9/11/01

[PrincessMomto2]

I will never forget that day. I was driving to work in South Jersey when they announced that a plan had "accidently" hit the first tower. I remember thinking omg what a horrible accident then still driving to work they announce the second plane hitting the other tower. That is when everyone realized it was not an accident. I can not describe the feelings I felt as I walked into my office building. All TVs were turned on groups of people watching in silence, so many with tears streaming down their faces.

I called up my husband, and told him to turn on the TV. He could not believe it.

Once the Pentagon was hit our immediate supervisor told us to go home and be with our families. It was so frightening to hear about the Pentagon.

I remember driving back up the Parkway to get home and seeing all kinds of emergency vehicles flying up the road towards NYC to offer to help out.

My brother who worked for PATH was on a train waiting to go and help out when the first tower collapsed. Thank goodness the train had not yet left.

The first thing i did was head to my dd's preschool. I knew she was safe but just wanted her to be home with me and my husband.

My husband (who is a citizen but not a natural born citizen) was so angry that he grabbed our flag that day and put it out. I too remember all the flags and how united our country was.

So many people have been affected by this tragedy. So many lives changed forever.

 

[tinkerbellandeyor]

For those who do not know Tiger cruise is a movie that Disney Made based on 9/11/01 and if you like disney channel movies I highly recomed it

 

[DawnCt1]

I was at work. My secretary had just gotten a call from her daughter. Her DD's husband overslept. She didn't know if he made the train that morning into NYC. He missed it by 15 minutes. He ended up being late for his job at Cantor Fitzgerald. It was the first time in his adult life that he overslept. He would have been with all of his co workers who were murdered that day. I still get chills thinking about it. Of course the cell service was jammed, etc so it was a while before we knew he was safe.

 

[Mermaid02]

It was my sons first day of preschool. It was such a pretty day.

I actually was on the Dis and heard about it here- I turned on the tv. My dh called me and I remember saying "how do you ACCIDENTALLY FLY INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER??" Pretty soon the second plane hit and then we all knew it was no accident and no spur of the moment thing.

My dd's school (6th, 7th and 8th) told them NOTHING and she came home really upset because the rumor at school was the Chinese had nuked NYC. I should have gone with my first instinct and picked her up early, at least she would have known what was going on.

 

[LukenDC]

I, too, will never forget that day and I think about it daily since I live across the street from the Pentagon. At the time, I was living in downtown Washington not far from the WH. It was a gorgeous day in DC and I went to work as usual. When I got out of an early morning business meeting, I learned about the first plane. Then the second. I was on the phone when the Pentagon was attacked and I just dropped the receiver. I ran outside and could see the billowing smoke from the Pentagon about a mile across the river from my workplace.

We had the radio on and the local newscasts were awful. Lots of rumors and misinformation. The broadcasters were reporting that a plane crashed on the National Mall, the WH was on fire, car bombs exploded outside of the State Dept. and federal courts.

The office closed early and I headed home on the Metro. When I got off at my stop, the streets were eerily quiet. Secret Service agents were on the street corners with shotguns. The next day an armored personnel carrier was parked down the street leading to the WH.

In 2004 my office moved. We are now located a couple of blocks from a middle school. Each day I pass a memorial to several students from the school who were headed to LA on a field trip. Their plane made it as far as the Pentagon.

 

[suzanna1066@comcast.]

It would be nice if we could ALL be patriotic like that EVERY day, not just on the Fourth, or on days like that...

One person's patriotism is another person's nationalism.

You can love your country without wrapping yourself in red, white and blue and spouting "Our country is the best, etc." ----Not saying you do either, but I do think "patriotism" gets out of hand sometimes.

And for what it is worth, I hope our nation and others never have to experience a day like 9/11 ever again.

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

It would be nice if we could ALL be patriotic like that EVERY day, not just on the Fourth, or on days like that...

I didn't have one to put up on 9/11 and I felt ashamed. Whenever you could start finding them in stores again, I bought one and I have kept one hung outside ever since.

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

For those who do not know Tiger cruise is a movie that Disney Made based on 9/11/01 and if you like disney channel movies I highly recomed it

I have never heard of it. I will check it out, thanks.

 

[136368]

The day the world shook...

 

[RaySharpton]

I just don't have the right words to express myself.

I am still so overwhelmed by what happened.

There still isn't a day that goes by that I don't stop to remember those who lost their lives that day and those who lost love ones on September 11, 2001 every day since then in our Armed Forces and their families.

I can't help but cry when I think about that day and all of the sacrifices that so many have made and are still making for us.

For those that would like to watch the 10 minute youtube part of the Disney Tiger cruise movie about 911, here is a direct link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaKNnZynO14

And here is an archive website with several TV news live broadcast scenes of when the first terroist highjacked planes, American Airlines, Flight #11, attacked the World Trade Center Two at 8:48 A.M..

Further down the page is a chronological time of events that day, too.

http://www.archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive

God Bless all of those souls lost that day and to all of the sacrifices of our American soldiers and their families.

 

[charming23]

I remember that day so well. I was a high school junior and home with strep throat. I remember waking up and getting excited to watch some morning tv since I never got to. My parents had gone to a follow up appointment with my dad's cardiologist following his heart surgery. I had turned on Good Morning America while I went to make myself some tea and toast and I remember hearing the newscasters freaking out. I got back to the tv in time to see the second plane hit the building.

I just remember standing in front of the tv in awe and knowing that the world was going to change that day. My mom had dropped my dad home before heading to work and we watched all the coverage together until neither of us could emotionally handle it anymore and we watched movies the rest of the day.

It is a day I will never forget and hope to never have to live through again.

 

[happygirl]

I hope no one will ever forgot that day. I know I won't

 

[tinkerbellandeyor]

I remember that day so well. I was a high school junior and home with strep throat. I remember waking up and getting excited to watch some morning tv since I never got to. My parents had gone to a follow up appointment with my dad's cardiologist following his heart surgery. I had turned on Good Morning America while I went to make myself some tea and toast and I remember hearing the newscasters freaking out. I got back to the tv in time to see the second plane hit the building.

I just remember standing in front of the tv in awe and knowing that the world was going to change that day. My mom had dropped my dad home before heading to work and we watched all the coverage together until neither of us could emotionally handle it anymore and we watched movies the rest of the day.

It is a day I will never forget and hope to never have to live through again.

Wow we are around the same age I was a shomore in highschool

 

[kacaju]

I remember marveling at how incredibly crystal clear and brilliantly blue the sky was. It was the kind of sky that NEVER happens in NYC.

Do you get emotional when the sky is that crystal clear now? It is so rare that we in the Tri State area get such a beautiful sky. When we do get it, I tear up thinking about how the sky looked like that on 9/11.

 

[kacaju]

9/11 is also the only time I have ever heard my dh use the *f* word. His brother, my Uncle and many friends worked in the Trade Center. DH came home to gather some stuff for work, in case he needed to stay overnight. I was on my way home and was on the phone with him as the tower fell. It is the only time I heard such a sense of panic in his voice. We had no idea until the next day how our friends and family made out. Thank goodness they all came home.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Do you get emotional when the sky is that crystal clear now? It is so rare that we in the Tri State area get such a beautiful sky. When we do get it, I tear up thinking about how the sky looked like that on 9/11.

That's what we call it: a 9/11 sky.

 

[DMRick]

Just before the phones went dead I was able to reach my son, who is normally in Manhattan at that time. He had no idea what was going on, as he was in the back of his office building at the loading dock, packing his truck for a trip into Manhattan to continue setting up computers. I thanked God, for letting me reach him at that time and my worry was able to be shortlived, unlike so many others. I could not wait to hold him. He lives in Ireland now, and I have no doubt that that day had something to do with his choice to no longer live in or near NYC. When he met his wife from Ireland the next year in the city, and they were deciding where to live once they were married, I knew his love of the city was gone and they would choose Ireland.

I'll never forget the shock I felt when I saw the second plane hit. I could barely comprehend that the first plane accidently hit the towers, and then there was a second plane.

My sympathies are still with those of you who lost a relative, friend, acquaintance in the city that day or are still dealing with 9/11 in any way.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I think mine is different from all of yours, because we are so far away.

I was in the shower when DH called out to me to come and watch. It was about a quarter to 8 am, which would have made it a quarter to 11 am in NYC. We saw nothing live.

A decision had to be made: go to work or not. We both went.

I drove to work down the 405 freeway as I did every day. Except this time, there was no traffic. It is hard to explain but there were very few people on the road and we were all doing the speed limit. Surreal. When I would come up to another car, the driver and I would make eye contact and actually connect, like a mental "We ARE going to be okay, I got your back." I drove from Culver City to Santa Monica this way.

Once at work, and I worked at a post production studio, we didn't work but monitored every station and just sat and watched and cried. We were all dismissed but we chose to stay. I knew my husband had to work and I didn't want to be home alone. Another colleague had her kids in school and wanted them to stay there as long as possible, to shield them from the evil world.

I remember not being able to reach anyone at our sister studio in New York City. We just decided they had more important people to contact than us and let it be, but we still worried ourselves silly regardless until we heard from them the next day.

I have one scary moment of that day. Before I left the house, my best friend in Arkansas called. Her local news station had reported that an errant plane had flown across and was still flying across her city. She heard a plane. So, she called me and cried and held her babies tight until I was sure she was okay. We both decided it was the air force patrolling because that is what we wanted it to be.

 

[LJC1861]

Do you get emotional when the sky is that crystal clear now? It is so rare that we in the Tri State area get such a beautiful sky. When we do get it, I tear up thinking about how the sky looked like that on 9/11.

I do get emotional. I now live in Asheville NC, where we have many more crystal days than we ever had in NYC, but there was also a certain cool breezy feeling in the air that day that I will also never forget. When we have one of those kind of days here....crystal blue sky, breeze, crispness in the air, the hopeful feeling....I DO get emotional, and probably always will.

That sky, and the feeling I had that morning is one I will always remember.

 

[LJRJR]

I will always remember. My office was about 100 feet from the WTC, I felt the first plane hit, and saw the second. I still remember the feeling of the impact of the plane and then the explosion of the jet fuel. The smell was horrible. It is never far from my mind.