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#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Sep 11, 2012

Thank you so much for you very excellent dedication.

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Very nice memorial Kurt,we should all be thankful to the brave people that look after us.:)

i still get chills :(

I don't think I've gotten such a visceral reaction to a pixel puzzle. This one may need a disclaimer. "Warning: May evoke a strong emotional response."

that is one of those days when you will never forget where or what you were doing when you heard about the towers :(

hummmm....where was everyone at the time?

I just so happened to be on an army base. a mostly closed one, anyway. it still had guards at the gate and some military families living there, but was pretty much out of commission. the officers' 9-hole golf course had been closed for 2 years, and my company got the bid to bring it back. every day was a ghost town til that day. ghost town in the morning....listened to everything as it happened on the radio. didn't notice til I went our for some lunch that the place magically sprang to life. people and military vehicles everywhere! everything felt weird like a dream. the fullness of everything didn't really sink in til later that night

I was 8mo pregnant and had to go on bed rest from the stress. My husband was at his 2nd day of orientation for a new job, so I relayed the news to him over the phone.

I was working nights and had stopped in a grocery store and made some stupid remark at the register like, why the long faces? Everybody get fired or something? It was early on in the tragedy at that time, so I rushed home and watched in a stunned trance-like state as everything unfolded.

It was yesterday!

Truly awesome image.

It certainly changed the perspective of those of us who live in the U.S.

I live on Long Island about 60 miles from NYC. I was on my way to work (on Long Island) when I heard the news on the radio. As the day unfolded, I just wanted to go grab my kids from grade school and hug them but being in Administration, I had to put on a stiff upper lip and stay put. I did have a dentist appointment in the afternoon. As i traveled to the dentist, the roads were so eerily empty. They had closed the mall too and there was not a car in that vast parking lot. I went to visit my Mom who was in Stony Brook University hospital (the tallest building around) and I remember being scared taking the elevator up. September 11th is my sisters birthday and we were supposed to go to her house to celebrate but we just couldn't do it. We lost a great many people on Long Island and there are many, many 9/11 memorials throughout the Island.

I was in math class in 6th grade. The staff thought it was too devastating to show the kids what was playing on the news despite how big it was and important it was that we knew it was happening. Really, though, the adults were getting more upset over it than us kids who didn't really even know what the twin towers were. I, at least, had never heard of them before then. I don't mean to sound callous; my point is that I was too young to understand the tragedy until the years passed (not many) and I heard more and more stories of those who had lost loved ones. As I matured, I understood why the teachers thought we kids wouldn't be able to handle it. Of all those stories, however, the one that made me cry the most was one about a rescue dog. That good dog dug and dug through the freshly fallen rubble, burning up his little paws searching for survivors like he had been trained to do. He saved... I think 10 lives before dying as a hero. Remembering this is making me cry again. It's like I had lost my own dog; it's that strong of a feeling. They are such loyal creatures. And he sacrificed his life to save people he didn't even know. 10 families didn't have to go through the pain of loss because that good dog put humans first ahead of himself.

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