tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post1303870421904154580..comments2023-11-03T04:57:11.073-04:00Comments on Romance Bandits: Pausing to RememberLoucinda McGary aka Aunty Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02217492654108300014noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-22208844364416711362011-09-12T18:21:10.915-04:002011-09-12T18:21:10.915-04:00We send along wishes for God's blessings
on th...We send along wishes for God's blessings<br />on those lost, their families & friends!<br />Also on all those who took part in the<br />searches, rescues, and recoveries!<br /><br />Pat CochranPat Cochranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11997396930842831460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-90115788745014504302011-09-12T03:59:55.110-04:002011-09-12T03:59:55.110-04:00I do know that horrific happenings bring out the g...I do know that horrific happenings bring out the good in so many. I need to focus on that, these ten years on.Mary Prestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02201076939557413255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-41627030342678777952011-09-12T00:36:14.225-04:002011-09-12T00:36:14.225-04:00Trish, what a moving piece. I remember the outpour...Trish, what a moving piece. I remember the outpouring of grief and sympathy on behalf of the victims here too - there were quite a few Australians killed in the attacks as well as people from other nations. Those images still have the capacity to make me shiver. I think they always will.Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-38859632709476397022011-09-11T23:33:10.937-04:002011-09-11T23:33:10.937-04:00Hi Trish,
Thanks for posting this. It's alwa...Hi Trish,<br /><br />Thanks for posting this. It's always a hard day in our house. Glad to see people remembering.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-91716386299543304382011-09-11T19:10:00.345-04:002011-09-11T19:10:00.345-04:00Trish, this was a beautiful post. I was home that...Trish, this was a beautiful post. I was home that day. The dh took the boy to school, came home and said he'd heard a radio report that a plane hit the World Trade Center. We figured that meant a small plane, an accident. Then we turned on the TV.<br /><br />We were away today, at a baby shower for our niece. It was a lovely party, and thinking of children and of hope for the future was especially nice on this particular day.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13705259501965011703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-60143194519169325502011-09-11T14:47:17.419-04:002011-09-11T14:47:17.419-04:00Beautiful post, Trish. Thank you.
I was off work ...Beautiful post, Trish. Thank you.<br /><br />I was off work that day. I hadn't turned on the television. I went out to the car to get something and my neighbor was standing on her porch talking on her cordless. She called out to me "Have you seen the news?" I told her no, she motioned me over and I went into her house just in time to see the second plane hit the towers. We sat there and watched, horrified, until her mother came to pick her and her three kids up. Her husband was a long distance trucker at the time and he had called from Texas to tell her to go to her parents with the kids. <br /><br />I got calls from a number of my friends overseas and got e-mails from those who couldn't get through. Each one was the same "Are you okay? I am so very sorry. Please stay safe." <br /><br />There were so many heroes that day and so many of them never lived to receive the medals their valor so richly deserved. <br /><br />Our only hope lies in the education of our young people. Young people all over the world are leading revolutions to gain their freedom and create better lives free of the shadow of fanaticism for their countries. As we remember the heroes of 9/11 let us pray for the heroes of tomorrow. May they accomplish the dream of a world of people free to love one another without the constraints dictated by fanaticism, ignorance, racism and greed.Louisa Cornellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12971924594129471055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-29675467601491496272011-09-11T14:20:51.422-04:002011-09-11T14:20:51.422-04:00Donna,
Those chirps in the cloudy debris is very ...Donna,<br /><br />Those chirps in the cloudy debris is very disturbing and poignant when you find out what they are. So many....so many...Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12566704374877697300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-81017645038100464672011-09-11T14:20:21.704-04:002011-09-11T14:20:21.704-04:00Beebs, I remember a lot of Americans were caught i...Beebs, I remember a lot of Americans were caught in Ireland, unable to get home for days with the no fly going on. They spoke of the care and generousity of the Irish as they worried and struggled with what was happening back home. <br /><br />Thank you.Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12566704374877697300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-83692697678842246432011-09-11T13:52:01.490-04:002011-09-11T13:52:01.490-04:00Whew, etched in memory for real.
I was off work t...Whew, etched in memory for real.<br /><br />I was off work that day, waiting for the carpet cleaner to come. I walked back in, saw the first tower burning and within seconds the second one missling in.<br /><br />Charlie Gibson, who was as stunned as we were said "There's been another accident". Um, even this very civilian person knew that was no accident. There were reports of a missing 4th plane and I remember just praying "Give them the strength they need to do what they need to"...I guess God did.<br /><br />I got a call from the hospital alerting me that we were going into emergency mode, that I might have to report. I answered numbly thinking "But this is KY". Well, I live only about 30 miles from Fort Knox.<br /><br />Then wanted to get hold of my brother, talk to him, reassure myself he was ok. I ached to be out of my house and once the carpets finished, rushed down to my church's chapel to pray. There were already parishoners there.<br /><br />And for a week....I watched TV. Alan Jackson's song "Where Were You when the World stopped turning" mentions turning off the coverage and watching a I Love Lucy rerun. We had to for our sanity.<br /><br />The American REd Cross ran a special blood drive. I donated, not because I thought (this was Thursday) that it would be needed....too painfully evident it would not...but because I HAD to do something.<br /><br />I've been to Ground Zero twice. The first time was very spiritual, very gut wrenching, very miraculous. The second on the opposite side (on 9/11 weekend) with a nutjob inciting the crowd screaming out conspiracy theories. <br /><br />He made a Mennonite girl cry!!!<br /><br />I wanted to slap him, shout out "Take your meds" but my friend held me back. You could see the police wanted to react but would not. This is America afterall...freedom of speech.<br /><br />But could I slip their billy club off their belt :0<br /><br />The experience of 9/11 as an American can never be adequately expressed with words but with hearts.<br /><br />God Bless AmericaJoanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12566704374877697300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-23891599373161854902011-09-11T13:32:16.415-04:002011-09-11T13:32:16.415-04:00My mom and dad lived through military service duri...My mom and dad lived through military service during WWII and I often think of how they celebrated their first anniversary just days before Pearl Harbor. They didn't talk much about it, but I'm sure the fear and outrage were experienced in equal parts.jo robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16824237193217632098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-65585126166047415522011-09-11T13:03:17.991-04:002011-09-11T13:03:17.991-04:00Donna, that's so sad about the firemen air tan...Donna, that's so sad about the firemen air tank alarms. When I was preparing this post, I was reading through a timeline of events from that day. Even that had me tearing up.Trish Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812010789617982102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-22461452728098712272011-09-11T12:56:48.763-04:002011-09-11T12:56:48.763-04:00Dianna, I think everyone just wanted to go home an...Dianna, I think everyone just wanted to go home and be with their families, where we felt some semblance of safety. I remember not feeling particularly safe in public buildings for quite some time. I admit I still have thoughts about safety any time I get on a subway train or when I visit some place (like Times Square) that could be a big target.Trish Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812010789617982102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-40557216369365186102011-09-11T12:55:21.109-04:002011-09-11T12:55:21.109-04:00Beebs, that was very much the feeling here as well...Beebs, that was very much the feeling here as well. We were all stunned, that we could be hit so hard on our own soil. It made any horrible thing seem possible.<br /><br />Jo, I think you're right about us coming together in times of crisis.<br /><br />Anna, I happen to have The King's Speech on DVD here from Netflix. I plan to watch it today. I'm amazed when I hear stories of how the English people survived all those bombings. I can't imagine living with that kind of fear on a daily basis.Trish Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812010789617982102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-80849900903744755692011-09-11T12:52:21.942-04:002011-09-11T12:52:21.942-04:00Jane, when I was in NYC over the summer, I could t...Jane, when I was in NYC over the summer, I could tell that things are still very much affected by 9/11 there. Our hotel was on Times Square, and it seemed like some sort of concern or scare was going on there every day.<br /><br />Helen, this was one of those events that's so huge and shocking that the entire world was watching. Like when the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, and when that gunman killed all those people in Oslo.Trish Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812010789617982102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-18134120555934414512011-09-11T11:49:28.818-04:002011-09-11T11:49:28.818-04:00I was at a client's house to work on a band bo...I was at a client's house to work on a band boosters organization books. The TV was on and we watched with horror when the second plane hit verifying that this was no accident. My client and I couldn't concentrate on the task at hand so we rescheduled to attach this another day. On the way home, I stopped at a grocery store and was mentioning to the teller that I'd heard of another plane crashing in Pennsylvania related to the attack. The woman behind me in line assured me that I was mistaken. She was familiar with that part of Pennsylvania and had family in the area. Something like tat couldn't have happened there. I didn't argue - what was the point?<br /><br />The saddest thing I remember about that day was the sound of all the car alarms beeping. Incredibly irritating. I was supposed to attend the very first day of meeting of a fireman's civilian auxilary class that night. It was postponed to the following week. When I attended the first class, I learned that those weren't car alarms...rather that was the warning on the fireman's air tanks that they hadn't moved in a set period of time. It's a device to help firemen locate and save other fallen firemen. When I realized that, tears poured down my cheeks.<br /><br />I stood in silence with 100,000 others at the OSU footgame yesterday in a moving tribute to the fallen and to living first responders that work to keep us safe. God Bless each and every one, and god bless each of our readers as well. I truly believe good will always prevail.Donna MacMeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10310857800824141312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-35339891962519777332011-09-11T11:36:22.999-04:002011-09-11T11:36:22.999-04:00I was at work too, I had gone to cashier's off...I was at work too, I had gone to cashier's office to pick up the totals and was coming back to my desk and everyone was standing outside their cubicles, crying and there was a feeling of panic. <br />The department head came out of his office and announced what was happening and told us to go home, slowly and safely. The schools were crazy with parents picking up their children, me included, my first thought was to pick up my son and get home to my mother. Then I was on the phone to reach my daughter who lived in NC at the time. Everyone was concerned because that is the banking center of the US and NC would be a prime target after Washington.hrdwrkdmom aka Diannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520769151419586319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-38657599563503308562011-09-11T11:31:36.102-04:002011-09-11T11:31:36.102-04:00I think Jo's point about resilience is a reall...I think Jo's point about resilience is a really great one. As much as we honour and remember such tragedies, it's the human stories that resonate with us. It's the tales of those ordinary people who died, who helped, who fought, who survived which move us.<br /><br />I just went to see a play about Churchill during the Second World War and there was a reference to Dunkirk. The Blitz Spirit and Dunkirk Spirit are two terms often used to describe our resilience. I think in years to come that will apply to the people of NY.Anna Sugdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015356374453032571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-72405764787708810452011-09-11T10:56:00.869-04:002011-09-11T10:56:00.869-04:00Beautiful post, Trish. I think it's appropria...Beautiful post, Trish. I think it's appropriate to remember the loss and grief of September 11, but also to remember the resilience of the human spirit.<br /><br />Despite the maddening clash of American politics and the stress of the current economy, America's strength has always lain in her ability to unify in times of crisis.jo robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16824237193217632098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-85029202375555315832011-09-11T04:54:22.237-04:002011-09-11T04:54:22.237-04:00I think the horror of those images will stay in pe...I think the horror of those images will stay in people's minds for ever. I too was at work when the news broke and everyone was simply horrified at what was happening. I live in Ireland and there was a massive security clampdown here too, I think the pervasive feeling was that nowhere was safe. <br /><br />My sympathies go out to everyone who lost family and friends on that terrible day.Beebshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03358906613973814461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-7614256195770637112011-09-11T02:33:28.157-04:002011-09-11T02:33:28.157-04:00Well done Jane have fun with him
I agree Trish th...Well done Jane have fun with him<br /><br />I agree Trish this is a day to remember all the people who helped with rescues, I was in bed asleep here in Oz when it happened but one of my daughters was up watching TV and ran through the house waking everyone up and we were all huddled around the TV watching the horror of this day.<br /><br />My heart goes out to all the people involved and the way people come together in a crisis.<br /><br />HelenHelenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03984438742736003285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-74889536127942233872011-09-11T00:56:14.145-04:002011-09-11T00:56:14.145-04:00I think everyone remembers where they were and wha...I think everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the attacks. Every day we're reminded of what happened because the city is always on high alert and there are plenty of police in the streets and transit stations. I do remember how everyone came together.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13040629694490652973noreply@blogger.com