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Just a little place for those of us who wish to remember.
If you are not among us, pass by quietly, all is well, but please respect our pain today...



*Lights a candle*

Well Id like to say that my sister is a New Yorker. And I am very very thankful that she wasnt harmed in the 9/11 tragedy. But more seriously, my brother-in-law, who is a very cool person, and am glad he is in the family now, was due at the WTC at 10:30 on 9/11/2001. He commutes from Boston to New York every month to do some sort of appointment there, and he is rarely ever late. And thank God that that one day, traffic was really bad, and he didnt even make the George Washington bridge (Bridge entering New York) when the planes hit the buildings. He was unharmed aswell. Thank God for bad traffic on that day, or else I might not have a brother-in-law and my sister wouldnt have a husband that she dearly loves. Today, more than previous days, I look back in sadness and witness the tragedy of 9/11 and the lives lost, but am also very thankful for all those that mean something in my life, that they were unharmed, physically, from 9/11. Thank you.

Love

Today I will go to work and work hard. I will go home and enjoy my dinner, and be thankful for what I have today. My life has been changed, but my way of life hasn't. I will do my best to live my life the way I would have pre 9-11. I will do my best to never forget those 3,025 who lost thier lives. I will never forget the moments I spent crying, and the moments I still do cry. 1 death was 1 too many.

Love Brett.

Thankyou Scayde.

Semper Fidelis.

My condolences to the victims and the victim's families. No one will ever forget what happened that horrible day in September 2001.

I think of the children of the people who were killed most often. I hold my young daughters close and tell them that I love them. I say a prayer for all those who lost loved ones - especially the children. Innocence lost...never to be regained.

I was out of the country on September 11th. I remember the attendant coming to our bungalow, telling us of the news. I thought she was mad. Because what she was saying to me was so incomprehensible.... and it still is.

It has taken me a year to begin to come to terms with what occurred that day... to at least be able to begin to touch the depths of the sorrow and pain. I offer my deepest feelings of empathy to those who lost someone they loved or cared about... and I also offer an acknowledgement of the magnificence of the human spirit that shone forth from the darkness on the hands and lips of those who ministered to Ground Zero on that day.

"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
(John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. '61)

And we will never forget. In remembrance of those lost on September 11, 2001.

I watched Saving Private Ryan last night, and a quote from the letter of Abraham Lincoln;

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

You have no idea how much I thought about the relevance of that to WW1 and 11/9.

I'm not a Christian, but I'll say this, God Bless you all.

I remember vividly the whole event unfolding, the horror of it all. Xandax, Josh, myself an others were in SYM at the time it happened, I had CNN Breaking News on Sky, we were writing here in disbelief... http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/showt ... t=breaking

I was watching that footage played over and over...I just stood in front of my TV, and watched those planes hit, and hit again. Suddenly my TV screen was way too big. Repeated pictures did not lessen the blow, only reinforced it

Some days later, in the UK, motorways came to a standstill as drivers left their vehicles and stood in rememberance, respecting the 3 minute silence...The M25 was a car park that day...the solidarity was enough to make me cry.

The day of the three minute silence, the radio played Let It Be by the Beatles - forever to be associated now, by me.

Today, the radio channel I had on played Angel by Robbie Williams, with intermittent recordings of the screams, the tears, the grief, the reality of that day.

I knew no-one who was directly involved, but many who were indirectly affected.

*hug* to all.

I have just re-read the thread that I posted a link to. I suggest you read it all. On such a tragic day we see the horror unfold for all of us around the world...and then a unity here in our own community in SYM. It made me very sad to re-read that because of it's immediacy, but warmed also by the presence of our friends here in SYM. This community was something very special back then, and continues to be so now.

Goodnight *hug*

My condolances to all the victims of the WTC attack, and their families.

My condolances to the people of Afghanistan who still live in fear, poverty and misery.

Today, one year ago, sorrow, fear, anger and hatred became my ever present companions. But today is not the day for these things.
On this day I mourn for the families that lost their loved ones, as I mourned a year ago for those who lost their lives.
I have no wish to watch the television and see again what has been burned so indellibly in my mind's eye.
On this day I pray to ease the loss of those bereaved of their fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters.
On this day I pray to ease the sorrow of a nation.

I believe CE said it all.

Originally posted by C Elegans
My condolances to all the victims of the WTC attack, and their families.

My condolances to the people of Afghanistan who still live in fear, poverty and misery.

I like your style CE.

I would have liked to say the same, but you've beat me fair and square to that.

I'm sorry for all the people who lost friends or relatives in the attacks and/or the subsequent "war on terror" (and I mean on both sides...)


Beldin

My condolances as well - I wish those who have lost people dear to them in the attacks the strength to keep carrying on and to remember the ones they've lost.

E.

My condolances to all the victims of the WTC attack, and their families.

My condolances to the people of Afghanistan who still live in fear, poverty and misery.

I don't live in misery, but we all live in fear, now (somewhat).
Hope misery may be cancelled.

My condolances to the dead of 9/11, and their relatives.

About those who thought that poverty, or religion, or sufferings, were enough
of a reason... may their memory be erased.

Just a few words of support for all the emergency crews who did such a truly excellent job, if it wasn't for them more lives would have been lost and everyone should compliment their bravery.

My heart goes out to anybody who has been made a victim, at any time, of fanaticism, of whatever stripe.