9/11/2007

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Who can honestly say....

I gotta ask, for my own curiosity - were you in NYC then?

No.

[JODO 2]

I was getting ready to go to my (k) class for 8:00 am and as usual I had GMA on as I was getting ready to go and then they started talking about a plane hitting a building and I stopped to go look. I then started flipping back and forth between GMA and The Today Show. I was just in disbelief watching the screen. Hours passed and I had missed my whole day of law school just transfixed by what was happening. I immediately felt very sad. A friend called and we were watching TV together and then decided we should gas-up as things were just getting crazy. After gassing up, I went inside to buy water and the cashier was telling everyone that car bombs had gone off at the State Dept,but later that would turn out to be untrue. It was just a crazy and sad time and I do not think I will ever forget what I was doing on that day.

Edited September 11, 2007 by JODO

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

YOU MUST BE JOKING. With those pics, you are way out of line. What does a suicidal jumping person have to do with remembrance? :angry:

And you were IN Jersey. You should know better G. I am shaking right now with anger & sadness.

Kind of morbid - but makes you wonder whether the people photographed jumping from the buildings were subsequently recognized by their relatives from the pictures alone.

Avoiding the reality of a person choosing to jump to their death from 90 stories up is fckin LAME!

Face it, do you jump or burn? Two choices, which one!

No one avoided reality, Marc, I/we lived thru it. I don't need a pic of a man committing suicide to remind me how desperate that day was.

Your comments tell me you need more than a reminder. You lived, the guy that died is gone and you dont want to be reminded of your blessing, how thoughtful. get lost!

[no name 1]

From my old journal:

[11 Sep 2001|10:02am]

the 2nd world trade center bulilding is ON THE F*CKING GROUND.

OHMIF*CKING GOD.

[11 Sep 2001|04:49pm]

Still numb.

In shock. The airplane flying into the building plays over & over in my head.

Saw some of it out my window.

The streets are quiet of traffic yet people are out. Everyone is somber. We're all lost.

I see the cloud out my window yet there are no towers.

Keep loved ones close....

[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.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I think everyone knows how sensitive I am to 9/11 being thru it & working for the NYC Red Cross for months afterwards. But anyhow I saw that pic (&, to be honest, the bldgs falling as well) as sick glorified pics of a truly horrendous day in history. The last pic is on of perseverance, remembrance and hope.

Its all about YOU! What a tool!

[no name 1]

I think everyone knows how sensitive I am to 9/11 being thru it & working for the NYC Red Cross for months afterwards. But anyhow I saw that pic (&, to be honest, the bldgs falling as well) as sick glorified pics of a truly horrendous day in history. The last pic is on of perseverance, remembrance and hope.

Its all about YOU! What a tool!

Just stop. I never said it was. How misguided you are.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Marc - I'm sure everyone has an opinion to bring to the discussion, but I think from now on the best thing you can bring is silence.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

This thread is a disaster. Maybe someone else can do it better.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

From my old journal:

[11 Sep 2001|10:02am]

the 2nd world trade center bulilding is ON THE F*CKING GROUND.

OHMIF*CKING GOD.

[11 Sep 2001|04:49pm]

Still numb.

In shock. The airplane flying into the building plays over & over in my head.

Saw some of it out my window.

The streets are quiet of traffic yet people are out. Everyone is somber. We're all lost.

I see the cloud out my window yet there are no towers.

Keep loved ones close....

[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.

I think everyone knows how sensitive I am to 9/11 being thru it & working for the NYC Red Cross for months afterwards. But anyhow I saw that pic (&, to be honest, the bldgs falling as well) as sick glorified pics of a truly horrendous day in history. The last pic is on of perseverance, remembrance and hope.

Its all about YOU! What a tool!

Just stop. I never said it was. How misguided you are.

Marc - I'm sure everyone has an opinion to bring to the discussion, but I think from now on the best thing you can bring is silence.

Why is the strength of my feelings anyless meaningful than yours?Im not one to mince feelings and I' m certainly not PC. Get over yourself, the boy falling from the window is fckin dead! And your whinin about your experience?

Your experience aint ###### compared to the guy that made the decision to jump or burn!

[rebeccajo 14]

Marc,

This would be a really good time for you to step away from the keyboard.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

This thread is a disaster. Maybe someone else can do it better.

No it isnt, you did great VJ!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

This thread is a disaster. Maybe someone else can do it better.

No it isnt, you did great VJ!

It's a disaster. It will be locked shortly.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Marc,

This would be a really good time for you to step away from the keyboard.

please forgive me for upsetting your little world.

[no name 1]

I'm sorry I tried to share the positives from my experience. Truly. I thought sharing would help some people, or myself, heal that little bit more, but obviously not.

If a mod/admin comes in here, please delete my posts. I have no desire to be ridiculed for it.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I love it when ppl only want to hear what they seem fit.