This is terrible! (Thread orginally posted 9/11/2001)

WDWScottieBoy

WDWScottieBoy

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I just read through this whole thing and remember it like it was yesterday. I was 15 at the time and was worrying about my great aunt and uncle and second cousins who live in northern NJ. I remember coming home from school that day and looking up into the sky and seeing the jet trails fade away as I live only 5 minutes air time away from O'Hare and Midway Airports in Chicago. I remember seeing that same fateful day a large jet trail about 30,000 feet in the air or so in a huge U-shape. The only thing I could think of was that it was left from the plane that crashed into PA. I had and still haven't seen anything as scary as that jet trail knowing that it could have been the one plane. I've read books on 9/11 and still have EVERY magazine and newspaper from that day and the week that followed. Just last weekend I was in Chicago for my cousin's wedding which was in a building next to the Sear's Tower and I could only think of "What if 9/11 happened here, right now...the thought and things that would have been going on." And then later that night, after checking into the Swihotel in Chicago, we had a beautiful view of the city and could see the Aon building (it's over 90 stories I believe, maybe over 100) but looks almost identical to the WTC. Each time I would see that building, pictures and memories from 9/11 would flash through my head and I couldn't help but be sad. My heart goes out to all those affected by 9/11 and the families and victims will never be forgotten!
 
prberk

prberk

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General Grizz said:
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Thank you, Fievel, for bumping up this thread.
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I agree.

This thread is an amazing journal of the day. Better than most current accounts in the news. I realized this over the last couple of years, as the thread was bumped each year. It really sunk in last year, and I saved a copy on my PC.

I also happened to be at home from work (for the repairmen to fix a leak in my sink) and watching the "Today" Show on NBC when it happened; and after the second one hit and it became apparent that it was not an accident, I through in a videotape and taped most of the day. Watching that tape again later, the feelings came back: the sense of vulnerability; the mourning; the patriotism. But most of all I noticed the extent of what we did NOT know. The news anchors (Peter Jennings, ABC) openly wondered about bombs in the WTC basement that would have made it fall... and on NBC it was interesting to see Jim Mickleschevski(sp?) broadcasting from WITHIN the Pentagon, even as another part of it had been bombed... but they didn't even know that. Just know of an explosion and plume of smoke, with people running in the halls.

Anyhow, very moving; and good to see the raw emotions of the day. We should not forget.
 
The Mom

The Mom

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General Grizz said:
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Thank you, Fievel, for bumping up this thread.[/QUOTE/]

Brad, I also thank you for bumping this up again. I know that I still feel a certain kinship to those people who "held my hand" that day.
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