A Day to Remember

[shdwlkr]

For my parents it was December 7,1941 and they never forgot what they were doing that day all of their lives.
For me it has to be September 11, 2001
I remember where I was, what I was doing and watching my fellow Americans paying the price for being in America and in the wrong place.
I remember being in the plane just after the skies were open to fly and our pilot took us as close as he could so we could see from the sky what the world trade center looked like he even banked the plane so we got a very clear view all 30 of us passengers on a 737 jet.
I hope and pray today is not a repeat of that sad day for America.
God bless each and everyone of us this day and that we remember America is a God fearing Nation.

[southpaw]

I was a senior in high school. I was walking in he hall between classes when kids were saying that they flew a plane into one of the towers. I thought it was a joke untill I got to class our teacher (also my football coach) had the news on and was trying to get ahold of his brother. then the second plane hit. I just sat there in disbelief hoping that my oldest sister, her husband and baby girl were safe. They lived not one whole block away from the towers and saw the second plane hit. They have since moved back here.

I will never forget that day or all the HEROES that stepped up and did what needed to be done.

Jerry Jr.

[slide]

I was watching Good Morning America and saw the whole thing unfold. Stayed in front of the tv all day. It didn't seem real. Terrible! Being from Oklahoma had to go through the Murrah building bombing also. I'll bet God has a hard time watching this stuff. There has to be a special place in hell for those people who devised these plans or were involved in any way!

[WILCO]

I remember where I was, what I was doing and watching my fellow Americans paying the price for being in America and in the wrong place.

Same here. I was home, got a phone call and turned on the tube. Watched and yelled as the towers fell. Everytime I see a jetliner, I think of those that perished. Still hurts after ten years.......

[shdwlkr]

I also watched on the TV at work and when I went home. At home I cried so much for those we lost and also thinking of a co-worker who was Muslim and was so scared we had to go to his house and escort him to work and his wife to get food for the family they were so scared for their lives because they were Muslim. You never ran into a kinder more gentle couple than these people and even at this time they were telling their kids to take another life was wrong.
I am not a friend of a terrorist be they home grown or foreign, I have a right to exist as does everyone else on this planet and if your beliefs are different than mine and we can live peacefully then you have met my expectations.
I try so hard to find the good in everyone I come in contact with sometimes I am wrong and things go down another road but it is the other person who forces that change not me nor will I ever be the aggressor as that road will one day put one in a very dangerous chair called judgement day.

[wcp4570]

I have 2 other such events in my life that are burned into memory along with 9/11/01. The first is the day JFK was assinated, I was in a High School English class. The other was the day I boarded a plane for Viet Nam and left behind my bride of only 14 month. This one was by far the most difficult and painful for me. As I look back now and realize a little over 42 years have passed and it seems like less, life is shot, we need to make every day count and thank God for blessings he has afforded us.

wcp

[shdwlkr]

wcp4570
Funny you mention JFK and his assassination I was in study hall and one of the kids I knew had just taken out the book how to assassinated the president. He could not get rid of that book fast enough. We laughed at his antics but also mourned the loss of our President, he had his faults and one of them was his deep love of this country and I never have forgotten that part of that man mostly likely never will because there have been so few since that cared that much about America.

[wcp4570]

Its funny what some characters do. Times were different back then, everyone loved America. Seems like love for our country has really gone down the gutter for so many in our country these days. I spent 20 years in the USAF and retired Dec 89 and don't care for those that bad mouth our country. We are blessed to live in the greatest country in the world.

wcp

[Jetwrench]

I was working on a Boeing 727 LS LE SLAT, # 3 I think, when the first tower got hit. I also could walk to the spot I was standing at in high school when Regan was shot. It is a shame things like that happen, just no logical reason for it, but I guess only a fool looks for logic in crazy people. Jetwrench

[PB234]

on 9/11 my wife as on an airplane flying cross country early in the morning. i went home from work and watched the TV and thankful she was OK. Amazed it too so long to get the SOB who ordered it. Bless all of the brave men who made it happen.

[PB234]

Geeze, I just reread this and should have written bless all of the brave men and women who ended the person who ordered the attack. I know you all know what I meant but just didn't like how it read.