NEVER FORGET
24 years ago today...
24 years ago today...
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NEVER FORGET. Today is the 24th year since 9/11
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Never forgotten.
I have videos of MS Flight Simulators of each flight with the appropriate ATC for the audio. I watch each video, every year on 9/11. At least once a year. I also have the video containing the audio tape of NEADS response to it including Maj. (then) Kevin Nasippany (I believe he got promoted to Lt. Col).
"Cool!" (IYKYK)
And, besides, I was working in TriBeCa at Greenwich and North Moore Ave. at the time. Ultimately, they evacuated us out of TriBeCa. My Aunt/Uncle had an apartment in Gramercy Park they let me stay at overnight. Next morning I got across the Hudson and to my car at the Train Station (they finally opened the PATH train line).
I have videos of MS Flight Simulators of each flight with the appropriate ATC for the audio. I watch each video, every year on 9/11. At least once a year. I also have the video containing the audio tape of NEADS response to it including Maj. (then) Kevin Nasippany (I believe he got promoted to Lt. Col).
"Cool!" (IYKYK)
And, besides, I was working in TriBeCa at Greenwich and North Moore Ave. at the time. Ultimately, they evacuated us out of TriBeCa. My Aunt/Uncle had an apartment in Gramercy Park they let me stay at overnight. Next morning I got across the Hudson and to my car at the Train Station (they finally opened the PATH train line).
Muslims celebrating today, democrats dancing in the streets after yesterday. CNN will have a band and fireworks later.
I'm not Jewish but I'd say I am to anyone who is antisemitic. That said, it's sad how many so-called Conservatives and so-called Conservative-Libertarians buy into China's and the Left's antisemitism propaganda.
Revelation 3:9
Calls those who claim to be jew, but are not, the synagogue of satan.(mccain was a conservative, etc)
The "real" jews are gods chosen people, who god continues to call back to him from the wilderness....the sons of isreal(jacob).
Everyone else is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
Im no biblical scholar and working off of memory....the hate is real, jesus hated the fakes too.
Dont put the hate in the wrong place... hate the lies, sin, corruption, evildoers, oppressors of truth(babylon).
Shred
Calls those who claim to be jew, but are not, the synagogue of satan.(mccain was a conservative, etc)
The "real" jews are gods chosen people, who god continues to call back to him from the wilderness....the sons of isreal(jacob).
Everyone else is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
Im no biblical scholar and working off of memory....the hate is real, jesus hated the fakes too.
Dont put the hate in the wrong place... hate the lies, sin, corruption, evildoers, oppressors of truth(babylon).
Shred
I remember.... was taking an exam.
I felt numb all day watching the tv... couldnt look away, couldnt find words.
Still cant, and it still breaks me to see that footage again... i tried showing it to my kids last years and all i could do was sob.
We have never recovered.
I remember.
I felt numb all day watching the tv... couldnt look away, couldnt find words.
Still cant, and it still breaks me to see that footage again... i tried showing it to my kids last years and all i could do was sob.
We have never recovered.
I remember.
I was about to go on duty when we got an "all hands on deck" alert from the Chief. I had just turned on the news when the first tower fell
I was on duty as a Fireman that day, assigned to our USAR. We couldn’t go home for 3 more days because of the worry about possible attacks on the west coast.
24 years later I again am on duty, but assigned to a wildfire this time.
It has been an honor to serve as a Fireman for the last 30 years and I am honored to have served with people who responded to 9/11 with my FEMA Task Force. Most have passed due to complications from the airborne particulate they inhaled during the rescue efforts.
I’ll always remember 9/11 and will always honor those who died and those who responded.
Stay safe and raise a glass in their honor.
24 years later I again am on duty, but assigned to a wildfire this time.
It has been an honor to serve as a Fireman for the last 30 years and I am honored to have served with people who responded to 9/11 with my FEMA Task Force. Most have passed due to complications from the airborne particulate they inhaled during the rescue efforts.
I’ll always remember 9/11 and will always honor those who died and those who responded.
Stay safe and raise a glass in their honor.
I was fishing in LI Sound today and was next to a woman who I was talking to. It was a beautiful clear day and the Manhattan skyline was in plin view. I said to her that imagine that just 24 years ago if we were here and looking at the skyline we would see nothing but smoke. She looked at me and said what do you mean. I replied um its 9/11 the trade centers would be down by now and there would be a debris cloud over the city.She replied oh right like she was oblivious to the days meaning. Packed up my stuff and found another spot on the rail.
I was narrator, videographer and editor of this 9/11 video, shot at the WTC cleanup site exactly one year after the attack.
His name is Alex Loutsky. He was near the towers and watched the first plane hit the first tower. He was the First Responder (he was a paramedic with FDNY for 30 years, recently retired) that activated the NYC Emergency Response System.
His name is Alex Loutsky. He was near the towers and watched the first plane hit the first tower. He was the First Responder (he was a paramedic with FDNY for 30 years, recently retired) that activated the NYC Emergency Response System.
I was in NYC in January of 2001 working on a photo shoot for Fortune Magazine.
Our subjects were heads of financial firms. We scouted offices in World Trade 1 and 7 and came back the next day to take the photographs.
When we were in the offices on the 93rd floor I was thinking what an amazing view from that high up.
I have a notebook with the names of our subjects and the office managers, P.R. managers and secretaries we met on the shoot. All but one of them died in the attack.
Here's the ID card I got for 1WTC, 93rd floor.
I will never forget.
Our subjects were heads of financial firms. We scouted offices in World Trade 1 and 7 and came back the next day to take the photographs.
When we were in the offices on the 93rd floor I was thinking what an amazing view from that high up.
I have a notebook with the names of our subjects and the office managers, P.R. managers and secretaries we met on the shoot. All but one of them died in the attack.
Here's the ID card I got for 1WTC, 93rd floor.
I will never forget.
Have not forgotten, will not forget. Can tell you where I was that day when it started and where I was when I saw on a tv the towers come down.
I know/realize the religion that these individuals followed wants to continue and do this to all of us Americans.
I know/realize the religion that these individuals followed wants to continue and do this to all of us Americans.
Friends and family with their names on that monument. I don't need it to be today to be reminded.
7 WTC was a separate building in the WTC complex (the twin towers being 1 and 2 WTC respectively). Among other things, It housed the Emergency Response Center of the NYPD in that part of town. It also contained office space that my firm rented out.
One of my fellow employees (a primary internal business customer), worked in that office space and was there that morning. When things started to kick off (we could not see the aircraft hit as our offices were too low, below the skyline) most of us (me included) were still somewhat in denial ("aw, c'mon.... BS.... they can't do that"). Our "notifications" came from a known "email prankster" that loved to send broadcast emails about everything trivial... hence the denial at first. In between the first and 2nd aircraft hitting (and, thus, the 1st and 2nd emails), I started to hear some office buzz. It wasn't comforting. I started to hear well steadied, no nonsense managers talk about evacuating our building, although we were 10-12 big blocks away from "ground zero." But our building would be the next tallest building in the area and it had a stupid big red umbrella at the top that stuck out like a sore thumb and said "Come get me.... I'm a target!!"( we were in the old Traveler's Group Building at 388 Greenwich St and North Moore Ave., TriBeCa). Even with the office buzz, I was still "in denial." And then came the 2nd email.
Still, with some denial (but much less, and as the office buzz got a lot louder), I decided to call my business customer down in 7WTC to see if he knew anything. If it were going on, I figured he'd have been evacuated by now. Much to my surprise, he answered, and we talked for like 20 seconds as the sirens were blaring, before he had to hang up and be evacuated from 7WTC. Thankfully, he was, safely, as were all of our employees working at 7 WTC.
After we hung up, I figured, "OK, something is going on." I washed out my coffee cup, packed my brief case, put my PC on "Remote" (so I could access it remotely at home), and I waited. I didn't have to wait long. You know that "Sepulcural PA voice" that says, "Will everyone kindly exit the building in a calm and orderly fashion?" Fugghetaboudit! This guy came on the office PA like "OK EVERYONE OUT! HOLY SHIT!" etc. To my surprise, the elevators were still working (not sure why I was surprised, as my building was still in tact and stayed that way). I got an express elevator down to the lobby. It was a freaking sea of chaos... people crying and going crazy... Mostly because the destruction of the North Tower (even before its collapse) caused a disrutption of cell phone service. None of us could dial out to advise our families. It was utter chaos,
Later on that morning, as the twin towers collapsed, many of the other buildings also were damaged and caught fire, etc. 7WTC suffering the most damage. It was destroyed in the fire. I don't think it was rebuilt. My firm was lucky. We suffered only four fatalities that morning, overall... four sales people making sales calls in the twin towers themselves.
Cantor Fitzgerald wasn't so lucky.
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I saw it "live." See above. By that time, we had evacuated 388 Greenwich St and were outside, just next to it on the sidewalk. Probably a bad idea to be right next to the building if we were worried about it being hit. We were all standing there, attempting PAR reports for all our teams (Google "PAR" in re: "Fire fighting").
From across Greenwich St, at about 9:59a, we all heard this collective SCREAM! Those of us who weren't there, filed into the middle of Greenwich St, just in time to see the South Tower collapse, right in front of us. We thought it had been "hit" again. They marched us into an adjacent building (a smaller, less taller one) we owned for about an hour, until they made the decision to evacuate every one below the title of "Area Manager" away from TriBeCa. As we were walking out of TriBeCa, my cell phone rang, oddly enough. I got it on the 4th ring before it went to voice mail. It was my mother. I told her my cell battery was dying and to notify all the other family that I was OK.
I made it up to Chelsea, where my cousin lived (I had to wake her up and tell her what happened). She let me rest for a bit and charge my cell battery before she had to go to work. Her parents had a "keyed" apartment in Gramercy Park (IYKYK) and let me stay there that night. The following morning, PATH had re-opened and I was able to get the PATH Train across to the Hoboken Terninal to take a train (free that day) back to the station where my car was. We were not allowed back in TriBeCa for some time. And when we were, we had to stop at Canal St. and walk the rest of the way, showing ID to LE that guarded Canal St.
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