Comments on: The Brand Name of 9-11

By: tender_luv

tender_luv — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:06:10 +0000

Sometimes life could just seem so unfair…
I am trying my best to be as patient, and as sharp,
as I have ever been for this new year.
I only have imagened the greatest feeling of warmth and love,
with sensations that burn on thee inside. Only to hear the world and the words of impossible ” say it aint so”
How does it feel to have someone love you from a distance, from just the fragments of your personality, and the grace of your pictures?
How does it feel for an attractive woman to want your love?
Im just trying to chile… And be me…
So how does it feel?

By: Jade

Jade — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:34:21 +0000

I was in California Trying to leave an abusive man, crying trying to get away. I was trying to tell the workers that I had to leave, but they kept telling me that there was nothing they could do. Then I turned around and everyone looked at the TV and saw all of the smoke, and the second plane crash…
Now I live in New Jersey, and my child is born and his dad is still living in Cali.
One battle gone, and little did I know
That a new battle would lock us in…. ( My child and I are fighting to come through and be released and served Justice as we deserve.)

By: Harley

Harley — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:21:12 +0000

I'll tell u where I was….
I was working at the General Post Office on 33rd and 8th, sitting at my desk when it came over my Supv radio. The alarms sounded in the building and we were told to evacuate the building. They said air planes had flown into the twin towers… I remember thinking umm…excuse me??? Air planes? I was thinking u know, one of those little pipers or something. Never did I imagine that it'd be a 767 JET!! I remember running outside and going to the corner and watching tower 2 in the midst of collapse. I sobbed my eyes out and remember screaming to the top of my lungs! We stood there in shock and disbelief with out mouths hanging on the ground. Then all of a sudden someone yells.. TOWER 1 IS LEANING!! (thats the tower with the tall antenna) and we stood there mouths open, some screaming, some crying, some just frozen in shock as tower one collapsed into itself. I remember thinking..this CANT be happening..it just CANT!! I felt like I was on a movie set or something because it just didnt seem real to me. As the smoke, gray clouds of dust and debris started to travel uptown and the throngs of people running, myself and a couple of my co-workers began to haul ass uptown! I walked that day…..90 something blocks uptown to my homeboys house on 127th street… ( i lived in the bronx at that time).. Because i had on heels (slight heel bout a 1inch) the bottoms of my feet were blistered and bleeding so badly that my homies mother put my feet in a bucket of water. I finally was able to reach my dad and he was so glad to finally hear from me (alot of people lost cell service thank God I had nextel at the time) i could hear the tears in his voice. My daughter who was 4 at the time was in brooklyn with my grandmother and my son who was 7 was in school in the bronx and thankfully their dad had the presence of mind to go to the school and snatch my child and take him to my father. I sucked it up, put on some flip flops that i was finally able to find at a chinese stand on 96th street and walked across the short madision ave bridge into the bronx where my dad met me. He hugged me soooooooooo tight and picked me up, and carried me the two long blocks to where his car was parked. I remember when we pulled up in front of our house (we lived in a two story brownstone) we just stood and looked down at the manhattan sky line…the smoke still thick and darkening the city….smh…
By April of 2002 i had packed up my children and moved out of new york down to richmond va where i now reside but am planning to go back home to new york. My children were traumatized, each time my son heard an airplane he would FREAK and run under my bed or anything that he could hide under and scream and cry because he thought the “bad men” were gonna come kill us all this time……. my daughter would cry and just hug me and say mommy, i thought u were dead mommy i thought u were dead mommy dont let them kill us mommy….
9/11 will forever be burned in the memory of us new yorkers who loved/love our city and felt as though someone walked in our house knockin ish down and vandalizing our home. God bless everyone who lost someone (i lost a few friends and know people who lost loved ones) and God bless those who gave their lives to save others. God loves you all….

By: JMK

JMK — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:33:21 +0000

I was in my second year at the local community college. Something that was rare for me was that I was actually on time. If I wouldn't have been I would have caught it on the news and turned right around and went home. Anyways I was in a class creative writing when the teacher came in a couple minutes late and said “I don't know if you heard but a plane flew into the WTC, they think it was an accident” Class went by whatever, and after I called my pops to ask him what was up with the story, when he told me about the 2nd plane and the Pentagon. From there I knew it wasn't an accident, but still continued to my other class. About 5 minutes in we had a discussion about what was happening and I decided I no longer wanted to sit in class so I drove home to see that the tower had just fallen. It is one day I remember clearly because it was the first time I seen my father cry. Since that day my world has changed, I became a news junkie and also more and more interested in History, leading me to my occupation today of being a History Teacher.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and families of this tragic day!

By: nESS

nESS — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:57:01 +0000

ON 9/11 I WAS IN SCHOOL..BEING A TYPICAL 7TH GRADER WHEN MY WORLD WAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN….MY TEACHER DIDN'T TELL ME AND MY OTHER CLASSMATES ANYTHING FOR AWHILE. THEN OUR PRINCIPLE ANNOUNCED IT OVER THE LOUD SPEAKER. SP AT FIRST I WAS IN SHOCK..THAN I BECAME SCARED..BECAUSE I LIVED IN NEW YORK CITY..IN THE BRONX TO BE EXACT..AND I HAD FAMILY ALL OVER NYC AND NJ THAT WORKED IN LOWER MANHATTAN….ABOUT 15 MINUTES LATER MY BIG BROTHER CAME TO PICK ME MY SISTER AND LIL BROTHER UP FROM SCHOOL…WE WENT HOME..AND NO CABLE CHANNELS WERE WORKING..JUST ALL THE BASIC CHANNELS…SO IM WATCHING CHANNEL 7..AND WONDERING..HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO EVIL..BECAUSE AT FIRST I THOUGH IT WAS AN ACCIDENT..BUT THAN WHEN THE SECOND PLANE HIT..I WAS LIKE WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS…LIKE MY YOUNG MIND COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT AMERICA..OR US AMERICANS DID TO DESERVE THIS ….LATER ON FOLLOWING THE DAYS OF THE ATTACK…ME AND MY FAMILY FOUND OUT MY AUNT CONSTANCE WAS KILLED…..I CANT EXPLAIN..HOW MY MOTHER WAS FEELING…SHE WAS JUST SCREAMING AND CRYING..AND I HAD NO WAY TO COMFORT HER..IT TOOK THE AUTHORITIES 4 DAYS TO CONTACT MY FAMILY AND TELL US MY AUNT WAS ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE ATTACKS. SHE WORKED DOWN THERE…AND SHE WAS RUNNING WHEN THE BUILDING COLLAPSED AND GOT DEBRIS AND ALL THE SMOKE IN HER LUNGS..AND IT WAS TOXIC..AND THAT IS HOW SHE DIED…I MISS HER…AND IT HURTS ME THAT EVERY YEAR…I HAVE TO RELIVE THAT DAY…WITH THE IMAGES

By: LawdHaveMercy

LawdHaveMercy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:35:11 +0000

Because McCain got him banned fro covering Political stories on air.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:17:06 +0000

I had cut school…..I went home turned on the tv and I didnt believe that shit was real……… All those people who didnt deserve it………

RAIN FALLS ON THE JUST AND UN-JUST A LIKE……………………..DAMN!

By: BlogXilla

BlogXilla — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:26:28 +0000

well it was on MSNBC, so NBC could have played it but there are different type of news world news, political news, and local news and only local news come on regular tv. MSNBC advertised it all day long. So it was on tv you just have to watch the right things. lol

By: Lil Mama C4

Lil Mama C4 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:23:32 +0000

Why wasn't this message all over the news cause he hit the nail right on the head!!!!

By: kimberlee

kimberlee — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:35:55 +0000

The pain I felt when 9-11 happened was something I will never forget. For McCain to have knowledge of how to capture the facilitator of this horrendous act, and using it as a catalyst of his campaign really makes me sick. SMH.

I have no desire to even live in the US if he was elected. The worst president will be followed by the most insensitive. I as a black, working class woman, wouldn't stand a chance.