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20 years ago…In remembrance

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

11 September 2001. Did that day change you?

I know this day may have caused some 9/11 fatigue amongst some of you. This is the first time I am speaking of it since that day.

At this time, 20 years ago, I was getting ready to leave the office, having just sent a report to several recipients by email. 2 of the recipients never had the chance to revert to me on it.

Tomorrow, I will pay my respects to the two acquaintances I had met 36 days before that fateful day and who I was supposed to have met again in another 15 days.

To this day, I am haunted by their laughter and smiles during our lunch. I cannot equate that with the terror they must have felt when they knew they were beyond saving on that day.

Tomorrow, at 1.46pm in London, 20 years ago, I was at work, sitting in a conference room in the office, on a conference call with colleagues in the Far East and New York (Connecticut and Manhattan). The NY colleagues had come into the office early for it. We were about 15 minutes into the call when the colleagues in Manhattan said ‘Woah! What was that?’ They looked out of their window and one said ‘Guys, there’s a huge fire at WTC. I think it was an explosion.’ We didn’t think anything of it as such and carried on as we were.

Ten minutes or so later, the announcement came that a plane had crashed into the building. We all turned on the television sets in our offices and followed the news. The meeting was abandoned in order for our Manhattan colleagues to leave the area.

In London, it was the end of lunchtime and our colleagues were back at their desks, readying themselves to resume activity at 2.00pm. Those of us in the conference room went out onto the main floor where there was most activity and the news is followed very closely as it affects the business of the company. All the television sets in the room were on the live news.

There was some concern for friends and acquaintances in 2 WTC but, thank goodness, that wasn’t the tower that was hit and they were already evacuating it. Some colleagues were speaking on the phone to acquaintances in 1 WTC that they had regular contact with to check on them. There was already talk of how those in the upper levels of the building were unable to leave and waiting, patiently, for the fire to be put out. All was still quite calm. It was merely a matter of a light aircraft flying into the building. Nothing to worry about. The firemen will be there soon.

I still remember, vividly, the sound of the second plane hitting 2 WTC; that smack, that thud and the boom that followed as we watched it live. There were gasps and cries of astonishment but in an instant, absolute silence as it dawned on everyone what had happened and what was happening. It was the most deafening and sickening silence I had ever heard. I felt numb and shaken to the core. It lasted a mere few seconds but they are moments that will never leave me.

On that day, some of the people my colleagues spoke to on the phone would perish along with the buildings in which they were trapped and our World changed irrevocably.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Still to this day we cannot imagine the sheer horror those poor people went through ..

I just hope people don't start posting Conspiracy Theory crap on here and keep it to remembering the victims ...

Excellent post OP

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That day shaped my life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember exactly where i was when i heard that a plane had crashed into one of the towers, i was in my car driving home from work, driving through the village next to where i live, i was so shocked that i pulled over into a small layby for a while. When i got home i put the tv on with live coverage and i saw the 2nd plane crash and then a bit later the towers collapsed. It was terrible.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Still to this day we cannot imagine the sheer horror those poor people went through ..

I just hope people don't start posting Conspiracy Theory crap on here and keep it to remembering the victims ...

Excellent post OP "

Thanks. It is about the victims and those they left behind.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"

That day shaped my life."

How has it shaped?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I remember exactly where i was when i heard that a plane had crashed into one of the towers, i was in my car driving home from work, driving through the village next to where i live, i was so shocked that i pulled over into a small layby for a while. When i got home i put the tv on with live coverage and i saw the 2nd plane crash and then a bit later the towers collapsed. It was terrible."

Many of us remember where we were but the feelings we felt return each time we see those images, don’t they? My stomach still sinks and my knees buckle a little.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember that day well. I was on operational tour in Omagh sat in the ARF room watching the news. We were all just silent and sort of wondering how it would effect is in the UK. But it did… I was 26 and a serving soldier and I was in Afghan working less than 4 years ago. I met some amazing Afghan people who wanted to change the way the country was. Make it prosperous for all and education and health care to.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"11 September 2001. Did that day change you?

I know this day may have caused some 9/11 fatigue amongst some of you. This is the first time I am speaking of it since that day.

At this time, 20 years ago, I was getting ready to leave the office, having just sent a report to several recipients by email. 2 of the recipients never had the chance to revert to me on it.

Tomorrow, I will pay my respects to the two acquaintances I had met 36 days before that fateful day and who I was supposed to have met again in another 15 days.

To this day, I am haunted by their laughter and smiles during our lunch. I cannot equate that with the terror they must have felt when they knew they were beyond saving on that day.

Tomorrow, at 1.46pm in London, 20 years ago, I was at work, sitting in a conference room in the office, on a conference call with colleagues in the Far East and New York (Connecticut and Manhattan). The NY colleagues had come into the office early for it. We were about 15 minutes into the call when the colleagues in Manhattan said ‘Woah! What was that?’ They looked out of their window and one said ‘Guys, there’s a huge fire at WTC. I think it was an explosion.’ We didn’t think anything of it as such and carried on as we were.

Ten minutes or so later, the announcement came that a plane had crashed into the building. We all turned on the television sets in our offices and followed the news. The meeting was abandoned in order for our Manhattan colleagues to leave the area.

In London, it was the end of lunchtime and our colleagues were back at their desks, readying themselves to resume activity at 2.00pm. Those of us in the conference room went out onto the main floor where there was most activity and the news is followed very closely as it affects the business of the company. All the television sets in the room were on the live news.

There was some concern for friends and acquaintances in 2 WTC but, thank goodness, that wasn’t the tower that was hit and they were already evacuating it. Some colleagues were speaking on the phone to acquaintances in 1 WTC that they had regular contact with to check on them. There was already talk of how those in the upper levels of the building were unable to leave and waiting, patiently, for the fire to be put out. All was still quite calm. It was merely a matter of a light aircraft flying into the building. Nothing to worry about. The firemen will be there soon.

I still remember, vividly, the sound of the second plane hitting 2 WTC; that smack, that thud and the boom that followed as we watched it live. There were gasps and cries of astonishment but in an instant, absolute silence as it dawned on everyone what had happened and what was happening. It was the most deafening and sickening silence I had ever heard. I felt numb and shaken to the core. It lasted a mere few seconds but they are moments that will never leave me.

On that day, some of the people my colleagues spoke to on the phone would perish along with the buildings in which they were trapped and our World changed irrevocably."

Gave me the shivers reading that. Truly devastating

And this is the reason we need to live our best lives and experience all we can because you just do not know what is around the corner

Much love to you and your colleagues, today will be very sombre I feel

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By *rMojoRisinMan
over a year ago

Sheffield

I’d hurt my back and was lying in a comfortable position on the living room floor. One of my pals rang me to tell me. I wasn’t watching the TV. He told me to put it on and I couldn’t believe what I saw.

I can’t imagine the horror of that day, when will we as humans learn there has to be a better way to coexist.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I remember that day well. I was on operational tour in Omagh sat in the ARF room watching the news. We were all just silent and sort of wondering how it would effect is in the UK. But it did… I was 26 and a serving soldier and I was in Afghan working less than 4 years ago. I met some amazing Afghan people who wanted to change the way the country was. Make it prosperous for all and education and health care to.

"

Must have been scary knowing what was coming and that you may be sent out there. 20 years later and we’re back where we were with Afghanistan. I can’t imagine what you must make of that.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


".

Gave me the shivers reading that. Truly devastating

And this is the reason we need to live our best lives and experience all we can because you just do not know what is around the corner

Much love to you and your colleagues, today will be very sombre I feel "

It is. None of us thought there was anything exceptional about each day we spoke or emailed. I couldn’t remove them from my address book or their emails for years, until the company did it in system upgrade.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I’d hurt my back and was lying in a comfortable position on the living room floor. One of my pals rang me to tell me. I wasn’t watching the TV. He told me to put it on and I couldn’t believe what I saw.

I can’t imagine the horror of that day, when will we as humans learn there has to be a better way to coexist.

"

It’s made worse by the futility of the ‘war’ since then; nothing has been achieved, it seems.

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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

I think that today is genuinely one to think and reflect on what happened, those that died and how it has irrevocably changed our world.

I give my heartfelt condolences to those that lost loved ones or people that they knew, even in passing.

A powerful passage OP, I’m sorry for your loss and you honour their memories with your thoughts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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That day shaped my life.

How has it shaped?"

Like a love heart . Life is far too short.

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By *ed VoluptaWoman
over a year ago

Wirral.

Powerful post, OP.

I feel for you and I grieve for them. I will never understand the utter evil done that day but the love & selflessness of those that were there & tried to help will remind me that there is more love than hate in this world.

There just has to be .

Remember your friends, OP. Remember their laughs & carefree silliness. Honour them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I remember that day well. I was on operational tour in Omagh sat in the ARF room watching the news. We were all just silent and sort of wondering how it would effect is in the UK. But it did… I was 26 and a serving soldier and I was in Afghan working less than 4 years ago. I met some amazing Afghan people who wanted to change the way the country was. Make it prosperous for all and education and health care to.

Must have been scary knowing what was coming and that you may be sent out there. 20 years later and we’re back where we were with Afghanistan. I can’t imagine what you must make of that.

To be fair at the time we didn’t really know what would happen my first tour was 2003 and 2006.

I’m a strong believer that it wasn’t all in vein but ask any soldier who served on the ground thinking that the Afghans could stand alone without being bolstered by the west they laugh at you and tell you no.

I don’t feel proud about surviving Afghan, I feel

Proud to have served with friends that didn’t though. It’s a strange one for me, Ive served in lots of places NI, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan and worked security in many others. I think today shouldn’t be about what’s happened in Afghanistan, but it should just be about remembering the innocent people that just went to work that day and didn’t return home to their loved ones. And today should be about remembering those and the extremely brave emergency services that died alongside them while trying to save them.

But that’s just my personal view and not having a go at anyone else’s views "

I didn’t know any Americans prior to 9-11 and I didn’t know anyone directly affected by it. But since then I e a fair few American friends I’ve met through the army and through work. Some like yourself that were directly affected by it. And my heart goes out to all of you that have

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By *opinovMan
over a year ago

Point Nemo, Cumbria

I recall exactly what I was doing that day, and crying for the sheer human tragedy of it as it unfolded.

I also recall Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Blair et al hijacking the 2977 victims' memory to stage their shocking and awful war couched in their stomach wrenching bullshit sanctimony, in which they made $millions (in Cheney's case $billions from defense related contracts via Halliburton) from the million+ innocent Iraqi civilian deaths that followed. They are also victims in all this - their deaths celebrated, rather than mourned, in an orgy of self-righteous jingoism that persists to this day despite being entirely unrelated to anything that happened on 9/11 or WMDs or anything at all beyond those lucrative defense contracts.

The difference is, too, that whilst the 2977 WTC victims have been seen to have been avenged, nobody has faced justice for those million+ Iraqis. On the contrary, there are people in jail right now for the 'crime' of exposing US war crimes in Iraq. Indeed, I fully expect the very mention of them will be seen by some as defiling the much more sacred memory of the 2977.

Personally, I mourn them all.

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

I couldn't give a flying monkey's arsehole about the politics today. This day isn't for debate. It isn't for conspiracy theories and speculation.

This day is for remembering. For reflection. For the unending, crushing grief that started 20 years ago and isn't allowed to ever end.

This day is for the thousands upon thousands of people directly affected by the actions of a tiny minority. Some will never recover. Some have never recovered. And some never heard the voice of those they love ever again.

So don't be the voice that we hear, talking about the politics, the what if and the what cane afterwards. We don't need that. What we need is your empathy, your support and to be allowed to grieve without the rest of the crap.

Please. Let us have this day.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"I couldn't give a flying monkey's arsehole about the politics today. This day isn't for debate. It isn't for conspiracy theories and speculation.

This day is for remembering. For reflection. For the unending, crushing grief that started 20 years ago and isn't allowed to ever end.

This day is for the thousands upon thousands of people directly affected by the actions of a tiny minority. Some will never recover. Some have never recovered. And some never heard the voice of those they love ever again.

So don't be the voice that we hear, talking about the politics, the what if and the what cane afterwards. We don't need that. What we need is your empathy, your support and to be allowed to grieve without the rest of the crap.

Please. Let us have this day."

Exactly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I couldn't give a flying monkey's arsehole about the politics today. This day isn't for debate. It isn't for conspiracy theories and speculation.

This day is for remembering. For reflection. For the unending, crushing grief that started 20 years ago and isn't allowed to ever end.

This day is for the thousands upon thousands of people directly affected by the actions of a tiny minority. Some will never recover. Some have never recovered. And some never heard the voice of those they love ever again.

So don't be the voice that we hear, talking about the politics, the what if and the what cane afterwards. We don't need that. What we need is your empathy, your support and to be allowed to grieve without the rest of the crap.

Please. Let us have this day."

Exactly this… unfortunately people feel the need to have there say instead of allowing people to remember and mourn.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

It’s a day never to be forgotten for so many reasons.

This week has been filled with discussions with my son, who wanted to understand what happened now he’s old enough

Our family and others we know were lucky, so many others weren’t.

Never forget

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By *opinovMan
over a year ago

Point Nemo, Cumbria

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By *iBBWLondonWoman
over a year ago

London

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By *opinovMan
over a year ago

Point Nemo, Cumbria

I'm not debating or indulging in conspiracy theory or speculating. I'm merely stating that I mourn all the victims - all of them everywhere equally... the 2977 at ground zero together with the other million+ whom so many still don't give a flying monkey's arsehole about today.

There's room for them all in our hearts and, by including them all today, nobody is taking anything from you or me... and, trust me, I mourn them every bit as much as you do.

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By *r.SJMan
over a year ago

Wellingborough


"I couldn't give a flying monkey's arsehole about the politics today. This day isn't for debate. It isn't for conspiracy theories and speculation.

This day is for remembering. For reflection. For the unending, crushing grief that started 20 years ago and isn't allowed to ever end.

This day is for the thousands upon thousands of people directly affected by the actions of a tiny minority. Some will never recover. Some have never recovered. And some never heard the voice of those they love ever again.

So don't be the voice that we hear, talking about the politics, the what if and the what cane afterwards. We don't need that. What we need is your empathy, your support and to be allowed to grieve without the rest of the crap.

Please. Let us have this day.

Exactly this… unfortunately people feel the need to have there say instead of allowing people to remember and mourn. "

Politics isn't people and it should never be the case.

We all have opinions and views on the what's, why fors and reasons things are done but a tragedy such as this should never be darkened by the murky waters of politics. It's irrelevant to those that lost their lives and the lives affected and will never alter the aftermath and consequence of such mindless terror but the loss always will.

It should only be for those we love, those that lost and the memory and empathy for them all.

Stick the politics, remember the people.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The day that chanced so many lives -

I very much hope nothing like this will every happen again

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Thank you all for sharing your sympathies, prayers, thoughts, feelings and experience with me. It’s the first time I’ve spoken of and shared my feelings and thoughts of that day and the first time I haven’t felt alone and needing to hide or deny how deeply it impacted me.

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

And still people say it was an inside job for me the most distressing image was the poor souls leaping from the building knowing it was their only option

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I remember exactly where i was when i heard that a plane had crashed into one of the towers, i was in my car driving home from work, driving through the village next to where i live, i was so shocked that i pulled over into a small layby for a while. When i got home i put the tv on with live coverage and i saw the 2nd plane crash and then a bit later the towers collapsed. It was terrible.

Many of us remember where we were but the feelings we felt return each time we see those images, don’t they? My stomach still sinks and my knees buckle a little."

Yes, same here

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