Another good example of why I strongly believe you need to have almost endless grace and never assume the worst. These people were later interviewed and they were absolutely not just chilling
Ladder 118’s last call. All six men aboard this rig died that day. They knew the dangers and they went anyways. This picture has evoked a ton of emotion for me, not because I knew any of them, or because I’ve been in a similar situation (it’s a no for both) but because they answered the call and I know they had a feeling going into it. But it didn’t stop them.
Yeah I've grown very tired of the "Oh you care about 9/11? The US does that to other people all the time!" edgelord BS. Yeah man. That's unspeakably horrible too. But those 3000+ people were not abstract representations of America. They were people.
On a lighter note, the Hooters (and many restaurants) near Ground Zero stayed open to serve free food to emergency responders, resulting in the funniest photo of my dad.
If you were young in 2001, or weren’t even born yet, it can be hard to imagine what 9/11 felt like. The shock of that beautiful, cloudless morning. The heartbreak of the families whose loved ones were taken with such swiftness and cruelty. The realization that the forces of malevolence and violence were closer, and the future less certain, than we knew.
But in the days that followed, we felt something else, too. Pride in the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, and the passengers who had stormed the cockpit. Admiration for the men and women who left behind lives of comfort to serve their country. A deep resolve that nothing would break the will of a truly United States of America.
Today Michelle and I are remembering those we lost that day, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed. We pray for their families. And we hope Americans everywhere remember the true lesson of 9/11: that we can survive even our darkest days as long as we move forward as one nation and one people.
On this night...25 years ago, 246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights. 2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning tomorrow. 343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift. 60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for morning patrol. 8 paramedics went to sleep in preparation for the morning shift of saving lives. None of them saw past 10:00 am Sept 11, 2001. In one single moment life may never be the same. As you live and enjoy the breaths you take today and tonight before you go to sleep in preparation for your life tomorrow, kiss the ones you love, snuggle a little tighter, and never take one second of your life for granted
Never forget. 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇲🦅
What some don’t quite understand, because they didn’t live it, was September 11 was an ongoing thing as we experienced it. A plane hits a tower. Then another. Then another hits the pentagon. Then another crashes. One tower falls, another soon after. It was a building trauma.
There’s a lot you can say about the legacy of GWB but this and the heater he threw at Yankee stadium are two of the most important moments in American history and he rose to both occasions in spectacular fashion.