Remembering 9/11

[Mike Gosnell]

25 years later, I still remember that morning.

I was a third-grader at Windber Area Elementary in Windber, PA, just over 20 miles from Shanksville, where Flight 93 would go down.

Our class watched everything unfold on TV, and throughout the morning, we were gradually dismissed from school as our parents came to pick us up. At that age, I couldn't fully comprehend what was happening, but I knew something had changed forever.

Today, I remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost, the first responders who ran toward danger, and especially the 40 passengers and crew aboard Flight 93 who lost their lives so close to my home.

25 years later, we remember. Never forget.

[Sundancekid]

Feel bad for people involved but the unnecessary carnage that resulted is equally, if not more so, appalling. The destruction of Iraq should have never had to happen.

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[GoHorns1]

Was walking into a client office in downtown Houston when the 2nd plane hit.

[Oldest Horn]

I was in a dentist’s chair in midtown Manhattan. When I was checking out the dentist popped out and said some plane hit one of the towers, everyone kind of shrugged and thought it was some private plane gone awry. By the time I got back to our office the second plane hit and the tone got way worse. A couple of our traders were on the phone with guys in the towers who ended up not making it. Everything stopped cold. We watched the news for a few hours absolutely silent outside of some sobbing. Around noon we went a few blocks to the Red Cross to donate blood. The line was already around the block and they were sending people away. They started running trains to the burbs where every train was local and they just filled them up and sent them. We were with many people covered in dust from the collapse. 
 

As a town we were fortunate, less than two dozen died. And no one from our church or elementary school. But our church offered our cathedral to any nearby church who had capacity issues. 
 

I remember the entire region being in a walking coma for weeks. It wasn’t until Christmas season that things began to feel back to normal. 

[Hank South]

Talked to my daughter about it this morning. She was my age when it happened (5th grade). Hard to believe it's been 25 years. Never Forget 🇺🇸

[hookem1014]

I still can’t get myself to listen to the voicemails left by the victims to their family members without getting teary eyed. 

[General Grant]

My last semester at Texas. Couldn’t process hearing on radio those towers fell.  Remember all the bad info coming out. A car bomb at the state department per abc radio. 

Watching that night on tv and a police car driving down there and it looking like it was snowing from the ash. 

All those lives lost. All the heroes.  My one I always remember. Todd Beamer.  Jeremy Glick. “Let’s roll”