When the World Stood Still ..

15 years ago we heard incredible news of a “severe accident”. The news went out that a terrible accident happened in New York which was sent out on television live. We could not believe what happened so rushed to the television to see what was going on.

At 8:46 a.m. local time a Boeing 767 aircraft, which had departed Logan Airport at 7:59 a.m. en route to Los Angeles flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in New York City. The images went viral all over the world. And while we were watching we saw again a plan flying in the other tower. This unmistakably gave us the idea this could not just be co-incidence but had to be something very well prepared.

The pictures we came to see at at 9:03 a.m. will be crafted in our heads for years. when we heard that 34 minutes later a plane crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia we thought a war had commenced in the United States of America. this time it was a plane that had departed from Washington Dulles International Airport at 8:20 a.m. en route to Los Angeles with a crew of six and 58 ‘passengers’.

Alarming enough, whilst we saw those two New York giant symbols burning, flashes of ‘fighting passengers’ on an other plane reached our European living rooms. Some very brave men and women attempted to subdue the hijackers of the Newark International Airport – San Francisco flight and avoided an other disaster crashing the Boeing 757 into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 a.m..

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had already grounded all civilian aircraft within the continental U.S. at At 9:42 a.m., and civilian aircraft already in flight were told to land.immediately. International flights where requested not to enter the American airspace. Those who had left already for the States were redirected to airports in Canada or Mexico, and were banned from landing on United States territory for three days.

Panic started to grow and a lot of diverse messages were spread across the net, bringing a lot of confusing and having wondering millions of people what was going on. the pilots must have had everything under control, but than they were not just American civilians who liked to get their passengers safe to their destination. This time destination was really hell.
It was beyond what came to see the world. This was not normal any more. Unbelievable also how the two towers collapsed.

For sure nobody in the planes could survive, but then we saw the battle for survival, people jumping out of windows stories high, no chance to survive such fall. Since the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 this was to become the most deadliest foreign attack on American soil. This time having victims from more than 90 countries in one day in one nation resulting in the deaths of 2,996 people and more than 6,000 wounded, leaving thousands of families deranged with irreparable emotional pain. It took until March 20, 2015 to have the 1,640th victim being identified, still leaving 1,113 victims unidentified.

You may wonder if we may forget this. I do find not. We always should remember.

But that does not mean we should remember only that horror that took place on that day in September 2001. We should also remember the countless stories of the incredible brave people who came to help those in need. Many firefighters lost their lives (343) not been able to have rescued more souls. Also 72 law enforcement officers, 55 military personnel, and the 19 terrorists died in the attacks.

In Arlington County, Virginia, 125 Pentagon workers lost their lives when Flight 77 crashed into the western side of the building. Of these, 70 were civilians and 55 were military personnel, many of them who worked for the United States Army or the United States Navy. The Army lost 47 civilian employees, six civilian contractors, and 22 soldiers, while the Navy lost six civilian employees, three civilian contractors, and 33 sailors. Seven Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) civilian employees were also among the dead in the attack, as well as an Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) contractor.
Lieutenant General Timothy Maude, an Army Deputy Chief of Staff, was the highest-ranking military official killed at the Pentagon. {Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia}

This we should remember, that it is possible that terrorists are capable to work for years at a destroying program. That such vicious people can be patiently enough to take their time and to infiltrate many systems.

But we should be careful not to let ourselves to be carried away becoming of the same flesh as those terrorists. We must all such candidates show that we are made of a much stronger soul and that we let ourselves not being carried away by undermining ideas letting ourselves to become  infected by the hatred that drives a terrorist, by the racism that drove the Nazis and seems to drive many today again.

We must give clear signals to the outer-world, to the people around us, to politicians, to terrorists, that we want to strive for a peaceful world where many religious and non-relgious people can live together with their different cultures not asphyxiating them but enlightening them. Today we should stand strong and show aspirant terrorist and racists that those senseless hatreds are not what we want and which we must blot out forever. Being aware what man can do to himself we must strive to remember what it is to suffer, to remember what terrorism and genocide really look like.

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Further reading

1. My Twin Towers Memories
2. World Trade Center–South Tower
3. The Twin Towers Before & After September 11th Attacks: Looking Back
4. On the Eve of 9/11
5. WTC 2001
6. 9/11
7. 9/11 by Anastasia Nicole Elisabeth
8. 9/11 by Big T Books
9. 9/11 by Bob Mitchell
10. 9/11 by J Blattblog
11. 9/11 Was  Fifteen Years Ago #9/11 #NewYork #USA #NayabChohan #TemplateNews #DistantEchoes #NayabChohanLive
12. 9/11 -On the 15th Anniversary
13. On 9/11 anniversary, sculptor Schmalz seeks to depict the love that can save even a terrorist
14. 9/11 Remembered . . . 
15. Why would anyone fly a plane into a building?
16. My September 11 Story
17. Watch: September 11, 2001 Live News Coverage as It Happened
18. Watch: 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks [Videos]
19. 9/11 – 15 Year Anniversary
20. We remember 15 years ago …
21. Why You’d Never Get Lost in NYC – 9/11
22. 9/11: perspective of a retired firefighter
23. 9/11 Pentagon Victims: Who Died at the Pentagon on September 11?
24. Israel Did 9/11
25. FBI Agent John O’Neill Warned of Al Qaeda Threat Long Before He Was Killed on 9/11
26. Senator Markey Leads Resolution Honoring Flight Attendants And Pilots On 9/11 Anniversary
27. Flags to be lowered and moment of silence to remember Sept. 11
28. Nation Just Goes Ahead And Decides ‘Freedom Prevails Over Hate’ Is Lesson Of 9/11
29. 15 Years Later: Remembering 9/11
30. Never Forget
31. Where I was on 9/11
32. #NeverForget My 9/11 Story
33. Remember
34. I Remember 9/11.
35. Fifteen
36. “Fifteen Years”
37. 15 Years
38. 15 years ago…
39. 9/11 15 years On
40. 15th Anniversary of 9/11
41. Fifteen 9/11’s
42. 15 Years Later, Obama Extends 9/11 ‘National Emergency’ To Justify A Perpetual War On Terror
43. First Responders From 9/11, San Bernardino Attacks Come Together
44. Remembering 9/11 on the 15th Anniversary
45. My Experiences During 9/11
46. My Family And 9/11
47. Never Forget 9/11
48. History
49. Taste of Dust
50. Waste Places
51. When the World Stood Still ..
52. “Everyone had all these questions:” Local first responders recall where they were on 9/11
53. 9/11 Quotes From Survivors, Bush and Family Members of Victims
54. 9/11 Jumpers: Remembering the Victims of September 11th
55. Photos: 9/11 Newspaper Headlines
56. Blind man tells how his guide dog saved him from World Trade Center during 9/11 attacks
57. Remembering 9/11
58. Remembering 9/11, Obama Set To Slap America In The Face Again
59. The Kindness of Strangers in a World of Pain
60. Modern Courage
61. Fifteen Years Later
62. September 11th: 15 years later
63. September 11 15th Anniversary: 30 Pictures We’ll Never Forget
64. September 11: Bible Verses of Peace on 9/11 15th Anniversary
65. Ep 335 The Annual 9/11 Remembrance
66. I Will Never Forget
67. September 11, 2001 – We Will Never Forget
68. Never Forget: New York, NY 2001 & Bengahzi, Libya 2012
69. Dallas Memorial Stair Climb Remembers 9/11
70. Bucks County Remembers 9/11 Victims
71. Black and White Sunday: Infrared & Rememberance
72. Someone Had My Back…
73. In Those Moments
74. Remembering 9/11 by Sojourners heart song
75. 9/11 is the day I lost my grandmother
76. Seeing It All With Ingeborg Lariby
77. On this day… (by Anne Marie)
78. New York Fire Fighter Blocks Out ‘Christian’ Hate Preacher Outside World Trade Centre #9/11 #NewYork #USA #NayabChohan #TemplateNews #DistantEchoes #NayabChohanLive
79. Why They Remember Witnessing 9/11
80. Robert Milnes Recalls 9/11
81. Remembering 9/11/01 From Our Y108 Studios
82. 9/11 Memorial Service, National Cathedral, 2001
83. A 9/11 tribute album: Ave Maria Mass & Suite For The Americas
84. Haunting and beautiful: Jewish prayer for the dead of 9/11
85. Praise Poems: Jesus walked through flames for us.
86. I am Grateful That God Is…
87. Sunday Matinée
88. 9/11 Anniversary: Look Back At Ellen DeGeneres’ Opening Of the 2001 Emmys
89. Nostalgia: On the 15th Anniversary of 9/11
90. 9/11 fifteen years later: Who were the terrorists that planned the attack?
91. 9/11 videos that question the official narrative…
92. Unison – Day 9
93. A Helluva Town
94. Every. Vote. Matters. – How to vote from abroad
95. What the Canadian Saw on 9/11/01
96. Happy (?) September 11: How Does it Look From India
97. Charlie, Will, Bob…and Jamie
98. Saint Mychal Judge
99. Saint of 9/11: Remembering Fr. Mychal Judge as a Gay Priest
100. From the ruins and ashes, much was raised.
101. And so just what did we learn from 9/11? In some ways not much…
102. Guardian “Facebook fact-check ” on 9/11 – every bit as poor as you would expect
103. Obama Faces Humiliation After House Unanimously Passes Bill Allowing Sept 11 Lawsuits Against Saudi Arabia, by Tyler Durden
104. Why After 15 Years Isn’t 9/11 a Federal Holiday?
105. 9/11 ~ United We Stand, Divided We Fall
106. September & After
107. After September 11th, the U.S. loses its mind
108. In Memoriam – 11/9/2016
109. 15 Years (on Michael’s monologue)
110. 15 Years Ago by Michael Gurley
111. Parents of 9/11 victim turn pain into purpose: “We have sought to pay tribute to our son”
112. Memories and thoughts of 9/11
113. As You Were
114. Cherry Hill Residents Look Back And Remember September 11, 2001
115. Finishing the Climb: Local First Responders Memorialize 9/11’s Fallen
116. Iconic 9/11 flag, missing for years, returns to New York City
117. 15 Years after a struggle of 13 years
118. Subway car pulled from World Trade Center goes on display
119. Mood.
120. Flags placed on Statehouse lawn honoring those who died on 9/11
121. September 11 Again
122. why we’re covering 9/11 fifteen years on
123. September 11
124. 9/11 Unhappy Anniversary
125. Remember always – 11 September 2001
126. 9/11 Fifteen Years After…
127. 9/11 Fifteen years on
128. USA: 9/11 – 15 Years On
129. September, 11th, 2001 – We Will Never Forget
130. Never Forget
131. 9/11 Fifthteenth Anniversary
132. Where Were We on 9/11/01?
133. 9/11… We Remember
134. That day, fifteen years ago.
135. 9/11 by Histories by sorts
136. Artwork of the Day: Twin Towers Liberty
     
     

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