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9-11 Thirty-two Names Added to WTC Memorial Wall - 16 years ago today, where were you ?


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2017 Sep 11, 7:13am   3,913 views  22 comments

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The New York Fire Department (FDNY) and family members added the names of 32 departmental members who died of illnesses related to their work in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center on 9/11 to the FDNY World Trade Center Memorial Wall. The ceremony took place Sept. 7 at FDNY Headquarters in Brooklyn.

As a result, the wall now bears the names of 159 individuals who have died of those illnesses.

"The members we honor on our World Trade Center Memorial Wall worked tirelessly in support of the rescue and recovery efforts of the 343 heroes and thousands of innocent victims killed on September 11th," said Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro. "The 32 members we remember this year were without question brave – they were dedicated and compassionate – and they performed their duties, selflessly, and courageously."

https://ohsonline.com/articles/2017/09/11/thirty-two-names-added-to-wtc-memorial-wall.aspx?admgarea=ht.EmergencyResponse
Related: September 11 photos that are still hard to view.

In the 9/11 Museum, there is a part of the exhibition behind a wall. The images there are still hard to see. Warning: Confronting.

Behind the wall is a gallery of photographs playing on a loop.

They remain the most shocking images of that day’s horrors. They are so confronting that newspapers, such as The New York Times, received a barrage of complaints for publishing them. Even today, the images are rarely seen in the US.

According to New York magazine, the photographs “have been rendered taboo, vilified as an insult to the dead and an unbearably brutal shock to the living”.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/september-11-photos-that-are-still-hard-to-view/news-story/74c57d8883a240c95e6779c0de0c24be
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1   HEY YOU   2017 Sep 11, 8:13am  

In Republican controlled America.
9/11 was photo shopped,it never happened
with these Patriots in control.
DIE! Republicans!
Republicans,DIE!
2   NDrLoR   2017 Sep 11, 8:41am  

I was on the 5th floor in the east building of the Twin Towers--on Mockingbird Lane in Dallas working my second temp job at Sprint Sites USA where they leased sites then built and equipped cell towers.

http://www.caddoholdings.com/property/mockingbird-towers/

The first plane had just hit and the first thing I thought of was the air-liner that hit the Empire State Building in 1946 and how odd that something like that happened again, then the second plane hit and that's all we did for the rest of the day was watch the thing unfold.
4   Strategist   2017 Sep 11, 1:33pm  

I was at home, watching in horror as the towers came down.
That is when I started hating Islam, and calling for it's demise. I have never trusted religious Muslims since.
I visited NY a few years later, and the first thing we did was to go to the site of the WTC and pay our respects.
5   anonymous   2017 Sep 11, 2:04pm  

I was ~100 air miles away at University. My roommate woke us up and said "hey I think we're under attack "

They cancelled classes for the rest of the week, so we raged hard for days.
6   anonymous   2017 Sep 11, 2:37pm  

I was watching on TV when my wife called to say she saw a plane go by her building - disappear round the corner - and now "the pentagon is on fire".

I remember distinctly sitting in my backyard watching fighter jets scream overhead and black smoke billowed from a few miles away. We had only recently bought our house - at what was then clearly bubble prices - and I remember thinking how the world has now changed and I made a huge mistake buying. Little did I know that prices were going to go up up and away from there - never to return.
7   Rin   2017 Sep 11, 2:41pm  

I was at the car inspection along with an oil change.
8   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Sep 11, 2:53pm  

My phone wouldn't stop ringing so I finally woke up (worked the night shift) to pick it up. Everybody was telling me a plane had hit the WTC. I turned on the TV and saw the second plane hit.
9   anonymous   2017 Sep 11, 7:46pm  

I was at the office - not realizing what had happened I was pissed that the Internet had gone down (again)... then a coworker mentioned a plane had hit the WTC but for a few minutes we assumed it was a small prop plane. Then somone turned on the radio. The rest as they say is history.

I remember the pit in my stomach when the first tower fell somehow knowing the second one would not hold up. I remember the fear of not knowing how widespread the attack was as it played out in real time. And mostly I remember the surellaism of knowing in the moment that the world would never be the same.


Ironically I am on a plane traveling today. Most of the news is hurricane irma. Security seemed normal. Seems we've started to forget.

For a breif moment tragedy united us. How quickly we've fallen.
10   anonymous   2017 Sep 11, 7:54pm  

For a breif moment tragedy united us. How quickly we've fallen

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I know, right?

THANKS A LOT LIBRULS!!
11   Strategist   2017 Sep 11, 7:56pm  

anonymous says
9-11 Thirty-two Names Added to WTC Memorial Wall - 16 years ago today, where were you ?


I know where many Muslims were. They were celebrating the end of America.
My son was just 5 years old at the time, and I used to drop him off at his school. There was a Muslim lady I kept running into who would drop off her kids at the same time, to which I never gave much thought. After 911 she started wearing a hijab, and I instantly knew she was a terrorist supporter.
If a Muslim becomes religious after 911, starts to wear a hijab, or names their children "Osama" you know they are either terrorists, or terrorist supporters.
12   Patrick   2017 Sep 11, 8:23pm  

I went in to work at usual, at Charles Schwab in SF at the time. After arriving, the VP in charge just told us all to go home. Not wanting to go back home right away, I just rode my bike along the waterfront all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge, where there were heavily armed National Guard people turning everyone away. So I went home. I remember how peaceful it was with no planes in the sky at all. You forget about airplane noise when it's constant, and notice it when it's absent.

Of course rich Saudis were allowed to fly out of the country though no one else was allowed to fly. The press never really covered the story of how the Saudis got away with mass murder of Americans. All of their assets should be expropriated and distributed evenly to every American. Their trillion in US assets would come out to a check for about $3,000 to every US citizen. Maybe that's something we can all agree on.
13   Strategist   2017 Sep 11, 9:12pm  

Patrick says
Of course rich Saudis were allowed to fly out of the country though no one else was allowed to fly. The press never really covered the story of how the Saudis got away with mass murder of Americans. All of their assets should be expropriated and distributed evenly to every American. Their trillion in US assets would come out to a check for about $3,000 to every US citizen. Maybe that's something we can all agree on.


Those fucking Wahabis have cost us a lot more than a $trillion. They will never be able to pay us back because these useless fanatics can't produce anything of value. How much grey matter and skills can you get from people who aren't much more intelligent than their goats?
We are doomed to support these people after their oil is worthless, just wait and see.
14   HEY YOU   2017 Sep 12, 9:15am  

Bush & Republicans sat on their asses & did nothing in advance or during Saudi Arabia's act of war.
15   just_passing_through   2017 Sep 12, 6:44pm  

I was at home and saw it on the interwebs and I drank a cup of Joe my GF made me before she left for work. When I got to work nearly everyone was freaked out. I went into the restroom and two guys were happily celebrating but toned it down entirely when I walked in. If I had to guess I'd say they were Pakistani. The next year I worked there I had stare downs with one of those guys in the parking lot whenever we both pulled in at the same time. I never did anything. Needed the job badly and it was early in my career. Always wanted to pop him though.

Seriously, in the restroom it was if their team just won the world cup or something.
16   Strategist   2017 Sep 12, 7:02pm  

just_passing_through says
I was at home and saw it on the interwebs and I drank a cup of Joe my GF made me before she left for work. When I got to work nearly everyone was freaked out. I went into the restroom and two guys were happily celebrating but toned it down entirely when I walked in. If I had to guess I'd say they were Pakistani. The next year I worked there I had stare downs with one of those guys in the parking lot whenever we both pulled in at the same time. I never did anything. Needed the job badly and it was early in my career. Always wanted to pop him though.

Seriously, in the restroom it was if their team just won the world cup or something.


Muslims all over the world celebrated. If something bad happens to the US, they start thinking Allah is finally destroying their enemy.
I have an ex neighbor, an atheist Iranian I am still in touch with, told me last month that when he goes to Iran, regular people who realize he is an American citizen, first curse out America, and then they want his help to immigrate to the US. We were both laughing hysterically.
17   GreaterNYCDude   2023 Sep 10, 6:05pm  

22 years in, it was still a sureal day. You KNEW the world was different, but no idea what tomorrow would bring.

In hindsight we know what worked, what didn't, and how things changed based on that horrible day.

Two plus decades it seems like both yesterday and a distant memory. FWIW, I was in NYC this week playing tourist. What struck me was the number of soft targets and the seeming lack of security.

No more National Guard at key landmarks. No overwhelming police presence at key intersections. It felt like the 90s. Like nothing had ever happened. The fact that the weather was similar was a bit eerie, at least for me. At one garage they gave a cursory check of my trunk, but on the whole things are normal, whatever that means.

I assume the "hidden hand" of security is still alive and well behind the scenes...
18   AmericanKulak   2023 Sep 10, 10:23pm  

There's not a way they can know who is who with the level of immigration, illegal border violators, and overstays we have today. Esp. in NYC

Anything Trump did was overturned and probably "creatively enforced". Bush and Obama really did nothing.

And the NYPD I'm sure is totally defanged and cucked by Mayor Red Bill and Red Adams on anything about tracking potential terrorists due to Ray's Cyst, whatever their attitude. Except I bet what is left of the NYPD anti-terror effort is mostly spent on Trump Supporters.
19   clambo   2023 Sep 11, 4:43am  

The firemen are scammers.
My fireman friend from Staten Island was there and they all got free settlement money for nothing.
He's not sick although he smoked and drank too much, he's 70 years old now.
Nobody became a NYC fireman except to make money.
I don't have anything against making money, but they got a huge bullshit settlement, like the baby powder causes ovarian cancer nonsense.
20   RC2006   2023 Sep 11, 5:43am  

clambo says

The firemen are scammers.
My fireman friend from Staten Island was there and they all got free settlement money for nothing.
He's not sick although he smoked and drank too much, he's 70 years old now.
Nobody became a NYC fireman except to make money.
I don't have anything against making money, but they got a huge bullshit settlement, like the baby powder causes ovarian cancer nonsense.


Same as boomer vets claming PTSD or a plethora of old age disabilities as being service related. They use it like a pension, most are scammers clogging up the system for vets that really need help.
21   stereotomy   2023 Sep 11, 5:15pm  

I came in to work (I was a grad student at the time), and as I walked in everyone was watching the boob tube, and told me "They" had crashed into the towers.

Little did I know how the future course of my and my eventual family's lives would be fucked by the events of that day.

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