9/11 Remembrance

[OObi]

 

[SouthernLexa08]

I was only twelve years old when it happend. I had been in New York maybe 3 weeks before it had happend. My mom had showed me everything. I thought the Twin Towers was the coolest thing in the world. Then while we are at home in Florida, I was coming home, I walked in the house to see my mom in tears. I asked her what was wrong, and she had asked me if I remembered the Towers. I said yes ofcourse, how could I forget. She then turned the T.V. on to show me what had happend. I will never forget that day. I remember falling to the ground in tears. The next time I visited New York, my mom showed me the spot where only the spirit of the towers stood, and all I could do was cry. I remember what I was wearing on the day of 9/11 and everything. It was tragic. New York is my home away from home. I will never forget what happend.

 

[littleredkiss484]

Great thread!

I wasn't doing much on the day. I had just gotten up and dressed and come down stairs to turn on the news, and as I was doing so, the second plane had hit the twin towers. For the rest of the day my eyes were glued to the television, and I was kind of in shock.

 

[Jasma]

Sept 11, 2001. I had been a teacher for about 2 weeks. That was the day I gave my 8th graders their first algebra test. I was grading it (my 5th graders were in P.E.) & got excited cause the lowest score was a 92. I went down the hallway smiling when the principal stopped me & made me watch TV- the first tower had been hit.

As I turned toward the TV, the 2nd tower was hit. On my way to pick up the kids from, the Pentagon was hit. I grew up in NY, so I really wasn't sure if any of my friends or family were there. My brother was also supposed to be in the city & was flying out of Newark that week...

I was blessed- no one I knew died (some injured, but no one died). My brother had taken the day off to stay at the beach one more day, & the worst that happened was one of my friends was hospitalized for a few days.

This tragedy lived in my heart though. I grew up w/the world trade center in my backyard (you could see the skyline from my bedroom window). Going back to NY was SO extremely hard. I cried a lot.

I pray for those affected by this tragedy.

 

[OObi]

I think everyone remembers what they were doing.

I was in 7th grade, in my homeroom and I was waiting for class to start. My social studies teacher rushes in and tells my other teacher to turn the tv on. He looks worried and then she turns it on and we here about the news. Then we watch as the second plane hit. It was really sad.

 

[RGL1]

I got to work and was talking to a co-worker (now my boss) and he asked me what was going on in NY. I told him I had not heard anything. Seeing that I am a very curious person I went into the lab where a radio is always on and gave a listen. The announcer at that point didn't know what was going on except that a plane had hit the first tower. I thought a small single engine type plane got off course and hit the building.

Little did I know!

I went to leave the building and found 30-40 people watching the report on TV and soon found out it was no single engine plane.

I remember seeing the second plane hitting the tower. It was sureal. It looked as if the plane just vanished into the tower (which it did). As though a knife sliding into a sheath.
Very strange.

 

[RedTulipMom]

On Sept 11, 2001 I was working as a school photographer. I got to the school i was assigned to and was setting up my camera and one of the other photographers came over and told me what had happened and said the school was on lock down and nobody could leave or enter. I was in shock. I was confused. At first i didnt even understand what was happening. I had no radio, tv etc. i had to continue working as if nothing happened. I wanted to know more. Thankfully they stopped the lockdown by lunchtime and we WERE able to leave. One of my co-workers lived nearby by and i went to his house at lunchtime and we turned on the news to get updated on what exactly had happened. It was then that i saw the first pictures of the planes hitting the buildings. I couldnt believe it.

God bless all those who lost loved ones that fateful day!

 

[Kimberlyann]

I was sleeping when my mom called and gave me the news. I was in shock. I stayed glued to the TV all day.

My heart goes out to everyone who lost a loved one that day.

 

[CarrieAg93]

I was working at an elementary school. I walked by the counselor's office she had the news on. I had only been watching for a few minutes when the 2nd plane hit. I called my husband at work and my mom who was at my house with my son. Pretty soon parents started coming to pick up their kids. It was crazy. A lot of the kids asked some tough questions in the following weeks. I felt sad for them for being exposed to pure evil at such a young age.

 

[Abigayle's Legacy]

Interesting I found this thread I have to go into Manahttan for an audition on Monday September 11 ... I am not happy about this and asked for prayer believing if God saved me once He will do it again and so my memories begin.....
September 11, 2001
I was on my way into Manahattan with my best friend I had been in the city a lot that month as I was recording a CD and today had a doctors appointment it was about 8:15am I think I can't remember times just that my friend and I got into a fight and I dropped her at her moms she no longer wanted to go with me. Now I was running late and probably the fight was used by God to save me I would have been in the tunnel when the planes hit I think and probably would have had a nervous breakdown I am tunnnel phobic and claustrophobic...but I was crawling along in traffic on the BQE and everything was so slow and as I got close to the 4th Ave exit I saw people standing on rooftops I was like what are they looking at....and then I saw the skyline the burning building and I'm thinking what is that and it looked like things were falling from the building and extreme fire and I realized later that was probably people jumping out windows and I'm thinking what is this and I realize it is the World Trade Center and I panic and turn on the radio and hear the towers were hit by airplanes and then a second and New York is under siege and I'm alone in my car with no cell phone and I'm screaming and crying and looking around and looking up cause I think we are being bombed and I think the BQE will be hit next and I look to see if anyone else sees this and I manage to get off the highway and to a pay phone and call my best friend whose daughter works across the street from the WTC and I can't talk I'm hystercal crying and she says what's wrong were you in an accident and I'm screaming turn on the TV and she does and I hear her scream she says NY is undersiege where is my daughter. And I run back to my car and start screaming to people in the streets "Accept Jesus now."
And I am stuck in Brooklyn and she is stuck in Staten Island the bridges are closed you can't get in or out and her husband is stuck in New Jersey and her daughter is running for her life in Manhattaan and I drive to my moms house in Brooklyn and I get blankets and water and food and my friend asks me to find her daughter and we speak from pay phone to cell phone her to her daughter me to her me stopping on corners in really unsafe Brooklyn neighborhoods but I don't care I'm on a mission to bring my friends daughter home safe and my sister and I spend the next six hours trying to find my friends daughter who is walking from Manhattan on foot.....Exodus's of people are in the streets dazed and scared and crying and I can't get through my head what is happening I pick up one woman and drive her a ways to help her because there are no buses running and every other street is closed.... as I write this it is fresh in my mind how I spent three days on the bed in my house watching TV glued to it an hurting. And the next week had to go back to Manahttan to finish myCD on the bus with armed military men checking our buses and in the city guarding my home where I lived and grew up NY.
And people say where was God that day and I know where He was He was with my best guy friend who over slept because his alarm never went off and he didn't make it in that day to work, he was with my friends daughter whose boyfriend had called her when she got to work distracting her from the package on her desk that was meant to be taken to the floor in the WTC that was hit by the plane. He was with her when the winodws in her buliding blew out and the announcement said stay in the bulidng and her boyfriend said leave. He was with her when her friend caught her as she got downstairs in the elevator and pulled her out one door as the guy in the elevator who came down with her and went out the other door and got killed he was with her when we found her 6 hours later just as her cell phone lost power. He was with so many other people I know who had their own story as to why they were not in that area at the time the plane hit even though any other time they would have been.
And God was with me so I never made it into the city in the middle of this unforgettable tragedy ......
My memories...... and on Monday I go back in to Manhattan on September 11 and ask for your prayers.

 

[Alexander Nissi]

As I said in another thread 9/11 willl be the memory day of this generation just like the Challenger disaster was for my generation and JFK's assaination and pearl harbour were for those generations. It will be a day that anyone who was alive that day will always remember where they were. When the first plane hit I was just getting out of Criminology at the college I went to. God Bless all those who died that fateful day. We will never forget you.~Alec

 

[RGL1]

And people say where was God that day and I know where He was He was with my best guy friend who over slept because his alarm never went off and he didn't make it in that day to work, he was with my friends daughter whose boyfriend had called her when she got to work distracting her from the package on her desk that was meant to be taken to the floor in the WTC that was hit by the plane. He was with her when the winodws in her buliding blew out and the announcement said stay in the bulidng and her boyfriend said leave. He was with her when her friend caught her as she got downstairs in the elevator and pulled her out one door as the guy in the elevator who came down with her and went out the other door and got killed he was with her when we found her 6 hours later just as her cell phone lost power. He was with so many other people I know who had their own story as to why they were not in that area at the time the plane hit even though any other time they would have been.
And God was with me so I never made it into the city in the middle of this unforgettable tragedy ......

Great point.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Very moving.

 

[stealingheaven]

I was at home painting the living room, listening to the radio, I heard about the first plane hitting the first tower and thought what a terrible accident it was, I didn't realise just how bad it was until minutes later my friend came home and said the media was showing it on the tv so we switched it on in time to see the 2nd plane hit the second tower, we just stood there with our jaws dropped to the floor, in shock not believing our own eyes, at some level I thought it couldn't possibly be happening for real.

Words can't describe how I felt on that day watching what was heppening and still to this day, all those feelings come back when I remember.

My heart and prayers are always with those who lost their lives and the families and friends left behind, not just 9/11 but also the July 7th London bombings and attacks all around the world.

As a result of what I see in the world, I'm more determined to speak up of the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[Southern Cross]

I was an ops manager for a global company, just setting up a managers meeting. We had a large screen TV in the room, hooked up to satellite TV. One of our other managers came in and turned it on. We saw the first tower burning. I actually saw the second tower get hit. I watched as both towers fell, and saw a brief momnet of footage where people were jumping from the buildings.

I looked at a good friend standing next to me. He is ex-navy special operations (field intelligence attached to a Seal unit), and I'm an ex-Marine. I simply said "We are going to dismantle a country or two because of this". Then the news reports of the Pentagon came in, and the crash in PA I felt so badly for all of those people. We had 1400 employees in the building, and all the phone calls suddenly stopped, everything became really quiet. Several employees had to leave the building. One team completely shut down operations because one of their client offices was in WTC tower two and many of them had become freinds... a lot of crying on that floor that didn't stop for a while.

Air operations stopped, pretty much all over the world. Our jobs involved a lot of travel in the NE USA, so some of our people immediately started checking travel itineraries to see if our people were on board those planes. No, thank God. We had people stuck in far away places with no way to get home. Some rented cars and drove all the way across the country to get home. Some were stuck overseas for a few weeks. I remember being on a plane just a few days after commercial carriers were allowed to fly again. My two boys and I were among five passengers on board a plane that could hold 120 passengers.

I remember feeling extremely angry inside on 9/11. The first thing that popped into my mind was that this was an attack by middle east terrorists, with a slight possibility of domestic terrorism. I am a realist. When our country does enough arm twisting in the middle east over a period of decades, we are going to attract attacks against our interests. I just never thought it would be on such a large scale. Nor did I think it would lead us into war with Iraq.

I went home that day. No point in staying at work. I just wanted to be with my family. I also wondered if I could still get back into the military.

The next few weeks and months saw our employees get called up for duty. I was very proud of them. Afghanistan seemed to be manageable. But I really feared for them when the conflict with Iraq began.

I would talk more about my family's experiences, but I wasn't at home on 9/11. It affected my wife deeply, but the war on terrorism is simply a fact of life for my kids. It has also profoundly affected my political and moral views about war. No, I am not more liberal in my views.

 

[HeyHomie]

My wife and I were on our way to work - we had an arrangement where I dropped her off and then I went on to where I worked. We were listening to this "morning zoo"-type radio program, and amid the witty banter we heard their newsguy report that a plane had crashed into one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. My first thought was that it was some drunk guy in a Cessna or something.

A few minutes later, the newsguy reported two things: that the first plane appeared to be a passenger jet and not a private aircraft, and that another plane had crashed into the other tower of the World Trade Center. My first thought was, "What the heck is going on with the navigation computers at Kennedy?"

Shortly after that I dropped my wife off and headed to work. About half an hour and several news reports later I realized that we were under a terrorist assault.

 

[Hisbygrace]

I was home washing dishes when my sister called me and told me to turn on the TV, because the WTC had been hit by a plane. Just as I turned it on the second plane hit. My heart sank and I felt sick. As I watched the tragedies of that day I remember thinking we have really done it now. God has taken the hedge from around us. Yes, He was still with us, but it was plain that the protection we had enjoyed for generations was no longer there. God was trying to open our eyes to the way we had become, compliant and negligent. 9/11 chqnged that for a little while as the American people started turning back to God, but today most of us are once again back slidden and in the everything for me mode. We need to wake up to our need for God's hedge around us again and pray that He restores it. We live in a remarkable country that was given us by God, lets forever praise Him for it and God Bless America!

 

[Henaynei]

I wanted so badly, in response to all the banners and bumper stickers shouting "G-d bless America" to put out one that said just as loudly "America bless and obey G-d" - but was restrained by an acute awareness of a hyper-PC back lash that swept (and continues to sweep) this country.... the first few days after 9/11 America seemed to almost regain her sanity regarding the foulness of political correctness - some even posited that PC was dead - but I warned them that far from dead PC would very quickly become the weapon dejur` within the US against those who had clear sight and had been warning about the dangers and intentions of radical Islam for decades - and so it was/is...

I grieve for those who on that day lost their lives, and even more for those who one that day, and every days since have been laying down their lives that Freedom and Democracy might live and our children and their generations, and even those of whom call themselves our enemies, might live in Freedom and Democracy.... May G-d bless them and their families - and may America truly turn and bless and obey G-d.

 

[ForHisGlory]

Interesting I found this thread I have to go into Manahttan for an audition on Monday September 11 ... I am not happy about this and asked for prayer believing if God saved me once He will do it again and so my memories begin.....
September 11, 2001
I was on my way into Manahattan with my best friend I had been in the city a lot that month as I was recording a CD and today had a doctors appointment it was about 8:15am I think I can't remember times just that my friend and I got into a fight and I dropped her at her moms she no longer wanted to go with me. Now I was running late and probably the fight was used by God to save me I would have been in the tunnel when the planes hit I think and probably would have had a nervous breakdown I am tunnnel phobic and claustrophobic...but I was crawling along in traffic on the BQE and everything was so slow and as I got close to the 4th Ave exit I saw people standing on rooftops I was like what are they looking at....and then I saw the skyline the burning building and I'm thinking what is that and it looked like things were falling from the building and extreme fire and I realized later that was probably people jumping out windows and I'm thinking what is this and I realize it is the World Trade Center and I panic and turn on the radio and hear the towers were hit by airplanes and then a second and New York is under siege and I'm alone in my car with no cell phone and I'm screaming and crying and looking around and looking up cause I think we are being bombed and I think the BQE will be hit next and I look to see if anyone else sees this and I manage to get off the highway and to a pay phone and call my best friend whose daughter works across the street from the WTC and I can't talk I'm hystercal crying and she says what's wrong were you in an accident and I'm screaming turn on the TV and she does and I hear her scream she says NY is undersiege where is my daughter. And I run back to my car and start screaming to people in the streets "Accept Jesus now."
And I am stuck in Brooklyn and she is stuck in Staten Island the bridges are closed you can't get in or out and her husband is stuck in New Jersey and her daughter is running for her life in Manhattaan and I drive to my moms house in Brooklyn and I get blankets and water and food and my friend asks me to find her daughter and we speak from pay phone to cell phone her to her daughter me to her me stopping on corners in really unsafe Brooklyn neighborhoods but I don't care I'm on a mission to bring my friends daughter home safe and my sister and I spend the next six hours trying to find my friends daughter who is walking from Manhattan on foot.....Exodus's of people are in the streets dazed and scared and crying and I can't get through my head what is happening I pick up one woman and drive her a ways to help her because there are no buses running and every other street is closed.... as I write this it is fresh in my mind how I spent three days on the bed in my house watching TV glued to it an hurting. And the next week had to go back to Manahttan to finish myCD on the bus with armed military men checking our buses and in the city guarding my home where I lived and grew up NY.
And people say where was God that day and I know where He was He was with my best guy friend who over slept because his alarm never went off and he didn't make it in that day to work, he was with my friends daughter whose boyfriend had called her when she got to work distracting her from the package on her desk that was meant to be taken to the floor in the WTC that was hit by the plane. He was with her when the winodws in her buliding blew out and the announcement said stay in the bulidng and her boyfriend said leave. He was with her when her friend caught her as she got downstairs in the elevator and pulled her out one door as the guy in the elevator who came down with her and went out the other door and got killed he was with her when we found her 6 hours later just as her cell phone lost power. He was with so many other people I know who had their own story as to why they were not in that area at the time the plane hit even though any other time they would have been.
And God was with me so I never made it into the city in the middle of this unforgettable tragedy ......
My memories...... and on Monday I go back in to Manhattan on September 11 and ask for your prayers.

Gabby my dear friend I sit here with tears as I read your morning/day of terror and I can see it all happening in my mind as you're telling it.
My prayers are with you for Monday honey!
Love and many hugs
Tammy

 

[PrairieGurl]

I hope you know how affected your Canadian neighbors were and are.

I was at work in a Long Term Care Home that awful day. The TV was on. All our channels were showing the heart breaking destruction. As I type this, goosebumps are forming and there is a lump in my throat.
The residents crowded around the TV set, squishing their wheelchairs together. All work stopped, many residents and staff offered up prayers for all those in the buildings, planes and their families.

My heart and s goes out to those who have lost loved ones and to all you who live in the USA.

Sending s for the pain & s for comfort,
Wendy

 

[ForHisGlory]

I was watching Good Morning America when they broke in to show the first plane hitting the first tower, and while they were deciding whether it was a pilot error, or something wrong with the plane the second one hit...my first thought was hijackers, but as I watched I also called my husband, then my mom, then my daughters and my best friend...and as it all kept getting worse my calls were bouncing between y husband mom and best friend...especially once the Pentagon was hit. I had 4 friends working for the Pentagon...it was most of the day before I found out that 2 weren't there.
Days before I found out that the one who was wasn't hurt. And the last had been sent on an assignment to CA.
As the day went on I couldn't leave the TV...I'm not sure when the tears stopped.
But I know that I was living in the Miami area and we left there Sept 22..I never could shut the tv off...I was stunned still and glued to it.
When we got here to GA, and a sonic boom came through from the AFB right after the war started I ran outside to my sis in laws next door that we were under attack....I have gotten use to the boom's..but I still get very anxious this time of year...waiting for another attack.
And my daughter joined the Air Force 2 years ago..that didn't help...I'm proud of her....yet scared all the time...now she has orders to go over seas on Oct 9th.