports were coming in of a flight near Cleveland that had abruptly changed direction. I think that may have been United 93. Downtown Cleveland office towers were given evacuation orders, including our own HQ. So we got word to close our site as well and were dismissed. Can't remember if we saw the other Tower drop.

 

[Cobalt]

Part of the reason for the panic was that after the air craft hit the buildings and in PA, there were rumors of between 7 and 11 total planes. Which is why AF was on high alert and flying. DC sounded like a war zone with fighter jets flying over continually.

 

[CookieRawwr]

I was 20 years old and I remember it vividly. I will never forget those people lost. God bless all of them.

 

[David Brown]

I will always remember that day and honor those that serve this country.

 

[Twoody]

I was in grade 8 and rember my mom waking me up and telling me to turn on the TV. The whole school day was spent watching and waiting on what was to come next in each class. Even though im in another country we mourned for the losses as if it was our own. RIP and respects to the familys of those injured or gone.

 

[Chingon1988]

Never forget. I was in the 7th grade myself when it happened & I vividly remember my science teacher saying over and over he couldn't believe it...shaking his bowl cut over and over.

 

[JohnTheTexican]

Never forget.

 

[RobStanley]

It sent ripples throughout the whole world. I was driving to work when I heard about it over the radio. Pretty much exactly one year before the tragedy, I stood on the roof of one of them. It's hard hard to comprehend the sheer terror those poor people must have felt. Such a dark day in human history.