Memories just hit a little different 22 years later
All of these years later.. something now finally seems different.
9/11
9/11: 21
Kids born on 9/11 are now legal drinking age. Let that sink in.
Time rolls on..
But the hands of clocks are stuck in a fateful for thousands..
This year’s anniversary presents the names of who were lost. Their ages. Their locations.. and which event that day took their respective life..
PEARL HARBOR 80: 20 YEARS AFTER THE 60TH AFTER 9/11
It was fresh after a new attack on our nation, 60 years after Pearl Harbor. More veterans were still alive, they were ready to lament the new brutal deadly day of 9/11 and compare and contrast it to what they lived through, then 60 years prior..
September 10, 2001: 20 years later.
It’s almost the 20th anniversary of September 10, 2001: The final day of peace, the final day of ‘mundane.’
9/11 – 19
From my personal screen shot collection.. this is how many websites I followed looked 19 years ago this moment as the attacks of 9/11 began.. The first is my own site, the horror-report.com at the time.. Goes without saying. I will never forget the feeling, the moment… the tears and fears, the friendships I appreciated, … Read more9/11 – 19
The Peach Lady and the lost files of 9/11
History can indeed be forgotten.
And that old adage that whatever you post online is there forever is clearly NOT true. Just ask Myspace users. Just as Geocities users. Just as AOL Instant Messangers and ICQ chatters.. And there may be a few ten minute best of VINEs on Youtube.. but millions of others are gone for good.
The peach lady is a symbol of how things can go into the trash heap.
Cue the THE LOST HISTORY OF PRE-9/11
CLASS OF 2020: BORN IN SIN. COME ON IN
The class of 2020… born in the aftermath of 9/11.. They were the first high school class to learn about 9/11 as a past event..
Sure there a were a few stragglers that entered the planet prior to September 11, 2001, but for most of them, the world before the terror attacks would be alien.. just as alien as life before the great 2020 pandemic, which canceled their prom, graduation, and memories..
The day that terrorism flew over Schuylkill County
Consider this… if you were alive and well in Tremont, Pine Grove, you were touched by terror… The Bear Mountain area of Schuylkill County was touched by terror..
Places like Schuylkill Haven, the McKeansburg Hotel, and Auburn all had a moment with this.
The flight path of the doomed Flight 93 went over all of these communities on that date..