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Let's remember the lives lost and the heroes who answered the call on 9/11. Never forget.

Here are the ceremonies in NYC and at the Pentagon today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-xdcPEMvP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GR_auYcO5g

Amen.

Black Mamba wrote: ↑Thu Sep 11, 2025 6:07 pm Let's remember the lives lost and the heroes who answered the call on 9/11. Never forget.

Here are the ceremonies in NYC and at the Pentagon today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-xdcPEMvP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GR_auYcO5g

I love NYC and the whole 911 Memorial.
Especially the tiny church and cemetery across the street. Good God! Those graves date back to the 1700's!
Alexander Hamilton is buried there!
There was no damage to the church or the graves. Just ashes. They cleaned it up. That's amazing!

Metal Sludge wrote: ↑Thu Sep 11, 2025 8:34 pm

Black Mamba wrote: ↑Thu Sep 11, 2025 6:07 pm Let's remember the lives lost and the heroes who answered the call on 9/11. Never forget.

Here are the ceremonies in NYC and at the Pentagon today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-xdcPEMvP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GR_auYcO5g

I love NYC and the whole 911 Memorial.
Especially the tiny church and cemetery across the street. Good God! Those graves date back to the 1700's!
Alexander Hamilton is buried there!
There was no damage to the church or the graves. Just ashes. They cleaned it up. That's amazing!

Lower Manhattan is one of my favorite areas of NYC, and I agree with you about the church and cemetery. I still have a few photos from 1983 from the roof of the twin towers observation platform. It was a different experience being outside on the roof and able to see the top of the other tower up close, a la Philippe Petit.

I was in 8th grade when that happened. I remember watching it from the skyline where I lived. I don't think I fully understood the severity/exactly what was happening (prob never will), just watched. Definitely changed things from there on out.

I think I've told this story before but I woke up at maybe 9:15 that day, got ready for my 10:00 shift at a record store, and didn't check the news at all.

My boss must not have either. So the whole country's going nuts and we're sitting on stools, burning Nag Champa, and listening to Rodney Crowell.

This kid comes in with a stack of Pearl Jam live CD's that he very obviously stole from the mall. I'm opening them up and looking for scratches (all of them mutilated) and he says "Someone crashed a plane into the Empire State Building." That's how I remember it because I remember thinking of King Kong. But this dude was a burnout (Pearl Jam CD's) so I was like "Oh yeah? That's crazy."

Then the guy from a store down the street came in and told us all about it and I was like "Uh, this is really bad." We might've turned on NPR or something. But most of our news was coming from our customers. To paint a picture, we sold drinks to beat urine tests. It was an extremely surreal day.

After that, this extremely hostile shitkicker came in and started hassling me about signing up for the military. He was a Marine and he was flying to ground zero THAT NIGHT to help dig and what was I going to do? "WHAT IF IT WAS YOUR SISTER IN ONE OF THOSE BUILDINGS??"

I was frozen. Eventually he moved on, presumably to bully some kid at Subway. Now my boss was this Vietnam vet, one of the coolest guys I've ever known. Barely said a word but when he did, it was great. This time: "Fuckin' jarhead."

Later that night, I got shithammered and watched the news on TV finally. But when we went on a beer run, we run into like this white rapper type kid and HE starts hassling me about enlisting! We go back and forth, I'm doing a know'm census, finally I ask "Are you signing up?" He was like "Nah, I'm an only child, dawg."

The official story doesn't make sense, then or now. But they got away with it completely, to the point that I look loony in most of your eyes just bringing this up.

A whole lot of brown people died for shit they had no involvement in. Those are the people I remember most. The million civilians that got blown up so Halliburton and Blackwater could cash in.

Fuck George W Bush. Fuck his dad. And fuck his Aleister Crowley look alike mother as well. Those satanists have killed more people than cancer.

The crash footage and aftermath are still unsettling … and always will be.

I visited a friend who lived in the village a year earlier. We were walking by the towers and he showed me the train station and said, "you wanna see the rat race? be here at 9 AM". Those fuckers knew. They knew what they were doing.

I was in Manhattan on 9/11, & has lived there for just over a year at that point.

I woke up to Stern on my clock radio talking about the second plane hitting the towers. I originally thought it was a shitty bit that was doing.

It’s still crazy to think about….

Trinity Church is not across the street from WTC, lol.