Remember September 11th

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Burt Blade

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I realize that many folks are busy picking up the pieces after Katrina hit our coast, but today is also a day for remembering those who died on September 11th, 2001, and especially those who fought back, on Flight 93 and since then.


We will never forget.
 
i posted this in another forum, im sorry if it is a bit religous (not much) for this site

this is a pretty sad day for too many people.
all sides of politics use the events as some kind of vehicle.

hard to put this right, ok-
i guess the best equation- i visited my family in NY right after 9-11-01, about a month later. being there, in NYC, and on LI, it was like being at a wake or a memorial. worse, because so many people were still very scared.
a wake where 10 million people were all connected to someone who had died horribly.

i know there are tons of other things going on , with the hurricane in New Orleans, the tsunami, the wars, it goes on forever.

fortunately, praise God, the number of deaths in N.O. seems to be an overestimation.
everything else that is happening down there, all we can do is pray.
for right now, i am not going to think about the politics.

i feel a little guilty being concerned over 9-11 with so much else happening, but i can't help it, i am connected to those people.

what i am thinking about is all the sad people who lost someone today, or last week in the hurricane, or last year in the tsunami, or whenever.
that they feel a little better knowing God is taking care of whoever they lost

for all these disasters, ask God to give strength to all those people who lost someone close to them.
 
I was just sitting here getting choked up thinking about this myself. I remember when I was growing up, the people a little older than myself would talk about what they were doing when President Kennedy was shot. The generation before that would talk about what they were doing when Peral Harbor was attacked. I guess each generation has a day of horror to remember and for me, it is September 11. It is a day that changed all of our lives forever.
I was just getting ready to get off work when the first plane hit. I was glued to the car radio all the way home. As soon as I got home I began calling my family and friends that live and work in the DC area. They were all OK although several worked close to the Pentagon. I was on the phone with a friend when the whole thing came down. Being a professional firefighter the first thing I thought of and said is that a lot of firefighters just died. I immediately started trying to guess how many alarms responded to the incident and how many men just died. Soon after that my call waiting beaped and I was called back into work to stand by in case another terrorist attack occured here. For the first and only time in my life I grabbed my BOB and all my SHTF gear including an AR/shotgun/handgun. I drove like a mad man in to work and the steets were pretty much deserted. I was concerned about getting pulled over, not because of the ticket but because it would delay me from getting there. But, I didn't see a police officer on the road that day.



I don't know why I need to talk about this every year, but I do. The whole thing still brings tears to my eyes. I wear a bracelet in memory of my brothers from FDNY that died that day.
 
This past week another brave FDNY firefighter killed on 911 was laid to rest. His remains were only identified recently.

Tonight, we will go down to Liberty State Park on the riverfront and look at the Twin Towers of Light.
 
Terrorist Attacks

I had a little, private, moment of silence this morning and went out side to look at a sky very similar to 4 years ago, but blessedly with out any airplanes.
 
I remember I was working in the local jail at at the time, in one of the inmate tanks. One of our officers radioed that an airplane had hit the WTC. At first, the severity of the event hadn't hit me. Then, the officer radioed, "You guys need to turn your televisions on."

I turned on the television and was shocked. Many of the inmates woke up and joined me at the eating tables to watch. Some had tears in their eyes. It was a striking moment.
 
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