Sep 11 2013 10:16 AM
May we never forget.
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| themetfairy Sep 11 2013 10:16 AM |
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May we never forget.
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| Centerfield Sep 11 2013 10:54 AM Re: Remembering |
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It's strange to me now that my son and his friends (8 years old) are actual functioning human beings. For them 9/11 was something that happened years before they were born. Not much different than the Declaration of Independence or the Kennedy shooting.
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| Edgy MD Sep 11 2013 11:18 AM Re: Remembering |
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It feels strange to me that your son's generation has spent his whole life in a country at war, arming for war, on a war footing, but never quite sure what they're fighting.
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| Benjamin Grimm Sep 11 2013 11:40 AM Re: Remembering |
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My daughter, who was just over two months old on September 11, 2001, had a homework assignment where she had to interview a parent about their memories and thoughts of that day. It led to a lot of questions and a good solid discussion. It hadn't occurred to me that for her, it was something that happened before her memory, and that there was so much about it that I know so well (four planes, the passenger revolt over, Shanksville, the box cutters, the "I don't care about learning how to land a plane" students, and much more) that she was mostly unfamiliar with. Plus, of course, there was my own experiences with that day. I wasn't in New York on the day of the attacks, (I was on vacation) but I was working downtown at the time, and returned to the Ground Zero area less than three weeks later, once downtown opened again. I was able to talk about the smell of the jet fuel, which was still burning, the experiences of my co-workers, who witnesses and were traumatized by the attack, and other visceral memories of what it was like to be downtown in late September of that year.
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| metirish Sep 11 2013 12:40 PM Re: Remembering |
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I watched some of the shows again over the last few nights....I've seen them all but I always get drawn in to them , especially Inside 9/11 on Nat Geo.
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