GeorgeZNJ

:sadange l:Never forget. The house next door to me sold a while ago and the guy who bought it lived in Lakewood NJ since he was a teen. He is originally from Jamacia, nice guy and all. He recently married a girl from Jamica who has two daughters of her own from there and yesterday the older daughter asked me what 911 was all about. Since she is from another country, she was taught it in school in Jamacia passingly. Today she came over and asked what 911 ment to me, and kind of interviewed my kids as to what 911 ment to them. It really hit home that our schools aren't teaching much about this American tradjedy and world wide problem. She is a sophmore in high school along with ny daughter. My wife and kids went out last night trying to find red/whie/ and blue stuff to wear to school on 911, but really didn't find much. Maybe the rest of the country forgot, or it isn't popular to be pro-American, but I guess I and my family will be un-popular by todays standards.

RPOZ51

George,

Unfortunately, what you are saying is true.

I have a 14 year old and an 11 year old niece. The older one was a toddler, and the younger one wasn't even born on 9/11. The attacks really aren't something they can relate to very easily.

To you and me, the attacks are very real memories. To kids like them, the attacks are part of a history lesson.

The best we can do is make what happened as real as possible for kids. Show them the pictures and documentaries, tell them the stories, take them to memorials, and to the places where things happened.

They just showed the 9/11 Museum on a show I was watching. I guess it's not open yet, but when it is, it might be a good place to start.

Your point really hit home.



Tom

vetdude

I was away on business 1,100 miles from home in Kansas City, MO with three other co-workers. Saw the first plane hit on the news just after sitting down to breakfast at the hotel. Then the second plane. Had to report to the office (we're federal employees) then they closed the building an hour later. Since all flights we're being grounded, we later went to the KC airport to trade in the rental sedan for a mini-van for the long drive home (strange seeing planes of every livery parked randomly out on the tarmac). After spending the night just outside Indianapolis, we made it home around 5PM on Sept. 12. It was the longest, most solemn trip in a car I've ever experienced. We were all concerned for our families since at the time we didn't know what was going to happen next. We were numb for the next several days.

God Rest the Souls of the Victims of 9/11 as well as The Heroes

RPOZ51

Worth bringing this thread back . . .

Hard to believe all these years have passed.

My youngest niece wasn't born the day it happened. She's almost thirteen.

Time marches on.

PARANORMAL

Thank you RPOZ51. I was a first responder there. NEVER FORGET

GeorgeZNJ

Read through this thread again, and re-lived some of the emotions. So sad, God Bless America.

GS_V

I'm really glad that this thread brought up every year
But sad to see of how few have posted

RPOZ51

Karvette

Never Forget

GeorgeZNJ

TTT

Ol'55

I was still working back in 2001 and was walking across the parking lot to ring in with a 10am start time when a friend of mine working at the garage told me "They just flew into the trade center". I had to admit that I didn't understand exactly what that meant until I walked into the swing room to see it all over the news. A very sickening feeling indeed. I agree that we all should NEVER forget, but just look at the politically correctness (I'm being kind here) that surrounds us all and I have to ask why? We have become all to soft on our aggressors.

Dave concrete

Pouring concrete in W.Hampton. Heard it on the radio but no one quite knew the info yet so really wasn't registering yet. By the time we started heading west the lanes on the highway were dedicated to emergency officials only. Quite scary to see real disaster unfolding.

PARANORMAL

Attended the ceremony yesterday. Re lived so many memories. Anniversaries make you re live the horrifying moments.

FOXMO

I was alone in my stock room office at work. I would get news feeds to my pager. This one said a plane had hit one of the twin towers. I didn't think any thing of it, since every so often a small plane would hit a sky scraper. A while later, my then boss came into my office and told me he was leaving to go home because he was worried about his kids in school near Baltimore. I still had no idea WTF was going on, being as isolated as I was, until he told me. Then I went and helped set up a big screen TV in one of the conference rooms...just in time to see the first tower come down. I remember saying, "Oh my God! I just watched 60,000 people die!!"

Bob K

I was working at SIAC in Brooklyn. I was on the A train coming from 34th street when the first plane hit.

When I got to my office, I didn't realize what had happened, just that there was an acrid smell in the air.

My building was surrounded by police cars shortly afterward, as the main frames that ran the NYSE were in our building. We were also next to the 911 call centers.

I still have a difficult time every Sept 11th. I didn't visit Ground Zero for quite a few years. Even then I found it very difficult.

Bob K.

slow-v6

I was on the USS Enterprise, CVN 65. We were getting ready to cross the equator, in the Indian ocean off the coast of Africa. We were on our way home to Norfolk, after a 5 month, Persian gulf cruise. We watched the events take place on CNN, and soon after our captain turned the boat around, and headed back up to the Persian gulf. We waited for a week or so before our Carrier strike group dropped the first ordinance on Afghanistan. Being 20 yrs old at the time, I was very scared, but knew that we were probably in the safest place in the world at the time, which was crazy as a aircraft carrier is a top 5 most dangerous job in the world! But yeah, That day will be remembered forever..

RPOZ51

Fifteen years ago today.

Elba Mike

Driving onto Warner Robins Air Force Base, as I was still active duty with J-Stars at the time. I knew that it was a terrorist attack immediately, I saw the second impact on the TV in my commanders office. Needless to say, things got a little hectic after that.

widowmaker221

I was working in Laurel MD and heard rumors of what was going on so I stopped by a large conference room to find alot of people just watching tv in disbelief.Then I saw the 2nd plane hit. A little later I went on the roof of the building and could see smoke from the Pentagon, this is about 30-40 miles away.I will never forget.

RPOZ51