A Time to Remember

[gadgetgal99]

9/11/01
Sadness, broken hearts, and bravery

[Garreg]

Strange was sitting here in at my desk at the same time - designing away as usual...... when the news came on.

My Parents had sailed to New York .... and was then going to Washington - to cut a long story short, they were a couple of the 'lucky ones', they'd left NY the day earlier. My Dad says, they came out of the Hotel in Washington and got into a Taxi - just as they did, a plane flew over and hit the Pentagon directly in front of them.......

They had to return to NY before joining the ship home. Despite everything - the pain and suffering - the uncertainty of knowing what had happened to loved ones, they tell me the people of NY showed nothing but kindness towards them - despite their 'own' turmoil and suffering....... as I say - they were a couple of the lucky ones.....

My heart goes out to all those and their loved ones who 'weren't so lucky' and a special ‘thank you’ to all those in NY who showed such compassion and understanding to two elderly people whilst all around them they faced the horrors of such an atrocity.

[nhdonny]

My daughter was a new freshman at NYU, incredibly excited about moving to the city of her dreams. Her dorm was on 4th street, about 20 blocks from Ground Zero.

At 8:50 she called my cell phone to tell me she had just watched a plane fly into the World Trade Center.

Walking back from crew practice across Washington Square that morning she joined the street people in amazement as a plane flew over their heads towards the WTC. She and her parents are forever changed but very much alive and thankful for the wonderful and resilient people of New York City.

I took this photo during our first visit a couple of weeks after the students returned. The three guards resting under the Odd Job sign seems well, odd. It really captures the mixed feelings we had while gawking yet participating in a pilgrimage we had to make.