9/11- from UK to USA

[chrisheaven]

Many of us this side have spent time remembering today.
Out thoughts and prayers are with all those who lost their lives and those who remain.
God bless America.

 

[steph]

thank you honey!

XOXO

 

[naveltkltr1350]

this Tragedy affects not only the US, but the UK Too as i believe Big Jim stated, 70+ brits lost their lives that dreaded day. May the Good Prevail in the fight against terrorism! and since we both are red, white and blue in nation colors..LETS GO RED, WHITE, BLUE...cause these colors WILL NEVER RUN!!

 

[milagros317]

Thank you Chris. 😀 😀 😀
Here in Manhattan, it just doesn't seem like three years ago, more like yesterday.

We will NEVER forget!!!

 

[red indian]

Thank you all for that............

....for reasons I can not begin to fathom, even the British press seem to have airbrushed out of history any mention of the 67 Brits who lost their lives on 9/11.

Shame on all the British press.

 

[milagros317]

Their 67 names were read today in New York City at Ground Zero, along with all of the other names. We have not forgotten them here, R.I.

 

[BigJim]

I've often talked about how patriotism has been such a negative force in America, but 9/11 is a day I'll always remember for it showing its opposite polarity.

In New York people lined the streets to create bucket chains, to keep firefighters and cops supplied with drinks when the spit was being sucked out of their throats by the corrosive atmosphere, and to help in any way they could with whatever skills and materials they had to hand. The press named the heroes who did their damndest and mourned the lost.

The 11th of September 2001 was a day when American people showed the world how it was done. They showed the world what being brothers and sisters with everyone around them meant. They showed what it was to be one cohesive organism, instead of a collection of selfish individuals. Most importantly, they showed whoever orchestrated it that they were made of flexible steel that would neither break, or bend too far. They showed a spirit that no bad-ass terrorist or hater of tolerance can ever know or touch.

To quote Hugh Grant from the opening credits of Love actually...

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow airport.
General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. Seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy but it's always there.
Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends.
When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls were from the people on board were messages of hate and revenge, they were all messages of love.
If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling that love is... actually... all around.

People really are at their best, when things are at their worst.

They made the rest of us proud on 9/11.