September 11th, 2019

[Alan]

We said we'd never forget, yet 18 years later I think we have.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iy2L9VeUfc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2_XMa np5sPcUzg4-U24INplOb19xAt4p1mxZ-3TO_xhaZ4TkAVf9-gk7o&has_verified=1

[Ultralight]

I have not forgotten. I remember the exact moment I heard about the attack. That whole day is still vivid in my mind. Still gut-wrenching...

May the First Responders always be taken care of!

[dado potato]

Outside our town fire hall, the firefighters parked a large engine, with a banner that says: WE SHALL NEVER FORGET.

Among the cars passing by (in a 30 MPH zone) about half tooted their car horns. The rest had better manners perhaps.

[Tradd]

Never forget, never forgive.


https://youtu.be/_K5rSpuXTgg

This link is from the BBC. It includes Peter Jennings' incredulous response when he was told the first tower had collapsed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-14870871/9-11-images-from-new-york-that-shocked-the-world

[Rogar]

Someone mentioned recently that there are teenagers old enough to drive who weren't even born then. It seems quite recent to me.

[Yppej]

I remember it and would like to go to the World Trade Center Memorial someday.

[catherine]

It was like walking through a door into another world.

[nswef]

Thank you Alan. I avoid looking at all of it...but I did yours and am thankful for the reminder. People are good and kind, brave and strong-we need to Always Remember that, too.

[gimmethesimplelife]

I haven't forgotten. The events of that morning permanently divided time for me. And for this country, much has changed as a direct result of the attacks. I hope all the victims are in a good place now. To.this day I am apprehensive about setting foot in a skyscraper. And though I am flown since that day, the pre 9/11 sanity of it is long gone. I wish 9/11 had not taken place. Rob

[ToomuchStuff]

We said we'd never forget, yet 18 years later I think we have.


Why do you think we have forgot?

Not many WWII vets around anymore. In my view, I see this being "culturally relevant", the way Pearl Harbor is/was for them, Kennedy was for my parents generation, or a list of other events (Reagan shot, Mt St. Helen's, the Berlin Wall, McCarthyism, etc....)


How many of you have seen this, or feel it is relevant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4

For me, I remember being woke up by a phone call, saying we have been attacked and are at war (to which I replied it was terrorism, as armies don't engage that way), and what could have been my stepdaughter, having her 18th birthday (and all future birthdays, screwed up).
I have friends that lost people in the attack, and with my dark sense of humor, I still find the I plane NY shirt funny.

[Rogar]

I have read surveys of young people where they are asked about basic details of the Vietnam War, the Korean Conflict, and even World War II. They give the impression that a large percentage of the younger generations don't know simple facts like who fought who and why. If a person could live long enough it would probably start to seem like groundhog day, if it doesn't already.