‘Things like this should never be forgotten’: 9/11 survivor saddened by ignorance today

[mountaineer]

‘Things like this should never be forgotten’: 9/11 survivor saddened by ignorance today
by Heather Hamilton
September 11, 2022 06:05 AM
Washington Examiner

It has been more than 20 years since Sept. 11, 2001, but Irina Moldavsky vividly remembers it as a busy morning that quickly became a day that changed everything for her.

“I still remember," Moldavsky told the Washington Examiner. “It’s hard because some people want to move on, but things like this should never be forgotten — just like the Holocaust and slavery. It’s unfortunate.”

Moldavsky was a 24-year-old optician helping clients get fitted for glasses at the LensCrafters located in the underground shopping plaza below the World Trade Center towers in New York City that day.  ...

Now in her mid-40s, Moldavsky lives in central Virginia. She said she remembers the unity among New Yorkers as being “incredible.”

Having immigrated from Russia as a child, she said it has been hard to see “so many American freedoms stripped away from us since that day. Kids today don’t even know.” Moldavsky added that it’s disappointing that “such an historical day only really changed those who were directly touched by it.”

“People acknowledge it every year. It’s out there, but people are ignorant if it doesn’t impact them directly,” Moldavsky said. “People should remember this day because people died over ideological and political differences. I wish people understood. It’s good to be reminded that these things can happen to any of us, anytime, any day.”  ...

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[Gefn]

Bkmk

[Smokin Joe]

It's even harder to watch, considering the freedoms stripped away since the 1950s.
We should not forget, nor should we forget that politicians of any stripe will wantonly use any adverse event as an excuse to seize more power, something we should ever be on guard against.

[Right_in_Virginia]

“People should remember this day because people died over ideological and political differences. I wish people understood. It’s good to be reminded that these things can happen to any of us, anytime, any day.”

I'm not sure what she wants us to learn.

[Cyber Liberty]

9/11/01 was officially forgotten in November of 2008 when we elected an arguably Moslem President.  That soiled the meaning of 9/11, perhaps irretrievably.

[mountaineer]

Watching the programs last night on the Nat Geo channel - moment by moment accounts of 9/11 - I said things about the perpetrators, their religion and what we should have done that I dare not repeat in public.

[Cyber Liberty]

Watching the programs last night on the Nat Geo channel - moment by moment accounts of 9/11 - I said things about the perpetrators, their religion and what we should have done that I dare not repeat in public.

Didn't we have some Military Brass lament in September 2001 that the attack may lead to wholesale slaughter of American Moslems and negatively affect the Moslem Outreach programs?

[Right_in_Virginia]

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods

To see this headline on September 11 is appalling. Why is justice such an elusive concept in America today? Will the heinous among us never be held accountable? This is an outrage, and to read about it on this sacred day is an insult to the fallen.

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