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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Rista1313 said:
I can't believe it was that long ago, but then I think back to where I was when it happened, and it was indeed that long ago.
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I'm about to make you feel old.

I don't even remember it happening.

B was born the week before, and my mom was completely out of it. My parents chose not to tell me until years later. I was only six.

Some of the kids in class knew about it, but I don't remember them talking to me about it, and the teachers chose not to talk to us about it either.

My mom says that a friend was over helping her (my now-adoptive grandmother). Adoptive grandmother started freaking out because her daughter was living in NYC at the time. She was able to eventually get through and found out her daughter was nowhere near the madness.
 
DryerLintFan

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StarWarsGirl said:
I'm about to make you feel old.

I don't even remember it happening.

B was born the week before, and my mom was completely out of it. My parents chose not to tell me until years later. I was only six.

Some of the kids in class knew about it, but I don't remember them talking to me about it, and the teachers chose not to talk to us about it either.

My mom says that a friend was over helping her (my now-adoptive grandmother). Adoptive grandmother started freaking out because her daughter was living in NYC at the time. She was able to eventually get through and found out her daughter was nowhere near the madness.
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We talked about your generation a lot in the Army. About how all you ever knew was America at war. Never peace time. How our men and women coming home in body bags was the only way you knew it to be.

I was in college when the towers fell. The towers were hit before I woke up (California is 3 hours behind) and had fallen by the time I got to school. So in a way, I missed it too. But the videos and stories that have come from the incident are so chilling and real that you didn't need to be there when it happened to have it affect you greatly.

I guess that's why its so sad to me that we've been at war for so long. It affects all our youth in a way that should be reserved for adults. But it's all they've been exposed to. Even though they weren't there, it's all they know.
 
Tony the Tigger

Tony the Tigger

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I hate 9/11 stories. I hate the day. I was glad they weren't replaying the whole thing on TV this year (first time?) but then they also didn't play the reading of the names, not even on C-SPAN. I always listen for the name of the young lady I posted above.

I grew up in NJ just a few miles outside of NYC. We went to the WTC (and Statue of Liberty, etc.) on class trips. It was all "no big deal." We saw the Statue of Liberty almost every day just driving around on highway 1 & 9.

I was living in FL, but up in NJ for my bday, stayed a few days after with my then-bf. We went to visit friends in Long Island, and drove through NYC to get there. (It's the most direct route and fastest if traffic isn't bad.) An ex of mine happened to call while we were driving and advised us: "If you do nothing else in NYC, take him to the WTC and go to the top. It makes me high."

I hadn't been since I was a kid, but thought, "whatever." Bf was up for it, but we were running late, so we just went to LI, and then back to the City at night to hang out. I thought maybe we'd stop on the way back, but we never did.

Then drove home to FL, got home the day before Labor Day (2 days before 9/11) and that same ex called me after the first plane hit. I was in total denial, didn't even want to hear it. I was so sick of every few months some terrorist attack, or attempt, or hostages taken, etc. Didn't want to hear about nothing but that for the next several days all over TV. Little did I know.

Couldn't get through to anyone up there until very late at night. The phones were just overloaded. Busy signal, no matter who you called. Spent the next few days watching CNN to see if I knew anybody on the walls of pictures.
 
DryerLintFan

DryerLintFan

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Tony the Tigger said:
I hate 9/11 stories. I hate the day. I was glad they weren't replaying the whole thing on TV this year (first time?) but then they also didn't play the reading of the names, not even on C-SPAN. I always listen for the name of the young lady I posted above.

I grew up in NJ just a few miles outside of NYC. We went to the WTC (and Statue of Liberty, etc.) on class trips. It was all "no big deal." We saw the Statue of Liberty almost every day just driving around on highway 1 & 9.

I was living in FL, but up in NJ for my bday, stayed a few days after with my then-bf. We went to visit friends in Long Island, and drove through NYC to get there. (It's the most direct route and fastest if traffic isn't bad.) An ex of mine happened to call while we were driving and advised us: "If you do nothing else in NYC, take him to the WTC and go to the top. It makes me high."

I hadn't been since I was a kid, but thought, "whatever." Bf was up for it, but we were running late, so we just went to LI, and then back to the City at night to hang out. I thought maybe we'd stop on the way back, but we never did.

Then drove home to FL, got home the day before Labor Day (9/11) and that same ex called me after the first plane hit. I was in total denial, didn't even want to hear it. I was so sick of every few months some terrorist attack, or attempt, or hostages taken, etc. Didn't want to hear about nothing but that for the next several days all over TV. Little did I know.

Couldn't get through to anyone up there until very late at night. The phones were just overloaded. Busy signal, no matter who you called. Spent the next few days watching CNN to see if I knew anybody on the walls of pictures.
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That morning started as a typical day for those who went to work in the towers. They weren't doing anything inherently dangerous. Just a mundane thing. And then we lost them. I think the best thing we can do in remembrance of this day is to reach out to our loved ones we haven't talked to in a while. Because you just never know.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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Tony the Tigger said:
I hate 9/11 stories. I hate the day. I was glad they weren't replaying the whole thing on TV this year (first time?) but then they also didn't play the reading of the names, not even on C-SPAN. I always listen for the name of the young lady I posted above.

I grew up in NJ just a few miles outside of NYC. We went to the WTC (and Statue of Liberty, etc.) on class trips. It was all "no big deal." We saw the Statue of Liberty almost every day just driving around on highway 1 & 9.

I was living in FL, but up in NJ for my bday, stayed a few days after with my then-bf. We went to visit friends in Long Island, and drove through NYC to get there. (It's the most direct route and fastest if traffic isn't bad.) An ex of mine happened to call while we were driving and advised us: "If you do nothing else in NYC, take him to the WTC and go to the top. It makes me high."

I hadn't been since I was a kid, but thought, "whatever." Bf was up for it, but we were running late, so we just went to LI, and then back to the City at night to hang out. I thought maybe we'd stop on the way back, but we never did.

Then drove home to FL, got home the day before Labor Day (2 days before 9/11) and that same ex called me after the first plane hit. I was in total denial, didn't even want to hear it. I was so sick of every few months some terrorist attack, or attempt, or hostages taken, etc. Didn't want to hear about nothing but that for the next several days all over TV. Little did I know.

Couldn't get through to anyone up there until very late at night. The phones were just overloaded. Busy signal, no matter who you called. Spent the next few days watching CNN to see if I knew anybody on the walls of pictures.
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It took us quite a while to track everybody down:(
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Another 9/11 anniversary.
18 years already, and, at my age, it still seems like it was yesterday. So vivid are the memories.
There was only one other coworker in the office when I got here about 7:45a.
I got settled in and a few minutes later he came to my office and said a plane hit the WTC a few minutes ago. My first thoughts were of a B-25 bomber that hit the Empire State Building back in 1945. But, that was in heavy fog, and this was a clear day in NYC.
Most of us were in the office to see the second plane hit the other tower on one of the partners office TVs.
No chance it was an accident now. I'll never forget the all-enveloping sick feeling I had.

I had met the pilot of Flight 77 (the one that hit the Pentagon) on one of my former flight attendant SILs layovers here in Austin once.
He invited me into the cockpit and we talked aviation while DWifey and her sis sat in the front of the plane and chatted.
Also lost on that flight was a friend of SILs and fellow flight attendant, and her husband. She was flying a jump seat to California with him for a vacation. She was also our guest book attendant at our wedding.
Just a horrible day all the way around. Seems like everyone I know was affected/connected in some way or another.
Continued prayers to all affected.

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Gabe1

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