Opinion

Letters: Remembering 9/11

I’ve just finished the day trying my best to memorialize and pray for the brave men and women who gave their lives on that sad day. (“Thousands Gather To Honor Lives Lost on 9/11,” Sept. 11).

My wife and I recently visited Ground Zero, and I stood there in utter amazement looking upon the new Freedom Tower and thinking of how glorious is it for this city to have risen from the ashes.

You took it on the chin that day and were brought to your knees but stood right back up, bloodied but unbowed, and showed the rest of the world, including me, that life will go on in spite of any misfortune heaped upon it.

May God shine his light down upon all of you now and forever.

Dan Tucci
Norwalk, Conn.

Every year, we talk about witnessing that horror.

I watched that second plane hit as I ran away from the towers and saw those brave police officers and firefighters run into those towers without thinking twice about their own lives.

The words “heroes” or “bravery” don’t seem to truly describe those men and women.

Howie Chazanoff
Brooklyn

I’m greatly troubled by the belief of some who think we must move on, that there is too much talk of 9/11 after 12 years. I beg to differ.

We lost thousands of good people — including 343 firefighters who gave up their lives to save the many.

A husband lost his wife, a father lost his son, a mother lost her daughter and friends lost friends. How does one forget?

We need to remember all that was lost on that day of terrorism, that truly pure act of evil.

Future generations need to know what happen on that day. For when we disregard history, we are doomed to repeat it.

May God bless America on another 9/11, and mourn all the good people that were taken from our midst.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr.
Glen Oaks Village