9/11 #neverforget memorial thread

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[Dem2theMax]

1. Every time I see those lights, it hits me right in the gut.

It's so beautiful, and so heartbreaking, all at the same time.

[vercetti2021]

2. I'll share my story

I was 11 at the time. I was in the 5th grade. It was early morning so myself and every student went to school. Went about our day. They were having their annual book fair which I loved. I would buy so many books. Anyways they had the TV on in the library and it was just showing NYC but it looked stormy. Originally I thought they were getting hammered with a hurricane or tornadoes. Obviously that wasn't the case.

So come end day and our teacher was away so we had a sub who was really short with the class most the day. When it hit 3 PM. She didn't let us out right away, she told all of us what happened in NYC. We all were just silent as we were children and had to take it all in that we got attacked. Then we got let out to go home. I got home and immediately went to my room to watch the news. I couldn't believe it.

I'm 30 years old now and I fully believe 9/11 ushered in a new world. So much hate and fear was born from that day and it shows still to this day. Bin Laden might be dead, but he succeeded in making America be scared of its own shadow.

[electric_blue68]

4. Wow...

...I know a little bit how you felt. I was in 5th grade 10 yrs old when JFK was assassinated. Teacher was called out of the classroom. Came back in looking ashened told us that he President had been shot.Then not long after over the intercom the principal announced he had died, and we were let out early.

Where were you?
Did you feel over the days the pall of the adults around you? I know I did wat back then.

[vercetti2021]

6. I honestly didn't know how to react

I think since being a child I was in disbelief. Like how could have this happen to America? I thought we were protected.

My grandparents and mom both tried to get me to understand that there are people who hate us and will always try to hurt us in anyway possible.

Here we are 19 years later and the long term effect still lingers because of our current dictator in chief

[BigmanPigman]

5. I posted my story earlier.....

That day was the hardest day I ever had teaching my 1st grade class. I saw it on the news at home and listened on the radio as I drove to work. I couldn't believe school wasn't canceled. I used to live in The Village and saw the Twin Towers everyday walking to college.
I went to my school (on the West Coast) and watched the news on the classroom TV 5 minutes before we opened our doors to the kids. The teacher next door and I saw the 2nd tower go down on my TV and went to the principal....surely he would be able to tell us how to handle this. Nope, "Go teach like it is any other day". Suuuuure, dude. I turned the TV cabinet so I could see the screen and read the chyron while it was on mute. I told the kids what was happening and turned it into a lesson. When I told them that Sea World and Disneyland were closed they knew it was very serious. You have to make it understandable at their level and they are able to deal with it. A lot of people don't realize that...just bring a topic down to their level and it is easier to deal with. The 5th Grade teachers let their classes watch the news. One student from the Middle East said, "Bin Laden is a very bad man". He knew.

[vercetti2021]

7. I can feel it

When I got home. So many stations halted their programming. Qvc, hsn, food network ceased all programming and played sad music over a ticker. I knew then...this wasn't a good day. It was a living nightmare. And we are still in it. Bin Laden was a horrible person, but he won long term. That was his goal.

I will confidently say that was the day the innocence died. Everything from the 90s I grew up with and 2000. It just ceased.

[diverdownjt]

9. yes...vercetti...you are correct.

Osama wanted us killing each other.

Every time a cop beats a protester Osama wins.
Every time we shoot each other Osama wins.

He wanted us to be like Afghanistan.....well...what do you think?
A couple more years of this and we will be there.

Osama won the war on terror.

[electric_blue68]

3. Oh, yes - the Lights

The Tribute in Lights is one if the most extrodinary memorials ever created!

I could see them every night rising above the row of brownstones, and small apartment buildungs across the street from me not far from Downtown Brooklyn.

So beautiful, sad, and moving.

[secondwind]

10. My brother was 27 at that time, and a broker at Hornblower & Weeks.

He was a block or so sway from the Towers, and saw everything. He walked down numerous flights of stairs. He didn’t get home til almost midnight, walked all the way to Upper West Side.

What’s really mind blowing is that H&B had been planning to move to the 76th floor of Tower 2 in October.

My husband and I were living Upstate and had a townhouse on Bleecker St. I remember I closed all the windows the week before, when we were down. We were not allowed access to our townhouse for several weeks. Everything south of 14th street was closed off.

[vercetti2021]

11. Most chilling thing I remember

Was this. This to this day still gives me chills. This will forever be engraved into my brain as the sad flower song. Like I got emotional 19 years later hearing it. I really think 9/11 traumatized me as a child

[irisblue]

12. 🕯️

[In_The_Wind]

13. America survived