September 11, 2008
Posted by Claire
Rememberances, share your own
Today is a day of rememberance. We each have a memory of where we were, what we saw, who we were with, and how we felt this very day seven years ago. This is an open thread. Please feel free to share anything on your heart and mind today. If you have shared your own 9/11 story elsewhere, please add the link in your response.
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September 11, 2008
My son was on leave from the Navy and answered his cell phone and turned on the television set and called me to watch. We were on Eastern Time Zone live, rare in the Northwest. I put the American Flag up outside the house, and my son couldn’t get a flight to return to duty in Hawaii – I started to get the feeling that we were handling a crime like it was an act of war that we weren’t going to fight, and I was angry that American citizens had been disarmed for years on aircraft by Congress that didn’t protect their security because it was too costly. I took the American flag down when we started bombing Afghanistan and the uncooperative Taliban. Real nice people died on September 11, and America remembers them fleetingly less and less as the other things crowd our lives. What would be different today, what did we change and have we learned? Freeze all domestic carriers and allies, allow special friends the freedom of the skies? When you are at war, you fight – you don’t stop in stupification and you don’t strike out blindly, you go for the enemy. Pray for those lost and those getting there, and our people all doing the best they can.
September 11, 2008
I remember exactly where I was and exactly what happened that day. I also remember the cowardly reaction of my home town. My town shut down that day. Not out of respect. Not to honor the fallen. But out of fear. The corporation I worked for would not even fly our nation’s flag out of fear that it would make them a target.
I also remember that after the event our queen goddess, Oprah, had a huge pagan ceremony wherein she healed our nation and declared all the victims to be angels. It makes me sick to this day.
Today, I remember and I look around to see how many flags flying? How many people who remember? Not many.
I also see my nation coddling Islam, bowing to them, and trying to erect a memorial to Islam on the ground in Pennsylvania where a certain aircraft crashed in defiance of Islam. These same muslims would kill us again, and again, and again if not for the courage of a very few who remember the truth of what happened on 911. For Islam, today is a celebration … just as it was the day of the event. Remember? They danced in the streets.
Most no longer remember. Many now blame us.
Blackfive got it right: http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2819/33341902
When you remember today … remember the truth and not trutherism.
Mr.Hooah!, out.
September 11, 2008
Always remembered…..always honoured..
September 11, 2008
Where I was and who I was with may be found on my blog…..
Never forget…….
Edited by Claire to add link to ASW’s blog.
September 11, 2008
My husband is a Pastor and we were at our District Pastor’s Conference. We had not turned on the t.v. yet and the people I sat with at breakfast must not have heard about it yet either. Walking back to my room, there was quite a group surrounding the t.v. and at that moment, another wife was walking by and made a comment about how something was sad, so I asked her what she was talking about. Oh my. I went to my room and turned on the t.v., wow. I decided I did not want to be alone so went to the session for the wives. Called my daughter who was home sick from school and she was just getting up. Our session was cut short as everyone wanted to be near a t.v. I went back to my room and tried to watch it and make a few phone calls. You see, I had promised my daughter I would call a few places to get information for her to study in Germany the following school year. I realized I was not going to get far with calls. I then turned my attention to relatives. One of Dave’s cousins lives in New York and from what I knew of the layout, he had to be very very close. Could not gt through. Then my husband walks in, they closed the meeting early and everyone decided to put together prayer services that night in their towns.
We had a 2 1/2 hour drive and had the radio on, making phone calls to arrange the service and to find out about cousin. It became clear real fast that things were going to be far different and we would be in a war real soon.
I was outraged when I hear the newscasters questioning the President’s decision to go to Omaha and Offut Air Base. Don’t they know that part of the reason for Offut existing was for such an event as this? That is one place the President would be taken in case Washington, D.C. was under attack?
Like, you, Claire, I don’t know how much this event played in my son’s decision to enlist in the Army. Though with his being in the Army, one does take on a different perspective of Sept. 11.
September 11, 2008
http://assolutatranquillita.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-was-there.html
September 13, 2008
I remember where I was: glued to the TV, watching in frozen horror and slowly realizing my cousin was inside the North Tower. I can never forget the numbness of that day. Mercifully, he made it out. Tragically, so many others did not.
Last year, I was in London and spent time chatting with a cabbie who could not remember what happened on Sept 11, 2001…
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