Sept 11 recollection

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,040 Member
    I'm a Survivor. I work in Lower Manhattan and we could see the Towers from our window. I'm still on the job but it's not the same. The terrorists took a lot from us that day.
    Were you on the street when they collapsed? I couldn't imagine having to inhale all that debris from it. Especially since I'm sure some of the building had asbestos in it.

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  • lmr0528
    lmr0528 Posts: 427 Member

    When your kids ask you who your hero is you should never tell them, Dan Marino or Derek Jeter or Payton Manning or Sandy Koufax. You should break out news coverage from that day and show them what real heroes look like. Amazing. Gives me chills every time I think about it.

    So right. These men & women are the true heroes.
  • vick9180
    vick9180 Posts: 144 Member
    I was in my car on my way to class when news of the first tower being hit was broadcasted. There was already speculation about how a small commuter plane could have caused such a large explosion. When I got back home, I turned on the TV and a few minutes later, watched as the second plane hit the other tower. I sat there in complete shock as I watched the events unfold, and my heart sunk as I watched the towers collapse.

    I had one more class for the day and since I was an athlete, I had to go to practice, but I was in a total daze and couldn't focus. I just kept thinking about all those innocent lives and first responders. I remember I was mad at my coach for making us train on such a horrendous day, even though we were half a continent away. In the following days, I remember watching the news and hoping and praying that there would be more survivors found. It was such a surreal moment in history.
  • squeepig
    squeepig Posts: 89 Member
    I'm a Survivor. I work in Lower Manhattan and we could see the Towers from our window. I'm still on the job but it's not the same. The terrorists took a lot from us that day.

    Me, too. :(
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  • JojoW8183
    JojoW8183 Posts: 540 Member
    I was in the lunch hall at FSU getting breakfast. I was paying and I kept looking up at the TV screen and couldn't understand what I was looking at. Everyone was staring, I thought it was a movie at first (I can't see from afar) but as I moved closer I realized it wasn't a movie. Then I saw the second plane. Shortly after the entire town was shut down, it being Tallahassee and a Bush in office there, they thought something would happen there too. Some days, I still can't believe it.
  • danielleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    danielleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Posts: 68
    I lived in England so it happened around 2pm "my time."

    I was 15 and still on school summer holidays so I was working my summer job in the village cafe where I lived. A couple of old ladies came in and were talking about something terrible that had happened - I just assumed that somebody in the village had died.

    I then came out of work at 4pmish and had a message from my mum (we were due to fly to Canada a few days later) about the whole thing....horrible, I couldn't believe it. Still can't.

    Went to Ground Zero a few years back and it was the eeriest thing, thinking what happened there in 2001.
  • kamaperry
    kamaperry Posts: 885 Member
    I remember like it was yesterday. I was on my way to work and I saw the second plane hit on TV. Shook me to my knees. The rest of the day was spent in shock. The following weeks were too, all I could see was the images of those towers. My heart still goes out to those people and their families.

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