Your Comments One Year Later

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In August 2001, I returned to NYC for the first time in 12 or 13 years. It was beautiful, alive, mine. I really didn't pay much attention to the skyline. Getting off the subway, looking up; "Damn, they are tall!". I can remember when they were built, I mean NYC was already the best city, but now, the tallest buildings in the world! I know, but Chicago just isn't really a 'city', it's...well it just ain't. Well, in May of this year I came back. The subway entrance is still there, behind the church, across the street from a huge... I don't want to say empty. It's not empty. It's full of memories, but it's also full of hope. NYC may have lost 3000, but you have never felt more beautiful, alive, or ours, America's than ever. I'm looking forward to coming home again soon.

Eric
September 8, 2002

On this 1 year anniversary of 9-11-01 I still pray for all the families that lost loved ones... To all the BRAVE people that risked their lives to help others may God Bless you today tomorrow and forever...and we as a country may we never FORGET that at 8:46 AM Tuesday 9-11-01 that our country changed forever and may God Bless America

Jeff
Brooklyn, NY
September 10, 2002

Hi My name is Marcia from Elizabethtown NC, and I remember 9-11 like it was yesterday. I watched on TV how so many innocent people who lost their lives. I will never forget this day. I think about why this happened and how does one use others lives to be heard. We are one Nation Under God and we Americans still stand strong. My prayers go out to each and every one of those who's husband, wife, sister, or brother, who's father, mother, or child that lost their lives. A place in my heart will carry the sympathy for these people always. And to the heroes of America, FDNY, you are # 1. God Bless America.

Marcia
Elizabethtown, NC
September 10, 2002

I just wanted to say that I feel so bad for all those people that lost their lives on Sept 11,
2001. It is close to my heart because I am a mother of 4 and My father was in the air in a
plane along with the other pastors of my church when this all happened and his plane had to be grounded. It was scary for me to hear all of this. I was in tears all day and still have tears
when I see photos or think about it. I think it has brought the US closer to God and I think it has made all of us realize that life has no guarantees. I know it has made me think of a lot
of things. My children and I will be remembering 911 in our way by wearing red, white, and blue all day to school and to whatever I decide to do in our community to remember that day. I just want to say that I will be praying for the victims families and will always remember that day in my heart forever.

Shelli
September 10, 2002

I came to New York City to go to college in the same year the construction on the Word Trade Center started, so those towers have always been with me in some way. I remember when the observation platform was first opened and what a breathtaking view it offered of the city. I was never up there again in 30 years until January 2001; we were having one of our rare full-blown snowstorms and a friend's father, who was visiting for the holidays, had never been in a snowstorm before. We hopped on the subway and went to Central Park and then to the top of the World Trade Center to see the storm from there. I'm so glad I went. It seems so silly to say this about visiting a building, but there are so many things we don't do in our lives, postpone or take for granted. Going back to the WTC was one of those things for me.

This past year has been hard. Miraculously, I don't know anyone who was killed, but it's still been difficult to feel fully engaged in life's activities. I have a wonderful view of the Manhattan skyline from my Brooklyn apartment, and I still find myself "checking in" to be sure the towers are really gone. To my surprise, what has been helpful to me in the television coverage of this anniversary are the stories of the survivors. We haven't really heard much about them all year, and somehow knowing that a handful of people who were seriously injured survived is such a relief.

Victoria
September 10, 2002

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