EDUC Annual 9/11 Post, now 21 years, how time has flown.

Countrymouse

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
And many many many of the original posts to that thread are missing; for example, the thread went from the towers being hit to (in post 48) "Both towers collapsed, Pentagon still on fire"---but no posts about the initial plane / whatever hitting the Pentagon. Hardly any pictures or videos--and I remembered the initial thread could barely load on my old dial-up that day due to the many pictures & videos. I guess it had to be cleaned up or maybe things were lost in new server incarnations--but I sure wish we could see the original threads from that day!

I saved a LOT on floppy discs that I downloaded from TB2K that day--I'll have to dig up my old floppy-disc player that I plug in to the computer and see if I can still open those files.....
 
Raggedyman

Raggedyman

Res ipsa loquitur
that day we cancelled all afternoon appointments and shut the office down at noon. I remember picking up my 12 YO son and my 15 YO daughter. we went to have lunch at steak and shake. people were ANGRY. they were SCARRED. I can remember my daughter asking me if WWIII had started. I told her "NO" - but in my gut I felt it had and I knew that things would never be the same again - EVER.
 
AlfaMan

AlfaMan

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9/11 was yesterday, 9/11 is today and 9/11 is tomorrow. No other way to put it.

People say memories fade over time, time heals all wounds. Wrong on both counts. That Tuesday flashes in my head one scene after another, like a horror movie anytime someone brings up the subject. You remember the people, the blood and the smell. God the smell. But you can't remember people's faces. To this day I still can't see their faces. I remember the wounds and blood but cannot for the life of me remember their faces.

I wouldn't call 9/11 exciting. Seeing mass murder up close and personal is not exciting; it's pornographic on a massive scale.
I'd agree with scary though. Scariest thing I've ever been through in my life. And don't forget the RAGE you felt that day.

Hate this time of year.
 
Countrymouse

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
AlfaMan said:
9/11 was yesterday, 9/11 is today and 9/11 is tomorrow. No other way to put it.

People say memories fade over time, time heals all wounds. Wrong on both counts. That Tuesday flashes in my head one scene after another, like a horror movie anytime someone brings up the subject. You remember the people, the blood and the smell. God the smell. But you can't remember people's faces. To this day I still can't see their faces. I remember the wounds and blood but cannot for the life of me remember their faces.

I wouldn't call 9/11 exciting. Seeing mass murder up close and personal is not exciting; it's pornographic on a massive scale.
I'd agree with scary though. Scariest thing I've ever been through in my life. And don't forget the RAGE you felt that day.

Hate this time of year.
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Alfaman---

{{{hugs}}}
 
The Hammer

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So many people who are adults today were not alive or of age in 2001. They have no concept of the utter horror, pure trauma, and abject chaos of that Tuesday.

I'll never forget. I take time this time of year to rewatch the footage, re-listen to the stories, and remember as all those feelings wash over me. And I've cried every one of these 21 anniversaries.
 
CTFIREBATTCHIEF

CTFIREBATTCHIEF

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I'm in Cape Hatteras NC as I write this, watching the sun coming up. I've already been at the water's edge raising a glass to the fallen, those who were killed just by going to work that day and those who died trying to get them out. The heartache, the pain, the anger never goes away. Today is a rough day, for a lot of people. May God bless them and keep them.
 
ginnie6

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I will never forget that day. I was home with a 3 week old and the other kids. Dh called me, which was odd, and told me to turn the tv on. School was canceled that day as sat and watched the news.
 
db cooper

db cooper

Resident Secret Squirrel
I remember very well to this day, when Afghan Air Force bombers slammed into the twin towers while carrying Iraqi stealth WMD's. I was so happy when Bush decided to teach them all a lesson by starting our longest war and destabilizing the whole region, giving Iran more power than ever. As a perfect icing on the cake for our success, we enriched Afghanistan with billions of dollars in military equipment and gave the Taliban thousands of people to torture and murder when we left.

Just what more can a person ask for? Hey! How about a Ukrainian war? (this post was made in sarcasm)

Seriously, on that day I was on my way to Charlie-One, a missile base and was recalled back to the AFB. I walked into the operations room, TV was on, and saw the second plane slam into a tower. This I will never forget.
 
adgal

adgal

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This event not only changed my life - but two of my sons who were in high school both decided to join the military because of 9-11. One of my sons served in the Army - went to Afghanistan - and lost many of his friends. It totally changed him and changed the trajectory of his life. He made friends - no, he added brothers - but he has lost so many of them since they've come home, it's heartbreaking. Please pray for our military too, on this day as we remember those whose lives were changed by this fateful day.
 
Terriannie

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I got home from my morning bus route I turned on the TV and the news happened to be on. Planning to turn the channel, I saw the first report of a reporter's camera turning towards the towers to see a plane fly into it. It looked small from that distance and I was thinking how in the world are they going to repair that damage and I wondered if anyone was in the office it hit in? Different angles and different cameras immediately afterwards told the rest of the story and it was bad. Real bad.

Kneeling down I was crying and praying. Then at 49 years old, I called my mother. Later that afternoon, don't ask me how but we all picked up the children from school in silence.

I've been a news junkie ever since.
 
ChicagoMan74

ChicagoMan74

ULTRA MAGA
I remember calling in sick for work that day and watching essentially the whole event transpire LIVE on cable news. I'll never forget it. The missus was a teachers assistant at that time. She called a couple hours afterward saying how the school where she worked at was going to dismiss at noon. I remember also (from living in near Chicago Midway airport) how quiet the skies were for days afterward.

I also had some pretty revealing political moments shortly after that event...when some "friends" of mine essentially displayed their liberal stripes and ceased to be my "friends". I also remember some time afterward, being incensed after hearing on talk radio, the opinions of some other America haters, saying that we "all just need to calm down".

It's sad really...for an extreme LITTLE bit of time the events of 9/11 actually united this country...in fact, it MAY have been the last time this country WAS united in quite some time.
 
dstraito

dstraito

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Countrymouse said:
And many many many of the original posts to that thread are missing; for example, the thread went from the towers being hit to (in post 48) "Both towers collapsed, Pentagon still on fire"---but no posts about the initial plane / whatever hitting the Pentagon. Hardly any pictures or videos--and I remembered the initial thread could barely load on my old dial-up that day due to the many pictures & videos. I guess it had to be cleaned up or maybe things were lost in new server incarnations--but I sure wish we could see the original threads from that day!

I saved a LOT on floppy discs that I downloaded from TB2K that day--I'll have to dig up my old floppy-disc player that I plug in to the computer and see if I can still open those files.....
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I made a whole CD on that day as well
 
dstraito

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AlfaMan said:
9/11 was yesterday, 9/11 is today and 9/11 is tomorrow. No other way to put it.

People say memories fade over time, time heals all wounds. Wrong on both counts. That Tuesday flashes in my head one scene after another, like a horror movie anytime someone brings up the subject. You remember the people, the blood and the smell. God the smell. But you can't remember people's faces. To this day I still can't see their faces. I remember the wounds and blood but cannot for the life of me remember their faces.

I wouldn't call 9/11 exciting. Seeing mass murder up close and personal is not exciting; it's pornographic on a massive scale.
I'd agree with scary though. Scariest thing I've ever been through in my life. And don't forget the RAGE you felt that day.

Hate this time of year.
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I agree about the anger but the target of my anger has shited slightly.

eta: Back then I still thought mainstream media told the truth and had integrity. I have since taken the red pill and there is no going back.
 
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Raggedyman

Raggedyman

Res ipsa loquitur
an appropriate video for the day . . . as has been said up thread the sorrow the hurt and the anger never really leave

Dan Fogelberg - ever on​

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybfdUXdcsA


Lyrics
May the trail rise up to meet you
May your heart rejoice in song
May the skies be fair above you
As you journey ever on

Ever on--ever on
Ever on--ever on

And in this planetary circle
We are but a single stone
Spinning on our fragile axis
Through the endless night along

Ever on--ever on

May your love be there to guide us
May it always keep us strong
May we walk within your footsteps
As you lead us ever on

Ever on--ever on​
 
johnswahoo

johnswahoo

Veteran Member
AlfaMan said:
9/11 was yesterday, 9/11 is today and 9/11 is tomorrow. No other way to put it.

People say memories fade over time, time heals all wounds. Wrong on both counts. That Tuesday flashes in my head one scene after another, like a horror movie anytime someone brings up the subject. You remember the people, the blood and the smell. God the smell. But you can't remember people's faces. To this day I still can't see their faces. I remember the wounds and blood but cannot for the life of me remember their faces.

I wouldn't call 9/11 exciting. Seeing mass murder up close and personal is not exciting; it's pornographic on a massive scale.
I'd agree with scary though. Scariest thing I've ever been through in my life. And don't forget the RAGE you felt that day.

Hate this time of year.
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That shouldn’t have said exciting, but engrossing. Meaning, it was a day where I and others were captivated by the events, you couldn’t consume enough information. Being in. Western Pa at the time, and the situation was of flight 93 was so close, the chaos that day was surreal.
 
anney

anney

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9/11 We will never forget.
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It is hard to believe it has been 21 years since that horrible day. The day our nation was attacked and everything was literally changed forever on how we lived.

The lives lost not only that day but in the long war on terror, the lung diseases the kept taking lives afterwards, the mental torture that have stolen peace from so many, the grief that will never leave because of loved ones that were killed, the limbs taken from so many soldiers as they fought for our freedom.

Our rights that we had so freely before 9/11, gone, all gone. The sense of peace and freedom, replaced with a fear that is constantly in the background of our minds, so much that we changed how we live and think.

The anger that was released that day, a anger that still burns in so many people.

We don't realize how events in this live can change a people and a nation. How it can be set in place to establish agendas that are evil and never for good.

I wish I could say that a mighty revival and a return to the Lord happened right after 9/11 but sadly, it did not. What I saw that day and the days afterwards there was a small return to the Lord as churches were filled, seeking comfort for the tragedy that was witnessed.

But then it was replaced with patriotism.

Now patriotism isn't wrong in and of itself. We should all be proud of country and willing to fight for what is right.

But true revival is a return to the Lord with repentance. That did not happen in America in the days following.

Let us pray for repentance beginning with ourselves and pray that repentance sweeps across our country that we might return to the Lord.

I pray you will remember today. Tell your sweeties how much you love and cherish them. Time is short and we never know when the Lord will call us home.
 
L.A.B.

L.A.B.

Goodness before greatness.
This is the main open forum, so I’ll leave out the UNEXPLAINED.

I awoke to a phone call from my from my MIL. I never heard her ‘squeak’ so loud or shrill as she told me to “Quick, turn on the TV.”

I was seeing a rerun of the initial attack. As the 2nd plane made impact, I dressed and topped off fuel in the vessels, and took care of the early shopping.

The SIL called sometime later. She stated a flight booked to arrive in Los Angeles some hours later was missing / not pinging. She was freaking out it might actually get to L.A.

When I told her, it was not politically healthy to allow such a s t r e t c h e d out timeline and action to come to fruition, she asked, “What do you mean?”

‘They’ll splash it’ I responded.

“Splash it?” She parroted.

‘Yes.’ A damned if you do / don’t situation.’

That’s the softened public board version of my minuscule experience that morning. So many 1st responders and others gave all in the face of danger and evil. I don’t know their faces. But to this day, I can sense their goodness, and will never forget their sacrifice.

WWG1WGA.
 
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Dennis Olson

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Chief Curmudgeon
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The attack was the 6205th thread started on this forum. The first large-scale news event we covered here. It kept crashing our little server due to forum traffic. TB2K was, in effect, “launched” from the rubble of the WTC.

My heart still goes out to all those who lost their lives in the attack, as well as the first responders who ultimately lost their lives due to the toxic smoke.

We were United as a nation then, before the days of the magic knee-grow ruined us all.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Countrymouse said:
Kind of sad, reading those old posts---to see how many BELOVED Timebomb members are either inactive, membership revoked, or now passed on. I miss SO MANY of them, and their wisdom!
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The original Not Ready For Primetime Players - lol. That’s why I was so happy to see Kritter on here last night. I wish Mutter and Redeye were still around, and A.T. Hagen, who I allowed the UB bastards to convince me was a sock and I ran him off. That taught me a lesson I’ll never forget about buying-in to hysteria. I miss the old gang. It really does make my heart hurt to read the names of those with whom we founded this place. So many wonderful minds, now gone to Jesus.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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I was in Birmingham Alabama on a computer contract at AGS. I was just leaving my extended stay motel and had turned on the radio. The news was on covering the attack. I turned around and returned to the motel, where I turned on the TV and watched the replays. I too was changed that day. I was transformed into a total newshound, and that event set the tone for the future of the forum, which slowly morphed from a “prepper board” to a world news aggregator.
 
WriterMom

WriterMom

Veteran Member
I remember so many details of that day so vividly still. But three things stand out to me the most. The first was the complete sense of terror and panic I felt driving home from work (just outside of Pittsburgh) after our lab closed early. I had been told that one of the hijacked planes crashed in Pittsburgh (which was inaccurate - it was Shanksville - but I didn't know that yet). The second was watching news reports from the scene and hearing the "thud" of dozens of bodies hitting an awning of a building near a reporter as people jumped to their deaths (I will never get over this). And the third was the incredible feeling of relief and pride I felt as three fighter jets patrolling the skies flew directly and very low over my house later that afternoon. Life sure changed for our country on that day.
 
CTFIREBATTCHIEF

CTFIREBATTCHIEF

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I'm watching the reading of the names this morning. We're on vacation in North Carolina at Cape Hatteras. I've already been on the beach at sunrise to raise a glass to the memories of those who were lost that day and those who have been lost since that day due to illness from exposure to the smoke from the fires. The scenes of friends and relatives at the wall of remembrance are heart wrenching as well as the stories of the readers of the names as they mention their own relatives.

With 21 years passing, some of those readers are the children of those lost, now grown and relating as to the memories of their relatives, or in many cases the stories told because they were too young to remember their fallen relatives. I will give ABC credit,they have covered this without interruption. They are split screening with the Queen's coffin's procession from Balmoral castle, but the audio is on NY.
 
Breeta

Breeta

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This is an excellent documentary series by National Geographic. The first episode is on youtube, the rest is on Nat Geo or hulu. If you only watch the first episode, it is enough… it’s riveting. Somber. Highly recommend, especially for younger generation (but grown) who may not have all the memories we do. We must never forget.
God bless.
9/11: One Day In America. Episode 1: First response.
1hour, 15 minutes. (First plane hits at about 16 mins in).
View: https://youtu.be/rspC_2ujO24
 
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