9/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
9/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Liza's Headband
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#19/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 11:51am
Let us never forget, as we move forward together. As one unified country. And God Bless all of the courageous New Yorkers who lost their lives thirteen years ago today.
Updated On: 9/11/14 at 11:51 AM
Wynbish
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#29/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 11:52am
I was a junior in high school, looking at a TV in a classroom in disbelief.
Updated On: 9/11/13 at 11:52 AM
#29/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 11:55am
I lived on John Street three blocks away. I tried to get down to ther when the first building frll to help out. I was tirned away by a cop covered in ash, crying his eyes ot who said," There is right now, nothing any of us can do! Go home and be safe!"
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Liza's Headband
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#39/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 11:59amSNAFU, that's both incredible and heartbreaking. I can only imagine what you saw that day being so close.. We were not in the evacuation here. Just north of there. Hunkered down in our apartment and cried all night.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#59/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 12:23pmAt the time, I worked about four blocks away. Fortunately, I'm an early commuter, and I had passed through the WTC PATH station about an hour earlier. We heard and felt the first impact, and were watching from our windows when the second plane hit. We were immediately evacuated from our building, scattering in different directions. Information was scarce and unreliable, and with cell phones and landlines not working, most people had no idea where to go or what to do. I decided to walk uptown, and was eventually able to get on a ferry to NJ at the Javits Center. Between the walking, the crowds, the security, etc, I finally got home to northern NJ around 3PM. Between the second impact and the time I walked in the door, I had been unable to contact my family, so they had no idea where I was.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#69/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 12:27pm
I was a junior in high school. I guess at the time I didn't realize how close actually lived to NYC and didn't think about people from my area commuting there for work. I also didn't realize what was actually going on until I saw a tv in school. The principal made an announcement about a plane flying into the side of the 1 building and I thought it was odd that she would announce an accident like that. Obviously I got the message that it wasn't just that. I think we watched the tv all day from period 3 onward.
Honestly, it still haunts me to this day that a few days prior, we were talking in a class about the future and what we thought it would be like. I was the only person who thought the world was going to get worse, based on things I knew that were going on, and how some people were becoming. Never in my life had I dreamed of something like 9/11 happening. I was only 17 at the time.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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Wynbish
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#79/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:15pm
Literally can't keep us down
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#89/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:27pmBeautiful. And I just heard they plan to finally open the museum this spring. That will be some kind of experience.
#99/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:58pm
Snafu--was this your block on John Street? (This is from the thread of Mark Allen photos.)
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#109/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 2:33pm
... I see my office at the end of the street.
Haunting images.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#119/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/13 at 2:35pmThat dust.
#129/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 11:27am
An analysis of what we breathed that day.
HUFF POST: September 11 Toxic Dust: Deciphering My Pocketful Of Terror
#139/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 11:57am
I am terrified for what I breathed in while down there. The dust was everywhere and the burning continued for weeks after we were allowed back home. We were told the air was safe. Now as I find myself, at times, becoming short of btreath, I wonder if living there had anything to do with it.
Yes Pal Joey from your question from last year, that picture was just down the street from my building.
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Liza's Headband
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NYadgal
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#159/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 2:23pmPowerful stories.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#169/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 2:39pm
In a completely unrelated incident that day a colleague who was also a good friend was killed in a massive pile-up an interstate that runs through OH. His wife and young son were also killed but his young daughter came out of it without a scratch.
RE: 9/11, I worked in DC at the time as well as now. Running late from trying to process the events of NYC, I never made it into the office that day. Capitol Police and a fleeing mob turned me back about 2 blocks from the building after the Pentagon had been struck. An evacuation order was in effect for that part of the city which is the vicinity of the White House and Capitol Building.
There were rumors that one of the downtown Metrorail stations had been bombed, which later proved false. Turns out, a transformer servicing the area surrounding the station had blown which was unfortunate timing. Not sure what to believe and with no cell phone service and over-stuffed city buses stalled in traffic, I made the 10-mi trek back home on foot.
Pentagon Damage in High-Res
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
Updated On: 9/11/14 at 02:39 PM
Liza's Headband
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#179/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 3:34pm
Another great piece, but an especially difficult read for all of those who have lost their fathers far too soon:
A few months ago, I found myself in my attic at 11 p.m., tearing through boxes marked with Jeff’s initials, looking for a button-down shirt and tie for my 15-year-old daughter, Maggie. Her lacrosse team had decided to wear men’s shirts and ties to school the next day to get pumped for a game. It sounds like fun, unless your father is dead and you don’t have a man’s shirt and tie in your house. I had not planned to open boxes that had been closed for almost 13 years on that particular night, but that’s what I was doing. I knew I saved at least one monogrammed shirt, but where was it? I could hear Maggie in her room crying tears for her father, who was killed in the World Trade Center when she was not yet 3 years old.
It’s a small-seeming thing, but these are the moments that loom large in my house. It’s those moments of sudden realization that Jeff should be here—and they always give me pause.
Another September 11 Without a Dad (The Atlantic)
Borstalboy
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#189/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 3:52pm9/12 is more important than 9/11 for this country.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#199/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 4:53pm
I was living in Los Angeles when I heard the news. I almost felt guilty being here while my fellow tri-state area people were suffering. The town I came from in New Jersey lost more residents of any town except Manhattan (32 in all).
Someone called me at 6am and said "turn on the TV". I turned it on long enough to see what was happening and turned it off just as fast. I couldn't bare to watch. I walked around like a zombie, and went to work. I was the only one there. I remember when I was driving I was crying and an African American gentlemen caught my eye from another car. He bowed and shook his head as if trying to comfort me. I'll never forget that.
finebydesign
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
#209/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 5:08pmThe most I can say is that we had no idea what was going on, Manhattan was a surreal that day.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#219/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 8:40pm
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#229/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 11:40pmI was only four when it happened. Strange to think I'm one of the last to actually remember anything from that day. Even many of my friends (barely younger than me) don't remember a thing.
#239/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/11/14 at 11:54pm
The day of 9/11 was also my cousin's first day of preschool. She made her father drive her to school, and he agreed although he knew he would be late for work. He worked at the World Trade Center. Because he drove my cousin to school, he missed the attacks.
I am unbelievably grateful my uncle missed the attacks and is still with us.
I am deeply sorry if you lost someone that day or had to witness it in person. Let us never forget, as we move forward together.
"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
#249/11: Never Forget & Forward Together (Thirteen Years Later)
Posted: 9/12/14 at 4:20am
People on another board have tied in the discussion of personal experience of the attacks with the politics of what happened and the mistakes that were made in the aftermath. You can place blame wherever you want, but for those of us who grew up in the tri-state area, no matter the politics or reasons for the attack or the response, it was a horrific event that changed the area, and us in many ways, forever.
It is something that will be remain with us until we die. What we all lost on that day is incalculable.
And, not to forget the Pentagon and Flight 93. Both horrific events in their own right.
