Remembering 9/11

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3 minutes ago, MikeBloomberg2020 said:

Carrie from the Bloomberg Campaign here! Thanks to all the first responders and others who died at the World Trade Center. We thank you for your sacrifice. It is on this day this year that we remember what you all stood for, and for the freedoms that make America the envy of the world. New York is a better place because of you!

 

Whuh?  

[MikeBloomberg2020 20]

For the record, Mike was *not* mayor when all this happened. He wanted me to make that perfectly clear.

-CZ

[4th and 5 4910]

My mother witnessed it from a few blocks away in Manhattan.

My father was frequently in the Pentagon, but was not at the time.

The terror is in indelibly etched in my memory.

 

[Stunns38 3357]

I may have posted this before but my old office(4 blocks to the North) faced the WTC and many of my old co-workers saw the whole thing from those windows. One former employee (retired before I started) saw the first plane hit , and screamed in agony because his daughter worked on one of the upper flowers of the North Tower. Of course she didn’t make it. It really hits home when your colleagues were directly affected by it.

[Rip76 4909]

I posted this back in the Hornfans days.  
 

I won’t get in to the whole morning but…. I had hired a driver (Chemical Transportation) about 6 months prior to 9/11.  (This is in the Houston area.)  His name is Frank Barbella.  Cool guy, didn’t need the money, he just wanted something to do.  His wife was a pretty well off Psychologist, and he was just bored.

That morning he went on with his day and about an hour after the 2nd plane hit, he pulled up back in the yard and ran into my office wanting to watch the TV.  He had received a call from his sister (who lived in New York), telling him what had happened.  We also tried to call all the drivers to tell them to come back to the yard.

She told him what had happened and their brother was a port authority property manager.

This is his page.

http://obits.al.com/sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=126860&location=2&psl=1

Frank never came back to work, and I heard from him once after that.

 

[mdmost 42775]

If you get a chance, watch the great 60 Minutes special about the 9/11 firefighters. The final segment with the kids of those who gave their lives on 9/11 who are now themselves firefighters is so amazing. Bravery runs in their family.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/september-11-fdny-world-trade-center-60-minutes-video-2024-09-08/

Edited September 9 by mdmost

[Herbie Hancock 7302]

I would challenge you to look up Captain Patrick J. Brown of 3 Truck and Robert “Bobby” King Jr. of the Bowery Boys Engine 33. D

[wild_turkey 3150]

If you get a chance, watch the great 60 Minutes special about the 9/11 firefighters. The final segment with the kids of those who gave their lives on 9/11 who are no themselves firefighters is so amazing. Bravery runs in their family.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/september-11-fdny-world-trade-center-60-minutes-video-2024-09-08/

Was this a new episode on 60 Minutes? I skipped over it tonight because I felt like I had seen it before.

[WhatTheBuck 28700]

13 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

Was this a new episode on 60 Minutes? I skipped over it tonight because I felt like I had seen it before.

No. It was billed as “New” in my guide but I’d seen it before. Maybe Scott Pelley shot a new intro for it but all the documentary footage including the firemen’s kids I saw last year.

You just can’t get over the crashing sound of falling bodies landing on the metal roof over the firefighters at street level. Watching events unfold live we saw that there were some people jumping from the towers and were horrified. But we didn’t know how many people were jumping. There are see a lot more than we realized and during a portion of that video you can hear them one after another.

Here’s the doc minus the part at the end about the children of fallen firefighters who joined the FDNY afterward.

 

[Saint Tacky 1609]

13 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

Was this a new episode on 60 Minutes? I skipped over it tonight because I felt like I had seen it before.

9/11: The FDNY | 60 Minutes

@ 31:00 is the segment with the kids of firefighters who died on 9/11. 

['stache 21744]

This was OSU’s the first game after 9/11. I was there with the marching band. In the second half they went back to normal and their fake soldiers tried to steal our flag. One of our male cheerleaders caught them and ran them off. The fake army drill instructor started yelling at the dumb aggy probably for getting caught not for trying because we were told to in advance to watch our shit because they always try to steal something from the opponent. We also mocked the aggy shit shovler during their gestapo march. The stripping was cool though.

[InkaUtexas 25426]

Whats the new PGA/LIV/Saudi deal?

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19074]

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[Trey3216 15325]

I don’t care what anyone thinks of him, this was a fucking powerful moment….

 

 

[GopherRock 1765]

 

[fattyflattie 4636]

On 9/11/2024 at 11:57 AM, 'stache said:

This was OSU’s the first game after 9/11. I was there with the marching band. In the second half they went back to normal and their fake soldiers tried to steal our flag. One of our male cheerleaders caught them and ran them off. The fake army drill instructor started yelling at the dumb aggy probably for getting caught not for trying because we were told to in advance to watch our shit because they always try to steal something from the opponent. We also mocked the aggy shit shovler during their gestapo march. The stripping was cool though.

I was at that game.  About 10 rows back on the 49, in a friends seats. 

[Saint Tacky 1609]

20 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

I don’t care what anyone thinks of him, this was a fucking powerful moment….

 

 

... in Iraq?

I didn't know this until recently, but there were three Texas Exes killed on 9/11. Two men perished in the towers and a woman died on Flight 93. The woman was an ADPi from Houston Stratford. It only took me 23 years to figure this out.

[Deej 76511]

On 9/11/2024 at 10:57 AM, 'stache said:

The stripping was cool though

 

[Biff Tannen 45477]

On 9/11/2024 at 8:04 PM, Trey3216 said:

I don’t care what anyone thinks of him, this was a fucking powerful moment….

 

 

101X (I think) did a mash up with this and Metallica's "Don't Tread on Me" that they played for a few weeks after 9/11.  It was fucking awesome.

[WhatTheBuck 28700]

On 9/11/2024 at 9:04 PM, Trey3216 said:

I don’t care what anyone thinks of him, this was a fucking powerful moment….

 

 

Too bad he failed to deliver on that promise.