Did anyone lose anyone they knew personally on 9/11?
I lost a friend named Melissa Vincent. She lived in my dorm at college. She was that girl that none of the guys dated but she was everyone's buddy. Basically a little sister to everyone. She was always helping people and belonged to various college organizations that helped other students such as SAVAC (our student run EMS/Ambulance service) and a security group that provided escorts for females to and from night classes who might be afraid. What I remember most is she was always willing to help out the guys when we needed a female for a "coed" sports team (soccer, broomballl, softball, and some others).
She was basically an all around nice person. So, it came to me as a shock when I found out she had died on 9/11. The oddest part, for me, is that the tragedy of her death (along with all the other losses) seems to become more real and emotional as time passes rather than it fading. I wonder if that is from the enormity of it all? Or just appreciating life more as you age?
So, anyone have someone they knew that died on 9/11?
RIP to all the victims from all nations lost on that day. :(
Sorry to hear of your loss Strix. I've found that I've become more sensitive to loss as I've gotten older. Maybe it's because over time I've had more losses, as is normal. But I think it maybe hits me even more as I lose more of my older relatives, and some not so old, so I appreciate even more what I had and who has been lost to me.
A guy from my church & school growing up was on American flight 77. I didn't know him all that well, but a familiar name like that still makes it a little more personal for me.
Quote from: Strix on September 11, 2009, 09:32:23 AM
Did anyone lose anyone they knew personally on 9/11?
no, fortunately, no, I did no lose anyone I knew.
Doesn't mean I feel nothing for all those who disapeared that day, though. Terrible tragedy. I think those images will stay in my mind all my life.
No, although the husband of one of my teachers died that day. She was really one of the sweetest people. Her husband had just got promoted and they were going to move to a nice house on the Cape. :(
I can't remember if Princesca worked there when 9/11 actually occured, but like half of the marketing department for TJX was on one of the hijacked flights. After that TJX built this big memorial garden on their corporate campus.
I did not know anyone who died, but I spent a portion of the afternoon that day hanging out at Weston High School (convoluted story there) with an HBS professor whose college roommate was a VP at Cantor Fitz (I think). He did not make it out of the World Trade Center.
No, not directly. But my wife works at the American Airlines Reservation center that took the phone call from the flight attendant whose plane was crashed into the WTC. The coworker who took that call later comitted suicide because of the depression he suffered from it.
Luckily, I did not lose anyone that day. Or anyone ever actually. I do remember the day it happened really vividly. It still makes me sad. :(
Quote from: Korea on September 11, 2009, 09:43:45 PM
Luckily, I did not lose anyone that day. Or anyone ever actually. I do remember the day it happened really vividly. It still makes me sad. :(
The same, even when I'm old and Alzheimerish I'll still remember it.
Seeing the Coldstream Guards play the Star Spangled Banner outside of Buckingham Palace did force yours truly to bite down and clear one's throat at the time. :cool: :cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0)
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 11, 2009, 09:45:55 PM
Quote from: Korea on September 11, 2009, 09:43:45 PM
Luckily, I did not lose anyone that day. Or anyone ever actually. I do remember the day it happened really vividly. It still makes me sad. :(
The same, even when I'm old and Alzheimerish I'll still remember it.
No, you won't.
Quote from: Razgovory on September 12, 2009, 12:31:17 AM
No, you won't.
He'll remember the Kennedy assassination when he's on shrooms though.
Quote from: Legbiter on September 11, 2009, 11:37:28 PM
Seeing the Coldstream Guards play the Star Spangled Banner outside of Buckingham Palace did force yours truly to bite down and clear one's throat at the time. :cool: :cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0)
That sounds very nice.
Quote from: Legbiter on September 11, 2009, 11:37:28 PM
Seeing the Coldstream Guards play the Star Spangled Banner outside of Buckingham Palace did force yours truly to bite down and clear one's throat at the time. :cool: :cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrX-LN9-L0)
I think the Queen's line for the Memorial service that 'grief is the price we pay for love' is the one that's stayed with me longest. Aside from 'shoulder to shoulder' it's the only statement made in response to it that I really remember.