Thanks! Only recovering now. 
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Least favorite day on the calendar. Brings back bad memories. In my post on the first page of the thread, I mentioned how beautiful that day was in NYC. I also should have mentioned how the smell of the fire from the WTC site lingered for months afterward. The smell drifted over to Brooklyn, if I remember correctly, when the wind was blowing that direction.
I moved out of NYC in May 2002 and have only been back for a two-day vacation since then. Need to go back to see the WTC site and visit my old haunts.
I was at a work seminar eariler this year and was having a drink with a few younger guys, all around 24. We talked about 9/11 and I briefly gave my story and then one of the guys says he’d never forget where he was when he saw it on TV. He was in 5th grade at the time. Yep, I’m getting old.
^ Was he in that class that George W Bush was in when he was advised of the attacks?
He was in 5th grade at the time. Yep, I’m getting old.
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4th grade man.
Thanks to all for sharing.
I had a speaker come into class one time and he shared that he graduated in 2002, which meant during his senior year of college 9/11 happened. I wanted to ask him to elaborate but you never know how that day personally effected people and I didn’t want to bring up any rough issues for the guy. Must have been a truely crazy time for all that were in the thick of their careers.
This.
Can this be moved to Water Cooler?
I was telling my GF about this version this morning. It’s one of my favorite 9/11 stories.
She did not use it as an excuse to start telling me what to do. Smart woman. 
I was in fourth grade when the principal came in to let us all know what happened. A few minutes after she left the room, my sisters and I were called down to her office, where we were greeted by my mother. We were told that we needed to go home immedtaiely because my dad was in the FDNY and nobody knew if he was okay. There was a good 3-4 days before we heard from him, and the creepy thing is that we attended a memorial because we thought he was dead. My dad retired about a month later, as did most guys with 20+ years.
Does anyone remember the dollars for Afgan kids fundraiser immediatly after 9/11? At my university, there were these bleeding heart liberal dbags at information booth pushing us to donate dollars for Afgan kids.
As I recall, it was a widespread fundraiser. Whoever organized that timing should have been hacksawed, immediatly.
This thread just confirms that JDV is a first ballot AF Hall of Famer.
You are making Herman Cain seem like a reasonable, articulate and intelligent man guv. Might want to step out of that bubble for a bit.
Anyway, RIP to the 3000+ innocent people who died on that fateful day and RIP to the 100,000+ innocent Afghanis and Iraqis who died in the aftermath because too many people were so thirsty for blood they couldn’t see the forest for the trees.
So you honestly believe that money donated to such a civilized country such as Afghanistan will actually reach the desired children who need it?
If you do, then I have a park in Midtown I could sell you. Prime real estate lil cubby.
Good point.
I suppose it is difficult to answer that now in a categorical manner but there are quite a few organizations that provide accountability for every penny spent and at the very least they would be worth parting with a reasonable amount.
Igor - Is there a point you are trying to make or are we just copy - pasting random articles that demonstrate how individual states tend to block interference from the Centre in a Federal structure?
You know, you’re right. The Clinton Foundation is glowing example of socially responsible transparent legitimate unqualified audit opinion 501c3.
It was George W. Bush’s plan. It was part of the whole, we stopped sending money to Afghanistan and the crazies took over, so we better send some more money to them.
Never forget.
This is a sad thread and good reminder. Also a good reminder of the many good people we used to have here, this place used to be so full of life. The industry has really changed.
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