Remembering 9/11...A Must Read!

[Hibernians]

This is a Theme Parks Attractions and Strategies Forum. Why are we talking about 9/11 here ?

 

[luvgoing2disney]

This is a Theme Parks Attractions and Strategies Forum. Why are we talking about 9/11 here ?

If you don't want to read it, go to another thread.

 

[Gabkatt]

This is a Theme Parks Attractions and Strategies Forum. Why are we talking about 9/11 here ?

You know...your more than welcome to pass right by without an issue, but you had to comment. This has been a continuing post for several years with mod support, if you don't like it...just skip it!

 

[Sorahana]

This is a Theme Parks Attractions and Strategies Forum. Why are we talking about 9/11 here ?

Because it doesn't change the fact it happened and because people are remembering it, skip the thread then if you don't want to hear about it.


I was a freshmen in high school (all girls) when it happened. I was at lunch and one of the teachers told us a plane had hit a building, we had no idea what she was talking about at the time. I went to my 4th period class and my teacher had the tv on and I think we saw the 2nd plane hit, I don't remember. We were all scared and shocked. We still didn't realize what was going on. I went to 5th period (history) and my teacher had the news on in his class as well. He turned the news off midway through class and asked us if we had any questions/to talk about it. I think he did this to calm us down as some of us were crying and upset. My school had close knit relationships between students/teachers, like a huge family. So he talked to us about it, and tried to calm us down. They then told us they were letting us out of school early to be with our family and explained to us what happened. I went to religion class afterwards and there were girls in the hallway screaming "WE'RE GONNA DIE!!" and "THE WORLD IS ENDING!!!", everyone was scared and upset.

When we did go home, my dad called me and asked me if I'd be ok until he got home from work (I forget where my mom was, I think she was at work too) and if I recall correctly I said I didn't know so my dad got out of work earlier and came home so I wasn't by myself.

I don't really remember the details of the day so well, maybe because I block it out of my memory without my knowledge, or the fact that this event happened cancels out other details of the day in my mind. I remember being very scared, and crying hysterically because I was so scared.

I'll always remember what happened, I can't believe it was 8 years ago today...
God Bless America and prayers go out to everyone who lost someone and to those whose lives were lost on this day.

 

[Missytara]

I live in Dover, DE and we have the largest east coast AFB for C-141's, as well as the mortuary for military victims.

We were seated exactly halfway between NY and DC and it was very eerie. All of the sudden the base was put on lockdown, and they proceeded to move the planes to other bases. Other than that, there was no air traffic at all, and you couldn't even drive anywhere near the base.

On through the night, you could hear them transferring the planes back to the base, when they got the all-clear. The base remained on high alert for months after that.....it was wierd because in one sense we felt very safe with a military base here and we also felt like sitting ducks at times sitting halfway between the two cities.

For the next few days, they were flying the military victims from the Pentagon to the mortuary before they were sent home for the funerals. They flew up in helicopters as they were recovered. We were about a mile and a half from the base, so we could hear them during the day at work.

 

[Jrock0114]

This is a Theme Parks Attractions and Strategies Forum. Why are we talking about 9/11 here ?

Why in the world would you post this? Why?

Unreal.

Here is an idea......I'm sure there are plenty of Forum posts out there that cover "What the weather is like during December at MK" or "The top 10 reasons why 'Sounds Dangerous' sucks"........so next time, why don't cruise right past a very meaningful post like this (without making a stupid comment) and knock yourself out on one of the dozens of "Attractions & Strategies" posts that are on this sight.

Loser.

 

[Damien2213]

At the time I was in college and working at a local video/rental store. I had just woke up that morning for class when I got a phone call. It was my Mom telling me to turn on the TV because a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. At that time it was not clearly known this was a terrorist attack and a lot of places were reporting it as a plane crash. No sooner then I turned on the TV the live footage of the 2nd plane hitting was shown. Then and there I knew something wasn't right. After that everything went crazy. We all started thinking about people we may have known that had family in NY. Then we heard about the Pentagon not long after that and about a plane that had just crashed.

To this day it was all like a nightmare. I remember all the thoughts and talk. Our classes were canceled for the day but work stayed open which I was against but I needed the money. I remember we hardly had any customers that night. Listening to the POV's of the people that came in was a very interesting thing. People were talking about us being invaded and all sort of stuff. I remember not sure whether to feel safe or not for the next few weeks. Visions of a mass draft, fighting on US soil, and the destruction caused by such an evil act. It is one event of my life I shall never forget and I think its very important we never forget what happened on 9/11.

 

[mousireid]

WE were living on base, my MIL called from NY to tell us to turn on the tv (we were on West Coast). We went on lockdown. Two weeks later my son was born that brought us hope in those dark times.
I know it has been 8 years and it will never leave our hearts and minds. I cannot think of one single person who was not affected, and to this day the world has changed because of that terrible day. To those who lost loved ones may you find peace and be reunited in Heaven.
God Bless America - Home Of The Free Because Of The Brave.

 

[devores]

I was on my way to work that morning and heard about the first plane on the radio. I rushed in when I got there and quickly changed the channel on the TV. No one else knew yet. We watched as the second plane hit and then the towers fell. We were all confined to base and were told they didnt know when we would be released. We all knew what was comming (US Air Force).

That night I was on a plane to an undisclosed location for an undisclosed amount of time. Having just 4 hours to pack your stuff and say goodbye to your family not knowing if you will ever see them again is a hard thing to do.

 

[pilesoflaundry]

This is a Theme Parks Attractions and Strategies Forum. Why are we talking about 9/11 here ?

I think the point was why is it here not in the community section or something.

Anyway...

It was the day I found out my second baby was a girl. We wanted a girl so bad (almost dh's entire family is boys and everyone said we wouldn't have a girl with his genes and we already had a son) and while that was such a happy point in our lives it was sorta tarnished by what happened that day. I was so upset and torn between wanting to be happy for us and sad for our country at the same time.

We were up so early for the appointment that we were first hearing about it on the radio. It was a station back home known for their pranks and I made dh turn it off because I couldn't believe how low they had stooped with the jokes. Only when we got to the doctors office and walked in I realized it wasn't a sick joke, it was real. Everyone was horrified and hanging around the tv with the today show on and we watched the second plane hit live.

The NP doing my u/s had her kids there in the city and she was worried about them and everything was like life going on in slow motion. I can't believe my little girl will be 8 in a few months. It seems like forever ago and like it just happened all at the same time.

 

[minnie1012]

I was at work in downtown NY that day and it was one of the scariest days of my life. I got off the train in the WTC at 7:45, luckily I hadn't been an hour later. So I was already in my building blocks away when the first plane hit. I watched the whole thing unfold out the window and left after the first tower fell. I wanted to leave after the second plane flew by the window but we were instructed to stay due to the craziness outside. I will never forget the smell and the smoke that lingered on for months. So today I am home since I am out of work and its alittle weird not being at work in NY with the people I was with that day. You sort of form a bond with people when you think you aren't going to survive something.

 

[Tony NY]

A day I will never forget! Good bless all the families and friends effected by that day in history I for one will never forget and all the stuff I seen after that day in lower Manhattan.

 

[wdwnut4life]

it's "God bless". & yes god bless all those we lost, our heroes, troops & america, best country on earth & all those people who don't like us can eat their shorts

 

[FosterChild]

I was in Manhattan that day, too. Fortunately I work in midtown, so I was safe, but witnessing what happened changed me forever.

Commuting in today, my train travels right along the Hudson, I witnessed a memorial service in the town of Irvington. A hundred people standing in the rain, remembering.


Susan

 

[summerlady]

It was a glorious late Summer morning. I was babysitting my 13 month old granddaughter while my daughter was working, my husband had left for the city early so I didn't wake up to tell him goodbye. I happened to be on my way out the door to take Lauren to the park to play and then planned on going to the library when a friend of mine called and told me to turn on the tv, that there had been an accident at the WTC. My husband had been working at the WTC on and off all Summer, he's a union carpenter, but I didn't know exactly where he was that morning, only that he was in NYC. No cell phones worked, my in laws were calling to find out if he was at the WTC or not, just frantic and worried sick. We finally were able to get a call through four hours later and I was so relieved that he had been a few blocks away that morning. It took him hours and hours to get home that night. I still have his security passes from the WTC.

 

[summerlady]

This is a Theme Parks Attractions and Strategies Forum. Why are we talking about 9/11 here ?

If you have a problem with this, then just go away.

 

[restful urchin]

I was just getting up and getting ready to go to my university class. I'm an American who lives in Canada.(from Oregon). I just flipped on CNN to "see if the world was still there," like every morning. I saw the scene of the World Trade Center in flames and then the other plane crashed. I never made it to class.
When they closed the boarders it was a VERY weird feeling knowing that I could not go home.
I had Oregon plates on my car and at many stop lights people would roll down their window and tell me that they were praying for my country. It was very touching. This happened many, many times in Edmonton.
It truly was an awful day.

 

[Tinks1984]

Thoughts to all lost and those who are still here suffering

The World changed that day - as it did on the day of the London bombings. Two very sad days in which you simply as yourself, "WHY?", yet you can never find the answer

 

[Dollyrar]

Watching the footage over the last few days is upsetting for me, as it reminds me of being in the middle of the London bombings. I was working as a bus tour guide that day, and nobody could understand why everybody was so late for work, and the tubes were so screwed up. Just as I was about to leave for my first tour of the day, we heard over the radios from a colleague saying that a bus had just blown up in front of him. A manager asked him to be clear, and to not say stuff like that over the air on the radios (thinking he was messing around). I can still hear the tone of his voice in his response now "I can ASSURE you, a bus has just blown up here". My girlfriend of then and now was working for the same tour company, and was already out on a tour. Just then we started to hear people coming out of the tube station talking about bombs being blown up all over the network.
The feeling that I had in my stomach at that moment was the most sickening sensation I have ever felt. I wanted to find where my girlfriend was in London and run to her straight away to get her away from her bus, and take her some place that I thought might be safe, like the middle of a park.
Upstairs on my bus were about 4 different American families, and I had to go up and tell them that our service was being cancelled with immediate notice. Most groups had children with them, and I was so worried about scaring them. I had to ask the adults to come to the front of the bus and tell each of them the news. Their faces as I told them the news just dropped. I felt so sorry for them, being in a strange country and knowing that everything about their plans was about to change. The realisation that they, like their fellow countrymen 4 years earlier were now under attack. I helped them with directions as best I could, and told them that my advice would be to go straight back by foot to their hotels and wait it out there.
The phone networks were jammed, and I could not phone my girlfriend to see if she was ok. Many of our colleagues were reported as not turning up for work when they were due to be. It was terrifying. I eventually spotted my girlfriend from the end of the street as I made my way back to our office, and the feeling of relief was just unbelievable. I will never forget it.
Nobody I knew personally died that day, but the next week when we had a silence in Trafalgar Square, I sobbed amongst strangers. However I looked around and felt a connection to the people around me, and was so proud to be a Londoner that day. I see that same connection with the people of New York.
They are both cities that should not work. The clash of white, Black, Asian, Christian, Muslim and others shouldn't work. At all. But it does, and that is what made me so proud to be a part of that city that day.
As my girlfriend and I cycled home that day, I tried to avoid all major areas of congregation, so we cycled a really long way around through some of the London Parks. I was so scared of losing her that day. We had no food when we got home, and I was scared to even go to the supermarket to get some, in case they were perhaps a potential target by being full of people. There were all sorts of rumours going around that the army was on the street and that there could potentially be more attacks coming. It's easy in a way watching 9/11 with hindsight, and knowing how events unfolded for those away from the main WTC site. You know that they were ultimately safe that day, but when you are in the middle of an attack you have no idea what is going to unfold.
My thoughts are always with the people of New York on this day. They composed themselves so well in the aftermath. I thought of them the day after our experience when my girlfriend and I decided not to stay off work, but made our way in as usual. The mood in the city had changed, but we would make no sacrifice to those who had attempted to murder us all.
We are making our first trip to New York hopefully in Feb next year, and I cannot wait. They seem like my kind of people

 

[momejay]

I had just put my children on the school bus. My yougest needed a diaper change & I let him hold the TV remote. He changed the channel on the TV & all I was seeing was snow. I kept changing channels & all I could get was snow. Finally, I got the TV working again just in time to see the the second plane hit.
I knew two people that went to our church worked in the towers. Both were delayed that morning for strange reasons. One had too much to drink the night before & overslept. The other would have been 15 minutes late due to a client spilling coffee on a report & he needed another copy. (The copy store opened at 9:00.)
I realized how short life is on that day & booked a trip to Disney shortly after.