Ace

[aguineapig]

The lights are shining down
on center ice
And I looked twice
but I don't see you
My eyes keep gazing back there
towards the room
and I say a prayer
that you come out soon

The Red line's in my eyes
from all this crying
The Blue line's in my mind
just make me blue
Ace ain't skating down
his wing tonight
On an Angel's flight
is where He's headed to

September comes and always
leaves me grieving
But fresh ice always seems
to make me new
there's a full moon shining
in the sky tonight
grinnin' big and bright
and I know it's you

Ace's Blues
GP

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[smithformeragent]

Not sure what we’re doing here.

 

[Fenway]

Not sure what we’re doing here.

 

[Therick67]

Hard to believe it's been 18 years...

 

[Bruinaura]

Hard to believe it's been 18 years...

So true. My niece was born a month before, and she's officially an adult now.

Sometimes when I think about that day, and the days that followed, it feels like it was all just a dream. But the world definitely changed that day.

 

[Chief Nine]

The lights are shining down
on center ice
And I looked twice
but I don't see you
My eyes keep gazing back there
towards the room
and I say a prayer
that you come out soon

The Red line's in my eyes
from all this crying
The Blue line's in my mind
just make me blue
Ace ain't skating down
his wing tonight
On an Angel's flight
is where He's headed to

September comes and always
leaves me grieving
But fresh ice always seems
to make me new
there's a full moon shining
in the sky tonight
grinnin' big and bright
and I know it's you

Ace's Blues
GP

Nicely done

 

[Fenway]

18 years.................

Almost a week later David Letterman was still wrestling with doing a show so soon after what had happened

What happened was one of the most powerful moments in TV history

 

[Therick67]

So true. My niece was born a month before, and she's officially an adult now.

Sometimes when I think about that day, and the days that followed, it feels like it was all just a dream. But the world definitely changed that day.

My daughter was born on 8/11, just a month old on that awful day. She started college this week...

 

[Ladyfan]

Brought tears to my eyes.

What a horrible day that was.

 

[JCRO]

I traveled to NY a year ago this month for the first time in my life. Got to venture through the memorial. Simply beautiful. Rather peaceful although the mass amounts of people surrounding it. Also while walking through the exhibits.

If you haven't been I recommend it although for many I'm sure it's a difficult thing to do....

 

[Alicat]

I struggle every year on the 10th and 11th. I just still can't believe what happened and to know there is a whole generation who have no clue about what happened that day makes me sad.

In a strange twist, I will be in almost the exact area I was 18 years ago tomorrow. I drive by TJX on the Pike daily and the flag still hangs in the large window in the front of the building.

Mark Bavis grew up around the corner from where I grew up so it was even more jarring knowing that someone who lived so close to me was killed. I know a girl who also lost her uncle in the towers as he was a firefighter in NYC.

What always gets me are the stories of the people who should have been on the planes and the reasons why they took a different flight or missed it altogether.

If you or your older child/ren are looking to learn more about the day and the people aboard the planes, Mitchell Zuckoff's book "Fall and Rise The Story of 9/11" is fantastic and I highly recommend getting the audio book. He's a former Globe Spotlight Team member who wrote the initial stories that day and subsequently used them to write this book.

This is a day I will never forget and I will always think of Ace and Mark.

Beautiful poem.

Sorry for rambling

 

[DKH]

The lights are shining down
on center ice
And I looked twice
but I don't see you
My eyes keep gazing back there
towards the room
and I say a prayer
that you come out soon

The Red line's in my eyes
from all this crying
The Blue line's in my mind
just make me blue
Ace ain't skating down
his wing tonight
On an Angel's flight
is where He's headed to

September comes and always
leaves me grieving
But fresh ice always seems
to make me new
there's a full moon shining
in the sky tonight
grinnin' big and bright
and I know it's you

Ace's Blues
GP

Awesome

He was amazing

If you had 3 wishes for your personality/make up and choose charisma, charm, and like ability you would have Garnett ‘Ace’ Bailey

He might have been the most beloved player in the room on that wild, crazy, phenomenally talented team.

 

[Therick67]

Awesome

He was amazing

If you had 3 wishes for your personality/make up and choose charisma, charm, and like ability you would have Garnett ‘Ace’ Bailey

He might have been the most beloved player in the room on that wild, crazy, phenomenally talented team.

He was a big kid..

Ace's Place does great work for children.

 

[Alicat]

He does this every year and it is always a fascinating read. He will start back up at 8:15 tomorrow morning.

 

[LouJersey]

I traveled to NY a year ago this month for the first time in my life. Got to venture through the memorial. Simply beautiful. Rather peaceful although the mass amounts of people surrounding it. Also while walking through the exhibits.

If you haven't been I recommend it although for many I'm sure it's a difficult thing to do....

The museum was tough wasn't it?

 

[LouJersey]

My daughter was born on 8/11, just a month old on that awful day. She started college this week...

I think this is the first year in grades k-12 there were no 9/11 children, meaning the class of '20 is the first group where all were born after 9/11

 

[LouJersey]

cool watch, I cried of course

 

[Alicat]

I think this is the first year in grades k-12 there were no 9/11 children, meaning the class of '20 is the first group where all were born after 9/11

I heard that on the news this morning.

 

[Alicat]

I traveled to NY a year ago this month for the first time in my life. Got to venture through the memorial. Simply beautiful. Rather peaceful although the mass amounts of people surrounding it. Also while walking through the exhibits.

If you haven't been I recommend it although for many I'm sure it's a difficult thing to do....

I went to the temporary exhibit back in 2011 and was in tears so I can only imagine how tough the actual memorial is to view.

I took this photo back then and it still gives me chills to this day

I took this photo in 2016 when I was in Hoboken, NJ (my hotel faced the new WTC)

 

[LouJersey]

I heard that on the news this morning.

To think 674 NJ residents died that day is just nuts to think about. Everyone here knows someone that lost someone it seems. My kids had friends that lost parents, business associates that lost relatives....I know a couple dozen people who were actually there that day..it's just a terrible day that seems to get worse with each passing year.

 

[Alicat]

To think 674 NJ residents died that day is just nuts to think about. Everyone here knows someone that lost someone it seems. My kids had friends that lost parents, business associates that lost relatives....I know a couple dozen people who were actually there that day..it's just a terrible day that seems to get worse with each passing year.

Hugs to you

 

[Fenway]

I actually feel it more on the night of the 10th

18 years ago tonight I was in Yankee Stadium watching it rain. The game was called and we went to a dive bar near Penn Station.

I was with a couple I had met a year earlier because of the dive bar and a longtime friend who lives in Queens. Jim Smith was a huge Yankees fan but his wife was rooting for the Red Sox only because she grew up in Brooklyn as a Mets fan.

I met her only because the bartender at Hickey's had an extra ticket to a Bruins game and was instructed to give it to a real hockey fan and he gave it to me. The bartender Seamus was being evil knowing she would be livid that a Bruins fan would be sitting next to her.

Her mood softened as the Bruins were blown out of MSG

Boston Bruins - New York Rangers - October 29th, 2000

I got them seats in Boston for a game in January and then they invited me to a Sox/Mets game at Shea and just a week earlier they went to a game at Fenway ( Mussina lost a perfect game with 2 outs in the 9th )

So on 9/10 we had several drinks at Hickey's and then they left because they were both working the next day which was election day and easy overtime pay at the polling place. They were both NYPD officers.

10 hours later she was dead.

It took me over a day to get back to Boston and I had sent her an AOL IM but thought nothing about not hearing back as I just assumed she was consumed with work.

3 days afterwards I saw this picture on the front page of the Daily News and she was helping people get out of the lobby and then I read the words - Officer Smith went back inside.

Today there is a ferry boat named for her

and a playground

Hickey's is gone now but it was the NYR version of Sullivan's - just a block from MSG

Remember Old New York At Hickey’s Pub | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan

 

[Fenway]

WINS Newsradio 1010 audio ( video from CNN )

 

[aguineapig]

Awesome

He was amazing

If you had 3 wishes for your personality/make up and choose charisma, charm, and like ability you would have Garnett ‘Ace’ Bailey

He might have been the most beloved player in the room on that wild, crazy, phenomenally talented team.

They'd shut down all the rinks tonight
and say a prayer or two
If they only knew

 

[DKH]

My daughter was 6 I switched my day off to take her to school she was still petrified by the whole school thing

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