In Rememberance 9/11/01

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“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy​

 

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Many of you will remember that more than once a very gruesome face appeared in the smoke of the World Trade Center Towers that day...

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We need never fear because the LORD is always by our side... Even on the darkest of days...
ALWAYS REMEMBER!!!​

The LORD JESUS CHRIST will overcome EVERYTHING Satan tries to do!!!

 

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From the Dept. of Defense, American Forces Press Service

Pentagon Worker Remembers 9/11 in Her Own Way

By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2007 – Cheryl Irwin says she can tell those who were at the Pentagon the day terrorists flew a commercial jet into its walls. They are the ones who, while standing in its open center courtyard, will look up at a passing commercial jet and pray it continues flying by.

Irwin is one of thousands here who will commemorate the terrorist attacks tomorrow in their own way. She will not be at her desk.

In an ironic twist of fate, her best friend happened to be at the World Trade Center plaza that same morning. So, on the day’s anniversary every year, the two take leave from their jobs and travel together.

“Some people don’t understand, but it is a way for me to honor those who died in my own way,” Irwin said.

Despite the six years that have passed since the attacks on the United States, Irwin gets emotional quickly when talking about the day that 184 people died here. One-hundred twenty-four servicemembers and civilians who where in the Pentagon died with 59 passengers on the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77.

In her second-floor office near the E ring, just off of the fifth corridor, Irwin said she felt her chair rock slightly when the plane struck the Pentagon between the fourth and fifth corridors.

After getting the word the building was being evacuated, Irwin shot out a quick e-mail to her siblings to let them know what was happening. “Evacuating the building. Will call you later,” it read in the subject line. There was no text in the body of the e-mail.

Then she joined the thousands of others who were being directed out of the building.

She forgot her house keys.

There were no cell phone networks available that morning. Irwin was finally able to call from a pay phone after borrowing change from a reporter.

Her brother and sister thought she was dead for four hours that day, Irwin said.

A lot of employees didn’t return to the Pentagon for the next several days. Only about half of the building’s roughly 25,000-member work force returned that week. Corridors 2 through 6 were cordoned off as fires were extinguished, bodies were recovered and structural inspections were conducted.

Instead of leaving that day though, Irwin’s job in press operations for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs was just heating up. As the world turned its eyes to the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, managing the flow of information to the media was at its most critical point in the building’s 60-year history.

Irwin and many others worked long hours through the next several weeks, she said. Roads were closed. Parking was crazy. Because flights were stopped at nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, officials there agreed to allow Pentagon employees access to parking.

What followed was a “phenomenal feeling of camaraderie,” Irwin said.

The staff was allowed only one day off weekly for several weeks. Twelve-hour days or longer were standard. Employees in the press office would bring in electric skillets and cook pancakes and eggs.

Very few people complained about the long hours and days, Irwin said.

“We knew the situation was bad. We just kept working through it,” she said.

Related Sites:
DefenseLink Special: Remembering September 11, 2001 -- Six years later

 

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I found the picture I mentioned earlier... This is one of my favorite drawings inspired by the attacks on September 11, 2001. I think it sums up the resolve we felt shortly after the attacks.

17-year old high school student Eliza Gauger's drawing of Mommy Liberty spread across the Internet in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the U.S.

 

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Flight 93 flight attendant Ceecee Lyles, 33 years old, in an answering-machine message to her husband: "Please tell my children that I love them very much. I'm sorry, baby. I wish I could see your face again."

Capt. Walter Hynes of the New York Fire Department's Ladder 13 dialed home that morning as his rig left the firehouse at 85th Street and Lexington Avenue. He was on his way downtown, he said in his message, "I don't know if we'll make it out. I want to tell you that I love you and I love the kids."

When Elizabeth Rivas husband left for the World Trade Center that morning, she went to a Laundromat, where she heard the news. She couldn't reach him by cell and rushed home. He'd called at 9:02 and reached her daughter. The child reported, "He say, mommy, he say he love you no matter what happens, he loves you." He never called again. Mrs. Rivas later said, "He tried to call me. He called me."

Peter Hanson, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 175 called his father. "I think they intend to go to Chicago or someplace and fly into a building," he said. "Don't worry, Dad - if it happens, it will be very fast."

On the same flight, Brian Sweeney called his wife, got the answering machine, and told her they'd been hijacked. "Hopefully I'll talk to you again, but if not, have a good life. I know I'll see you again some day."

There was Tom Burnett's famous call from United Flight 93. "We're all going to die, but three of us are going to do something," he told his wife, Deena. "I love you, honey."

Todd Beamer of United 93 wound up praying on the phone with a woman he'd never met before, a Verizon Airfone supervisor named Lisa Jefferson. She said later that his tone was calm. It seemed as if they were "old friends," she later wrote. They said the Lord's Prayer together. Then he said "Let's roll."

38 year old Lauren Grandcolas (3 months pregnant, with her first child) called her husband of 10 years from United 93 and left this message. "Jack, pick up, Sweetie," Lauren said on the voicemail. "I'm OK. I just wanted to tell you I love you. There's a little problem on the plane. I'm totally fine for now. I … I'll … I love you more than anything. Just know that. Please tell my family I love them too."

Melissa Harrington Hughes, a 31-year-old San Franciscan who was attending a conference on the 101st floor of the World Trade Centre when the first plane hit, reverberated around the world. Trapped on a higher floor, called her father to say she loved him. Minutes later she left a message on the answering machine as her new husband slept in their San Francisco home. The message she left was heard by millions: "Sean, it's me. I just wanted to let you know I love you and I am stuck in this building in New York. A plane hit, or a bomb went off - we don't know. But there's a lot of smoke and I just wanted you to know I love you."

 

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Hello all

 

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How is everyone doing?

 

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How is everyone doing?

Hello BellaSong! Just about ready to turn in here. Sorry about that!

 

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Good morning

 

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Prayers to all the family's of those who were involved in 9/11

 

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Got to go iron hubby some clothes for work

 

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I'll check back later