One Of The Days That Changed The World.

[jdmidwest]

As I watch the MSNBC footage of 6 years ago of a day that changed our world, I noticed that there had been no mention of it on here. Although we were far away from it all here in the Midwest, I am sure we all remember the events of the day locally and it has affected us all.

I was watching FOX News that morning while getting ready for work as always that morning as the events unfolded. When the second tower was hit, I called in and said I was going to be late. When I arrived later, we were watching FOX news most of the morning. The things I remember the most was the eerie silence that morning when I got to town and thru the day. There was almost no vehicle traffic. There were no planes or noise in the skies. Everyone was keeping track of events on TV. Then there was the gas gouging later on in the day. Everyone realized early that it was terrorism and we needed retaliation.

Then the Flags started flying and we United to right the wrong of that day.

Now, 6 years later, many want to stop short of finishing the JOB, while the mastermind still mocks us.

[flyfshn]

That was definitely a day I will not forget. Got to work about 7am and later another guy came in and said he heard a plane hit one of the towers. Continued working until others arrived and were talking about what they heard on the radio on the way in. Someone went in the break room, turned on the tv and the room was packed within a couple of minutes. It was very quiet, not a sound out of anyone as we watched in horror as we watched another plane fly into the 2nd tower. Was definitely difficult to concentrate. Left early and after dinner, took the family to church for a prayer service. Sad day!!

[Terry Beeson]

Well, I was at work in Monette, AR and walking toward my office when another manager met me in the hallway and said "Did you hear they bombed New York?" I thought it was a joke and waited on the punchline... but there was none...

I got online and found Yahoo financial news out of Asia (Japan I think) to be the only online news you could get. Got home that afternoon and started taking inventory of my arsenal... JUST in case....

[patfish]

I will NEVER FORGET. That is my neice's birthday. We were supposed to go to ChuckECheese. My sister said, "maybe we should just stay home." To which my brother-in-law and I replied, almost in unison. "There is no way that those bastards are going to ruin a 3 year old little girl's birthday! If we don't go, they win!"

We went to ChuckECheese, some friends met us there. My buddy Hippie Tim walks up and says to me, "We're under seige". I said, "I know, but hey, Bonnie(my neice) wants to catch some bluegill at your pond after we eat." We did go fishing, the kids had no real idea, but yes all adults commented on the eerie silence.

I call her every year and sing Happy Birthday to her. After all, its HER day.

NEVER FORGET..... EVER.

[Kayser]

I agree that this day should never be forgotten. I didn't fully realize what had happened, being in sixth grade, but I remember watching as the second plane crashed, and as the towers fell. And as I remember it, I can only think of "Today is a day which will live in infamy"

Rob

And does it seem to anyone else that the attack on the pentagon has been forgotten?

[MrDucky]

My mom was watching the news and i was getting ready for work , She said a plane just crashed into a building in New York . I asked her how strong her coffee was she said she wasn't kidding as i came into the living room the second plane hit . My mother was born and raised in New Jersey , Therefore alot of family there . My aunt Dianna worked in tower 2 for a large accounting firm . Thank god for my cousin getting chicken pox and Dianna not going to work that day . My uncle had 2 friends that were lost 1 a 1st responder and 1 a IT guy there doing PC maint

I love aviation , 09/11/01 i was living in Redlands , California 25 miles or so from Ontario International airport . The planes flew right overhead on approach . It was pretty erie not too see or hear an airplane for a week or so

I remember shortly after the attacks , seeing flags all over , everyone was being kind to each other and so very eagar to help a fellow person out , Now it seems alot have forgotten

[trout fanatic]

I used to own a store in Clinton, Mo, and it was on the way to open it that I heard of the attacks. I quickly entered the store and turned on the news just in time to see the second plane hit the tower. I never had a customer the entire day. The business next to me didn't either (it was a restaurant). They went under the next month. I hope this nasty matter is over in as short a time as possible but I fear there is much pain to be had yet. Having said that, I am a retired vet (Air Force) and dam proud of it. I mourn for the loss of innocent lives but proudly watch my brothers and sisters serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. My chest swells when I think of them.

[Crippled Caddis]

<Now, 6 years later, many want to stop short of finishing the JOB, while the mastermind still mocks us.>

While his facilitaters in Congress and media keep up the cowardly cry to retreat. His original precept was that Americans didn't have the backbone to endure a long struggle. The vocal spineless are doing all they can to prove him right.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things,”---the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.”--- John Stuart Mill

<Left early and after dinner, took the family to church for a prayer service.>

I think that is the most cogent of commentary on the difference between Chistianity and Islam. Beware the apologists who insist that Islam is a 'religion of Peace'.

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction".----Blaise Pascal

<Got home that afternoon and started taking inventory of my arsenal... JUST in case....>

The 2nd Amendment was created specifically that the American people should ALWAYS have the ability to defend themselves from enemies "from without or within".

"Our task of creating a Socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed." ----Sara Brady, Chairperson, Handgun Control

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."---Thomas Jefferson

<I will NEVER FORGET.----NEVER FORGET..... EVER.>

<I remember shortly after the attacks , seeing flags all over , everyone was being kind to each other and so very eagar to help a fellow person out , Now it seems alot have forgotten>

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."---Winston Churchill

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."----Aldous Huxley

[Al Agnew]

Not only America, but the whole civilized world was brought together on that day. Problem is that America and the whole civilized world has lost focus since then, thanks to the questionable linkage of Iraq with Al Qaeda, the mistakes most assuredly made in Iraq, and the sheer magnitude of the problem. After all, if radical Islam is the true face of the religion, we're talking about many many millions of people that are, to all intents and purposes, our enemies. And even if it is NOT the true face but just an extremely dangerous offshoot, it isn't weakening but growing. Not many people other than the radical Islamists want to think of this as a religious war, but on their part it certainly is, and that makes Americans uncomfortable. We had an ememy after 9/11, and that enemy had a face. Well, the face is still at large, and a lot of people are wondering why we haven't eliminated it yet. But the true enemy is not Osama but an ideology straight out of the worst of the Dark Ages, constantly fomenting hatred for America and indeed anybody who believes differently than they do. I fear the fact is that we are NOT capable of retaining focus when facing an enemy like this, an enemy without territory and unwilling or incapable of facing us in a stand-up fight, unless that enemy continues to attack ALL of us, and not just the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan while the rest of us go on with our merry little lives. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure we haven't seen the last major terrorist attack on American soil, and when it happens again we'll band together just like we did after 9/11. But that's an awfully steep price to pay for unity.