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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Somewhere on the East Coast
Posts: 579
Thanks guys. It's a tough day for a lot of us here. I've been trying to keep it together myself. It's funny...some years I've had moments of reflection but have been generally ok...and then others it feels like being hit with a ton of bricks again.
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: South Shore, MA
Posts: 348
Watching a special and feels like yesterday. I was running down 23 floors in a building in Boston bc we knew our airport was involved. Can't imagine being in NYC, the horror of the day comes right back. Proud to be an American today!
Marchia in Aeternum
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 11,094
Never Forget.
An awesome and appreciated sentiment.
Since this place is a place of open emotion and unbridled sentiment L=let me tell you what it meant to me.
Bomb them into the stone age. I said it at the time, meant it, and still would do it today. Glass the desert.
There is no place on this planet for people that did that and continue to do what they are doing today. Just end them.
Sorry. We now return you to your previously scheduled pablum.
An awesome and appreciated sentiment.
Since this place is a place of open emotion and unbridled sentiment L=let me tell you what it meant to me.
Bomb them into the stone age. I said it at the time, meant it, and still would do it today. Glass the desert.
There is no place on this planet for people that did that and continue to do what they are doing today. Just end them.
Sorry. We now return you to your previously scheduled pablum.
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Pa
Posts: 4,872
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I am originally from Bayonne NJ. I remember this day like it was yesterday. What a beautiful day it was. The sky was the deepest shade of blue. I was sitting out on my deck in Northwest NJ, when my mother called me.
She was a nervous wreck. She was telling me that planes flew into the WTC, I had just put the TV on, and I told her, you're wrong, they hit the Pentagon.
She told me she was on the third floor of the house and she is watching the fire and the smoke at the WTC. She told me she didn't know what was going on, but that she is packing and she is driving to stay with me for awhile. See, I was about 50 miles away from this, and she was just across the Hudson Bay from this.
She couldn't make it to my house. They declared a "state of emergency". You couldn't leave Bayonne, or any other place around there. They had sent from all the cities around NYC all the extra police, emergency care, ambulances etc to NYC or Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ.
It was just terrifying !!!!!!
The picture that I showed above is a gift from Russia. It's called the Teardrop Memorial. Artist is Zurab Tsereteli. It depicts the World Trade Center torn in half, with a teardrop in the middle. It was dedicated on 9/11/2006 in memory of the people who lost their lives that day. It is in Bayonne NJ. When you look at it, right past it you see the Statue of Liberty, you look further and it is where the twin towers were. This pic doesn't the memorial justice, it doesn't really show the positioning of this gift correctly. The sad thing about this, is that I didn't even know this existed, until today, and I am from Bayonne.
Just want to say thank you to all of you from around the world that care.
I am originally from Bayonne NJ. I remember this day like it was yesterday. What a beautiful day it was. The sky was the deepest shade of blue. I was sitting out on my deck in Northwest NJ, when my mother called me.
She was a nervous wreck. She was telling me that planes flew into the WTC, I had just put the TV on, and I told her, you're wrong, they hit the Pentagon.
She told me she was on the third floor of the house and she is watching the fire and the smoke at the WTC. She told me she didn't know what was going on, but that she is packing and she is driving to stay with me for awhile. See, I was about 50 miles away from this, and she was just across the Hudson Bay from this.
She couldn't make it to my house. They declared a "state of emergency". You couldn't leave Bayonne, or any other place around there. They had sent from all the cities around NYC all the extra police, emergency care, ambulances etc to NYC or Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ.
It was just terrifying !!!!!!
The picture that I showed above is a gift from Russia. It's called the Teardrop Memorial. Artist is Zurab Tsereteli. It depicts the World Trade Center torn in half, with a teardrop in the middle. It was dedicated on 9/11/2006 in memory of the people who lost their lives that day. It is in Bayonne NJ. When you look at it, right past it you see the Statue of Liberty, you look further and it is where the twin towers were. This pic doesn't the memorial justice, it doesn't really show the positioning of this gift correctly. The sad thing about this, is that I didn't even know this existed, until today, and I am from Bayonne.
Just want to say thank you to all of you from around the world that care.
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