For 9/11

Amen brother.
Well put. I am glad that someon else remembered the anniversary.

Yeah, that was a bad day and that kind of thing will never be normal to me.

I just watched a very powerful 9/11 documentary on Netflix called "A Good American." A must see for anyone who lost family or friends on 9/11.
http://youtu.be/kbVfub-L5Rs

I can imagine how horrible was that experience for majority of American citizens

A day when madness shook the world. May it never be forgotten.

What a shit day that was. I was working a Counterdrug Taskforce Mission in WA at the time. I had friends out the door within 72 hours of that and in harm's way.
Hats off to those first responders and all service members who put themselves in harm's way for this country.

I was on the plant floor when word of the first plane came across the radio.
For some reason we decided to turn on the TV in the conference room we normally only used for training videos.
Seconds later we watched live as the second plan hit. That's when the world changed.
My youngest son was just a kid then.

He got out of the army last year after serving six, with two deployments. Both "over there"...

They say you never forget where you were during world changing events and that is so true.
I had done some shopping and gone to the Star & Garter pub in Falmouth (Cornwall) to unwind with a jar or two. Immediately I walked in I sensed something unusual was going on. There were about thirty customers in there yet there was total silence, just the TV which every eye was glued to.
A pal whispered in my ear the basics of what was going on and I too became glued to the TV...then moments later the second plane struck.
A truly horrible day and one I shall never forget. Such a pointless waste of many good lives.
Regards,
Jay.

I was on a ladder with my head in the attic of a new construction project, when my wife texted me, THEY BOMBED THE FUCKING PENTAGON! She was at work too, and hadn't heard or seen anything else yet.

Anthony, I stand with you and your statement. Deniz just doesn't get it. At all.

Anthony, Agreed. I saw that post and decided not to engage.
Ash captured my response.

Was haveing a Boat Lift installed in my Bayside Condo, went in for a cup of coffee, TV on, BOOM, newscaster said that was a horrible accident, I thought that was no accident. I knocked off Lift crew, herded them in my downstairs den and told them, watch we"re at war. I agree some people will never get it, but unfortunately Soldiers get it.

Let you tell me my story of that terrible day ...
I was pottering about the house when my wife called me with some urgency to come see the TV which had broken into live coverage from NYC. I stood there, hoping it was a terrible accident, but in my gut I knew that it wasn't. When the second plane appeared I knew it for a fact.
We were booked to go to NYC to visit a friend who lived in Staten Island. The tickets were in early October, a little less than a month later. We wondered if the trip was now possible. As it happened we were able to go. We spent a lot of time in Manhatten, and could see the work being done to remove and sift through the hundreds of tons of rubble and steel. The remains were still smoking.
The thing that sticks with me most from that week is how ordinary people wanted to tell their stories. Back then, just weeks afterwards, the Brits seemed to be your best friends in the world (Blair had appeared in Congress, and the US anthem had been played at the Changing of the Guard) - people responded to that and thanked us for coming and listening as they told us their experiences of that day.
I went back to NYC just a couple of years ago - the first time since 2001 - and went to the intensely moving monument which now occupies the site.
Of course, Brits were not strangers to terrorism, even then, with IRA atrocities in our recent history. (And it must be said that there was a lot of anger in the UK then about the US police tolerating people collecting for the IRA in the bars of NYC and Boston).
Nothing on the scale of NYC though. It was a wake-up call to the world.
Mike

Indeed,This was the first and utmost wake-up call to the world,,