I am begging everyone who has the Discovery Channel to watch and record
9/11 Firehouse at 8p tonight.
Ten House is located next to what used to be to the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, their quiet house was rocked by two planes hitting the buildings they were ordered to protect. They prepped their whole careers for the big one and they were hoping that day would never come. As we know it came and this is the story of 6 of the remaining 12 members who were on the clock that fateful day.
We will hear how their day started off normally and then took a tragic turn. They will explain what it was like being the first responders to arrive at the North Tower and what they saw and witnessed as they got there. Then they will tell you all they did to try to save as many live as possible and the sacrifices they had to make to accomplish that. Sadly they would reach a point of no return when the South Tower came down, some got out, some were trapped under the debris and some were in the North Tower. Then a mayday was called out for the structure that was still standing, but members of Ten House were too high up to get out. So when that building came down, they went down with it.
Both buildings were now rubble and the firemen of Ten House are scattered all over the area like the ashes of the building. Slowly they will make there way home and find their brothers. But those reunions did not last long because they went back to work trying to rescue anyone that they could as their firehouse turned into a makeshift morgue.
Today their firehouse is still active and it is reminder of what happened that day and it is also a beacon of hope that we will go on and not let the terrorists win.
Not only do we hear their stories from that awful day, we relive it with video and pictures. Their soundbites are covered with the images that have haunted us for the last 12 years.
I sit here writing this numb and speechless. The same feeling I felt as I tried to my friends and family 12 years ago and couldn’t get a hold of them. It is the nervousness I felt as my parents were in The Bronx and I was in LA, too far to do anything to help them and not knowing if they were in danger. It is the shock I felt when days afterwards I heard a kid I went to school with died that day, just days before his son was born, a son he never met.
It is a feeling we have to be reminded of every now and again. We can say “Never Forget”, but we have forgotten what that pain felt like on that day. We need to be reminded of it, so we will make sure we never ever feel it again.
So please watch it as a family and make sure everyone you loved ones remember and know what that horrifying day felt like. Never forget and always remember.
