Brother Adam Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 I was in college and was on the Internet at home. I was online all day in solidarity with other people online talking about and learning about the tragedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_z2r9rpQCP4E/SChI8ksf6wI/AAAAAAAAAGE/tDE9vlkWh8Y/S1600-R/judge-16.jpg[/img] Father Mychal Judge, the first of the First Responders, pulled from the rubble of 9/11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 (edited) [quote name='Lil Red' timestamp='1315769131' post='2303325'] i remember [url="http://oxyparadoxy.blogspot.com/2011/09/silence.html"]the silence[/url]. [/quote] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3np0DMxXKzM&feature=player_embedded#!"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3np0DMxXKzM&feature=player_embedded#![/url] [i]And in the naked light I saw[/i] [i]Ten thousand people, maybe more[/i] [i]People talking without speaking[/i] [i]People hearing without listening[/i] [i]People writing songs that voices never share[/i] [i]And no one dared[/i] [i]Disturb the sound of silence[/i] Edited September 11, 2011 by USAirwaysIHS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 [quote name='Brother Adam' timestamp='1315775306' post='2303346'] [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_z2r9rpQCP4E/SChI8ksf6wI/AAAAAAAAAGE/tDE9vlkWh8Y/S1600-R/judge-16.jpg[/img] Father Mychal Judge, the first of the First Responders, pulled from the rubble of 9/11. [/quote] And sadly, no one in that picture was allowed to attend the ceremony today per order of the Mayor of New York City... A friend on Facebook told me that the documentary "The Saint of 9/11" about Father Judge is up on Hulu for free today if anyone wants to watch it. Some of the stuff about the families he counseled and the danger he sometimes put himself in to carry out his priestly duties is truly humbling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 [img]http://designwire.interiordesign.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Memorial-Pool.jpg[/img] [img]http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/wtc-waterfall-20101110-132001.jpg[/img] [img]http://forum.blu-ray.com/attachments/general-chat/37732d1315528284-9-11-10-year-anniversary-the_freedom_towers_by_restorenewyorkcity.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaPetiteSoeur Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 [quote name='BG45' timestamp='1315779563' post='2303370'] And sadly, no one in that picture was allowed to attend the ceremony today per order of the Mayor of New York City... A friend on Facebook told me that the documentary "The Saint of 9/11" about Father Judge is up on Hulu for free today if anyone wants to watch it. Some of the stuff about the families he counseled and the danger he sometimes put himself in to carry out his priestly duties is truly humbling. [/quote] I encourage everyone to watch the Saint of 9/11. It is a very moving documentary and I think it's on netflix instant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 a friend just posted this on facebook: [img]http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/291913_276275092382586_100000002936676_1175077_197642255_n.jpg[/img] he was driving by, and spotted this guy waving the American flag on a highway overpass to show off his patriotism... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaPetiteSoeur Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 There was a guy running with a huge flag near school... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 CBS is playing the documentary [i]9/11[/i] by the Naudet brothers right now. You can hear this crash and the first thing you know is that it's a body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Wow what a depressing update to that documentary...two of the guys died from rare bloodborne cancers people don't usually pop up until you hit your 70s and 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 i've watched that documentary almost every year on the anniversary. I believe that film footage of the first plane hitting the tower is the only one of its kind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 I havent yet watched that documentary you guys are talking about. I will never forget watching the second plane hit though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissyP89 Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 My uncle worked for the NY Port Authority in the North Tower. An engineer, he was the sort that was always punctual -- never, ever late for work. So that day, not yet 12 years old, I watched his tower fall on TV in class as it happened. That same minute, the bell rang to switch classes ... I ran straight to guidance and stayed there for the rest of the day. I was sure he had died. It was too devastating for me to even consider survivors. What I didn't learn until about 2 in the afternoon was that, for the first time ever, my uncle was late to work. He was helping my cousin move into her new classroom -- it was her first day as a teacher in Newark. When the planes hit, he was on the train into New York ... watched it all happen right out his window. He also survived the attacks in 1993, and got caught in that huge power outage a few years ago. Bribed one of the ferry workers to take him and some coworkers over to the Jersey side. Why he got so lucky is still a mystery to us, but in the last ten years he's seen his daughters marry, become a grandfather 4 times over, and settled into retirement far away from the City. For a few hours that day, I got a taste of the grief the victims' families still carry. One day was plenty for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_nine Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 [quote name='BG45' timestamp='1315792870' post='2303523'] Wow what a depressing update to that documentary...two of the guys died from rare bloodborne cancers people don't usually pop up until you hit your 70s and 80s. [/quote] I watched that too So terrible. To think it might have been prevented with some respirators . . . The readings in Mass today were quite striking. We must forgive. This was never how things were meant to be but we must not hold onto anger as we wait with eager anticipation of Christ's return, when He will make all things new and return this fragile broken earth to its proper state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Watching a show about 9-11 yesterday I heard that familiar BANG BANG BANG gunshot like sound. Maybe Id never caught on before, maybe I missed the explanation but Id always assumed it was beams or other things in the buildings breaking. It was people hitting the ground. As someone who is a burn victim I have some tiny sense of why they jumped. The pain is unimaginable. All you do is want to get away from it. You cant think straight at all. To give some comparison if youve ever had the wind knocked out of you and youve been gasping for air all you think about is "gotta breathe, gotta breathe" Magnify that by a zillion times and you can start to see why they jumped. I am terrified of heights and [u]cannot[/u] stand the feeling of free fall but when I think of the pain I endured burning, which was nothing compared to being faced with a burning jet! And think of what they mustve faced Im sure even for me the jump would have probably started to look pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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