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January 24, 2009
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Twelve years ago I bought this shirt from our local Fire Department fundraiser...approximately 13 days after 9/11/01 if I recall.
It won't win any design awards, but it means a lot to me.
I wear it each year of the 9/11 anniversary & each Independence day. Our country was as whole and was as united and polarized to one cause as it's ever been in my existence. It was a marvelous thing to be a part of & witness! We were united that day & for approximately two weeks following. Then it all rapidly went down the governmental flusher IMO
& any remaining exuberance was left with that dreaded "hangover" affect.
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February 22, 2009
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I would wear that proudly, if it were mine as well. Extra prayers went out this morning for those Families affected by the attacks and for the leaders of today's U.S. government.
Technically, the glass is always full; half liquid, half air....
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March 2, 2008
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Our lives changed so profoundly that day, I would dare to say that most of us can remember much of that particular day hour by hour, I certainly do.
I think (know in my case) that our parents had much the same connection to December 7, but the speed and breadth of access to information on 9/11 that we had has imprinted so many memories that I lived today much like I did twelve years ago, bewildered, afraid, but very Proud of America.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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August 31, 2013
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I remember that day very well, even though I was just a 2nd grade student in the distant state of Oregon. If I ever had a photographic memory, the image in my mind of that tv screen in the classroom would prove it.
I also just realized, the US hasn't been at peace since I was 7 years old. That thought suddenly makes me very tired. God rest all the victims.
March 30, 2013
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It's one of those moments of your life that you'll never forget or forget we're you were and what you were doing. I was a sophomore in high school sitting in language arts when it came over the intercom for teachers to turn their TVs on. A few moments later the whole school watched that plane hit the second tower. Extra prayers went out for those victims and heros today.
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md357 said
It's one of those moments of your life that you'll never forget or forget we're you were and what you were doing. I was a sophomore in high school sitting in language arts when it came over the intercom for teachers to turn their TVs on. A few moments later the whole school watched that plane hit the second tower. Extra prayers went out for those victims and heros today.
Your post brings to mind another memory moment (I'm a pretty old guy) when the intercom of O.E. Dunckel Junior High School came to life in November 1963 with the announcement of the assassination of JFK.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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January 24, 2009
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I think I was probably an itch in November 1963.
But I was here for the first year of the Kennedy 50 cent coin.
On 9/11, I just returned from dropping the kids at school & my wife had the TV on. We were both saying "how could some idiot hit one of those huge towers?"...then the second plane hit & we instantly realized that our country was under attack. I was at least an hour late to work that day because I couldn't pry myself away from the TV. The images of that day are permanently burned into my memory, as I'm sure it is for all of us.
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