The 20th anniversary of the attacks on 9-11 presents a day to reflect, remember and pay tribute to those we lost. I am sure most of us remember exactly where we were at the moment we found out our nation was under attack by terrorists. Our nation was forever changed by those moments on September 11th, 2001.
Perhaps we can share our memories together as we think about the 20th anniversary of this date.
Where were you on that day? And what memories are most vivid for you?
A secretary running telling me something was happening in NYC … one tower hit by a plane … Internet being completely overloaded, no news or information available that way … then another plate hit … standing in a back conference room in our office, next to a trembling delivery courier … staring in shocked silence at a tiny B&W TV set on a filing cabinet, as the first tower collapsed … the TV commentators silent for a long time, then nearly sobbing … calling my wife to tell her to turn on a radio or TV … her asking me “was it an accident?”, and responding “twice?” … the Pentagon hit … talk of another plane crash in PA … “We’re under attack” …
… immediately closing the office and sending everyone home … calling all the family members to make sure they were safe … the old cellular systems overloaded … learning our relatives had the children of WTC employees on their boat in the bay that morning, pushing the kids down into the cabin so they couldn’t see the towers falling with their parents inside … coming home and watching all the neighbors in the street, equally stunned and talking … turning on the TV and seeing, perhaps for the only time in my memory, all the members of Congress united, not as partisans, spontaneously singing God Bless America on the steps … watching a grim faced Rudy reassure a shocked city and Nation … wondering what had just happened, and what tomorrow would bring … how will we react to this? …
Many more memories of the days after 9/11 … conversations with friends who treated first responders … calls with others I’d rather not share, even now …
But that’s enough for now.
I was in lab waiting room for tests to new job (RN) when saw plane hit towers on tv in room. Knew immediately was war. Prayed out loud in room that had 2 men and woman waiting. The woman amen the prayer. I called a friend and said I would be over after test to pray. We spent morning praying and these scriptures were given Psalm 35, Psalm 28, Pslam 25
I was at home that day and the one thought I had was that God had taken his hand of protection off of America and He was judging America for our sins, especially abortion.
Pepperdine University’s Waves of Flags display honors lives lost in 9/11
Sep 10, 2021
Waking up in the UK, turned on TV, sat on couch open mouthed all day. I was in a state of shock that it happened, and then weeks later realized they allowed it to happen. It was part of achieving their endgame, and they have almost achieved it. Nothing gets passed the secret services, nothing. Don’t ever forget that. They allowed the murder of their own citizens.
Truth
We’re west coast, so I was just getting out of the shower when my wife told me that her sister had just called with the news of the first plane. On came the TV and we sat transfixed in horror and confusion. My 16 year-old daughter needed to get off to school, but my 12 year-old son and I watched in silence until the second tower came down. As in NY, it was a beautiful fall day in CA and I remember driving my son to school in a daze. The whole day passed in a cloud. I had an irrational fit of anger at the Israelis–thinking that it must have been our support for them that drew the wrath of the terrorists. That soon passed as the enormity of the attack became clearer and clearer: this was a world historical event that would change the world forever.
Little did I realize that the results would be the loosing of pernicious deep state ‘security’ regimes that ultimately would bring the U.S. to the doorstep of tyranny from within. The terrorists were just opportunistic, pestilent indicators of social and cultural decay that had weakened the country for decades. Twenty years later, a far worse pest has nearly eaten away the foundations of the nation. All those decades during which the indoctrination of our children by the left proceeded without pause have had their intended result–our republic is teetering on the brink of the abyss. Upon reflection, I realize that what happened on this date twenty years ago was really a misdirection. Nearly 3,000 Americans perished, but the real damage was yet to come: 1) trillions of dollars funneled to corrupt deep state corporations and 10,000 lives lost and hundreds of thousands of lives ruined in the Forever War 2) pernicious surveillance capabilities built by a USG-Silicon Valley axis of evil that have stripped America of our birthright liberties and privacy.
I was stunned on 9-11-2001, but I had no way of knowing just how stunned I would be by the real fallout of that day–the possible end of our republic.
Of course the visual were harrowing , but what sticks more in my memory is the
acrid smell wafting all over lower Manhattan
lasted for weeks
Even today, when ever I see images of Ground Zero that smell comes back to me.
I flew into Newark, NJ on a late December 2001 redeye to be with my family at Christmas. Mom picked us up at the airport and we went directly to the twin towers site to spend the day. It was cordoned off but the cleanup was in full swing – 24/7, I believe, until the job was complete. It looked to be a Herculean effort because we were there 100 days post-attack, and the cleanup site was still overwhelmed with debris. From our vantage points, the cranes and equipment looked to be the size of Tonka toys I played with as a kid; the job was that big.
The areas outside the fence were still covered in dust, remembrance flowers, and endless pictures of the lost with pleas from their families for any information. There was a messenger’s bicycle still chained to a post, covered in building ‘soot’, even after all that time outside. It was one of the most somber moments in my life; I’m heading to Christmas with my family and there were still people visiting daily looking for information on a loved one.
In 2018, I returned to NYC and visited the new site (One World Trade Center) with my children. The museum is a special place that I encourage everyone to visit – it helped me to ‘never forget’. At dinner that night, my family and I exchanged stories of what we saw/thought about in the museum. When it was my turn, I told about listening to the recording of a former co-worker’s tribute to her husband whom she lost that day. Their daughter has grown up without her Dad. As impactful, was the video of people pleading for help from the upper floors as fires approached them. I can’t imagine making the decision to jump. There is one video of a woman holding down her dress/skirt as she jumps to her death.
Last point, even after all that time (17 years), the first thing I remembered on the trip to the museum was the smell.
I live in Arizona, so woke up to the news…shock, fear, sadness, worry for my then 5 year old daughter…I was a teacher and wondered how we would get through the day. (this was back when classrooms did not have tv’s, computers, internet, so all of us teachers would race to the one spot in school in between every class to see updates)
I hadn’t been paying attention before. This was my wake up call, and I will NEVER FORGET
I remember back when this first occurred every American was outraged by this cowardly and savage attack on our nation.
Today we understand it was just America’s white privilege getting checked, and are grateful to the ethnically and culturally diverse hijackers who let us all know we must “do better.”
/sarc
20 years ago I remember watching TV with my parents and seeing Muslims celebrating on 911 .
My family looked at each other in silence.
You must be mistaken! That did not happen!
You, your parents, and President Trump NEVER SAW ANY SUCH THING!/s.
According to our disgusting media that is.
Me, you and President Trump… We saw them. We heard them.
So did globalist tool George W. Bush who on cue spouted propaganda, “… religion of peace …”
…and Biden just said that today in his recorded remarks…
When I heard that I left the republican party and bought a Quran. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Bushes were beholding to the Saudis. And the “religion of peace” advocates enslaving, terrorizing and killing the infidel, us.
I will never forget the sound the Muslims made when the towers came down.
“Zaghrouta” and is best described in English as “Ululation”.
It was a form of a long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound representing trills of joy.
It is produced by emitting a high pitched loud voice accompanied by a rapid back and forth movement of the tongue.
I was in Mexico and many Mexicans were happy and one said: “Americans are only mad because their pride was hurt.”
I have never heard that before. I was surprised when my family’s relatives in Hungary sent letters regarding their sorrow over this event. I never even considered that many of our Southern neighbors used it as a celebration. These same people are now pouring across our borders. By design, while those that are sympathetic are denied access. Explains low IQ Bushes comment today equating domestic terrorist with 911 terrorists.
I was there, working for AA. Yep. Many were in a good mood that day.
Yes, I saw them too. Dancing and handing out candy.
One thing I remember vividly speaking of the reactions of the Middle East was the PLO leader airifat. He was scared they would get blamed.
But who was first to publicly state no involvement…..Saddam.
I remember the celebrations by moslems.
Will never forget.
Every Moslem is violent, supports terrorism.
They are not peaceful….it is all an act and all BS
The Muslims are celebrating again today in Afghanistan.
This is an absolute true story…I woke up early in the morning on Sept. 11th, 2001 and had to use the rest room…when I tried to open my bedroom door to get out, it wouldn’t open…the handle turned but the door wouldn’t budge…I pulled and pulled at the door, but it wouldn’t budge…somehow I was trapped…this went on for about 3 or 4 minutes…finally, I called out to my family, and they came, and after some effort, managed to push the door open from the outside (later, we figured out the door jam had stuck at the top, something that had never happened before)…I thanked them and before I left to the bathroom, I glanced at the clock in my room…it was 5:50 am…the first plane hit the north tower at 8:46 am…I live on the West Coast
The Surrealismus in your comment is worth of a French soap…
I worked at a distribution center (Tropicana) which was right across the river from the Twin Towers, we were so close you could almost reach out and touch them. At 9AM that morning our workforce was on break and me and another manager were outside when the other manager said to me: Look at the smoke coming from on of the towers and about 2 minutes later a worker came out and said a plane had hit the tower. The news thought it was one of those small planes that fly tourists around the city. Then we saw the other plane fly right into the other tower. Later on that day we watched both towers come down. Being that we distributed juice and water products, the Jersey City EMS had asked us if we could donate water to the fire fighters in the city. We delivered 2 or 3 truck loads of water which was unloaded on barges and sent over. A day or two later, the Jersey City EMS had asked us if we could give them some old refrigerated trailers, which we did and our drivers were the only ones allowed to go thought the Holland Tunnel to deliver them. I later found out they used them to store body parts found at the site to do DNA testing on them. We had offered so much support to Jersey city EMS that I still have a plaque hanging on my wall from the Major of Jersey City thanking me for my support. It was a day I will never forget.
JC here too, only a mile or so from Tropicana. Remember the way all the paper in the air looked like glitter over Brooklyn? White Rose donated the reefer boxes used at Arthur Kill as well.
Me,I’d have played the whole thing differently, each of those nations in the middle east have vast expanses of desert
I would have dropped a nuke in each one the gone to the UN tapped the Mike, “is this thing on”?
” to every nation that just received the package I sent, I’d like to clear on this…….I didn’t miss, come back here again and you all go”.
Purdue Chicken donated their refrigerated trucks too.. The word lost in French is Perdu .
Paul Wolfowitz was doing a phone-in interview on Newsmax this morning. He asked the in-studio broadcasters to draw Xs above their heads and said that the Newsmax people are a greater threat today than al-Qaida was in 2001. Update: Newsmax now says it was a prankster pretending to be Wolfowitz.
He is a traitor.
I have never been able to look at a beautiful September blue sky without great sadness since that day. It was such a beautiful day which such a terrible thing had happened.
It was the last beautiful day in my life.
Blue skies from coast to coast.
Dims, Uniparty Freaks, Big Tech, their Lapdog, and pundits received the Mockingbird Talking Points for today on 9/11.
They are ALWAYS ushering in partisan, radical ideas, and attack they’re own citizens.
What a sick a display from the “all that for a damn flag” NWO Group—War Criminals.
Sorry, this was posted in wrong location.
it fits here ..you good !
That day, I hoped we’d do what was necessary to ensure we never saw images like that in our country on TV ever again. We should have rained hell down on Afghanistan with destruction at least 10 times that which was brought upon us. Taught the world a lesson. Instead… we all know what we got in return….
I cannot agree more with this. If we had nuked Tora Bora to glass 20 years ago none of what followed would have ever happened.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2021
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
Congratulations to Rudy Giuliani (for the 20th time!), the greatest Mayor in the history of New York City, for having shown such leadership and doing such an incredible job during and after the attack on our Nation!
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Thank you for sharing this. I’m shocked it’s still available on YouTube. I hope everyone will watch it.
Grace Theological Seminary?
I was home schooling my two kids. My sister called and said turn on the t.v. We watched as the second tower went down live. I couldn’t believe what I was watching, that people were dying right in front of me. The terror they must have experienced. I didn’t even know what the twin towers were. Bastards.
WOW!! I don’t know why I’m shocked….
But, but, but Herr Mueller is a Republican …
CIA are turning against us because we are now awake.
Apart from the actual September 11th twenty years ago this is the worse September 11th I have lived through. This is always a day mixed with sadness and a lot of anger. I lived right across the river from the Towers. I can recall every moment of that day. From the moment I heard a plane hit one of the towers to sitting in my apartment for days afraid and crying.
Today I look at America I look at Afghanistan and I think of all those young beautiful lives gone. Today the @#$%^& is “inaugurating” their government – today, TODAY and the horror, anger and sadness in back on full force. I pray God have mercy on the * in the white house. I will write no more for I answer to God.
It was traumatizing enough to watch it from the other side of the world (Australia) – I can only imagine how much worse it was to see it happen in real time.
They should be getting a very explosive inauguration present as they are gathered together.
In a just world, I agree.
I’ve learned just how unjust our world and our country has become the past 5 years.
What I began thinking as the day unfolded and information came out was, “… why did we ever allow those vicious foreigners into our country?”
As years unfolded I constantly wrote my elected representatives: “why do we let in more immigrants from terror-nations after 9-11 than before?”
I have never, ever received from an elected “representative” an answer to that question. (But by now we know the answers)
Same here.
We can thank Teddy Kennedy for the changes in the immigration quotas…
man, was that guy a piece of work … he also collaborated with the Soviet Communists … when the KGB files were released all the evidence became public …
Also, George H.W. Bush (bush the elder) signed the 1990 immigration law that increased the annual number to minimum 1,000,000 per year. Bush, Kennedy, Clinton, Obama, what’s the difference? They’re all traitors
Teddy Kennedy was personally responsible for Obama’s father coming here to study and get an American wifey.
Representative governance ended decades ago, possibly under Woodrow Wilson.
Ever since then the Military-Industrial-United States Chamber of Commerce-Public Health-Complex has ruled supreme.
Time for the Resistance to rise.
or mrs WW , spit …
Yep. Now we know that this was all on Kennedy, Obama, Biden, et al’s agenda for destruction of the USA and their Build Back Better agenda, i.e., Make the world in my image and I’ll rule it with a rod of iron and beat the hell out of you freedom loving slaves.
Agree Chris – I believed the narrative at first but later came to know the truth. Once you see the facts laid out, it all makes sense and there is no going back. That was not the first time we were scammed by our government – there was also 1963 in Dallas.
I was dropping my son off at daycare when I heard on the radio that a plane had hit the trade center. My first thought was “no way that’s an accident”. When I came out from dropping him off they announced the second plane and I thought “we are definitely being attacked.”
Two things I remember most was no planes in the sky after all flights were grounded. It was weird because I’m near an airport. It was eerily
silent.
The second thing I remember was how the entire country came together and put aside their differences during this tragedy. Looking back, it was nice to see everyone come together as Americans.
I too recall the no-fly week after the attack. One of my co-workers heard a helicopter and mentioned how that was unusual to hear anymore.
“What We Have to Lose”… a reflective piece by the estimable Theodore Dalrymple aka Dr Anthony Daniels, from the autumn 2001 issue of CITY JOURNAL, and reprinted by the same. I’ve always admired Dalrymple’s gift of being able to explain, through his dealings as a doctor to Britain’s subclass prison population, the condition of man and civilization in general. On this 9/11 day of remembrance, I can highly highly recommend to anyone who may be interested to look this long, marvelous, and thoughtful piece on what we all have to lose by allowing the increasing barbaric forces to decimate even the smallest things that make us human. I thought it was a wonderful worthwhile piece for this tragic day, and I was extremely moved by it. Dr. Dalrymple surpassed his usual beautiful ability to put his thoughts onto paper. And deep contemplative thoughts they are. I’m passing this on so others can read and reflect on the deeper tragedy we all commemorate today. Reading it would not be time wasted. An inspired essay.
Ok, Could a few (at least 20) families get together and condemn Bushie Boy for politicizing 9/11 memorial? It’s not a DNC event.
Just waaaay out of place, disrespectful. Memorial should be *extremely* respectful to ALL victims and no politics at all.
I would be pissed if it happen at a loved one’s funeral because that is not a place for it. It’s about remembering the victims. That’s it! Nothing else. Respect the victims and stop there.
thank you, Kleen – we happened to have it on and I couldn’t believe my ears – I need to really finally accept that the Bush Family is a bunch of shitheads, once and for all (I thought I couldn’t be any more disappointed than I already was but they have reached a new low . . . thanks, George W.)
I cannot listen to, watch, or read anything these s***holes say. Not today. Not on any day.
I played a clip I found at The Gateway Pundit and didn’t hear that. The one I heard was where Bush compared the jihadists to ‘domestic extremists’ who have a ‘determination to defile national symbols’. And that sounds like he’s referring to antifa/BLM.
SEVEN
This being narrated by Ed Asner, I assume it’s nothing else but bullshit communist propaganda.
Lefty conspiracy theorists were actually close to the mark on 9/11 and they’ve been shooting blanks ever since….
Loose Change!
Uniparty.
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Hang ’em high.
I was getting ready for work (Mtn. time zone), only station on antenna had Charlie and Diane Sawyer on – report of first tower is a small plane and showing the tower. I looked at that and immediately thought that is NOT a small plane!!! I went through OK City, and I also immediately knew from that experience plus my higher ed degrees that tower was coming down. I was so horrified by what would happen to those above that hole, you can’t unsee families’ fathers, sons, mothers, daughters jumping, to this day. Then watched the second one pile in, and those two fools, especially Sawyer, couldn’t figure it out and couldn’t even recognize that it was a jetliner. Pure disgust washed over me. I called my 80+ year old mother hoping she wasn’t watching, but she was. We weren’t terrified for ourselves, we were for our first responders who we knew were running toward and into that. The heart of the first responder is the most precious thing, there is no way to quantify that quality directly from the Lord God Almighty Jesus Christ.
On 9/11 I was getting ready for work, eating breakfast watching Good Morning America on TV. When the first reports that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center I assumed, as most everyone did, that it was a small plane accident. Then when I was driving to work the reports of a SECOND plane crashing into the other tower came in. At that point it was immediately clear this was no accident, it was deliberate. Then reports came across that these were airliners not small planes. That day at work was surreal. The second plane crash was captured in brilliant high definition by news crews filming the aftermath of the first plane crash. It was a beautiful sunny day, clear blue skies, and the fireball looked like Hollywood special effects. It was played repeatedly all day, and I kept having to remind myself it was real.
Then, the towers collapsed which was completely unexpected, and the news said there were still hundreds of police and firefighters still inside. That was shocking.
News of other hijacked planes had everyone on edge. A plane hit the Pentagon. Reports of a crash in Pennsylvania. Unconfirmed reports of other planes crashing into skyscrapers all over the country. The Sears tower in Chicago. Washington DC evacuated the White House, Capitol, and all the government buildings. Landmark buildings everywhere evacuated.
The FAA grounded all aircraft, and kept the skies clear for a week. I worked near the airport, it was eerily quiet. When planes began flying again it was the most beautiful sound.
I was driving on the PA Turnpike and heard a roar then saw smoke. It was Flight 93, I had no idea until several hours later. My car radio did not work. I did notice the “avoid NY NJ Turpike” signs and wondered if there was some kind of spill or huge accident. I also remember how little traffic was on the road for such a beautiful day. When I finally turned on my phone and retrieved my voice-mail, the concern of my family members and friends as to where I was in my drive is something I won’t forget.
Sitting at home, trying to avoid writing my dissertation, when a friend who was a reporter called and said. ‘switch on your TV now, a plane has hit the WTC!’. Watched as the anchors were explaining that a light aircraft had accidentally hit the first tower, saw the gaping hole and thought that’s no accident when the second plane struck. Phone my wife at work and watched the unfolding tragedy. Never saw the towers come down as I switched off, numb after watching hours of the unfolding tragedy.
That night my wife and I went to our local church to sign the book of condolences, and had to wait for nearly an hour, queueing with hundreds of others, in near silence . It was only the next day though that the impact really hit home as I watched one of our fitters, Glaswegian, ex-miner, hard as nails, with tears rolling down his face during the minutes silence.
Still feel a mixture of emotions when I see those iconic shapes, when watching old movies or documentaries.
This illegal piece of trash should be in jail – not congress. Shame on any and all who stand by an allow her to represent the USA.
Wondering if Pres. Trump even got an invite?
I thought the Resident was only supposed to appear via video….
Front-row hypocrisy.
Front-row treason.
The worst of the worst… A bunch of lying sacks of sh*t!! All with their muzzles on like dogs… Freakin birds of feather….. The only one I will listen to and watch today is President Donald J. Trump!!!!!
Today is a day when millions of us will pause in prayer and remembrance of the tragic events on that crisp Tuesday morning 20 years ago. If you’re like me, everything about that terrible day is burned into your soul. The shock, the fear, the incomprehensible brutality, the sudden sense of vulnerability.
Every American felt the crippling anguish deep in our souls as we realized our nation was under attack and as we watched nearly 3,000 of our fellow Americans tragically lose their lives. We will never forget those who died in Shanksville, at the Pentagon, and in the Twin Towers.
I’m watching the news right now and they are replaying this day as it happened 20 years ago, and tears are streaming down my face….God Bless America!?
I was 15 miles away in New Jersey, walking in to work, four months pregnant with my oldest daughter when the first tower was hit……..they sent us home after a little while and I remember sitting on my couch crying the whole day. The next day I was driving to work and had to pull over, crying my eyes out. Heading toward New York City, on the other side of the highway I was on, were hundreds and hundreds of fire trucks, EMTS, police cars, ambulances, and other rescue vehicles…..all heading to Ground Zero……if feels like it just happened yesterday and not 20 years ago……….
These photos were taken at Ground Zero, the World Trade Center site in New York, in September of 2001.
https://www.zombietime.com/wtc_9-13-2001/
Also, Hulu has a 20 year anniversary 6 part series “9/11: One Day in America”
It is very through and is showing everything. Minute by minute. I am having a difficult time watching, but am forcing myself to remember those that suffered and died on this day 20 years ago.
I was a flight attendant for a decade, but I was on maternity leave….I never went back after 9/11.
My family went to Disney World for a couple days-so it was such a bizarre transition. It was unclear what happened as we checked out of the hotel. Everyone at the reception desk were crying so we knew something happened but it was still unclear. We loaded the car and got my dad on the phone. First thing he said was “She’s Ok. Your sister is safe!”. My sister, who was also a flight attendant, was working on a military charter that day. They have flown from the Azores traveling to Boston when everything happened— so they turned the plane back to the Azores. She was grounded there about a week. Dad tried to explain everything that was happening and we listened the radio to get whatever info. I have a huge family, all over the country, so everyone called to checked in safe in with my parents. Two hours later we arrived home. It wasn’t until we watched the coverage that we were really able to comprehend what was happening.
I could visualize working on those flights. I know I would have welcomed them aboard and smiled at the terrorists. My crew would joking referred to me as the Stepford Flight Attendent because I always greeted our passengers with a smile. The procedures for hijacking and emergencies were drilled into our heads. I knew the steps that would have been attempted to contact the cockpit. I could put myself in the situations on the different flights, as the stories were shared or pieced together. With a newborn and a toddler, I couldn’t go back to that ever again. My world became a little smaller but my focus was on my children, my family, and the things I valued —which turned out to be a blessing.
Enjoy! I love that guy, he was right. Shoe thrower, good!
The likely impact of the Afghanistan fiasco combined with an open southern border and the history of the Taliban with respect to al Qaeda (big surprise: NOT what we are being told). Cued to the relevant portion:
https://youtu.be/SQlf2iUxTt0?t=1583
Sickening!!
Remember the pictures of the copious amounts of American dollars the Taliban found? I imagine that could fund a slew of through the southern border.
The people that did this have never been brought to justice. They are even more powerful now.
I was terrified that day that they were going to take out our Whitehouse. Little did I know that Americans would turn around and put a Muslim in that Whitehouse just 7 years later. Now that very same Muslim and his entourage is continuing the destruction of our country and still, 20 years later, we Americans are sitting and watching, while doing nothing about it.
1-6 Capitol Riots MUCH WORSE THAN 9-11
In a July appearance on MSNBC’s ReidOut with Joy Reid, former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd said he felt the Capitol riot was “much worse” than 9/11 and that this is the “most perilous point in time” since the beginning of the American Civil War.
Apparently, Joe needs ice cream and someone isn’t getting it for him.
I was in Australia and was woken at about 3am by my neighbour’s TV blaring. Went back to sleep thinking I just had an inconsiderate neighbour. When I started my drive to work the news was obviously all over the radio. I still remember driving along in an absolute daze knowing that the world had just changed forever.
Always a difficult day as I knew 45 people who died in the South Tower. May they rest in peace.
I was working in Chicago at the time and had just started work when one of the traders came running down the hall yelling about a plane hitting one of the WTC towers. Since our office was directly across from the Sears Tower the decision was made to evacuate our office. I and many others walked over the river to Union Station to try and catch a Metra train back home. There were thousands of people doing the same so it took hours to finally board a train. In the interim I watched the towers fall in a coffee shop/bar in the basement of Union Station. I’ll never forget that. Finally reaching home I hugged my wife and we discussed whether or not to go get our young children out of school. Hard to believe it has been 20 years now.
RIP all 9/11 victims.
Honolulu, HI…morning…my wife and I were in tears. Workplaces shut down, almost nobody on the streets. Six time-zones away and feeling like our hearts were torn out of our chests.
Seeing the Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, Bidens and Bloomberg there today makes my blood boil.
Their names were not on the manifest – this was a CiA-op.