Remembering 9/11

[jolly321]

9 years ago today, everyone woke up and started their day off like any other day. However, in a flash, our country, lives, and the world changed so quickly. I recall where I was when I heard about the first plane crash and the devastation continued. It seemed like every minute was an hour watching TV and waiting to see what would happen next. I recall wanting to hug everyone I knew as this was a hard time for many. I am thankful, for all the police and firemen that put their jobs on the line and entered the buildings to save lives. Also, let’s not forget all the good Samaritans that stood up to the jerks that did this to us and those that helped strangers.

Let us all remember what we went through, be thankful for what we have and never forget the lives lost.

[tacatcon]

I too remember it like it was yesterday. I was going to my sister's house to meet her so we could go wedding dress shopping for her. And in my car on the radio they were talking about something to do with the World Trade Center and I didn't really know what was going on until i got inside her apartment and we just sat there and watched in disbelief.

My daughter (16) had a program at school yesterday and she's in the band so she played, and she said it made her really sad and she didn't know why it affected her so much. Back then she had been with her dad and he let her watch alot of the coverage on t.v.-not smart.

So remember our children when remembering 9/11 because if they are old enough to kind of remember they may need to talk about it.

I hope everyone takes a minute to remember all the lives that were lost that day and how quickly things can change.

[Mama Stu]

I was at home getting ready to go to work at our elementary school as a substitute teachers aide. When I got to school all of the teachers had the T.V.s on in their rooms. I just remember wishing they would just dismiss school and let us all go home and be with our loved ones and watch. I think we should all remember those who lost their lives that day and especially the police and firemen who went willingly into danger.

[bugweena]

I remember that day like yesterday, too. I was about to make a life change--I was finishing my last week at work, packing up my first house and putting in on the market, and getting ready to move 8 hours away from my family to NC for a new job. It was the beginning of a new life for me but the end of life as we knew it for all of us.

We had international graduate students and post docs in our lab at work, including two Muslim gentlemen, and we all listened to the news all day in a dazed silence. I think our little work 'family' learned a lot about respecting other cultures and religions that tragic day. We seemed to be a little closer that day, regardless of our individual religions, beliefs, and ethnicity.

[CouponSAHM]

I was in my car on my way to work. My commute was an hour drive on the backroads, and the breaking news came on about 15 mins into my drive. I remember pulling over onto the side of the road cause I could no longer see through my tears. When I arrived at my job (I was a manager at Walmart) someone had found a way to put all of our CCTV's on the news. The few customers that came in that day just stood with us workers and watched the footage. Many said the only reason they even came to the store was to be around people. I'm crying now just thinking of it all.

[hburnette3]

I was between classes. As I walked by classroom all the TV's were on the same thing. I thought it was a movie. When I got to my next class I found out what had happened and watched the 2nd plane :( It got my out of a Computer Engineering test I wasn't prepared for but it wasn't worth it.

[sbp]

I had the day off from work, and dh had just gotten back from a 5 or 6 day hunting trip in Northern Canada 2 days before. Luckily for us, he was home already because when they closed the Canadian border, there was no way 6 armed hunting dudes were going to make it across!

We were having a lazy day, sleeping in - DH had gone downstairs to start a pot of coffee and turned on the tv as he walked by, and they were saying that a plane had hit one of the towers. He watched for a few minutes and saw the 2nd plane hit. At first, he'd thought it was a bad movie, but then he realized it wasn't a movie, just a horrible tragic reality. We spent most of the day down at his mom's house, all of us glued to the television, in disbelief that any of it could be happening.

There were so many heroes that day..both emergency personnel and civilians who gave everything they could to help out their fellow man. My heart still breaks for every family who suffered a loss on that terrible day!

[M_Lexx]

I do not remember much of the day itself. I do remember calling SO and the lines were down, turned out he had waited for the subway for over an hour and then turned and went home. I have never waited for anyone like that in my life. I remember the smell of burnt steel, the thick smoke, the ashes that descended upon southern Brooklyn later in the day. I remember sitting down on the ground in front of a convenience store with lots of candles and flowers and pieces of paper with names of our neighbors, the silence all around, collecting bottles of water, gloves and such for the volunteers. I also remember morons yelling and screaming at a poor convenience store owner, a man who had come to the US from Pakistan some forty years ago, and the one who stood up to them telling them to get lost in a manner that did not leave any room for further arguments, another man who had come to the US from Israel ten years before. The shock, the disbelief, the anger, the sorrow, the hope, the determination to go on - all rolled into one, literally flowing through the air so one could touch it.

I have not visited WTC since August 2001. A lot has changed in my life since then but every time I tried to, I turned back about two blocks away. Perhaps there is a day in the future when I can approach the site I had walked by and visited about a zillion times and say good-bye to it. Not yet. It is too soon ...

[honeybear1]

I was in a elementary school classroom, observing for a college class. The teacher leaned over to me and told me a plane hit the world trade center. At that point I thought it was just a little plane. But as our observing time was over, and my classmates and I went to get into our van to get back to school, I noticed a line of parents getting their children out of school. I turned on a local AM station and all we heard was chaos. I dropped the other people back off at school and dropped the van off, got my car and booked it back home. It was nearly 11am before I got to a TV and was able to watch the world change.

[thecouponclippa]

I was at home taking a nap before a doctor's appointment. I went to a county-ran facility at the time and they called me about an hour before my appointment and told me that they were closing early due to national emergency. I asked them what was going on ( I was 18 at the time, and rarely watched the news. ) The nurse told me to turn on the tv. They were replaying news coverage from the second plane hitting. I hurried up and went in and got a vaccination I needed. It was chaos there. I then drove home pretty quick and started calling my aunt ( who has an apartment not too far from the Towers.) and called and called...couldn't get a hold of her. Luckily she was out of the City that day.