VN Remembers 9/11

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Some amazing photos resurfacing

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Ladder 7 crew preparing to enter the Towers. None of them would make it out safely. Continue to rest in peace...

Capt. Vernon Allan Richard, 53
George Cain, 35
Robert Joseph Foti, 42
Charles Mendez, 38
Richard Muldowney Jr, 40
Vincent Princiotta, 39

Thank you Mary Grace Foti for the photo, her husband Robert is on the right, picking up the axe ( the axe was later recovered, FF Foti never was).
 
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MEDVOL said:
I was in 5th grade homeroom. Remember the teacher next door coming over and telling mine to turn the tv on. I’ll never forget it. I went to the memorial in NYC a few years ago. It’s pretty emotional.
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I was in NYC the day after Christmas a couple years ago. Pretty much all the touristy stuff in midtown was completely overrun with people, but the one thing I did right was go down to the WTC site right at dawn. It was just me and maybe five other people in the plaza. Very peaceful, and the memorial is incredibly moving and well done. Only downside was that the museum wasn’t open that day, so I didn’t get to go through it.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
I was in NYC the day after Christmas a couple years ago. Pretty much all the touristy stuff in midtown was completely overrun with people, but the one thing I did right was go down to the WTC site right at dawn. It was just me and maybe five other people in the plaza. Very peaceful, and the memorial is incredibly moving and well done. Only downside was that the museum wasn’t open that day, so I didn’t get to go through it.
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its worth going back to see the museum. It’s moving.
 
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I was training our emergency shut down team. I sent them on break and my mom called while I was in my office. She was telling me about the terrible accident, then she got the feed about the 2nd plane. She worked in nuclear at TVA. She got off the phone immediately, and I headed to our area manager's office. As I'm telling him, he starts getting phone calls. They ended up pulling out TV's and putting them in hallways - and this was at DuPont, so that almost made it scarier in a way, if you know what I mean.
 
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MEDVOL said:
I was in 5th grade homeroom. Remember the teacher next door coming over and telling mine to turn the tv on. I’ll never forget it. I went to the memorial in NYC a few years ago. It’s pretty emotional.
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I was in history class. My teacher mentioned something had happened and continued with class. I don't think he truly knew, and it was possible it was only one plane at that time. We had a half day that day for a teacher workday and I remember getting home at like 11, turning on the news with a friend and watching for hours. We had no clue what had happened. I remember the next day the school finally addressing it and teachers allowing us to talk instead of having class.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
Some amazing photos resurfacing

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Ladder 7 crew preparing to enter the Towers. None of them would make it out safely. Continue to rest in peace...

Capt. Vernon Allan Richard, 53
George Cain, 35
Robert Joseph Foti, 42
Charles Mendez, 38
Richard Muldowney Jr, 40
Vincent Princiotta, 39

Thank you Mary Grace Foti for the photo, her husband Robert is on the right, picking up the axe ( the axe was later recovered, FF Foti never was).
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I wish we could hear their stories and their thoughts going into it that day. That photo just really makes you think about them.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
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In the bottom of this photo, you can see Ladder 118 crossing over the Brooklyn Bridge on their way to the World Trade Center. This is their last known photo. Every single firefighter on that truck perished just a few minutes later. We vowed to never forget. Unfortunately, so many have. #alwaysremember
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I remember it like it was yesterday, I was watching Good Morning America and saw the 2nd plane hit live on TV, so sad then and now, God Bless all their Souls.
 
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volwindy said:
I was in history class. My teacher mentioned something had happened and continued with class. I don't think he truly knew, and it was possible it was only one plane at that time. We had a half day that day for a teacher workday and I remember getting home at like 11, turning on the news with a friend and watching for hours. We had no clue what had happened. I remember the next day the school finally addressing it and teachers allowing us to talk instead of having class.
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I remember it like yesterday, I was watching Good Morning America and I saw the 2nd plane hit live on tv, so sad then and now.
 
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The initial numbers are indelible: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. From there, they ripple out.
Total number killed in attacks in New York: 2,753
Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343
Number of NYPD officers: 23
Number of Port Authority police officers: 37
Number of WTC companies in the towers that lost people: 128
Number of employees who died in Tower One: 1,402
Number of employees who died in Tower Two: 614
Number of employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658
Number of U.S. troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom: 2,343
Number of nations whose citizens were killed in attacks: 115
Ratio of men to women who died: 3:1
Age of the greatest number who died: between 35 and 39
Bodies found "intact": 291
Remains found: 21,906
Number of families who got no remains: 1,717
Estimated units of blood donated to the New York Blood Center: 36,000
Total units of donated blood actually used: 258
Number of people who lost a spouse or partner in the attacks: 1,609
Estimated number of children who lost a parent: 3,051
Percentage of Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks: 20
FDNY retirements, January–July 2001: 274
FDNY retirements, January–July 2002: 661
Number of firefighters on leave for respiratory problems by January 2002: 300
Number of funerals attended by Rudy Giuliani in 2001: 200
Number of FDNY vehicles destroyed: 98
Tons of debris removed from site: 1.8 million
Days fires continued to burn after the attack: 99
Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100
Days the New York Stock Exchange was closed: 6
Point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average when the NYSE reopened:684.81
Days after 9/11 that the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan: 26
Total number of civil rights complaints reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations nationwide from 2002 to 2008: 12,962
Economic loss to New York in month following the attacks: $105 billion
Estimated cost of cleanup: $600 million
Total FEMA money spent on the emergency: $970 million
Estimated amount donated to 9/11 charities: $1.4 billion
Estimated amount of insurance paid worldwide related to 9/11: $40.2 billion
Estimated amount of money needed to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $7.5 billion
Amount of money granted by U.S. government to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $4.55 billion
Estimated amount of money raised for funds dedicated to NYPD and FDNY families: $500 million
Percentage of total charity money raised going to FDNY and NYPD families: 25
Average benefit already received by each FDNY and NYPD widow: $1 million
Percentage increase in law-school applications from 2001 to 2002: 17.9
Percentage increase in Peace Corps applications from 2001 to 2002: 40
Percentage increase in CIA applications from 2001 to 2002: 50
Number of songs Clear Channel Radio considered "inappropriate" to play after 9/11: 150
Number of mentions of 9/11 at the 2002 Oscars: 26
Apartments in lower Manhattan eligible for asbestos cleanup: 23,000
Number of apartments whose residents have requested cleanup and testing: 4,167
Number of Americans who changed their 2001 holiday-travel plans from plane to train or car: 1.4 million
Estimated number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder as a result of 9/11: 422,000
 
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Still remember the day sitting in gym class
People came in and said planes just hit a building in NYC
A much younger me said there’s just no way that Doesent happen here
They sent us to our next class and canceled all classes for the day.
Little did I know just how bad it truly was
The news breaks
The shot of the second plane hitting the tower
People running scared or jumping from the windows
The first responders who never blinked when called to action

Ill always remember
Those we lost and those who’s lives were changed forever
#Neverforget 9/11
 
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I was in the investment business at the time working on the 26th floor of a building in Portland OR. All of a sudden being that high up in a high rise wasn't all that appealing. I'd done a presentation at the WTC a couple months before 9/11. And I worked in the WTC for a month during training back in 1996. I did go up to the top once, those were a couple of very tall buildings.

Lost a lot of very good and talented people that day.
 
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