september 11

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Remembering 2024’s Losses: Bob Beckwith

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 4 Jan 25

You may notice that some of these people in this list of the 2024 obituaries are people who had a moment….“15 minutes of fame,” as Andy Warhol famously said. This man certainly didn’t want it. None of us wanted it. The worst...

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Good Monday morning, myLot!

Stacey @xstitcher (39034) • Petaluma, California 11 Sep 23

I need to go out this morning--first to the post office to send a couple of things, and then to the store to get some cough medicine. Before I go I need to get some breakfast and coffee, and brush my teeth. I hope to get more...

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Date Poem: Sunday, September Eleventh, Two Thousand And Twenty-Two

Stacey @xstitcher (39034) • Petaluma, California 11 Sep 22

Space in its vastness, Swirling galaxies reaching Eternally onward: They were all created by The spoken word of God, And humankind from The dust. Yet amazingly, This great God takes time to think on one such as me. © Stacey...

takes time to look on me

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September11 th in downtown San Jose with Vietnamese for Trump

Michele @Aquitaine24 (12000) • San Jose, California 11 Sep 20

This is in downtown San Jose near City hall. At first when set up it looked like it was going to be a regular September 11th memorial. But it was a rally by Vietnamese for Trump. A few had traditional dress on and some had...

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September.11

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 11 Sep 20

Nineteen years, it's hard to believe and yet in many ways it seems like a different time, a different world. I am just kind of taking it easy today, it's still smokey out. I'm hoping to go into town tomorrow to replace some of...

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Good Morning, myLot !

Stacey @xstitcher (39034) • Petaluma, California 11 Sep 20

I woke up at around 6 a.m. today. Got coffee, and came back to the computer. I read that the California Bay Area has the worst air quality this year today. Good thing I stay inside most of the day. Today I...

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Facts About Bin Laden We May Or May Not Want To Know

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 10 Mar 20

Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia on March 10, 1957. He is responsible for the September 11th terror attacks. He had formed an al-Qaeda network that had carried out many global strikes against Western territories. He was...

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I Can....But I Can’t

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 11 Sep 19

To the Victims of 9'11 I can write words of poetry Immortalizing those lost On that dark September Tuesday But I can not give a little boy Back his Daddy's touch. I can captured memories In words As the truth unfolds to me But...

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A Day to Remember

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 11 Sep 19

September 11, 2001, is a day people will not forget who lived through that terrible day in history when the Twin Towers fell in New York City due to terrorist attacks. One year later, I wrote a poem to commemorate the day burned...

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Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 11 Sep 19

In honor of all the heroes of 9’11/01, may we never forget the day the world stopped turning! The day for where a short time, nations upon nations stood with us, prayed for! It was then we lost so much of our innocence but for...

alan jackson

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when the world stopped turning

devastation

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Tattooed On Our Minds

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 8 Sep 19

C.C.O image from Pixabay That date tattooed In our minds Moments frozen In time. Sorrow lined the Streets Ash and rubble Covered So many lives Snuffed Out For what? Black, white, Purple or pink Color does not Matter Evil is...

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Sorrow Written in the Sky

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 2 Sep 19

A year ago today! C.C.O image from Pixabay Engrained in our mind Tattoed Numbers Never Forgotten It was the day Sorrow fell From the sky. Strangers and friends Alike United in grief And tragedy Hatred and anger Would...

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Death Fell From the Sky (Poem)

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 23 Aug 19

I wrote this one a year ago today... C.C.O Image from Pixabay Death fell From the sky That September Day Leaving faceless Names in there wake! Heroes sacrificed Everything that day Including their lives As they brought Planes...

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Hallowed Ground

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 21 Aug 19

Just a field. And so hallowed. Today I visited the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset, Pennsylvania. And oh, did I cry. More than I did when I visited the Vietnam Wall. And, like the Vietnam Memorial, I didn’t know...

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It Changed That Day

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 1 Aug 19

I wrote this one a year ago today and in the year since have gotten a lot of positive feedback but at times negative as well! It Changed That Day C.C.O image From Pixabay It didn’t take much For the unbendable To bend and...

poetry

september 11

memoriaum

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Were Were You On September 11th, 2001?

danishcanadian @danishcanadian (28954) • Canada 11 Sep 18

Where Were You On September 11th? With the 17th anniversary of the tragedies in the USA almost at an end, I can't help but wonder where everyone was, and what you were all doing. - I was at a workshop at the local college, when...

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Was 911 a Saudi operation?

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 11 Feb 18

So was 911 a state funded attack by Saudi Arabia on the United States? The evidence is stacking up. I have never been convinced it was Al Qaeda and Bin Laden. I certainly don’t think the USA had much to do with it either, other...

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Quick thoughts 9/11/16

Ms Rae @carebear29 (32002) • Wausau, Wisconsin 11 Sep 16

Happy 9/11! I am watching the movie "Daddy's Home" a very good movie. I like it. Have you seen it? Had a good day. My husband helped a friend fix both her vehicles and his cousin helped since he was...

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"Never Forget"? Guess What, We HAVE

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 10 Sep 16

Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I remember that awful day like it was yesterday: I was working as a medical transcriptionist for a child evaluation center. We were huddled in the break room,...

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Happy New Year to the Finest People! :)

cmoneyspinner @cmoneyspinner (9218) • Austin, Texas 1 Jan 16

No doubt everybody is going to start a discussion here on myLot wishing everybody else a Happy New Year! But I just have to say this because … in the USA we brought in the new year in several major cities – most importantly, New...

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