Hate to sound redundant as I post this again, But this is part of life for some, and a dark reality.

[legalboxers]

Sorry to post this 24 hours in advance. I maybe attending ceremonies in regards all day tomorrow so I am doing my posting today. My city was drastically changed because of the events of this day, as was Washington DC and Shankville, PA.

peoples lives were lost, and forever changed. People also changed their career paths to become part of the armed services, or part of New York Citys Finest and Bravest

We Salute you on this day. Your life, your memory, your presence.

What is a day.. 5479 Days....

What is a year.. 5 Years..10 Years..

16 Years of Tears...

16 Years of Pain...

16 Years of Sorrow...

A birth.. A Renewal.. A Hope..
An Anniversary.. A Remembrance..
An Engagement.. A Start of something...
A Special Occasion... A Memory...

What is a day about
To celebrate a birth...
To celebrate a life...
to celebrate a new beginning..
to remember..
to reflect....

To Pray..

Pray for the lost.

Pray for those who have lost..

Pray for those who grieve.

Pray for those who are grieving..

Pray for Hope....

What is a number... What does the number Mean...
2753 - Lives Lost....
343 - NYFD
23 - NYPD
37 - PAPD

What is time...
8:46 AM
9:03 AM
9:37 AM
9:58 AM
10:28 AM

Why is time important...

Why did time stand still.....

What is Time...5 years.. 10 years.. 15 Years....
Time to smile..
time to laugh..
time to cry...
time to remember..
time to pause and reflect...

Time...

What is missing on this day... This day of 15 years....
A Mother..
A Father..
A Step Mother..
A Step Father..
A Sister..
A Brother..
An Aunt..
An Uncle
A Godmother..
A Godfather..
A Wife..
A Husband..
A Child..
A Friend..

What is special about the person who is missing.. 15 years...
a laugh.. which hasn't been heard...
a cry... Which hasn't been seen...
a hug.... Which hasn't been felt...
a smile.. Which hasn't lit up a room....

What do we do in time...What have we done and seen.. in 5 years... 10 years... 15 Years...

We remember.. 5 years... 10 years.. 16 years.....
we heal..

On this day.. We Remember.. 16 Years Later...
A Mother.....
A Father
A Step Mother..
A Step Father..
A Sister..
A Brother..
An Aunt..
An Uncle
A Godmother..
A Godfather..
A Wife..
A Husband..
A Child..
A Friend..

We Never Forget...
Their laugh..
Their cry..
Their hug..
Their smile..

And most Importantly.. WE NEVER WILL EVER FORGET September 11TH.. GOD BLESS AMERICA

NYPD PAPD FDNY

[aacrs]

It's late by two days, but thank you so much for this post.
On 9/11 my boyfriend reminded me that it was 9/11. We are both not Americans but we both agreed that it was one of the most memorable day of our early teenage-hood, in a shaking, terrible way.

We agreed that as a human being we should always remember the innocent ones who lost their lives and the unacceptable hatred that is spread around the world.

For the world someone might be only a person, but for another person that person might mean a world.. so they are worthy to be remembered.

[Waffles731]

I was six years old when this happened, the first time I'd ever heard of the world trade center was that day

[AEther]

oh, not being American, I had no idea what this was referring to until I got to the bottom.

so.. this is something i've not questioned on the internet before, and I fear I may get a lot of hate as it is something people are understandably passionate about.. so I want to make very clear that I in no way have any disrespect for the dead of the tragedy, and in no way would ever condone the murdering of so many innocents.
but I find the American attitude toward it very interesting.

I guess it must be one of the only attacks on america since it's existed as an independent country, not including civil wars, so it is more notable because of that. but that is the very reason I find the way Americans talk about it so.. unbalanced.
America seems to be constantly at war and is always the invading force. and this one event in the whole of American history of war seems to get such disproportional acknowledgement, it just feels like a discomforting entitlement, i mean, I think it's meant to be well over 5000 civilian deaths in the first bit of war after 9/11 before NATO got involved that US forces were DIRECTLY responsible for.
of course 9/11 wasn't really an act of war, it was an act of mass murder, as it was exclusively civilians being targeted. however, as modern terrorism goes, it was the only example I can think of that at least had an attempted message and ideology behind it, being an attack on western capitalism and imperialism. which hardly makes it any less evil, but I find it scarily hypocritical the way I've so often heard Americans talk about how terrible and indefensible 9/11 was, and then go on to defend the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which was way worse.

I'm not super sure what my point is, I guess it's that you should be vigilant of attacks AND of attacking, and that it should be remembered, but not solely as victimisation, but as a reminder that killing lots of people, any people, is not ok. and that needs to be part of the acknowledgement.

Anyway.. much love and condolence to anyone who has lost someone to it. even if we disagree with what i've said, not of it atall takes away from that sentiment.

[carpentiero]

you spoke out of my heart

having spoken a lot with Americans recently i have to say there is a lot of instrumentalisation going on whenever the USA is involved

but the world need's to know that an American soul is worth a hundert non American lives
sad but truth

[Bananaman177]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Hey, who started that war, anyhow?

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[AEther]

@Bananaman177 right, well i just typed out and deleted a big ragey paragraph, but I do get that it's something americans taught to think is ok. so i'll try not to be a dick about it..

yes, to say that the japanese government have historically been assholes would be an understatement, but that doesn't mean that it's ok to murder so many people, and murder is the correct term. it wasn't gross collateral as there was no tactical reason for it other than terrorism. it was simply the mass murdering of civilian men, women and children.

think of it this way, someone disagrees with america's politics, it's invasions of other countries and historical immorality, wants them to stop, so they nuke an American city.. perhaps one containing some of your loved ones, do you have children? and then as the dust settles they nuke another one! would that be ok? no! infact it wouldn't even be vaguely ok to just bomb a couple of buildings full of civilians in lower manhattan, that would be hideous! right?

[Bananaman177]

Look, I don't know how to tell you this, but real life is a lot more like "Game of Thrones" than Game of Thrones itself. Peace and safety are great, and the space to develop liberal values is ideal, nobody denies that. But make no mistake, the world is full of foot soldiers in the Armies of the Night.

You see now in Europe how the Muslim hordes feel about your liberal values, your love and tolerance come across as mere weakness to them, and they find it disgusting. To them, the weak should perish. Read the Quran, they don't believe in rooting for the underdog. They're raping children left and right, killing people, how do you like an influx of orcs, madam?

See, when people are uncivilized, you can't be civilized towards them. Look at what the Buddhists are doing to Muslims in Myanmar. Buddhists are committing genocide. They're executing men, women and children. They're rounding up every Muslim in the country and slaughtering them.

Buddhists don't even swat mosquitoes.

[AEther]

@Bananaman177 well I don't really care If someone else sees me not cutting open a baby as weakness, that's not going to make me think it's the right thing to do to show how tough and macho I am.

I just don't think the "but they started it" argument is appropriate when it comes to the murdering of thousands of children.

[Bananaman177]

Well what is your answer to their original violence then? Do nothing? Let them keep doing it?

Pray for peace?

Look, your emotions are not incorrect, but they're incomplete. You need to consider this from a completely logical perspective. My fault, your fault, nobody's fault--you can't let violent people have free reign over the Earth.

And you can't stop them with empty platitudes and emotional appeals.

Maybe when somebody threatens the ones YOU love, then you'll understand. It's not about who's at fault, who's to blame, who started what with who for how many cookies or anything.

The only thing that matters is strength. Are you strong enough to protect who you love, or is The Enemy stronger than you? There are millions of people all over the world who would love to slit your throat for fun. What are you gonna do about it?

Because there's also millions of people who will kill them to keep you safe. And they don't care if you scorn them, but it still makes you look bad.

[AEther]

@Bananaman177 if someone was threatening the ones I love, and there was no option but kill them, or allow them to kill my loved ones. then yes. I would kill them. and, though not ideal, I would feel morally justified in doing so in that setting. however, I would not be justified in then going and killing their children and all of their classmates.
war is an awful thing, but yes, it is necessary in to have an army of or armed combatants to fight off an army of enemy combatants. but that's not what we are talking about, it's not the fighting of uniformed soldiers, or an attack on high command, or even a military resource, what we are talking about is the mass murdering of children in the biggest act of sheer terrorism in history. and then another one.

[Bananaman177]

That just goes to show that you don't understand what "Terrorism" is, because they don't have uniformed soldiers or a high command. They USE their children as ammunition, they use their pregnant women as human shields.

They make it impossible for you to defeat them and still remain civilized, and they do so knowingly and willfully, because they see no value in civilization. Their highest value is the fastest strike.

[AEther]

so.. if you wouldn't class the super mass murdering of civilians for the sake of instilling terror, as terrorism.. what would be required to put it in that category? a specific skin tone or faith? or just not being american?

and again, I don't think the "they started it" argument really cuts it when it comes to brutally murdering children.. it's just not ok!

[Bananaman177]

I don't understand your critique of the argument.

There was no war between US and Japan before Pearl Harbor. And every single person who died in that attack was some mother's son. They were also actively engaged in genocide against Chinese and other Asians, and their rhetoric was telling us they intended to conquer the whole Pacific, and they never gave us any reason to think otherwise.

We could have ended the war by sending 50,000 Marines to go fight and die against a barbaric, and fanatical enemy with no human remorse whatsoever...

Or we could drop two bombs, and teach them the value of peace. And sure enough, they came around to see things our way.

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[AriesMan]

I won't ever forget, my google and facebook account will keep the memory going. With that said, and without the intention of being too insensitive, there is still room at the memorial site to build two tall monuments on the inverse spots of the original Twin Tower foundations, now the memorial pools, that reach up to heaven and force us to look up to see the spitting image of the Twin Towers in silver colored facades with mirror glass windows to represent they are the mirror images of the originals.

I feel it is wrong to stare down into a watery abyss of black to "remember" the lives lost on 9/11. We know them to be up in heaven and it was looking up at heaven that we witnessed the horror of 9/11. The memorial pools need a bottom lining of reflective mirror glass to reflect the sky, heaven, when we look down into it and know the victims to be there, or with the newly erected twin monuments at 1800 feet tall, we can see their "mirror" images in the memorial pools to cement the memory of the victims of 9/11.

Then, in the center of the memorial pools, we must have LED search lights to shine bright at night, forever searching for the lost souls of 9/11 from the original foundations of the Twin Towers...

[ATuairiscean]

Great take - As each anniversary comes around you remember that day - Literally the world stood still - Those of us of a certain age will all agree it was the most significant (non personal) day of our lives - Obviously New Yorkers and Americans feel it more

[Anonymous]

Reminder - Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, but that's who America went after. Thank you Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and co.

How many of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia?

Shame on you if you don't even know the answer.

How much does America love Saudi Arabia?

Too damn much.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

9/11 was a clear inside job. Anyone with a half a brain can tell it was. There's no way a plane crash can cause a two skyscraper to collapse. And not to mention building 7 to collapse without anything hitting it.

[razor97]

and the steel beams

[Dale1982]

16 years and they still stonewall on the truth about what happened. It's just gonna be like JFK all over again. If you threaten the establishment your a target. Hell if the establishment sees profit in you your fucked too.

[LordSpider]

Know the truth itwaswitches. com

[SarahsSummer]

Never forget. A horrible day in US History. One of the most

[BCRanger10]

Thank you for posting this.

[Malaya]

Yes exactly never forget Sept 11 ...

[anewgirl]

This was good. 👍 Nice take.

[errorgoodnameunfound]

Well said. Thank you.

[CameronStark]

We will never forget.

[Anonymous]

This event really did shake the world..

[blackpantherbig]

never forget hopefully it will never repeat

[Anonymous]

Thank you for sharing

[Alyssa91]

Very good

[DonkeyRick69]

Soon be 20 years.

[CT_CD]

interesting

[Anonymous]

Happy planes crashing into buildings day!

[Tohru]

Never forget