Today marks 20 years since the darkest day in US firefighter history, the attacks on 9/11. 343 brothers made the ultimate sacrifice. We honor them, & the 220 firefighters that have died of cancer caused by efforts at ground zero that day, & the weeks that followed. #neverforget pic.twitter.com/ni0Ksoy5tG
— BaytownFirefighters (@BPFALocal1173) September 11, 2021
Today we honor and remember the 343 firefighters, 60 police officers, 8 paramedics and EMTs, 279 security officers and 2,586 civilians lost in the 9/11 attacks on our country. #NeverForget pic.twitter.com/pv3KRaEOee
— The BackStoppers Inc (@BackStoppers) September 11, 2021
Crazy to think this was 20 years ago. Whenever we go to New York we see reminders, monuments and second street signs honoring all the firefighters and emergency responders.
Yup. I remember that single day of high school. It was surreal. And Jamie, if you can remember that all the first responders kept hearing the violent thud sound of bodies just hitting concrete at high speed. Unimaginable can’t even begin to comprehend empathy here, not because the men and women don’t deserve it, they deserve every ounce we can muster…but you can’t imagine having to make the choice to jump to your death or choose to burn alive. It’s so monstrously incomprehensible 20 yrs later as it was when it happened.
Great to see the comparison of January 6th and September 11th.
RIP and love to those fellow Americans who lost their lives.
What a difference 20 years makes in how we view the world.