9/11/2001. Ten years have passed.
What will you always remember and never forget?
Please leave your comments below.
9/11/2001. Ten years have passed.
What will you always remember and never forget?
Please leave your comments below.
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Difficult as it is to comment, I will always remember waking up on our daughter’s 18th birthday, opening her gifts and when we had finished our son said, “We need to turn the television on”… He had been up through the night watching the news (Australian time) but did not tell us what was happening until after his sister got to open her presents.
I shall never forget the feeling of being hopeless to help or consol, I shall never forget my first trip to NYC post 911, I shall never forget…
Whoa, Marie. Wasn’t ready for that. What can one say about wishing they had never seen the towers coming down? Our generation is unique in that we’ve seen horrors on TV as they happened. We want to re-wind; we want to make it go away; no… that couldn’t have happened LIVE. That couldn’t have happened at all.
Thanks for the reminder. It is hard to believe it has been 10 years.
I will never forget this day and what it mean to me,my country, and the people that were lost that day. I hope we never forget. Thank you for this post!
Thanks for the “gentle reminder”…we appreciate
I remember looking at my TV showing the planes crashing into the buildings and couldn’t believe my eyes – one of the moments when you think your eyes are lying … very shocking.
Thank you, Marie for sharing such a powerful post! I will always remember and never forget watching on TV the horror of seeing the Twin Towers right after they were attacked. Seeing people screaming in the streets looking for their lost ones. Seeing our country paralyzed during those days right after. The number of lives that were lost. Lastly, I will always remember and never forget all the firefighters and thousands of others volunteers who risked their lives in hopes of rescuing those who were trapped.
Never can forget! I used to work in that building.
Yesterday, I had a chance to pay my respect at Ground Zero in NYC ahead of the 10th Anniversary of that horrific day of September 11, 2001.
Such a painful morning that was–and life has never really been the same. I was married to my second husband at the time and we spent days and days glued to the TV, crying and praying.
Oh Marie, you have captured the heart of a true Wordless Wed post, my friend. I’ll always remember that day, watching in horror as the events unfolded.
We were in the midst of home-based therapy that day, and had two different therapist who came as history was happening before us. It was an amazing reminder to me, in the midst of a real life that seemed overwhelming at times, that there are moments that define us as individuals, as a community, as a nation. How we rise to that challenge is where the definition is written.
I played with the idea of putting together a remembrance post, but I just don’t feel I can lend more cogent thoughts without just wanting to cry over the loss of innocence we as a generation faced that day.
Great post.
I could not write the words to adequately express my feelings of the day, either, Katrina. The pictures, taken only a couple of months after on our first visit to NYC, will have to suffice for this story. I wrote much at the time, all in my journal, to someday share with my children to help them remember and understand, what there is to understand. I’m not sure I still do.
It is very hard to beleive that it has been 10 years. I often wonder how things would be different today if that day never happened….
I often wonder the same thing, Nancy.
The day that changed the world as we know it forever! All of us need to be reminded of that day – lest we let our guard down like that again.
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Wow, Marie, what a powerful example of how photos can capture things that can never be put into words. This is definitely one of the few moments in my life in which I will never forget where I was when I heard the news. To this day, my feelings about this remain beyond words . . .
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