Do you get the chills?
C&K*s Mommie wrote: Do you get the chills when you hear a specific song on the radio, or see an airplane and think back to 9/11/01? I posted a word in response to the word association game, and then I thought of a song-- the same song that had more meaning than ever to & around 9/11. It was "Proud to be an American" by Lee Greenwood. Also "Amazing Grace" on bagpipes brings chills and memories of that time to me. The first time I heard it on bagpipes was at a Red Cross function the same night as 9/11. 
Does anything spark a memory for you, and bring you back to that day or the anxiety you may have had around then?
mckayleesmom replied: Yes, Also...that Lee Greenwood song..Proud to be an American. I remember watching him live on tv singing that song during Desert Storm....the families of deployed soldiers were in the audience and me and my mom just bawled.  It was just so real...to see all those little kids missing their moms and dads overseas.
CosmetologyMommy replied: it is not a song but I was watching The Joy Luck Club when my grandpa had a heart attack. Now I can't really watch it.
BAC'sMom replied: Sure I can't watch MASH....when I was a kid our neighbors house caught fire. I didn't like what was on TV which was MASH, so I walked outside to play and discovered the fire. I was freaked out for months. The bagpipes bother me too, they make me sad.
Amazing Grace will bring me to tears in the first note. It reminds me of my Grandmothers funeral, one of my cousin could not be there. But she still wanted play a part in the service some how. She sent a tape of herself singing Amazing Grace there was not a dry in the Chapel.
luvmykids replied: The Lee Greenwood song has always made me cry, so does the National Anthem. I seriously can't get through it without bawling, I think of all the military men and women and our great nation and feel so proud and grateful.
Amazing Grace does it, "In My Daughters Eyes" by Martina McBride, and a song on a church CD that gets me every time too.
BAC'sMom replied: There is also a song by Craig Morgan that talks about the ex wife and child moving away to take a job out of state. Lord that one even makes my DH weepy.
Here I found the words
Get a kleenex...
She called me up this mornin',
Said: "There's somethin' you should know.
"There's a job back home in Boston,
"And I think I'm gonna go.
"My parents are in Cambridge,
"An' I've got some old friends there.
"An' I know you think this isn't fair."
And the tears started fallin',
There was nothin' I could say.
Even if I fight it, someone loses either way.
Whoa, it might as well be China,
Or the dark side of the moon.
There's no way I can be there every Friday afternoon.
I have him every weekend,
He's got his own room here.
He's all that's kept me goin',
These last three years.
There's little league in Boston,
Oh, but who will coach his team.
How's he gonna grow up without me.
And the tears started fallin',
There was nothin' I could say.
Even if I fight it, someone loses either way.
Whoa, it might as well be China,
Or the dark side of the moon.
There's no way I can be there every Friday afternoon.
What about Christmas?
If I can't get off of work?
What about his birthday?
If I'm not there, he'll be hurt.
And I know the day is comin',
When she'll find someone new,
But he'll never love him like I do.
Well, it might as well be China,
Or the dark side of the moon.
There's no way I can be there every Friday afternoon.
My3LilMonkeys replied: A lot of songs do that to me. Not Proud to be an American though, because I hate Lee Greenwood.  I love the version of the song that American Idol did a year or 2 back though.
Anytime I get far enough back in my closet to see the Hawaiian shirt I have that belonged to my grandfather I get chills - even though I don't think I'll ever wear it I will never be able to part with it.
kayla's mama replied: I agree with Monica I can't make it through the National Anthem with bawling....
Everytime I hear a certain Evanesence song I always thing about the possibility of my parents splitting up. My mom said that the song said everything that she felt about my Dad!!!
ETA: the lyrics to My Imortal
my immortal
my immortal
i'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all of my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
because your presence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone
these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase
when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me
you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
but now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
your voice it chased away all the sanity in me
these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase
when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me
i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
and though you're still with me
i've been alone all along
luvmykids replied: oh for Pete's sake Jimmie and Brandi! Now I'm gonna have a crying headache in the morning!
Nina J replied: I do when I hear 'Sky is Falling' by Lifehouse.
I watch as the daylight crawls
Past the shadows hanging on the walls
It’s been a long time since I felt the stains
Of yesterday getting in my way
I’m alive but tell me am I free
I’ve got eyes but tell me can I see
The sky is falling and no one knows
We shouldn’t be hard to believe
Shouldn’t be this difficult to breathe
The sky is falling and no one knows
You leave me hanging on
I need to catch my breath
I’ve got you and I’ve got nothing left
Don’t leave me all alone down here
With myself and all of my fear
I’m alive but tell me am I free
I’ve got eyes but tell me can I see
The sky is falling and no one knows
We shouldn’t be hard to believe
Shouldn’t be this difficult to breathe
The sky is falling and no one knows
No one knows
No one knows
I’m alive but tell me am I free
I’ve got eyes but tell me can I see
The sky is falling and no one knows
We shouldn’t be hard to believe
Shouldn’t be this difficult to breath
The sky is falling and no one knows
The sky is falling and no one knows
The sky is falling and no one knows
Maddie&EthansMom replied: There are so many songs I can't get thru without breaking down and crying. Forget chills.  Just thinking of that day makes me tear up and I can't swallow. It effected me in the worst way. I was a zombie for the longest time. I couldnt' eat or sleep or peel myself from the tv. The first time I left the house I saw flags EVERYWHERE. I was going to the grocery store. I passed our firestation and needless to say, I never made it to the store. I was a mess.
~~*Missi*~~ replied: Yes! September 11 and the oklahoma city bombing both have songs that remind me of them.
September 11 the song is proud to be an america which you hear all the time around here because that guy is from around here and angel by sarah mcclaughen(however that is spelled)
and the
oklahoma city bombing is lighting crashes by live.
They were songs that around here were remixed with tributes to all the people we sadly lost those days.
i cry jsut thinking about it....
I saved all the information, magazines, newspapers etc... for Sabrina since this will be something she learns about sadly ....
Not to mention i can tell you exactly where i was both those times who i talked to what i was doing wearing etc... its odd i can't remember what i wore to the hospital when i gave brith but i can remember that
redchief replied: Many everyday things stir memories in me. Some good, others not so good. I can't allow the emotions and the memories to come together for too long.
C&K*s Mommie replied: oh and what about when the 5yr anniv comes around this year, and "Wake me up when September Ends" by Green Day, which was a song around the Katrina horror, and may be a song that is associated with 9/11. Great song, but I just thought of that.
Brandi, Jimmie and NinaJ those are all great songs, I have heard them and love them.
Aimee, I know what you mean. The anniv is coming up and to this day when I am over by the airport and hear & see a low flying plane coming in for a landing I get bad chills. Those pilots are not going nearly as fast as the hijackers were...
Missi, I can tell you too. Something about the memory freezing time in place. I can give many details about that day, which is saying alot with my poor memory. But I really have to think about yesterday, and what happened.
Ed, I know what you mean. I am sorry I just realized that you, you are in the field..... I am sorry. 
redchief replied:
Nichole, you haven't hit a chord with me. It's okay! Memories are good. We learn from them; all of us. One thing we learned from 9/11 is that what we thought could not be destroyed by fire, can. Building codes have changed due to that tragic attack and people in the future will live because of the lessons we learned.
Did you all know that while both of the WTC towers collapsed on 9/11, the structures failed for different reasons? Did you know that because of that, the National Building Code was changed to require better and stronger fire protection for steel structural parts? George Santayana, in 1905 said, "'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Truer words were never said.
I don't claim a lack of emotions. I've had tears in my eyes from things I've read here. Occasionally a memory triggers an emotion. I don't like how I think when that happens, though. Occasionally I do lock myself in my office and let the emotions of the memories of the past wash over me... You have to or the box you put all that in overflows. That can happen at the most inopportune times. The things that trigger the strongest emotions in me always involve the death of kids. There are places I refuse to go because of the strong emotional memories that those places evoke. There are places I've forced myself to go to deal with them. These are very private moments for me, and I don't share well.
I'd be a mess and unable to make decisions I need to make every day if I allowed memory and emotion to come together on a daily basis, so I calculate how that happens.
C&K*s Mommie replied: I did not know about the stronger fire protection codes for steel buildings, following that National Tragedy, but I am pleased to know that it is in place now.
I will never fully understand in all honesty Ed, of what you are faced with every day. I truly will not, but I appreciate that while you are a private person, you have shared a little of yourself here. I am sure there is more to it than this.
I am just happy that you are able to take a moment to release and not keep it boxed in as you said. My little mind still cannot get itself around what you may see, or have seen. I can only say that you are an incredibly strong person, and I admire you for what you do.
luvmykids replied:
Me Too!!
NEWMOM05 replied: The song that reminds me most of 9/11 is Have You forgotten a country song by ,shoot I can't remember who sings it... 
A song I think it's called "Say Goodbye To Yesterday" by Boys ll Men was a song that was hard to hear after a schoolmate killed himself on my B-day when I was in Junior High. It's still hard to hear that song.
luvmykids replied:
Is it Brad Paisley? The other one that kills me every time is the Alan Jackson one, "Where were you when the world stopped turning". It makes me want to hug every stranger on the street. It's very surreal to me that we are all connected by that event, even if you didn't lose someone or weren't directly affected by a loss, but we all have that in common, glued to the TV, in shock, disbelief and such sadness and helplessness. Almost like, if the fact that we're all human and put our pants on one leg at a time is not enough, we all share in this horrible memory together to some degree. It's a weird common denominator type thing, am I making any sense?
NEWMOM05 replied:
Actually that was the song I was thinking of. I think it was Brad Paisley. 
C&K*s Mommie replied: Darryl Worley sings that song, and there was another less well known song that someone told me about then somehow I caught it on the radio once from start to finish. It was about a pilot that called his wife in the States, as he was in a different country, he was saying things to her, she was trying to get him to stay on the line... the end of the song say something about the line going dead, or he could not eject from the plane, something but I cannot remember for sure. Come to find out, he was calling her to say goodbye, as his plane plunged into the earth. It came out maybe a few months after 9/11. That reminds me of it as well.
Peggy & Monica I have heard those songs and they are both incredible, very heart warming & sad at the same time.
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