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09/11/2015 11:13:56 AM · #1 |
Where were you 14yrs ago?
I was in college at the time when I was passing class to class, the TV lunch room was packed and it seemed all classes stopped for the day and we stood there watching it all day. Just dropped off my kids to school.. no longer after this happened.
Thank God I knew no one in that, but alone, the only time the time and world has stopped, the only time the world came together for one thing that was important. I Can't believe it has been years, still seems like yesterday it happened.. the families that were left behind, and "TRUE" Heros of the day.
Like a comfort, seeing this really caught my eye. Remembering 911
rainbow
Best Commercial ever!
Have you Forgotten?
Message edited by author 2015-09-11 11:16:54. |
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09/11/2015 12:02:42 PM · #2 |
i'll never forget. i had clients in Manhattan that were only 5 blocks from ground zero. it was the next week before they could get back to their offices. it was my son's first day of pre-school.
it was barely a month after having been on the south tower observation deck.
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09/11/2015 01:34:35 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Skip:
... it was my son's first day of pre-school. |
My brother and I were getting ready to take our 4 year-olds to Disneyland for the first time -- we ended up going the next day when it re-opened.
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09/11/2015 02:08:42 PM · #4 |
I was at home alone with our four little children. My husband had left that morning, on a plane full of fuel from ATL to California.
I feared for his life... and had to hide it from our little ones.
He finally called. His plane was forced to land (not by the bad guys, of course) before its destination and he was stuck. Could I help him find a rental to get home? (all were already booked).
He ended up driving a 22' U-Haul for three days to get back home. All air traffic was shut down.
Afterward, we learned of a possible attempt to hijack a plane in ATL at the exact time Hubby was there that morning. The terrorists chose planes that were flying a long flight so they would be full of fuel...
I know how terrified I was that awful day.
I cannot imagine how the ones managed who actually did have loved ones involved.
We should never allow ourselves to forget.
We should allow the videos of the crashes into the towers, etc to be shown on television. In fact, I think it should be required that they be shown in high schools annually.
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09/11/2015 02:41:01 PM · #5 |
I was home, in Manhattan on the Upper West Side talking on the phone with my son who was at work in Midtown. He suddenly stopped talikng and almost whisperd to me to turn the tv on. We watched the towers going down. Was it real? How can one see this live on tv? Was it movie? Similar to the Orson Wells film? Within an hour he was at a center to donate blood. Very quiet in our neighborhood, you would not have guessed the disaster. After two days we went all the way downtown (partially walked, some 100 blocks) to see if the bulding where our cousin lived was still there. It was but you needed an ID with proof of address to get inside. Controlled chaos. We all wanted to help and we did in various ways. Smoldering fire, smoke, terrible smell. New Yorkers never felt so close to each other, so unite, for a long time. We were all very quiet.
We had colleagues from work who lived in NJ sleeping at our place since there was no transportation for 2 days.
On Sept 14 I had a meeting in Ann Arbor and I was among a handful of people travelling from La Guardia. We all wanted to maintain some kind of normality, to continue life as it was before. I think I took the bus to the airport.
I don't want to remember more. We don't talk much about this. After all these years it's still hard to be on Chambers Street and Church and we sort of look through the new buildings. |
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09/11/2015 04:45:59 PM · #6 |
i was at work listening to it on the radio because our internet at the office was out. i remember driving home later on an empty highway (since everyone pretty much left for home early). it was so quiet outside. no cars, no airplanes. I'll never forget how eerie it all felt.
what i miss is how united this country was after. we all put our petty differences aside.
it was nice while it lasted.
Message edited by author 2015-09-11 16:47:03. |
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09/11/2015 06:03:19 PM · #7 |
| I was at work at the hospital when my other half (who was a nurse in the emergency room) told me to hurry up there because a plane just crashed into one of towers. In my mind I thought a small Cessna or something in that size range accidentally crashed. I got up there just in time to see the 2nd plane hit the other building and the entire ER was speechless, we all knew at that very second the country was under attack. We were all glued to the TV for hours and watched live as the two towers came down. All I could think of was all those people still in those buildings. I just felt so helpless and vulnerable, but also so angry at the same time. |
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09/11/2015 08:21:20 PM · #8 |
On the west coast of the USA, I was just awakening on the morning of an annual picnic event where some 100 older Americans were about to be transported by bus to a lovely grove near a religious community 40 or so miles north of my town. My wake-up call is by classical music, with those quiet announcers who are barely heard as they announce the next piece. This time, there was a strange sense of urgency in the announcer's voice, when he said, "there's something going on in New York..." and advised his listeners to turn on the TV.
There was plenty of time to view the carnage.
Yes, we held the event, it turned into a breaking of bread in community, rather than a picnic in the usual sense of the word. All of us had experienced war in its many expressions - after all we go back to World War II and before. Still, from the Russia-hand who said, correctly, "life will never be the same again." to those who sought sanctuary in the nearby church, we experienced a collective sadness.
I was one of those who made the decision to go. |
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09/11/2015 11:01:42 PM · #9 |
| I was in a board meeting. Someone interrupted the meeting to tell us a plane just flew into one of the towers. The meeting kept going. Then someone came in a few minutes later and told us another plane just flew into the other tower. The meeting still kept going. I'll never, ever forget that my boss was running the meeting - he knew that his brother-in-law worked in the north tower - but the meeting kept going. His brother-in-law died in that building. I've always wondered why he didn't just stop the meeting - was it that important to finish it? |
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09/11/2015 11:04:44 PM · #10 |
Fear and grief affect people in so many different ways.
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09/12/2015 12:03:10 AM · #11 |
| One of those events that you always remember what you were doing. On the other side of the world, my husband and I were in bed. Our son phoned us and said 'turn on the TV.' I knew straight away that the world would never be the same. Horrendous! My sympathies are with all those who lost loved ones. |
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09/12/2015 02:40:17 AM · #12 |
Being in Australia, I must have gone to bed just before it all happened.
Our alarm clock was set to wake us up with the news on the radio at 6am.
As I lay there, trying to wake up, I heard the dumbest thing on that radio...... something about planes deliberately crashing into the twin towers, about total mayhem and so very many deaths. I was quite convinced that I was in a nasty nightmare, and kept hoping that I was NOT awake yet.
Sadly, I managed to turn on the TV and had to face reality.
Although we were so very far away from it, it felt like an attack on us, too...... on everyone, everywhere.
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