September 11, 2011: Remember, Honor, Live

I watched the scene unfold in disbelief that day from work. We heard the news on the internet and then turned on a TV and witnessed it. I was numb.

It’s been a long ten years.

FYI: I keep getting an error message trying to open the Game Day thread

PS your gameday thread is broken and I can’t enter it to read or make comments

Of my favorite commercial. This always brings a tear to my eye.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxxix0QQdU

Don’t know if anybody saw it last night, but last night they were showing footage of the original September 11th coverage from 10 years ago (on MSNBC, I think). It was pretty surreal to view the footage as it appeared live on tv, before those presenting those images had any idea what was happening, or how much worse things would get throughout the day when the true horrific nature and extent of the attacks were revealed. Let us keep the victims and their families in our thoughts today.

As I sit on my back porch in the beautiful hill country,watching the sun rise and the deer play, I’m reminded of how blessed I am to live in the best place in the world. Many have sacrificed so I can be so lucky. There are those who would look down on us for being excited about watching football today, but I say that those who sacrficed themselves for us would approve. Football is America, today is the day to celibrate America. We are not defeated. Let America ring true.

But remember exactly where I was 10 years ago today.
Thoughts to the families of those affected then and now.

We were in the process of buying the house where we now live, and had some business to take care of, so we took off work. We slept late, but we sleep with a radio on, and as I started to wake up I heard them mention something about a plane having crashed into the World Trade Center. I assumed it had been a small plane, and just laid there for a few minutes, half asleep. I can’t remember if we woke up before or after the second plane hit, but we wound up spending much of the day in our home office, getting in touch with people we know back East, and watching on a little TV. I remember the disbelief when the South Tower fell. At first I thought that some facade had fallen away, but then I realized there was now tower there anymore.

I spent so much of that day going back and forth between numbness, sadness, and rage.

Is to live life they way you would have. Game on!

This is one of the hardest days of the year, but football makes it so much easier to remember those because they would have loved to be with us right now watching the greatest game in the world.

I really don’t like going into high rise buildings and any time I see a plane flying close to downtown it gives me a sick feeling. But like the rest of us I will do whatever it takes to do the job. We will never be deterred… ever… under any circumstance.

sent to NH from San Antonio to change a landing gear on one and without going into too much detail we had been at a standstill due to awaiting engineering direction on working an issue we had discovered in the process of changing out said landing gear.

We were in the hangar finishing our breakfast when the 2nd plane hit, my buddy and I looked at each other and said in unison “This is war.”

Our manager stood up from the desk he was sitting at and said, “Fuck this, we’ll (fix the issue with a standard repair) and get this landing gear in. The AF is going to want this jet ASAP.”

We finished the job in record time and as we were towing the aircraft out of the hangar and to a parking spot, we all commented later on how something felt “off”. Then slowly, one by one all of us realized it was the eery silence….none of us had ever noticed how used to the sound of aircraft in the air we had all grown accustomed too….that day there was nothing. A passing F-16 sounded SUPER loud.