Memories of a devastated New York City on 9/11’s anniversary

New york by the way will never be devastated, because it is inhabited by New Yorkers, they are a crusty tough and revengeful bunch I have grown to love.

Saw the second plane hit as it actually happened. CNN was covering it and the Consulate of Germany, where I worked, already had it on their large-screen TV. Lost an old high school classmate and wheelchair-bound friend Josephine lost her primary caregiver that day. I won't go on since words can't express.

Never forget, always remember, Thank you Cormac for the kind words. The wound is ripped open fresh each year a reminder of the brutality of the enemies of freedom. Passive onlooker never again, aloistmartin cowardly, small minded, waste of skin.

aloistmartin, you don't belong on this site because you are a certifiable enemy of America. Oh by the way, communism has failed in Russia, Poland etc. or were you in the nut house through those years?

Not another Excuse, for the Right Wing Bourgeoisie, to ask for Federal Assistance, and Social Confidence, from the Disenchanted Masses, at the Cake Eating end, of Fire hose`s, and Barricades, of wildly swinging misanthropic Batons !... What Drone Warfare, and Bailout Austerity, are really all about, Indeed ! ... The Bull Stops at Ground Zero ! ... Support Solidarity for all International Republican Socialist, Green, Communist, Cause ! ... Support Jerry White of the Socialist Equality Party for President of the United States of America !

Thank you for this very heartfelt tribute to those who died that day. The church is the historic St. Paul's where George Washington worshipped when he was elected president in New York. There are two monuments outside that are tributes to General Richard Montgomery a hero in the revolutionary war. He was born in Ireland in 1738. Also, there is a statue to Robert Emmett's brother who was a Doctor in New York and saved many lives during a small pox epidemic. How that church escaped damage is really a mystery. The church opened up to care for responders for all the time they worked at ground zero. The pain will never go away." Never Forget"

As I do every year, I put on the TV in order to hear the "Names" being read. One little voice was so intense, I burst into tears and left my apartment: he was the nephew of an uncle he had never met. He told us that he had heard so many stories that he felt that he knew him. Then he said the words that got to me: "I know that although you jumped from the building that God was waiting to catch you." Just this Sunday, a surviving NYPD officer told of getting there, seeing something falling, then recognized that it was a human being, a woman about 35 or so in a business suit and she was reaching for him as though he would catch her. He still has nightmares to this day. Each year, we learn more and more about the horror of that Day. Thank you, Ireland, for caring with U.S.

I was watching the news on Irish television when the newsreader Brian Dobson was speaking about the attack on one of the Twin Towers. To my horror, I saw the second plane headed for the other tower when I realised all the people the number of people who were already dying and would soon die. Tears streamed down my face and I prayed to God for their souls. Ireland was collectively horrified (many of these people were Irish including my cousin Simon who luckily had walked out of the North tower minutes before the plane struck). He spent the rest of the day in a basement trying to ring his family who were on holiday in England at the time. I still remember the horror of that day. Terrorists must never win Niall!