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9-11 GOD BLESS AMERICA, NEVER FORGET - sm

Posted: Sep 11, 2011

10 years ago today, I was sitting at my desk working as usual. I get a phone call from my boyfriend (2nd in command of PD here in LV) frantically asking me if I'm okay. I'm like what? I'm working why wouldn't I be? He asked I if had heard anything, to which I again said no, I am working. He told me to turn on the TV. I did and was absolutely HORRIFIED! That conversation, that moment, that realization of what had happened completely changed me as a human being. I was angry beyond words and absolutely saddened to the depth of my being watching everything unfold. As the hours went on, one day turned into the next following this horrific tragedy, I noticed my America around me come together united as one. This is Las Vegas and it is not that type of town - I was amazed and very thankful.

I took my father's huge American Flag the military had given me 10 years prior at his death and hung it from the rooftop of my 2-story home 24 hours a day, every day for one year, with a light shining up on it at night. After the first week, I came out to check the mail and when I turned around, there was a anonymous note with an envelope taped to my garage door, thanking me for hanging the flag for America. Inside the envelope was a note and $50 "to help pay for the electric bill to keep her lighted." I started bawling my eyes out. Two days later, I came out again and there were hand drawn & colored pictures from several anonymous children also taped to my garage door - their renditions of America and what they were feeling.

I also noticed in my community people were saying hello as they passed you in the grocery store. They were holding doors open for each other, letting elderly or handicapped people cut in line ahead of them. There was kindness and compassion everywhere I turned. Genuine and from the heart. We were all unified and came together to help each other heal and try to cope with this unimaginable tragedy that happened to all of us - even if we had no one perish in at WTC, on Flight 93 or at the Pentagon. We were a Nation grieving.

I go every year to my local fire dept for the anniversary moments of silence and bell tolling. I have never forgotten and never will, no matter how much time has gone on.

I have seen through the years the memory fade for so many. Everyone has gone back to "me" and not "us." The compassion and kindess has fallen away, too - not just where I live, but on this board as well. I come to this board every day and I rarely see a shred of kindness or compassion shown to anyone by anyone. It's a very sad thing to see, especially on this board as we are a "nation" of transcriptionists all looking to achieve the same thing. But all I see is the tearing down of each other for reasons I can't grasp. We need to stand together shoulder to shoulder and help each other, not anonymously stomp someone down who may already be the theri lowest.

I saw a reply to a post just a few minutes ago where the reply was short and condescending. Really? That person must've forgot.

GOD BLESS AMERICA - NEVER FORGET

God Bless America, Never Forget - Old Pro

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I remember precisely where I was. I was still asleep (I was working for the Q at the time and worked late). Anyway, PST is three hours difference from EST and this friend called me and told me some planes had flown into buildings in NYC. At first I thought it was some kind of sick joke and as I woke up, I kept saying to her "This is a joke, right?" And she said "Turn on your TV." I have never been the same since. God bless America!

Thank you for your post - God Bless the USA - mamt

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There are still some kind people in this world!

This is the company board - you must have forgotten

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There have been multiple tragedies over the years but we don't indulge in week long morbid viewing of it over and over with the mantra "never forget" when the reality is most forget once the "celebration" is over.

American terrorism kills many every single day, where are the tears for those dead?

my bad- main board but same message - you must have forgotten

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nm

Alas, and then there are the negative Nellies... - mamt

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Sad, IMO.

Not a negative post - she had a good point - hmmm - nm

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nm

Thank you for your reply - I agree and disagree to some extent - hmmm

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You have a good point, but I have mixed feelings. As I was reading some of the posts today of people writing they knew where they were the exact moment it happened and the exact conversation they had word for word, I thought, yeah, I know where I was too, but I don't dwell on that.

I have to state 911 was such a horrific and sobering moment. Maybe sobering is not the right word. I can't think of a word that's worse than horrific. Today as I watched over and over and over and over the horrible tragedy that happened 10 years ago I get the same sick feeling. But it started days ago with being barraged by the same things over and over. I'm sorry, but watching it 10 years ago was horrific. Watching it for 2 days 24/hours a day over and over and over. Watching the towers come down for the 100th time while being fed this "you have to watch it. Never forget" I thought, no of course I will never forget, but I don't need people telling me that. No I'll never forget. Nobody will.

Watching this almost feels like an insult to the memory of the people killed on that day. Every year this goes on. Until all the people who masterminded the whole thing are caught it's just feels like an insult to their memories. Somehow I don't think they are at a place saying, yeah, the anniversary is coming up you all need to relieve this again.

You are correct. There have been multiple tragedies over the years. Don't get me wrong, what happened 10 years ago is horrific and I still cry when I think of those poor people that died and trying to imagine what they were going through makes me feel like I'm going to be sick from such sadness for them and their families.

I'd like to know where are the memorials for all the other innocent victims not associated with 911. Others who have died horrible deaths. It's like people have forgotten them. Where are yearly week long memorial services for the brave service men and women who die in battle. Where is the services each year for the Oklahoma City victims. It's like people have forgotten them.

What I hope now is that the memorial site finished, this can finally come to an end. The family's of the victims can heal. We will never forget that horrible horrible day, but we don't need people telling us "never forget". I just hope that America has learned how to be safer and not let something like this happen again.

The one thing I can say that I do understand - about there being a lot

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of coverage on it is that there are people who don't remember it very well but are very interested in it. My older children were 4 and 4 months when it happened, and they were pretty interested in what they were showing over the weekend. My 10-year-old son wanted to watch that over his cartoons or X-Box, which is saying a lot. So, I do understand that maybe they can run it into the ground, but for my family, it was things that we actually did watch, things that I haven't been able to watch in the past.

As far as the Oklahoma bombing, yes it is sad that we don't do more on it, but 911 was the time I realized that people attacking America was possibility. It is just one of those things people are going to remember differently as there were huge planes crashing into very well known buildings.

I personally think a lot need to be told to never forget as we have troops fighting a war that started with this. There was a lot of patriotism that most of America had directly after, that now 10 years later isn't quite as evident.

Thank you, - sm

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I was just telling my husband that I must be Un-American because I am sick of it. Yes it was a tragedy, but there have been a lot of tragedies since then. I think on the morning of 9/11, they could say something on the World News about it being the anniversary of the tragedy and then let it go, just like they do with a lot of bad things that have happened.

Thank you for the wonderful post. I appreciate it. - yochana

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nm

On the eve of 911 - Here is a beautiful end to the day - Hmmm

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While today was a very sad day indeed and I found myself in tears a lot. One cannot even imagine the horror of the victims. After such a sad day I needed to find something beautiful and I think this is is. If anyone is familiar with Celtic Women, their voices are angelic. Here is a video of them singing Amazing Grace. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did. Sorry but there is a commercial before it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsCp5LG_zNE&feature=fvsr

Remember - Cheesey

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I remember where I was. I'll never forget. Nobody will. Ask them on December 2, 2012 and they'll remember. Ask them on February 16th 2026 and they'll remember.

You don't need to say "never forget"...I don't believe anybody who watched it can.

I didn't turn the TV on on 9/11 because I just didn't want to see any of it. I watched football, and their moment of silence was enough. I went to work and afterwords climbed into bed. I habitually turn on the TV and have it on while I fall asleep. I mistakenly turned to the history channel where they showed people's documentations of it. It was just raw.

I found myself wide-eyed and tooned it. I couldn't look away. I watched for 2 hours straight...in horror all over again.

I find it amazing how much I'm affected by it. I live in Illinois. I was around 12 years old when it happened. I was in school...just arrived in my class to see people watching the TV. I saw the second plane hit. I had no idea what the World Trade Center was or where it was located. The principal made us turn off the TVs and go back to school.

That was it for me...and yet I'm still so deeply impacted by the raw images. It is RARE to have so much video coverage like that...too have so much documentation of not only the events unfolding but the emotions of the people currently enduring it.

9/11 is not comparable to anything else. All deaths are tragic, but stating that we should be in constant mourning because people die everyday is just a stupid thing to say.

If people were dying every day by being trapped in high rises, burning alive, forced to jump out of the window to their deaths or ultimately dying after the high rise collapses...then...then I'll say it's no big deal as these things happen every day. But I don't see that happening...so don't even start with the "people die every day" crap.

Nobody is saying "we should be in constant mourning because people die everyday" - what they are saying is

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Yes, it was such a horrific event. But we don't need the constant "never forget" mantra over and over and over and over and over, etc, etc. No we won't forget. Nobody will. But there are other tragic terrorist activities that have also happened and nobody is saying "never forget" and having yearly memorials. The whole event is on the internet and DVDs so people can watch it anytime they want. But there are also other terrorist events that happened, like the Oklahoma City incident. It's as though people have forgotten them. Did you see that? I did. I watched it live. It was horrifying. Yes I know where I was when that happened too. So many innocent people were killed. 168 were killed and 19 of the them were innocent children. The horror that people went through. I sat watching with tears rolling down my face a sick feeling as I watched firemen carry out burned bodies of babies and other people. So, no maybe it wasn't as grandiose as people jumping out of window, but it was nonetheless as horrifying, and to say one is not as important as the other is wrong. Both were horrifying, both were tragic, and I cried for the victims in both. Sure, the building was not as tall as the towers. I forget how many stories, but it was still tall. The fact is people tragically died a horrific and unexpected death. Or the marine barracks in 83 in Beruit. I also remember that one too. I believe 240 or so innocent people died unexpectedly and horrific.

So maybe you weren't old enough to remember the OKC incident, but it was just as horrific as the other. All terrorist based tragedies are as bad as the other. One is no more important then the other. They are all equally as important. When innocent victims tragically lose their lives (some knowing they are about to die) its tragic and horrifying and profoundly sad. To forget their memory just because another one happened that more people died in is just too sad beyond words. Just because it wasn't as "exciting" it was never the less as terrifying...so don't even start with the "911 is not comparable to anything else" crap because it is. When whole cities are terrified because of an event that happens, and the whole country watches in shock, it's important.

Um..ok - Cheesey

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Did you read what I wrote on the "never forget" stuff?

Seems we're on the same page with that.

And yes, there was a poster who said "terrorist activities happen everyday, yet we don't mourn for those."

You can not compare the large scale events of 9/11 and the Ok city bombing, etc. to the every day terrorists attacks. Every day attacks being IEDs or car bombs at check points. No way am I saying those aren't bad, but they are not comparable simple because people lost their lives. And saying that does not mean some lives are more important.

It is about the act, not the result.

That'd be like saying punching someone and running them over with a car is the same thing because the end result is someone getting hurt.

While both tragic, they're vastly different.

There's a reason people who punch people don't go to prison for attempted murder as opposed to those who run people over with a car.

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