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Taking a second to remember...

drbrownscelraydrbrownscelray 648 Posts
edited September 2008 in Strut Central
Rest in peace to all those who passed on as a result of this tragedy. Every time I look at the skyline, it's like there's a hole in it. Leave your politics and stupid conspiracy theories out of this thread. Last night I left work and walked around Manhattan looking at the beams of light projecting into the sky and just getting my remember on. I used to go to work with my dad when he worked near the top of the building when I was a little kid and marvel at how the cars looked like ants. b,121b,121 img src="http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/info/docs/twin_towers1.jpg"1

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  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
    dude, pearl harbor isn't till december.b,121b,121b,121b,121ohh wait... b,121b,121b,121but on the real, i should find out in a few minutes if i got a promotion today or not. so it could be an awesome day to remember, much like it was in 2001 when i got real high before spanish 2.
  • kalakala 3,361 Posts
    "stupid conspiracy theories"b,121b,121oh ok b,121just cause you said so
  • drbrownscelraydrbrownscelray 648 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121dude, pearl harbor isn't till december.b,121b,121b,121b,121ohh wait... b,121b,121b,121but on the real, i should find out in a few minutes if i got a promotion today or not. so it could be an awesome day to remember, much like it was in 2001 when i got real high before spanish 2. b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Corny and disrespectful.
  • drbrownscelraydrbrownscelray 648 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121"stupid conspiracy theories"b,121b,121oh ok b,121just cause you said so b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Kala dude believe whatever you want to believe. I am just asking that this thread be about remembering instead of bickering.
  • kalakala 3,361 Posts
    rip to 3000+ innocent slaughtered lambs and a moment of silence for all of the living who were gravely wounded and are still living with the pain on a daily basis
  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121Corny and disrespectful.b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121--- from DC and was going to HS right across the river in northern VA at the time, on that day. not to mention the family i have on Manhattan, and all the time i've spent in the rotten apple. thanks.b,121b,121sorry if i did offend you though.
  • SnagglepusSnagglepus 1,756 Posts
    I was doing my radio show when it happened. Nothing quite like trying to both comprehend and report on a national tragedy at the same time. It was especially surreal because we lacked any visuals. The only information we were getting at the time came from the newswire feed which sends a message every minute. I'll never forget the feeling, after all of the NYC announcements, of seeing the word PENTAGON flash on the screen for the first time. A surreal and deeply disturbing moment.b,121b,121My thoughts go out to the Keane family from Wethersfield, CT. A family of five sons lost their father that day. Dick Keane was a huge presence in town ... little league coach, scoutmaster, all around communitarian. My mother tells a story of a little league game where some parent was screaming at their kid in the field after messing up a play, and Dick Keane walked between the parent and the kid and loudly cheered the kid on. He was that guy. He's sorely missed.
  • FatbackFatback 6,746 Posts
    I was here (across the street from the Pentagon):b,121b,121img src="http://goodspeedupdate.com/wp-content/2006doubletreecrystalcityoutside.jpg"1b,121b,121I heard the first explosion. From the window I saw the black smoke pouring out and heard a few more explosions, then saw a huge piece of the Pentagon fall and it shook the hotel. People flipped out, dropped to their knees and cried. Some were praying. I just wanted to go home. I went outside to my car and was surrounded by Pentagon employees fleeing for their lives. The fear on their faces haunts me to this day. I got into my car and drove down deserted 395. There were tanks behind me getting ready to block off access to DC. I barely slipped by and went home. Drank a tall glass of vodka and smoked about 15 cigarettes back to back. I had my TV on the porch just sat there dazed. 7 years later it still seems surreal.b,121b,121img src="http://www.harpers.org/media/image/blogs/misc/pentagon.jpg"1
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    on 9/11 I was working across the street from the WTC in the office building above Century 21 - I was standing on Broadway when first tower collapsed
  • UnherdUnherd 1,880 Posts
    I was less than a month into, for the first time in my life, not living in NYC, having just started school in Vermont. Getting that call from my Dad to turn on the TV was one of the worst moments of my life.b,121b,121RIP to everyone who was lost, MSNBC is running the same old gimmick of playing the entire original NBC footage from that day, but shit is a car crash I can't look away from, and I'm now hours late for work. b,121b,121Also, I think bringing jokes and especially conspiracy theories into this thread is incredibly disrespectful, you worried that no one will want to read a tinfoil hat thread if u start it, so you have to throw little bullshit comments into a memorial thread??? Shameful...
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    Yeah, I walked home from downtown DC pretty worried about what else might pop off, decided to stay out of the subway. As it turns out, the subways stayed running without incident and I coulda been home in 15 minutes, but it took an hour or so, the streets to the Hill were so crowded with pedestrians and traffic. I stopped by my buddies house who worked out of his house, and we were glued to CNN for the better part of the day. The DC mayor at the time, the hopelessly innefectual Anthony Williams, declared a state of emergency and warned people to stay off the streets unless you were an emergency/medical/security worker...they were basically threatening to arrest people if they were to be out on the streets. the whole thing was pretty nuts....calling people all over the country to let them know I was fine, glad my wife/then girlfriend was job hunting at the time and was at home (otherwise she would have been in the same boat Fatback was in in SW, just across the river from the Pentagon), worried about all my friends in NYC. The next 2-3 days downtown DC had humvees and armed soldiers patrolling near the block where I work. That was pretty surreal the next day, haven't seen anything remotely like it since.b,121b,121I pray this kind of event never repeats on any scale, let alone like the one it did 7 years ago.
  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121b,121I pray this kind of event never repeats on any scale, let alone like the one it did 7 years ago. b,121b,121h,121
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  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121The DC mayor at the time, the hopelessly innefectual Anthony Williamsb,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121i mean, you're right and all, but i don't see Fenty doin any cannonballs...b,121b,121img src="http://www.dc.gov/mayor/gallery/2005/june/06_29_05/img/mayor_cannonball1.jpg"1
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    Indeed.b,121b,121And keep our own Sween and his family in your thoughts--his brother was a real-life hero and lives on when we remember his sacrifice.
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121Indeed.b,121b,121And keep our own Sween and his family in your thoughts--his brother was a real-life hero and lives on when we remember his sacrifice. b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Yes...big appreciation to Sween's brother and his compatriots' sacrifice 7 years ago today. The families of all these heroes need to be honored for their losses.
  • hogginthefogghogginthefogg 6,098 Posts
    Rest in peace to my man who was on a flight from Boston to LA that day. I think of you often; you were and always will be a prince.
  • young_creamyoung_cream 540 Posts
    big ups to the boating community who really came through on 911
  • dayday 9,611 Posts
    I still remember that day like it was yesterday, and I probably always will. Words can't express all the emotions I felt that morning and the weeks thereafter. b,121b,121Rest in Peace.
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121Indeed.b,121b,121And keep our own Sween and his family in your thoughts--his brother was a real-life hero and lives on when we remember his sacrifice. b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Yes...big appreciation to Sween's brother and his compatriots' sacrifice 7 years ago today. The families of all these heroes need to be honored for their losses. b,121b,121h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121Thanks! Here's Brian lit up by Peter Max...b,121img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/petermax.jpg"1b,121b,121b,121And here he is lit up by Coors Light ("I can drink longer than you with these"), wearing a horrible shirt and showing an italian level of chesthair...b,121img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/P1010025.jpg"1b,121b,121b,121Beautiful day today, take a drink or two!
  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    sorta dismayed to see no recogntion of 9/11 on the Google start page today.b,121b,121they had a real swell special graphic yesterday for the launch of that particle accelerator though.b,121b,121RIP to all the 9/11 victims.
  • nzshadownzshadow 5,518 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121Indeed.b,121b,121And keep our own Sween and his family in your thoughts--his brother was a real-life hero and lives on when we remember his sacrifice. b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Yes...big appreciation to Sween's brother and his compatriots' sacrifice 7 years ago today. The families of all these heroes need to be honored for their losses. b,121b,121h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121Thanks! ...b,121b,121b,121Beautiful day today, take a drink or two! b,121b,121h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121Thinking about you NY.
  • djdazedjdaze 3,099 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121Indeed.b,121b,121And keep our own Sween and his family in your thoughts--his brother was a real-life hero and lives on when we remember his sacrifice. b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121yeah for real...And my man Sween is doin his thing now walking in those shoes in the FDNY. I'm proud of him to no end.b,121b,121the city of Albuquerque had a memorial going on right outside my work so my boss and I went out there for it, they had banners of all the names hanging from these 30 foot columns, I walked around until I saw his name and I snapped this.b,121b,121img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2848463527_a902724eb2.jpg"1b,121b,121RIP to a hero. b,121b,121img src="http://www.briansfund.com/images/lc.gif"1img src="http://www.briansfund.com/images/fb.gif"1
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
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    font class="post"1b,121b,121If you scroll about 2-3 names up on that list you'll find my childhood friend James Suozzo.....many memories of baseball cards, stickball and Mets games.b,121b,121RIP Jamesy
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    Remembering my good friends and colleagues (and their families) at the Fuji Bank and Mizuho NY, and several Brits and Americans I knew who earned their living at Cantors......b,121b,121and to those Wall St douches who contacted myself and others that day, 'for the sake of keeping the market liquid' trying to leech business away from Cantors, a massive FU x one million, and glad to see most of you lost your jobs since then.
  • funky16cornersfunky16corners 7,175 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121Indeed.b,121b,121And keep our own Sween and his family in your thoughts--his brother was a real-life hero and lives on when we remember his sacrifice. b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Yes...big appreciation to Sween's brother and his compatriots' sacrifice 7 years ago today. The families of all these heroes need to be honored for their losses. b,121b,121h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121Thanks! Here's Brian lit up by Peter Max...b,121img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/petermax.jpg"1b,121b,121b,121And here he is lit up by Coors Light ("I can drink longer than you with these"), wearing a horrible shirt and showing an italian level of chesthair...b,121img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/P1010025.jpg"1b,121b,121b,121Beautiful day today, take a drink or two! b,121b,121h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121Always think about you and your bro on this day Sween.
  • motown67motown67 4,513 Posts
    Shit. I remember the day. I woke up early for some reason and couldn't go back to sleep. I ended up turning on the TV waiting for the alarm to go off to get ready for work and I see one of the towers aflame. I couldn't believe what the hell was happening. By the time I got to work there were rumors all over the place of another plane flying around waiting to strike some other target. It was just crazy. I couldn't keep up with anything because I had to teach. I just tried to get through the day as normal as possible and then freak out when I got home.
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