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My husbands friend lost his father, he was a BC for the NYFD and lost his life that day. My DH's two uncles had to retire from the NCPD and the NYFD because of damaged lungs and my BIL (NCPD) was there to help the day after. I couldn't imagine being there.

I went to too many funerals from this tragedy.

I'm not in the city, but I get scared everytime a plane is low near my building.

The freaky thing is a couple of months before, I was going to take a job for Morgan Stanley and it would have been at the WTC. I was supposed to start the week before. I would have lost my life that day, that is where the plane hit. I'm thankful everyday.


to everyone who was there or has lost someone special to them. They will never be forgotten!!!!!

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I wasn't there....but I teach in a community that suffered a huge loss. Each year, I have several students who lost parents or loved ones.
It is a terrible terrible time. I can't imagine what they go through. Breaks my heart.

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Saw the second plane go in from 14th street. Saw WAY TOO MUCH that day. A close friend worked for fudicary trust and JUST made it out.

Worked for a non profit for four years after 9/11 that helped small (mom & pop) businesses recover from the attacks. Our company also helped rebuild lower Manhattan. I relived that day, every day for four years. I mean I heard about 1,400 different stories from ALL walks of life about what happened that day and how it effected those people. It was too much for me at times and I knew I could make more $$$ doing something else, but I felt called to do that work, KWIM?

Someone even wrote a WSJ article in 2003 about me and the nonprofit, it was on the front page. Wish I knew how I could look it up.

ETA: Hearing those stories and seeing what I saw, it is a HARD day to this day.

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I was no where near there, but lost 2 friends and one very special man in my life and I have many of the same feelings and fears as you. I send you lots of

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My Offices headquarters were there. We lost 9 employees that day. For me seeing those who were hurt...badly burned and cut up from shards of glass ets come to work in our office for months afterwards was the hard part. One employee was soo severly burnt over so much of his body and face and he was just a constant reminder....my heart broke for him daily.....Couldnt imagine what horrors they had seen and lived through.

God bless anyone who was there and lives with the sadness, fear and remeberence and God bless all who were lost.

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Posted by Summerrluvv



My only involvement was watching it all on TV as it happened. Such a heartbreaking day . I remember Nicholas and I were getting ready to go to Wood Kingdom. I put the slide show in my avatar earlier today, I watch it every year I guess as a tribute to the lives lost so they know we haven't forgotten about them.

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Oh Aeriell, I'm so sorry for your pain/hurt having been right there. I was in midtown, directly across from MSG & we were in a sales mtg at the time & the VP of the company came in to tell us the first plane hit. We all thought it was a commuter plane or that he was somehow wrong. We started talking about it in the sales mtg. & then he came in shortly after telling us about the 2nd plane. At that point the owner of the company told us how this would affect all of us in some way or another & how he'd do anything possible to make it safe for us (ordering lunch/dinner in, making accommodations to sleep there, etc.)

I just remember watching it all on the internet b/c we didn't have a TV on our floor. The day was so perfect, a crisp fall day, blue sky.

We watched down the window & saw the thousands of people outside MSG trying to get home on Amtrak/LIRR.

I went back to work the next day & it was just an eerie feeling...you also just constantly heard sirens. I also remember how everyone was just especially nice to each other.

Just such a terrible, terrible event, so so sad.

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i lost 2 people that day....one who was VERY close to me...the other a friend from high school that i hadnt seen in a few years...
This is a really difficult time of year for me, for many reasons, but especially because of that..i spent 2 weeks with his immediate family after 9/11..while they kept looking for him, before having a small memorial at church for him..it was one of the worst times in my life..
I spend this week in prayer for him, and sometimes at the memorial they do in Lido with his kids who are my best friends..Those people, all of them who were taken that day, live on in the hearts of so many people everyday..and its amazing..my best friend and i (it was her father who perished) were reading an online memorial the family has set up for her father the other day, and you would be blown away by the compassion of complete strangers..
so for anyone you know that mayve lost someone that day, reach out to them...it touches them very deeply to have your support..
God bless all of us, preparing to mourn that day..

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I was not there, I cannot even imagine

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My husband was in Tower 2, 69th floor.

He worked for Morgan Stanley as an accountant. Not a job I worried that was "dangerous".

He barely, within minutes, made it out alive. Many co-workers died.

I was 4 months pregnant with our first child, Nicholas.

I believed my husband to be dead for over 5 hours. None of us (family/ friends) really believed he had made it, especially as the moments kept ticking away.

I won't even put on the televion tomorrow.

It's really such a long, heartbreaking, emotional story.

Every time I retell it to someone, I am hysterical, like it was happening all over again.

Both my DH and myself have never recovered from that day.

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I was there, not in the Towers but close enough. I was standing next to 1 Liberty Plaza when the 2nd plane hit and the 2nd Tower exploded before my eyes. After, that the things that I saw and went thru, I will never forget It was truly a horrible day and to all those effected. I never usually watch any TV related to it. Since I lived it 1st hand, I don't need to see it replayed on TV.

That we never experience a day like 9/11 again

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I get a pit in my stomach every year during this week.

I was in Midtown, just having arrived at work to a message from my friend to ask if I was OK. I called her and was on the phone when my boss ran over and told me what was going on. Just as I walked into her office to see the news on TV the second plane hit. I'll never ever forget that day, those feelings of terror, walking the streets of midtown and seeing people covered in soot, and the general eerie silence of the city.

I remember going back to work and being so nervous everytime I saw an airplane flying too low or I hate to say it, but an arab man on a train car with me. I would walk off the train and secretly berate myself for stereotyping, but then at the same time I was terrified of suicide bombers. After 9/11 I thought (and still think) anything can happen at any time.

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I just wanted to offer many

I didn't go to work that day because I was sick and watched it all from TV, in horror. My sister worked nearby and I remember the panic I felt not being able to get a hold of her. My father (retired FDNY) assisted in some of the clean up and won't speak about it.

Many and to all who were forever affected in their own, unfortunate way.

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I wasn't there but my father works for a company that took some of the largest losses - they were up there with Cantor Fitzgerald (they were the floors directly below 95-99 I think in tower 1) - My father's office is in midtown - but the WTC was their IT department and they were having problems with their phones so my father would occasionally have to go down to the WTC offices to make his conference calls when there were big contracts that needed attention. He was delayed that morning by a coworker and was getting into the cab to go down there when the 1st plane hit. Had his coworker not delayed him he would have been at the WTC on one of the top floors. My mother was frantic b.c she couldn't reach him for a few hours and she knew he was going to the WTC for a conference call.

I was at Eisenhower park a few weeks ago with a friend who wanted to see the WTC memorial - she worked across from the WTC and was telling me about her experience.

I think it was extremely traumatic to watch on TV I couldn't begin to imagine what it must have been like to have been actually in the buildings or in the area.

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I didnt lose anyone in 911, but my dad and dh were working in the city. They both had to walk across the bridge to get home that night. All i keep thinking was "what if they blow up the bridges now with all those people walking across", till this day i have a major panic attack going into manhattan.

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I lost a very good friend.. She worked at Canter and she was married 2 weeks prior to 9-11.. Just back from Hawaii...


I worked on Wall Street at the time and I was home sick.. THANK GOD!

My father was missing for 6hrs because cell service was down, the thought of that loss will remain fresh in my mind forever..

like 25 of us drove to the bridge and went and volunteered to give out supplies and water from the red cross...

******* Terrorists.. I hope America kills their families and knows loss as NY knows from 911..

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I can't read anymore or I'm gonna be balling all day at work. I just wanna give everyone

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I was home on LI watching the 2nd plane fly into tower 2- live. That was scary enough for me and something i will never forget. i couldnt imagine being in the city on that day, i would feel the same way that you do.
we lost a very close family friend that day- he was part of the FDNY and tower 1 collapsed on him.

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Posted by Summerrluvv



My only involvement was watching it all on TV as it happened. Such a heartbreaking day . I remember Nicholas and I were getting ready to go to Wood Kingdom. I put the slide show in my avatar earlier today, I watch it every year I guess as a tribute to the lives lost so they know we haven't forgotten about them.

I watched the slide show from your avatar earlier today and it made me cry......!

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I was called in to Ground Zero and The Family Assistance Center down @ The Piers a few days after 9/11, I am on my Emergency Preparedness Team and Disaster Drill/Decon team at the hosptial where I work and also on The Red Cross Disaster Team so I spent many days and nights down at both sites providing support to families and rescue workers. I wuld get into the city @ 7am and leave @ 10pm, it was an experience I will never forget, I saw visions I wish I could forget, sat with firehouses as 250 lb grown men crumbled to the floor weeping like children all in a pile,held newborns as their mothers filled out compensation forms, walked the wall of photos of the missing, and revelaled over the teddy bears that were sent from Oklahoma City for support, it was devestation beyond words, I was down at the sites until Christmas time and then I got burnt out, got debriefed and bowed out. I will NEVER forget. May they rest in peace and may those left behind always feel the support of those of us who pray for them daily.