A decent 9-11 thread

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Techn0Girl  Donating Member  (47 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Sep-11-09 04:30 AM
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Today is September 11th
   
Eight years ago, for a short time we, all of us, Republicans and Democrats alike , were united together by tragedy.

We come from many place and have many opinions. I do not agree with all of you and I know that many of you do not agree with me.

I would like to suggest that all of us here on the Democratic Underground, as we undoubtedly contemplate the sad events of years past, consider as we go through this day the power of being United.

Blessings to all the families and survivors on that terrible day and blessings to all of us here and to everyone in our Country.

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Beacool  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Sep-11-09 10:29 AM
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3. September 11 is a day that I will never forget.
   
I was at the North Tower that fateful morning. Unlike today, it was a beautiful warm summer day. At least it was until the routine of the morning rush hour was disrupted so violently.

This morning at 8:46 I looked up at the empty space where the two towers should have been and said a silent prayer.

We will never forget.......

Beacool  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Sep-11-09 11:29 AM
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5. I was coming out of the PATH train from Hoboken, NJ
   
The PATH train (more like a subway, it goes under the Hudson river) connects NJ and NY.

The North Tower had been hit by the time my train pulled into the station. This train was the next to last one to make it to the WTC. The air smelled of fuel and the station was eerily empty. As we went up the large set of escalators that led to the ground floor and mall, we saw that the area had been already evacuated and was filled with smoke.

We were guided outside and I finally got a look at the bldg. There was a huge hole and black smoke poured out of it. I asked someone what had happened and she said that a plane had hit it. I barely had time to wonder what kind of pilot couldn't miss the tower on a clear day, when the crowd screamed, to our horror we saw people jumping out of the bldg. That's the sight that I will never forget and still affects me. I can't stand to see a tall bldg. on fire, I always expect someone to be jumping from the windows.

I walked parallel to the towers (the side streets were blocked by people and emergency vehicles) when someone yelled "a plane". I had barely passed the main doors of the Hilton Millennium Hotel. I looked up and a jetliner was flying along Liberty St. at an angle, otherwise the wing span couldn't fit the width of the street. All I could see was the bright blue belly of the plane (it turned out to be the United plane) as it flew at full speed into the side of the South Tower. All hell broke lose and I thought that we were going to die as debris flew in every direction. Many of us ran into the Hilton and their staff guided us through another door and kept yelling at people to "go to Broadway". Some people were so stunned that they didn't even know where they were standing.

I went to my job 4 blocks away. There were sheets of paper covering the streets from one river to the other. Also, there were many women's shoes that had been left behind. At work we still had electricity, internet service and working telephones. A little while later the sky turned pitch black as the South Tower collapsed, minutes later it was repeated when the North Tower fell too. When the sky cleared, we could see that everything was covered in dust: people, cars, bldgs. I stayed at work until the ferries starting taking people back to NJ around noon.

This year it hit me hard, other years I try to be out of the country on this day. I can see the WTC right now as I type this and know that the victim's names are still being read, despite the pouring rain.

My tiny town of Hoboken lost more people than any other city in NJ. It lost over 50 people, the youngest was 22 and the oldest was in his early fifties. I knew one of them.

It's a sad day.

Nice to see some respectful folks at DU.

[Carl]

I suspect it won`t last long over there.
Some one will come along and piss on it...they can`t help it.

[BlueStateSaint]

Just as a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut, there's one or two decent folks (moles not included) at the DUmp.

[Freeper]

I suspect it won`t last long over there.
Some one will come along and piss on it...they can`t help it.

It was in GD Presidential so it may not attract our favorite goons.
AT DU people usually stay in one forum or another.

[Wineslob]

Beacool  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Sep-11-09 11:29 AM
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5. I was coming out of the PATH train from Hoboken, NJ
   
The PATH train (more like a subway, it goes under the Hudson river) connects NJ and NY.

The North Tower had been hit by the time my train pulled into the station. This train was the next to last one to make it to the WTC. The air smelled of fuel and the station was eerily empty. As we went up the large set of escalators that led to the ground floor and mall, we saw that the area had been already evacuated and was filled with smoke.

We were guided outside and I finally got a look at the bldg. There was a huge hole and black smoke poured out of it. I asked someone what had happened and she said that a plane had hit it. I barely had time to wonder what kind of pilot couldn't miss the tower on a clear day, when the crowd screamed, to our horror we saw people jumping out of the bldg. That's the sight that I will never forget and still affects me. I can't stand to see a tall bldg. on fire, I always expect someone to be jumping from the windows.

I walked parallel to the towers (the side streets were blocked by people and emergency vehicles) when someone yelled "a plane". I had barely passed the main doors of the Hilton Millennium Hotel. I looked up and a jetliner was flying along Liberty St. at an angle, otherwise the wing span couldn't fit the width of the street. All I could see was the bright blue belly of the plane (it turned out to be the United plane) as it flew at full speed into the side of the South Tower. All hell broke lose and I thought that we were going to die as debris flew in every direction. Many of us ran into the Hilton and their staff guided us through another door and kept yelling at people to "go to Broadway". Some people were so stunned that they didn't even know where they were standing.

I went to my job 4 blocks away. There were sheets of paper covering the streets from one river to the other. Also, there were many women's shoes that had been left behind. At work we still had electricity, internet service and working telephones. A little while later the sky turned pitch black as the South Tower collapsed, minutes later it was repeated when the North Tower fell too. When the sky cleared, we could see that everything was covered in dust: people, cars, bldgs.

I stayed at work until the ferries starting taking people back to NJ around noon.

This year it hit me hard, other years I try to be out of the country on this day. I can see the WTC right now as I type this and know that the victim's names are still being read, despite the pouring rain.

My tiny town of Hoboken lost more people than any other city in NJ. It lost over 50 people, the youngest was 22 and the oldest was in his early fifties. I knew one of them.

It's a sad day.

It's good to see someone remember that day at the DUmp without the usual filth, and sad that it still affects them.

(bolded area) My cousin may have been piloting one of the ferries that Beacool took that day, helping get people the hell out of there.

[Carl]

It was only a matter of time.

Better Today (403 posts)        Fri Sep-11-09 01:31 PM
Response to Original message
8. I was not united with Republicans on that day or any other since GWB won primary in 2000.
   I'm sorry but this "we, all" crap has to be straightened out. I immediately felt anger and disgust at the Republicans because it reeked of something Cheney and his ilk had wanted for a long time.

Cha  (1000+ posts)        Fri Sep-11-09 01:35 PM
Response to Reply #8
9. Yeah, I'm thinking today how
   ****ing george bush and dick cheney dropped the ball on 9/11/01 and then they screwed the pooch going into IRaq instead of concentrating on Afghanistan.

**** bush+cheney.

I give my support to the victims and their famiily and friends.

lunatica  (1000+ posts)          Fri Sep-11-09 01:44 PM
Response to Reply #9
11. They didn't drop the ball at all
   They actually picked it up and ran with it. Remember PNAC? The only way they saw they could implement their Plan for a New American Century was to have an event similar to Pearl Harbor. Funny how they got exactly what they said they needed.

Cha  (1000+ posts)        Fri Sep-11-09 01:47 PM
Response to Reply #11
12. The horror is that a lot of us
   would not put it past them ..nothing is too heinous for their filthy greed.

[Texacon]

Some of those at the DUmp are so disgusting.

Not all but ... well actually most of them are disgusting but some of them are good people who simply have a differing opinion.  The rest of them .... I wouldn't cross the street to piss on them if they were on fire.

KC

[Freeper]

It was only a matter of time.

Yep lasted longer than I thought it would though.