9/11

[06 H3]

well this is the 3rd year I am posting this to remind everyone, NEVER FORGET! I will share you guys a story this year about a very good friend of ours. He basically lives at our house and is my brothers best friend.

I will copy and paste it but he makes me proud. Its great to see someone pay so much respect and never forget on such a tragic day especially when he wasnt directly affected as many of the californians do not even remember...

My mom posted this on facebook and tagged the 343 never forget 9/11 page and then they took the story and reposted it on their account for the world to see.

"I would like to tell everyone on this site an amazing story that proves that, in this life, and in death, we are all connected. It is a story about the "coincidence" that began a few years ago and culminated in an amazing and touching moment for my family and a young man who touched our hearts, not only by being part of our lives, but by his dedication and honor in remembering those that died on 9/11. It's a little long, but if you read through it I think you'll agree it was worth it. The backstory began years ago, when my oldest son, Chris, started Kindergarten at the Seaford Harbor School in Seaford, NY. He met and became good friends with a wonderful boy named Anthony Carbone. They went through school together, played sports together, hung out, etc. Dawn Haskell Carbone, Anthony's mom, was Chris' religious ed teacher, taking him up through confirmation in 7th grade. She also became my friend. Sadly, on Sept. 11, 2001, Dawn lost 2 of her brothers, Tommy and Timmy Haskell, both NYC fireman, in the attack on the WTC. It was obviously a terrible time for their family, as it was for so many families, for the nation, really. Going to their memorial service for surreal. We all watched as the horrors of that day became the new reality for everyone. But as they say, life goes on, and it did. Life as we knew it was forever different, but it did go on.... Therefore, fast forward several years.....my husband's firm transferred him from their NYC office to their LA one, and we moved to California in 2005. Sometime in 2009 or 2010, my younger son, Nick, meets and becomes best friends with Zach Haskell (no relation to Dawn's family). Zach is studying to become a California firefighter. About 2 years ago, he is over for dinner and begins telling us that for his fire class, he had to research and write an essay on a fireman killed on 9-11. He goes on to tell us he is doing his report on 2 NYC firemen brothers....he picked them bc they share the same last name. He starts telling us all about Tommy and Timmy Haskell and all he learned about them. As he continued with his story, we all sat dumbstruck. He even told us about Blaze,Timmy's Dalmatian. Finally one of us spoke up, I don't even remember who, and we told Zach that we know their sister....we went to their memorial service.....Chris used to play with Blaze during religion class at her house. None of us could fathom the chances. I emailed Dawn to tell her the story. I wanted her to know her brothers' sacrifices were remembered by an 18 year old future fireman in Ca. Last summer she gave me her brothers' memorial Tshirt and a memorial patch to give to Zach. My husband, Walter, and I promised Zach then that the next time we went to NY we would take him and bring him to the 9-11 memorial. We did that this summer when we went home to visit our family. Unbeknown to us, Zach came prepared. In his backpack he had flags which he placed at each of their engraved names. We then went to Timmy's firehouse and told them the story. Zach was again prepared. He presented them with a shadow box he made honoring the Haskell brothers, as well as all the fireman that lost their lives that day. It included patches of his West Ranch HS fire academy post # 343, 9/11 patches, and pictures of his academy during a 9/11 memorial service they had. It was a beautiful and touching experience and one that I will never forget. I will forever be amazed by the connection my two worlds have, but most importantly, how far reaching the sacrifice of those two fireman, Tommy and Timmy Haskell, is. Their ultimate sacrifice and that of so many like them WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN"



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[06 H3]

Feel free to like the page!

People like Zach really do understand. I hope you all keep 9/11 in the back of your mind. This country is really twisted right now but its people that put their lives at risk to keep this country the best country on earth.

 

[cgalpha08]

I still remember that day like it was yesterday, even though i was only 9 or 10. I remember coming home from school, they hadn't told us anything about it. I walked in the house and i could see it on the tv, my grandmother was telling us how we had been attacked and the twin towers were both on fire. It took me awhile to comprehend the idea that America could be attacked and was vulnerable, it really changed my view of america and the world. I always thought that we were invincible. I hope that we truly never forget. While i personally didn't know anyone who was affected directly by the attacks, there are thousands upon thousands who did.

May God bless the victims, their families, heroes, and all of our service men and women who have served and/or are currently serving this great nation.

This, in my opinion, is one of the most moving renderings of the National Anthem on the 10th anniversary of 9/11

[video=youtube;B7BQV93tFLs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7BQV93tFLs[/video]

 

[poncho1965]

Driving my kids to school that morning, the
News was talking about a plane hitting one of the towers. I pictured a light plane maybe. Before I got home they told of one of the towers collapsing. Just couldn't wrap my mind around how this could happen. When I got home the tv news showed what was going on and it was clear just what had happened. Nope will never forget this!


Mike

 

[3Hummers]

9.11 will never be forgotten by the ones on this forum. Everyone I know on here understands and appreciates the significance of the actions that day by all parties. Payback is hell and I hope we aren't through with it. Remembering the fallen is an honor and a duty of all Americans.

 

[Bigunit]

9.11 will never be forgotten by the ones on this forum. Everyone I know on here understands and appreciates the significance of the actions that day by all parties. Payback is hell and I hope we aren't through with it. Remembering the fallen is an honor and a duty of all Americans.

There is NO doubt about that - never forgotten, forever remembered.

 

[High Five H2]

9/11 was terrible, no doubt about that, but I feel like it revealed the true character of America - there are heroes everywhere. Plenty of people who were safe rushed back in to save lives and some of them were killed. It makes me proud to be an American.

 

[06 H3]

Dave, I also think people on here get it. I was mentioning all the disrespectful dbags I've encountered since I moved out here. I'm sure we all have run into them

 

[frumaker]

I was active duty army at fort hood. when this happened, we got locked down for 3 days and then prepared to go to Iraq. its horrible what happened but any first responder would have done the same thing that all of the first responders did in NY that day. Not to mention all of the citizens that did what they could. I was fortunate enough to be one of the first groups to be sent to Iraq in 2003 to begin the, hmmmmm, what's the best way to put what we did to the Iraqi soldiers? anyways, I feel we did this country proud and I am proud to know that some of my friends were involved in finding saddam. everyone is right when they say people forget, its a shame. I almost, not really though, feel bad for anyone that's around me when the national anthem plays and they make the horrible decision to not take off their hat, talk during the national anthem, show disrespect in any way. I jump knee deep in their behinds. thank you chris for posting this so at least the people on here will remember. I will have this on my mind today while I am working the streets of Killeen to keep the "soldiers" and their families same that are here in the states "fighting for my freedom" even though they were never in the war, when I was. that's always fun to hear. everyone have a good day.

 

[3Hummers]

Fru I feel the same way. I almost started a huge incident at a rodeo in Norco, CA 7-8 years ago. A couple of guys didn't stand, take off their hats or even quit talking during the National Anthem. After a few lines of the Anthem I went back to have a discussion with them. Seems I wasn't the only one that felt this way. In some defense of the poor guys they likely weren't "citizens" but they got the message real quick. Not minimizing the feelings of any other group but redneck America is pretty damn patriotic and a rodeo is the wrong place to be disrespectful to the flag, anthem or the country.

 

[MessiaH2]

First and foremost I would like to send out a prayer for all the families and victims of the terror attack of 9/11.
Secondly I want to thank everyone who has in the past and still are serving communities and country in any aspect whether it be military, fire, police etc... I wanted to but had a bad back and could not pass the initial test :-( but i support in the fullest capacity I can.
To me it should be mandated to fly our flag at half mass today!!! :salute: people need to show some God Damn respect and patriotism for Gods sake!!! I have flown a flag at my house since the day I built it and I will always do so, NOT just on popular country days of importance.

The truth is I am 48 years old and me and my family were effected like many of you in a deep dark way that day. I need to say the weeks after 9/11 I actually teared up many days with the joy of patriotism as we pulled together as a country. It had nothing to do with REP/DEM or white/black or men/woman or adults/children or Choice/Pro or Eagles/Dallas or Hummer/Jeep or any other stupid friggin' thing that separates us on a daily basis... We saw AMERICANS helping AMERICANS like I have never witnessed in my lifetime. I saw Flags flying everywhere, businesses, homes, schools, fields, airport etc... and in general the feel was awesome. I was in awl at how strong we were to bring strength from tragedy and our fallen and volunteers to me were leading the way.

With that said, if you told me that 12 years later our country would be at all time low i would have laughed in your face. I would have thought NO WAY! Well unfortunately so many people have become sheep that this country, MY COUNTRY is in shambles and a disgrace. I love to see the patriotism on this forum which just makes it that much better, Thank you everyone and God Bless America. :am10:

LARRY

 

[Bigunit]

Fru and Larry, great posts & thank you for expressing what and how I feel since I'm not very good with words. :thumbup:

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[twinmill28]

Wow, rough night tonight---watched a show on how the events unfolded in 2001, lots of memories came flooding back. Not sure my wife knew what to do with me.
Thanks for bringing this post back up--this really changed our lives and our world forever.

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

[video=youtube;3bfy-KfGTBk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bfy-KfGTBk[/video]

here's my feelings... thanks Green Day

 

[LagunaH1]

There are a couple of things about those days that I will never forget:

I was on my way from Long Island where I lived at the time to Houston via Atlanta. I saw the seemingly endless replays of the planes hitting the towers on TV in the Atlanta airport until they shut down TV in the airport.

I will never forget the feeling that it could have been me, it could have been my plane going in to one of the towers.

We got stuck in Atlanta and ended up renting a car and drove home to LI. None of the car rental agencies had cars available, except the local AVIS location. They had the lot full of BRAND NEW cars, none of them had license plates but they all had paper labels that simply read "License plates applied for"

We drove almost non stop from Atlanta to NY. It was surreal to see the Manhattan skyline without the twin towers.

I lived in an apartment at the time, and my landlord was a sgt with Nassau County PD, and a 25 year veteran of the NYPD's SWAT / ESU. I'll never forget the look of heartbreak in the eyes of this old, tough cop.

I will never forget the message his wife left on my voicemail, pleading with me to please call her to let her know I was ok. All she knew was I had left go to somewhere very early that morning. As things unfolded I just couldn't get a line through to them at their house for a few days.

I will never forget how odd it was in the following days how quiet the skies were. There is a lot of airports in the NY metro area so hearing planes fly overhead is normal. No planes flying was not normal.

I will never forget, one of those days where there were no planes flying, I was standing outside our office building on Long Island talking to a coworker when 2 fighter jets came flying low, slow and gloriously LOUD overhead. I'm sure they did that on purpose to let everyone see and hear them as if to say: "We are here, looking out for you". That felt really damn good.