Remembering those who died on 9/11

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# The youngest passenger on the hijacked jets was Christine Hanson on United Airlines Flight 175. She was 2 and on her first trip to Disneyland.

# Two-thousand children lost a parent Sept. 11, including 146 who lost a parent at the Pentagon.

# The oldest passenger on the hijacked jets was Robert Norton on American Airlines Flight 11. He was 82.

# The New York City Fire Department lost 343 firefighters, almost half the number of on-duty deaths in the department's 100-year history.

#More civilians (70) than people in the military (55) were killed at the Pentagon.

#44 passengers and crew members died on United Flight 93. That is one-fifth of the population of Shanksville, Pa., where the jet crashed.

#189 people died at the Pentagon and on American Flight 77. 168 died in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

#Six employees of Morgan Stanley, the largest tenant of the WTC, died in the attack. 3,700 are employed by the company. Cantor Fitzgerald lost more than 600 employees on Sept. 11, all of those on duty at 8:46 a.m. The 320 employees who survived were not in the building.

I tried to find more...feel free to add to the list of those who died.

[munchkins 0]

Remembering all who died, all who lost loved ones on that day and all who worked so tirelessly to help the rescue efforts..

Prayers and thoughts are with them all today

[Kez/JWolf 6]

My thoughts and prayers are with anyone whos lives were saddly touched by the events of 9/11

Kezzie

[fish_oinc 0]

We will never forget.

[Fandango 1,439]

My heart hurts so much for all of our brothers and sisters who were lost. May your souls rest in peace...

[chuckandkim 0]

My thought and memberance are with the firefighters, rescurers, polices, emergency responders and the workers who died that day inside the Trades just because they showed up for work like all of us at this moment. Of those who killed at the Penntagon and those who brave enough to fight the hijackers on flight 93...Heroes!!! My thought and prayer are with the families of those who died.

RIP - For we will never forget you...

Love,

Chuck and Kim

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[Fuzzness 2]

Remembering all those who died, and who survived, on that day, every day, not just on the anniversary

[chri'stina 190]

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[no name 1]

Some entries taken from journal - maybe it will be helpful for some to see what a NYer felt. I lived just over a mile away.

11 Sep 2001 | 10:02am

the 2nd world trade center bulilding is ON THE FUC*ING GROUND.

OHMIFUC*ING GOD.

12 Sep 2001 | 01:09am

Walked around tonight, still in disbelief.

Cool crisp night. It's obscene really. It's quiet except for brief sirens right now, at 1AM. I just looked out my window & can't believe there is a big dark spot.

Went to a bar tonight, just to get out. To seek consolation in others. Heard stories of who saw what & where were you. Met a stranger & he made dinner for me & my friend H. We went to the roof & got goosebumps looking at the smoke still rising. Kissed like it was my last kiss. Held each other so tightly. We also saw a shooting star. There's some solace in that.

None of us would've done that before, but there's a vulnerability out there now. A sense of comraderie too. This kind of thing makes you want to eat, drink, f**k or talk for hours. Just to feel alive, to feel real. You want to touch anything, everything.

My aunt suggested I come to Chicago for the weekend, just to get away. But we were talking tonight & NY needs us now. Leaving is not right. This is one of the few times where I feel like NY needs me. Needs all of us. To give blood, time, whatever. We need to stick together. It's beautiful really. Sad how it came to be but powerful nonetheless.

My prayers go out to those trapped now...I can't even imagine it. Hard to believe about a mile from me there are people lying under 15 stories of rubble.

{{{{{{{{.....}}}}}}}}}

15 Oct 2001 | 09:44am

Working at Ground Zero is PHENOMENAL. The smiles meant SO much. Talking/listening to them meant SO much. I learned heaps about the whole thing & (graphically) what they actually find, and their feelings. And these are TOUGH New Yawker cops. One was teary talking to me & I was teary listening.

We had a staff of 9 when there should be 30. We served over 1000 meals in 8 hours.

I can't count the number of thank yous I got.

I walked home & walked past all of it. I was offered by several cops a visit around the site but if I do, I would not get to volunteer again, it's against Red Cross rules.

The burning smell is around you the whole time (even tho we were inside) & AMAZINGLY enough, you start to not notice it. Then a group of dirty, tired, but smiling firemen walks in, covered in dust & you get a huge whiff of it. My throat hurt walking home, from breathing the smoke outside.

I go back in 13 hours. I will go back far more than that. You would not believe how grateful these men & women & Red Cross people are for what I did. And I'm so happy for what they are doing. Cops are on 16 hour shifts. Most of the rest work 7 days, 12 hours a day.

[CarolineM 0]

WOw devilette. That is so weird because it sounds almost exactly what I went through. I lived in upper manhatten but was in downtown brooklyn that day. I was in a masters program of social work at the time, and we all went with the red cross to help with counseling...

It was hard, we all knew ppl involved, I still have my outfit I wore that day, covered in ashes. I can't seem to take it to the dry cleaners....

My thoughts and prayers to all that lost a loved one....

[heishe 2]

So sad.

[allynella 0]

May their souls rest in peace

[Lizzy 0]

Bless there hearts and may they be in peace now.