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I have a couple memories. One, a person on American Flight 11, the first plane to hit the towers had the same name as me..first and last name. My family and I recieved a few frantic calls on that one.

Another..a person I was working with at the time, lost 4 (yes FOUR) family members on one plane. They were cousins of his. He carried alot of guilt, as they were from California, and they extended thier vacation to the east coast, to come out and see him, as he was going in for surgery the following week.

He gave me, and each of his other aides a small guardian angel pin in thier memory. I still have mine.

Here is a poem I wrote for Todd Beamer.....................

Todd Beamer (Reversed Double Etheree form)



Outbound flight above the crystal blue sky,

Todd relaxed in his chair on the jet,

Chatting with the people nearby,

Then they appeared before all,

Destruction was their voice,

Todd gripped his armrest,

Heard their hatred

And laughter

At their

Fear



Todd

Fumbled

For his phone

To place one call

And left a message

That he loved her always

As the other passengers

Together decided to save

Thousands who will never forget them,

Todd grabbed the serving cart, and cried, “Let’s roll!



Notes: "Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. " --- Mark Twain



Todd Beamer died at the age of 32, and will always be remembered for his heroic act on Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Todd is remembered for his last words heard, “Let’s roll, as he took the serving cart to use as a battering ram. Todd led the charge to retake the cockpit from the hijackers that resulted in the plane’s destruction in the fields of Pennsylvania. He saved untold thousands as one of the many brave souls who departed on this flight. Todd is survived by his wife Lisa, and their three children.

There was no more worthy person then Todd, who exemplified the quotation by Mark Twain.

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chonsigirl wrote: Here is a poem I wrote for Todd Beamer.....................



Todd Beamer (Reversed Double Etheree form)







Outbound flight above the crystal blue sky,



Todd relaxed in his chair on the jet,



Chatting with the people nearby,



Then they appeared before all,



Destruction was their voice,



Todd gripped his armrest,



Heard their hatred



And laughter



At their



Fear





Todd



Fumbled



For his phone



To place one call



And left a message



That he loved her always



As the other passengers



Together decided to save



Thousands who will never forget them,



Todd grabbed the serving cart, and cried, “Let’s roll!







Notes: "Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. " --- Mark Twain





Todd Beamer died at the age of 32, and will always be remembered for his heroic act on Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Todd is remembered for his last words heard, “Let’s roll, as he took the serving cart to use as a battering ram. Todd led the charge to retake the cockpit from the hijackers that resulted in the plane’s destruction in the fields of Pennsylvania. He saved untold thousands as one of the many brave souls who departed on this flight. Todd is survived by his wife Lisa, and their three children.



There was no more worthy person then Todd, who exemplified the quotation by Mark Twain.


Chonsi, that was incredible. I have such a lump in my throat, I'm glad that I don't have to speak even these simple words.:-4

Beautiful Chons, just beautiful. :-1 Tomorrow will be a difficult day as every 9-11 is since it happened. :-1 I remember it like it happened yestarday, just like the day JFK was shot I was in Biology class on the 3rd floor at Hoover High I looked out the window and saw the Flag being brought down to half mast..

Tomorrow will be a day to remember, and never forget what happened that day 9-11-2001..:-1

Marie5656 wrote: Click here to read "The Eagle's Tear
Thanks for sharing lovely memorials.A dear friend sent me this one....

www.frugalsites.net/911/sept11.html

I remember that day, we didn't know until an hour later at school. The principal came into to tell me first-because my husband had been scheduled to be in a meeting down in DC that day, down at the Pentagon. The principal knew my husband hadn't gone, the Coast Guard had called the school to talk to me and got the principal. My husband had to stay in the yard instead that day, I am so glad he wasn't there. Then they announced it to the students, oh it was a shock. The parents came to take them home, everyone was in shock.

I remember the day JFK died too.............

These days stay in your memory for eternity..................

My girlfriend in Poughkeepsie emailed me and I turned on the television, thought it was a sci fi movie being shown. I met the mayor of Poughkeepsie a bit after that. Her husband had been in the City for a breakfast meeting and never returned. The uni I worked at lost two academics in the first plane - and their daughters. Everyone has a story of some kind.

I've been to Ground Zero to pay my respects. Just standing there is like being in a cathedral. Everyone is very quiet.

It's the day the world changed, probably forever.

We definitely won't forget this day. The images will be etched in my mind for ever.

We must always remember the folks who lost their loved ones on that day, but I would particularly like to send send my love and best wishes to the children that were orphaned or lost a parent, and the the little ones who will never known their Dads who were killed on that terrible day.





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Well here it is 9-11-06 morning, may God bless all those who perished on the dreadful day! Till today I can not & will not look at those pictures & or video clips of that devistating horriffic dispicable cowardly event! The world will never be the same, it has changed forever!



I was a work as it turned out on that somber day. I never go to the caf for coffee, but on that morning for some reason I did. There were 3 large TV's spread out in the caf where workers could view to get caught up on the everyday news. Well I walked in a minute after the first plane had hit the first tower, so everybody was huddled around the TV's. GMA, several blocks away, had their TV cameras focused on the burning tower. The first thing that went through my mind was, this was no accident, it had to be terrorists, & I said that to my friends around me watching the specticle. Minutes later, my fears were confirmed, as when while they actually televising the burning tower, the "second" plane slamed into the second tower. We all gasped, & some started to cry, at that horriffic sight. I will never forget it, I will carry around that image in my mind forever! My wife called me to tell me about it, as she saw it on GMA as well. She was so very concerned for her cousin that worked on the 86th floor of tower 1. He left a wife, & 4 young children, so terribly sad.

There was an article in The Telegraph today stating that people had become used to the memory of what happened. I chose not to post it here because it is not my experience. The events are still so strongly etched in my mind along with the coldness that overwhelmed me all over. I prefer not to remember it because it still overwhelms me. And the mixture of emotions that come with it are more than I can handle.



God bless everyone who was in the two towers on that day and everyone directly and indirectly affected by this awful tragedy.

OpenMind wrote:



God bless everyone who was in the two towers on that day and everyone directly and indirectly affected by this awful tragedy.


Amen. :-1

I remember it as

"the day the skies grew silent"

I worked just blocks from the airport back then and the silence that day when all planes were called to land was very Erie.

I had to drive past the back side of our airport and being that we are an international airport it was incredibly touching to see the 11 planes we took in and parked safely here in Calgary.

It was a day we held out our hand to our neighbors.

daBunnyWendy7 wrote: Thanks for sharing lovely memorials.A dear friend sent me this one....

www.frugalsites.net/911/sept11.html


Wendy, the pictures and music from your link were incredibly moving and heartbreaking. :-1

Thankyou for sharing them.

Looking at those pictures, seeing the heroism and the bravery . . . how can anyone think it was a conspiracy??

On the news earlier there was an interview with a NYFD Ladder Company.

They have a photo on their wall of the twin towers, in the background, pouring smoke; and in the foreground is a NYFD fire truck - from their very own ladder company - driving over the bridge towards the burning towers. The fire truck and all the men on it were lost that day. :-1

They also have that day's rosta written up on the board. No one could bear to rub out the names of the lost fire fighters,and so they've left the board in it's place on the wall as a memorial. :-1

There are SO many stories - and all of them are heartbreaking! :-1

Its interesting to hear people's feelings now 5 years after the attacks on Sept 11th in the U.S. For myself I would say that despite everything that has happened since, (and I am very much of the opinion that Iraq War was going to be and is a diaster for the West), I still find the shock of what happened that day is still very strong (but it only really hits you when you see it again) and I still find the images from New York mind boggling and almost unreal almost as much as when it first happened. When I stop to think about it all, I find what happened on that day and what has happened since very disquieting. I believe and have since that day that we are at war though its a different war than any of the wars of the 20th century in that essentially it is a conflict that is being driven by different world views and cultures (and yes religion) and the way that both western and non western govermnets have tried to deal with it has been generally a mistake, though not completely. I also think that there is a "war" or struggle within Islam itself that has been going on for decades and is going to intensify between differing views of what the religion and the Muslim world are and should be. My main worry is that the conventional war that the U.S. and its Nato allies are fighting is diverting resources and costing lives and is diverting the West in what it needs to do to protect itself, prevent the spread of fundamentalism, and stabilize the region from where fundamentalist and anti-western zealotry is emanating.

I do think that its not complete doom and gloom and that things will hopefully get better in the long term, but they might not, and its entirely possible that things could get far worse (and in the short term I think they probably will), but the world has never been a very safe place really, and it would be unrealistic for us to expect that things would ever be simple and uncomplicated. I just hope that in the next 5 years western governments and moderate muslims make better calculated decsions to deal with the threat of extremist and militant islamic groups and their apologists so that peoples with differing religions and civilizations can coexist. Realistically thats going to take a long time, and the main job at the moment is to stop attacks such as September 11th becoming a regular occurrence or getting worse. Only a month ago British police stopped a similar attack being launched again on the U.S., there has been another conflict in the Middle east, and Al Queda (whoever and whatever that is) have threatened that their next targets are the Saudi Arabian government and Israel. With the intention no doubt of destabilizing the middle-east further, increasing religious intolerance, and creating as much international mayhem as possible. Hopefully the strategy used to tackle such people and ideas will be better than what has been used over the past 5 years.