9/11 Tribute

[Bob]

I know I may get major flak for this, but I don't want to watch videos of 9/11 anymore. It's hard to get it out of your head. The best way we can honor the victims is an appropriate memorial, and to put those buildings up again.....now!

 

[savvytangerine]

I want to thank everyone for sharing. Sometimes it just seems so far away - like a blurry bad dream.

In some ways it is hard to believe that six whole years have past ....

Love to all of those that need it.

 

[DD]

SJ--Well said.

 

[GIjo]

Thanks Mango for beginning this thread. First thing I did this morning was to raise my flag in front of my house and honor the brave, innocent victims of 9-11 and to pay silent honors to those brave men and women who were at ground zero from the beginning. So many times we, as Americans, awaken our personal arena of patriotism as with 9-11. I remember the morning as well. For weeks and weeks afterward people were flocking into recruiting stations ready to go "kill some of them iraqy people".....but soon afterward, their false sense of patriotism faded and turned into something different. Although I am a member of the military, I believe we need a huge change in leadership and I may not agree with many of the decisions this administration has made. My point is that Every time I see a flag waving, an old man wearing a VFW hat, a firetruck racing through the street, I feel my patriotism beat in my heart. The vicitims of 9-11 will always be in my prayers and the brave men and women in this country who wake up every day and fight for "Freedom" will always be a part of my life.

Thanks again Mango for your thread!!!!;-)

 

[Mango]

Thanks y'all for the calls, pms and thoughts today. I appreciate your sentiments more than you know.

I suppose I said that I would celebrate life today as many did in New York City today. There were 80 concerts alone in the city and others worldwide. It proved to be a day of mixed emotions though, mourning and celebrating life simultaneously. I've never been able to bring myself to Ground Zero. My cousin invited me to come with him and wife there as he was invited to speak (he's a life long firefighter in NYC) but I decided not to go.
Instead I spent the day talking and visiting with friends/neighbors and former colleagues (some who were there that fateful day) and we laughed and cried together. Things like how Danny's voice mail would fill up and he would have them transferred to me and I'd laugh but always helped him return calls anyway, how he complimented and noticed when someone got a new outfit or haircut, how we became instant buddies when his favorite flower, the gladiola, was mine as well. I loved listen to him talk to his wife lovingly and call her his lobster. He loved his life, his family and his work, and he was an example of living life to the fullest.

I am like you Bob, I don't watch the videos or television, it's just too tragic to relive.
Life goes on, but we will never forget.

I hope y'all had a peaceful day of remembrance as well and goofer, you were in my thoughts today.