As you guys KNOW

[BERN1]

we should hoist our flags on that day
and eat Bacon, or Ham..maybe make it a working holiday

[TOMCAT21]

As a native New Yorker, I just want to see the Freedom Tower finished(personally I wanted to a building in the shape the Bird(state bird of NY) aka Middle finger. but thats just me. Al qaeda brought the fight to my home and I brought it back to their backyard, Afghanistan. I will be at peace when the families are at peace. I remember when the Towers went up, when they fell apart of me died too but I still have my memories and those are something no one can take away. Don't need another holiday, holidays are usually a funtime. I remember all the fallen on Memorial Day.  TC out

[Infidelz]

Indeed. This is a special day, like 7 December is every year. I will remember always and more vividly as I have lived through 11 September. Everyone even if you weren't CONUS remembers where they were that day and what they were doing. We must never let our guard down again. The enemy is among us now.  Beware.

Infidelz

[RufusLeaking]

...I cannot begin to properly thank and appreciate the sacrifice of the first responders of the NYFD and NYPD on that day.
...

I am sorry to admit that, prior to 9/11, I had a less than respectful attitude towards cops and firemen. 

It all changed when those brave people ran into collapsing buildings.  These professions always called for the suppression of the flight instinct, but 9/11 was a dramatic example of courage across the board.

  FDNY

  NYPD

  Port Authority

  Everyone who charged onto the scene to save others. 

[Changeup]

Roger that.....

V/r

Changeup

[JunkyII]

" War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing."-George W. Bush


You kick a sleeping Bear you better be ready to fight for your life....

[Traveler]

I’ve been present at two war zones in my life time.  The first November 67 to May 69, as a young medic in the 5th Special Forces in Viet Nam.  The second on 9/11 while working as an IT consultant on the 57th floor of the North Tower WTC,  for the Mayor’s  Office City of New York.  First thing I do now when  I go into a office building is look up and wonder what lies just above the ceiling tiles and think how heavy is it?  I got out onto and cross over Church Street 6 minutes before it came down.  I spent the next 23 hours on scene working once again as a combat medic. 

I’m all for a day of remembrance as long as it remains un-official.  I don’t want it to become like so many official holidays in America.  The meaning lost the date changed year by year to ensure it fails on a Friday or Monday.  In 2010, June 6th, “D” Day,   A day that cost the lives of ten thousand Americans  was not even mentioned on Broadcast News.   

[xNOVAx]

I’ve been present at two war zones in my life time.  The first November 67 to May 69, as a young medic in the 5th Special Forces in Viet Nam.  The second on 9/11 while working as an IT consultant on the 57th floor of the North Tower WTC,  for the Mayor’s  Office City of New York.  First thing I do now when  I go into a office building is look up and wonder what lies just above the ceiling tiles and think how heavy is it?  I got out onto and cross over Church Street 6 minutes before it came down.  I spent the next 23 hours on scene working once again as a combat medic. 

I’m all for a day of remembrance as long as it remains un-official.  I don’t want it to become like so many official holidays in America.  The meaning lost the date changed year by year to ensure it fails on a Friday or Monday.  In 2010, June 6th, “D” Day,   A day that cost the lives of ten thousand Americans  was not even mentioned on Broadcast News.   

  to you sir and all those like you, as well as to those lost..