9/11 how will you remember?

[zeldas]

Where were you when the towers went down? How will you remember?

[zeldas]

http://www.september11news.com/

[Happy]

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Towers of Life
By JDK

They stood hushed and glimmering in the night,
Giants able to frame the moon,
Slumbering magnificently in their might.

Day breaks and the sun gently warms their skin,
Veins begin to pulse with life,
The sprit of a thousand of kin.

Evil tears towards them through the brilliant morning sky,
Propelled by the blackest of hate,
Guided by a lie.

Barely risen they stand with no defense,
Innocent and distracted they are not prepared,
The pain about to be inflicted intense.

Like a bolt of lighting that shatters the morn,
Evil crashes once then twice into their sides,
Their bodies are scorched and torn.

Horribly crippled they continue to stand,
Holding onto life until the last,
Orders are given, they take the command.

The battle is brief, the giants begin to yield,
Life drains from every artery,
Their fate is sealed.

Collapsing to zero,
First to one knee then to the next,
From their dust will emerge so many a hero.

The question is asked,
How can such evil exist.

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[mivona]

To be honest, I'd rather forget if it is going to become some kind of flag-wrapped anger and weeping fest or an annual uprising of Islamophobia. It is such an anguish to see the towers nowadays in photos, knowing they aren't there anymore, and knowing of the deaths that accompanied their loss.

It was a horrible day. It brought horrible deaths to so many, some of whom were not American. It precipitated a war that brought even more death to even more civilians than died that day. Watching the towers come down and watching the bombing of Baghdad elicit the same grief in me.

[krisinluck]

I was in the cities with a friend that morning, picking up her daughter's senior portraits. When we walked in the shop the woman behind the counter said there had been an airline accident in NYC; a plane had flown into one of the World Trade Center buildings. So while D was taking care of business, I wandered over to the waiting area where there was a television just in time to see the second plane hit.

It was...unspeakable, I guess. It was at that moment, I think, that America collectively understood this was no accident.

She and I were planning to shop in the cities that day after the pickup, but we ended up heading for home instead. Despite the fact that nothing was going to happen in our backwater town, we wanted to be near our kids. We listened to the radio all the way home, her freaking out more and more with every mile.

I didn't "do" anything to commemorate it today; no need, really, since the media is all over it. I simply thought of it several times today, and said silent prayers for those lost and those left behind - that day, and in the years since as a result of it.

[tekobari]

I don't do anything special to commemorate it. Our school offers up prayers and intentions over it. That's it.