Re: 9/11 - Where were you?
I was volunteering at a habitat for humanity building site when the planes hit, some people left and some just listened to it all on the radio...they were trying to get people out of chicago so we heard alot of traffic info but the rest was info about what was known. It wasn't until later that night that I saw the video and it was worse than my mind could ever imagine.
Re: 9/11 - Where were you?
I just got off shift at the firehouse and was at a side job doing drywall. I remember leaving and rolling into the firehouse and seeing all the off duty guys back there kinda there to comfort each other. 343 brothers were lost that day. Hope we never loose another but thats the nature of the beast. Im retired now but its in your blood and you never forget!
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I was out of work at the time. I had 7 pins in my hand from where I had broken all my fingers. I was at home with my then 2 year old daughter. The Today show was on when the first plane hit. They cut away from the regular news to go to the scene. I was dumbfounded, I thought like others how could a pilot make such an error.?.? Then the 2nd plane struck the other tower. It hit me then we were being attacked.. I didn't know what to think. I'm a grown man and I was on the phone to my mom just wanting to hear someones voice.. I made the decision about 6 months after that to quit school and my job and join the military.. I didn't know anyone in or around NY city but I felt sad for all the families with loved ones lost... It still pisses me off to think about it. I watched that movie about flight 93. Those people are heroes in my eyes.. They fought back and knew it pretty much was over for them.. I don't know if anyone else felt this way but I felt weak and helpless for a while after 9/11.
Re: 9/11 - Where were you?
Sleeping. My boyfriend's mother called us to wake us up and see what was going on. We were up in time to watch a second plane hit.
The rest of the day was a blur. Nothing but the voices of reporters and reruns of the horror show.
We lived by the Air Force Base and the roads were so congested with reporting service people and checkpoint blockades that we were unable to leave our apartment parking area in a car.
I wanted just to go - to be there and to help in any way i could. It was impossible, of course. I was in New Mexico at the time, and the planes were all grounded for the foreseeable future.
As Americans, we are fortunate not to have things like this happen very often. We are insulated by our neighboring oceans against the advances of groups that might mean us harm. There are countries who see this kind of destruction every day. My hopes are not for our country so much as for our planet, species, and world. We are not separate from our human cousins. We all suffer together.
We need to take care of each other. We are all we have.
Re: 9/11 - Where were you?
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desertpirate
Every now and then I see it among my belongings, and I'm taken back to that feeling of pride and unity that we all shared.
Yeah, we had it there for a bit - the right way to live- together. That was MY America.:salute:
I also remember the sky when they grounded the planes. I would look at it and think that this was the only time in my life I would ever see such a sight. For a couple of days we had a primitive sky again.
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monk90222
I was in Manhattan on 9/11/01...It was surreal. I've worked in Manhattan since 1999. I've never experienced the silence and emptiness the hours after the towers fell.
Same for me. I worked and lived in Manhattan at the time.
Surreal barely describes it. I walked 40 blocks home from work that day and to see everyone walking in the opposite direction trying to get out of the city while I was walking toward the cloud of smoke trying to get home was so strange.
Re: 9/11 - Where were you?
At work. We're only about 80 miles from NYC and probably in the flight path of planes coming from Boston. We work in a very large building (approx 400,000 sq ft) next to I95, a great target if someone wanted to crashing into something if the passengers were trying to take control of the plane. Our only info came from the radio and internet. With some fearing for our lives (large target in flight path from Boston) and the shock of what had happened, we left work at 1:30pm.
My wife was at work, she is a teacher at a regional vocational high school. The whole state school system went into lock down after the second plane hit. They had some TV's, so they got to see what happened live.
Re: 9/11 - Where were you?
I was working in the back of the store, when a customer came in and told us. We hadn't even turned the radio on yet. We all just stood there listening to the radio. Then the ex hubby called and he was being deployed out to help. So I had to leave and go pick our daughter up so he could see her before he left.
