Always remember. Never forget. 🇺🇲
2,996 people killed, including 343 firefighters, 60 police officers, and countless others who were simply going about their ordinary daily lives. The worst attack on American soil continues to haunt us.
To this day, over 10,000 others have since died from cancer and other diseases associated with the smoke, ash, and debris from the falling twin towers. This number will continue to rise in the years to come.
We made a vow to never forget. We are standing by that promise!
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Never forget - thanks for sharing Drew.
Yes, at least me and my house will NEVER FORGET!
AMEN! For my parents the day they never forgot was 12/7/1941! My mother was just coming home from Church when she heard, she was 9. She was just changing clothes to help her dad go out and feed the cows, horses, pigs, and chickens, SE Michigan near the Ohio border. The only work they were allowed to do on Sundays! My dad was 12 and was already learning to be a pool hall hustler in Duluth, MN. A friend was trying to teach him how to play a game called "Snooker". on a pool like table.
For my generation up to 9/11 was 11/23/63, the assassination of JFK. I was in the 4th grade. it was a week before Thanksgiving a cold rainy day in SE Michigan. We had been just been sent to the bathrooms as we could not go outside for recess. I remember standing in the bathroom with a bunch of other boys when all of a sudden a female 4th grade teacher walks in and yelled to get back to our classrooms "NOW!" After going through the Cuban Missile Crisis the year before and having nuclear bomb drills every week, we did not have to be told twice and all ran back to class! WE had just had gotten these big tube B&W TVs in our classrooms, as I sat down I saw Walter Cronkite on the TV. He was taking his black rimmed glasses off and looked right into the camera and said, "This bulletin just came in form Dallas, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is dead!" We all sat there stunned!" The next thing I know the principal comes on the PA and says no one knows what is going on, could be a Russian plot to take over the country or the start of WWIII. We were to get home ASAP!" It was a scary walk home! Three days later I was watching TV and I watched them transfer Oswald when I saw Ruby step out and shoot him, on live TV! I was 9. I remember we did not have to go to school until the Monday after Thanksgiving.
9/11 is your generations Pearl Harbor and JFK. 9/11 is another story may top JFK, but maybe not if you consider Vietnam War. PH brought us into WWII