New York - Before & After... (09/11/2001)
This week will be hard date.. I want to share one's PowerPoint presentation with you "New York - Before & After".
The whole world is with the U.S. on this day.
In memory. We remember.
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Please, folks, don't make this political. If we can't mourn the deaths of thousands of innocent people, whatever the time and whatever the place, then there is something wrong with our hearts and souls.
It was a horrible day. A horrible act. A horrible loss.
If we can't mourn the deaths of thousands of innocent people, whatever the time and whatever the place, then there is something wrong with our hearts and souls.
Indeed, wise words Echo
I was at home on that day, still on holiday like now. I had been to New York only two years before and literally saw all those people in that building, many smoking outside, the lift, so fast, the terrace, so impressive....
I relived this when the second plane hit....I did not see the first one, I got a call, and started to cry right there and then. So many people....a tube running underground precisely at that moment, all those lives...
If we make this political.....like we did with our Train Station bombing 
, that is so sad, too sad to be true.
I am with you folks, it was and will always be a very sad day.
Heidi said:
I relived this when the second plane hit....I did not see the first one, I got a call, and started to cry right there and then. So many people....a tube running underground precisely at that moment, all those lives...
It is amazing to me that I was experiencing the exact same thing on the other side of the Atlantic at the same moment. I was working with high school students at the time. My aide came in a bit after the class had started and told me that a plane had hit a WTC tower. I was in disbelief because I had just been there the week before. Surely it was a small private plane.Maybe the pilot had a heart attack.
The students begged, so we turned the class television on for them to see. As we were all trying to come to grips with reality, the second plane hit. At this point, we were not only all crying, but we were all scared to death. As news of planes falling in Pennsylvania (my home state) and the Pentagon came in, we feared we were next. Surely they will attack Philadelphia, with all of the skyscrapers and historical buildings. Also, everyone knew of someone who was either living/working near ground zero that day. Who survived...who didn't? Wait!!!!.....we can't even think about that now....the first tower just collapsed....then the second. It is difficult to cope with one tragedy in a day. We were experiencing one right after the other. It was just too much to process.
I know Saturday marks the ninth anniversary, but to me, it still feels as real as yesterday. Amazingly, life goes on in New York City. However, it is still so sad. I can't tell you how many times, while walking around Manhattan, I see plaques and memorials in front of fire stations and in other places. We visited the Pentagon and saw the work that is going on there as well.
Yes, it has been nine years, but "We Will Never Forget!"
Things are moving rapidly at Ground Zero. I go to Manhattan all the time, but don't usually have much reason to be in the Financial District. However,I have been back several times in the past few years and it is quite amazing. It is really difficult to take in just how large of an area this covers just by seeing images or by the coverage shown on T.V.
Here are is a site that shows pictures of what this area will look like in the future.
Hopefully, Samdie will weigh in. I believe he either lives/works or both in downtown Manhattan.
Here is a rendering of the future site:
They are still working on another building
On the first anniversary of 9/11 A letter of mine was published in the "Warrington newspaper" Virginia, part of it said. -- The young men and women of the USA in WW 2 who gave their lives for the defense of Democracy were giants of men and women the likes of whom i never thought to see again. But I was wrong for they emerged again in New York on 9/11 in the guise of the Police and Fire persons who again risked their lives in the defense this time of innocent victims of a terrorist attack.God bless them one and all. Every night in R.S.L. clubs all around Australia the members end the evening with a prayer to the fallen , which always fishes with these words ,
LEST WE FORGET! We should remember these prophetic words.
"If you have just tuned in you have woken to a nightmare.".
It was early morning here when news started filtering through of that terrible day. I got up, turned on the radio and those were the first words I heard....
I was living in Russia when America was attacked by terrorists in 2001. To hear words of condolence from my Russian acquaintances and sense the feeling of support for my country by all countries of the world was a tremendous feeling unlike anything I had ever experienced in the past. I felt safe in the middle of Siberia. And in a matter of just two short years after the fact, the whole world had come to hate America with a passion – and with good reason. And yet, the 3000 people killed during these terrorist attacks is nothing in comparison to the reported 150,000 civilians and approximately 4000 American soldiers killed in the aftermath in Iraq - the misguided response to 911. (At least American arms manufacturers made tons money as we put a dent in the world’s overpopulation problem).
Had this tradgedy occured in Israel, a counrty well versed in these cowardly attacks, the twin towers would have been bebuilt to their original specifications years ago, thus showing terrorists that they can not make a difference and will never win.
Of course, folks need to mourn their loved ones who parished as a result of 911 and we must never forget who the enemy is, but we also need to stop showing terrorists that they have won a battle of their sick cause by leaving the twin-towers site an empty shrine.
I want to be able to feel the sense of world family again – the same as I felt when the rest of the world reached out to us after that terrible tragedy on September 11 of 2001. Were I able to do so, the people who lost their lives that day may not have lost them in vain.
This is an interesting article about the plans for a museum at Ground Zero. There is a rush to have portions of the memorial completed by the tenth anniversary next year. This museum should open in 2012.
At this time I was in the library as a student (when in USA was morning, in Europe was about 17 o'clock) and didn't understand what alarm makes my friend, running with frightened eyes, declaring that America is under attack and that Pentagon also attacked. I thought that she something feign for not to learn and for to distract us too. After, in evening news I saw that towers are falling... It was impossible.
On that day, I walked my dog in the morning. I noticed a plane flying low across the sky towards New York City. I thought nothing of it. When I got to work, I went to the cafeteria to get a drink of water. As I walked in, I saw the second plane hit the tower. Everyone was glued to the television in the cafeteria. I got a 10 second summary of what had happened and went up to the laboratory. We always had the TV Channel 6 on the radio and that day we had a continuous blow by blow description of everything that was happening. We still had to process specimen's, answer phones and diagnose patient's cancers just like any other day. Since we were the only source of information, people would check in with us to find out the updates. When another major event happened like the Pentagon, or the fourth plane, we would walk into the other labs and tell them. No one knew what to expect. We were all apprehensive, but the work of the hospital had to continue. I never found out if that plane that I saw was one of the hijacked planes from Boston, but I believe that it was. When I got home, I cried.
When this terrible day occurred 9 years ago, I was in Paris, France painting a mural for the Disneyland there outside of the city. Due to the time difference it was about 4 in the afternoon there. We had just finished our workday when we got the news and someone told us that one of the towers had "fallen over". She was a native French speaker and I told her she must have misunderstood because one of those towers simply could not have just "fallen over", it's impossible. It was just so unbelievable. Of course she was correct. The most frustrating part was driving back to our hotel and trying to get information in English on the radio, but it was all in French (duh!) They would play a statement from President Bush, only to translate it into French! So we were screaming at the radio! Then the only English speaking channel on t.v. was the BBC, so that's the only way we got any information.
When we got back to Los Angeles on Sep. 22, I learned that a close friend of ours actually held a ticket on the exact plane that crashed into the field in Pennsylvania. Sep. 11 is his birthday and he was on a business trip and decided he didn't want to be away from his family on his birthday, so he came back a day early. Unreal.
What is on the World Trade Center place now?
