On the eve of 9/11...let's never forget. 🇺🇸🕯

[Heartstrings]

On this date 19 years ago, 246 people went to sleep ahead of their morning flights. 2,309 people went to sleep in preparation for another routine day at the office. 343 firefighters, 71 law enforcement officers, and 8 paramedics went to sleep not knowing what their next shift would bring. None of them saw past 10am the next day.
In one single moment, life may never be the same......
Before you go to sleep tonight, take a moment and think about all you are thankful for in life that can sometimes be taken for granted.
Hug and kiss the ones you love.

And remember those 2,977 people whose lives were tragically cut short that following day.

Never forget. 9-11-01 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[demtenjeep]

1. it is really strange to be teaching kids born almost 10 years after 9/11

some don't even know about it

[LSparkle]

2. I'll never forget and I always take the day off

God bless all who left us on that very sad day.
🕯

[rsdsharp]

3. Very well said.

I went to law school with a woman who was a passenger on the plane that hit the Pentagon. I was driving to the office (late) that morning listening to the local news/talk station. For some reason they were airing a live report from the Pentagon. As the reporter talked, there was a huge boom as the plane hit the far side of the building.

[peacebuzzard]

4. I can't forget that.

[alittlelark]

5. I was flying on 9-11

No risk, redeye from Denver to San Jose. But I still have the ticket.

9-11 changed the way I looked at the world. I found DU shortly thereafter.

[Meowmee]

6. I will never forget it or them... I still have a sticker on my car to that effect

[BigmanPigman]

7. That was the hardest day I ever had teaching my 1st grade class.

On the West Coast I had seen the news before I went to school and on the classroom TV 5 minutes before we opened our doors. The teacher next door and I saw the 2nd tower go down on my TV and went to the principal....surely he would be able to tell us how to handle this. Nope, "Go teach like it is any other day". Suuuuure, dude. I turned the TV cabinet so I could see the screen and read the chyron while it was on mute. I told the kids what was happening and turned it into a lesson. When I told them that Sea World and Disneyland were closed they knew it was very serious. You have to make it understandable at their level and they are able to deal with it. A lot of people don't realize that...just bring a topic down to their level and it is easier to deal with.

[Staph]

8. I have known for 19 years

that the son of a couple at my church was killed in the plane that struck the Pentagon. Every September is carefully and gently observed by our church members. His family has finally gotten to the point where the memories are not quite so painful.

But what I did not know . . . a couple who moved back to our small town ten years ago, to keep an eye on her elderly mother . . . that couple was in the military at the time and they were both stationed at the Pentagon. They were in the building when the plane struck.

They have never mentioned it.

I think I understand why.

God bless them all.

[smirkymonkey]

9. That is a very poigniant way of putting it.

And it makes me sad all over again. I will never forget that sunny morning after going into the office and hearing my office mate saying that a plane had hit the Twin Towers. We all rushed down to 7th Avenue South near St. Vincent's Hospital to see what was going on.

Moments later, another plane struck, and it was pretty clear that it was not an accident. Everyone was just shell-shocked. Doctors and nurses were standing by at the hospital waiting for wounded, but nobody was coming in. Apparently people either survived or they were able to walk away from it. There were very few in between situations.

One thing that I will never forget is seeing things that looked like "ribbons" falling from the buildings that were hit. It was not until later that I realized that those were people jumping or falling to their deaths. It haunts me to this day. I cannot imagine a more horrible fate than to have to make the choice whether to have to burn to death or to jump over a hundred stories to your death. The thought of it still makes me sick. Ever since then, I have been terrified of heights and it only seems to get worse every year.

My thoughts and condolences to the victims and their families.

[bdamomma]

10. never forget

those who were lost that day due to another sick republican regime who did not take the threat seriously and again American lives were lost.

NO MORE REPUBLICANS.