9/11 Memorial

[311boogieman]

This thread is regarding the 9/11 Memorial Museum specifically. But generally we should all recognize the sacrifices from 25 years ago today. If you have a story you want to tell, please feel free to do it here. Please just keep the conspiracy stuff and other bs out of my thread. Create your own if you want to talk about that.

Here is a part of the email I sent my family today. I have 3 boys all grown men now and out of the house. I highly recommend everyone visit this museum. It will bring you very close to this day in time. As close as you can probably get without actually being there.


Attached are some choice pictures I took of the 9/11 Memorial Museum. The underground part that is built around what was left of the underground garages of Tower 1 and 2. Tower 1 has more of how the towers were built or the history if you will. Tower 2 section was more the memorial to those that suffered and sacrificed. I got tears in my eyes when I was picking out the photos and I have tears in my eyes again just typing this. This was when my wife and I went there on 10-10-2022 while visiting our son for his competition.

a. Section of a Surry Wall
b. A section of the famous iron exoskeleton
c. What’s left of some stairs in garage
d. Melted iron structure
e. Foundation footings
f. Architectural drawings
g. Same
h. Artifacts (there were a LOT of artifacts and then one section that had people’s personal items you were not allowed to film. I cried all the way through this section.
i. Self-explanatory
j. Above the museum at the outdoor Memorial Plaza with cascading waterfalls simulating the falling towers at their original locations. Extremely impactful.
k. L, m. n – self explanatory


Love,
Dad

 

[JackTripper]

I worked in lower Manhattan in the 90s and left in 1999 to take a job outside the city that would occasionally bring me back for meetings to WTC 2. Last time I was in WTC 2 was December 2000, which happened to be one of the windiest days of the year with 50+ mph gusts. Being in the upper decks of the building, you could feel it sway, sort of like being on a large cruise ship. I remember sitting in a conference room fixated on a pitcher of water that was placed in the middle of the table. Every time there was a gust you could see the movement in the water, and the building exterior made all sorts of popping sounds that were apparently "normal." Leaving the meeting, the elevator banged up against the sides of the shaft as the building swayed and the elevator remained plumb. Again, "normal." By that time, my older colleague/mentor who was afraid of heights was white as a ghost.

Later found out that some of the folks in the meeting that day never made it out.

Took my father-in-law to the museum when it first opened about ~15 years ago. I'm sure it's completely different now but thanks for posting those pics.

 

[70 Mach 1]

keeping the TV off today as i do every year. i dont want to live through it again.

Lost my cousin in the S Tower FDNY. they found a femur bone and some crumbs about 4 yrs later. thats all we buried.
some acquittances as well were killed

FDNY took us to ground zero that Saturday with other families by ferry.

i had fucking nightmares for week. I can still see the flags and sheets covering the dead .
The window curtains in adjacent buildings flapping on in the wind. walking over powdered debris 3 inches thick.
twisted steel. slipping on broken glass, blown out cars. it was horrific to be that close

if one ever lived through he blitzkriegs in WW2 that was as close as you can get

I do light a candle every year in church.

his death cert lists cause of death as murder

 

[Shevek]

keeping the TV off today as i do every year. i dont want to live through it again.

Lost my cousin in the S Tower FDNY. they found a femur bone and some crumbs about 4 yrs later. thats all we buried.
some acquittances as well were killed

FDNY took us to ground zero that Saturday with other families by ferry.

i had fucking nightmares for week. I can still see the flags and sheets covering the dead .
The window curtains in adjacent buildings flapping on in the wind. walking over powdered debris 3 inches thick.
twisted steel. slipping on broken glass, blown out cars. it was horrific to be that close

if one ever lived through he blitzkriegs in WW2 that was as close as you can get

I do light a candle every year in church.

his death cert lists cause of death as murder

Condolences to you and your family.

 

[311boogieman]

keeping the TV off today as i do every year. i dont want to live through it again.

Lost my cousin in the S Tower FDNY. they found a femur bone and some crumbs about 4 yrs later. thats all we buried.
some acquittances as well were killed

FDNY took us to ground zero that Saturday with other families by ferry.

i had fucking nightmares for week. I can still see the flags and sheets covering the dead .
The window curtains in adjacent buildings flapping on in the wind. walking over powdered debris 3 inches thick.
twisted steel. slipping on broken glass, blown out cars. it was horrific to be that close

if one ever lived through he blitzkriegs in WW2 that was as close as you can get

I do light a candle every year in church.

his death cert lists cause of death as murder

Wow, that is heartbreaking but thank you for sharing. May your cousin and acquaintances rest in peace and sorry for your loss.

 

[Briman24]

 

[311boogieman]

There is a section of the memorial museum under the WTC2 site where they have personal affects of things that were either found or donated. Like wallets, shoes, letters, rings, etc. You were not allowed to take pictures in this section and I had tears in my eyes the entire time walking through it. Absolutely the most impacting thing I've ever seen.

 

[311boogieman]

One of the History Channel's has a weekend long series they are playing called The 9/11 Chronology. I've seen most of it and I am on Episode 6 right now. Not sure how many episodes there are but it is extremely detailed. Assuming an hour each. For example, the towers have not fallen yet (in the chronology of footage). Looks to me like what they did was take every single piece of footage they could get their hands on and play it all successively. That includes individual self shot video, news coverage, EMS comms, Air Traffic Control comms, etc.

 

[Findthetone1]

Thanks for the thread and pics. I spent Friday in remembrance of the lives lost and the end of any remaining innocence the country had. Post 9/11, Americans seem to come together in a way that had not been seen in a long time.

 

[Briman24]

I just came across this video on youtube of a cameraman filming the fire department investigating a gas leak a few blocks away before plane hit the tower. They rush in right away with camera rolling. First time I see this footage... Sad knowing alot of them never make it out while watching them run in there fearlessly to save lives.

 

[311boogieman]

1:17
1:45

Unreal

 

[JamesTiberiusKirk]

I could type one sentence and have all of you screaming with spittle flying out of your mouths.

Gawd it would be so fucking funny.

 

[Robostyle]

I could type one sentence and have all of you screaming with spittle flying out of your mouths.

Gawd it would be so fucking funny.

 

[Floyd Eye]

I could type one sentence and have all of you screaming with spittle flying out of your mouths.

Gawd it would be so fucking funny.

Well, you have already proven you have no problems laughing at people being murdered for being stupid enough to work in blighted inner city neighborhoods. Laughing at 9/11 victims isn't a stretch.

 

[JamesTiberiusKirk]

Well, you have already proven you have no problems laughing at people being murdered for being stupid enough to work in blighted inner city neighborhoods. Laughing at 9/11 victims isn't a stretch.

Don't make shit up to try to prove a point.

I laughed at how *YOU* framed your stories to make it sound like you were in an Afghan firefight and you were some kind of fucking studly man of men. Stop trying for sympathy now dude.

 

[JamesTiberiusKirk]

Do you guys know who this is??

 

[Floyd Eye]

Don't make shit up to try to prove a point.

I laughed at how *YOU* framed your stories to make it sound like you were in an Afghan firefight and you were some kind of fucking studly man of men. Stop trying for sympathy now dude.

Yeah, that never happened dumbfuck. I was shot at, not in any gunfights. And I never said I was. And never tried to frame it any other way than what I told you the other day. Liar.

 

[MadAsAHatter]

Leave it to @JamesTiberiusKirk to come take a dump in a 9/11 memorial thread. You'd think he could at least be respectful of the people who died in the tragedy and not do that, but I guess not.

 

[JamesTiberiusKirk]

Leave it to @JamesTiberiusKirk to come take a dump in a 9/11 memorial thread. You'd think he could at least be respectful of the people who died in the tragedy and not do that, but I guess not.

Oh, I'm totally respectful of the people.

What you don't get is that YOU'RE disrespectful of the people the US has killed for no good reason at all.

You schlubs can pretzel logic your way out of any sort of responsibility for the shit you pull. That's what my whole point in this thread is.

 

[JamesTiberiusKirk]

Yeah, that never happened dumbfuck. I was shot at, not in any gunfights. And I never said I was. And never tried to frame it any other way than what I told you the other day. Liar.

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