I agree 100%. I have to add he is one of the luckiest guys in the world. Dream job, great wife family and friends and if he didn’t leave early that day he would almost certainly be dead now. This is a man who must have terrible survivors guilt. I’m glad he was able to get counselling nothing wrong with that at all.

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I agree..but sheer probability tells me there's probably some firefighters that purposely evaded that situation once they saw it get real serious..like the South Tower falling. He could have done that. He was away from it and went toward it when it got crazy. That alone should soothe the survivor's guilt. I wouldn't have went in there. But I didn't sign up for a career that would put me through that. But for any of the firefighters or police that purposely did not go there when they saw how crazy it got..I salute you. You did the right thing. That's why you can read this. You are heroes to all of your family and loved ones.Of course salute to all those that went in..the many that didn't make it..the ones like this that did. But I do believe any one that ran..didn't go in..did whatever they can to not endanger themselves..y'all deserve acknowledgement too. I hope this helps if any of you feel guilty.

I can’t even imagine what they saw in the days and weeks after. The bodies, the body parts, all of it

Those guys that volunteered for the pile work had to have nerves and emotions of steel. We will never know what horrific things those men saw and had to deal with...an experience they will never forget and is in their minds forever. God give each one of those men your peace. 🙏

Bless your husband

So much respect that you divorced him. Amazing. 😂

@@yeetnama9094 Do you disrespect every person you once had a relationships with? It is revealing that you assume (1) That the poster instigated the divorce and (2) that divorce entails disrespect. People develop in different ways. They can realise that they have become incompatible without disrespecting each other.

I will say that I don't know any hard hats, as you call them 😉, but I do feel a note of awe when I see them in action. I do see them as heroes. It p I s s ed me off when they were being attacked in the L. A. riots. Why would anyone do that?!?!? I would hope courageous people would jump in to defend them. Sorry I know I went off topic, but really people take care of our firemen they are there to save lives!

Thank you. In the midst of the attacks, trying to find loved ones and sheer shock... it's nice to know the love expressed from around the world. Your words just touched my heart it's currently 9/25/2023.

❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you.

jimeno's was dam good too

God bless and protect him & his family🙏

People always ask me why I watch the 9/11 stories every 9/11 and really the week following. I say because it is the LEAST I can do to make sure I never forget what happened that day.

@@kitkat7871 i dont think anybody could forget what happened that day even after a lobotomy

@@deangelobayley7079 true

He is an excellent storyteller.

Same

I'm literally teary-eyed and sniffling. Holding back tears. To think of all those that didn't get to see their loved ones come back home safe.

^^^100%

His storytelling abilities are amazing! ♡♡

Yes. I live on the West Coast. But every 9/11 I take time out to remember.

I do the same thing this was a powerful story. God bless him

I couldn't stop once I started watching either! I went to ground zero 3 months after the attack & saw some of the most eerie scenes that are etched in my mind for eternity! Smoke was still rising from the pile, office papers stuck on branches of trees...dust & debris covered EVERYTHING, even vertically. I watched firemen carry out a body bag 🙏🏼. I saw a lone fireman leaning w/his back against a pole, his helmet on & face buried in his hands like he was crying or praying💔. It was so quiet I felt like I had to whisper. Thousands of photos & flyers hung everywhere with the words "Searching For" or "Have You Seen Me/My Husband/Wife/My Dad/Mom/My Daughter/Son". There were firetrucks crushed underneath the edge of the rubble..yellow fire hoses (they were covered in so much dust, u could barely see the yellow), going into & underneath the pile that never came out. The bronze statue of that man sitting on a bench where the music played even after they fell (seems like I remember b/c it's a detail that really freaked me out, but not 100% sure..could be b/c I saw it on TV). The morning it happened, I had just turned the TV on and saw the 2nd plane hit. My husband was from NY & already at work so first I called him (we lived at the beach in South Carolina). I went outside to walk my dog & ran into my downstairs neighbors, who I told about the WTC & Pentagon. They proceeded to tell me that their son works at the pentagon! When I saw the fear in their expression, & this older couple take off running towards their condo that's when it sunk in for me! In December I went with my husband (now ex-husband) & 2 of our friends (they were all from NY)..we asked the taxi to take us to the World Trade Center...he actually laughed (with his turbine on)..& said "didn't you hear? There is no more Trade Center"...i almost lost my shit right there! I found out later that my maid of honor was a dispatcher for 911 (in NY of course) & working that day. She couldn't talk about it much but to say the lines were so jammed with loved ones trying to contact each other so she was taking as many messages she could to deliver to those left behind..but people were forgetting to leave proper info on their identity in the chaos. They recieved counseling & apparently enough pay to where she stepped away from that job. I then found out that my sister-in-law's Dad was loading luggage that day for the flight that crashed in the field. He didn't talk about what he experienced that day either. Thanks for letting me ramble. I've never put all these details together & on paper..its not a big deal but it feels good to get it off my chest. The courage & the sacrifices I witnessed (I believe we all witnessed) that day came from true PATRIOTS...they were willing to die for America & for other Americans...THEY ARE TRUE HERO'S! 💯🇺🇸🙏🏼

@@azinfandellvr - You really did have a very emotional experience. The images were so shocking on tv, it must have been so much worse in person, especially when you had so many direct connections to it. I think many people have experienced ptsd from that day.

Me too. Every year. Never forget.

You never can get over it but you can learn to manage it some.

The experience will be with Josh forever. He is so sincere and has so much passion to do his job and to do it right, such a rare quality these days.

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@@feliciaward391 wewww?

Lovely comment!

@@paigeleigh2554 Thank you 💕

This is America! This is the True America. We care about each other despite what the media portrays america.to be. America...don't let what you see going on now in this country make you think, this is America. No, what you see here....this is America. This is the real America. We care. Keep America in your prayers. God's listening. He desires we come back to Him. Remember what you see and hear, here. These are Americans. This is what makes America. Fill us God.

Well put

Or makes your feet move faster. No fault found!!!

Then you must be living under a rock since COVID began

I agree, I was working at a bank when a complete takeover robbery happened, with one person I worked with getting shot and everything, it took me about a year to go back to that place. I couldn’t even be on the street or in the neighborhood. Trauma is a real thing.

Same. I think it's awesome he stayed long enough to give the firefighter a crash course in driving a bus before running, I don't know if I even would have stopped the bus in his situation! It's easy to say "well I would have" but truth is most people don't know how they'll react in a crisis until they're in it.

im just glad i wasnt in the area 9/11... im weird, im a scarredy cat BUT when SHTF i go into robot mode and i get things done.. knowing myself i would have drove the thing back ugh (to give you an idea, when I was 16 a car flipped at 6 am in the morning. Lots cars stopped but no one went down the ditch to check the driver.. I went.. a young man with an exposed bone on his broken arm, full of blood... I spent 20 minutes taking to him (while waiting for the ambulance my friend called) becasue i had done a first responders class in school and i knew i needed to keep him awake... he was worried for his mom that had heart issues and if the hospital or police called her she would have a heart attack... so he gave me her phone number (home) and when i got back to my house (10 minutes from the accident site) I called her.. "dont worry the paramedic said he was ok, just a broken arm"... it was the twilight zone...)

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I could listen to him all day as well. He’s a credit to all first responders. Bravery isn’t a strong enough word to describe what they all did that day. Heroes isn’t either.

He’s the kind of person that can’t shut up, but nobody wants him to shut up. Tell me how many times in the whole hour he says the word “Uh”. I cant tell a minute story without saying Uh. He’s a terrific orator.

He’s an awesome at telling the story of 9/11 from a rookie fireman’s memory.

Bless you Robert and thankyou. Stay safe and take care. With love from Scotland. 🌹

God bless u...and thank u, sincerely.

So,do I

Me too! Been watching all these stories and documentaries on this 20th Ann. Crying off and on but I can’t stop watching all this. This was just so unbelievable this whole thing. We just don’t know when our number is up or what’s around the corner. We just gotta keep the faith..

Oh... I see you are Canadian. My Mom was as returning to the USA from Ireland on 9/11 & due to arrive at an Airport in Northern New Jersey at 12 Noon. As you know the Flights were diverted to Canada... she stayed in Nova Scotia at a Convention Center for 3-4 days (with her 2 Friends whom were on the Trip to Europe). My then-78 year old Mother fondly recalled the enormous kindness & loving generosity of the Canadians who stopped their Lives to accommodate them & the many people during those days of crisis & pain. In her last years if her life, she liked telling the story of that time & the wonderful Canadian citizens.

Okay... I researched what happened to the Employees of WTC Headquarters of the Cantor-Fitzgerald Company... sadly everyone who had reported to work on 9/11 died, therefore, Josh’s Neighbor, the Husband of the Woman with young children did not survive that tragic day. 😢😔😭

He would have been Donald Gavagan and he did pass away on 9/11. There is a lot of info about his family out there from over the years as his youngest was born after 9/11…there were quite a few of those kiddos (“Tuesday’s Children”). I think in his story here he assumed that the name drop of Cantor Fitzgerald would be enough, being from NYC himself, because everyone in that spot died. Fellow Canadian here!