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Remembering 9/11 - Charon - 09-11-2021
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Melodee and I were sitting in our apartment when we got a call from my mom to turn on the TV. We won’t ever forget how stunned we were, and shaken that someone could attack us on our own soil. Now thinking about the unrest in Afghanistan, and hearing about the Christians there, we’re reminded that if we put our hope in humans, we will be disappointed. As we pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters, as we remember the brave heroes that gave of themselves even when it seemed that all was lost, let us also remember this:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."
-Juan
#neverforget #wewillremember #september11
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A beloved friend, Fireman Dude, Whom died little by little after being a First Responder, Second Wave, might be pleased to note that NY is finally putting up on the wall of names, the men and women whom died a few days to a few years after 9/11. RIP.
RE: Remembering 9/11 - Charon - 09-11-2021
24 powerful and moving photos from the September 11 attacks that Americans will never forget
Matthew DeBord Updated Sep 11, 2018, 11:22 AM
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Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York City. Getty Images/Robert Giroux
It's been 17 years since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
But for millions of Americans, haunting memories of that day are still fresh, and many lives were changed forever.
On 9/11, terrorists hijacked four planes and were able to crash two of them into the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York and one into the Pentagon.
The remaining jet crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers overpowered the hijackers.
A day that started out with clear blue skies ended with a mass of twisted, smoldering metal where the Twin Towers once stood, leaving 2,977 people dead in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, along with the 19 hijackers.
September 11 happened almost two decades ago. One-quarter of Americans are too young to remember it. I have three kids who have no memory of it at all — they weren't born yet. But as they've grown older, they've started to ask questions.
We certainly don't want to forget about 9/11, even as we get on with our lives and confront new challenges. So in memory of that day, here are 24 images that capture what no American should forget. And as someone living in New York City at the time, I can tell you what it was like to witness the tragedy as it unfolded.
Brittany Fowler contributed to a previous version of this story.
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were a familiar sight to New Yorkers. For decades, you looked up, and they were there. It was a reassuring sight. I visited the towers many times and gazed upon them many more times.
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This March 1, 2000 file photo shows the Manhattan skyline with the twin towers of the World Trade Center, seen from Jersey City, N.J. AP
On the morning of September 11, I had just finished voting in Brooklyn when I looked up and saw that one of the towers was on fire. Just a few minutes later, a second plane crashed into the other tower. Something was very wrong.
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Carmen Taylor/AP
President George W. Bush was at a school event when he was informed. The expression on his face says it all. No one in the government knew how serious the threat was.
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The impact of the two jets was devastating, smashing through the steel structure of the towers and igniting fires that eventually brought the buildings down. Warplanes took to the skies. Every nonmilitary flight in US airspace was ordered to land.
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The second tower of the World Trade Center explodes into flames after being hit by a airplane, New York September 11, 2001 with the Brooklyn bridge in the foreground. REUTERS/Sara K. Schwittek
Thousands of people were trapped in the upper floors of the towers. Many died when the planes hit, and more perished as the fires raged and when the towers collapsed. Some jumped to their deaths to escape the conflagration and the smoke. In all, 2,606 people died in the towers.
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People look out of the burning North tower of the World Trade Center in New York City September 11, 2001. Both towers were hit by planes crashing into the buildings. Shortly after this photo was taken this tower fell. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen
The sky was blue and clear on 9/11. The winds carried a massive plume of smoke out over the city and New York's harbor. "Manhattan looked as though it had taken 10 megatons," the British novelist Martin Amis later wrote.
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Marty Lederhandler/AP
The towers were so badly damaged structurally that collapse was inevitable. At the time, however, no one expected this. People on the streets around the World Trade Center fled in terror when the buildings went down, one after the other, and filled the streets with rubble and dust.
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People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. AP Photo/Suzanne Plunket
Fires raged for hours and smoldered for days in the mass of twisted steel and rubble. Lower Manhattan below 14th Street would be closed to traffic not involved in the rescue effort.
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Mario Tama/Getty Images
The area around the World Trade Center was a scene of utter devastation. Smoke and dust hung in the air. Countless cars, trucks, and emergency vehicles were destroyed.
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Shawn Baldwin/AP
Tragedy was everywhere. The New York City Fire Department lost its chaplain, Rev. Mychal Judge, who was killed by falling rubble while giving last rites to a victim of the attack.
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Very little remained of the Twin Towers' elegant facades, which architect Minoru Yamasaki has designed with narrow window openings and soaring archwork.
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Peter Morgan/Reuters
Two 110-story soaring towers were reduced to a contorted mass of smoking metal. Welders spent months cutting the steel apart so that it could be carted away.
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REUTERS/Ryan Remiorz
The New York City Fire Department rushed to the scene and suffered incredible losses of life as it tried to save people from the burning towers — 343 members were killed.
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REUTERS/Anthony Correia
Strong men were reduced to tears.
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Mario Tama/Getty Images
In the days that followed, rescue workers streamed into New York for neighboring cities and states. Scenes of horror as bodies were lifted from the rubble contrasted with signs of defiance as American flags were raised above the carnage.
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Bill Farrington/AP
Loved ones posted photos of missing friends and family members in the desperate hope that they might turn up alive.
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Russell Boyce/Reuters
The city pulled together is a way that I had never witnessed before. We lined the streets to cheer on National Guard and rescue workers as they made their way into Manhattan and down to what became known as "Ground Zero."
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Spencer Platt/Getty Images
We also indulged our vengeful attitudes. Soon, the nation would go to war in Afghanistan.
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New York police stand near a wanted poster printed by on a full page of a New York newspaper for Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden in the financial district of New York. REUTERS/Russell Boyce-Files
The attacks weren't limited to New York. The Pentagon also took a hit — 125 people were killed.
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REUTERS/Larry Downing
The scene at the Pentagon was equally horrifying, but the building itself remained standing.
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A new tower has risen at Ground Zero, along with a memorial. This has provided a lot of people with a welcome sense of closure. But it's not enough to make me forget that terrible day; the lives that were lost, and how America was changed.
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But the new architecture of lower Manhattan is uplifting. Here's the now famous Oculus.
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And once again, it's possible to look at over the vast expanse of the city from high above.
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A member of the media looks out at the Manhattan skyline from the One World Observatory observation deck on the 100th floor of the One World Trade center tower in New York during a media tour of the site May 20, 2015. Reuters
But the annual "Tribute in Lights" continues to remind New Yorkers and world of the buildings that once stood in Manhattan, and the lives that were lost on 9/11.
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The 'Tribute in Lights' shines on the skyline of lower Manhattan in New York, September 11, 2006, as the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center is observed. Reuters
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RE: Remembering 9/11 - Charon - 09-11-2021
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First responders. First Wave. And our FDs all over NY. Our PDs all over NY.
Lord, comfort their families whom will never forget our heroes.
RE: Remembering 9/11 - IceWizard - 09-11-2021
We must never forget those that gave their all...
Ice
RE: Remembering 9/11 - TrayGold - 09-11-2021
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RE: Remembering 9/11 - happyvibe - 09-11-2021
Never forget 9/11 and all the innocent people who went to work that day and never came home. It was a beautiful fall day much like today. God bless the USA and keep everyone safe from harm.
RE: Remembering 9/11 - Slick - 09-11-2021
Never Forget.
I live about an hour away from Shanksville. Took a trip to the very make shift memorial just 2 months after September
11th. You had to walk a long way to get to the memorial which was just fencing overlooking the field where Flight 93
had crashed. You could not get any place near the site. It was one of the saddest things I have ever seen. Pictures and numerous items were wired to the fence at the make shit memorial.
And all you could see of the actual crash site was bare charred earth. I know they had been over the area to collect
what was left. But the length and depth of the scar on the field told the story that you didn't need to hear. They had
put a huge fence around what I consider Holy Land.
I guess the only solace you can take from that was that they were Heros and when the end came, it would have been swift. Straight to Gods Loving Embrace.
Never Forget.
Slick
RE: Remembering 9/11 - Charon - 09-12-2021
RE: Remembering 9/11 - Analin - 09-12-2021
Computer illiterate at times, I cannot copy the quote.. I wanted to second xenotype's share. And to add that New Yorkers supporting New Yorkers, people actually making eye contact and sympathizing without prejudice, was most impressive to me.
(09-12-2021, 01:52 AM)xenotype Wrote: God bless the fallen. Too many are suffering with life-long injuries from their desire to help others, the first responders. A special salute to those that run towards the danger.
RE: Remembering 9/11 - folken - 09-12-2021
Rick died in the south tower evacuating employees. He lived 10 lives and is a true American hero............................