Each of us remembers 9-11 in our own way. It has been 11 years. In many ways, on this day we are stuck in a time warp of disbelief and will forever visualize those planes hitting the buildings, the falling bodies, the crumpling buildings and that huge cloud of poisonous debris hurling forward at those trying to escape its fury. When do we move on from those horrible visuals to a quieter more reflective mood?
It’s another clear, cripsy fall Tuesday in September, just like 9/11/01. I am going to try to start today. I may not make it. Feel free to share your 9/11 thoughts.
I am still not over it. I thought I was until today- again. Thank God Bush was President. Right man at the right place at the right time.
I thought I would be over my extreme anger now Bin Laden is dead. I guess that isn’t how it works. I put up the Bush speech and the song after I had resolved not to do it.
I will not criticize Bush or anyone else on 9/11. I do wish we had skilled the Iraq thing though….
8:46 It was at this moment that Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center.
9:03 I watched on CNN, the crash of Flight 175, while on duty at the Richmond Navy Reserve Center. Within seconds, The Marines had opened the armory and locked everything down. We now know that we are under attack.
9:37 Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.
9:57 Flight 93 – “Let’s Roll.”
10:03 The passengers of Flight 93 prevent the use of their aircraft as a weapon.
74 minutes. The world changed.
God Bless the victims of 9/11.
God Bless the heroes of 9/11, too many to name.
Bow your head and say a prayer.
Remembering Rick Riscorla – saviour of 2600 people. Last seen heading back UP the stairs to get more people.
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/000307.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/one-world-trade-center-construction-progress/100367/
Niece, in who lives in NYC ,sent a predawn photo of this building a few hours ago.
The building lights were all on — red, white and blue.
Time heals all wounds? Not yet.
This website has an archive of the television coverage of six networks on 9/11 and 9/12. You can watch from just before the planes hit (see the dribble some of the networks were broadcasting just prior to the attacks) and watch hours of the continuous coverage. I found this website just a few weeks ago.
I was unable to watch the coverage that day, so these videos are really interesting to me to see how it was covered.
http://archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive
By the way, I refuse to watch the “Today” show or any of NBC’s coverage. Two or three years ago on a 9/11 anniversary at the very time of the attacks while others were observing a moment of silence and honoring the victims and heroes, NBC had Matt Lauer on doing a cooking demonstration with a guest. No mention of 9/11. Disgraceful.
Today MSNBC has coverage of the entire day from the archives. I was stranded with no TV that day so it is particularly interesting to me. The most interesting part is how little they really knew. I might have been better off. Everyone was clueless.
NTK, thank you for that archive.
@Moon-howler
Moon, my pleasure. I stumbled across it a few weeks ago looking for 9/11 information online. Glad to share.
@Need to Know
They did it again.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nbcs-today-skips-911-moment-of-silence-for-kardashian-interview_b145281
MSNBC has had a wonderful show that really took no effort. It showed their coverage from 11 years ago. I learned a lot about what no one knew. Like NTK, I was not near a TV.
It broke for the moments of silence and the President at the Pentagon. It did not show Joe Biden’s entire speech.
Ooops I lied. Joe is on now.
Have you seen NTK’s comment? It got lost on here.
Moon, please delete the above comment at #11 and this one. Its in the wrong thread and I don’t want it in a thread about 9/11.
Sorry about that. Posted it thinking that I put it in open thread.
@Moon-howler
@Cargosquid
I tried to respond to Cargo’s comment earlier. Having Kardashian on during the 9/11 ceremonies is worse than having Lauer do a cooking demonstration during the ceremonies.
My message to NBC and the Today Show – you are s*umb*gs.
I spelled out my message fully in the previous post and maybe the software bumped it.
It never made it on here. I looked every place it could hide on this blog.
The MSNBC coverage was very respectful. I watched it live.
Watch the video in the link Cargo posted. It shows four broadcasts simultaneously for contrast. It’s appalling. Of the NBC networks, MSNBC and CNBC maintained dignity and broadcast the ceremony. Only the “Today Show” people are s*umb*gs.
What is that word you blocked out?
If it is scumbags, let me assure you that is not a bad word here on this blog. In fact, there are only 2 bad words and they aren’t typical bad words. You would never guess them.
What I will “never forget” is life before 9/11:
I didn’t have to have some high-school-educated TSA flunky ogling my naked form and putting hands all over me.
Senior citizens and the disabled weren’t treated like potential hijackers.
t didn’t have to take off my shoes in the airport.
I could take my own water aboard an airplane, rather than lining the pockets of bottling companies charging $2.50 post-security checkpoint.
Washington, DC wasn’t half the fortress it is now.
I never imagined that mail could be dangerous (when we thought Al Qaeda was responsible for anthrax attacks)
It would never have occurred to me that my personal phone calls could ever be of interest to anyone but me.
The biggest news story at the time was a rash of shark attacks.
We have lost so very much. Bin Laden is dead, but we still live in fear, our economy is in shreds, so many are dead, and our freedoms are (probably forever) curtailed. To that end, what have we won?
Those are very real losses Emma. I do question the airport grope. Does it matter if the person has had no college? I might say probably not.
@Moon-howler
Airport grope……I need to buy a kilt for the next time I fly……
Imagine the horror…..bwahahahahahaha 😈
@Cargosquid
I heard that when someone told Charlie Sheen that the TSA would do their grope on him next time he flew, his response was, “for free?”