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C. E. Winterland
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 11, 2002 - 08:15 am: |   |
I'm sitting here late for work, cleaning up some synopses to send out and remembering six months ago, watching in shock as the icons of what had been the view from my living room window on the lower east side of Manhattan fell to the ground.
I doubt that any of us need to be reminded of what happened that day, but I thought I'd put up a thread so that we might post small memorials if we should like.
Manhattan's skyline, and each of our perceptions and hearts have really changed in the past six months. While the talk of the last six months has us all hardened to the attack, and united against such things, lets not allow our hearts to be hardened as well. America is a very unique place, and we are each very unique people with the gift of words to power our days. I want to remember the tragedy of 9-11, to keep it close, but not to let it change me or the land we all love.
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Vickie Adkins
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God Bless America, land that I love!
Vickie |
laurelj
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 11, 2002 - 09:59 am: | |
Leave it to you, C.E., to put up a thread pertinent to what I have been thinking all day. Unfortunately, I still have not managed to harden myself against the visions that flit across my TV screen about that day, the lost people, and the subsequent months that passed so quickly by. Having no other effective outlet, I use my lingering shock, horror, and sorrow to enhance a story that will end up being even more starkly realistic than I intended.
But yes, God bless America indeed. Amen to that.
laurelj |
mark
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 11, 2002 - 06:06 pm: | |
robert cirri, port authority police officer, was on the 23rd floor of the second tower when it came down. he'd started out on the first and took to the stairs in order to move people in the right direction. he was also on the cell phone, speaking with his wife when the transmission cut out. please include him and his family in your prayers, if any of you are of the mind to pray. thanx.
- mark
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Gloria Marlow
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I went to class today thinking about it being the six month anniversary. In my critical thinking class I found I had to defend both our country and our president. I had to try to remain reasonably calm as I tried to explain that speaking with a southern accent does NOT make someone a total idiot. Also, who made this a "religous war"? There were thousands of people in those towers, people of diverse religious, ethnic, social backgrounds. They weren't the ones who decided to do something great for their god on Sept 11. I don't know if I am making any sense and I might be rambling, but I left my critical thinking class very disappointed today that people could so easily forget what led us to the war we are fighting. No one was expecting what happened on that day, and I, for one, am proud of how America, its people and leaders have handled it. I know it is part of what makes America great that we welcome diverse cultures, but to sit in class with people who are here from other countries, arguing with them about this, just set me off.
That is just my two cents worth tonight, and I usually am a much nicer, sweeter person. In all actuality, I probably shouldn't even have opened this post tonight and I darn sure shouldn't be answering it, but America is a great and wonderful country, full of great and wonderful people, and regardless of political persuasion, our leaders have dealt with a very difficult situation that they were forced to deal with in the best way they knew how.
Gloria |
LaurieAnne Cruea
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I sat today reviewing the September and October archives for another purpose, and found myself reading all of those articles I had avoided throughout those months. Tears hovered on my lashes as I fought again the same feelings I had fought at that time.
September 11, 2001, I was standing in front of the newsroom when a call came across the PA. "Laurie, line 1." I picked up the phone. It was Linda, one of my carriers. "Are you watching TV?"
"Linda," said I. "This is a newspaper. No, I'm not watching TV."
"A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center."
So I transferred the call to the managing editor. Within moments, the phones were ringing off the hook. "Another plane just hit." "A plane went down in Pennsylvania." "Another plane just hit the Pentagon." "Oh, my god, something exploded in front of..."
That was my entire day. The TV got turned on in the conference room. I stepped in only one time, watched for less than 20 seconds as they showed a wide glimpse of the Statue Of Liberty with billowing smoke behind it. And every channel I listened to on the radio played, "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood.
I couldn't hear this song before without tears in my eyes, and it took every ounce of strength in my body that day, and every day since, to avoid falling into a heap on the floor whenever I hear Greenwood's voice belting out those words.
We all had family, friends, friends of family, or family of friends who were heartbroken by the deeds performed on that day. Some were closer than others.
Currently, my cousin from Missouri is overseas fighting. So is the grandson of a dear friend of mine, and her granddaughter. My cousin became a father on a Friday morning and was shipped out Saturday morning. He barely had a chance to see his newborn daughter before he had to kiss his wife goodbye. The entire family prays everyday that he will come home safely, and not leave his wife a widow. He's only 20 years old. He has since been home to see his wife and daughter for one brief day. |
Gloria Marlow
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Have you heard the song by Alan Jackson? I thought I was going to wreck the car I was crying so hard the first time I heard it. They play it often now, and most times I can hear it without "hearing" it, but every once in a while, I still find my eyes filling with tears. It touches on every emotion anyone had on that day and it is just beautiful.
Gloria |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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To Everyone who has responded to this thread....
It was a devastating day in our history and will forever be remembered. The world indeed, "stoped turning" as Jackson so aptly puts it. It has started turning again, ever so slowly, but still moving forward and trying to cope with all the tragedy. The whole world was affected by that cowardly act, not just us, here in the US, but everyone, everywhere. They may not know it yet, but some day, they will all find out just how much and how mighty this country is and how wonderful the people who live in it are. We, for the most part, have forgiven those who trespassed against us on that day, as no other nation would or could. In my own mind, I think that we have been far to generous and forgiving to all the fanatics that took part in this wholesale slaughter of innocent lives. However, I fully understand the need for temperance in this particular case. The rest of the world is watching us to see how we will handle those theives of life if they are ever caught, and we need to show that we are dedicated to doing right and getting to the bottom of this before anyone reacts without just and due cause.
It was truly one of the saddest days that I can remember since the day JFK was assinated and perhaps it was sadder and more horrific than that day in reality. But at that time, I was just a youngster and that act of cowardice shook my roots. This act didn't shake my roots, however it did destroy the safety that I and so many others felt and none of us will ever have that safety again. We will not ever again be naive to what the rest of the world faces each and every day where there are bombs going off around them all the time for one reason or another. Sept 11 took our security. It forced us to open our collective eyes to what the rest of the world sees all the time. It also broke our borders and opened them up to any sort of pond scum that can be imagined, and as a result forced the closing of those same borders and a tighter security and scrutiny than we haave ever known before. We were forced to look upon the rest of the world with a full knowledge of what they have been trying to show and tell us about for many years.
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laurelj
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I have email friends in the UK and Australia, and they took it worse than I did if that is possible. In fact, neither one of them is over it yet and keep going back to that day in their emails. Both said the same thing - that the ONE PLACE THAT ALL THE WORLD thinks is safe from such attacks is now another feature on the nightly news.
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