Wednesday Reads: Another Anniversary, September 11th
Posted: September 11, 2013 Filed under: morning reads | Tags: New York City, September 11th 12th anniversary, World Trade Center 26 Comments
Good Morning
Here comes yet another anniversary of September 11th…it is a bad date for my family. Not only does it bring horrible memories of the attack on World Trade Center, and the hours of torture that followed… such painful thoughts flood back into our minds. It also is the day my daughter lost her school friend, Kenny, in a car accident three years ago.
Bad, sad day.
My internet was out most of the day yesterday, in fact it is going off and on while I write this post! I keep getting warnings from WordPress, so I best make this quick.
Little Green Footballs had a thread up and it is a long one, with all sorts of pictures and updates on the 12th Anniversary: 12 Years Later: Remembering 9/11 – Little Green Footballs
The past 10 years have been a near constant reminder of the profound sense of absence. 1WTC (aka the Freedom Tower) has finally recaptured part of the skyline. 1WTC is still under construction but the antenna and external structures are complete. The base and interior work continues.
Construction of the Transit Hub is also underway, and Santiago Calatrava’s design now peeks out above ground as well.
The WTC Transit Hub from Greenwich Street at Vesey
Looking down Greenwich St at the WTC Transit Hub and 3 and 4 WTC
Take a look at the link for some info on strange dealings with the Port Authority, and a $10.00 sale agreement gone phfffft….I just thought the pictures were something good to see.
The skyline will never be the same. Neither will our hearts, which are heavy with the loss and supreme sacrifices made on 9/11 by the rescue personnel who bravely rushed up the towers even as people were racing to get out of the towers or gasping as people were forced to jump to their deaths to avoid being burned alive in the fires that racked the towers.
We remember.
Tribute in Light<
Looking up at 1WTC and 7WTC.More photos of Ground Zero and the rebuilding at the World Trade Center, as taken from 4WTC, which is scheduled to open next year.
The WTC as seen from Hoboken.
I think this image of the Tribute in Light is much better:

The “Tribute in Light” memorial is in remembrance of the events of September 11, 2001, in honor of the citizens who lost their lives in the World Trade Center attacks. The two towers of light are composed of two banks of high wattage spotlights that point straight up from a lot next to Ground Zero. The ÒTribute in LightÓ memorial was first held in March 2002. This photo was taken from Liberty State Park, New Jersey on September11, 2006, the five year anniversary of 9/11. USAF photo by Denise Gould.
Or my own picture of the towers from August 2000…
Nah, how about a picture of NYC back a long time ago…in 1933: If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
Old New York #66
Lower Manhattan (1933)
Wow…but you know something…it is so sad.
Ugh, it is emotionally draining for me…and since the internet is giving me problems I will go ahead and leave this morning’s post at that. I’ll post something a little later on…until then just use this as an open thread.
Thanks, JJ. Take care of yourself today. I’ll be thinking of you and your family.
Thank you so much BB…xoxoxo
The damn internet is still running so slow, I had hoped I could read all of yesterday’s posts and catch up. I seriously need to call Windstream today and bitch them out.
Here are a few links for you this morning:
Golf Course Draws Death Threats With Clueless 9/11 Anniversary Coupon Deal | Mediaite
Tacky. But get this, it has been going on for 3 years.
Grim Toll of 9/11 Still Being Borne 12 Years Later – NYTimes.com
There are several images of the Tribute to Light here at this link taken within the past couple of days from folks around Manhattan: America Prepares to Honor 9/11 Victims
Somber U.S. ceremonies mark 12th anniversary of September 11 attacks | Reuters
Y’all take it easy today, I don’t think I could handle another tragic event associated with today’s date.
Taking it easy today is good advice for us all. I see a nap in my immediate future.
Peace, everybody. Especially for you, JJ, and your family.
There are some cool pictures here as well: 9/11 remembered: The iconic Twin Towers through the years – NY Daily News
Hope you have a good anniversary of 9/11 and those old memory demons are going away.
Just one more thing…last week here in Banjoville we had a fatal motorcycle wreck on the dam and there was a picture in the paper with the coroner and the sheriff officer covering their noses…like repulsed by the smell.
When my husband saw this, he remarked about how bad the accident must have been because of the body language in the photograph. He went on about how a body smells right after it has been ripped apart. When the insides are plastered all over the pavement…guts and blood and crap. He said when the body is gouged out and opened like that…it smells real bad right away. My mom and I were telling him, “Really? Immediately it smells horrible like that?” Then it hit us…he would know. We forgot what he saw 12 years ago. He saw bodies of jumpers on the pavement. He saw one of them hit the a big lamp post in the plaza. He would have smelled that putrid death of those mangled corpses immediately as they were falling from the buildings when he was dodging the bodies as they jumped from the towers.
My mom and I forgot about his experiences. Damn, how could we?
It was a day of horror, the worst day of my life, and I wasn’t even there. Your husband will never forget that smell, I bet he deals with it all the time. I mean he is forced to, it can’t be denied by his mind and body. Hugs to you and your husband, and family.
tp: Florida Police Chief: Either George Zimmerman Or His Lawyer Is Not Telling The Truth
Did he have a gun or not? I’m betting he did.
He supposedly keeps one in his car, because when he was stopped in TX he had one.
This is for you ralph, Via JMG……..I knew you’d enjoy this
“We are uniquely situated because we have energy resources, fossil and otherwise, and our own independent electrical grid. Generally speaking, we have made great progress in becoming an independent nation, an ‘island nation’ if you will, and I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart, Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity with energy, food, water and roads as if we were a closed-loop system.” – Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Barry Smitherman, who is running for Attorney General.”
I’m curious what his definition of “if the rest of country falls apart” is? A black POTUS? A WOMAN POTUS? A SCOTUS finding that denying gay/lesbians state marriage licenses is unconstitutional, immigration reform with amnesty? . Get your passport ready brother. 🙂
I’m outta here if they secede!
Iran is an island nation too … I think Texas probably fits that mold well.
Bruce Bartlett
Eventually Texas will simply make the Bible the text for every course and save a ton of money.
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/11/texas_is_editing_the_science_out_of_our_textbooks/
Text publishers sell the same books all over the country. There is absolutely no reason to let the TX book committees get away with that crap or any crap for that matter..
Interesting…. Charles Pierce suddenly sees merit in Obama’s Syria policy and–like Bob Cesca yesterday–compares Obama to JFK because they each deliberated carefully before making decisions and weren’t afraid to ignore warmongering advisers.
Sorry but Pierce has been infected with a case of ODS ever since Greenwals did his first Snowden story and Charlie swallowed it all whole ever since. Pierce is rapidly on his way to being a bad cliche. See what a few hours can do…
The Case Is Not Made
I can’t even imagine how difficult his memories must be to deal with and how frightening it must have been for you on that day not knowing whether or not he was among the collateral damage.. We all have demons that haunt us in our dreams and in our daily lives, but most of us have nothing like what he experienced. You and your family are in my good thoughts. Peace to you all.
Wow … I must’ve missed this!!
The Patriarchy Is Dead
Feminists, accept it.
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/09/the_end_of_men_why_feminists_won_t_accept_that_things_are_looking_up_for.html
I think more concrete results are needed over a wider range of society before the big celebration.
WaPo: To sell Syria, Obama chose political science over scare tactics. That’s a big deal.
The speech was still very persuasive, without bombast.
AT&T Social Media Fail: They twitter 9/11 remembrances to hawk their brand
http://www.wdsu.com/news/money/AT-T-apologizes-for-9-11-tweet/-/9853238/21886604/-/112s910/-/index.html?utm_source=wdsu&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=wdsu
Climate change may speed up forests’ life cycles http://bit.ly/181iuAg
Bebe says she had to deal with some asshole kid in school today who said 9/11 never happened. She says she took care of it…I bet she did, I know she put that jerk in their place. She is her mama’s daughter.
Next thing you know, he’ll have a column on StormFront.
Why Is Glenn Greenwald Promoting an Extreme Right Wing Militia?