Sunday – 11/9/2016 – Patriot Day

Thank you PG for the lovely tribute. The radio people were talking about how the kids who are freshmen in high school weren’t even born when 9/11 happened and mostly won’t know about it or have an appreciation of its significance. For me, I think our motto should be the same as the Holocaust–“Never forget and Never Again” and we should make it a point to enlighten our youngsters because its their history too.
I wanted you to know that the thank-you post I wrote on Friday was directly to you but I didn’t realize it would just go to the general conversation without your name. Dell aka Lois

I remember the day well also. We were evacuated from the school I was working in due to a bomb threat. Internet and cell phones were down. Most towns around here lost people to the attacks, among them Father Mychal Judge, victim #0001, who was from the town where I live. Also Jeremy Glick, who was instrumental in foiling plans to take the fourth plane to Washington. No, we won’t ever forget.

Dell, welcome to TDK! Wow, 2 dozen cats, you are awesome! I am so sorry about your wee black kitty.

Great tribute PG and thanks for the name reminder JJ. He wasn’t the leader but we remember Jersey ethos is what made them do it. True heroes. I will never forget certain things but one in particular is the little girl, her mother and mothers Irish friend. They were going to Disney for the first time. 2 on one plane the other alone. Both those planes hit the towers.

Yes KZ very real indeed. You know what though? And thank you for sharing your story, I was watching NBC and Matt Lauer was interviewing someone and a look of shock came across his face but milliseconds later?? He was composed. I think it was the duty of the producers to play it out as he felt it. Teach it. You know why cukt children don’t know about it? Because supposedly it has nothing to do with them. Such is their ethos but? The OKC bombing they don’t know either? They don’t teach their children but who cares about them were talking about American children and in 2012 or 2011 I proposed making the day a national holiday and was ignored. The skyline will never be the same and I’m against the new bldg being there. Many from Middletown NJ worked there and died. Many, many. I know why and so does a particular woman. I won’t go long on that. I’ll stay on topic. Teaching our children is our responsibility whether it be at school or at home. If schools won’t libraries should. We can’t undo the past. Many rescuers died a decade later from exposure to dust which caused cancer. People gave blood, time, prayers. Lives were lost in the name of Islam but? It was that week I learned that Jihad means struggle. A young girl told the audience at a gathering shown on TV that. If I’m not mistaken? Your generation was the first to have TV. But? No generation has been as privileged as the present one. Children do not need cell phones. We didn’t have phones in school. My generation had a phone you dialed. It was on the wall and the microwave was invented when I was nearly an adult. Same with computer. The good old days when people appreciated the simple things in life. There are too many hate crimes in this country. You remember the KKKs rise and Malcolm X etc etc. Nixon’s dirty war the missing time from the tape. Tricky Dick and all. President Obama has been the only President to stand with whomever whenever as our only Kenyan American President. I believe you are a wonderful grandma and grandpa is probably just as good at it. Your desire to pass along knowledge is wonderful. Pass on knowledge! Maybe your grandchildren friends grandparents would like to join you. Write the Principal or Superintendent and suggest. It couldn’t hurt to try.

I knew ‘of’ people who died that day, from my hometown and surrounding towns. But there was one person who I met once at a holiday party – our husbands worked for the same international company.
RIP Lorraine Bay, Flight Attendant, Flight 93.

KJ? Sometimes it’s better to be the leader. As for electric? Figures! Stuff like that happens all the time. 13 July we had a huge storm for here. 80 mph wind. QT had power and the Dollar store but? Rest of the area had none. Lazy is a term that comes to mind because? With as many trucks and workers they have? Could’ve been done in 24 hrs. They called Missouri. Thursday. Or prob late Wed. By workout Thurs it still wasn’t back on but? As I’m jogging towards the apts? Fleet of trucks. When I got in the power was on.
Yuri is? Half tuxedo! I figured that. Shape of his face being Sora square and the white hairs sticking out of his paws. Now there’s some white on his chest. glad the ragdoll is drowned out by the Siamese and tuxedo which? They say isn’t a breed classification. Go figure. (Shrugging shoulders) where did you work? You said producer which would indicate radio or TV. My cousin has a cycling team and they do the Pan Ohio ride for charity each year. He collects pledges and they go in July. Interestingly that’s the month of the major storm 2013.
Oh and yes. Yuri likes the ride to the park. A lot. But? It’s the park thqts still a problem. When we go out twice a day here? He stays in one area and while there’s grass? There are no trees.

For me it is a day of mourning, but I don’t see the reason to
call it “Patriot Day”. The people murdered weren’t militarists; they were just people who had gone to work on a beautiful late-summer day.

I was terribly worried as a friend of mine sometimes worked or had meetings at an office in the WTC. Fortunately he was working elsewhere, and a good friend of his who was working there got out alive … but alas many didn’t.