Here is September 11th as it happened on the DIS...very long

[KingsFanInRI]

DS was 9 days old that day. We had just gotten into the car to head up to Lowell, MA and heard it on the radio. We got about a mile from home when I decided to turn around. I was just glad to be with my family that day.

I will NEVER forget that day, but what I remember is the anger, not the sadness. I mean, I get sad, but the anger is so overwhelming that it's almost all I can feel.

DW and I saw United 93 and I got so mad that by the time the passengers are ready to roll I almost jumped out of my seat to join them. If you feel that you can do it, you should watch. DW thought she would be sad, but it made her mad too.

 

[Bbgrizzle]

Pixie dust, thanks for bumping up this old thread. I didn't see it the first time around either. It was very emotional for me to read this. Such a horrible tragedy. I was way on the other side of the country from where this happened, but I remember being GLUED to the cable news networks for like 4 weeks afterward. I was a SAHM back then and I would watch it all day long, every day. I went into a kind of depression, and decided I needed to stop watching the news for a few weeks.

 

[Lorix2]

Well...I just sobbed reading those posts again and when I found my own, I remember it like yesterday.....the people on the WTC, on the ground and in the planes were perished, but the rescue people to this day still are so affected, emotionally, physically, pyscologicially - I hate Osoma with every fiber of my being. The families of these innocent people mourn for the rest of their lives.

I can remember folding laundry and looked up to the see what the breaking news was...my 4 y/o was home with me and I couldn't look away but I didn't want him to see it either..all day was a struggle with that....then I could not wait to get my 9 y/o off of the school bus, I think I literally dragged her off of the bus step and held her trying not to sob and scare her and she said to me "mom, something really bad is happening, isn't it?" and I coudn't answer her...I couldn't get the words out without frightening her, the school had already made some sort of announcement because parents were jamming the phone lines with calls inquiring about the safety of their kids.

I decided early on to leave her in school so I wouldn't expose her to the media which I wanted to see, but felt she was safe in her environment and she is only 5 minutes away if I wanted get her.

NOW....where is this Evil scum of the earth and WHY can't we find him??????

 

[miss missy]

This is still so hard to think about. And what a NYFD poster here on DIS tells us, he is seeing many young firemen, EMT's, rescue workers of all kinds die now. They are having all kinds of ailments from the toxins, they are dying all the time. We do not hear this on the news. Lets not forget to think of all the people still dying from this day
It is heartbreaking!

 

[PixiePop]

Tears starting rolling down my face reading this post. It still has such a huge impact....the world forever changed that day.

 

[KathyTX]

This was a very powerful post... I'm glad it was bumped.

Reading it took me right back to the confusion and rollercoaster of emotions of that morning, as we all watched the nightmare unfold. Whether we were at home, at work or at school, I imagine that the details of that day will forever be etched in each of our memories.

May we all heal, but never forget.

 

[chell]

pixie dust, I don't get why you bumped up a 4 year old thread.

I'm glad she did. We all need to be reminded of that terrible day on occasion.

My stomach is in knots once again after reading all of this and my heart is racing.

 

[Kimmielee]

I wasn't a DISer back then. Thanks to the OP who put this together and to the person that bumped it today. We must never forget.

My DS was not even 2 back then and we flew home on September 10th from our first vacation together (Myrtle Beach) and I remember thanking God over and over that we weren't scheduled to fly on 9-11.

I was at work and had walked to the cafeteria for a cup of coffee and there are 15 TV's down there that play CNN, Fox News and ESPN all day. I remember walking through those doors and wondering why in the world everyone was staring at the TV's... then I saw the tears and the look of pure fear on some of the faces and I knew... it was bad, really, really, bad.

My heart is sad after reading this... I did forget, for a moment. I'm so sorry.

 

[monarchsfan16]

Thank you for bumping that. I wasn't a member here then.
I can assure you I've not forgotten
I'll never forget, sitting in bio. It was my freshman year of high school, and we were maybe 2 or 3 weeks into the school year. A gym teacher who was normally very full of life and energetic came flying into the room, white as a ghost and sobbing. She whispered something in my bio teacher's ear. That bio teacher was never caught without a smile on his face; he was the biggest goof known to mankind. He went white, tears slid down his face and he collapsed into his chair. He told us we'd be getting some shaky news in homeroom, and that our lives were about to change forever. The bell rang, we moved onto homeroom, where my teacher had the news on. She was crying. 20 mins later we moved to third period. I had study in the cafeteria. There was a military recruiter there setting up a table for recruiting during lunch. His cell phone rang, he went into the courtyard. Came back in a few minutes later in tears, and just threw everything into his boxes and briefcase and ran out of the caf. A few minutes later they asked us to stand for a moment of silence and they told us that the WTC and Pentagon had all been hit. By the time I got to Civics 4th period, the plane had gone down in Pennsylvania too. We watched tv in every class but last period gym (and lunch). During lunch a girl at my lunch table was called to the office. Her mom was calling to tell her that both her uncle and her cousin were missing, one in the WTC, one in the Pentagon. In gym we went outside and played ultimate frisbee on the fields, with military jets and copters circling overhead. Our school was normally in the flight path of Manchester Airport, but there were no commercial jets despite it being such a clear blue perfect day. I'll never forget that perfect weather, and what a contrast it was to the hell that was that day. When I finally got home, my mom was waiting sobbing. We watched the news all afternoon, just her my sister and me cuddling. That night as I was crawling into bed, we got the call that my great aunt had been on the first plane to hit the WTC.

 

[chell]

s to you Heather. I'm so sorry to see that you lost your great aunt in that terrible day.

That day I was training a lady from out of town and she was scheduled to fly back home later that day. It was such a terrible day. I remember wanting to go home so bad. I wanted to be with loved ones.

 

[tevagirl]

Wow. I have goose bumps. 9/11 is one day I'll never forget but this really brings back all the horror, confusion, and emotions of that day. It's a good reminder.

 

[T1130]

I will never forget that day. It hit really close to home here. I can still give you a minute by minute descrition of my day here. I remember my Dh calling me at 8:55 a.m. and I was so mad when the phone rang because he just woke up our 4 week old dd who was up all night and finally fell asleep when he called. He asked me if I had the news on and I said no and then told me that a plane had gone into the WTC. He had seen it from his office in Jeresy City. I was still on the phone with him when the second plane hit.

My Aunt was in the building and we could not get in touch with her. The waiting was awful. I can`t imagine the pain families went through when they never heard from families members again. Finally at 3:00 my uncle heard from her and she was fine. There were other people we knew who lost their life that day. One was my Dh good friend.
I can`t belive my dd was 4 weeks old when it happened and I remember saying to her that day What kind of world were you born into! And this August she will be turning 5.

 

[sajetto]

I'm so glad someone bumped up the O.P.'s post. That day is unforgettable. I still remember exactly where I was standing and my reaction when I heard that the first plan had crashed into the WTC.

 

[CRAZYCOP]

there were 4 planes!

2 hit 2 new york trade centers (twin towers) and 1 hit somewhere in the pentagon somewhere and 1 hit Shankville Pa. they wanted to hit washington dc.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

thank you bumping the thread. I never saw it before.
I work in mid-Manhattan. I heard the plnes fly over us and said to co-worker
"that's a very loud plane".
I really dodn't know what was going on because we were stranded at Penn stationb with no trains running.

Thank you to OP for compiling all the different posts.

 

[CRAZYCOP]

another bad year i had was being in katrina

 

[HaleyB]

Wow
Still makes me cry.
Still makes me mad.
I still remember every thing that happened that day. How I first heard. The shock of it all as the events unfolded. The mind numbing horror of it.

 

[transparant]

I'm so glad this thread got bumped!

I will NEVER forget that day. I will NEVER get over that day. Reading those threads renews the confusion, terror, and sadness of that sorrowful, scary day.

We should never forget. God Bless all the lives that were tragically taken on that day - and may God always be with their families.

God Bless America.

 

[DebbieB]

there were 3 planes!

2 hit 2 new york trade centers (twin towers) and 1 hit somewhere in new jersey somewhere. they wanted to hit washington dc.

There were 4 planes.

2 hit the World Trade Center
1 hit the Pentagon
1 crashed in Shanksville PA (presumably on the way to DC)

I was at work, this board was the only place I could info, all the news websites were overloaded.

 

[JennyMominRI]

there were 3 planes!

2 hit 2 new york trade centers (twin towers) and 1 hit somewhere in new jersey somewhere. they wanted to hit washington dc.

4 Planes
2 into the WTC
1 into the Pentagon
1 brought down by it's passengers in Shankville Pa.
Why was this thread brought back? Because we should NEVER forget.
I wasn't posting here for this and I was glad to read it.
Well glad is a strange word to use in regards to 9/11,but I think you know what I mean
Almost 5 years later and it still feels like a punch to the gut.