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9/11
Even though it was 11 years ago, it's still so devastating. I've been watching shows on NatGeo all day. Makes ya wonder what you would have done in all of those situations. Evil Bastards.
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| September 10, 2012, 01:38 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: 9/11
I feel like some day we will know so much more that we are still in the dark about. I know that I get mad every time I think about that day. I have not gone to ground zero since it happened. I get mad at the coverage about the petty fighting between the different groups. I feel like there are so many that use what happened that day to make money. Like the bullshit " 9/11" commemorative coin set." I think about the people I know that were there and died and the ones that I know that were there after the fact. I took supplies to the people digging through that stuff looking for bodies. It pisses me off at the the way some people treat that day. I think the best thing to do is remember in your heart and mind. Not buy a coin or plate.Go to a hospital and volunteer some time if you want. Don't disgrace their memory by worrying over whose name should be first or bigger on some placard.
Trust me if you could have had the smell in you nose or that dust on you clothes and cars and house you wouldn't need anything else to remind you. If you had ash flying over your house and knew what it was, that doesn't go away. If you couldn't find your family and friends for even a little while that morning then you wont forget it for the rest of your life.I cant think of anyone where I live that doesn't have at least some of those memories burned into their brain.Personally I feel if there is a hell I hope the people that had any part of the planing or carrying out of the attacks is rotting in it!
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| September 10, 2012, 08:57 |
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sexyone1
64 / male
Silver Spring, Maryland, US
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Re: 9/11
I had a client who was supposed to have a meeting in his firm's World Trade Center office that morning. But the day before, he moved it to their midtown office. He probably saved about 7 or 8 lives. Unfortunately, he had a heart attack and died almost 2 months later.
One friend lost her sister in the attack. Another friend's brother worked in one of the buildings. He'd been through the bombing there about 10 years earlier. As soon as he heard the noise, he grabbed his coat and secretary and ran out. Another friend's daughter worked there too but was able to get out down the stairs.
My heart goes out to the first responders who risked their lives and later came down with cancer or other ailments. Can you believe the government still hasn't compensated them or covered their medical costs? For shame!
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| September 10, 2012, 16:49 |
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Liberalwife
47 / female
north, England, UK
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Re: 9/11
..no point in dwelling..passed is passed...or past.
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| September 10, 2012, 22:49 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: Re: 9/11
QUOTE (Liberalwife @ September 10, 2012, 22:49)..no point in dwelling..passed is passed...or past.
This is the point, it's not all in the past for many. First responders were trapped in dust, smoke and rubble at 9/11's Ground Zero. The responders were exposed to roughly 2,500 toxins, including asbestos and mercury. Many suffer a slew of health issues, from post traumatic stress disorder to asthma and cancer. An estimated 1,000 people have died because of that exposure.
The government had denied any responsibility. Not over.
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| September 10, 2012, 23:26 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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"About 50 types of cancer were added to a program that treats first responders and survivors suffering from toxins emitted from the World Trade Center wreckage. Tomorrow marks 11 years since the twin towers crumbled. In the years since the attack, many exposed to the poisons in the rubble have insisted to the government that their cancer was linked to 9/11."
"Today The National Institute for Occupational Safety and health announced that those affected by the newly added cancers will be covered for free under the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act 30 days after the additions are published in the Federal Register."
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| September 11, 2012, 00:39 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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The way I understand it it is not FREE. I understand they are covered under the insurance but they still have the office co-pays and medication co-pays as well. It might be different depending on what coverage they have chosen to go with. The biggest problem is this came way to late for so many.
I try not to bash our government but its hard when you know the truth and watch our government treat people as if they are disposable. Our soldiers are not treated any better. It's disgusting that we have men and women that put their life on the line for so little reward and to top it off they are ignored when they need help the most.
I worked across the street from the world trade centers when they were built in One Liberty Plaza. Everyone knows that building has asbestos when it was built. When they tried to blow it up the first time it was a family member of mine that was a big part of the documentary that covered the story and why it didn't fall down. He spoke to all the people involved in designing and building the trade centers. Everyone knew exactly what the dangers were when they came down and yet our President sat there and looked at those first responders in the face and told them they were all safe. My brother came home that night and said " He lied to everyone working there and living there and he doesn't even care." My brother went back every time wearing a mask, knowing that it only has minimal protection but he had no real choice. He would come home wash his car off the property so it didn't run into anyone wells. He would take his clothes off in his shed and put them in a garbage bag then shower. He was a producer and camera man for the news at the site and you wouldn't believe what he looked like everyday and the smell was gross.My friends that were the first responders working day after day after day didn't care that they might die. Their thoughts were "lets try to save anybody we can." I don't think any one of them would have walked off even if our government told them the truth. But I think they should have had that choice. They also should have been given better protection gear. And they should have been given all the medical care each and everyone of them have earned COMPLETELY FREE.
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| September 11, 2012, 01:36 |
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Re: 9/11
The images and grieving from that day are permantly burned into and ingrained in my memory.
I cannot watch any programs or movies about it, the grieving is too much, it's too sad.
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| September 11, 2012, 11:04 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Its on every channel. I was surprised to hear the reading of the names because last year they said they would no longer do that.
Very strange moment this morning because I had on the replay of the actual coverage that NBC had that day.They had a shot of a bunch of news crews running around in the background . As I'm watching they show a shot ot my brother running with a camera on his shoulder. I'm glad my mother didn't see that shot that day. She had flown in the day before this all happened. She even had to speak too i think it was the FBI because one of the hijackers was possibly on her flight. The whole thing just seems like it was out of a movie. The video of all the fireman walking in knowing now that so many didn't come out....so sad.
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| September 11, 2012, 14:56 |
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GG317
60 / male
Bowl of Granola, Massachusetts, US
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I'll only say, "This political." Not the event, but the coverage of it this year. News media, with the exception of FOX news, will be making this years coverage extend for days. How many days, depends on whether the president can find a new subject to blast his running mate with, or he (Romney) screws up on tape. Be looking for new evidence from some stations that look a lot like old evidence, just edited. All this is to shamelessly take away from the fact, "The president is losing his base voters, and there's nothing he can do about it."...
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| September 11, 2012, 15:09 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: 9/11
i thought they weren't going to glorify it? now i see we got patriot day on the calendar, and still planning a momument,the whole place should be made a park in memory of those how gave theire lives.
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| September 12, 2012, 22:30 |
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Re: 9/11
I saw some of the NatGeo coverage and was nice to see more info about it than has been seen since that fateful day.
What really bothers me is that it could have been prevented. All the info was there long before it happened.
Then again, after the Trade center bombing, one federal official stated " we've run thru several senarios, and feel that using commercial planes wouldn't be viable". REALLY?
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| September 12, 2012, 23:15 |
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QUOTE (OOMG @ September 12, 2012, 23:15)I saw some of the NatGeo coverage and was nice to see more info about it than has been seen since that fateful day.
What really bothers me is that it could have been prevented. All the info was there long before it happened.
Then again, after the Trade center bombing, one federal official stated " we've run thru several senarios, and feel that using commercial planes wouldn't be viable". REALLY?
I agree, but that's a conversation for some place other than here. But again, I totally agree with you!
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| September 13, 2012, 01:52 |
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sybianwatcher1
49 / male
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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QUOTE (Liberalwife @ September 10, 2012, 22:49)..no point in dwelling..passed is passed...or past.
All of these people that posted on here put their comments alot nicer than I would have.....I am a firefighter and know men lost in that building, and also know service personel that have huge health concerns in the after effects....for the survivors and their families it is very much in the present...and for their brief future, however long that might be. The attacks were very much a declaration of war, and every person responds , and heals differently to such an act.....as a foreigner looking in on the Americans, and someone who has been overseas, in a rounabout way fighting their war , you can't trivialize their feelings toward such a day...sometimes there ain't no forgetting.
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| September 13, 2012, 02:02 |
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QUOTE (sybianwatcher1 @ September 13, 2012, 02:02) QUOTE (Liberalwife @ September 10, 2012, 22:49)..no point in dwelling..passed is passed...or past.
All of these people that posted on here put their comments alot nicer than I would have.....I am a firefighter and know men lost in that building, and also know service personel that have huge health concerns in the after effects....for the survivors and their families it is very much in the present...and for their brief future, however long that might be. The attacks were very much a declaration of war, and every person responds , and heals differently to such an act.....as a foreigner looking in on the Americans, and someone who has been overseas, in a rounabout way fighting their war , you can't trivialize their feelings toward such a day...sometimes there ain't no forgetting.
Yup
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| September 13, 2012, 02:57 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: 9/11
I can't imagine that anyone who was old enough to remember that day will ever forget it. I know in this area it effected the day to day life as far as people were yanked out of school or work or couldn't go where they were supposed to. Its kind of strange when I talk to my kids about it because one was so young she hardly remembers anything other than a lot of commotion. My middle remembers a lot of people crying and my pulling him out of school and all the stuff that followed, like the supplies we collected and brought to the distribution area at Giant stadium practice field. My oldest remembers pretty much all of it.My youngest says sometimes she feels bad because it doesn't make her as sad as some people when she thinks of that day but she said " How can I be sad about a memory I don't have?" She thinks its horrible what happen but the memory just isn't there. I never thought about it the way she explained it, from her point of view.She said when she talks about it, it is the same as she talks about Pearl Harbor or any other historical event in her history class. She said most her her friends say the same thing. They were just babies.She was only 6 years old.What's strange is my youngest and middle don't remember a time when we didn't say " since 9/11" or remember not being searched at the airport or go by the nuclear power plant by our house and not see the military guards.
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| September 13, 2012, 05:55 |
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