Agreed jdodson.

Already almost a year since, it does not seem so long ago. I remember the day at home watching t.v. and seeing those two towers going down - live on t.v.!! How horrible a day it was. Never forget - always remember

I visted ground zero recently for the first time. I haven't been down there in years.

What you notice most of all is how much more light there is. Through the battery city park esplanade you can see the sky.

It looks like a construction site like any other in New York City, except in scale. And except for those two girders that were found in the rubble fused into a cross that now stands over the site.



A hundred times I have thought:
New York is a catastrophe,
and fifty times:
It is a beautiful catastrophe.
- Le Corbusier

Aaron said:

i feel the same. enough already, i need t.v.
the same images of the buildings collasping are getting annoying.

Horrifying day! i remember turning on the tv and initially thinking there had been an accidental plane crash into the tower. i didnt even have the sound on, on the tv. i was doing something else. then, i saw the 2nd crash and immediately knew something was off. turned on the tv sound, and was horrified! i thought for sure this day was the end of the world, or at least a catastrophic start of war... u could tell, the journalists were really frightened too, but held back for the publics sake and kept reporting. so, from that day on, i had the tv on almost ALL the time, for at least awhile...i did not think it would go on THIS long tho. i keep up as much as possible, but it is sooo depressing. one just doesnt know when the world will come to an end... but i tend not to worry on it, as we have 2 b able to live without thinking about dying every time u turn around. then u also tend to become paranoid.

I spent 9.11.01 glued to the tv like most people. I'm already finding myself doing it again with the current coverage, and I've decided to stop watching it. I don't care about the terrorists, I don't care about the buildings, and I don't care to think anymore about what it must have been like to die in the attacks. What I care about now is the huge number of people still mourning loved ones. I wish them healing. I don't need to watch any more collapsing-burning-building footage to feel that.

Waiting-to-be-nauseated-by-all-the-SUV-drivers-sticking-new-flag-stickers-in-their-windows,
Mel!ssa

This day had a personal effect on me and my family. I was getting ready for work and my husband for some reason had the TV on which we usually don’t turn on in the morning it adds to much confusion with the kids. We were watching what was going on then read the bottom banner and there was a plane that went down at the Pentagon. That is when it hit home. My husband’s sister and her husband both work there. We tried to call her and could not get through then we tried to call his mother which it was her birthday that day also and she had been trying to get a hold of her and could not get through the lines. I continued to get ready for work and get the kids off to school. I guess I was in shock and did not know what else to do. I knew that the television would be running the information all day and it would not be good for the kids to stay home.
So I went on to work and was a wreck the entire time that I was there. I left my husband at home trying to call his sister. They had a TV on at work so I was at least some what informed on what was going on. So my prayers were that my husband’s sister and her husband were not in the section that got hit and they were able to make it out. It was about 3 hours later that we finally were able to through and they were okay. She was in the section next to the one that got hit. She could smell the jet fuel. This was her retirement week from the Air Force and after all of this she still took a civilian job back in the Pentagon. So from her I learned that we have to take what is given then move on and show that we are strong and we are not going to give up so easily.

I remember the Org that day too, or rather later that week. I remember reading that huge "Terrorists Strike" thread or whatever it was called, with all of the sadness and fright and anger and emotion that went on. People asking after people; wondering where Shausler was; such confusion...

That was good of Ben to give us that forum, and if I remember it was Ian who asked Ben to open the thread.

I don't even know why I checked the Org that week, except that in times of trouble you naturally turn to what is familiar.

While I was pregnant with my son, I was posting on another board (yes they actually exist). The board was for women due in July and it was an infertility site. Liz Glick was posting on the same board using the nick Lizard2000. All the women on the board shared the joys and the pains of their pregnancies. Well Liz had Emerson in June of 2001 and moved onto another board while the rest of the July mom's moved to their specified board. When Flight 93 crashed, Liz posted her last post to that site. She shared her feelings and her sorrow and her strength. The outpouring of love to this one woman and her daughter who had lost their husband/father Jeremy Glick on that flight was astronomical.

This one woman taught me so much in such a short time just by her example. We feel sorrow for the families who lost loved ones, and I'm sure this anniversary is very hard for them to endure, but I have to tell you that I know Liz herself showed a courage beyond belief even right after it occured. She was able to tell those of us on the board good-bye and give the reason for her leaving. She was able to say that she and Jeremy shared so much in their short phone call while he was on the plane before it crashed.

We can live our lives in fear of it happening again, or like Liz and others like her, we can find our strength within and live life the best way we know how. The media is having a frenzy with this event, but I don't think it's intended to create any negative vibe, but rather to remind us of our own strength, to show us what we survived as a nation, and some of us have survived personal losses and that life has gone on. They are rehashing the events not to hurt us in any way, but rather to remind us that there is hope, that we can survive any tragedy, especially when we do so together.

I've never been one for the media, I think they have their own little agendas, and I really dislike them reliving the past over and over again. But there is joy in survival and we have survived.

Remembering where you were or what you were doing is important as long as you know where you are now. Read that deeper than what it was written. lol

2the9s said:

That is so well written.

Thank you 2the9s.