<p>I’m surprised no one has said anything about today. Maybe I’m just sensitized living in the NYC metro area, having been in NYC 11 years ago today and losing a friend. Seems like most of my FB friends have either changed their profile pics for the day or made a comment in remembrance. </p>
<p>I’ve listened to “The Rising” a few times. </p>
<p>What have you done to remember those we lost today?</p>
<p>My school placed a lot of those small flags on the west lawn in remembrence.</p>
<p>I tuned into CNN to watch coverage.</p>
<p>(Please remember to leave politics out of the discussion - thanks!)</p>
<p>My flag is still flying since we put it up so many years ago.
We recently visited the memorial at WTC site in NY. Very beautiful.</p>
<p>I woke up here in the DC area very aware that it is 9-11. As I drove to an appointment this morning around the time the plane struck the Pentagon eleven years ago, my thoughts encompassed the memory of that Tuesday, with the same kind of beautiful weather we have today.</p>
<p>Seems like it was much longer ago.</p>
<p>However, i would like to visit the site once in my life. I remember when it happened. I was 11 and had stayed home from school and watched it on the news.</p>
<p>I watched a documentary over the weekend and realized some things i didn’t know about it before.</p>
<p>Although I appreciate the remembrances, it was my little girl’s 11 th birthday.</p>
<p>^Happy Birthday to her!</p>
<p>When I got on the commuter train this morning, I saw a man in a FDNY uniform get on. He must live near me and work for the Fire Department in NYC. I sat right across from him. I was going to say something, but I didn’t know what to say, except what I was thinking: it was a Tuesday then too. And a day much like today – bright blue sky, a little coolness in the air. I think that day was a little hotter. </p>
<p>Never forget.</p>
<p>MD Mom - How hard that must have been for your daughter. So sorry.</p>
<p>We were living in Cairo, Egypt on 9/11 - definitely a different experience, and so hard to be away from family and friends.</p>
<p>It’s hard to smile on this day, but here is a clip I hope will bring a tear AND a smile to your faces. This is the Madison Scouts (drum & bugle corps) 2011 show - New York Morning. It is an incredibly moving and uplifting tribute to New York. Many of the people involved in producing this show were in NY on 9/11 and have their own stories to tell. And yes, my son is one of those handsome guys in the green uniform! ;)</p>
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<p>I’m still very affected by this. Maybe it’s because I’m in NJ. It is still a very emotionally draining day; in some ways, I can’t wait until it’s over. I wonder if people from other parts of the country are as affected, or if it has become a northeastern thing.<br>
I can’t help but feel that maybe they should stop the readings of the names and leave it at a moment of silence. Now that families have a place to go, grieve and remember, which is an incredibly peaceful place, I feel that these moments should transition to private rememberances.</p>
<p>I read that it took the news channels three and a half hours to show the list of all the names of the victims in the bottom-of-screen crawl.</p>
<p>On edit: Crossposted with dkitty21. My comment was not meant as either agreement or disagreement with the notion to transition to private memorials. It was just that the amount of time somehow made the enormity more concrete for me.</p>
<p>I will be visiting the memorial Monday. It will be my first time going to that area since 9/11/01.</p>
<p>Whenever we have a beautiful blue sky like we do today, I remember it as a “9-11 sky.”
I watched the reading of the names and it certainly seems no less painful to the people who are reading and speaking about their lost loved ones. I did not lose a close friend that day only because fate intervened and he missed his train. I still remember how chilling the whole recognition was when I realized this was not a small plane and an accident. One of my children was in school in the city and my DH was working in the city. They got an extra big hug when they walked in the front door.</p>
<p>momof3sons - I feel the same way about clear, crisp, cloudless September skies. We had one this morning (in northern CT). I will never forget.</p>
<p>Local musicians in Asbury Park, NJ are holding a benefit concert this evening.They will perform many of the songs that were performed during the “Concert for NYC,” along with some original songs written by local artists inspired by 9-11. The funds will benefit the “Empty Sky Memorial” in Jersey City. My husband and I are going. I know it will be very moving.</p>
<p>Yes … today is a vivid remembrance of 9/11. The weather … so perfect … brings back those memories. </p>
<p>As many of you know, I own a retail pet store. My first day in the store was 11 years ago today. </p>
<p>I remember a woman from Chappaqua who lived next door to President Clinton coming into the store about noon. Her son called her and said the US was being bombed and to get in her car and drive away from New York. She had her dog in the car and stopped at the first pet shop she saw because she’d left without a leash. She needed a leash. She was very shaken – and so were we.</p>
<p>I remember going to church at 7 pm that night and the town officials speaking from the lectern about what was known about our townspeople – and how they would be monitoring the train stations and checking the cars left at the stations. Our town had seven men – all fathers, all from our parish – that did not come home.</p>
<p>I was talking about 9/11 in Starbucks this morning and tearing up. We will never forget.</p>
<p>Question: Where were you when you heard the news? </p>
<p>We are on the west coast. We wake up to the Today Show. I was asleep when my husband started to shake me and he said, “OMG LOOK! Planes are flying into buildings!” Then I heard Matt Lauer’s voice…</p>
<p>We made the decision to send the kids to school. (Although I found out later that because our schools were next a major target that MIGHT not have been a good thing.) This is a very mixed community. Any number of Muslim parents (and some Persian non Muslim parents) ran to the schools fearing for their children’s safety. Thank God…it wasn’t necessary…hatred did not come here. </p>
<p>But we remember them…</p>
<p>MDmom, her 11th? My friend’s dtr’s b/d is also today, but her 7th. We call it her b/d week.</p>
<p>My son knew girls who lost their FA, and the man who was in our carpool only survived because he had gone out for coffee. My friend had semi-retired and moved south, but his firm was in the Towers. I was suppose to see my dentist, and called to see if he was still working (most of us couldn’t ). His assistant told me to come right over; his dtr’s was in 2nd Tower , and he didn’t what happened to her. I stayed in his office until he got his dtr’s call. Pretty hard to forget these memories.</p>
<p>I still remember 9/11/01 quite vividly. I live in the L.A. area and normally don’t listen to the news in the morning either on TV or on the radio. I had just dropped off my youngest at preschool and was on my way home when my husband called me on my cell phone and told me that two planes had hit the Twin Towers and they had collapsed. I remember not being able to process what he was saying because it just didn’t seem possible. The next day we found out that we knew five people on two of the planes–one on United 175 that hit one of the towers and four on American 77 that crashed into the Pentagon. They all were on their way out to L.A. on business. Still so hard to believe–I will never forget…</p>
<p>We live on the (southern) east coast. I was IM’ing a friend when she typed “omg…turn your tv on”. I was terrified because dh works at a nuclear power plant just a few miles from our home and there was speculation that nuke plants could be a target.</p>
<p>S1 was a freshman in h.s. They watched all the coverage in their classrooms that day.
On that day he decided for certain that he wanted a career in the military. I remember thinking " Even if he should stick to that plan,it will all be over before he gets involved". Now, eleven years later, he’s preparing to deploy to the Middle East in November. Unbelieveable.</p>