what do you remeber about 9/11????

Question

what do you remeber..what were your thoughts. did you see it all on the news? how old were you?..are you loooking forward to seeing the movie the world trade center..or no?

Answer 1

yes i do, my uncle got paralyzed that day and my aunt died. I was so scared that day because my uncle was a firemen and my aunt work on the 32nd floor. i was stuck in school, my grandma was at a senior center for an evacuation, my mom was stuck at her job in queens and i got home the next day. i thought sumthin bad was gonna happen. My uncle cant talk,or walk. its sad. oh yeah from the debris, my best friend had a severe asthma attack because she lives a block away

Answer 2

I have no interest in seeing that movie.

As for the day of, I was 15 and first found out while sitting in highschool chem class. The president of the school came on the innercom and my first though, jokingly, was "Oh, the world must be comming to an end, Father Van Bueren never uses the innercom". Then he said "I dont want to alarm anyone..." and I thought to myself "OH MY GOD! The world really IS comming to an end!" and started to panic a little bit. The students were invited to watch TV news to find out what was going on, until about 11am. At that point the administration decided that it would be a good idea to treat the day like a normal school day and keep the students in the dark. That did not end so well...

Answer 3

I was at work when it happened. Several people were in a conference room watching the news coverage. Some (including me) wondered whether it could have been an accident. When the second plane hit the other tower, that obviously eliminated the small chance of it being accidental. I remember turning to a lady co-worker and saying "I think we've just witnessed the beginning of World War III." I hope I am proved wrong, but I still wouldn't be surprised for the entire situation in the Mideast to lead us to that point.

Answer 4

I was in the middle of a college class and another professor came in and interupted our professor and told him to turn on the news, the world trade center has just collapsed...I was 21. We all just watched the tv and were dismissed, so we all went back to our dorms and watched it. Some people cried..so sad.
I want to see the movie. Part of me agree that the movie should have been made to honor the people who died, the other part just feels like the best way to honor those is just to stop all the publicity around it..too over the top. too hollywood.

Answer 5

I will not, can not, see that damn movie!

The woman who would become my wife and I were in an LDR. She lived in NYC, and I lived in Orlando. (We're both in NYC now.) She worked at the World Trade Center. When it finally hit me, what and where it happened, I was just a frantic mess, of course. I kept calling and e-mailing and calling again. The lines were so jammed. No work got done at my office that day. Other people were trying the phones, reading the news, and e-mailing. Other people were just crying openly--most of us women had mascara tracks on our faces for somebody.

I didn't hear from my girlfriend until midnight. She hadn't been scheduled that morning--she was supposed to come in that afternoon. She'd been making her own calls and looking for her own people. She lost one of her best friends, among other people, and had to call his mother in Moscow (they were both Russian) to explain what had happened. She tried to give blood, but couldn't because she was a touch too small, after waiting forever. I just yelled, "Never do that to me again! Don't you ever do that to me again!", and then we both cried, and then I let her talk.

One thing it did for us is convince us that life is too short to fear commitment and teach us not to take each other for granted. I feared commitment, but I feared a day without her in it so much more. When I could fly up there, I spent a week, and she slept for the first time in days. On 9/11/2002, we went to Alaska to try and make her forget. Of course she didn't. It'll take brain surgery to make either of us forget.

I feel so, so, so, so incredibly blessed and lucky. This city is still healing. So many old wounds are being opened up right now, between the movie and the recent plot that got uncovered.

Answer 6

I remember how lost I felt, how devasted, how totally mind boggling it was. How I couldn't function at work after the towers fell, the enormous grief and oppressive panic. The need to leave work and just found myself pulling on my church doors and not understanding why at such a time of obvious crisis the doors were locked. Why was there no one there to answer my questions on "how could such a thing happen" I remember the sadness that lingered for weeks and continues to linger for those people who lost loved ones and those people who are fighting a losing war/battle against terrorism. Yes I will see World Trade Center...it's a testimony to the bravery of two men who risked their lives in order to save others.

Answer 7

Isn't it nice, all these people who go through life trying to deny that any thing ever really happens - the moon landing, the holocaust, September 11th - it must be comforting to live in a world of safe escapism.

My husband and I woke up in a motel room in Rawlins, Wyoming that morning. Not quite awake, we turned the TV on and were confused for a few minutes, watching one tower burning. We were just about certain it was a movie when the reality of what we were seeing began to make itself known.

I remembered something my uncle had told me about when Orson Wells did his broadcast of War of the Worlds way back when - that they couldn't figure out, if it was really happening, why it wasn't coming over more than one radio station. So we began flipping channels. Then we saw the second plane coming, and everything afterward. We'd not even moved from the bed - I sat there crying while my husband held me and rocked - he may have cried himself, I don't even know.

After watching this horror and sorrow for hours, we decided to go out and eat, then pay for another night - we obviously weren't leaving that day. It was a shock to our systems to step outside that door - the birds were singing, dogs were barking in the distance, and cars were driving by on the street. If we hadn't just watched all of that, and been aware of it all deep in our souls, it would have appeared like any other bright Wyoming late summer afternoon. Everything seemed so normal, and our brains just couldn't wrap around that - we knew that those people driving down the street had seen what we'd seen; were in shock and grieving just like we were - so how could it look so normal?

I don't plan to see the movie, not because I'm trying to forget like the girl here who was eleven at the time, but because I won't ever be able to forget, and I don't think I could stand reliving that morning. I don't want to forget. I don't think any of us should.

Answer 8

When I got home from school that day and my mommy showed me what was on TV I was so devestated that those horrible people did that to America. I believe Americans were changed that day. I know I was and I was only 7 years old when that happened and I understood what happened. I understood many people lost loved ones that day. I am 11 years old now and I still remember that day that changed my life. I do want to see the movie.

Answer 9

My Mom called me to put on the news right before the second plane hit. The first thing I thought was the towers looked like they would fall, they looked slanted, but stupid me I thought it would fall like a tree and asked mom what would happen if they did.


I was petrified of the plane that went down in PA. Living on LI, I didn't know where it was going to end up. Then a guy told me they were going to shoot it down and that shocked me.


I was very worried about all my friends and family that were in Manhatten that day and very thankful my niece was born the week before. My BIL didn't go back to work yet so he wasn't in Lower Manhatten.

I wanted to keep my kids routine and not get them worried so I brought my daughter to dance class. All the mom's were in their cars and we reported to each other what we just heard. One mom in particular was devasted, her DH was NYPD.

I think I spent at least 10 hours watching the news. Seeing the images was far worse than just hearing about it on the radio. Finally went outside and the fighter planes freaked me out, because their wasn't supposed to be any planes flying overhead.

Like they said, it did start out as a perfect fall day. Clear beautiful sky.

Answer 10

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