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Bern | Migraine Advocate 💙📚 :
You started helping 😭😭
2026-09-12 00:36:52
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caseface :
What a beautiful, important story. Please don’t minimize your experience or the impact that horrifying tragedy had on you and your loved ones. I’m sure your family is immeasurably proud of you. Thank you for sharing your story. We will never forget. 🤍
2026-09-11 04:07:12
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gan :
A ride home after the worst day of your life is sacred. Incredible that you helped in that way so young.
2026-09-11 12:45:53
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Julia Jane698 :
Your family WAS impacted. We all were. I love your story and I'm so happy I stopped scrolling and stayed these 8 minutes. You are a special helper.
2026-09-11 11:39:17
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J :
I was just shy of five years old. My dad was FDNY and he had left for a 24 hour shift the day before. I was so little but I think the unusualness of the day sort of yanked me into consciousness because I understood more than anyone hoped or believed I would and remember more about that day than I do about certain events I experienced even years later. My mom picked me up from prek early and I remember my teacher hugging her. She put me in the car with my two little brothers and began driving to my grandma’s house. I kept asking her why we were going to my grandma’s on a school day because we never did and she wouldn’t answer. She just kept changing the radio station rapidly before turning it off and then just humming the rest of the tide. She later told me it was because almost every station was reporting the news and she was trying to keep us from hearing it. Not many people had cell phones then and my mom hadn’t heard anything from my dad or and none of the wives of the other firefighters at his ladder and engine heard from their husbands either. She was terrified. We get to my grandma’s and my brothers happily sat in front of the tv watching a Disney movie on VCR. My mom was talking to my grandma quietly in the kitchen. I snuck down to my grandma’s home office. He was watching the news. I recognized the FDNY gear and helmets. I had seen my dad’s many times. I saw something very scary and horrible had happened and it looked like my dad must be there to me. I don’t remember much after that until my mom was putting us to bed in her bed because she didn’t want to sleep alone. She now was pretty sure that my dad didn’t get there until after the second tower fell so the odds were better that he was alive but she still hadn’t heard from him. She was singing us to sleep when I asked her “is daddy dead and you’re just not telling us?” She says she felt like throwing up in that moment and that nothing could have prepared her for her little daughter asking that. She said her one consolation was we were all too little to understand. She doesn’t remember how she responded and I don’t either. I do remember being woken up when it was still dark out and my mom putting
2026-09-11 18:23:39
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Denise Spread kindness :
When you said " helpers" I thought of the story about Mr.Rodgers and his mother
2026-09-11 10:44:18
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Joanna Halpern :
This is the first time I heard there was debris in Brooklyn. The stories that I've heard this week and the details I'm learning for the first time. I realized this week that I never healed. I'm broken all over again. And I didn’t even live here
2026-09-11 19:50:11
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kawr28 :
God bless you. You had an important role that day and hearing how young you were and that you kicked into help just shows the American way. Why I love my America. Thank God your family was ok.
2026-09-11 11:29:51
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quietsiren :
I went to James Madison HS in Brooklyn and we had debris as well. It looked like snow. I watched the buildings go down from my classroom over the water. My family worked nearby as well so I sat in worry as well for hours.
2026-09-18 15:22:42
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littlemisallovertheplace :
I was in fourth grade and I remember walking to school thinking wow this is a beautiful day. The sky was so perfect.
2026-09-18 18:10:47
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victorydahlia :
You were a just a baby helping others 🥺
2026-09-13 04:17:06
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Lauri :
What a thoughtful young kid!
2026-09-17 22:03:48
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Amy :
My favorite stories from such a traumatic circumstance are the stories like this of people who stepped in and helped however they could, it makes me believe that we’re not completely doomed as a human race ❤️
2026-09-17 17:36:17
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mariettadavis146 :
What an amazing story. So proud of you.
2026-09-11 03:40:10
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Kara Soltez :
Your story is very important to tell. You were very strong and brave to help all of those people. I guarantee you made a difference in their lives that day. Even if few words were spoken as you drove, human contact was made. That is everything. God bless you and your family. Never forget. 🇺🇸
2026-09-18 14:40:26
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WordGirl 🇨🇦 :
Thank you for sharing your story. I would not say you and your famy were not impacted, you clearly were. You chose to take that experience and make it your life purpose. You transmuted it into something truly meaningful. Keep on 🦋🥰
2026-09-16 23:38:04
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tancan277 :
I was in the comfort of my nice warm bed in Australia. I thought I must have fallen to sleep watching TV and was dreaming, or maybe I was in between that asleep and awake stage, or woke up and started watching a scary movie. Just horrific.
2026-09-15 03:46:11
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🌻 Katie :
What an amazing story. Thank you sharing this
2026-09-14 09:18:49
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Kendall Tekely :
You were such a hero in your own 16 year old way! What an impactful, beautiful story!!
2026-09-11 14:45:52
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Juliya🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ :
I knew I didn’t imagine paper flying in Brooklyn. I was 17 at the time and living in boropark and I remember paper flying all over the place but then I thought maybe my mind made it up because how can paper get to Brooklyn from the city but now hearing u say it means I didn’t make it up.
2026-09-11 08:27:55
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Katie O'Shea :
i remember my aunt tell us her yard in brooklyn was covered in post it notes.. I think about it so often
2026-09-11 10:16:57
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Timothy Newton :
I lived in NYC that day, it was an unusually beautiful day. I took the subway to work, and my office in midtown had a stop beneath my office. When I got in the elevator to go up to the 20th floor, I saw someone I knew from my floor at work. I said “man, the subway was SOOOO slow today”, to which she replied “well at least a plane didn’t fly into your building.” I thought that was a weird thing to say. When I got to the floor of my office, everyone was huddled around a TV in the lounge watching the news. And then we saw the second plane fly into the building. It was nuts. At that point, everyone was like “let’s get the fuck out of here.” We all left and started walking uptown. I got home and tried to call my parents but couldn’t. And then the city basically shut down for a week, and people actually really came together in a good way. It’s weird to say, but I’m glad I was there for it. Not glad it happened, obviously—I lost friends. But I’m weirdly glad that I was there when it happened, to have experienced that. Everyone remembers where they were when that happened, and I was there, and it was terrifying. But most people in NYC came together and treated each other beautifully in the aftermath. The people that acted like jerks and targeted Muslim Americans were outliers. For the most part, everyone was there for each other. And thank you for being one of the people that helped others.
2026-09-11 05:03:22
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drinkslacroix :
Thanks for sharing your story. I hope it inspires a lot more people to share. ❤️
2026-09-11 04:03:10
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PissyMissy22 :
The weather was just like today. I won’t forget a second of that day. Being in the city was so
2026-09-11 19:37:48
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Dalia Hesham :
I was in Murrow too. Saw the second tower hit from our school windows.
2026-09-11 10:31:37
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