Yes, we do remember.

And there remain many significant questions.

I had just woke up after working a swing shift with a couple hours of overtime and turned on CNBC to check the markets before heading in to work again. I just stood there stunned watching what had happened while I slept that morning.

Call a good friend who was a pilot for United. “We are at war” was his response. He would know since he flew in the Korean War for the Navy.

Nothing was the same after that day.

My wife’s neighbor across the street since childhood.

“And I will carry this… It is the police shield of a man named George Howard, who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others. It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son. This is my reminder of lives that ended, and a task that does not end”

Driving south on 95 outside Philadelphia. KYW incorrectly reported first hit on the towers as a small plane strike as an accident. Then another report was aired moments later. These were no accidents.

I was at work planning the production schedule for the 4th quarter of 2011 at a coal mine in Central Illinois. I had been to NYC quite a few times visiting my wife’s family in The Bronx and had been in the towers previously. Needless to say, I could not concentrate on my task while I watched coverage on my computer. All the unknowns and the horror of the moment, even though half a country away, swept through my mind. One vivid memory was seeing the sign at the gas station where I usually “gassed up” had a new price on its sign which was unheard of during that time. When I got home and saw that my family and home were OK, I took a moment to pray for those involved in the horror in NYC happening in real time. NEVER FORGET!

I was working at a nuclear powerhouse down in Florida City. Just making my morning call to my wife on the way to break. She told me a plane had just hit the WTC, but no one had any details yet. In the break room, nobody knew anything yet either. On my way back into the access point of the radiation area, the plant personnel had all the big monitors on the live cable news station. We all learned then this was not an accident, but a deliberate act, and both towers were hit. We were instructed to report back to our break room for further instructions on what we had to do. Since we were in a pre-outage mode, we were sent home until further notice. The weirdest thing we experienced was the lack of the usual commercial air traffic above us. The only jets were from the nearby air force base. Like all Americans, we were glued to the TV for days after arriving home.

In some of us this day is burned into our memories to the very second it happened.
Just like TWA flight 800 I have never believed the official story because to many lies and deception surrounds it.

Like many Americans, I was at work on 9-11. Many of us were outside enjoying a beautiful morning break. Then there was breaking news coming on the radio. We all went back inside.

Work came to a complete stop. All of the company big screens were tuned to the live news feed & all 300 of us were watching in stunned silence.

We saw it all. The plane hitting 1 tower & then the 2nd – over & over again, the fires, the billowing smoke, the people jumping from the upper floors, LE & firefighters running into the buildings & those outside running for their lives when the towers fell.

After a company meeting where the CEO spoke about what we all just witnessed, we all went home. Life would never be the same again.

I fly a 9-11 banner under my American flag. “NEVER FORGET 9-11-2001.” I don’t give a thought to who may be offended by that banner.

I was getting ready for work and listening to the radio.

A news report broke saying a plane had hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center. I thought it odd, but also knew that other planes had run into skyscrapers before.

Then I heard the plane that had hit the tower was not a little prop-job, but a large commercial jet liner, and suddenly the situation felt much more dire.

I went into another room and turned on the T.V. to see live footage of the building on fire.

As I watched I saw the same ghastly sight thousands of others around the world saw in real-time as the second plane flew into the second tower. It was surreal. It was unbelieveable. It was no mistake. We were at war. The United States of America had been attacked on its own soil and that attack was being shown live on t.v.

I gasped. I cried. I called my husband and we both watched something we could not comprehend.

I didn’t call into work to tell them I was going to be late. I don’t think I even went to work that day. I just stood and watched everything that took place that day.

One tragedy after another, one horrific tragedy after another was playing out.

One tower was hit.

A second tower was hit.

Something was going on at the Pentagon.

Planes missing. How many?

All air traffic being stopped, and the skies became eerily quiet.

A plane crashed somewhere in Pennsylvania.

Was the White House targeted?

The first building collapsed.

The second building collapsed.

People were running and screaming and bleeding and dying.

The day was full of anguish and sorrow and questions about who our enemy was.

Lots and lots of questions over many years about who our enemy is.

I was awaked by my clock radio at the usual time, they were reporting on the first plane at that time.

Moved to the couch to watch it on the TV, watched the 2nd hit live, was then glued to the TV for the day.

Friends wife, all her brothers are in some branch of the EMS/Fireman system, 2 of them went to help the next day.
To my knowledge neither ever spoke of the aftermath, I know 1 is deceased perhaps both now. RIP

Funny thing for my eldest brother, he had just filmed as guest on Jerry Springer show (midgets,midgets,midgets), he could not leave due to flight cancellations. Springer show extended his/wife’s stay at a 3+star hotel…. then refused to pay him his appearance fee due to cost of hotel.

It was all fake stories mind you, his entire neighborhood had been or was going to appear.

I had taken a morning flite to Providence from BWI, I was at the auction buying and the auction just stopped as the news came in. Cell towers were jammed up there so calls were almost impossible. My poor mom finally got thru and was hysterical, she knew I flew on Tuesdays. I had bought a couple cars and most of the auctioneers were from the same area… we found gas, paid cash and caravaned (sp) with a detour around NYC headed south. No traffic, places closed, cash only, no contrails in the sky.

I was installing new deck boards on my front porch while on vacation. My late wife was working at the Salvation Army store. I heard it in the radio so I took a break and went in to turn on the tv. I watched in horror as the second plane hit. I ran out of the house when I heard a jet pass over the house from the Portland Jetport. Even though I’ve been involved in military operations decades ago it was still scary. America has never been attacked at home before. Pearl Harbor was the closest thing.

I was in Turner Constructions office in Cincinnati. I had pulled up the live feeds for the towers and when they collapsed the engineers that were in my office watching all said the same thing, ” No Way”.

Of course we remember. But I also. remember the 1993 WTC Bombing with 3 dead and about a thousand injured. I was in a hotel in North Carolona screaming, ” if they got in they’ll never stop.” Our government decided that Islam was” a religion of peace.”

They turned my place of work into a bomb.
Former F/A

Radio was on as usual in the kitchen. Husband on a trip in CA ( he was a pilot). Heard that tunnels were being closed. Got a call from my sister in Germany who asked what was going on and told me to put on TV…. The rest is history never to be forgotten. That day for me was probably the same type of day when my parents and grandparents heard about WWII.
We have been at war since.

On 911 I was at work, it was a beautiful peaceful day. Someone came in and mentioned something was happening in NY City. We were near a conference room and it had a TV. A few of us went there and were stunned beyond belief to see a plane had hit one of the World Trade Towers. We were glued to the screen but I went out and called my wife at her work. She also managed to turn on a TV with a few coworkers. I returned to the conference room and later saw the second tower hit by another plane. The world I knew changed in an instant! This was not an accident, this was deliberate. It was an inhuman act of unbelievable violence and the people I was with knew we were attacked. Then came the plane crashing into the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania plane. At that point we were united. At that point we were at war. My son spent 20 years in the military fighting this evil in Iraq and Afghanistan, even watching Bin Laden for months but not allowed to engage.

Now we’re supposed to be supportive of Muslim politicians lije Talib, Mandami, El-Sayed. We have a new generation of voters who never understood what really happened so never forgetting means little to them.

I have copied my post from the Presidential thread earlier.
Last night I watched around supertime the news, both local and national. They all had coverage about the tragedy of 911. They poignantly described the losses, the victims, the suffering then and now. All had interviews with those personally affected and all had anchors emotionally describing events. Not a damn one of them
mentioned MUSLIMS. Not one. Today is my birthday, yes 911. I will mention MUSLIMS.

I was still in the dark, Knew it could be crooked yet, had no idea our own government could be so evil. Eyes wide open ever since.

I was home sick and got to watch it as it happened. Scary.

My wife at the time and I had been married about four months.

I was preparing for a job and received a call from our client that the project would be rescheduled.

I turned on the TV and saw smoke emanating from the WTC. Then saw the second impact.

Knew immediately our nation was under attack.

Have not believed one word of the MSM since.

“Never forget. Except Building 7, you should forget that.” -Larry Silverstein

Los Angeles. Emergency responder for electric power generation industry.

Talking with one of my clients and trying to bring him calm; Ernst & Young who was notified that there were also credible threats against the World Trade Center of the West coast – which happened to be my territory.

I told my customer – we couldn’t predict what would happen – but should something happen; we would be there to help in whatever way possible.

That’s been my life’s mantra. Help in whatever way possible.

Reading the stories of our martyrs from that day – makes my heart sad and my eyes weep – but it emboldens the COURAGE that fires in my soul to be the keeper and steward of my fellow man, child, and beast.

This is our country – and I love it. We stand firm, ready to fight – whatever comes our way.

It was a beautiful cloudless day in MI. My wife called me at work, crying, asking me to come home. She was pregnant with our first child. 12 days later she went into labor, 7 weeks premature. Our son was 4lb 9oz, in NICU for 3 weeks. She is still very emotional in remembering Sept 11 attacks and following days.

Good bless us all.

We were in London, 2 days from flying home. We went into Harrods to look for a few souvenirs when one of the security guards told us we needed to go up to see what had happened in NY. We gotta the floor with the televisions just in time to see the second tower fall.. In all my years I’ve never been so overwhelmed by my feelings as I was that day, and even writing now, 25 years later, those feelings return. Being out of the country, not knowing when we’d be able to return, contemplating the death and destruction.. Truly a dark day.