Tuckins1
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ame|1314637533|3004576 said:The Sept issues of a few magazines, Glamour and marie claire among them, had this section of letters to the victims from their families. It wasn't large but it was still very hard to read.
I was in Pittsburgh that day. I remember my ex and I were on the way to the bank and were listening to Howard Stern and we thought it was a comedy bit, then we got to the bank and that's when the Pentagon was hit, my dad's department, in fact. I remember calling him in a panic, and my mom in a panic, because he was supposed to be there that whole week for meetings. I had an epic meltdown in the middle of National City in Cranberry Twp in fact. I finally got hold of my mom, who told me that luckily he and his bosses were in St. Louis. Because he was the director of defense finance at the time, he and his superiors were shuttled like 10 floors underground to the "bunker" command center, because at the time they had no rael idea what these people were after. He lost a ton of coworkers, and two of his best friends ever. He and his superiors drove back to DC to do all they could, and he drove himself back home after the funeral services. He was kind of a zombie for a while. His little golf-ball collection in the basement hasn't grown a lot since, since he and these guys collected them from all over. Their little funeral prayer card things are propped up on top of the ball case.
ame|1314664534|3004955 said:One of my other forums pulls up all posts from that day every year also. It's so unreal to reread that.
MAC-W|1314888004|3007368 said:IMO this is the iconic 9-11 photo
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/f/fd/20051023193321%21National_Park_Service_9-11_Statue_of_Liberty_and_WTC_fire.jpg
To me it symbolises the devastation of the actual day but also how ultimately 'liberty' wasn't affected.