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In remembrance of those we lost on 9/11
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On this day... 23 years ago 246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights. 2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning tomorrow. 343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift. 60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for morning patrol. 8 paramedics went to sleep in preparation for the morning shift of saving lives. None of them saw past 10:00am Sept 11, 2001. In one single moment life may never be the same. As you live and enjoy the breaths you take today and tonight before you go to sleep in preparation for your life tomorrow, kiss the ones you love, snuggle a little tighter, and never take one second of your life for granted.

Never forget. Never forgotten.
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Easy to get distracted with these fires, appreciate this post!

I went the memorial several years ago. Amazing and intense experience. I will be taking my kids when they are old enough to understand the gravity of it all.
 

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Never will, but unfortunately the memory seems to have faded into oblivion for most.
 

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Easy to get distracted with these fires, appreciate this post!

I went the memorial several years ago. Amazing and intense experience. I will be taking my kids when they are old enough to understand the gravity of it all.

Agreed. Thank you for the reminder.

Being retired, I hadn't noticed the date yet. It's impossible not to remember, as soon as you see/hear nine eleven.

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There is no doubt countless men and women spent their last minutes on September 11, 2001 selflessly helping others around them, performing heroic deeds that exemplified the resolve and courage most of us possess but are seldom called upon to use.

One group of those unlikely heros, Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, and Jeremy Glick, were passengers on United Flight 93. When they discovered through GTE AirFone calls to people on the ground their hijacked plane was intended to be used as a deadly missile to kill, these men calmly formulated a plan to storm the aircraft's cockpit, kill the hijackers, and safely land the plane.

Snippets of Todd Beamer's courage were later revealed by recordings of his conversations with GTE service representative Lisa Jefferson. The plane's cockpit voice recorder captured sounds of the violent confrontation with the hijackers, and the decision by those criminals to break off their plans to crash into the White House.

Instead the aircraft struck the ground, inverted and traveling at a speed near 600 MPH. The fragments of the plane were buried deep in the Earth, the engines found over 60' below the surface. Shattered bits of human remains were collected and identified where possible, but the families received very little that could be given a proper burial.

The nearly 3,000 people that boarded aircraft or went to work in or near the WTC complex, Pentagon, and were on United Flight 93 on September 11, died horribly. We remember them, the treachery of the hijackers, and the naive unpreparedness of the nation against organized evil.

We remember Todd Beamer's immortal words..."Let's roll!" We also remember the admonition that should unite our country and provide a determination which focuses on justice and the destruction of the forces which attacked our homeland..."Never forget!"

Don't allow that to happen.
 
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There is no doubt countless men and women spent their last minutes on September 11, 2001 selflessly helping others around them, performing heroic deeds that exemplified the resolve and courage most of us possess but are seldom called upon to use.

One group of those unlikely heros, Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, and Jeremy Glick, were passengers on United Flight 93. When they discovered through GTE AirFone calls to people on the ground their hijacked plane was intended to be used as a deadly missile to kill, these men calmly formulated a plan to storm the aircraft's cockpit, kill the hijackers, and safely land the plane.

Snippets of Todd Beamer's courage were later revealed by recordings of his conversations with GTE service representative Lisa Jefferson. The plane's cockpit voice recorder captured sounds of the violent confrontation with the hijackers, and the decision by those criminals to break off their plans to crash into the White House.

Instead the aircraft struck the ground, inverted and traveling at a speed near 600 MPH. The fragments of the plane were buried deep in the Earth, the engines found over 60' below the surface. Shattered bits of human remains were collected and identified where possible, but the families received very little that could be given a proper burial.

The nearly 3,000 people that boarded aircraft or went to work in or near the WTC complex on September 11 died horribly. We remember them, the treachery of the hijackers, and the naive unpreparedness of the nation against organized evil.

We remember Todd Beamer's immortal words..."Let's roll!" We also remember the admonition that should unite our country and provide a determination which focuses on justice and the destruction of the forces which attacked our homeland..."Never forget!"

Don't allow that to happen.
We visited the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville this summer on our road trip very touching and they have the phone recordings of many of the flight attendants and passengers. I pointed out to my Wife the puddles of tears on the floor beneath the listening phones😢😢😢
 

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I remember my wife waking me up that day and seeing everything happening. It was a very sad day
 

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We went to the Diamondbacks game today. They did a great job remembering 9-11.

There were a couple of twinks sitting behind us, more interested in rubbing on each other than the game. Whatever, to each their own. The D’Backs had a local cop sing God Bless America, he was really good. It wasn’t until after the game and we were half way to the car, that my wife told me that the twinks were singing “land that I hate” instead of “land that I love” during God Bless America. She didn’t tell me for a good reason because that would not have gone over well, not in a violent way but I would have wanted to talk to them about why they felt that way. Well, if they were assholes, it might have gone sideways.

She also shared with me, she spun around, gave them the finger and they left quickly after. lol

Never Forget.
 

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This is the most well put together series I've seen on the events of that day. Heartbreaking...

 

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We went to the Diamondbacks game today. They did a great job remembering 9-11.

There were a couple of twinks sitting behind us, more interested in rubbing on each other than the game. Whatever, to each their own. The D’Backs had a local cop sing God Bless America, he was really good. It wasn’t until after the game and we were half way to the car, that my wife told me that the twinks were singing “land that I hate” instead of “land that I love” during God Bless America. She didn’t tell me for a good reason because that would not have gone over well, not in a violent way but I would have wanted to talk to them about why they felt that way. Well, if they were assholes, it might have gone sideways.

She also shared with me, she spun around, gave them the finger and they left quickly after. lol

Never Forget.
Stupid should hurt. ;)
 
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