Never Forget

[JohnnyReb]

Sometimes turning the other cheek means sticking up a big moon.  

I was working for the Air Force at the time, God it was a beautiful morning.  Someone said, a plane flew into the Twin Towers.  We scrambled for the computer.  I was so confused, I had no idea, my first thought was a horrible accident.  I called home right away and my dad, a 25 year veteran, answered.  I told him what happened, "Dad did you hear, a plane just flew into one of the towers in New York!"  The first words out of his mouth were, "Oh my God.  We're going to war."  It took me about 5 full seconds for his words to sink in and to realize exactly what happened.  It took the rest of the day for it to sink in.  Actually, I don't think it really sank in until the next day.

How could anyone forget?

I was at a country store when the first announcement and video came on the TV. A redneck was standing there looking at the same TV. He at once said, "Boys. I don't know who it is but we're at war with somebody." It wasn't until I saw the second plane coming in that I finally agreed with him.

[Wineslob]

I'll never forget. I was getting ready for work. I as watched the local news, the major network switched over and had views of the first tower with the smoke billowing from it.

The news casters really didn't know what was going on, they thought that a small plane had hit the tower. About that time one of the camera crew caught the second airliner crashing into the second tower. At that point there was no doubt as to what was happenig. I think I spent most of the day glued to the TV watching everything unfold.

One thing that's odd, to this day I've never seen the footage from the choppers or planes circling the towers that caught the second airliner hitting the second tower.

[Revolution]

I think it's on Youtube somewhere, and they showed the helecopter footage on FNC on the 10th year anniversary, if I remember right.

[DefiantSix]

My wife was a gate agent for what was then America West Airlines.  She had just pushed the jetway back from her first departure of the morning when the phone line at the jetway control station rang.  It was the control tower (Tower NEVER contacts the gates like this, so this is already unusual as hell in her book) ordering her to get that airplane back to the gate, and get everybody off the plane, now.  Somehow, she managed to get the pilot's attention, and then the attention of the guy running the tug below her, and they got the plane moved back into place at the gate.  A whole manifest of passengers looking confused and wondering why the plane wasn't leaving for their destination, followed by a flight crew with the same looks of confusion on their faces.   Following the instructions she'd been given from the tower, after everybody was off, she went through the plane on a security sweep, then headed back up the jetway to the gate, and it was only as she got back up there and took a moment to look at the television running the CNN broadcast that she finally got the news that the Islamofascists had attacked the WTC, and that the FAA had grounded all flights.

[JohnnyReb]

Some of you have probably never seen the lincense plates for the front of your car/truck that have the old Yankee soldier and the old Rebel soldier with the words "Forget Hell" or "Hell no, I ain't forget'n."

We need some of those with a picture of the twin towers burning and "Forget Hell" or "Hell No! We ain't forget'n" written on them.