Remembering 9/11 Victims, Their Families & Others....

[Chancie]

I remember exactly where I was when I heard what happened.

I was still in school, and I was studying computer science.

I walked into my classroom, and one of the traditional aged students said

A plane just crashed into the Pentagon.

I thought, Great. He can't tell the difference between real life and a video game, and

Obviously he was right, and as soon as our teacher got to the classroom,

He told us more about what happened, and very shortly after that,

All classes were cancelled.

I was desperate to reach my mother and my sister, and the rest of my family in New York City, and

I couldn't get through, but

When I got home, I discovered that

My mother had been able to leave me a message on my answering machine.

There was no telephone service in or out of New York City after that for about three days, but

I was so grateful and so relieved that my mother had been able to get through.

I knew that my sister, her husband, and my cousin were all right, but not about anyone else.

I remember driving home from school and listening to the radio, and

The reporters talked about how people were jumping out the towers, and

I was so shocked and so upset by this.

I hadn't seen any images yet, but I could see what was happening in my mind's eye.

[durrrrrrrr]

[RavynTuqiri]

On this day I remember. On this day we were neither Christian or Muslim, black or white, gay or straight, liberal or conservative, democrat or republican. On this day we were united in our grief...in the comfort we offered one another as we grieved as a nation, as nations grieved with us.

We are all human. We shed the same tears, our blood runs the same be you friend or foe. To honor those who have laid down their lives, involuntarily or voluntary, past or present, let us renew our resolve to first see our common bonds, to embrace our differences and love more and hate less to make this a better place. Let us do these things so that those who have died may not have done so in vain.

Extraordinary situations call for extraordinary actions by ordinary people....to take action not because it is easy, but because it is inherently the right thing to do. Let the legacy of 9/11 be about love, healing, recovery and embracing the strength we share when we come together as one, united through all humankind.

[The_Lady_Snow]

Our Heroes

As the nation remembers September 11, we look back at the edition of The Advocate that followed in 2001. In the days after the attack, we chronicled some of the gay men and lesbians who showed humanity’s true spirit — and who were among the thousands of Americans killed.


Normally Chris Young wouldn’t have been anywhere near the World Trade Center. But on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, the 33-year-old actor was temping for the Marsh insurance firm and had volunteered to shuttle reports from the company’s midtown office to the 99th floor of 1 World Trade Center. He delivered the reports by 8:40 a.m. and then got back in the elevator for what would turn out to be the longest and scariest ride of his life


The Advocate's Full Article Link




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David Charlebois
Washington, D.C.




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Pamela Boyce

Brooklyn, N.Y.