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Remembering 9/11[W:8]

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I was too young to remember 9/11 myself, but I have seen footage of it. It was an extremely tragic event.
 
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Beaudreaux said:
As many of you know, I was at the National Emergency Management Association annual meeting which was hosted by the state of Montana in Big Sky that year. When the attack began, the feds began setting up their mobile command center and many of us watched it unfold on numerous screens that they set up.

What did I feel?

Disbelief at what was happening, especially when the second plane hit the tower and the planes went down into the Pentagon and a field in PA.

Then fear for the people in the towers as well as firemen and rescue personnel, then disbelief again as the towers began to collapse.

Then sickening gut twisting fear for the country. No one was still alive that could remember a war and casualties on our own soil in the Continental US. Even in WWII the attacks and casualties were in Hawaii, Alaska, and insular territories like Guam. This was here, at home, and not some far off place across an ocean.

Then I started thinking about what I had to do. I had been called and activated as others had been as well, and before long we were very quickly put on a private jet from the airport in Bozeman, Montana and we were on our way to Teterboro Airport in NJ with fighter jets off the wings. We landed right before dark, and they put us in a black police Suburban and we went to a school near the what was left of the towers that NYC was using as a forward command post.

About an hour after arriving, I was taken down to Ground Zero, and it was the most surreal place I had ever been. The smell, the shadows from the lights being used by rescue personnel, and the dust... the dust that was so thick and powdery that it puffed up with every step you took and covered everything and everyone. From that point until a few days later, my memories are a blur. I can remember certain things that happened, certain points in time where major actions were taken, meetings I had with certain officials, and various bad things that occurred. But, I don't have a clear memory of those next few days. My memory starts back very clearly on day four. I have no idea why, and I don't want to even try.

I had seen a lot of death and destruction in my life, but nothing like this. Not here at home. It still effects me to this day.

I left NYC to go to DC when the anthrax attack occurred. I returned to NYC after 30 days of working for the Capital Architect and the Clerk of the House on a contract for them regarding the anthrax attack. In NYC, I was working as a consultant for the Mayor's Office, and the Speaker of the New York City Council.
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Wow. I thought I had vivid memories just seeing it on TV. This is one of the most interesting things I've read here. Thanks for all that.
 
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Cigar said:
In your opinion it's irrelevant ... I have a different opinion.

16 years is overkill ... No-Pun
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No, in the "opinion" of what literally happened. Both of these are recorded historical facts.

The enemy doesn't care that you get bored of fighting them and really want to pretend they went away.
 
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I was at work. One of my co workers said I should come down to the break room. A plane had hit one of the towers. Saw the coverage of the attack. I called my wife to make sure she was aware of the event and was ok (mentally). As the events unfolded I thought what a screwed up world. I thought of the first responders and the task that laid ahead for them. I thought of the people who had died or hurt. My thoughts were for those who are responding to be safe. For those who needed rescued that they get help.
 
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Tigerace117 said:
No, in the "opinion" of what literally happened. Both of these are recorded historical facts.

The enemy doesn't care that you get bored of fighting them and really want to pretend they went away.
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What? Are you saying a MOAB didn't do the trick? So much for The Mother of All Bombs.

Everyone intelligent on Warfare have already spoken about this War ... and it's unanimous.

If you don't believe Comrade, you can ask The experts The Russians about Historical Facts.
 
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Cigar said:
What? Are you saying a MOAB didn't do the trick? So much for The Mother of All Bombs.

Everyone intelligent on Warfare have already spoken about this War ... and it's unanimous.

If you don't believe Comrade, you can ask The experts The Russians about Historical Facts.
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Not even getting into the fact that the US and the USSR's wars in Afghanistan are incredibly different animals;

its unanimous that running and hiding because you think that abandoning our friends is a great idea is, in fact, a bad idea.

But you don't really care about the facts of the matter.
 
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Tigerace117 said:
Not even getting into the fact that the US and the USSR's wars in Afghanistan are incredibly different animals;

its unanimous that running and hiding because you think that abandoning our friends is a great idea is, in fact, a bad idea.

But you don't really care about the facts of the matter.
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Ignore him. This thread isn't for that.
 
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I remember waking up to radio reports of an airliner impact in first tower. As I switched on the TV I watched as the tower burned. Soon the second airliner struck.

At that moment I knew America was under attack.

Ironic in that I had finished rereading Debt of Honor some weeks before.
 
X Factor said:
It's been 16 years and memories fade and our national attention has rightly been on Harvey and Irma, but I still remember certain aspects of that day really clearly and it still saddens me if I dwell on it. Still, hard as those memories may be, we should never forget the people who died and those people whose lives were permanently changed that day, and really, everyone's life changed permanently that day.

When you think of 9/11, what comes to your mind?
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I was alone in my office listening to the news on our #1 local radio station when the first plane hitting one of the twin towers was announced. I thought what a tragic and terrible accident. Then the report of the second hit with the terse statement "This is on purpose folks" and I knew we were under attack. My husband was home and I called him to turn on the television. I listened to non stop coverage the rest of the work day and saw the first television images when I got home. Sixteen years later I still cannot see those images without strong feelings of grief and anger.

When I was teaching religious history and needed to illustrate how the historians would recall events decades after a fact, I would ask my class, "Do you remember where you were when President Kennedy was shot?" Every one of those who was old enough to be really aware did. Likewise, the older ones remembered where they were when Pearl Harbor was bombed. And those of us who were old enough to be really aware will always remember where we were when the horrific events of 9/11 began to unfold.

As would those who experienced Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy assassination, we who remember 9/11 would be able to re-create that history on paper were it necessary to write it down now all these years later. And we would be able to do it 10 - 20 - 30 or 50+years from now too if we are still alive then. We would remember the details differently, the order of things differently, different ones of us would recall different things, different poignant images seared into our minds. But it would be obvious we would all be writing of the same event.

It is our history, our legacy, sometimes our cross to bear. We do move on. But we never forget.
 
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Tigerace117 said:
Not even getting into the fact that the US and the USSR's wars in Afghanistan are incredibly different animals;

its unanimous that running and hiding because you think that abandoning our friends is a great idea is, in fact, a bad idea.

But you don't really care about the facts of the matter.
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Every War has different reasons, don't mean the outcomes are different.

Not sure what you mean by Running and Hiding, we went there, and they can get here unless we let then in.

We have two borders of Oceans, and they don't have a Navy of Air-force.

BTW, facts haven't worked for 16 ... maybe they're not Factual.
 
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I was off work that day and out on my bike. My wife had to work, but she was at the dentist at the time of the hit (as I mentioned above). So, she called my cell. Of course, I never picked up. Around 11AM, I rolled into a place for some chow. Everyone there was, of course, glued to TV and freaking out. Me, "What's going on?"
 
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I was in middle school at the time. I remember school essentially stopped and everybody just sat there and watched the news. A couple of the students in my class had to leave because their relatives worked at one of the buildings. It seemed like everything changed from that day on.
 
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I was in my house getting ready for work (at an airline's corporate office).

Got a call shortly after saying not to come to work that day.

Spent the rest of the day watching the news with my wife.
 
X Factor said:
It's been 16 years and memories fade and our national attention has rightly been on Harvey and Irma, but I still remember certain aspects of that day really clearly and it still saddens me if I dwell on it. Still, hard as those memories may be, we should never forget the people who died and those people whose lives were permanently changed that day, and really, everyone's life changed permanently that day.

When you think of 9/11, what comes to your mind?
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Deep, utter, soul-shattering heartbreak.
 
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I'm going to be perfectly honest here, I immediately think of 9-11 memes. I was four years old when the towers went down. Despite all of the emotionally-charged "never forget" sentiments surrounding the attack on the Twin Towers, I cannot claim to have any recollection of the event. Maybe that's for the better, and it's high time we move past that period of our history. Maybe it's a damn shame, and irreverent little bastards like me are the reason we will never have any justice for what the kingdom of Saudi Arabia played a part in. I do not have enough perspective on the situation to say one way or another.

Those who lost a loved one in the event have my condolences.
 
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From bragging that HIS was now the tallest building in NY, to standing in NJ watching thousands of Arabs dancing in the streets, to the latest tale about clearing dusty rubble with his bare hands, The outrageous Trumperies know no bounds.
 
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