Ladies and Gentlemen please remove your headsets and bow your head for a moment of silence as we remember those lost in the September 11th terrorist attacks.
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Oh it is today isn’t it, guess I know what I’ll be seeing on my Facebook newsfeed all day 
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I had a family member on one of the planes.
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20 years ago…I’ll never forget it.
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While I understand your sentiment, nobody was “lost”. They were murdered, either directly, or indirectly.
I was a block south of the Deutsche Bank building, and will never forget.
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The way they stated it is perfectly ok. It means they “lost” someone close to them - and that then goes into multiple reasons how they lost them. Don’t be a grammar cop dude.
I mean we’re just gonna be arguing semantics here. When people say someone was lost it means they were taken away. Which falls under the whole being killed thing.
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That day defined the last 20 years for Americans.
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Proud New Yorker here. I saw the first plane hit in real time from my class room. And 10 year old me didn’t know what was happening. Terrifying times.
Thankfully my uncle who worked in the Trade Center was late that day and he was across the street when the first plane hit. He got out with his life.
My heart goes out to all the families. Today is never easy.
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We, as Americans, should never forget the atrocities committed by human filth on 9/11/01.
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Air traffic on that fateful day…really makes you think.
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“The band had this pressed as a single and mailed out to police officers and firefighters who were first responders on 9/11.”
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You don’t “lose” someone if they’re violently murdered, and stolen from you. FWIW, because of that horrendous mass-murder, I attended more funerals than anyone should ever have to.
I said I respected OP’s sentiment. I’m just voicing my opinion, and venting at my personal rage about that day. So as far as “grammar cop”, you read my comment wrong.
lets not argue about this please. Either works, they were murdered and their famines lost someone they love.
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I am happy to hear this!
I had to walk up the FDR to get to to an open bridge, to get back to LI. I couldn’t use the Brooklyn Bridge, the cops weren’t having it, due to continued threats. Took me nine hours to get home, and I kissed the ground when I did. I went back down to where I was as soon as the city allowed, and the FDR was littered with women’s shoes…no way they were walking for miles in business heels. I had to get a security pass, to get south of Canal Street…the National Guard had it cordoned off.
Sorry for the wandering wall of text. The memories have been flooding back.
/Raises glass in memoriam
Give your uncle a hug, tell him it’s from a fellow ( now ex-) New Yorker, that was there.
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Not an argument on my end, friend.
My brother was called in, while on his way home from his shift.
He didn’t get one of those, but did get his feet shredded by the glass and aluminum shrapnel…the soles of his duty oxfords melted on day one. He’s also got Trade Center Cough…and they told him, and the other First Responders that the air was safe. Christine Todd Whitman lied.
I can still remember to this day having woken up that morning and I was watching the news before school. It was my senior year and they broke to the first plane hitting the tower and showing video footage and the aftermath. And as they were showing live feed of the aftermath real time the second plane crashed into the other tower. Then and there everyone knew it was intentional and I was just shook. I felt sick to my stomach and couldn’t even go to school at that point.
I had friends in NY I was worried about that I tried calling, but of course you couldn’t get through. Thankfully they were okay, but man watching all of that just sucked the entire day.
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