posted September 11, 2017 11:51 AM            

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NEW YORK (AP) - Holding photos and reading names of loved ones lost 16 years ago, 9/11 victims' relatives marked the anniversary of the attacks at ground zero on Monday with a solemn and personal ceremony.

Every Sept. 11 since the date of the deadliest terror attack on American soil, Rob Fazio has come to the place where his father, Ronald Carl Fazio, and thousands of others died.
"I'll come every year for the rest of my life," the son said. "It's where I get my strength."

At least 1,000 family members, survivors, rescuers and officials were gathered as the ceremony at the World Trade Center began with a moment of silence and tolling bells.

Then, relatives began reading out the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed when terrorist-piloted planes hit the trade center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, hurling America into a new consciousness of the threat of global terrorism. Some said they couldn't believe 16 years had passed since a tragedy that "still feels like yesterday," as Corina La Touche put it as she honored her father, Jeffrey La Touche.

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posted September 11, 2017 11:57 AM            

Randall, (the resident Georgian peach), stay safe and check in!

posted September 12, 2017 04:47 PM            

,,, *Never Forget* ,,,

SUCH a TRULY Horrible SORROW-Filled Day...
soooo many tears still flow, pain!

I still feel the shock, and the pain inside my own soul while I stood stunned, watching on television....
My God My God... ***Bheart***
I had had premonitions of it, and dreams... that had started when I traveled there to take an Edgar Cayce meditation course in Manhattan (mid-70s? not sure, have date somewhere in journaling) with my Cayce Study Group friends (during my college years).... Going over one of the bridges, WHILE I was SOOOO OPEN from meditations all day, and fatigued on the way home, I was enjoying the overview of the city of NY. There were blue skies, maybe some small clouds?

Then, in my 'Imagery' I *saw* this immense rolling of a shadow cloud... and buildings covered with ash and soot. And this IMMENSE SORROW just broke my Heart for the people!... I spontaneously broke into unexplainable sudden tears..... I STILL remember the Image in my head....

The night before the event, I'd had a dream of a kind of HUGE Mayan/Aztec/don't-know which civilization, type of giant stone face.... A hanging downward-head pendulum-hatchet style of weapon swung back and forth, back and forth, inside the big very square toothy-grimace mouth.... lowering, and lowering, and lowering, to contact the tips of the lower stone tooths. (woke up)

Within hours of that dream, the city was stone rubble.... and soooo many innocent unsuspecting lives, TRAGICALLY taken!!!! ..... my God my God!!!

And some, they cannot fathom nor relate personally. They wonder 'why'?!

I always remember am LL-member, a man who used to post here often, then left a number of years ago now.

He LIVED through it. SAW the HORRORs first-hand!!!
He lived on one of the floors of the tower buildings(?).
Had two remarkable special-needs sons who were musically-inclined.
One played piano and violin....
His wife had dual-citizenship and was a politician in Southeast Asia?

I recall some of his posts.....
He had terrible PTSD from that day.

Thought I saw a very very vague message that his eldest son passed?
I'm not sure, because I don't hang-out at Sweet Peas, except for extremely sporadic impromptu visits. I'm not current on all the info posted there.

I always think of that man....
Breaks my heart. *bheart*
Sending him Love and Angels.

*bheart*

(music) Kindertotenlieder (Mahler, English subtitles, sop Christa Ludwig) [25:51] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzVf94sgf5M

*bheart*