Remember the Heroes 9/11/01

DOC posted:

Yes, Thom, thanks for sharing this.

Thank you for posting this. Let us never forget...………..

John

Amen

This Post makes me think of a very moving song by Tom Paxton. Can't remember the title at the moment, but the song, which has the tune and rhythm of a march, is about the firemen that went into the burning buildings on 9/11 and went up the stairs to fight the fire and save people, who were going down the stairs to escape the horror.

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

This Post makes me think of a very moving song by Tom Paxton. Can't remember the title at the moment, but the song, which has the tune and rhythm of a march, is about the firemen that went into the burning buildings on 9/11 and went up the stairs to fight the fire and save people, who were going down the stairs to escape the horror.

I just found it on Google. The song is called The Bravest.

When I worked for Broward County Transit, we did a memorial bus:

At my suggestion they used bus #0119; 911 backwards.

Fly the flag from dawn to dusk tomorrow, America's Second Pearl Harbor!

John Ochab posted:

Fly the flag from dawn to dusk tomorrow, America's Second Pearl Harbor!

Let's also remember that more Americans and people of many other nations died during the 911 attacks than at Pearl Harbor.  Most of the Peal Harbor victims were military men while virtually all of the 911 victims were civilian men, women, children and first responders.  911 also launched us into our longest running war which still isn't resolved.  911 was worse than Peal Harbor in these respects.

NH Joe 

”Never” forget. 🇺🇸

I did not minimize the destructive attack on the World Trade Towers nor the lives lost both to our citizens or the world community, my intent was that both events were attacks against our great country that must NEVER  be forgotten.

Semper Fi 

We at the NJ HiRailers Train club will never forget that day or the events.  We have members that were directly effected by the attacks and the cleanup and recovery.  We are in the process of building our tribute to the World Trade Center and plan on dedicating it before our January Trainstock event   The logo for this years Trainstock 11 also tributes the WTC.

Changed my life forever.

R I P my brothers and sisters.

God bless them all, and God bless America.....

Peter

I have not been to the memorial in New York City. I have visited the 9/11 exhibit at the New York State museum. Found it to be a very moving experience, something different than seeing photos or film clips. Not something to be forgotten.

Let’s remember 9/11/01 today.

Remember the victims as well.

There are two sad and memorial days in my life, I do not feel I will ever forget or stop having nightmares about.  I do not believe either impacted me more than the other.  9/11/2001 and 10/23/1983. 

The first was lost for our whole country, the second I lost 241 brothers to cowardly act, as was the first one. 

May we all take a minute to remember and say a prayer for all who where affected this sad day. 

Please remember my friend KEITH ROMA New York Fire Patrol...we both responded...I came back...he did not...

DOC posted:

Doc,

I really like that car, is it a custom car, or who done it?

RIP all those brave souls.

Craig

Yes it is a custom. I made it to run at shows.

Very nice tribute. The saddest thing of all is it could have been prevented...

https://www.newsweek.com/terrible-missed-chance-67401

DOC posted:

Craig

Yes it is a custom. I made it to run at shows.

Looks great!

Craignor posted:

Let’s remember 9/11/01 today.

LET'S ROLL

Everyone was changed by it, like Pearl Harbor I think it changed people's perceptions, when Pearl Harbor was bombed people realized the US no longer could be isolated from the rest of the world, it would come looking for them. With 9/11, it was this idea that the US was a safe haven from terrorism on a scale seen only 'over there' (wherever over there was), despite things like Oklahoma City and of course the 93 attack, people saw those as isolated outliers...after 9/11, no more. 

Working in the financial industry, I knew directly or knew of several dozen people who died there, and lost two people I worked closely with at the company I was at at the time. The other people to keep in your thoughts and prayers are those who survived it, lot of them had a really hard time (my company had an operations site in the North tower, fortunately was only like the 12th floor, so everyone got out), but several people were injured by burning debris and some of them witnessed directly the horrors, some of them really struggled. When my son played little league, one of the coaches was the CTO of Cantor Fitzgerald (that practically almost ceased to exist that day), it was a beautiful day and he decided to take the day off and go fishing.......and a lot of people were like that, missed it for whatever reasons, and carried a lot og guilt with that. 

Amazing that it is 17 years now, seems like yesterday, my son who was starting first grade at the time is now in his second year of grad school. 

I was working in a warehouse.When I was told I thought they where joking.Then we all went into the front office.Where there was a small tv.I was stunned and did not know what to think.No let us never forget what happened on that day.

Many U. S. citizens lost their lives that terrible day.  To me the true heroes of that day, like Joe, Dave and others have stated, were the fire fighters, law enforcement officers, medical professionals, and all the other emergency services personnel who risked their lives to save others.  I am not home so I cannot post pictures of all my 9/11 related train items.  There are several, so hopefully others will.

There were two U. S. Air Force F-16 pilots that were also true heroes that day.  Unfortunately not much has been told of their heroism.  They were Col. Marc Sasseville, with the 113th Wing at Andrews, and Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney, a rookie and the first female F-16 pilot at the 121st Fighter Squadron of the D.C. Air National Guard.

I met Penny once at my local airport where she flies her own vintage 1941Taylorcraft tail-dragger.  Penney is no longer a combat flier. She flew two tours in Iraq, then as a part-time National Guard pilot in the early 2010s.  Not sure what she does now.   My Civil Air Patrol squadron is trying to get her as our quest speaker at this year’s Dining Out.

Anyway, back to 9/11.  After the attacks things were very chaotic.  Back then there were no standing armed alert aircraft, and there were no anti-aircraft weapons protecting Washington as there are now.  It was going to take hours to get an armed aircraft airborne, and command knew of at least one more aircraft that was a potential threat, Flight 93.

Sasseville made the decision to try and stop the aircraft, and Penny was there to go with him.  Since there were no armed aircraft available, they took two F-16s that were going on a training flight.  During suit up, Sasseville stated he was going for the cockpit, and Penny said she would take the tail. Basically, they knew they were going on a suicide mission to prevent Flight 93 from making it to Washington.

As we all know, they did not have to make the ultimate sacrifice.  An insurrection by the hostages on the aircraft brought it down before they could get there.  Sasseville and Penny flew the rest of the day, clearing the airspace, and ready to do whatever was needed to protect our country.

Penny wrote “The real heroes are the passengers on Flight 93 who were willing to sacrifice themselves.  I was just an accidental witness to history.”  I believe Sasseville and Penny, who were prepared to sacrifice their lives to protect our country from terrorism, are truly real heroes.