I always “enjoy” your 9-11 posts. I put enjoy in quotes because of the subject matter but with your posts we get to see a different POV. The POV of someone who was there first hand.

*hugs*

thank you so very much for this post, dawg.  my eyes welled with tears and chills ran through me as i read.  it is posts like this that help me to remember, not the political stuff.  it is conversations like we had while sitting around that first night our group was in nyc that bring home the magnitude of our country’s loss.  i appreciate you sharing your story and experiences.

i remember and won’t forget.

This is a beautiful post.  It is so important to remember the people who were lost because they were trying to save others.

Lots of hugs....

Thank you.

Hugs

This is a brilliant post.  Prayers to the families and friends of those who died and those who died saving others.

Still seems like just yesterday for so many of us.

Stay strong.

I’ve never asked you about 9/11, Dawg.  Where you were, who you lost, what you faced.  I didn’t ask because I felt like maybe that was a private thing for you.  I suppose I could have found pieces you have written here and figured it out, I don’t know why, but I didn’t. 

I think, “OMG, Dawg.  What if you had not survived that?  I would not have gotten to meet you and get to know you.” Isn’t that selfish?  But, you are an amazing person, Dawg.  Truly amazing and you are, in more ways than those defined by 9/11, a survivor.  I am so honored to know you.

I will remember those you mentioned and their families in my prayers tonight.

Hugs to you and Poppy today.

There should be bigger words, better words, more eloquent words than thank you for all of us to be able to say to you and everyone else but there are not. Sometimes I think we (as Americans) forget too easily, too quickly ... we have not forgotten in this house. Thank you Dawg, thank you Carlos, thank you Ricardo, thank you Keith, thank you Mark, thank you David, thank you Zhe, thank you Mario, thank you Richard, thank you Yamel and thank you to the people whose names we do not know. We will not let you or your sacrifices be forgotten.

Yours was the face I remembered this morning.  Your face as you described what you lost that day.

And hers, from your blog.  Her face in my head as I replayed the sound of you telling her story.  The story about what she GAVE.

Your two posts today are beautiful. They gave me chills. Thank you for what you and your friends did for us. Those words sound so trite but they are written with all my heart.

Beautifully written…

I’m so very sorry for the loss of your friends.

**hugs**

I keep getting goosebumps.

Sending you some hugs.

And finally, the 9/11 tribute that brings tears to my eyes.  This was beautifully written.  I thank you for your’s your friends’ sacrifices and will remember you all in my thoughts and prayers, this day and always.

I’ve always admired and had great respect for the men and women who are willing to run into a burning building to save people they don’t know. 

Many hugs to you Dawg, we will remember, we won’t forget...thank you for telling your story.

Thank you for sharing this today.  *hugs*

I, too, have taken today to remember. I have bucket loads of opinions that I’ll express on the other days, but today I needed to just reflect, remember, read and try once again to wrap my mind around something that I know I never will. I didn’t know anyone who died that day, and I can’t imagine that pain if I still feel such raw emotion here at 7 years that passed as if it was this morning. Every name is a real person, usually a person who left behind someone who misses the person terribly. I did a tribute to someone I never met, but I will also remember those who you remember for sacrificing so much. I needed to read this today. Thank you.

Tears are not enough but they, and you, have mine.

Thank you Dawg, and I’m sorry for your loss.

This post did exactly what you intended—caused me to stop and consider once again the reality that many had their lives taken in a second, while others rushed in to save and never came out.

I experienced this day in DC, and lost a friend in WTC, and so in a small way I can feel the hugeness of this day for you.  Thanks for doing all of us a good deed by being courageous and sharing your story.

Thank you for everything you gave, everything you give, and for carrying on Yum’s story so that we never forget. 

I wouldn’t mind you telling me more about every single person you listed, if you care to share with me.  Doesn’t have to be about that day…

I am so deeply sorry for your loss. There aren’t appropriate words. What noble people. May they always be remembered.

I definitely thought about you Thursday. Remember well the story you told while I was in NYC a couple of months ago. God bless, dude.

9/11 also happens to be my sister’s birthday. She hates it now.

The 911 transcript was certainly a stark reminder of that day. I have some photos and video Motley’s dad took on the first anniversary. He’s a native of NYC. He hadn’t been back in over a year at the time of the 1st anniversary. With his press credentials, he had access normal people didn’t have and the images he took of that first anniversary ceremony are heart wrenching. Moreso because I remember him calling me from there, and hearing the bell tolling from his cell phone, and he was just totally overcome with emotion. He said it was so hard not to choke up when his plane came in and the towers weren’t there.

For those of us who don’t live there, the feelings we have are different. Our skyline is the same. Unless you know someone from the city you just can’t get how NYers feel about this event. It’s so much harder for all of you than it is for the rest of us.

Great big hugs.  Thank you for sharing this..