We will never forget. 9/11

[Lawrence]

Where the Twin Towers stood, two square memorial pools collect water that runs from surface edges bearing the names of the 9/11 victims who lost their lives here that day.

 

[Deville]

I will never forget. I want to forget it but, I can't. The day replays in my mind over and over starting from the night before to the end of the week. I don't like talking about it and I seldom do. There were a couple of movies that came out about that day that I have never watched and never will. About five or 6 years ago I decided to stop watching all the coverage and specials about that day. I can't continue to re-live it year after year. It's been burned in my mind so why bother.

I know some day I will have to explain what happened to my Son. I'm not sure what I will say.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

...we should NEVER forget the horrors of war..the death and destruction that comes from it....it not pretty.
tell them the truth...
the survivors of Pearl Harbor probably asked the same questions?....Why us?

 

[paulnstef39]

I took my kids to Manhattan that thanksgiving, so they could see it for themselves. I didn't want them to just see it on TV, I wanted them to see what the enemy did to us in person. We spent most of the day walking all around the site taking plenty of pictures. I believe it was the quietest I have ever heard my kids for such an extended period of time.

 

[xmudman]

I will never forget. I want to forget it but, I can't.

After eight years going to the City, I think I know just a tiny bit how badly hurt New Yorkers were by 9/11. For years, and possibly even still, my friends there could only handle the anniversary if it was raining or otherwise gloomy; it hurt even worse when the day was as sunny and beautiful as it was in 2001.

There are no pictures or smilies to post that would be appropriate to this post.

Deville, a big, tight brother-in-arms hug to you.

 

[Deville]

What bothers me the most is when I drive by 1 World Trade and I see all the smiling faces of the tourists and the mostly blank faces of the locals, most of whom like I are very bothered by seeing so many happy faces in what will forever be a grim place.

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[xmudman]

(T)he smiling faces of the tourists

who see the shiny new building, and the hustle and bustle of the Wall St area, and forget the horror of what happened there. This happens all the time at Civil War battlefields, and has even been seen at the Auschwitz site, if you can imagine that