9/11 Memorial, Lest We Forget

[Naturalized-Texan]

Every year at this time we need to be reminded why we have no choice but to fight anf WIN the War on Terror wherever it may take us.

Suzie's Memorial from 9/11/2003

http://tex.connectingzone.com/remember.jpg

Memorial card I received from a real estate agent

http://tex.connectingzone.com/weremember.jpg

Photos from 9/11/2001 and after

http://tex.connectingzone.com/WTC-1.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/WTC-2.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/WTC-3.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/wtc105.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/wtc107.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/WTC-6.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/WTC-4.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/WTC-5.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/WTC-7.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/wtc116.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/wtc117.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/pent2.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/President_1.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/manhattan.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/BobBeckwith.jpg
http://tex.connectingzone.com/firemenflag.jpg

Somewhere in Utah, a flag memorial: a flag for everone who was slaughtered on 9/11/2001 .
http://tex.connectingzone.com/FlagMemorial.jpg

[dPrasse]

Thanks Tex ...

The pix the Drive By media dpesn't want to keep in the sheeples minds ...

We need to see those pics to keep our enemy fresh in our minds ...

[Lubbock]

Sometimes the attacks and the aftermath is almost more than the mind can comprehend.

It appears that The History Chanel is devoting the entire day today to the attacks.

I don't know how the Rosie O'Donnells of the world can look at what happened and believe the attacks were faked by the Bush administration, but we have posters here who believe that.

No explanation for that kind of insanity.

No explanation for Islamic insanity, either.

[bannerman]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernandovega/182794935/

the last photo ever taken by a photgrapher who died ..when the south tower collapsed.

NUKE MECCA NOW

[Beowulf]

My how America forgets about 6 years ago. Still, many wish to reason with the murderous S.O.B.'s that did this and still wish too. That's why I say, "Liberals Suck!"

And this will forever be my favorite picture:

http://tex.connectingzone.com/firemenflag.jpg

Thanks, NT!

[TeenageRepublican]

Everytime I see those pictures, I'm disturbed and angered. The thought that those bastards had the will to pull this off disgusts me.

I hope they get what's coming to them, which will be loud, mushroom shaped, and radioactive.

[Timberwolf]

The following has been the wallpaper on my monitor since shortly after 9/11:

http://www.portauthoritypolicememorial.org/WTC1.jpg

Across the top (centered) is written "NEVER FORGET". It will be some time before I take it down.

[Lubbock]

We have three generations living in my household.

Lord only knows how many generations are represented amongst the posters here on this site.

It occurs to me that generational responses to 9/11 are very different.

It also occurs to me that your response, TeenageRepublican, is "old" beyond your years.

I think I remember seeing somewhere on the board that you are 14. Or 16? [A baby by the standards of someone my age.]

My recollection of September 11, 2001, is as follows:

I clicked the "off" button on the television remote and headed out to work at what must have been about fifteen-or-so minutes before the first plane hit the first tower of the World Trade Center.

I'm an early bird, always at work a half hour to forty-five minutes before "start" time.

One of the partner-attorneys in the firm I was with at that time is also an early bird.

I had just finished my walk through of the building, turning on the lights and powering up the office machines when I heard Larry's key in the back door.

No, "Good morning," from Larry as he rushed into the kitchen where I was starting the morning coffee. No jokes about the early bird who works for the guy who owns the worm farm.

"Turn on the television!" he said. "A small plane just hit the World Trade Center in New York."

The radio station he was listening to on his drive to work had broken in with the news that a small plane had hit the World Trade Center.

Images of both towers in flames were being broadcast by the time I turned the television on.

"This is no accident," Larry said, as he left the kitchen, headed down the hall to his office.

I don't have any recollection of how long it was, or what I did in the meantime, but it seemed as if it was only moments before Larry came rushing back up the hall and announced that the Pentagon had been hit. I don't remember where I was in the building when I heard Larry's voice making that statement, but I remember that his voice was at a sufficient level of excitement that I was alarmed and went running to the kitchen.

The next actual recollection I have is of Larry and I standing, staring at the television as jumbled and disjointed reports were comng in.

We both were holding mugs of coffee by then.

We were, at that time, a twelve-attorney firm with numerous secretaries, law clerks, runners, and other support staff. People were drifting into work, everyone of them headed to the kitchen for coffee, soft drinks, juice and snacks. Some knew that something had happened. Some didn't have a clue.

By about 9:15am Central Time, there must have been fifteen or eighteen people in the kitchen. There wasn't much conversation. I remember hearing the refrigerator door opening and closing, the dishwasher door opening and closing as people looked for their coffee mugs. I remember hearing the wheeze of the microwave. I remember that the phone wasn't ringing. The receptionist was on duty by then, and usually she was turning handsprings, trying to route the early morning calls.

The phone wasn't ringing.

No one was talking.

We had depositions scheduled on two separate cases, both of them huge cases, which meant that the office would be even more of beehive than it usually was.

We had attorneys from Dallas and Sana Fe who had come in on early morning flights for depositions. They were present, along with local attorneys who had shown up, but no one was talking or making any move to get the day underway. We had clients in the building, and the clients of opposing counsel as well.

I remember that at one time there were so many people in both hallways that granted access to the kitchen that you couldn't get to the coffee pot.

I remember sitting in my office, getting news and pictures from the internet because the kitchen was a hopeless cause.

My boss was out of the office that day. It was his practice, when he wasn't expected in, to call by 8:30am just to say "Good morning," and to let me know what his could-be schedule was, and to let me know which phone he would be on [farm, ranch, mobile, or feedayard]. I didn't hear from him. Not a word.

I remember one of the support staff whose husband is an attorney with another firm being extremely concerned because her husband had left Lubbock early that morning, driving to Amarillo for a deposition that he was suppose to take at a law firm there. Her concern was that Panex sits in close proximity of Lubbock and Amarillo, and Pantex has the potential of being a huge terrorist target.

I remember walking out into the front parking lot of the building and seeing nothing but military aircraft in the sky.

It's not unusual to see military aircraft over Lubbock. They come out of Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico, but on this day there were many more than usual. I didn't know until much later --days, that those jets had been scrambled out of Cannon to fly cover for Pantex.

Who would think that Lubbock, Texas would ever need protection from terrorists?

I remember that there were so many people that I wanted to talk to during that work day. My son. My friends back in Virginia. My cousin here in town. My brother and his wife in Oklahoma. A cousin in Dalhart. A cousin in California. A dear girlfriend in Fort Worth.

But I didn't call anyone, and no one called me.

They were all doing the same thing I was doing: staring in stunned silence at the television screen.

How many thoughts go through a person's mind, and where do those thoughts yo-yo to at a time like that?

What's coming next? Who's in charge?

During the hours of that work day, I remembered hearing my mom and dad, on may occasions, relate their recollections of Pearl Harbor. That was such a comfort to have had their recolletions of waking up on that fateful Sunday morning in 1941, turning on the radio, and knowing that their nation was under attack, to remember their recollections of the "War Years," and to know that they survived those years.

I remember the call at about 4:30 that afternoon from my boss. He had been completely out of touch the entire day and didn't know anything about the attacks.

I broke down then and cried as I tried to relate to him, the events of the day. He's five years older than me and as he began to get a grasp of what the nation had undergone in the space of six-or-so hours, he understood immediately the paralells between September 11, 2001, and Pearl Harbor, and the fact that we were at that moment in time, September 11, in a World War.

I suppose my grandchildren don't have anymore understanding at this moment in time that we are in a World War than my boss did as he watched his parent's reaction to Pearl Harbor.

What we are in now is a very different war than WWII, but it's a War just the same, and my guess is, it will take this United States of America about ten to fifteen years to grasp that.

Will it be too late by then?

I don't think so.

I think we will do what we have always done: Stand and fight.

It seems to me that it's just taking us a little longer to get our feet under us than it did in 1941.

We will defeat Islam.

[Naturalized-Texan]

As usual, I was out jogging that morning. When I returned, my wife met me at the door and told me that planes had hit both of the Twin Towers. My one word response was, "terrorists." Then we watched TV in stunned silence and we were both crying.

I'm one of the few here who also remembers where I was on December 7, 1941. My mother, grandmother, and I were listening to the radio (my father was at work) in our living room when a announcer interrupted the program with the announcement that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. I was 9 years old at the time.

EDIT: My wife told me that her mother cried when she heard about the Pearl Harbor attack because she knew that her 2 eldest sons would be going to war. She was correct and, fortunately, they both came back unscathed.

[Beowulf]

As usual, I was out jogging that morning. When I returned, my wife met me at the door and told me that planes had hit both of the Twin Towers. My one word response was, "terrorists." Then we watched TV in stunned silence and we were both crying.


I was laying in bed when my son came running into my room.
"Daddy, a plane hit a building on TV," he said.
So, I turned on the news to see what it was about as my wife and I lay quietly in bed watching the T.V. She was stunned as I was.
"Probably just a freak accident," I said as I thought about it.
Then, as we watched, the second plane hit. As my wife sat up, I became angry and said, "this is no accident."

Yeah, I'm still angry about it but I'm more angry that Liberals want to reason with the factions who did this and surrender our country to them. Those who died on 9/11 and those who have died in the war since should be turning over in their graves.

[Teenager]

May we never forget. God bless the USA.

[Naturalized-Texan]

*bump*

[Patriot Heart]

My kids needed to be driven 45 miles to dance class. We started, despite the first tower having been hit. Stunned, but trying to maintain. Then on the radio the continuing bad news. My first thought "We are at War". My second thought "Bill will be leaving". He deployed in three weeks. We saw him again 10 months later.
God has blessed this country and will continue to do so, I believe, as long as there are those of us that are faithful to Him.

[Lubbock]

From the American Thinker

September 11, 2007
Six Years Later

By J.R. Dunn (http://www.americanthinker.com/jr_dunn/)

In September, 2001, I was working for a company two blocks off Wall Street, just a five-minute walk from the World Trade Center.


It was a good job. A business database company, very much of the dotcom era, easygoing, loose, and lucrative. I worked about half the week at home and half at the office. Living in Jersey at the time, I commuted by way of the PATH train - the single New York area subway in which there is no crime, no graffiti, and no problems. The terminal was at the WTC, deep in the basement of the Twin Towers, accessed by the longest escalators I have ever seen. I must have gone through that station a thousand times over the previous few years. I doubt there was a single occasion when I didn't look around me and think, "They're coming back - one of these days, this may no longer be here."

This is pretty powerful (http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/09/a_911_memoir.html)

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[Peachdiane]

My message for all those who suffered on this tragic day: My thoughts are always with you!

Beautiful memorial page! :thumb:

[gnome]

Those of different political opinions may grieve together, anger together, and celebrate the heroes of that day together. We did so on 9-12.

http://bias.blogfodder.net/archives/archive/photos/JCPD%20officer%20who%20worked%209-11%20WTC%20cleanup%209-01%20small.jpg

[Kathy30]

May God be with us all. In a society that prides itself on its failings rather than its virtues, our preoccupation with diversity and multiculturalisim, the same icons that allowed this terrible thing to happen, will be the cause of the next event.