Tomorrow is September 11th

[abolish the weak]

For the ones making jokes in this thread, grow up. As a firefighter myself who has been to my fair share of funerals, either keep out of this thread or go to another board. Let me give you a little insight on what those guys went through, then you can go look in the mirror and ask yourself how much of a fucking man you really are. 80 floors up. Most of you would be pretty fucking winded, right or wrong? Now, add 60 lbs of gear on you and a respirator, little harder, right or wrong? Now, keep in mind that most cylinders will only give the firefighter 20 minutes of air, UNDER NORMAL BREATHING CONDITIONS, not serious exertion, most likely 12 minutes on average if your working. So this means each guy had 2 extra cyclinders he's carrying up 80 flights of stairs. Also, dont forget your tools, Pike pole, axe, haligan tool, etc. So each guy is carrying appr. 100 more lbs than his bodyweight under hot, smoky conditions. Now that your out of breath from all this shit, try keying up your mic and talking on a command channel, which there is so much fucking havoc you cant even get through to yell for a fucking May day because your dying. And just 15 minutes ago you were playing basketball with the guys, washing the trucks, mopping the bay floor, talking to your wife on your cell, whatever. Now it's all gone. We risk a lot to save a lot, even if it was some schmucks like you who joke about people dying and tell everybody to move on.

 

[velvett]

I heard on the radio the other day that one of the major TV channels in NY is not televising the reading of the names for the first time.

Thank God - Finally.

 

[reno240]

For the ones making jokes in this thread, grow up. As a firefighter myself who has been to my fair share of funerals, either keep out of this thread or go to another board. Let me give you a little insight on what those guys went through, then you can go look in the mirror and ask yourself how much of a fucking man you really are. 80 floors up. Most of you would be pretty fucking winded, right or wrong? Now, add 60 lbs of gear on you and a respirator, little harder, right or wrong? Now, keep in mind that most cylinders will only give the firefighter 20 minutes of air, UNDER NORMAL BREATHING CONDITIONS, not serious exertion, most likely 12 minutes on average if your working. So this means each guy had 2 extra cyclinders he's carrying up 80 flights of stairs. Also, dont forget your tools, Pike pole, axe, haligan tool, etc. So each guy is carrying appr. 100 more lbs than his bodyweight under hot, smoky conditions. Now that your out of breath from all this shit, try keying up your mic and talking on a command channel, which there is so much fucking havoc you cant even get through to yell for a fucking May day because your dying. And just 15 minutes ago you were playing basketball with the guys, washing the trucks, mopping the bay floor, talking to your wife on your cell, whatever. Now it's all gone. We risk a lot to save a lot, even if it was some schmucks like you who joke about people dying and tell everybody to move on.

I do a run called "Hustle up the Hancock" every year here in Chicago. It's called the marathon of stair climbs - pretty much - you run up the 94 floors of the hancock tower. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING pisses me off more then when I am coughing and wheezing my way up and firefighters run by me in full gear. I just turn around and head down after that.

 

[reno240]

Which one? I have not heard that at all. That is so dumb...

Don't know - I think it's ABC... Is Oprah on ABC?

 

[jh1]

I hope you die!

Quite silly to be hopefull for something that is an absolute certainty, wouldn't you say?

 

[jnevin]

Quite silly to be hopefully for something that is an absolute certainty, wouldn't you say?

lol

 

[velvett]

For the ones making jokes in this thread, grow up. As a firefighter myself who has been to my fair share of funerals, either keep out of this thread or go to another board. Let me give you a little insight on what those guys went through, then you can go look in the mirror and ask yourself how much of a fucking man you really are. 80 floors up. Most of you would be pretty fucking winded, right or wrong? Now, add 60 lbs of gear on you and a respirator, little harder, right or wrong? Now, keep in mind that most cylinders will only give the firefighter 20 minutes of air, UNDER NORMAL BREATHING CONDITIONS, not serious exertion, most likely 12 minutes on average if your working. So this means each guy had 2 extra cyclinders he's carrying up 80 flights of stairs. Also, dont forget your tools, Pike pole, axe, haligan tool, etc. So each guy is carrying appr. 100 more lbs than his bodyweight under hot, smoky conditions. Now that your out of breath from all this shit, try keying up your mic and talking on a command channel, which there is so much fucking havoc you cant even get through to yell for a fucking May day because your dying. And just 15 minutes ago you were playing basketball with the guys, washing the trucks, mopping the bay floor, talking to your wife on your cell, whatever. Now it's all gone. We risk a lot to save a lot, even if it was some schmucks like you who joke about people dying and tell everybody to move on.

No disrespect to what you do but people do need to move on - the media needs to move on and let people heal and continue living.

Every year of this public mourning prevents people from doing so and I have to be honest, it irks me that only the lives of the people that were lost on 9/11 are being celebrated and remembered.

What about the soldiers we sent to find "weapons of mass destruction" and what about the people that currently have lung damage and enevidably a death sentence from helping out on 9/11 and the days that followed - who celebrates their lives? Who remembers them? Who speak their names?

I'm not knocking the loss of a loved one nor am I being flip to this tragedy but death and tragedy happen everyday and the masses don't care about the losses of another person, they are not remembered on TV, they are mourned by the masses, they're just another man, woman or child who's time is up.

Imagine if doctors and nurses outwardly mourned year after year the patients that they lost?

 

[domoljub]

Are you really fucking around with fake stories about 9/11...
WTF is wrong with you people? Have you no shame or respect for others?

my friend you have posted this thread in the wrong place. im not american, but people fucking around over other peoples misery makes me sick.

it is quite obvious that they had a piss poor upbringing and offer nothing beneficial to society .

 

[wootoom]

For the ones making jokes in this thread, grow up. As a firefighter myself who has been to my fair share of funerals, either keep out of this thread or go to another board. Let me give you a little insight on what those guys went through, then you can go look in the mirror and ask yourself how much of a fucking man you really are. 80 floors up. Most of you would be pretty fucking winded, right or wrong? Now, add 60 lbs of gear on you and a respirator, little harder, right or wrong? Now, keep in mind that most cylinders will only give the firefighter 20 minutes of air, UNDER NORMAL BREATHING CONDITIONS, not serious exertion, most likely 12 minutes on average if your working. So this means each guy had 2 extra cyclinders he's carrying up 80 flights of stairs. Also, dont forget your tools, Pike pole, axe, haligan tool, etc. So each guy is carrying appr. 100 more lbs than his bodyweight under hot, smoky conditions. Now that your out of breath from all this shit, try keying up your mic and talking on a command channel, which there is so much fucking havoc you cant even get through to yell for a fucking May day because your dying. And just 15 minutes ago you were playing basketball with the guys, washing the trucks, mopping the bay floor, talking to your wife on your cell, whatever. Now it's all gone. We risk a lot to save a lot, even if it was some schmucks like you who joke about people dying and tell everybody to move on.

shut the fuck up you non plat alter scum cookie.

 

[timtim]

No disrespect to what you do but people do need to move on - the media needs to move on and let people heal and continue living.

Every year of this public mourning prevents people from doing so and I have to be honest, it irks me that only the lives of the people that were lost on 9/11 are being celebrated and remembered.

What about the soldiers we sent to find "weapons of mass destruction" and what about the people that currently have lung damage and enevidably a death sentence from helping out on 9/11 and the days that followed - who celebrates their lives? Who remembers them? Who speak their names?

I'm not knocking the loss of a loved one nor am I being flip to this tragedy but death and tragedy happen everyday and the masses don't care about the losses of another person, they are not remembered on TV, they are mourned by the masses, they're just another man, woman or child who's time is up.

Imagine if doctors and nurses outwardly mourned year after year the patients that they lost?

clearly you must have been a world away from nyc and not been effected in the slightest bit. you know nothing of the pain we all went through that day and the YEARS that have passed. i can describe to you to the second where i was that day.

why should we remember? close to 3000 innocent people were murdered in the name of terror. big difference than a family being killed in a car accident. thats why its called an accident. these unfortunate things happen everyday and i feel for everyone who suffers for them and i wish no ill will on anyone. to compare 9/11 to an ordinary day is just ridiculous.

its a shame most of america feels like you. when tradegy on a mass scale hits your neck of the woods i wonder how you will feel?