18 years later and I can still remember this day with almost crystal clarity. I still mourn.
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Me too. Hard to believe it’s been 18 years. My oldest son was nearly 1 and I remember it like it was yesterday. Thanks for sharing. 🇺🇸
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Yeah, a whole generation has grown up without having that experience…
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For sure, but I’ve made sure that all my kids know about that day. My oldest that I spoke of even wrote a poem about it to enter in 4-H. Not putting myself on a pedestal, but I hope others educate their kids about it because it’s something we all need to remember. Sorry, for the late reply. 😉
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Good job 😀
If parents don’t pass that along, they’ll not only not “remember”, but never even know why it was so important…
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I remember clearly as well. I just finished a payphone call to my mom (i was in boardingschool/hostel) when one of my female friends came down the steps distruaght af, shouting that world war 3 just broke out… confused as I was then, i did not take to it much until we saw it on the news later, we only had certain times to watch back in the day, cellphones werent a thing back then yet… I still feel today that my idea of the world permanantly changed that day. As in it all went to shit afterwards….
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Yeah, I was working and the radio was going crazy. We were back at the office and I saw the tower fall on live tv. That is something I’ll never forget 😦
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I’m not American, yet I remember it very well, and, in retrospect, it marks an end of an era. World has changed, and not for the better. Perhaps it would anyway, with or without the attack, but it’s a symbol of how the hopes of the 90-ties were crushed.
And all the victims, people in many ways like me, office workers that felt safe in a glass tower in a big, peaceful city…
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Yeah, the whole pick on the big buildings and all the people was a watershed moment. Safety, no matter how “perceived” was gone at that moment…
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I still cry when I think about it…
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It is an event that we definitely shouldn’t forget about.
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I remember afterwards I started praying for a spiritual awakening in America and for the gospel to spread throughout the Muslim world.
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Yeah, the church I was attending at the time used the next year to really ask God for an awakening. We saw signs, then it just seemed to flicker out at the 2-3 year mark 😦
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Never forget 9/11. I was in high school and overseas that day, but it was still very traumatizing. I remember watching the live coverage feeling cold, terrified, sick.
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That day, and in the years to follow, I had a much deeper connection with all those Americans who had experienced Pearl Harbor day. I can remember when I was highschool one of the vets at our church going off because no one remembered Pearl Harbor day. I remember that I thought “my parents weren’t even born when this happened, so why should “I” bother to remember it?”.
Now I understand his position.
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I can’t believe it was 18 years ago. I got the news from my dad as I was getting a lift home from work. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing on the TV. I watched so many documentaries about it but it still gets to me all these years on. So many sad stories about the people who died. Heartbreaking.
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Time passes so quickly, doesn’t it?
Here in the US a lot of the “documentaries” were just an excuse for people to air their pet conspiracy theories or go off about politics so I tended to avoid them. I figure in maybe another 10 years sufficient time will have passed for me to start watching some documentaries on it without me getting all up in arms 😀
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The crystal clarity you mention is the only way we can – and must – remember that day, if nothing else to honor the memory of those who lost their lives.
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I can only imagine what someone who lost a loved one in the Towers must feel on this anniversary.
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I have seen documentaries where survivors where interviewed, and they were still devastated at the thought of friends and co-workers who did not survive, so it must be even worse for relatives…
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Saw it live on television as a kid myself. A day to never forget.
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I can only echo Piotrek and Maddalena. I remember exactly where I was when we started receiving those first images, even though I’m not American. It changed the world and it feel like something fundamental was lost. It is important that we remember.
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The only positive thing, as I reach here, is that this did not lead into a world wide reign of terror where jihadi’s started taking out national monuments the world over. Small blessings I guess.
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Agreed.
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