Sept 11 rememberence

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Just wanted to take a moment out of the craziness of the zone and reflect..

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This helmet belong to Kevin Prior FDNY Squad 252 when the North Tower fell

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Let's never Forget....
 
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This is also the first day since that it has fell on the same day of the week.

I remember how clear that that day was. Notably gorgeous, looks the same way today. Gives me chills.
 
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Guys and gals I highly recommend visiting Ground Zero and paying your respects if you can at some point. It is such a humbling experience. You will not regret it. You can literally feel the emotion in the air to this day. It is a crazy remarkable experience.
 
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I was a freshman in high school. I was in the library when it happened. When they sent us back to homeroom we watched it on the t.v. I didn't know anyone who was there but it was hard to watch. Still gives me chills.
 
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Scotty's Flat Top said:
Guys and gals I highly recommend visiting Ground Zero and paying your respects if you can at some point. It is such a humbling experience. You will not regret it. You can literally feel the emotion in the air to this day. It is a crazy remarkable experience.
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I was there in 2005 before they completed the new tower. It was amazing to me how calm and quiet it seemed even though there were tons of people walking around and cars everywhere. It was very humbling.
 
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I was in the middle of the Atlantic when it happened and I can still hear the announcment over the 1MC (intercom system) and the erie silence just after. It was like you couldnt even speak and it was like a bad nightmare but one you werent waking up from.
 
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Nerd-Vol said:
This is also the first day since that it has fell on the same day of the week.

I remember how clear that that day was. Notably gorgeous, looks the same way today. Gives me chills.
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Yea it's like that here same type of day.. Jus sucks remembering..
 
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Scotty's Flat Top said:
Guys and gals I highly recommend visiting Ground Zero and paying your respects if you can at some point. It is such a humbling experience. You will not regret it. You can literally feel the emotion in the air to this day. It is a crazy remarkable experience.
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I was at Ground Zero 3 months after it happend in December of 2001. I watched them as they were still digging through rubble at the time. They had a heavy national guard presence and I could see all of the buildings with windows blown out. There was noyhing more sobering than walking the make shift memorials with all the missing photos
 
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there were hundreds of people milling about the area and u could've heard a pin drop in the middle if manhatten. no one said a word
 
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****warning**** tl;wnr

I was at work, with the prints for the new Holt High School laid out on the floor. We were low bid on the Mechanical side of the job, but only by a small percentage and we knew that the 2nd was preparing to undercut us. I was trying to find ways to cut money from our original bid.

The shop foreman came in and told me to turn the TV on, he heard on "Bob and Tom Show" that a plane had hit one of the towers. We stood in the break room watching the TV as the second plane came in. WTF was the first thing that either one of us said. I moved my prints into the breakroom and worked while watching TV all day. Stunned.

MrsGB worked at the Montessori school that the kids attended. She said that most of the parents that came in during the day didnt want to take their kids home early, they just wanted to see them in the classroom, and then they went on their way.

It also sucked that both of our gas tanks were on E, and we had to gas up. We waited in line at the Marathon in little home town. I gassed up, traded vehicles and let her take the kids home. I will never forget how disturbing it was to watch the guy pumping his gas, screaming at the poor girl that had to go change the price on the sign. Worse yet was me and another fella having to hold the guy against his car as he was trying to accost the kid for doing her job.

It was the day we started reading books together at night, saying grace before dinner, and saying prayers at bedtime. And for me, not being the most religious person on the planet (faith yes, religion...not so much) I started praying often.

Ive got a friend from MSU who should have been in the tower that day, but went to lunch with his daughter instead. He worked for Merryl Lynch and would have been a couple floors above the first impact.

And I have friends who went over to help with the cleanup that say they will never be the same.

It changed me forever. Im a better person today than I probably was then. But it changed life in ways that I wish we could get back.
 
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The world seemed a lot more evil that day, for certain. I talked to someone on the phone at my job a week later who had just lost a family member in the towers. She broke down on the phone.
 
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I've told this story before but I'll tell it again.

I was in college and had already finished an early class. My roommate, Stephen, had basically quit school and was a bartender so he notoriously slept away the morning on into mid day. The news of the first plane spread quickly through the library computer lab I had made my way to after class. I was there to goof off in between classes. The room wasn't that big so as you passed by each monitor, you saw the same thing. The tv's were usually on CNN or some form of news so I looked up and everyone in that lab watched the 2nd plane hit together. Either on a computer or on the tv's overhead.

From there, I decided to skip my next class and head back to the apartment. I woke Stephen up and we glued ourselves to the couch and watched it all from that morning on in to the night. We were College kids so as the day progressed we drank. A lot. As we drank, we got more and more brave and began talking big about how we were all going to enlist and go whip some ass. It was a night of big talk, blurred vision, and hurt hearts.

The next day I had another early class so I dragged my self out of the apartment to head that way. Stephen's truck was gone which was odd obviously. When I returned around lunch, there he was on the couch watching the tv like he'd never left. I asked what was up and if he had gone to get breakfast, thinking that's where he was earlier. He told me no and held up his US Army Enlistment paperwork. He simply said, "I guess I'll be moving out here in a bout 3 weeks."

Stephen served 3 tours as a Sniper with the 10th Mountain 2-22. He was in Afcrapistan and "the suck" (Iraq) and returned safely. He's been my best friend and hero since that day. We talk nearly every day and when this crap comes up, I always remind him how proud I am of his sacrifice. I tell him jokingly, I was just too hungover to follow up on all my sh!ttalk from that night. His response has never changed from "I wasn't."

To those who gave their all that day and the days to come, and to all the innocent victims that suffered and are still suffering, I haven't forgotten a damn thing. God keep you and guide you towards finding the peace you seek.

Sorry for the length.

Gig em America.
 
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I have also told this story on here before. On Sept 10 2001 I was ready to leave for the day and walk out the back door, when suddenly something grabbed my heart and made me stop and turn around. There stood my co-worker Charles. I looked him dead in the eye and said "Charles, something really bad is going to happen tomorrow....I feel it." He kinda smirked at me a little and said "see you tomorrow".
When the first plane hit, Charles (a veteran) gasped and said..."Oh my God, you said something bad was going to happen today." Both our hearts sank as we watched the tragedy unfold before us on tv.
I will never forget the feeling of looking up in the sky the next day and not seeing any airplanes flying. Our office was in the flight path of Tampa International Airport.
 
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