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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 2:13 am
Just thinking, and remembering all the people affected. Heading off to bed with all in my prayers.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 3:35 am
Oh, you took my breath away, Who. Thank you.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 4:30 am
memorial My thoughts are with many people today.
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Zachsmom
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 6:43 am
Mine too 
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 7:31 am
And we will always remember those who stood beside us:
A day of mourning in Ontario, Canada
A German sub--passing by a sub in the U.S. Navy
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Zachsmom
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 7:35 am
I feel like a shit. I go on with my everyday life and I totally forgot about 9/11. Until I woke up today. Just suddenly it hit me. It was 9/11. I remembered everything of that day. When I found out and the feelings are just gushing out. I am sad today. Really really sad.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 7:41 am
{{{hugs}}} May the peace of the Lord find and settle over us today...
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 7:48 am
Thank you Whoami for starting this thread. It is so important not to forget. My thoughts and prayers are with the friends and families of those lost. And everyone effected by this horrific tragedy. God bless us all.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 8:54 am
"Nous Sommes Tous Americains. Nous Sommes Tous New-Yorkais"
Le 11 septembre 2001 marque l’entrée dans une nouvelle ère, une ère triste et differente de celle commencée après la chute du mur de Berlin. Dans ce moment très grave de notre histoire nous sommes solidaires avec les Etats-Unis à qui nous devons la liberté. L’attaque terroriste a frappé les symboles militaires (le Pentagone, siège du ministère de la defence), politiques (la maison blanche) et économiques (the World Trade Center) de l’Amérique du Nord. Les terroristes ne veulent pas liberer les peuples du Sud opprimés par les Etats-Unis, mais ils veulent rayer notre monde de la carte. Il y a seulement une puissance mondiale, les Etats-Unis parce que il n’y a plus l’URSS qui était le contrepoids. Aujourd’hui dans certains pays du monde, les Etats-Unis attirent seulement la haine, mais ils ont toujours sous-estimé cette haine. Bin Laden a étécrée par les Etats-Unis en effet pendant la guerre froide la CIA l’avait payé pour organiser la resistance contre l’URSS. L’Amerique du Nord après cet attentat changera mais ce n’est pas la première aggression sur leur territoire, en effet, en 1912 l’armée britannique a detruit la maison blanche et puis en 1941 les japonais ont bombardé Pearl Harbor, mais l’épisode d’Aujourd’hui a été plus grave parce-que sont morts de civils innocents et pas de militaires. La Russie va devenir la principal allié des Etats-Unis, mais l’alliance qui était établie dans les années 50 avec l’intégrisme musulman sunnite, defendu en Arabie saoudite et au Pakistan va terminer. Le risque pour les américains est celui de penser que l’islamisme en general soit l’ennemì ; en effet la religion n’autorise pas le suicide et surtout ceux couplés au massacre des innocents. ("LE MONDE" 13 Septembre2001)
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 9:19 am
I had posted this over in Messages to everyone..so I will just post it here as well.

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Max
Member
08-12-2000
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 11:27 am
From one of the rememberance ceremonies here in Oregon. Each plant represents someone who died on or as a result of 9-11-01 and bears the name of an individual. They are grouped by WTC (2,380), Pennsylvania (40), Pentagon (184), First Responders -- fire and rescue people who died (415), and military personnel who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since the attacks (979 -- although the number continues to rise daily). The plants were all donated by a local nursery and can be purchased for $25 each (I bought two arborvitae to go in my backyard as my own personal twin-tower remembrance). All the money goes to Tribute to Honor and the Oregon National Guard Emergency Relief Fund. I missed the service this morning, but will go back for it this evening.

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Coolbeans
Member
04-05-2004
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 2:27 pm
Here's a link to a tribute to those that died on 9/11. http://attacked911.tripod.com/
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 3:08 pm
Here's a site of some pics someone took (from the gymnastics board I frequent) of the memorial lights. Pics How weird is that red sky? Does the sky get like that there often? Or was the photographer's settings a bit off?
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 4:27 pm
Someone used a filter. The sky is reasonably clear and it was a nice sunset. I can see the beams of light very clearly from my window.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 4:39 pm
Shortly after the tragedy, I found a simple site with 4 pages of images of tributes from around the world. I didn't know if the site would last very long so I saved a copy of all 4 pages. Here is a zip file of that tribute.
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Zachsmom
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 5:32 pm
I hate how this thread is so short. almost 3,000 people died that day. We can be patriotic, and hang the flag, but do we really and truly know what it means?
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Bearware
Member
07-12-2002
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 5:52 pm
I was thinking it was all being said and rather well, my additions wouldn't improve - but I remember, and grieve.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 6:01 pm
Zachs, I think everyone deals with 9/11 in their own way. I liken it to the Oklahoma city bombings. At the time I thought what a tragedy but it wasn't till I lived through 9/11 that I realized what a life altering event it must have been for some people. It isnt a matter of patriotism it just hits some people differently. As a New Yorker, I know that all our lives were changed that day and we are still dealing with the effects. It might just be a plane you hear overhead and you ask yourself, is that too low? you check to see that the empire state building is still there. That still goes on today.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 6:08 pm
God bless all those who live on without there loved ones beside them.
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Cinder
Member
09-01-2000
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 6:11 pm
I came to this board that I call home to vent. I knew- or at least hoped-there would be a thread about 9/11- and you guys did not let me down. I was shocked last year at the lack of talk about how to remember the day- and then later I blamed myself for not speaking up. So this year-I decided if I wanted to talk about 9/11 I needed to be the one to bring it up. Since I facilitate a group- I had unwilling participants. I asked if any needed or wanted to talk about the upcoming anniversary. One said "who cares." One said "I have moved on" One asked - "what's September 11?" I verbally acknowledged that the day meant different things to different people and I wanted to give anyone who needed talk a chance to. No-one thought it was significant to talk about. These are adults. I know they have many problems coping with life- but I never realized how unconnected they are to whats going on in the world. I know I am being selfish to think that if I feel sadness, and remember how scared- and lonely- I felt that day(I was unable to see my husband till the next day due to increased security on the base). I was one of the people who watched the news every possible minute that week. Thank goodness I was taking Counseling classes with professors who understood the impact and let us take as much time as we needed to process it. I was able to express to others how scared I was knowing my husband would be called to war. Little did I know I would get to wait 3 years for that to happen. I know we need to go on with our lives- and I did. I went to work and school as required- but when I had a spare moment I prayed for the families. When I was driving this morning I remembered the times. I too have moved on- but I can never forget- or think that September 11 was just another day. Hope I didn't come of as being judgemental. I just had to come to the realization that just because I think about the day often- others don't want or care to. (I am specifically talking about the people I had direct contact this week and asked about it) I am sure there are others who feel like me. There are many who lost loved ones who were directly effected- and I wonder if they feel some of my frustration.
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Cinder
Member
09-01-2000
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 6:14 pm
OK- in the time it took me to write that 3 others have posted. I agree with you Maris that every one deals with it their own way- and it isn't a matter of patriotism. I just had to have a reality check about that today.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 6:30 pm
I said a prayer this morning before getting out of bed. I prayed for all those who were lost on 9/11 and for all those who lost loved ones on 9/11. I also prayed for peace, because in all my 50 years, I've only known of war. I prayed for my cousin Kathy who died at age 49, two months before 9/11, of a brain aneurysm, because she never knew the world without war and I can only hope that she has finally been allowed to know about peace. Then I went about my day and stayed away from the TV. I attended a floral arrangement class for the first half of my day and the woman running the class asked for a moment of silence in observance of 9/11. My tears started flowing, as they are now as I type this. 9/11 will always be a sad day for me.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 7:01 pm
I don't think anyone can say how anyone should feel or not feel. We are all human and act and react in our own way. 9/11 is a day that I can't not remember but just because I don't want to talk about it here doesn't mean I don't think about it or that anyone else doesn't. Like it was said above, we're all adults.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 7:07 pm
september 11th is my generation's december 7th. it is a day that will never be forgotten.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 8:09 pm
I can understand the various feelings towards whether this thread gets many posts. I agree that everyone reflects in their own way. I also understand how Zmom feels that more people should reflect. I also respect those who just didn't want to have the horrific events of 3 years ago once again shoved in their face. I don't think it means they don't care. I think it means that they just can't deal with the intensity of those emotions again. I could take responsibility for the lack of posts, by titling the thread in a way that really didn't directly refer to Sept. 11. Perhaps many people didn't click here cause they didn't know the content. I took the title from a magazine I subscribe to, that has a series of occasional photos titled "Need More be Said." The photos are always stories within themselves. You know, the proverbial "a picture is worth a thousand words" theory. Often, no more can be said. So, just viewing a picture and reflecting often is all you can do. I'm sure quite a few people viewed the opening picture and reflected, even if they didn't post. And I'm sure many more did their own form of memorializing the day in their own way.
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