A Memorial thread

[LadyOfTheMist]

Re: Another Non - Candle Pic

I usually carry my camera with me... I had made a special trip to Hoboken to take the picture of the light tribute and was lucky with the Flag.

I was in Washington DC this past April on business, and it happened to be in a new building directly across from the Capital. By latest accounts, if it wasn't for the tremendous people on that last hijacked flight, this picture would be a lot different looking

It all still makes me sick to my stomach - but for as many horrible stories there are (esp. here in northern NJ and all around the metro area), there are that many more hero and heartwarming ones as well.

Glad you enjoy the pics.

Dave

You have been most kind and generous in sharing your photos with us Dave. As I live out west I have not seen the Capital nor did I first hand see the devastation of 9/11.


Dave, would you mind if I ask you what kind of camera you are using? Your photos come out very crisp and clean.

 

[pureromnce]

Re: Re: Another Non - Candle Pic

You have been most kind and generous in sharing your photos with us Dave. As I live out west I have not seen the Capital nor did I first hand see the devastation of 9/11.

Dave, would you mind if I ask you what kind of camera you are using? Your photos come out very crisp and clean.

Washington DC is someplace that needs to be visited at least once. Forget the politics - between the monuments, the history (civil war, esp.), and the museums... it could take a week to get through it all.

I have yet to see "ground zero" up close. And, I really don't have too much of a desire to see it, either. Maybe because I had just seen the towers 8 hours before they came down as I was flying home into Newark Airport, 2:00 am, the morning of the 11th.

I have seen the mess from a distance - as you fly into and out of Newark, just a few weeks after it happened as well as when it was still smoldering gravesite months later. I have been by the Pentagon, however.

Sorry for straying from the question - I have a Minolta DiMage 7 digital camera, and all three of the pics I posted where taken with it. The cameras keep getting better, and the prices keep dropping. I wouldn't hesitate to buy a $300 - 400 digital camera these days.

Thanks again for the kind words on my pictures...

Dave

 

[LadyOfTheMist]

Re: Re: Re: Another Non - Candle Pic

Washington DC is someplace that needs to be visited at least once. Forget the politics - between the monuments, the history (civil war, esp.), and the museums... it could take a week to get through it all.

I have yet to see "ground zero" up close. And, I really don't have too much of a desire to see it, either. Maybe because I had just seen the towers 8 hours before they came down as I was flying home into Newark Airport, 2:00 am, the morning of the 11th.

I have seen the mess from a distance - as you fly into and out of Newark, just a few weeks after it happened as well as when it was still smoldering gravesite months later. I have been by the Pentagon, however.

Sorry for straying from the question - I have a Minolta DiMage 7 digital camera, and all three of the pics I posted where taken with it. The cameras keep getting better, and the prices keep dropping. I wouldn't hesitate to buy a $300 - 400 digital camera these days.

Thanks again for the kind words on my pictures...

Dave

No apologies necessary. I haven't heard much out this way by anyone that was around it or part of it, except for what Glovely saw when he went there to lend a hand. I just remember waking up that morning and turning on the tv, flipping through the channels and seeing something about the LA airport, I used to live in LA, and wondering what strange futuristic crisis had taken place while I slept. It was sort of like watching some weird sci-fi movie while your brain was telling you that what you were seeing you couldn't possibly be seeing.

Well I lost that bet. I told Glovely I figured that you were using a 35mm not a digital. Thats honestly amazing Dave, I am impressed by the quality.

You are most welcome again for the kind words, they are truly beautiful photos.

 

[GlovelySave]

I was telling Ladyofthemist about the smithsonian museums and how it would tale a few days to visit them all. And through out washington dc soon enough, We will need to take time to hit Baltimore also and ofcourse my home town of Philly. So many things for her to see and experience.

3 days after the tragedy I was on a train from Philly to Trenton to NYC to help out, We walked from Penn Station to lower manhatten so sad. When you go to Chelsea piers it was about 3 or 4 blocks or ambulances lined up just waiting to roll out. very moving and very sad. We stopped and shook the hands of some of the EMTs but bieng 12 pm alot were in thier vans waiting for the calls that never came. After the ambulances there were blocks of a truck with a crane that was waiting to be assembled about 3 blocks of this crane. The smoke and dust was so thick you could smell it all the way back to 42nd street and Penn Station. After the crane trucks came the blocks upon blocks of News Vans. From all over the country, Well we got down with 4 or 5 blocks of ground zero but got no further. Coming all this way and feeling so guilty for sitting at home we asked what we could do. We were told a few blocks back were sub station areas. Where trucks were bieng loaded with blankets and clean socks and water bottles for the workers and rescue personel. Well we went there for a few hours help load trucks with needed supplies and 5 gallon water jugs. After words we went back down to the cut off point and cheered and thanked the police officers and fiore fighters. even at around 4:30 am there was still a large crowd rooting on these people who risked thier lives. Very wierd and moving for a boy who grew up in a town where New Yorkers are the enemy, you boo thier sports teams, you taunt thier fans but for that night it was pushed aside the rivalries were not there only the human emotions.

 

[Freya]

This made me cry.

http://www.cantcryhardenough.com/

 

[LadyOfTheMist]

This made me cry.

http://www.cantcryhardenough.com/

I hadn't seen this before, thank you Freya for sharing.

 

[Freya]

Just wanted to send hugs to all my American friends today. This is a day full of horrible memories, but it's also a day of remembering how most of the world came together with your country as one. It's a day to be proud to be American because you guys banded together in a way I think nobody expected. You showed your strength, your honour and your bravery, and I for one will always respect that about the USA, and its people. Today as we remember those who lost their lives and those who lost friends or family members, we're all right beside you in pain and anguish, just as we were one year ago. Our sense of safety was shaken, our arrogance in our invulnerability was proven to be unfounded, but as all of our countries rose up from the shock and horror, we came together in friendship and solidarity - and that's what I'll take away with me in memory of last year's tragedy - that when it comes down to the crunch, we are not separate nations, but one big nation together, helping each other through disasters, fighting for the same essential freedoms and rights, and joining with you all in your sorrow.

Sleep well my friends.

 

[Skandalon]

Memorial

Seems trite, but I really want to keep this on page one today. This is a silent, respectful, bump.

 

[pureromnce]

Thanks

Hey GlovelySave and Freya:

You both mentioned something that really touches me about that day. Besides the fact that people were actually still heading IN(!!) to help others in those buildings just before they came down, the images of people lined up and cheering the rescue workers are quite moving. And this all started happened before anyone really knew what was going on in Washington DC and that field in PA.

Who would have thought NY’ers, and then volunteers from all over would react that way? It was nice to see the rest of the world with us at that time, and hopefully, they stay with us now.

I spent three weeks up in and around Montreal last month, and was kind of pleased to see a slight change in tune towards “us” Americans” than in times past. If you had anything to do with that, Freya, thanks

Dave

 

[tryingsumtinnew]

Just what I have burning today!

 

[GlovelySave]

Thank you Freya, Tryingsomething new, and pureromance And i agree this thread should be kept on page number 1 today. I feel that nothing is more important than remembering our fallen friends and citizens today!

 

[GlovelySave]

Thank you to all who posted on this thread, I think it was great to remember this day that will live in Infamy. Its also a part of the long healing process, and also since this page can be read all around the world, there might be some people who sympathise with those who hurt our country. Well this is a big F-You to thier faces if they do read this. We as Americans and world citizens will not go quietly into the night. We will fight till the bitter end, we will be deffiant and we will show off our god given rights of expression and freedom. So a year later we reflect and this group of people who reak of pure evil have given us thier best shot and we are still here breathing still standing strong, we have not crumbeled we have not run for cover all they have done is woken the sleeping Giant. I am against war, but I am a Patriot, and I just want to show that I will never be quiet that I will say I am proud of my country, and my Flag for which it represents. God Bless America.

"I am a patriot and I love my country because my country is all I know, but what I see with my eyes, is not what I believe with my heart, I am a patriot, and I love my country"

"Im not a communist, Im not a Imperialist, Im not a socialist Not a F*cking Repblican either, I am a Patriot"

 

[Guest]

thankfulness

I'm thankful today for freedom and for those firemen, policemen and others who gave their lives to save others. I am also thankful for those who have since given their lives defence of freedom. I am thankful for those who have supported the families of those who were killed and those whose lives were disrupted. I am thankful for spontaneous outpourings of love and random acts of kindness.

I am thankful for those who are working and fighting for justice to prevail. I am thankful for those who speak out for justice and peace in this world, for to me they are part of the same concept and must go hand in hand. I believe that justice and vengeance are incompatible. I am thankful that we have the right to debate what is right and speak what we think. (Although I'm also very thankful that busybody has not showed up on this thread for quite a while )

A thought for the evening from Henry Steele Commager. Although it's from the 80s has some merit today.

" I think we have to have an objectivity based on facts, based on what happens rather than on our assumptions about things, like our assumptions about the wickedness of communism or the right of the United States to determine what's going to happen everywhere in the world, or the assumption that we're God's chosen people, as Mr. Reagan says we are. "

 

[arctic aurora]

Re: thankfulness

I'm thankful today for freedom and for those firemen, policemen and others who gave their lives to save others. I am also thankful for those who have since given their lives defence of freedom. I am thankful for those who have supported the families of those who were killed and those whose lives were disrupted. I am thankful for spontaneous outpourings of love and random acts of kindness.

I am thankful for those who are working and fighting for justice to prevail. I am thankful for those who speak out for justice and peace in this world, for to me they are part of the same concept and must go hand in hand. I believe that justice and vengeance are incompatible. I am thankful that we have the right to debate what is right and speak what we think. (Although I'm also very thankful that busybody has not showed up on this thread for quite a while )

A thought for the evening from Henry Steele Commager. Although it's from the 80s it still has some merit today.

" I think we have to have an objectivity based on facts, based on what happens rather than on our assumptions about things, like our assumptions about the wickedness of communism or the right of the United States to determine what's going to happen everywhere in the world, or the assumption that we're God's chosen people, as Mr. Reagan says we are. "

The quoted post wasn't from unregistered. It was from me. For some reason, my computer or my ISP or the 'net (or perhaps some terrorist plot to drive me bonkers) keeps kicking me off-line. So I take responsibility for what is posted above.

Peace to all Lit members, and to all on earth.

 

[Freya]

Re: Thanks

Hey GlovelySave and Freya:

You both mentioned something that really touches me about that day. Besides the fact that people were actually still heading IN(!!) to help others in those buildings just before they came down, the images of people lined up and cheering the rescue workers are quite moving. And this all started happened before anyone really knew what was going on in Washington DC and that field in PA.

Who would have thought NY’ers, and then volunteers from all over would react that way? It was nice to see the rest of the world with us at that time, and hopefully, they stay with us now.

I spent three weeks up in and around Montreal last month, and was kind of pleased to see a slight change in tune towards “us” Americans” than in times past. If you had anything to do with that, Freya, thanks

Dave

I personally didnt, but if they felt what I felt after last years events, I'm sure they were as impressed as I was at the way the US became a community in this time of need.

 

[LadyOfTheMist]

Just a little bump....for my friends, my loved ones, my countrymen.......may we not be so quick to forget this past year or the roads we have traveled. May we remember those who have fallen along the way and take comfort in their rememberences.