keep your friends close but your enemies closer
Published on September 11, 2011 By Anthony R In Current Events

Hard to believe ten years have already passed since the Sept, 11th attacks. I can still remember the first time I visited the Trade Center as a kid on a school field trip. I remember how the elevators took us up to the top really fast and how we made our way over to the windows where we all looked out over Manhattan. There was a certain wonder to it all. Its kind of eerie to think of that day now. How we all stood there as kids, excited by the tall buildings and the sights, never quite realizing the history that was to come. We were totally unaware that we were standing in such a doomed place. A place where so many people would perish. A place where ordinary people, firefighters, cops, and paramedics would suddenly find themselves on the frontline of a war. A place where so many of them would lay down their lives with such incredible valor. As long as I'm alive, I wont forget that place or what they did there.


Comments
on Sep 11, 2011

Funny of all the times I went to NY as a tourist, I never went up the WTC. Always went to the top of the Empire State Building. That opportunity has passed into history. I wonder how many will have that in the back of their mind when the new tower is completed? Wrong place at the wrong time.

on Sep 11, 2011

One of the searing images from that day to burn permanently into my memory was the pic of a group of firefighters carrying the lifeless body of their chaplain Father Judge out of the rubble.

And the current mayor of New York refused to allow clergy or firefighters to participate in the memorial.  I can't imagine anything more disgusting or more insulting to the memory of their sacrifice.

on Sep 12, 2011

I remember when the WTC towers were going up, and how it upset many that it would be higher than the Empire State Building. never took a trip to the top of them or the Empire State Building (my acrophobia).  But it has been 10 years.  Time to remember the victories in the war, not dwell on the losses.