September 11, 2001...We Will Remember. We Will Never Forget.

[tpeichel]

They are 8 and 10 years old now and yesterday we had to explain to my 8 year old why the terrorists crashed the planes into the WTC buildings. Not easy.

I can relate, in 2001 I didn't have kids. Actually my wife and I had only been married for 3 months and 2 days. I had just purhcased my first new car a month earlier and had moved out of my Mom's house 5 months earlier. I was still a kid at 22 years old. Yesterday my family was in the lobby of a hotel room gettting ready to head home after watching the Giants lose the night before at AT&T. My wife and I had made the decision to not talk much about 9/11 with our 5 year old twins because we assumed they wouldn't understand. So there we were in the lobby and the news station starts showing the old footage. I'm checking out, and my wife points to my son who is transfixed on the TV in fear......and then she whispers to me that he thinks it was live TV and it was happening right now. The fear in his eyes made me cry, I had been trying to shield him and his sister from this until they were older and now he was experiencing what we all did 10 years ago. On the trip home we reassued them that those attacks were long ago, by very bad people and explained it all the best we could........a tough 3 hour ride home.

It's instinctive to try and protect your children from bad things in the world, but at some point they need to understand that evil exists. There is no better example than what happened on Sept. 11th. We'll be stopping in Shanksville on our annual trip out to Minnesota next year, so they can see the memorial, see how evil can be defeated and hopefully understand that there are a lot more good people in the world than those that mean to do us harm.

That's a very appropriate stop because the entire state of Minnesota is really proud of Tom Burnette. I heard his mom speak after Osama was killed on the radio.

If it wasn't for him and that crew, flight 93 would have been a lot worse IMO. The f16's ammo wouldn't have been enough to bring that plane down.

They interviewed one of the two fighter pilots scrambled to initially track Flight 93. They knew they couldn't bring it down with ammo so the plan was for one fighter jet to slam the cockpit while the other took out the tail. She considered ejecting right before impact, but they couldn't risk missing so they had decided to stay in the fighters.

 

[ffgameman]

To this date, I have not watched many of the live broadcasts. However, I have watched "102 Minutes that Changed America" on the History Channel. If you haven't watched it, try to find it. It is a collection of recordings from reporters and regular citizens on the ground. One of the most memorable portions if from two younger girls in their apartment as the second place hit.

CBS also aired an unedited documentary last night. A firefighter was in the process of making a documentary about his job; everything that he saw and heard that day was shown. Rushing away from debris from the tower collapse, searching buildings, reunions with fellow firefighters. Despite being on CBS, it was fully unedited (even with a few f-bombs in the mix).

 

[TBTwinsFan]

To this date, I have not watched many of the live broadcasts. However, I have watched "102 Minutes that Changed America" on the History Channel. If you haven't watched it, try to find it. It is a collection of recordings from reporters and regular citizens on the ground. One of the most memorable portions if from two younger girls in their apartment as the second place hit.

CBS also aired an unedited documentary last night. A firefighter was in the process of making a documentary about his job; everything that he saw and heard that day was shown. Rushing away from debris from the tower collapse, searching buildings, reunions with fellow firefighters. Despite being on CBS, it was fully unedited (even with a few f-bombs in the mix).

That was the Naudet Documentary. It is considered to be one of the most important 9/11 documents ever, if not the most important. I rewatched it this morning just to get any missing info.

I saw a good portion of 102 Minutes. That was also a well planned piece. Hotel Ground Zero and The Man Who Predicted 9/11 were both great as well.

 

[ffgameman]

To this date, I have not watched many of the live broadcasts. However, I have watched "102 Minutes that Changed America" on the History Channel. If you haven't watched it, try to find it. It is a collection of recordings from reporters and regular citizens on the ground. One of the most memorable portions if from two younger girls in their apartment as the second place hit.

CBS also aired an unedited documentary last night. A firefighter was in the process of making a documentary about his job; everything that he saw and heard that day was shown. Rushing away from debris from the tower collapse, searching buildings, reunions with fellow firefighters. Despite being on CBS, it was fully unedited (even with a few f-bombs in the mix).

That was the Naudet Documentary. It is considered to be one of the most important 9/11 documents ever, if not the most important. I rewatched it this morning just to get any missing info.

I saw a good portion of 102 Minutes. That was also a well planned piece. Hotel Ground Zero and The Man Who Predicted 9/11 were both great as well.

I just noticed that post before replying to yours. :lol:

 

[TBTwinsFan]

To this date, I have not watched many of the live broadcasts. However, I have watched "102 Minutes that Changed America" on the History Channel. If you haven't watched it, try to find it. It is a collection of recordings from reporters and regular citizens on the ground. One of the most memorable portions if from two younger girls in their apartment as the second place hit.

CBS also aired an unedited documentary last night. A firefighter was in the process of making a documentary about his job; everything that he saw and heard that day was shown. Rushing away from debris from the tower collapse, searching buildings, reunions with fellow firefighters. Despite being on CBS, it was fully unedited (even with a few f-bombs in the mix).

That was the Naudet Documentary. It is considered to be one of the most important 9/11 documents ever, if not the most important. I rewatched it this morning just to get any missing info.

I saw a good portion of 102 Minutes. That was also a well planned piece. Hotel Ground Zero and The Man Who Predicted 9/11 were both great as well.

I just noticed that post before replying to yours. :lol:

:lol: Still a very crazy documentary. The 10 years later bit was especially crazy

 

[ronfromfresno]

Ran across this earlier today, interesting to see the different perspectives between all of the news stations.....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/0 ... e_Coverage