What is one memory that you have surrounding the 9/11 attacks?

Answer 1

How quiet it became. There were no planes flying for days.

I was talking with a friends online that morning. There was a group of us that would "meet every morning over coffee." One of the gentleman, we called him CoffeeDad worked in a building facing the twin towers and had full view of them. He didn't immediately realize what happened when the first tower was hit. It was when he saw the second plane plow into the other tower that he realized what was happening. He stayed online with us for the better part of two hours not knowing what to do. He didn't have access to the news media and so we kept him informed what was going on and he kept us informed. It was awful. He was in obvious shock. He watched as people were leaping from the towers. He was close enough that he could see their faces. My focus was to try and keep him as calm as possible. His focus was he couldn't leave where he was. He wanted to go help but he physically was unable to do so. One of his concerns was that he was trying to contact his wife so that she would know he was alright. He couldn't call out on the phones because the lines were all busy. I tried calling for him but she wasn't at home.

I remember sitting at the computer and looking outside and seeing the sunshine and the birds flying and wondering how it could be so beautiful and peaceful where I was and realizing the sheer hell that so many other people were going through in other parts of the country. I remember thinking that our lives would never be the same again as the news kept coming in about more planes crashing. We eventually lost contact with CoffeeDad as he lost his connection when the buildings fell. We didn't hear from him for weeks. It was so hard to comprehend what he was telling us that morning. We knew it was real, we were watching it on television and he was telling us what was happening as it happened but it just seemed so unbelievable. I remember coming to the realization that life as we knew it, feeling safe and that noone could bring harm to us in our own country was lost forever.

Answer 2

The fear that war may take place on our soil and that it was just a few miles from where I live.
Makes me think about what I take for granted everyday.
So many people endure war and mayham on their blocks in their cities every single day. I can't even begin to imagine what that is like. But the morning of 9/11 I went into shock and it occured to me that I wouldn't really know what to do if the assault on the us were to continue.

I hate the hate. All I know how to do to is be kind to people and hope it'll rub off, especially the refugees and people seeking a life here.

It stinks the way the governments play power games and at the peoples expenses.

will the killing ever stop?

Answer 3

I assumed my kids were better off being at school right then because "at least they didn't know what was going on." I had hoped I'd have until school let out to make some sense of it and know what I wanted to say to them, etc.
Unfortunatey, the teachers in their school had made the very bad choice of putting it on the TVs in the classrooms and letting them watch it as it unfolded. I feel like many kids were needlessly traumatized by this. I also felt like parents had a right to make that decision on how to handle it.
The teachers had no idea how it would affect students, based on who they knew or were related to and where in the world they were. My children had to both sit and watch that, knowing that their uncle was working at the White House. They believed he was going to be killed by a plane crashing into it, because that's what everyone kept saying. And they were not allowed to call home or come home.
It was a bad call on my part. I should have gone after them immediately.

Answer 4

I remember exactly where I was when I first heard... I was a sophomore in high school and I was in my second block computer class w/ Mrs. Blake. Sitting next to a girl named Allison. A teacher came in our room from another classroom. She whispered into our teachers ear and I can still remember the look of shock and horror on our teachers face. When the other teacher left, our teacher said "America is under attack. A little while ago, a plane flew into one of the Twin Towers. And just now we have been told that 2 other plans have flown into the second tower, and one in the pentagon."

I'll never forget that moment... I think it was our generation's shock that was equivalent to previous generations shock of the assassination of JFK. :(

I can't believe it's been 5 whole years already. Still feels like yesterday...

Answer 5

I feel very stupid about 9/11. I never guess that it was terriorism. When I heard that a plane crashed into the WTC, I thought a small commuter plane. And when I heard of the second plane, I thought what is going on....the only thing I could think of was something happend with the Air Traffic Controllers. So...I feel very stupid. I never thought terriorism at all.

Answer 6

Many (fortuitously no longer all) people have faith that searching for the certainty, I propose thinking one's government is tantamount to treason. there's a mass forgetting of the undeniable fact that the government is of the people, for the people, with the help of the people. it rather is not do basically as your government says - that's a dictatorship. Asking question in no way diminishes the memory of people who lost their lives on that tragic day. Lives of people who hailed from the far corners of the globe i could upload. (My stepmom's perfect buddy's son in regulation died that day). So I say be happy to question, I purely wish that the present US government wasn't led with the help of certainly one of those covert group of stable ol'boys. i do no longer have faith the conspiracy that it replaced into perpetrated with the help of the U. S. gov't (nonetheless i visit confess it replaced into an instantaneous concept that undergone my suggestions that day comprehend what all of us comprehend approximately GWB's desire to be a effective cowboy). The evidence is obvious that it replaced into an Al -Quaeda planned attack. The Iraq invasion replaced right into a farce. Osama "bin Hidingintheopen" continues to be a loose guy at an identical time as the only terrorist in sight is the GWB who's now to blame for extra civilian death than every person might have imagined.

Answer 7

My sister-in-law calling me and telling me to turn on the television. Watching in horror, people jumping out of the buildings, their only other choice was to burn to death. Watching the second plane hit the second tower. Hearing about the plane hitting the Pentagon, and the plane crashing in a field. People running through clouds of ash. Towers collapsing, even the journalists were in shock, I just couldn't comprehend it. The very worst, were the families and friends hunting for their loved ones. That was what tore me up. That was when the pain of it hit me, and I lost the sense of innocence, the sense of safety.

Answer 8

We were a military family. We had just been stationed back in the US after living overseas for 3 yrs. I found out the night before that I was pregnant with our 2nd child and the next day (Sept. 12) was our son's first birthday. I cried for days. I cried for the dead and their loved ones, but selfishly I cried because I feared my husband would be taken away at any minute.

Answer 9

I am on the west coast. When it occurred, I was talking to a man in NYC on a cell phone. All of a sudden we were cut off. A little while later we were told about the attack. Two of us who had children in New York and in LA were sent home because we were very upset. I went into a church by myself and asked "why"?

Answer 10

I remember being really angry that day, and thinking "we need to send troops there TONIGHT and kick their asses!"

Now I realize that emotions are not a good way to make policies. We need to think longterm and rationally, not just what would make us feel better the quickest. I understand how everybody wanted Bin Laden dead ASAP, but much more important would be to take steps to improve the middle east situation as a whole and end fanaticism.