9-11-2006

RIP all the fallen soldiers
RIP all the police men and women who lost their lives
RIP all the firefighters who lost their lives

prayers to all the family members

REMEMBER PAT TILLMAN

hey buster, where you at? im down the river in lancaster

York County

I saw the events unfold on 9/11 from the NJ Turnpike, and spent 5 months working at the WTC during the recovery. I certainly will never forget.


If no one ever thanked you for that...thanks.


I have a book called "God at Ground Zero" written by a recovery worker. You might want to check it out.

I was in criminology class and the professor came in a bit late and sort of nonchalantly said that a plane had hit one of the World Trade Centers (this was still early in the AM, so there wasn't much news yet). I just assumed that a new pilot lost control of a small plane and accidently crashed into one of the towers and that it really wasn't a huge deal. Of course I was completely shocked when I got back to my dorm room and saw the news. In fact, I was watching live when the second plane hit, as I'm sure many of you were.

For some reason I still went to my next class, but we were only there for a few minutes when someone walked in and said another plane hit the Pentagon and that campus was shutting down for the day. I remember getting back to my dorm room only to hear people cheer because class was cancelled; that really pissed me off because I was still shocked from seeing the footage of the plane. In fact, there was almost a fight in the hall because of those guys, but I don't think they'd actually turned on the news yet, so they didn't really know what was up. I know they felt like huge dicks when they finally heard.

All day long we were glued to the TV and the computer and people were freaking out because there is a huge NY/northern NJ population at Salisbury and many people had family in the towers. I had a cousin working in the Pentagon at the time, but he was on the other side of the building, so he was fine.

That night the power went out on campus for a few hours and people really started freaking out, but eventually it came back on and we were right back there, glued to CNN just like before.

The next day I talked to my uncle for an hour on the phone; he retired FDNY in the 90's, but his whole former company was lost in the collapse. I also eamiled my friend in the Marines, because I thought it was pretty obvious what kind of response the US would have.

Like everyone else said, we need to all honor those men and women that lost their lives that horrible day, and we need to put aside our differences and be grateful for those trying to keep us safe everyday.

I will never forget that day. I was on an NYC subway under lower Manhattan right around the time the first plane hit. We made it up town without knowing what happened, and I went straight in to teach my Introduction to Ethics class. One student said she had heard somethig about a plane hitting the WTC, but no one knew anything. At 10 am, class ended, and I foud out what happened. I went straight to Lenox Hill hospital to give blood, and found that thousands of New Yorkers had the same idea. We waited in line, quitely talked, and tried to call loved-ones on cell phones. My sister works in DC and I couldn't get through to her. At some point, a business man covered in grey dust wandered into the lobby--he had no shoes, and was still holding his briefcase. He was yelling that the even took his shoes. He had walked away from gorund zero, and a cab brought him uptown. Hospital folk took him to the ER; he was shocked, but unhurt. Later, in a hospital waitig area, we found a computer and watched the video of the planes hitting the towers in silent horror.

RIP to all who died that day and who died to protect our country. Prayers and thanks to those who serve to protect us: NYPD, FDNY, US Army, Airforce, Navy, Marines, National Guard, and everyone else.

Man, what a day! The stories are endless.

When I finally got to work that day, I found out that one of my colleague's brother was trapped in one of the towers and was later pronounced dead. Seeing him go through that, just brought everything that much closer to home. After they stopped trading on the NYSE for a full day, it just further amplified the tragedy.

with all the different opinions, backgrounds, and races that are represented around here, the one thing that unites us all, is the fact we are all americans. may god bless all of those that have died. and bless all of those fighting to keep this country the greatest country on this planet

Make Kick-Off weekend the perfect answer to those who wish to impose
their Dark Ages mentality on the free West.

Celebrate, cheer, live life, go crazy.

U S A ! U S A !U S A !

I was flying that morning. I took off out of Dulles, two gates down from Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon, about 35 minutes before their flight took off. I'm sure I stood in line at Starbucks with people that died on that plane.

New's had just started to break when I landed in Atlanta for my transfer. Of course they shut down the airspace, so all flights were delayed, but they had also shut off the airport terminal TV's to keep people from panicking. The TV's came back on just as the first tower went down, and from there it was pure pandemonium as people bum rushed the airport exits. I was stranded for three days in Atlanta with no where to go and no way to get there, but it was okay because an amazing family of complete strangers opened their home to me. Without hesitation or reservation they invited me in, fed me, and treated me like some long lost cousin that had just been found.

I have a different view of the world today than before 9/11, but not for the worse. Today I have more faith in humanity now than I ever did before. The Secunda family of Atlanta, GA showed me more about the goodness of people than a hundred 9/11 attacks could ever erase.

Today I have more faith in humanity now than I ever did before. The Secunda family of Atlanta, GA showed me more about the goodness of people than a hundred 9/11 attacks could ever erase.

That's the best antidote.

Nice.