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[FLYNDYNA]

Thanks for posting these pics...never forget! So many horrors become forgotten over time.

Flyndyna

[RioGlide]

Later this month, it will be exactly 10 years since I begain working in lower Manhattan every day.

For the first 3 1/2 years, I worked at 7 World Trade Center, just across Vesey Street from the main WTC plaza.  It was built about 15 years after the towers were completed, and it was the only WTC building not in the 16 acre "footprint" of the site.  When it was new and before it was full of tenants, 1988 I think, it was used in the film "Working Girl," with Melanie Griffith in the title role.

I was slightly late to work on 9/11 - Monday Night Football kept me up til around midnight the day before, so I was slower than usual to get up the next day.  I made my wife late too - she worked downtown then also.

So I saw all this from just across the Hudson River in New Jersey.  I had nightmares every night for months afterward.

Just today, as I came into NYC (via the PATH which again serves the station called World Trade Center - now a huge construction site) I decided I'd walk around the other way to get downtown - a route that took me in front of the "new" 7 WTC and the then-battered World Financial Center across the West Side Hwy.

I still feel anxious when I walk by where my building used to stand, and I think about my son who spent more than two year at the daycare center at the plaza level in 5 World Trade Center (that's the same building in the first picture, with the Borders bookstore at the corner of Vesey & Church St)

I thought about the jumpers.  I thought about all those people who were trapped by smoke and flames for an hour.  I thought about my coworker's mother who was one of the miraculous few who made it out from above the fire line in tower 2, the first one to collapse.  I thought about another coworker at 7WTC who watched his son die when tower 1 collapsed.

Thanks for sending these pictures - many I had not seen before.  It still makes me anxious to see these but it gives me pride as an American to know that we will not forget what happened that day.  I can't and wouldn't want to.

[Hoist!]

Excellent pics Ed! Thanks for posting them! Yep, Binx works in the same building as you Patrick. Luckily she was in Mexico when this occured. But thinking about it still makes my blood boil. Lost people I knew, and saw friends walk into the bar we gathered at, still covered in ashes! Just seeing those pics Ed made my skin crawl, and made me tear up yet again. I hope I never lose that feeling!

WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!

Ed, I would like the complete presentation if ya don't mind!

Hoist!

[erniezap]

I worked on the 101st floor of #2 World Trade back in the mid 80's.  It's hard to believe that it's been almost 7 years since "that day". 

I for one, will never forget or forgive!

[07 CVO]

Being Active Duty and a veteran of three tours supporting Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) It makes me feel like the nation has forgot the feeling they had when they first heard about the tragedies that happen to this country on Sept 11, 2001.  I blame a lot of the problem on the media, because as we all know they only want to sell the story and when they have nothing to sale they decide to bash the Administration who is in power at the time.  My favorite BS statement is "I support the troops, just not the WAR" well guess what.  The troops need your support for the war to win the war!

just my 2 cents

Mark

[NukeIT]

I find it amazing with just a few pictures I find myself in a time warped to that very moment, thinking the same thoughts, feeling the same feelings I was then... These things could never be forgotten....

[LabRat]

Thanks for posting the pictures. More people need to see them because I'm afraid too many have forgotten. There are too many groups that want to sweep this under the rug.

Never Forget and Never Forgive

[Firechief2]

I can't and won't forget !
The photo of the people clinging to the side of the building, knowing that there is little or no hope, leaves me speechless.
We should ALL wake up every morning thankfull that we get to suck in one more breath.
 

[FLYNDYNA]

Bravo to all who have commented here...this is the spirit this country is so desperately in need of! I don't understand why it has not become a National Day of Mourning. God Bless our troops, God Bless this country, and God Bless CVO Website! 

[LabRat]

Bravo to all who have commented here...this is the spirit this country is so desperately in need of! I don't understand why it has not become a National Day of Mourning. God Bless our troops, God Bless this country, and God Bless CVO Website! 

A National Day of Mourning would be appropriate, but never happen. There would be people that would be worried it would offend some groups.

[harleydawg57]

I agree--We will never forget-or forgive!
The only question I have is why haven't we raised nine kinds of hell for not capturing Osama Bin Laden?
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[Sean M Cary]

http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=106539

Back in 04 when I worked at the CENTCOM forward headquarter in Qatar we used to get gun loops like this daily...good stuff!

Some payback. 

Sean

[BigR55]

I had posted this some time ago in the thread about guns but it fits well here within this topic. Sorry for the repitition:

Subject: Gen Eisenhower Warned us

It is a matter of history that when Supreme
Commander of t he Allied Forces, General Dwight
Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he
ordered all possible photographs to be
taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to
be ushered through the camps and even made to bury
the dead.
 
He did this because he said in words to this effect:
"Get it all on record now - get the films -
get the witnesses -because somewhere down the track
of history some bastard will get up and say that this
never happened"  
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
 
In Memorial
 
This week, the UK removed The Holocaust from its
school curriculum because it "offended" the Muslim
population which claims it never occurred.
This is a frightening portent of the fear that is
gripping the world and how easily each country is
giving into it.
 
It is now more than 60 years after the Second
World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as
a memorial chain, in memory of the

six million Jews,
 
20 million Russians,
 
10 million Christians
 
and 1,900 Catholic priests
 
who were murdered,
massacred, raped, burned, starved
and humiliated while the German and Russian
peoples looked the other way!
 
Now, more than ever, with Iran ,
among others,claiming the Holocaust to be "a myth," it is
imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
 
This e-mail is intended to reach 400
million people worldwide!

How many years will it be before the attack on the
World Trade Center "never happened" because
it offends some Muslim in the U.S. 

[Bubba]

This world that we live in is a very small place, the WTC affected every one of us as you had or know someone that lost a life there.

To this day I can tell you my whole day of events basically minute by minute and for that reason

I'LL  NEVER  FORGET !

~bubba~