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Post by busymom on Sept 12, 2015 11:38:20 GMT -5
We own the 9/11 Documentary, the one that the training of a new fireman was supposed to be the focus, but then it changed to actual film footage of 9/11, including of the firemen INSIDE the World Trade Center as the towers collapsed. It's awful that so many were lost, yet, it's a miracle that so many survived.
The part of the documentary that haunts me is when people begin to jump, & you can actually hear their bodies hitting the roof of the lobby area where the firemen are at. God Bless those victims! I remember watching the events as they happened on the t.v., but this documentary makes you feel like you were on site.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 12, 2015 11:51:32 GMT -5
Father Mychal Judge, O.F.M., officially, the first certified death of the attacks on 9/11, served as a chaplain to the New York City Fire Department.
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Post by mmhmm on Sept 12, 2015 12:34:26 GMT -5
I post something about this almost every year. Some of the people on the planes were customers who I saw that morning before they left Boston. Some of the pregnant widows were/are customers. I see some of the kids who never knew their fathers. I can't even think about it most of the time without tearing up. I can't watch anything related. It is and was so close to home. And all these years later, the thing that always gets to me the most and devastates me when I think about it is how, with the planes coming out of Boston, how the talk was how we would help deal with the survivors. About how they would be MedFlighted here. Our ER's would be ready. And there were no survivors to transport. I forgot about this til now. my former engineering Director lost his sister-in-law on one of those flights leaving Boston. for the locals, she was one of the TJX family (I think they lost 5 or 6 people) but the chilling thing for her widower is that he had been an air traffic controller. he was also working that morning, and was clearly able to figure out what was going to happen well in advance. he had been a couple years away from retirement, but his colleagues all combined to donate their vacation time so that he could just retire early. 9/11 was his last day on the job. How sad for that family, and all the others who lost loved ones. That kind of traumatic, unexpected death is so very difficult to deal with. I hope all are finding it possible to work through the grief and go on with their lives. They'll never forget. Neither will the rest of us. I only hope the families can find peace.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 12:41:25 GMT -5
I can't watch the documentaries. I can't watch the movies. I intentionally don't turn the news on so I don't hear the names called. One day, I hope the memories will fade enough that I can. When ever you make peace with the events of 9/11, may I recommend the movie, Flight 93 ? I avoided watching the movie for a long time because I was of the opinion a movie could not do justice to what happened on that flight. I was wrong. A harrowing movie but well worth the watch. You are very proud of the passengers through out the flight's events. I also have a hard time watching some of those but I think I have seen most of them now in bits and pieces. After the horror of it all I always go back to feeling so proud. Proud of the people that fought back on that flight, proud of the people of New York who just stepped up and did what they had to do as awful as that had to be in many cases, and of the country as a whole who helped in any way they could. I wish we could keep the unity we felt then without the tragedy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 15:42:59 GMT -5
"I understand your feelings, but our children and grandchildren have to see it to understand the world of today. Many of my grandchildren are either too young, or were born after this date." Or this happens
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