Honoring and Remembering 9/11 Victims

[jbroadglide]

For all the Metro Jax folks who live in Orange Park, the Orange Park Harley Owners Group (HOG) will be holding our first annual 9/11 Remembrance Ride friday night. We'll leave the Harley Davidson dealership at 1520 Wells Rd at 7pm, head east to River Rd, south to Kingsley, west on Kingsley to Docters Lake Dr. Over to College Dr, south on College to 220. Then east on 220 and into Eagle Harbor. We'll make a slow run through Eagle Harbor, then north on us17, west on Wells Rd and end at Buffalos on Youngerman Circle a little after 8pm. We'll have lots of American Flags flying behind the bikes. If you live in that area, we hope you'll be out on the sidewalk waving as we go through.

[BridgeTroll]

Thanks for doing the ride JB... the rest of the nation seems to have forgotten...

[Sigma]

The feds cut them off before their symptoms manifested and there are no funds to treat them.

Death panels.

[buckethead]

 

Sigma with the uppercut! lol

[Shwaz]

Isn't there enough threads on healthcare?

Can't believe it's been 8 years since the attacks. I was 21 and had just started working downtown the week before.
My cousin and his wife were traders at that time and it was extremely stressful worrying if they were ok. Everyone from work was huddled around the 2 t.v.'s in the gym watching the news coverage confused on how a plane hit one of the towers. It wasn't 5 minutes after I got down there that the second plane hit.

I went to NYC in Nov. 2001 and visited ground zero. The wreckage and debris seemed so much bigger than on t.v.  The roads were covered with sheets of plywood and I remember dump trucks and flat beds in the dozens carrying away huge pieces of twisted metal. The scene of people huddled around the memorial boards covered in pictures and crying was the most devastating thing I've ever seen.

[BridgeTroll]

Isn't there enough threads on healthcare?

Yes there are...

[fsujax]

Yes, there is and I sick of seeing it crop in every thread.

I do remember 9-11 I had just to move to Atlanta and it was truly a sad day we should never forget.

[Sigma]

My apologies. I did not mean to take away from the events of 9/11.

It takes a small fan to blow away Stephen's bong smoke to reveil his direct contadictions. Slamming the government on the same issue that he wants the government to monopolize!

And people like sigma are the one's who would like to sit on it.

A lie - I have never said that.  I have consistently stated that reform is needed.  One step at a time with the correct reform.

Really?  Its in our power to let people live, and there are still people who say "let them die'?

And really, it should not be in your power to control anyone.

BACK TO THE THREAD
fsujax, do you remember where you were when it happened?  It's interesting that people can remember those events and what they were doing when something tragic like that happens.  People can recall where they were when JFK was shot.  I toured Pearl Harbor and watched some interviews with survivors.  Their recollection of the events were amazing.

Heck, its hard to remember what I did yesterday, but I can remember exactly what I was doing when the space shuttle exploded.  When 9/11 happened I was in a management strategy meeting when we heard people down the hall screaming. I was called to active duty that afternoon and remained on active duty for 3 years. But everything that day - I remember with clarity. 

I work with a woman that witnessed 9/11 from across the bay.  She moved not long after to Jacksonville.  It's very interesting to hear her talk about it.

[jbroadglide]

Well as far as OUR chapter is concerned, we are remembering and honoring those who died that day who were just in in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm sorry for those who had to work in that mess and are now paying the price but my original intent of this post was not to start another health care debate, but to remember the day and the 3,000 and their families.

[Sigma]

It's a great way to honor 9/11 victims jb. I thank you for your efforts.

[NotNow]

I was at a parent/teacher conference at my son's school, when we walked out the entire school office was gathered around the TV.  My wife asked if it meant I would be recalled to the military again.  I was gone within the month. 

I went to NY in 2005 and visited the site with my NYPD hosts, it was a moving and sad experience for me to hear the personal narration from those that watched their friends die.  There was still a lot of passion in those guys.  No one mentioned health care.

May God bless the families of the victims, the citizens of NYC, and our country.  And thank you and the club, JB, for putting on the memorial ride.

[Lucasjj]

I was ironing clothes, getting ready for a job interview with a local new station for an engineer position when the first plane struck. After the second one struck, it was obvious this was more than an accident. Needless to say, my interview was canceled since news networks were quite busy that day.

[fsujax]

Sigma, I do remember where I was. I was workig for an engineering and planning firm in Atlanta. We were in the same building as offices with the CDC. Our building was locked down and I was not able to leave till around 5 o'clock. When I got on I-85 to go home it was deserted. The message boards on the interstate read National Emergency. Stay home. I will never forget it. It was very surreal.

[KenFSU]

I had been out late the night before and actually slept through both planes hitting the Towers. I was racing to class, wondering how I was ever going to find parking at FSU at the hour, oblivious that anything out of the ordinary had happened. I rounded a corner to get to my normal parking lot and just stopped dead in my tracks. The normally packed parking lot was completely empty, save for one car. The usually bustling campus was a ghost town. FSU looked like London in 28 Days Later. I immediately knew that something terrible had happened. I didn't know what, but you could literally feel in the air that something cataclysmic was going on. A girl came running toward the lone car. I asked her what had happened, and she said "We're under attack. We're under attack." In my ignorance, I thought that she meant FSU was under attack. Perhaps by some crazed gunman. I ducked down in my vehicle and sped away from campus covering my head. After scanning the radio and finding out what was going on, I pulled into the old Publix on Pensacola street and watched the North Tower fall on a small television with a hundred other people. There were no cashiers left in the check out lanes, and half-filled carts of groceries were randomly abandoned throughout the store. It was completely surreal, like something out of Stephen King's The Stand.

[Sigma]

Surreal - you said it.  I remember the look on everyone's faces as I drove onto base.  When I went into the Operations Center, phones were ringing, 20 people talking trying to sift through the panic for accurate intel.  It was a long night.