Can't believe it's been eight years...9-11-2001

[Sonny]

That day still seems like it happened just yesterday.

[Murph]

Yep, its been that long, and I still remember it. I still remember the towers coming down, a defining moment for me.

[DeannaD]

Thanks for posting guys! I'm betting that you won't see much of this footage on the national media today. It's not politically correct you know.

I remember though...

[Sonny]

Generation 9/11
Children who watched the tragedy unfold are now on the brink of adulthood.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/215044?GT1=43002

[zebulus]

Yeah, I was 14 when it happened, I was a freshman in High School. Now im about to turn 23 and have been in the workforce for 5 years.

Time does fly by, it seems like it was just yesterday when the US invaded Iraq and I remember seeing that statue of Saddam Hussein being torn down.

[ronocnikral]

i woke up in my college dorm thinking it was a prank on the radio. Since I didn't have a TV I went down the hall to a buddy's and we watched it on TV. I remember like an hour later walking down the hall and everyone was just sitting there watching TV wondering what was going on. And our ROTC Captain was freaking out.

such a sad day...

[12stones]

I'm glad that people are still commemorating the day. I haven't seen too many flags flying since. It was a huge day in my life as my ex-wife and I were both still in the Marines and had been told to inventory our gear, ensure it's packed and ready to go at a moments notice, and to get our wills up-to-date. No one should ever have to experience the process of choosing who will get your kids if you both should die.

Definitely not a day I'll ever forget.

[Colyn]

It's too bad most Americans have already forgotten and as one poster pointed out the media won't focus much on it..

[HeatherLou]

I remember getting a phone call from Jeff, telling me to turn on the TV. I sat in my apartment all day watching the coverage. When Jeff got home from work, I was on the sofa, sobbing, still in my pajamas. For our parents and grandparents, they remember when JFK was assassinated. 9/11 became a day like that for our country.

[Spec A!]

I was working in my photo store in Annapolis, my wife (then girlfriend) was working just outside DC when we heard it on the radio. We too thought it was a prank at first, and then when they reported the one hitting the Pentagon suddenly it was incredibly real and scary- cell phone service quickly went to crap, I couldn't get in touch with my wife, you could hear and see the F-16s overhead, and all the while people oblivious to it kept coming in and kept dropping off/picking up their processing. I wasn't able to watch it on TV till we got home that night. I don't even think we closed early.

It was crazy to see the amount of military presence in town and how much more fortified the gates at the Naval Academy became after that. I still have all the newspapers from 9/12, with those unreal front page pictures.

[ronocnikral]

here's a cool website i found. you can honor a person who died 8 years ago.

[Jenny Z]

Being in the military at the time, it was probably one of the eeriest and scariest moments of my life. Mostly because we had no idea what to do.

Watched the 2nd plane while eating breakfast, the friend I was there with just looked at me, and we both knew something wasn't right. We ran back to work... I worked in an electronics shop, but fixing a multi-meter at that point seemed so pointless. We ended up watching TV for a while, and once they told us to stop and get back to work, I stayed on the internet all morning (I was working up front, but there was no way in hell anyone was coming in to drop anything off for repair that morning). It was strange to be somewhere as large as Ft. Hood, and not see any cars on the road, no one walking around... it was as quiet as I've ever heard it. It was just eerie.

It gets me every year.

[Jusselin]

thank you to all of our troops we love you guys, God bless america

[mmuhlenkamp]

I was in highschool at the time, I remember hearing on the radio in my car that the first tower had fallen, it was also homecoming week and I was pissed that so many of my classmates only cared about homecoming and couldn't grasp the gravity of what had just happened. I hope those people feel proper sadness and grief now.

It pains me to think about how many people died that day, how many families lost a mother or a father, how someone could hate Americans so much to think that this would give them glory.

Always remember.

[celticmama36]

I will never forget it either...my youngest son was in surgery at the time the planes hit the towers. He was 7 years old.

It would have been J's 11th birthday, but it was her first birthday in Heaven after dying from a cancerous brain tumor at age 10 a month earlier.

And my brother worked at the Pentagon. We didn't hear from him for months after...

It was a day of fear and grieving for me, but not so much for the same reasons as everyone else. Yes, I was upset about the attacks and didn't know what was going on. But way down in SC, hundreds of miles from NYC, I just wanted to crawl back into my bed and die because I couldn't face what I had to face that day in my own little world.

And when I think of 9-11, "J" is still the first thought to hit my mind...then comes the Towers and the awful things those hijackers did. I think of "Let's Roll!" and the heroes that gave up their own lives to prevent the deaths of many more...of all the people brought together that day by acts of senseless violence...of the surge of patriotism in this country in the immediate aftermath that so often dwindles with the passage of just a little bit of time...how I wanted them to go right then and take out the people that did this awful thing.

But, first and foremost, overriding it all, is knowing that I let "J" down and couldn't keep her here with us.