September 11 2004.

[FJ and G]

I didn't find out about what happened until around 4 p.m. on 11 Sept. Was in a software class and instructor purposely didn't tell us about it because he wanted to concentrate on our work. The class was close to the Pentagon. I think I must have been the last person to know.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater

I won't forget Septembet 11th, either. I had just got up and turned on the TV and it was showing the one tower with all the smoke coming from it. They weren't sure what the smoke was from. They were speculating that a bomb may have gone off or that a fire had started. Then, the next thing I knew, the second plane came. For the brief half a second before it hit, the first thought in my mind was, "Those towers must be pretty high if there are planes flying past them." Then it hit. I didn't know what to think. I also saw the first tower collapse just before I went to school. On a toy train related note, I won an auction on ebay for a Marx SP 7-inch diesel set with some extra 6-inch cars on the morning of September 11th. There was something just different about the whole day. It will be something that will be as vivid to me 50 years from now as it was then.

The world has never gotten over September 11th and really the world has changed so much. While 9/11 was certainly horrible and killed many, it also brought the world closer together. My prayers go out to all the families and friends of those who died on 9/11. May the world never have to experience such a day again.

I had dinner in Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the tower that had the microwave mast on top, on several occasions. Mostly it was company Xmas parties.

One ex boss of mine was learning to fly at the time, and we noticed that the planes were going by pretty much at eye-level outside on their way to land at Laguardia. My ex-boss told us that we were smack in the middle of what they call the Terminal Control Area (TCA), which starts at 1,000 feet up. The towers were a 1/4 mile tall, which is 1,320 feet. The TCA is the air space that all planes are in as they're on landing approach.

Once, when I had gone to the observation deck on top of the other tower with a client from out of town, we saw more planes going by at eye-level. That's pretty freaky, watching a 727 going by only slightly above your head but out over the Hudson river, not more than a couple hundred yards away.

Tony

[Anonymous]

Hey TrainBud:
Yeah, you are right. I watched in horror from our window in Jersey City.
BillFromWayne

[Anonymous]

Hello

My replies are ussually upbeat and cheerful, but since I am here, they are not. I remember it just like it was yesterday. I was in my big year, filled with major events. Fifth Grade. I remember it so. It was the first time I had my train magazines restricted from school, by parnets and teachers alike.

I remember my best friend Luke. He was a jolly person and still is. I remember it most because of 9-11 and it was when I got my first Lionel Train. Our class was coming in from morning recess. We had a great time. By the way, My teachers were Mrs. Benson and Mrs. Jennings.

Just as we lined up to go in, pitch black clouds rolled in and we all felt that sense of uneasiness when something has gone wrong or when you are in the house alone, with that feeling that some one is wathching you. While we were walking in, the wind began to blow and lightning flashed in the sky. Then it started to rain. We were scared out of our pants.

When the class had assembled back into the class. Our teacher Mrs. Benson had some bad news. She announced that Two planes had crashed into the world trade center towers and into the pentagon. We were devastated. Then my friend Stacey started crying. When we had calmed her down, she told us that her uncle worked in the wing that was hit in the pentagon. Right after our teacher had told us the annoncement that the forth plane had crashed, she excused her self to the hall.

We heard her sobbing and sniffing, as my other teacher, Mrs.Jennings came out of her room next door to comfort her. Then, I stood up in front of the class. I led them in hyms and the National Anthem, as well as, America the Beutiful, and Amazing grace. We had some candles and matches on the supply shelf in the one room bathroom. So I wlked into the small one room (closet like really, bathroom, which had a small toilet and was surrounded by class mateirials and ggrabed the off the shelf. The class stood in a line as I lit the candles and handed to them as they passed. When each person recieved a candle, we walked out into the hall, and group around our teacher. I felt proud, that the Little thing I was doing, was helping people in the school.

I ran back in and took the american flag down from the wall, and then, we walked up and down the school, singing Amazing Grace and such, with clasess gradually coming out of their rooms and following us as We marched through the school with me leading and waving the American Flag in the air. I had never felt so proud to be an American and leading this march of comfort through the school.

Then, when all the faculty and staff and kids had been assembled in the cafateiria. I stood up on a table and led more singing and another speach. Then, We marched back through the school so all the kids and teachers could go back to their calsses.


Remeber,
Nicholas Parker

[Anonymous]

BIllfromWayne,
You got it right. Killed. People were murdered. Innocents, murdered. 2,749 mothers fathers, children. 343 NY City Firefighters. Murdered at the World Trade Center. More elsewhere.
Show the graphic pictures. Relive the horror. It must be done. Time and distance and faulty memory too easily muddle the meaning.
I watched the towers fall from Hoboken.
I will never stop grieving for the ones I lost, and the families whose lives were altered forever.
Don't let the media soften the meaning of Murdered. We will never forget.

[Anonymous]

For me it was the start of a hectic 2-3 years. I was activated from my shop manager job on November 15 2001 and spent 4 months in Afganistan, then returning to the US due to my wifes brain tumor. THe military insurance was fantastic and we ahd the best doctors at Johns Hopkins do the work. That done she recovered while we bought a house, and i started a new job as a fulltime firefighter. Thank god this has been a nice quiet summer. It is still hard for me to watch the 9/11 video, knowing what a firehouse is truly like now. . Bill

[brianel027]

At the time, I was working in the newspaper business in Ithaca, home of Cornell and Ithaca College. Now I know there are many who complain about the "media" in our country - and not that some of the criticism isn't deserved.

But that was the very worst day I ever had in that business. The utter worst. Here we were on a deadline, trying to get 9 papers out that focused on local small town news - and the way it felt that morning - well it seemed like the whole country was falling apart. Who at the time could know what would or wouldn't happen next?

Folks in the office were just walking around in a daze, myself included. A few of us went outside for a few minutes. It wasn't even lunch yet, when I heard the wild random honking of a car speeding down the street. As the car got closer I could see it was a bunch of college frat boys... wilding waving a whole load of American flags out the windows hollering "God Bless America!"

Being in a town where college frat boy misbehavior is the norm, I can say I've never ever been as glad, happy, relieved or proud to see the American flag as I was that morning from a car with college guys. This was only a scant couple hours after it all happened... well before the sales rush on US Flags started. To this day, I don't know who those guys were, but I'm glad they had the initiative to hit the road and wave some flags.

Of course as the day wore on, we all got to hear about many, many far more substantial acts of courage, patriotism and bravery from firefighters, police officers and ordinary people around the country.

Still for me, seeing the that car that morning with American flags out all the windows was a real blessing on a day that seemed to have so few. I hung a flag on my house at that time, and even though I've moved, the very same flag still flies outside my house.

[Anonymous]

I won't forget Septembet 11th, either. I had just got up and turned on the TV and it was showing the one tower with all the smoke coming from it. They weren't sure what the smoke was from. They were speculating that a bomb may have gone off or that a fire had started. Then, the next thing I knew, the second plane came. For the brief half a second before it hit, the first thought in my mind was, "Those towers must be pretty high if there are planes flying past them." Then it hit. I didn't know what to think. I also saw the first tower collapse just before I went to school. On a toy train related note, I won an auction on ebay for a Marx SP 7-inch diesel set with some extra 6-inch cars on the morning of September 11th. There was something just different about the whole day. It will be something that will be as vivid to me 50 years from now as it was then.

The world has never gotten over September 11th and really the world has changed so much. While 9/11 was certainly horrible and killed many, it also brought the world closer together. My prayers go out to all the families and friends of those who died on 9/11. May the world never have to experience such a day again.

[Big_Boy_4005]

I won't ever forget watching the second plane hit live on television. We had just sent the kids off to school that morning. I didn't know anyone who died that day, however I felt a great sense of loss as I watched on TV. I had been to the observation deck of the one tower a couple of times over the years. The buildings seemed so permanent. Now every time I watch a movie that was filmed in New York, I watch the skyline, and say "there they are".

I never got caught up in buying any commemorative stuff, with one exception. Angela Trotta Thomas did that painting that appeared on the cover of the 2002 Lionel catalog. When I was at the TCA national convention in Chicago that summer I bought that print, and had her autograph a copy of the catalog. The print is framed and hangs in the room where I watched it all happen.

[Anonymous]

They must be treated like the *** of WW 2 and be hunted down and destroyed, they cannot be allowed to exist. They represent the worst of humankind, there only aim is to destroy our way of life. Please God protect our troops and may God bless the United States of America. Never ever forget 9-11-01.

Dave

[Anonymous]

Today's my nephew's bday. It's a shame that this had to happen at all, let alone on that kid's bday. Yet, every day is someone's bday. We try not to stay upbeat for his sake.

I didn't know anyone that was killed that day, but my wife did. And I know some people who did lose family or friends. I, for one, will never forget.

As for the terrorists, let's find all of them & attach their suicide bomb belts to them, then take them out to a field & pu***he button.

Tony

[Anonymous]

Here's a picture I took a day or two after after 9/11.

It's a make shift dedication to the 37 Port Authority Police who were killed on 9/11. It was taken outside the police command center at the Journal Square, Transportation Center, In Jersey City. The police command is staffed by Port Authority Police, who are assigned to the PATH trains. (The commuter, subway system that connects Newark, Jersey City and Harrison NJ to mid-town Manhattan and to lower Manhattan and the WTC.) On that day 37 Port Authority Police, and one K-9 dog were killed responding to the attacks on the World Trade Center.

I used the word KILLED, because some in the media are already using politically correct adjectives such as perished, died and deceased, in place of the word Killed. They were Killed by some ******* Moslem Terrorists who killed them along with almost 3,000 innocents.

Never Forget!!!!
BillFromWayne

[eZAK]

How could any American ever forget!

The hard part is making sure the terrorist never forget!

[spankybird]

Here is some close ups of these cars.











tom

[spankybird]

God bless those who have given their lives on both 9-11 and after.


Let the USA be strong and let freedom ring









God bless there souls

tom

[Anonymous]

Don't mention anything about 9-11 on the OGR forum. For some reason they have immediately deleted two postings today on that topic. Yes, it isn't a railroad topic, but we must never forget...


...Keep the rails polished and safe....

[Anonymous]

We today remember those lost on Sept. 11 2001 and the days afterwards.
They gave their lives for ours. Pray for them.