The FOREVERNETWORK.COM Family joins with the rest of the country, and our friends worldwide, in mourning the loss of the victims of the tragic events that unfolded on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. We pray for the safe recovery of all the missing, and for peace and consolation for those who lost loved ones. This archive serves as our way to provide you with a place to leave messages, share grief, and celebrate the memories of all victims. We encourage you to participate with your global neighbors in interacting with this space — your place to keep America United.
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memories can never be lost, love always last, faith, hope, and prayers will bring us together forever.
antionette
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Today
Today has changed the lives of everyone…forever. I sit here, one year from the events of September 11, 2001 with mixed emotions. I feel blessed to be an American, blessed to be alive, blessed to have the friends and family that I have in my life, and yet so angry at some of the utter stupidity in the world! There is no “fun” in fundamentalism, just narrow minds thinking that they are the only ones who are right. The beauty of our world is the diversity of peoples and cultures, the uniqueness of us all. Thank you Tyler, Linda, Ilania, Annette, Steven, and everyone at Forever for being apart of my family.Much Love, Scott
Scott Everett Berger
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One Month Later
History is made Daily in our lives by who we help, given a chance! We have only 24 hours a Day, have not been promised anything else, Lets Covenant with each other to put our petty gripes aside daily and help one another, You see we have changedLife can be better, if we believe that our fellow Americans lost their lives and changed
us for the better FOREVER!
One month ago the world changed forever…Now at this present time and in this exact moment, I feel our tragedy has change me forever and at the same time I refuse to to loose my freedom and be scared forever…….. that’s why I say I will cherish my life with my two kids and live like we Americans know how to live and do best LIVE IN FREEDOM AND IN PEACE FOREVER…Mercedes Fusilier
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In the face of tragedy, the question arises, Where do we go from here? the sense of loss of someone we love is so painful, so what do we call the loss of hundreds, thousands…we must face our darkest fears, out nightmares, but always remember, we are America and with that stands a responsibility to show others how to conduct themselves in the face of terror. We are saddened, angry!, but we have hope; for those who came before us fought battles that were great and we survived, as a people, as a generation, as a nation.
We build on what has happened in the past, to remember we can forge ahead to a new future and to never forget who we are, America…the land of the free and the home of the brave.Patrice Wilson
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The Missing
I photographed the “Missing Flyers” included in this memorial in Union Square in Lower Manhatten – where many New Yorkers have chosen to gather each day and night to mourn and remember.
These papers were taped to stone walls, wire fences, trees, statues, phone booths – wherever there was an open surface.
As the days passed, they evolved into memorials surrounded with candles, flowers, and messages. In quiet processions, people continue to move from image to image, taking each in, committing names and faces to memory, grieving for those they have never met. People cry and speak intimately with the strangers around them, bound by their sense of loss. Many, like me, take pictures of pictures, committing them to memory in a different way.
These are instinctual acts of mourning – to seek communion with others, to light a candle in the darkness, to offer a flower for the lost. The photos help us fight against the emptiness; the glowing memorials promise that some essence of these people will live on in us.
I photographed the “Missing Flyers” included in this memorial in Union Square in Lower Manhatten – where many New Yorkers have chosen to gather each day and night to mourn and remember.
These papers were taped to stone walls, wire fences, trees, statues, phone booths – wherever there was an open surface.
As the days passed, they evolved into memorials surrounded with candles, flowers, and messages. In quiet processions, people continue to move from image to image, taking each in, committing names and faces to memory, grieving for those they have never met. People cry and speak intimately with the strangers around them, bound by their sense of loss. Many, like me, take pictures of pictures, committing them to memory in a different way.
These are instinctual acts of mourning – to seek communion with others, to light a candle in the darkness, to offer a flower for the lost. The photos help us fight against the emptiness; the glowing memorials promise that some essence of these people will live on in us.Tyler Cassity
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Ignorance
It has been said that the opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
We have been attacked by ignorance and we must fight back.
The entire world witnessed the attacks and were instantly polarized, divided into two clearly defined camps – those celebrating this mass murder and those whose hearts were crushed with those buildings.
People all over the world, from all religions, ethnicities and cultures, have expressed their profound grief. Suddenly united are all those who believe in democracy, economic opportunity, basic human rights, and the personal freedom to chose where we live, what we do, how we worship, what we think and say – the freedoms we too often took for granted in the past.
We will never take them for graneted again.
These ideas – ideas about freedom and tolerance – were attacked on September 11th.
Only ignorance can attack freedom and tolerance.
So how do we fight ignorance?
Surely we use everything we have. Our best wisdom, our love, our cooperation, our diversity, our ingenuity, our creativity, our unity of purpose.
Our anger and our grief can also be our fuel, can make us smart, focused and explosively effective.
Everyone in our world community must chose to stand with those who believe people should be able to control their own lives, and those who are threatened by the very concept.
We are more than America United.
We are people all over the world, united for Human Rights.
Bill Obrock
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God Bless America
My family and I wish to extend our deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones in the wake of the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington. We also wish to offer prayers and hope for the rescue of survivors.
This is a difficult time for all Americans — this action has touched us all, profoundly — and we must be careful not to rush to judgment, especially with regards to groups who boast a few bad elements. Let us bring to justice those who were actively responsible, and ask for peace towards those who share the culture of those bad few. Prejudice against groups, when a minimal number of them is responsible, is unfair, and not indicative of the greatness of America.
As a native New Yorker, I dread the next time I travel to the city — not because of fear, but because I am going to mourn the loss of the World Trade Center — the beauty of those towers, and the power they represented, gave New Yorkers a satisfying feeling for almost 3 decades. The loss of them, as an icon, and as a center of commerce, is dreadful. God Bless America, and those who will bring the perpetrators to justice. We, as a nation, are united in that sentiment, I am sure.
Annette Lloyd
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Message of condolence
The country has seen so many heroic acts from so many people in the last few days. These deaths from this disgusting act of terror will be avenged. It’s our generation’s turn to make America proud.
Brent Cassity
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James Elmer Dobbins
Anonymous
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Islam
Tara
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Islam
Many are beginning to hold one of the worlds great relgions responsible for the recent acts of terrorism – believing that Islam forms the foundation for the culture of suicide bombers and the jihad.
Believing this is very close in logic to beleiving that the tradition of Christianity is best represented by Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson – who days ago said the recent acts of terrorism resulted from god lifting his protective shield surrounding America because he was angered by the abortionists, homosexuals, and civil liberties protectionists.
Christian Fundamentalists and Islamic Fundamentalists – contradicting in every way the basic tenents of their religions as they dare to speak for God, judge for God, and punish for God.Tara
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shrines shining tonight
There’s a strange beauty through out the streets of New York tonight. I rollerbladed from Central Park through the parks down town, Union Square, Washington Square. Everywhere people were lighting candles and creating shrines and altars to the missing, the dead, but also to ideas, urgent pleas for peace, for the city of diversity not to lose its civility. There was sadness and resolve and unity. The city is full of glowing shrines – and it has a strange beauty unlike any it has ever had. Happy, beautiful people stare out from the shrines – glowing as people gather around them or pass by them and for a moment – remember them – a stranger now taken to heart – a loss felt and a loss shared. Especially from Washington Square – Seventh Avenue – there is a giant hole in the sky – only constant billowing smoke where two giants once stood – an emptiness felt. But some how – in all this destruction – it seems something is being create anew – something is emerging in the people here. That will be the damning irony of this for those who sought to terrorize us by attacking our symbols – we are emerging stronger and deeper with one will to lead the world to a place where these tragedies will never again be possible. That is the hope that shines at these altars.
Keep lighting a candle each night when the darkness comes, a let it be a testament to your hope and your will and your committed action for a better world.
To realize that dream will be the finest tribute we can pay the victims of this tragedy — but the greatest challenge will be to achieve this new world with love and not hatred – we can not become the terrorists who did this. We must make a world where there are no terrorists – take away the causes and reasons for their existence – because if we kill Osama but leave the world that created him – we have only created a matyr and a thousand will follow.new york
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September 11, 2002
memories
memories can never be lost, love always last, faith, hope, and prayers will bring us together forever.
antionette
September 11, 2002
Today
Today has changed the lives of everyone…forever. I sit here, one year from the events of September 11, 2001 with mixed emotions. I feel blessed to be an American, blessed to be alive, blessed to have the friends and family that I have in my life, and yet so angry at some of the utter stupidity in the world! There is no “fun” in fundamentalism, just narrow minds thinking that they are the only ones who are right. The beauty of our world is the diversity of peoples and cultures, the uniqueness of us all. Thank you Tyler, Linda, Ilania, Annette, Steven, and everyone at Forever for being apart of my family.Much Love, Scott
Scott Everett Berger
October 11, 2001
One Month Later
History is made Daily in our lives by who we help, given a chance! We have only 24 hours a Day, have not been promised anything else, Lets Covenant with each other to put our petty gripes aside daily and help one another, You see we have changedLife can be better, if we believe that our fellow Americans lost their lives and changed
us for the better FOREVER!
One month ago the world changed forever…Now at this present time and in this exact moment, I feel our tragedy has change me forever and at the same time I refuse to to loose my freedom and be scared forever…….. that’s why I say I will cherish my life with my two kids and live like we Americans know how to live and do best LIVE IN FREEDOM AND IN PEACE FOREVER…
Mercedes Fusilier
September 26, 2001
In the face of tragedy, the question arises, Where do we go from here? the sense of loss of someone we love is so painful, so what do we call the loss of hundreds, thousands…we must face our darkest fears, out nightmares, but always remember, we are America and with that stands a responsibility to show others how to conduct themselves in the face of terror. We are saddened, angry!, but we have hope; for those who came before us fought battles that were great and we survived, as a people, as a generation, as a nation.
We build on what has happened in the past, to remember we can forge ahead to a new future and to never forget who we are, America…the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Patrice Wilson
September 20, 2001
The Missing
I photographed the “Missing Flyers” included in this memorial in Union Square in Lower Manhatten – where many New Yorkers have chosen to gather each day and night to mourn and remember.
These papers were taped to stone walls, wire fences, trees, statues, phone booths – wherever there was an open surface.
As the days passed, they evolved into memorials surrounded with candles, flowers, and messages. In quiet processions, people continue to move from image to image, taking each in, committing names and faces to memory, grieving for those they have never met. People cry and speak intimately with the strangers around them, bound by their sense of loss. Many, like me, take pictures of pictures, committing them to memory in a different way.
These are instinctual acts of mourning – to seek communion with others, to light a candle in the darkness, to offer a flower for the lost. The photos help us fight against the emptiness; the glowing memorials promise that some essence of these people will live on in us.
I photographed the “Missing Flyers” included in this memorial in Union Square in Lower Manhatten – where many New Yorkers have chosen to gather each day and night to mourn and remember.
These papers were taped to stone walls, wire fences, trees, statues, phone booths – wherever there was an open surface.
As the days passed, they evolved into memorials surrounded with candles, flowers, and messages. In quiet processions, people continue to move from image to image, taking each in, committing names and faces to memory, grieving for those they have never met. People cry and speak intimately with the strangers around them, bound by their sense of loss. Many, like me, take pictures of pictures, committing them to memory in a different way.
These are instinctual acts of mourning – to seek communion with others, to light a candle in the darkness, to offer a flower for the lost. The photos help us fight against the emptiness; the glowing memorials promise that some essence of these people will live on in us.
Tyler Cassity
September 19, 2001
Ignorance
It has been said that the opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
We have been attacked by ignorance and we must fight back.
The entire world witnessed the attacks and were instantly polarized, divided into two clearly defined camps – those celebrating this mass murder and those whose hearts were crushed with those buildings.
People all over the world, from all religions, ethnicities and cultures, have expressed their profound grief. Suddenly united are all those who believe in democracy, economic opportunity, basic human rights, and the personal freedom to chose where we live, what we do, how we worship, what we think and say – the freedoms we too often took for granted in the past.
We will never take them for graneted again.
These ideas – ideas about freedom and tolerance – were attacked on September 11th.
Only ignorance can attack freedom and tolerance.
So how do we fight ignorance?
Surely we use everything we have. Our best wisdom, our love, our cooperation, our diversity, our ingenuity, our creativity, our unity of purpose.
Our anger and our grief can also be our fuel, can make us smart, focused and explosively effective.
Everyone in our world community must chose to stand with those who believe people should be able to control their own lives, and those who are threatened by the very concept.
We are more than America United.
We are people all over the world, united for Human Rights.
Bill Obrock
September 17, 2001
God Bless America
My family and I wish to extend our deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones in the wake of the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington. We also wish to offer prayers and hope for the rescue of survivors.
This is a difficult time for all Americans — this action has touched us all, profoundly — and we must be careful not to rush to judgment, especially with regards to groups who boast a few bad elements. Let us bring to justice those who were actively responsible, and ask for peace towards those who share the culture of those bad few. Prejudice against groups, when a minimal number of them is responsible, is unfair, and not indicative of the greatness of America.
As a native New Yorker, I dread the next time I travel to the city — not because of fear, but because I am going to mourn the loss of the World Trade Center — the beauty of those towers, and the power they represented, gave New Yorkers a satisfying feeling for almost 3 decades. The loss of them, as an icon, and as a center of commerce, is dreadful. God Bless America, and those who will bring the perpetrators to justice. We, as a nation, are united in that sentiment, I am sure.
Annette Lloyd
September 17, 2001
Message of condolence
The country has seen so many heroic acts from so many people in the last few days. These deaths from this disgusting act of terror will be avenged. It’s our generation’s turn to make America proud.
Brent Cassity
September 16, 2001
James Elmer Dobbins
Anonymous
September 16, 2001
Islam
Tara
September 16, 2001
Islam
Many are beginning to hold one of the worlds great relgions responsible for the recent acts of terrorism – believing that Islam forms the foundation for the culture of suicide bombers and the jihad.
Believing this is very close in logic to beleiving that the tradition of Christianity is best represented by Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson – who days ago said the recent acts of terrorism resulted from god lifting his protective shield surrounding America because he was angered by the abortionists, homosexuals, and civil liberties protectionists.
Christian Fundamentalists and Islamic Fundamentalists – contradicting in every way the basic tenents of their religions as they dare to speak for God, judge for God, and punish for God.
Tara
September 15, 2001
shrines shining tonight
There’s a strange beauty through out the streets of New York tonight. I rollerbladed from Central Park through the parks down town, Union Square, Washington Square. Everywhere people were lighting candles and creating shrines and altars to the missing, the dead, but also to ideas, urgent pleas for peace, for the city of diversity not to lose its civility. There was sadness and resolve and unity. The city is full of glowing shrines – and it has a strange beauty unlike any it has ever had. Happy, beautiful people stare out from the shrines – glowing as people gather around them or pass by them and for a moment – remember them – a stranger now taken to heart – a loss felt and a loss shared. Especially from Washington Square – Seventh Avenue – there is a giant hole in the sky – only constant billowing smoke where two giants once stood – an emptiness felt. But some how – in all this destruction – it seems something is being create anew – something is emerging in the people here. That will be the damning irony of this for those who sought to terrorize us by attacking our symbols – we are emerging stronger and deeper with one will to lead the world to a place where these tragedies will never again be possible. That is the hope that shines at these altars.
Keep lighting a candle each night when the darkness comes, a let it be a testament to your hope and your will and your committed action for a better world.
To realize that dream will be the finest tribute we can pay the victims of this tragedy — but the greatest challenge will be to achieve this new world with love and not hatred – we can not become the terrorists who did this. We must make a world where there are no terrorists – take away the causes and reasons for their existence – because if we kill Osama but leave the world that created him – we have only created a matyr and a thousand will follow.
new york