9/11 Tribute on DCP

[ctbonesfan]

I was 11 and in 5th grade. I remember I was listening to the radio in the kitchen eating breakfast when I heard the news. I went outside and told my mom and at first she didn't believe me. God Bless America, the greatest country in the world

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. ~Archibald MacLeish

Edited September 11, 2008 by ctbonesfan

[Chris Scott]

My wife and I woke to travel to the doctor to confirm that we were pregnant.

We sat in the lobby and the inane chatter and top 100 music from the speakers was replaced by what seemed to be unreal announcements of reports of what happened that morning. When they said a plane, I thought it was a piper cub or cessna. I asked the lady across the aisle if this was a prank, and she looked at me and said "this is for real". Word of the second crash came, and then the Pentagon and the crash in PA. A pall came over the room - and I felt broken. We tried to push forward - - after all, we were about to find out that we were having a baby.

The doctor was understandably late because he was stuck at the hospital watching the same footage we were hearing reported to us.

After finding out some of the most wonderful news of our life, we traveled home to watch the footage - over, and over, and over. It did, does, and always will seem surreal.

[Ed Boxer]

Hard to believe it has been 7 years - the memories are still too vivid:

I wrote this to a LEGO group on 9/12/01:

First of all, to all the people who have e-mailed me - both Joe and I are fine.

We greatly appreciate your concern.

As to the terrorist attack, allow me to provide a little color.

I work in the World Financial Center - directly across West Street from the

World Trade Center twin towers. I was standing at a printer by the window

facing the WTC when the top of the north tower exploded. Pieces of building

the size of a bus were raining down along with what looked like confetti. All

of it was hitting the windows in our building. We immediately evacuated the

building. We had just walked down 27 floors and exited the fire stairwell onto

West Street when this rocket noise was overhead. I thought it was a missile. It was the second plane.

1000s of people ran through Battery Park City towards the Hudson River. The

second explosion happened.

I met up with some of my co-workers. We started walking toward the Staten

Island Ferry - on the promenade along the Hudson River. Everyone was trying to

call anyone on his or her cell phones - none worked. Every pay phone we passed

had a line of 20+ people. 2 of my co-workers decided they were going to wait

in Battery Park to figure out how to get to NJ.

True to NYC, construction workers were still working on a new high rise in

Battery Park City and the parks department was mowing the lawns in the Battery

Park as if nothing was going on.

We get to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal - it's a mob scene - literally 10's

of thousands of people are waiting to get on a boat. They announce that the

first ferry out will not be until the bomb squads have searched all the boats.

The ferry terminal has about 50 pay phones - there were lines for all of them,

but we each made at least one call to let people know we were OK. We met

outside the terminal to wait for a boat.

While we were waiting for the boat, we heard a huge explosion and saw tons of

gray smoke and debris flying down the streets towards the ferry. Everyone ran

out of the ferry terminal - we ran in - the boat began to load. Everyone on

the boat grabbed life vests and put them on. People were fighting for life

vests. As the boat is loading the gray smoke and debris are flying past the

boat (it looked like the initial attack scenes from Independence Day - the

movie).

The boat finally left Manhattan - it was not until we passed the Statue of

Liberty that you could see anything out of the windows of the boat. When we

docked in Staten Island and unloaded, we started walking towards my apartment -

a long ramp exiting the Ferry Terminal to the street. We looked towards

Manhattan and saw that the WTC twin towers were gone.

We met three more of my co-workers walking up the ramp - they had no idea where

they were going - they came to my house too. We stopped at a neighborhood

deli so some of them could get some necessities. The proprietor was handing

out bottled water and was offering the phones in the store to anyone that

needed to make a call - the Pharmacy was doing the same.

By the time we got to my Apartment - its 10:30. The people that came with me -

1 Staten Island - 2 Brooklyn, 1 Upper East Side Manhattan and 2 NJ. We spent

the next several hours determining how they would get home. We still have one

girl from NJ staying with us. Her husband is stranded in Brooklyn.

The Staten Island Yankees Baseball stadium (next the ferry terminal) - has been

turned into a triage center. Evidently work has gone on all night.

Looking out my living room window this morning is an unbelievable sight - the

WTC twin towers are gone. Smoke is still billowing across lower Manhattan. I

have no idea how many of my co-workers got out of the area before the buildings

collapsed. I have no idea how much damage was done to the building I work in.

READERS BE WARNED - THE FOLLOWING IS VERY GRAPHIC.

Sunny - one of the girls from Brooklyn - was coming to work, walking down

Liberty Street (the street at the south end of the WTC) when the first

explosion occurred. Body parts were raining down on Liberty Street along with

building debris. She was hit by a hand.

When we exited the fire stair well, before the second plane flew in, we saw

that people were jumping from the top floors of the Trade Center - many of them

on fire.

[taters]

Ok I just saw the slide show...wow...I am just speechless...very nice

[kansasDC]

9/11/01 was the day that the Long Island Kingsmen lost two alums - baritone Jeffrey Fox in tower 2 and snare Patrick Dwyer in tower 1. Both have been missed dearly by their family, friends, and fellow alums these past seven years.

[MetalTones2012]

I live in Bergen County, New Jersey.

I was just getting to my choir class when I noticed that one of my classmates wasn't there, even though I knew he was in school that day. Then the assistant principal walked in and told us that he had to leave because his father just died in an attack on the World Trade Center. Then they let us out of school early and my dad (who was supposed to be at the towers that day but his meeting was canceled the day before) was waiting at home for me and my brother. He told us to go into the TV room and put on the news.

We could see the smoke from my town for over a week.

Edited September 12, 2008 by MetalTones2012

[bishtom]

The tribute still chokes me up.

Thanks for all who worked on the it

[notelvis]

For days, no weeks, afterwards I would burst into tears for no apparant reason. A tender piece of music on the radio, the thought of a little girl without a father or of parents suddenly without a beloved son. I even felt so horrible for the coach of an arch-rival basketball team because he lost his brother-in-law and best friend on that day. It was all just overwhelming.

The following summer I was on tour driving a bus for Madison and this dcp video reminds me of how poignant it was hearing the Scouts play and sing "You'll Never Walk Alone" night after night through the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. It was such a sad time for so many of us.

Edited September 12, 2008 by notelvis

[Walter]

To my American friends and drum corps family.

September 11, 2001 was a day I will never forget. I was at work and my sister-in-law came in and said that two jet liners had hit the twin towers of World Trade Center. I automatically said "They're under Terrorist attack. There is no other explanation." After many days of listening to the news and finding out that there was 24 Canadians that were killed also.

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of all those people who were killed and their families.

[runner_up]

ground zero yesterday afternoon... looks good!

Not nearly good enough for all those that have lost their lives and the millions that have lost their innocence...

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mkt=en-us...p;wa=wsignin1.0

http://www.triroc.com/wtc/

God bless America