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3 minutes ago, MikeBloomberg2020 said:

Carrie from the Bloomberg Campaign here! Thanks to all the first responders and others who died at the World Trade Center. We thank you for your sacrifice. It is on this day this year that we remember what you all stood for, and for the freedoms that make America the envy of the world. New York is a better place because of you!

 

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I may have posted this before but my old office(4 blocks to the North) faced the WTC and many of my old co-workers saw the whole thing from those windows. One former employee (retired before I started) saw the first plane hit , and screamed in agony because his daughter worked on one of the upper flowers of the North Tower. Of course she didn’t make it. It really hits home when your colleagues were directly affected by it.

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I posted this back in the Hornfans days.  
 

I won’t get in to the whole morning but…. I had hired a driver (Chemical Transportation) about 6 months prior to 9/11.  (This is in the Houston area.)  His name is Frank Barbella.  Cool guy, didn’t need the money, he just wanted something to do.  His wife was a pretty well off Psychologist, and he was just bored.

That morning he went on with his day and about an hour after the 2nd plane hit, he pulled up back in the yard and ran into my office wanting to watch the TV.  He had received a call from his sister (who lived in New York), telling him what had happened.  We also tried to call all the drivers to tell them to come back to the yard.

She told him what had happened and their brother was a port authority property manager.

This is his page.

http://obits.al.com/sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=126860&location=2&psl=1

Frank never came back to work, and I heard from him once after that.

 

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If you get a chance, watch the great 60 Minutes special about the 9/11 firefighters. The final segment with the kids of those who gave their lives on 9/11 who are no themselves firefighters is so amazing. Bravery runs in their family.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/september-11-fdny-world-trade-center-60-minutes-video-2024-09-08/

Was this a new episode on 60 Minutes? I skipped over it tonight because I felt like I had seen it before.
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13 hours ago, wild_turkey said:


Was this a new episode on 60 Minutes? I skipped over it tonight because I felt like I had seen it before.

No. It was billed as “New” in my guide but I’d seen it before. Maybe Scott Pelley shot a new intro for it but all the documentary footage including the firemen’s kids I saw last year.

You just can’t get over the crashing sound of falling bodies landing on the metal roof over the firefighters at street level. Watching events unfold live we saw that there were some people jumping from the towers and were horrified. But we didn’t know how many people were jumping. There are see a lot more than we realized and during a portion of that video you can hear them one after another.

Here’s the doc minus the part at the end about the children of fallen firefighters who joined the FDNY afterward.

 

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This was OSU’s the first game after 9/11. I was there with the marching band. In the second half they went back to normal and their fake soldiers tried to steal our flag. One of our male cheerleaders caught them and ran them off. The fake army drill instructor started yelling at the dumb aggy probably for getting caught not for trying because we were told to in advance to watch our shit because they always try to steal something from the opponent. We also mocked the aggy shit shovler during their gestapo march. The stripping was cool though.

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On 9/11/2024 at 11:57 AM, 'stache said:

This was OSU’s the first game after 9/11. I was there with the marching band. In the second half they went back to normal and their fake soldiers tried to steal our flag. One of our male cheerleaders caught them and ran them off. The fake army drill instructor started yelling at the dumb aggy probably for getting caught not for trying because we were told to in advance to watch our shit because they always try to steal something from the opponent. We also mocked the aggy shit shovler during their gestapo march. The stripping was cool though.

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I was at that game.  About 10 rows back on the 49, in a friends seats. 

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20 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

I don’t care what anyone thinks of him, this was a fucking powerful moment….

 

 

... in Iraq?

I didn't know this until recently, but there were three Texas Exes killed on 9/11. Two men perished in the towers and a woman died on Flight 93. The woman was an ADPi from Houston Stratford. It only took me 23 years to figure this out.

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On 9/11/2024 at 8:04 PM, Trey3216 said:

I don’t care what anyone thinks of him, this was a fucking powerful moment….

 

 

101X (I think) did a mash up with this and Metallica's "Don't Tread on Me" that they played for a few weeks after 9/11.  It was fucking awesome.

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Bump.  Let's keep it civil, Guys.  There's an entire whole other Cloak Room for saying mean things.  In this thread we should follow the advice of my mother, "If you don't know if it's a mean thing to say, don't say it."

I sincerely believe that at least one of the people killed on 9-11 woudla gone on to invent some kinda world-changing thing, cure cancer, or similar.  What a waste all this hate.

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Admittedly more appropriate for next year’s thread bump but it’s hard for me to reconcile that next year will be 25 years (a quarter of a century!). In my mind that day somehow feels like a long time ago and yet not that long ago.

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Admittedly more appropriate for next year’s thread bump but it’s hard for me to reconcile that next year will be 25 years (a quarter of a century!). In my mind that day somehow feels like a long time ago and yet not that long ago.


Twenty-four years later and my eyes still well with tears when contemplating that day.

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Its hard working in a tech office where at least 30% of the folks who work around me were either not born, or too young to remember anything about that day. 

and even the "kids" that are 29/30 today, they may vaguely remember that their parents were acting weird, that they got picked up early from school/pre-school, and that the TV was constantly on showing the towers falling over and over.... but they processed it differently in the almost quarter century.

to them it was something that happened to their parents (unless they were directly impacted).  They remember that we were basically at war with the Middle East for the next 20 years, but not the impact of the day it happened

 

we were on a group call when someone mentioned it being Sept 11, and it went quiet for a tiny second, and one of the younger guys just immediately starts jumping in and asking tougher questions about the call topic, and the older guys on the call just had to kind of mentally move on quickly.

 

Im sure the greatest generation dealt with the same shit on Dec 7 1965....  the kids remembered the war, but not the day brought us in it

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Shared it on here before, I believe, but the single toughest thing for me in the 9-11 Memorial is the child's etch-a-sketch that they and mom/dad had played with the night before.

Gut punch.  It still sticks with me.

It's different for everybody, but for me that was it.

God bless the families who were forever changed that day.

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10 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

Im sure the greatest generation dealt with the same shit on Dec 7 1965....  the kids remembered the war, but not the day brought us in it

I remember well when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

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I was 25 when 9/11 happened. I had just gotten married that July but I still didn't feel like an adult. I felt like someone doing the things that grownups do like having a job/career, getting married, thinking about home ownership, and contemplating the future. 9/11 was the point where I knew it was time to grow up because the world was forever changed in that moment. I watched it all as it happened. I was at work getting things ready for a seminar my building was hosting. I turned the TV on when my wife called me because the radio show she was listening to on her drive in talked about a plane hitting the World Trade Center. I turned the TV on for a few minutes and then the 2nd plane hit and I knew what we were looking at. We had flight attendants from American in our seminar and they all came out after being paged non-stop by their superiors. They knew people on the two planes that hit the towers. They immediately left and we decided to cancel the seminar. Then the first tower fell. Then the 2nd. Eventually, we all closed up and went home. 

I didn't break down until a few nights later when the TV show was on with the celebrities and musicians giving tributes to the heroes and victims. I think it was the story of a guy who stayed to die with his friend who couldn't make it down the stairs of Tower 1 because he was disabled. The friend tried to carry him down but it was too much. So instead of fleeing, he stayed to die with his friend. And that story finally broke the dam inside me. I don't think I had cried like that since I was a kid. 

This is an amazing read about The Falling Man, his story, and the photographer who took the picture. 

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/

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10 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

I remember well when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

I know you are ancient and the brain is addled.... but  take away 24 years from that date, and maybe the correlation might kick in from that day to todays date. 

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When my oldest was in first, or second, grade her elementary school principal asked me to mentor another student in her school. Once a week we would play games in the library, and the kid said little. Near the end of the semester came the reveal: their beloved grandfather had died. And this kid’s birthday was 9/11. Both were very traumatic. I still get choked up thinking about the impact of that date on someone too young to have remembered the event.

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1 hour ago, AUS-97HORN said:

I know you are ancient and the brain is addled.... but  take away 24 years from that date, and maybe the correlation might kick in from that day to todays date. 

In case you missed it, that’s why I bolded the 1945 date. 

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But will say, my earliest recollection of a momentous world event was the Berlin Blockade and subsequent Airlift.

That was a big topic of conversation between my parents at the dinner table.

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4 hours ago, Celery Man said:

It’s a damn shame how successful these attacks were.

Obviously it wouldn't be a utopia or anything, but it strains the mind to think of how different our society today would be had those planes not hit those towers.

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