Remembering 9/11... 10 years later

Feel free to share your memories, experiences, thoughts, etc. Let's keep it about that day and leave out the BS.

RIP to all those who perished.

F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11 - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/f-16-pilot-was-ready-to-give-her-life-on-sept-11/2011/09/06/gIQAMpcODK_story.html)

wow

I still remember being in the newsroom producing the newsbreak before I was about to leave for the day, then next thing I know the towers fall and I'm staying in the office for the next 100+ hours in a row.

From a professional standpoint it actually marked a key turning point in my career, as my work earned me a big promotion. I does still bother me at times that such a tragedy was a boon to my career

Dang SS, what a story.

I remember the frustration with trying to reach friends to see if they were ok yet the phone circuits did not work. It was a week before I heard from some people.

I also remember a couple of sad hate crimes on our college campus. For example, a Bolivian girl got roughed up because apparently all foreigners with brown skin are terrorists.

rip to all those who lost their lives, and gave their lives for freedom

O God of love, compassion, and healing, look on us, people of many different faiths and traditions, who gather today at this site,
the scene of incredible violence and pain. We ask you in your goodness to give eternal light and peace to all who died here—the heroic first-responders: our fire fighters, police officers, emergency service workers, and Port Authority personnel, along with all the innocent men and women who were victims of this tragedy simply because their work or service brought them here on September 11, 2001.

We ask you, in your compassion to bring healing to those who, because of their presence here that day, suffer from injuries and illness.
Heal, too, the pain of still-grieving families and all who lost loved ones in this tragedy. Give them strength to continue their lives with courage and hope.

We are mindful as well of those who suffered death, injury, and loss
on the same day at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Our hearts are one with theirs as our prayer embraces their pain and suffering.

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world:
peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the earth. Turn to your way of love those whose hearts and minds
are consumed with hatred. God of understanding, overwhelmed by the magnitude of this tragedy, we seek your light and guidance as we confront such terrible events. Grant that those whose lives were spared
may live so that the lives lost here may not have been lost in vain.

Comfort and console us, strengthen us in hope, and give us the wisdom and courage to work tirelessly for a world where true peace and love reign among nations and in the hearts of all.

Pope Benedict XI--Prayer at Ground Zero
New York, 20 April 2008

From a professional standpoint it actually marked a key turning point in my career, as my work earned me a big promotion. I does still bother me at times that such a tragedy was a boon to my careerLet that go. Your talent, hard work, and dedication were needed at that terrible moment and you were rewarded for what you already had inside you.

I was in 9th grade, sitting in my earth, space, physics class a girl ran in and said a plane had just crashed into the twin towers. I don't think anyone really believed her. I think a bunch of us just sat around staring at each other like... What? Yeah right. Not too long after an assembly was called and confirmed that a plane had indeed crashed into the towers and that school would be released early so people could be with their families and to check on other family members.

It feels almost surreal and like it was forever ago but I remember the panic and terror on the faces of faculty and kids from age 12-18. Some of us (who hadn't been picked up yet) sat around a TV and watched as people run in fear, jumped from buildings, crying and mourning in the streets...

We were all young but we all knew the painful seriousness of the situation at hand.

Nice post Sammy.....
After 10 years I still find it hard to think about