9/11 Thoughts- Page 2

[BroadwayMonkey]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 1:48pm

That was so sweet. Thank you, darling.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 1:53pm

Let us not forget about those lost in PA and DC. My thoughts and prayers are with all of you...

In a way, I am directly connected to 9/11. The plane that crashed in PA flew right over my house...it was very low. It could have came right down near me. Very scary...

Also, in St. Paul's Chapel, they had on display a rock that my hometown sent to them (with a lovely picture painted on it). Our town is very small and ours was on display...it was very moving. We also bought a new firetruck for a NYC station.

When I was in NYC, I went and observed Ground Zero. I really did not feel much hurt...I was just overwhelmed. When I heard sirens that day is when my heart just stopped beating. I had flashbacks...as if I was there. It was very frightening not knowing what those firetrucks are going do.

Tonight I am going to the Circle (a round-a-bout with 8 roads coming together...a historical church and town hall are in the middle) for a candle lighting ceremony. 3,000 candles line the Circle.

Once again, may God bless you all.

[GaLiNdaFied]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 1:54pm

Does anyone know where I can listen to the September 11th song on the internet? I've only heard it once but I think I should listen to it again.

[shesings]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 1:54pm

To everyone in the world who has lost a loved one, or felt the loss we sustained 3 years ago my thoughts and prayers are with you. Also prayers for a stronger country where terror no longer resides. For a place where are children can grow up in peace with the ability to love one another despite our difference. And to those who lost their lives today, you will NEVER be forgotten, you are heroes in the truest sense of the word!

[ponine24601]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 1:56pm

boobs thanks so much for that. bwaytheatre11, that was so kind of your town to do that. ok i need to calm myself down.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 2:00pm

The fire department is who you need to thank. Two stood at each entrance to the Circle with a boot. People put $10, $20, $50, $100+...it was very touching.

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 2:40pm

I heard an amazing song last year on the 11th of September and I haven't been able to stop listening to it now...it's called "Can't Cry Hard Enough" by the Williams Brothers.


I'm gonna live my life
Like every day's the last
Without a simple good-bye
It all goes by so fast

And now that you're gone
I can't cry hard enough
No I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now

I'm gonna open my eyes
And see for the first time
I've let go of you like
A child letting go of his kite

There it goes up in the sky
There it goes beyond the clouds
For no reason why
I can't cry hard enough
No I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now

I'm gonna look back in vain
And see you standing there
When all that remains
Is just an empty chair

And now that you're gone
I can't cry hard enough
No I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now

There it goes, up in the sky
There it goes, beyond the clouds
For no reason why
I can't cry hard enough
No I can't cry hard enough
For you to hear me now

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 3:08pm

We saw everything from my classroom windows--my school is located about 30 miles away from Ground Zero, but we have a beautiful view of the NYC skyline.

It was a horrible day and the nightmare continued as we learned that co-workers lost their spouses and students lost their parents in the tragedy. Two of my former students perished in the Twin Towers: Dickie Lynch, whose father played professional football, and Linc Quappe, who played Young Patrick in the high school production of MAME that I had directed many years ago. May they rest in peace.

[newyorkuniq]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 3:31pm

On Sept 11th 2001 I was just starting my senior year of HS. It was school picture day. I had just sat down in my film production class and my teacher was watching the news. The only thing I had ever heard about WTC was in 1993. I had a distinct memory of my 3rd grade class being called into a room to watch tv after the bombing. For a few seconds I thought that maybe it was the anniversary of that, and they were showing clips. We couldn't believe our eyes as we saw the second plane slam into the building. I sat with a friend who was freaking out because her dad was supposed to be on one of the flights out of Logan. We later found out that he missed it because he was late from dropping her off at school that morning. It still seems like a bad dream that we will never wake up from

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 3:40pm

Yes, I know someone who decided to not go to work that day...just think how they must feel.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 3:43pm

Worse, imagine you worked @ Windows on the World and traded shifts as some people did? Survivour guilt is just irrational. You have been given a gift. Don't waste it on "Why me?" There is no answer. Updated On: 9/11/04 at 03:43 PM

[shesings]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 3:51pm

I actually live 2 blocks south of Ground Zero. I just walked over there. Even though its late in the afternoon and the ceremonies are finished there are still hundreds of people coming and going. Leaving flowers, taking photos, saying prayers. Its really touching. Sometimes its surreal to live so close ..

[ponine24601]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 4:51pm

i just got home from visting ground zero. we met up with a few of my uncle's friends who came to remember him. i hate this day. i still can't think of a good enough reason to why people would loathe this country so much.

[shesings]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 5:36pm

ponine - I just wanted to let you know that we're thinking about you. You are 100% right - there is never a reason good enough to justify what has been done. I don't even know what else to say except that I hope you're holding up today. Your uncle will always be remembered and he is a hero. I hope that a tragedy such as this will never happen again. I hope others will be spared the pain you are feeling. Please just remember we're thinking about your uncle, your family, and everyone else involved in 9/11. XOXOXO! Smile!

[Taryn]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 5:40pm

I was actually asleep when everything happened, because I was home sick from school. Freshman year. I remember waking up and checking my email and having some email about the WTC being attacked. I didn't believe it. And then I went downstairs and walked into the living room to see my mom watching the news, crying, with a box of tissues.

I live in Pennsylvania, not too far from where Flight 93 landed (less than an hour away, I believe), so I had friends from SC (where I had just moved from about a month ago) who IMed me as soon as I got back to the computer to make sure I was all right. I was in shock for the longest time before I really started feeling emotion over it. It was a whole year before I cried while seeing all the remembrance ceremonies on the first anniversary.

There's nothing to possibly justify 9/11.

[NYCbabe3789]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 5:47pm

ponine-your story was very very moving. You should be very proud of your uncle. He is one of the amazing heroes who gave their life to save others. You and your family are both in my thoughts and prayers today, as are everyone who lost some one close in the attacks.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 7:02pm

ponine - my deepest sympathies to you. You must be very, very proud of your godfather the hero.

Galinda, that was my lesson from that day. When it's your time, it's your time whether it's a terrorist attack, a wayward bus, or an illness. That realization has brought me much peace.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 10:35pm

This thread breaks my heart. Bless you all. :')

[lostwallflower]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 11:12pm

Last summer I visited family in Tulsa, OK and they took me to Oklahoma City and to the bombing site. Almost all the items on the chainlink fence there were messages of love for NYC, saying how even so far away, they understood the pain. It sort of put things in perspective for me about how many people were affected by this.

On a slightly happier note, a family I was close to lost their father on September 11th. 5 children, 3 girls, 2 boys. It was devastating, and because they were a large family, the husband worked for Cantor Fitzgerald, he was young and ran marathons... media was around them a lot. One day I turned on the TV to hear Haley's voice: they had recorded an art therapy session of hers. They kept talking about how one child was afraid to sleep at night, and another grinded her teeth. One kept crying and wouldn't stop. They faced hardships at school, such as one kid going up to them and asking why their father hadn't moved his car from the train station. It was hard for them...
But their lives are improving. Their mother remarried and is finding happiness again. She through herself into exercise and ran marathons herself, and now she is pregnant with another child.
Lives are being pieced back together, and it's beautiful.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 11:15pm

I just got home from the Circle. I have an empty feeling in my stomach. It makes me smile to see all of the people walking around grinning at each other, even though they do not know them. We do not know those who lost their lives on 9/11. We are not anywhere near NYC. I still felt like I knew every single person those candles represent.

As I said earlier, they lined the Circle's sidewalks with 3,000 red, white and blue candles. I walked the sidewalks and thought of how I felt that day and how people who were directly affected felt. It is nothing like how I feel...they must feel so much more.

Now I am crying, so I am going to stop typing.

Once again, God bless you ALL.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 11:20pm

I just had a drink on my roof. I have a gorgeous view of the skyline. Those light beams are beautiful--and show just how much is missing from the skyline (architecture and humanity).

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 11:25pm

When I went to Hawaii years ago, we went to visit the Arizona, the ship that went down at PearL Harbor...as I was standing on it, I thought of all the men who died there many years ago...It was a very spiritual feeling....So when my boyfriend and I went to NYC this winter, we visited Ground Zero....as we were walking toward the site I got this same feeling of a very spiritual place....I went to the fence and started weeping..It was too much...All I could think about were all the people falling to their death........I have witnessed the effects of both attacks on America.......My heart goes out to the families of 9-11!!

[Blonde]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 11:42pm

My prayers go out to those who lost someone on this day. and thank god for all of the firefighters and cops who put themselves in danger for all of us. I know that I couldn't do it.

[Millie42]

Posted: 9/11/04 at 11:43pm

I cant even begin to imagine what all our lives would be like if 9/11 never happened. I know I would be a different human being. It is sort of a feeling like lost innocence.
I still can hear in my head the announcement my principal made at the end of first period... none of us even knew what the WTC was... only one of my friends had been up to NYC. But I walked into my next class, AP Psych, and the teacher had on the tv and said "We're not taking the exam today. This is important. We've been attacked" and then we just watched it all unfold.

This has been a weird 9/11 for me because normally I realize it is coming and I am so weepy all day... usually there is a memorial on campus to go to, but with today being sat. I was not around. I actually spent most of the day happy, working on a musical. And that now feels weird to me. But, maybe that's good that I do not weep all day now. I was working on the show with an entire cast/crew of NYers and it was a beautiful sign of how NY and the country has decided to not be pulled down.

We will never forget, but we at least know now that we can still go on.

My prayers are with those that lost loved ones.