They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Laurence Binyon 'For the Fallen'

A different war, poignant words non the less.

Here is a link that might be useful: Ode of Remembrance

Thank You for writing and remembering today.
9/11 is not over. The reason it happened has not gone away.
We still have a war waging half a world away with people who believe our way of life is evil.
I have a good friend who is a pilot for a major airline. He was flying that morning Newark to LA, his plane was grounded near St Louis. His two boys, both are heading to Afghanistan in the coming months. Wonderful kids who my kids were best friends with growing up.
We shared pizza and BBQ and Thanksgiving dinners with this family. They are grown men now very accomplished college grads who could be doing anything with their lives. They both decided to join the military because their dad could have been in one of the planes.
Please take time to pray today for our country and our military, the men and women and all those whose job it is to protect our way of life.

Amen.

This is kind of an odd post. I've struggled with it for 10 years now.

I was coming from a yoga event at 8:00 in a taxi, when the 1st plain hit. I thought NYC was making a movie. I stood on my hotel corner at Houston and watched the other plane fly in. I watched glass melt down the buildings like candle wax. I watched papers fly, and later, people jump out of the windows. One couple was holding hands.

The next day I tried to give blood (O-) but they couldn't take it because they had too much. People outside restaurants called out to ask if I had seen where they could take food for the workers. A Chinese grocery had a sign up I'll never, ever forget. Phonetically spelled in Chinese-English: "Flyer Fliters, Eveyting Flee." I felt every building fall in my upper hotel room, where I'd paid extra for a view of the WTC on my 1st visit to NY.

I was stuck and couldn't get out of the city. I smelled asbestos, dust, bbq, and other God awful smells for a week. I walked by the fire station who lost almost all their men all week. Starbuck's was open, but out of milk.

I wake up sometimes to this day with a start, smelling fire. Smelling that.

I won't forget, and kinda wish each year the media wouldn't beat this to death. Remembrances such ppbenn are how we hold these kinds of days. This struck deeply and personally, and what matters is what we do with this.

Our subsequent choices and actions (not the anniversary memorials) dictate our future. Not a horrible act based again on so-called religious morals. Even our word and handshake need to mean something to combat insanity such as this.

It isn't disrespecting those who lost families, but they are not the only ones for whom the day changed life. I admit, I watch nothing. I don't read memorials, I don't even want the "forward this to everyone you know" stuff. You never know where someone was nor how they were affected. Part of the respect and never forgetting is honoring the privacy of those who can't.

I think it's safe to say we've come out of the last 10 years a more awakened nation, and one that will stop at nothing to prevent something like this from happening again. At least that is my hope.

Let us not forget to grow and learn as humans, neighbors, a nation, and a global community...

Thank you for this post.

i read this article today with this quotation:

Were stuck. The room is filling with smoke. Im scared.

At 10:28am, the North Tower collapsed. Peter Craig Alderman was 25.

God bless those lost souls and their families. What a terrible loss of a bright young man.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/peter-c-alderman-foundation_n_1873327.html?1347369175&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl10%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D203874

Thank you for posting this. I shed some tears this morning as I listened to an audio montage of that terrible day and the news clips, air traffic control radios, messages people trapped in the tower were leaving for their loved ones.

I am working at a new job and was saddened that nothing was done to remember this day at the workplace. At my previous workplace we would have brief ceremonies around the flag that was in front of our building for this anniversary, as well as Memorial Day. I had my own little 'moment of silence' in my office.