I Was There. Remembering 9/11.
Yesterday was 9/11. I didn’t go on Facebook or Twitter or any other social media. I don’t want to see those messages. Vain and insincere. Odd forms of misplaced patriotism. It’s just too much.
The moment just before impact on Tower 2. (img src)
I seem to have this struggle with what to do on 9/11 every year. It’ll probably forever be the most important day in my life. A morning that shaped the world for generations to come. And I’ve never really truly processed it. Maybe I never will.
I was there. And for 2-3 weeks after.
It was like living in a war zone. F-15s, F-16s, KC-135s.
These things were in the air for weeks after the incident. (img src)
All manner of military airplanes constantly flying over head. Black smoke billowing up from the southern tip of the island, smoke the blackest black you ever saw. Forever wafting up and away from my Brooklyn vantage point. People walking about in a daze, staring blankly at each other, up into the sky, at nothing. People crying. Phones not working. People lost. Children out of school. Buying milk & bread & eggs because what do u do?
More whooshes from the planes overhead. More smoke. And more smoke. It seemed like the fire would never end.
My mom created some make-work job for me me back home just to get me out of there for a little while. It was nice to get out of the craziness for a bit. The whole City was shellshocked for a good long while after it happened. It was a weird time.
I was home for a month. Somehow I ended up getting a job down in SoHo a couple weeks after and you could still smell the soot and the metal and the blood. Burning away for months after.
The cleanup lasted until May 2002. (img src)
I can still recall that smell in my nose to this day. I hope I never smell it again.
God bless the 8 million or so of us that actually lived through that day in The City.
Despite the widely perpetrated mud on Judy Wood,
http://wheredidthetowersgo.com
http://www.drjudywood.com
http://www.checktheevidence.com
Above quoted text, taken from the following video
A huge hug from @amico! 🤗
I bet it must be a traumatizing experience to be there in person and see so much destruction. It's probably not easy for you to write about it even now, after 18 years
I’m telling you. It’s that smell. I’ll never forget it. It lingered for months in downtown Manhattan. And certain images get seared into your mind.
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Thank you so much for sharing your amazing experience which is now Featured on steemit.com. I grew up around Manhattan and lived there for the last ten years, but was in Michigan during 9/11. I can't imagine what it was like. Thanks again for sharing.
Thank you @andrarchy! I think it’s important to emphasize the real human experience of that day, which directly effected so many, rather than the political impacts, conspiracy theory, etc. that we all too often get.
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"Amazing" might be the wrong word..
Traumatic might be more along the lines of what he was expressing.. but I tend to think that all of us human beings experience trauma sooner or later.. so none of us are ever alone in that.
How amazing???
The mere smell was deadly causing cancer for many of the people participating in the rescue and cleanup. That's terrifying.
Smell of thermite in the morning.
Thank you for your statement.
However, you need to progress. Dig about the work of Ace Baker (no airplanes at all, the main distraction manoeuvre), the work of Dr Judy Woods (no demolitions, no collapses, no nuke explosions nor thermites of the 9 buildings in WTC area, no more false debunkings; the new technology which was weaponised and used to disintegrate the buildings), the Hutchinson effect (reproducible but not explainable yet by civil Science) and the work of Christopher Bollyn ( the political side of 911). For evidence how the three events Oaklahoma City, 911 and Fukushima are connected by the same sort of evidence, dig into the work of Andrew Johnson. I leave you the links below. Go through it, it is worth; this are the main keys. Let me know if you want more details, please.
http://www.hutchisoneffect.com/
https://www.checktheevidence.com/wordpress/category/911-and-fake-terror/
@fredrikka why you guys cannot bear the different thoughts?If you don't like the view then leave it for others, someone may find it worth or interesting. Why to hide from others?
One of the darkest days of humanity
Dancing Israelies arrested with explosives on Sept 11, 2001
I remember it as well and I was nowhere near to the incident; but it was my grandpa's birthday and usually we'd go over for lunch. Remember leaving school and getting to my grandpa's house, where the TV was on and family members were talking about "a plane that hit the WTC" in the US. The news were broadcasting it live here in Brazil and we were questioning... - how can a plane hit a building like that?.
A few minutes later, bang... another one, no one could leave the TV... the rest we all know what happened.
So every 9/11 I remember of my grandpa, that I no longer have, and I also remember the horror of what humans can do to each other.
I often wonder why we should never forget. It doesn’t seem that knowing and remembering is very often rewarded with justice these days.
It’s not about justice. It’s about respect.
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I have so much respect for the victims that I demand that they receive justice. And I will demand it as long as I live.
Here is a link to the recent study of the collapse of WTC 7
https://media.uaf.edu/media/t/0_xf8c7khp
I see this Never Forget statement everywhere, and I think it tends to be used in slightly different ways. Honestly, I’ve never understood why it’s been adopted by so many people and specifically used in reference to this day. What does it mean to you? Why do you use it when referring to this day?
Literally because I will never forget what happened that day. I can’t. It’s impossible. Every little detail is burned into my memory. From the time I woke up and looked out the window. All of the walking around town checking on friends while F16s were flying overhead. Standing on the Brooklyn waterfront with a bunch of strangers not talking but actively commiserating still somehow while looking at the endless smoke coming out. Trying to eat but not being able to. Trying to contact my mother but not being able to... All of that.
Never forget.
I’ll never forget that day either. I wasn’t in the city, though. I was in Upstate NY, and unlike NYC where you had fighter jets flying overhead for days and weeks, I remember the absence of aircraft for days being particularly eerie and strange. I was with a close friend of mine who was frantically trying to get a hold of his sister, who lived a few blocks from the Trade Towers, and his parents, who happened to be in DC.
I’ll also never forget March 11, 2011. I was in Sendai, Japan during that big earthquake and tsunami. Fortunately I was just out of reach of the water and never saw the wave. I imagine that experience is much more similar to your 9/11 experience. Everyone around me, myself included, was displaced for days and weeks. It was a very strange and somber time.
I still just don’t understand the use of Never forget. It’s an imperative statement. It’s comes off as threatening and pushy to me. Like I need to remember that day and for a specific purpose. I was alive. I was effected, and because of that I’ll never forget it, just like I’ll never forget March 11, 2011.
You seem to be aware of the way this statement is often used and appropriated, that’s why I was curious as to why you use it too. For me, it’s kind of a negative statement, but I see that it doesn’t come off that way to everyone.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Yeah, I don’t like how it gets used either. But that doesn’t mean I’m not gonna use it. For me, the big issue is I can use “Never forget.” because I was there. Those that weren’t there don’t really have the right to use it IMHO. I would bet that the people who weren’t there use it in the negative icky way you refer to. And those of us that were mean it in a sincere and respectful way.
Words are weird like that, huh?
You’re right about the earthquake. It’s that displacement for weeks afterwards. Like, what do we do now that we’ve experienced this unprecedented trauma? How do we catch our breath?
Lucky for me, I had friends in upstate New York and went up there for a few days and just kind of hid out for a bit. It was quiet. There were no planes overhead. No perpetual fire. That was a very healing time. None of us really had a clue how to act in such a situation.
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You’ve reminded me of a picture where two people are standing on opposites sides of a number and looking at. One person’s sees a six, the other a nine, and they are arguing about who is right. It’s all about perspective. I wasn’t in the city on that day and ever since that day I’ve only ever heard people who weren’t in the city on that day say, Never Forget, so it’s never really made any sense to me, just in the way the words are used and in the funny ways that language fails to communicate clearly the user’s intention.
I’m glad I asked you. I was afraid it would come off as rude considering the emotional weight of that day and the experiences that you had surrounding it. I’m glad you were able to escape the city for a time and recover. I was in Saratoga Springs, and even there, there was this sense of what do we do? How do we move on? How do we go to work when this is happening? I use the word happening because it seemed like something else would happen next. Everyone was just waiting, helplessly, worried, and wanting to know more for at least a week. It was a very strange time. A lot of the feelings I had on that day and afterward were feelings I had never felt before. I can’t imagine having actually been in the city on that day and afterward.
I miss the "inside job"/false flag info, which should be
normal to Steemians. No mentioning this!?
Then i will have to disagree on the rewards.
All the best still for your "trauma"
That’s not really my bag, luca. That stuff is every where. You can go read it there. I’m just relating my own personal experience, which is all I can really truly offer. My experience is unique; those theories, while interesting, are not unique. They’re a dime a dozen. And often put forth by people who weren’t even there. That just doesn’t feel right to me. If you weren’t actually there that day and didn’t experience the mood and the people and the emotions yourself, please don’t disrespect us by turning it all into some crazy conspiracy theory. Although it may be true (who knows? how will we ever know? who had JFK killed?), the anniversary of the day should be more about relating to people’s primal experience of that day, not later analysis of it.
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https://steemit.com/war/@krnel/18-years-of-destruction-remembering-the-lie-of-9-11
Wake up, Sleepy.
It's shocking that even though you witnessed it, that you
don't question it!
Do your homework , then you will be 100% sure like me,
who blew up the towers.
Ever heard of PRS?
Problem-Reaction-Solution...
And it should be all about analysing, so it won't happen again.
Or can you tell me why no pieces of the plane were found, with
an engine made with parts of titan, which has a higher melting point
then the 911 fire of the buidings, or witnesses from the lower floors,
who heard/felt the/an explosion 1-2 seconds before anything hit the buildings...
and,and,and... a lot of research and homework, you see.
No conspiracy.
Conspiracy is a "Think Tank" for the sheeples, sponsored with millions
of dollers every year, so you stay
away from the one and only truth.
And guess who invented that "Think Tank"....
the CIA around Kennedy times ;)
https://steemit.com/dtube/@benswann/7k66497ymhi
Oh, for sure, I question it, @luca1777. I’ve always questioned it. But there’s nothing I can do about it. I know how I feel about the conspiracy side of things. I just don’t feel like putting my tinfoil hat on and running around like Paul Revere. What difference would it make anyway?
If you’d read the piece, you’d know where I was coming from. That is from the place of people who went through that day and will have to live through the rest of our lives having experienced that. Regardless of whose fault it was for that happening, that actually happened! Whether it was planes, or a bomb, or all visual effects does not negate the fact that millions of people lived directly through a tragedy and deserve a tremendous amount of respect on the anniversary day of that tragedy. Spend the other 364 days doing what you will, but on 9/11 you need to respect the people who lost and cried and were scared and had their lives irrevocably changed.
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Ok, fair enough.
It's 100% from my heart, when i tell you, that
the research is done to avoid this madness for future times
and generations.
It was probably horror for you and i wish you the best to deal with it...
but: Let's get those Bastards ;)
Power to the People.
Only the Truth will set us free.
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Who cares all the People the American Soldiers killed all over the World after World War 2? USA need War. If they get a Fals Flag Attack inside of the DREAM, they are shocked...
But all the Blood from this Country was much more than this 3000 Killed People.
I know, the "easy" man and woman have no fault for this.
Why you did not talk about what was happen @ this Day??? Just your few? Sorry
I get no tears for this.
Salve
Alucian
a think is funny to say stuff like this. yes a lot of death has happen but he was not in world war 2. he was there. so way are you saying this. am sure he care for what happen in world war 2 also.
I did talk about what was happen AFTER WW2. And i think there was just one big Country with a very high Number of aggressive War beginnings on our World....
But i do not know anything.
How cares the People who die every day TODAY from Bombs and Bullets of American and German Weapon Industrie´s??? I dont care people who cry in a collective like all the others...
Yeah, there’s no need for this kind of talk. None of the people who fought to save lives that day had anything to do with whatever happened next. That’s a political issue. And most of us are not politicians. In no way am I trying to justify anything that America did afterwards using 9/11 as a pretense. I’m just relating my little story (among 8 million other stories plus 3,000 stories we will never know).
And don’t get me started on World War 2. Especially coming from a German. RUFKM? 😳That’s a whole nuther story that maybe one day I’ll share here.
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I now just what i live today, not from erliery i do not get one step on this world. Today i should fight a American illegal War as a German Soldier.... Nothing more to say. We are all just Puppets. I dont spend time for Shows. And do never forget, the Winner wrote the Story. ;-) Salve and have a good time. Alucian