REMEMBERING 9/11

[Team Switzerland]

REMEMBERING 9/11

We have a special TA Talks Back for you today from TA Staff Member BeckyInPhilly. Though it’s not Twilight related, September 11th, 2001 impacted us all and today’s edition of TA Talks Back tells the story of one person’s experience and how even now, 8 years later, we are still impacted and remembering that day. Not only do we have an awesome article from Becky, but she also provided us with a video she made which includes pictures she took on her visit to the site in February of 2002:

It was 8 years ago. That seems…wrong. That these unimaginable events happened at all is…well…unimaginable. But to think this much time has past since that day in 2001 seems unreal. To me, it still feels like this happened only yesterday. I can clearly see the images of the attacks in my head, as if I were watching the newscasts right now. It takes very little to bring to life the thoughts I had that day. Why did this happen? Who would do such a thing? But to think that there is a new generation growing up for whom the events of Sept. 11, 2001 are only a part of history is almost unbelievable. I am a teacher. I am reminded everyday how life changes and how the world changes and how time does not stop. But to know that I teach children who were not even ALIVE the day the attack occurred - it shocks me. We have a generation who did not witness this event in any way. They only know of it from textbooks, from stories. It is tragic, it is horrible, but it is the past.

Yet for me, it was and still is all too real. Not history, but now.

TO READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND VIEW THE VIDEO, CLICK BELOW:
http://twilightersanonymous.com/ta-talks-back-remembering-september-eleventh.html

[BaByGM]

Eight years ago today, I was awoken by a phone call around 630 am by a family friend frantically asking me if my mom, grandma, 2 aunts and uncle were back home from NY. I was frazzled when she told me what was going on. I turned on the news. I frantically dialed my mom's cell number, no answer.

About a couple months before 9/11, my family planned to tour NY, I booked them a room at Marriott at the WTC. After booking the reservation I called back the hotel informing them that I had forgotten to mention a family/friends discount. Only by divine intervention that I was told that they would have to be re-booked at the Marriott at JFK instead. My family was scheduled to fly back to SF from JFK on 9/11/01. For the longest 5 hours, I had no idea if 5 members of my family were still alive (I knew they were touring downtown NY that morning). Finally my mom got a hold of us hours later. They became a part of history being on the first flight out of NY on 9/14/01 to LA and finally made it back home to SF that evening.

[Emmy Rose]

8 Years ago I was in grade 7 in Canada, and my entire class spent hours thinking my friend's dad was on one of the planes that crashed, like he was supposed to be. He survived 9/11 by sleeping in and missing his flight.

I will never forget. I will remember. Je me souviens.

[TheRealEdwardCullen]

 

[CA_Twilight_Girl]

Wow. Yeah. Got up @ 5 o'clock this morning, (because I live on the west coast, soo when the first plane struck the first tower, it was only about 6:30 in the morning here or so.) I watched all 3 memorial's today, and they were all VERY lovely! I wore my 9/11/01' shirt w/ the picture of the fire-fighters putting the American flag back up @ Ground Zero as they cleaned the knee-high debris & searched for bodies, as I wear it every year. Put our American flag up outside our house @ half-mass as the sun came up.

.. Thennn I pretty much listened to songs about 911 & cried all day. haha. I do it every year. It's soo odd. I was soo beyond blessed and lucky that I don't have any personal relation family or friend wise to that tragic day in history. Yet, no matter WHAT kind of mood I am in, or how happy I am for me, personally, inside each year, every single year 911 is SUPER hard for me! I just cry & cry all day.. sometimes I won't even know why & I'll just break down in tears. I do it every year. It's an extremely hard day for us all, and I will never EVER forget.

God Bless all the some odd 3,000 fallen hereo's from that day.. & the thousands & thousands more who have lost their lives fighting for us & our freedom since. And God Bless the U.S.A.