Remembering 9/11/2001

[Debbie]

9/11 is a day I will never forget. I was driving to work with one of my friends who works with me and as we got on top of the Mississippi River, my husband called to tell me the first tower was hit. Then 15 minutes later he called to say the other tower was hit and something was definitely wrong. Then he called back to tell us about the Pentagon. And he called every time speculation of other planes heading towards targets was spoken of. So by the time I got on the job, we were trippin'. Then he calls to say get home, the company is sending everyone home. then it was who feels they need to come home could leave. So my dad calls and says for all of us to get home. He didn't want the river to get shut down and we would be stuck on the other side with our kids on the opposite side. So we made a beeline for the bridge. I cried all day, prayed all day, and kept having to tell my self that this was real; I was not dreaming. I just wanted to hold my boys and protect them. Having to explain to them why these people did this to our country--- I didn't get the directions to this in parenting 101. When we got home CNN remained on 24/7 for days. I kept telling myself, they HAD to find somebodyalive But as the weekend wore on, I had to turn it off as it was really affecting me. Then it came over the EOC that the military had taken over the Nuclear plant.

 

[tmm7899]

Well I was not a member at the time but I had been lurking and reading everything on the site.


September 11th started like a normal day for me I got up at my normal time and drove to work at the country club that I work at. It was a ladies day and I was cadding with one of my good friends who is in the Guards. We were going around like a normal round of golf until we got to the 17th hole and then people came and told us what had happened, I felt like I was going to be sick.

We then walked right off the course and wnet back to the clubhouse. I then sped all the way to my house, it is about a half an hour drive. I do not think that I passed any cars, it felt like I was the only person left in the state of Vermont.

When I got back to my house, I then called all of my family to see how they are doing. After I checked with them I then started to panic because I attended a millitary college for a while and I have a lot of friends that are active duty and I was really worried about them and did not know what was going to happen next.

I got ahold of as many of them as possible and as far as I know they are all still safe and doing a wonderful job protecting all of us.

Good Bless the USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love my country!!!!!!!!

 

[FutureCEO]

Tramp, on your first post, your first picture with the plane going in in very, very scary. I was in gym class playing vollyball at 8:46. i didn't not know what was going on. when the bell rang for our next class to spanish, i heard some people talking about it. My spanish teacher told us as we were coming in and i couldn't believe it. At 2:30 i came home and turned on MSNBC and it was true and devestating. I felt for those families, widows and soon to be mothers. Most of all the firefighters and the people who survived those attacks in those buildings. The tv was on to 2:30 till 11:00. I put a memorial on my door. as of that day my life like many of our lives will never be the same. I had organized collecting money event but that fell through because of my local Stop and Shop was all booked up until February. O well, next thing is on Sept 11, is to organize a little movie of that day and have guest speakers to my whole high school. doing stuff helps with coping.

 

[TURKEY]

I turned the tv on, right before the second plane hit. I wanted to stay in my room and just watch tv, but I was scheduled to have a psych exam that day. Instead of a test, I sat with over 150 students and teachers in our largest room on campus watching television.

One of my friends that was a CP and moved to Florida moved back home to Washington state. Her parents were scared for her. Another one lived in Puerto Rico. He moved back home. I planned on staying with them when I worked at Christmas. One of my CP roommates was from Long Island.

A daughter of one of my school's board of trustee's was a flight attendent on one of the planes that hit the WTC.

One of my fraternity brothers is a member of the Arkansas Army National Guard. He is no longer here at school, but is in the Sinai on the longtime peacekeeping mission between Egypt and Israel. He along with my RA were called up and are now serving a year there. There unit would not have been called if not for 9-11.

 

[Camelot]

On September 11, 2001, it had been 12 years since my Mom died of lung cancer. So I woke up that morning, sad with memories of my Mom's suffering and her passing.

At about 8:30 am (New Orleans time), a friend of mine called me to say that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center...at first I thought he meant the bulding here, at the foot of Canal Street, (our WTC) some five blocks from where I live...but of course, he corrected me that it was in New York.

I stepped outside of my own personal sorrow that day, to share the worlds sorrow, that something so awful could happen like this to thousands of innocent people, and the families they left behind.

It all seemed so surreal...

 

[JenLUVSmickey]

I go to school in NYC. It was horrific that day. I couldn't get home cause the subways and trains were shut down. The city was so silent, it was unreal. Everyone was in complete shock. I HATED that day. I still do.

I feel terrible for the all the victims. It is so unfair.