(Please forgive that this is not a question): 10 years later, for each of you who may have lost a family member or friend on 9/11, my heart goes out to you. To the first responders that day, and with following tragedies, we say thank you. My appreciation and heart goes out to those in the armed services and their families, who have made sacrifices (sometimes the ultimate sacrifice) for our freedom...THANK YOU. The US has changed since 9/11, and the world has changed. As we go about planning and enjoying travel, let us never forget our freedom to do that did not come easily. May peace and understanding come to all the world. And, may each of us do what we can each day toward that goal. Safe travels to all.
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St. Louis, MO USA
1976 posts
Margaret, thank you for this beautiful statement.
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Seattle, WA, USA
1068 posts
What a lovely sentiment. Thank you.
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San Antonio, Texas, USA
20 posts
Thank you for putting into words what we all are feeling.
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San Francisco/Marin County
9436 posts
So beautifully said, thank you.
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Sacramento, California U.S.A.
10595 posts
Margaret, that was beautiful. My husband is a firefighter and to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11, 343 firefighters from Northern California climbed 110 floors (the number of floors at the World Trade Center) at a building in downtown Sacramento. We don't have a building that tall obviously, so they had to go up and down several times. Each firefighter received the biography of one of the 343 firefighters who perished that horrible day 10 years ago. My husband climbed in memory of a brave man named T.W. Kelly. They had a ceremony on the roof of the high rise to remember each brave individual who made the ultimate sacrifice that day.
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San Francisco/Marin County
9436 posts
Wow Andrea, your post brings tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing that story. And thank you to your husband.
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Boston, MA, United States
1806 posts
Thank you, Margaret. My group of friends had a rough day as we made our toast this morning to our friend Robert Fangman when his name was read on tv from the site of the World Trade Center. I appreciate your thoughts & prayers.
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Ann Arbor, Mi
3696 posts
The sadness from that day... a bond we all share.
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Gig Harbor, Washington, USA
1857 posts
We first heard this song on Garrison's Keillor's program about a month after September 11: "The Bravest," by Tom Paxton. (It's still hard to listen to it without feeling teary.) www.lyricsmania.com/the_bravest_lyrics_tom_paxton.html
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maplewood, new jersey, usa
818 posts
On 9/11 my parents returned from a hike to their hotel in Slovenia to find televisions rebroadcasting the attacks - the proprietors offered their phones to help my parents call home to check on us (my sister worked at 7 World Trade and had been on a plane to California that morning which was grounded in Ohio and I was on 57th street in Nyc). They were blown away by the kindness to Americans and were very grateful.
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Adelaide, SA, Australia
977 posts
My thoughts were with our American friends yesterday. A rememberance cermony was held in our nation's capital.
A young man from Adelaide who worked in the WTC was a casualty of the insanity which prevailed that day.
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Washington, DC
888 posts
Oh Andrea, you brought tears to my eyes as well. What a lovely thing to do. I think we all can do something to this effect: Choose a name and do something kind in their memory. And thanks to Margaret for your thoughts.