America Remembers 9/11, 19 Years Later

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Wouldn’t it be nice if CATHOLICS HERE ON CAF could forget their incessant political bickering just for one day to remember the cowardly attack on 9/11. Remember how the people of this country came together to cry with one another, to hug one another on that terrible day, now look at the animosity and hatred that divides this country over political squabbling, sad. Pray for those poor souls who died.
 
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I remember exactly where I was when 9/11 happened in 2001.

We hadn’t built our house yet and we were living in our shop. I didn’t have the TV on that day, so had no idea anything had happened. Hubby was out. Then, a family friend called and told me that airplanes had flown into the World Trade Center towers. I turned on the TV and got the whole story.

I then heard that people were rushing to donate blood for any survivors, and I tried to do likewise. The blood center wouldn’t take me, because it was too soon after the last time I donated blood. I was healthy and felt good, but they thought it would be too risky. As it turned out, there weren’t any survivors.

I recall President Bush announcing through that bull horn that whoever toppled those towers was going to hear from the U.S., loud and clear.
 
JanR said:
I remember exactly where I was when 9/11 happened in 2001.

We hadn’t built our house yet and we were living in our shop. I didn’t have the TV on that day, so had no idea anything had happened. Hubby was out. Then, a family friend called and told me that airplanes had flown into the World Trade Center towers. I turned on the TV and got the whole story.

I then heard that people were rushing to donate blood for any survivors, and I tried to do likewise. The blood center wouldn’t take me, because it was too soon after the last time I donated blood. I was healthy and felt good, but they thought it would be too risky. As it turned out, there weren’t any survivors.

I recall President Bush announcing through that bull horn that whoever toppled those towers was going to hear from the U.S., loud and clear.
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And our country has gone downhill since 9/11.
 
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I remember exactly where I was when 9/11 happened in 2001.
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Many of us do.

I was working in a hospital at the time doing IT work.
I was called to a meeting in the administration offices. They wanted me to set up the projector and a computer for internet connectivity.
The meeting was on how best to revamp the hospital web presence, and IT was present to make sure everything worked and that the contractor wasn’t just blowing smoke.
I set up the conference way ahead of time and tuned in to the online news to verify everything working. Tuned in and watched the second plane live.

Shorty after I was tasked with setting up the same setup in a few public areas so everyone could watch the news.

Spent most of the time trying to reach my cousin, who was working in the pentagon at the time, but of course all communications lines were jammed.

I eventually got in touch with my Uncle. He had been camping and had no idea what was going on.

My cousin did get a message out, he was fine…but having a really bad day.

I guess most of us had a bad day then.
 
I wouldn’t say ‘downhill’ but rather more alert and daily more aware of threats. Think of all the changes we have experienced from improved airport screening to more secured borders. I read about the rioters in Oakland CA chanting “death to America”. MSM didn’t talk much about this blatant parallel.

www.foxnews.com

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: On September 11, here's what Islamists and 'Wokeists' have in common

There were many American heroes on 9/11, but the greatest were the passengers and crew of Flight 93.
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I was home alone watching it all unfold on television. My husband was at work and our children were in school. That day and subsequent days are clear in my mind like it just happened.

…listening to the last names of the victims read off at memorial now.
 
As to increased alertness, today we are told, “If you see something, say something.” Still, people are hesitant to report anything suspicious for fear of being negatively labeled if it turns out to be a false alarm.

I was in the Reno, Nevada airport a few years back. In one of the lanes where people line up to board the plane, I saw an abandoned bag sitting right at the front of the lane. It was still quite awhile before people were supposed to line up, and I saw this from a nearby chair I was sitting in.

I watched it for awhile, and nobody came to claim the bag. The longer it sat there, the more concerned I felt. Finally, they announced it was time to line up to board the plane, and still nobody had claimed the bag. I asked around to see if anyone owned it, and nobody claimed ownership.

I was just about ready to report it to security when a lady came flying out from the bar she was drinking in, grabbed the bag, and sat down. It was hers, and apparently completely innocent.

She was lucky. She could have been detained had I alerted the security personnel. I hope she learned a lesson that day to never leave a bag unattended anywhere in an airport.
 
We do tend to remember traumatic moments in our lives and what we were doing when it happened. I even remember the assassination of John Kennedy. I was home from school sick and mom and I watching the news unfold on our little black and white TV and mom crying and I was trying to understand it all.

I remember 9/11, too…I was getting ready for work and had the TV in the kitchen on…and once again, trying to understand it all.
 
With JFK, was practicing French in the university language lab. A student assistant brought the news.

With 9/11, I had stayed the night at my mother’s house to provide care for her, at that time in her decline. Driving the 2 1/2 blocks to my house, I heard the radio report that a plane had hit one of the Towers. Being a well-read history buff, I thought of the B-25 that hit the Empire State Building, in 1945, thinking it might be something like that. It wasn’t, of course.
 
I’m getting old. I have coworkers young enough to not have episodic memory of what they were doing when this happened.
 
I flew in from Operation Northern Watch and landed at 2 AM on 09/11 in Oklahoma City. Was told we were the last inbound flight before the early morning flights departed on 09/11. Got a phone call at 9 AM from my squadron to turn the TV on and be on standby. Had friends who got stuck in Turkey for another 30+ days, as they locked down all air bases for egress for the next month. What a terrible time.
 
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I remember as clearly as if it happened today turning on the radio in my kitchen and hearing Tony Blair speaking live from the TUC conference in Brighton. It was all the more memorable because I tuned in at the point at which he was saying, “I will now return to London, and once again I thank you for your indulgence here. I am very, very sorry it has turned out the way it has, but I know that, as I say, you would want to join with me in offering our deepest sympathy to the American people and our absolute shock and outrage at what has happened.” I assume that immediately after that somebody probably explained for the benefit of those of us who didn’t yet know what had happened what had happened, but what I’ve never forgotten is Tony Blair saying that he was returning to London and the sense that something really momentous must have happened.

 
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America…not alone in remembering.
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For a school assignment, a friend’s daughter called me to ask me for my memories of a lot of historical events. I think various people in the class had different events. I ended up with being asked about Y2K (we were warned it would bring out rabid dogs to the streets!), Space Shuttle Challenger (Big Bird was among the original intended passengers) and 9/11.

One of the things that I recalled from it was that the USA became hypervigilant for events going on around the world that might not have gotten attention before. Those events tended to bring a lot more terror than they would have otherwise. While 9/11 was an event on one day, it was the start of a lot of fear being sewn within the USA. Richard Reid and his shoe bomb was some time after that, there were the anthrax packages, I remember the videos of the beheadings making their way around the internet then, a lot of things happened afterward.
 
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One of the things that I recalled from it was that the USA became hypervigilant for events going on around the world that might not have gotten attention before.
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Hypervigilance has paid off when you look at the list of known thwarted terror attacks since 9/11.

List of unsuccessful terrorist plots in the United States post-9/11 - Wikipedia

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This list doesn’t include the probable aborted attempts that missed radar.
Those events tended to bring a lot more terror than they would have otherwise.
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If I am reading you correctly…these words were the mindset of the previous presidential administration. He couldn’t ever seem to say the word ISIS.


President Trump has reversed the brainwash Americans suffered with under the previous admin. The fight is real whether you choose to look or look away.
 
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