The Last Homely House
General => Council of Cobra => Topic started by: DáinIronfoot on September 11, 2008, 06:35:09 AM
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Today is a day like any other. I'm at work, some of you are as well. Some are at school, or at home. We're ALL here, of course.
Seven years ago, another day started in a similar way. It proceeded very differently.
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!Never forget, folks.
!Never forget.
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thoughts with those who suffered..........
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Wow!! That is a great Bible verse!!! Your right. NEVER FORGET.
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Exactly. Never forget.
A request guys, don't use this as a thread to debate politics like what happened last year.
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Wish I could take credit for finding that verse, but I found that picture (verse included) on the World Wide Interweb. Not my creation.
It's funny...I was doing some DC stuff earlier and opened up my RTF copy of The Two Towers. Just reading the title, I teared up.
This is the only day of the year I have been unable to hold back tears, every year for the last seven. Still gets to me, even though it seems lifetimes ago now...yet also feels like yesterday at the same time.
It's odd to think that our first baby will be born into a world where the attacks are already history. She'll be studying it in school one day, and probably be sitting back trying to imagine what it must have been like while her dear ol' dad can still remember it all too clearly. It's still so surreal.
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I remember my dad saying turn on the TV theres something going on...and then them talking about how many people had died, and I was thinking...wait this is worse than pearl harbor...thats when it hit...
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I remember when it was going on, I had no idea what was going on; it was so early int he morning x.x My parents told me how my cousin in NY actually witnessed and survived the whole crash; it was the one day he was late for work, and it saved his life :O Pretty amazing.
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We were actually on vacation in DC at the time... were going to go to the Pentagon that day, but at the last moment, changed plans to go to the Baltimore Aquarium. We got to the aquarium just as it was opening.
After it had begun, the aquarium closed with a few people (including us and a security guard who didn't have the keys to get everyone -- including himself -- out) still locked in it, and I remember sitting there, waiting, wondering so... what now? No-one really quite comprehended what was going on. Pearl Harbor was, like SoP said, one of the first things that came to mind. Worse than Pearl Harbor. Eventually, someone someone finally came at let us out, helped sort out what rumors were true -- as far as anyone could tell at that point.
We spent the rest of the day driving around, trying to figure out how to get back to where we were staying, with some relatives.
Two days later, we ended up going back into DC proper. Whereas before, everything was active and busy, people now seemed subdued. Every time a fighter or other military aircraft would go overhead, everyone (including us) would stop, freeze up, and stare up at the sky.
The sight of the Air Force soaring above was, in some ways comforting, but it was a rather horrifying reminder as a sudden silence would descend over everyone, broken only by the horrifying sound of some aircraft.
Then we got on the metro. As we got off one of the trains, and were walking up toward the exit, there was a bomb scare on the train we had just been on.
But I remember that the evening of the 11th, there was a truck, full of people, who had already begun driving around, blaring the patriotic music and singing outside a Wendy's on our winding route back to where we were staying.
Anyway, that's my spiel. I know other people probably have more significant stories than mine, but there it is, for what it's worth.
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respect from my part, too... anyway, this is a very complicated day in Chile, too, we remember the day in 1973 when Augusto Pinochet (captain in chief of the armed forces) derrocated (is that the word? anyway, "stole the charge") president Salvador Allende (socialist) and began a dictatorship that lasted 23 years. people dissapeared, escaped, where tortured, murdered, etc. no one could show in public the chilean flag (you could be killed), and the army had control over the citizens, and any partidary of Allende was killed inmediately, and then in 1990 he was defeated in a plebiscit in which Patricio Aylwin (christian democrat) resulted victorious. Now it's "remembered" in the streets of the capital by vandals that make all kind of disasters, specially in front of La Moneda (goverment palace). Hope today they don't make any disorders.
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I can't believe its been 7 years. I was 12 and while it was in the period in which I lived in the US we happened to be back in the UK for a couple of months at the time. Because of the 5 hour time difference It started just after i got home from school. My dad was home and was watching the news channel. It was very soon after the first plane hit and the news channel obviously hadn't had footage as they were still reporting it as a bomb. Me and my dad sat and watched it together for hours and hours as it just kept getting worse. The feeling I can remember most was one of terrible awe. Now don't get me wrong on that I'm not saying I was in awe of the terrorists or anything like that it was more that it was by far the most terrible and horrific thing I had seen in my entire life and even at the time I can remember my dad saying that he thought this would be a turning point in history. Halfway through i can remember getting a bit overwhelmed and having to leave the room. It was when they showed some people jumping from the windows. I think that at 12 years old there was only so much i could take and I can remember crying my eyes out. The wierdest thing though was going back to our home in America (Eugene, Oregon) and finding the country completely changed. It was totally different to the country i had left only two months before.
Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
I also felt that this other verse would be fitting as, even though we must never forget, it helps us to look forward with hope.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Romans 8:18
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ah, a nice Romans verse that can make anyone's day
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Krypteria- Libertio: 9/11 Tribute (YouTube) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdI11L99Ybs)
Breaking Benjamin- So Cold: 9/11 Tribute (YouTube) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-acQZ9IdvQQ)
A friend of mine put these together. They're really awesome.
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A day to remember. Not only because of the deaths of the people that could not make it out or that were on the planes, but a day to remember it's heroes. Those people that sacrificed their lives to save helpless souls. In their selflessness they should gain the highest honor, and the most attention focused when remembering this day.
Never forget.