9/11/01

I was asleep in my high school psychology class, and woke up just as the first tower fell.

My thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones, and our soldiers fighting in the sandbox.

I had just returned from Maternity Leave at work from having my 1st child. We were all gathered around the only tv in the office, which was a 6 inch black & white portable tv. I remember seeing the towers fall and thinking I couldn't be seeing it. We left work early that day and I went home to my 6 week old daughter and held her and cried.

I was on my way home from work, and heard it on the radio - Howard Stern of all people. Kept thinking that it had to be a gag.

Was home by the time the second plane hit the tower, saw that on TV.

I know none of us will forget that feeling that we all had on that day. Like Bethrs said it did feel like the world was going to end - and in a way it was the end for a lot of things.

I pray for the families of the lost, and I also pray that nothing like that ever happens again, anywhere in the world. I pray for peace for everyone.

I was on my way to the airport for a return flight from Arizona to DC. Of course it was cancelled and the airport was a mad house.

My husband and I just stood there and stared at the screens while at the airport for a good 20 minutes after the first plane hit and then without saying a word we both turned and left the airport. Grabbed a taxi. Went back to the friends house we were staying at and turned on the tv there.

We weren't able to get home for nearly a week but that was no hardship compared to the lives lost and changed by this all.

My thoughts and prayers go out to all touched by this tragedy.

I was on my way to work listen to Time McGraws set this circus down when a flight attendant friend of mine called to tell me he was ok and I had no clue what he was talking about. I turned on the radio and was stunned to hear what was going on. By the time I got to work the second plane was just about to hit and we all watched the towers fall. :flowerforyou:

I was sitting here at work. Somebody netsurfed over to CNN.com or something and got the news, and we all spent the rest of the day just clicking "refresh" and waiting for updates.

I was working off my high school tuition at a nursing home, sophmore year. We all stopped what we were doing and watched tv with the residents...still makes my heart drop thinking about it. God Bless :flowerforyou:

i was between jobs and my fiance was up cooking breakfast. i walked into the living room and couldnt figure out what was going on because i saw one of the towers were smoking on tv. i kept saying what is going on? in my grogginess i thought maybe the news was showing a clip to a new bruce willis movie or something. then i saw the second plane coming and i screamed when it hit. when they fell i had an anxiety attack.

i was born in queens and i instantly started calling my family hysterical but couldnt get thru on the phone lines.

watched the coverage for days on end. cried a lot. :brokenheart:

i remember saturday night live still aired (maybe the following week?) and it was an intense and very good show. i bawlled during the monologe. i was proud of them for carrying on in the middle of all the hell that was reality. :flowerforyou:

I was just getting to work, from having had the most miserable night because of a bad breakup...

I work for an airline and when I walked in I noticed all of the flight contollers standing in front of the TV. Then I saw a few people crying and I heard a lot of gasps and when I saw the TV it was just after the first plane hit the first tower. It was surreal. I was in a fog. Everyone was saying that it was an accident and that something must have happened to the pilot and so on. It wasn't until the second plane hit that we realized that it this was a purposeful attack on our country! I remember after that I wasn't at all concerned about my stupid love life...everything else seemed so trivial and miniscule compared to what these people were going through. I was so humbled by the courage of the fire personnel, police and medical personnel and the citizens. I am still so very appreciative of our soldiers and their families.

:brokenheart:

i was a sophmore in highschool and my dad was a teacher at that highschool. we always got to school early (like 530 or 6am) and we'd watch the news while just hanging out in the class room. i remember on the drive there we heard about the first plane. we got to the classroom and turned on the tv and saw the replay of the 1st tower getting hit. they thought it was an accident. my dad knew right away that it wasn't . planes just don't fly that low in the city. they know better. and then a few minutes later the second building was hit. i was very naive and didn't understand what was happening. i didn't really get the whole picture until we heard about the plane that hit the pentagon. and then it all really became a tragedy for me when i heard about the people that took down the 4th plane.

i see a lot of tributes going around today and you just forget. you don't realize you forget until you see the videos of the replays. and the worst is when you see the people still INSIDE the burning towers and then you see the people jumping out. it makes me so sad and mad STILL. it's been 8 years now and it still brings me to tears. those were somebody's baby. each person out there that had their life taken away from them and those that sacrificed will forever be remembered as heroes. EACH and every one of them.

i hope that all those families have been able to go on living. not forgetting but still moving on.

my husband is from NY and unfortunately, his cousin's fiance worked up in one of the towers. she was like on the 112th floor or something and didn't have a chance. the plane hit where she was.

please remember and maybe today can be the day we can all give back to the community. do something for someone else in remembrance of those who gave up so much more.

Reading all these comments is making me cry and I'm at work right now so don't want to cry.

I woke up that moring to the radio coming on (my alarm) and the first thing I heard was that a plane had flew into one of the twin towers. My first thought was that it wasn't an accident. I ihad to force myself to go to work that morning and

can't finish this

I was holding it together until I read your post, MommaRed. Now I'm crying.

I can't really think back too much to what I saw on tv those days. I was in a depression already, and it was compounded by the attacks. I think I cried for 3 days straight. Thinking back to details of what I saw on tv or in details about the personal stories rips open those wounds again, making it feel like it just happened yesterday.

It's my generation's Pearl Harbor.
It will never be forgotten.

On Sept 10, I believed there was no "right" or "wrong," or "good" and "evil," that all people are good at heart and have the same desires/goals, all religions are the same, and everyone's opinion is valid, etc.

On Sept 11, I learned that there is most definitely a right and wrong, good and evil, that some people are evil with evil intentions.

Well said.
Same lesson learned for me.

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I was waiting at my bus stop for high school.

Also, I love this song:

Darryl Worley - Have You Forgotten

I hear people sayin'. We Don't need this war.
I say there's some things worth fightin' for.
What about our freedom, and this piece of ground?
We didn't get to keep 'em by backin' down.
They say we don't realize the mess we're gettin' in
Before you start preachin' let me ask you this my friend.

Chorus
Have you forgotten, how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten, when those towers fell
We had neighbors still inside goin through a livin hell
And you say we shouldn't worry bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

You took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it's too disturbin for you and me
It'll just breed anger is what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Some say this country just out lookin' for a fight
Well after 9/11 man I'd have to say right.

Chorus
Have you forgotten, how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell
We had neighbors still inside goin' through a livin' hell
And we vow to get the ones behind Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

I've been there with the soldiers
Who've gone away to war
you can bet they remember just what they're fightin' for

Have you forgotten
All the people killed
Yes some went down like heroes
In that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten
About our Pentagon
All the loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry 'bout Bin Laden

Have you forgotten?