And really, I just didn't know how to speak on such a dire, serious matter. A great friend of mine lives in New York, and I always felt I was an imposter talking about it at all in comparison to his experience, because he was around Ground Zero. Unlike me, we just saw it on TV. By the way, I saw it on TV, and I was in disbelief. I thought it was a movie or something that was fake
Bernie Goldbach
@topgold · 1:20
Duhan Flight 93 was the hijacked jet that crashed, crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. So Shanksville would be west of where I grew up. You go on us 30, Lancaster or where I grew up. York and then Gettysburg. Shanksville, maybe about an hour west of Gettysburg, I believe, due south of Johnstown. So anyway, forested area. But Leroy, Homer, you'd like Leroy a nice guy
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 5:00
I'll remember. And it stayed there for years. All these posters of people who they weren't missing. But that's the only way your mind could process something like that at a time. And even to this day, it's just hard to believe that thousands of people died on one day, some of them never to be identified. Just a hole that leaves emotionally incite
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 0:52
Or I don't know that I want to talk about. Still, I don't know. It was a lot. It was too much. It still is. It's never going to not be too much. But thank you for just creating the space because you did allow me to sort of let some of that go. But, yeah, you have an amazing day and keep being amazing. You thank you so much
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:40
And even attempts at the World Trade Center is being brought down by a different terrorist cell at the point. But it was really unsuccessful, for the most part, in terms of the widespread damage they wanted to create. I know you're familiar with that. In the early 90s, they bombed, I believe, the underground area of the World Trade Center, but it did not collapse the building. But yeah, guys like you that actually have had service in the Air Force or whatnot?
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:05
That was the first time I think I had encountered something that was so widespread and ubiquitous. The only thing I can liking that, too, was the Columbine attacks. I remember that being a widespread thing, but just more for school related activities rather than the threat of violence abroad. And now you look at the George Floyd incidents and things of that nature. We definitely no longer are the generation that is, like innocent of any sort of major war catastrophe that is at our front doorsteps
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 1:20
Hey, Dewuan, that was clever. Sometimes you need more than one box to do. So I was sure to say all the time you made me think of something because I did, like, 20 years ago, right. And you said you were 30, 35, 37. Yeah. You were, like, totally in high school and I was 25. So those are two different, interesting experiences as well. I was like, young in College, just partying, doing my thing or whatever
Greetings tribe. I just wanted to add my perspective, being a New Yorker and Brooklyn native 911. I remember this day very distinctly because I was in my second year of high school at our design, and it affected me personally. During this time I was in foster care and me and my brother were separated. And I thought my brother was attending school this day and his school was actually in the World Trade Center area
But it still causes us to critically think, and that's what I'm trying to really just offer, because I know this is a very emotional topic. But perhaps maybe because it's so emotional that in itself causes us not to question who and why it really happened or who was really behind it. It kind of enables our logic and really amplifies our emotions and we're blocked and we don't see truth
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:36
It probably will take even a longer time after that to get a little more pieces of the truth as is so. Yeah. Thank you, Erin, for making us think a little harder for today
phil spade
@Phil · 4:11
And when 911 happened the next week, I had business in New York, and I was living in Minneapolis at the time and airports closed. So I wasn't able to go on the dates that we had planned. But I was on one of the very first flights from Minneapolis to New York City, and my meetings were right down by the World Trade Center, and I got to see ground zero while smoke was still coming out of the ground while there was still part of the building in the air
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:23
It's an interesting dynamic to have in dilemma in regards to are you in fact, giving the terrorists what they wanted in terms of it being historic and monumental to America's identity and tragedy, even in their most evil intentions. It's not something they can fully control and how people grieve with said loss and how they persevere in triumph despite of the evil intents of others. This is something that I feel the human condition just knows how to persevere with
People that are deciding to not take the vaccine shot are considered almost conspiracy theorists and looked at as crazy because we don't have all the information of facts. But something inside of us is telling us intuitively, perhaps. No, don't do that. And so it's hard to explain that now. But it's even harder when majority of the society or public is saying, oh, you have to do this
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:28
What a great subject, and I definitely think it has relevance with this topic in that. As you have recently listened to one of my posts I made ahead of this one, and I did get vaccinated and that in its own right, has become a very hot button topic and a lot of friendships are being dissolved. As of this very thing, people are moving their jobs to other areas. That where they still have the choice of not to be vaccinated. Even a post recently on Swell