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I was working in a nursing home. I don't remember anyone being very disturbed or shocked by the event, including the elderly clients who saw it on the news. Although most did agree it was nasty.

2007-07-20 02:27:29 · 64 answers · asked by purplepeace59 5 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

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yes, I guess everyone will remember that day!!!

September 11 is my little girls birthday......we had to have a little party for her .......we did, but all the adult felt sooooooo guilty for singing and having fun!!!

needless to say, we had tears in our eyes, while my sweet Daughter blew out the candles.....but the children never knew how hard we adults tried to give them all a very good time!!!

now my Daughter knows about 9/11....and she really doesn't like your birthday to be on that day in history!!!

2007-07-20 02:29:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

The Turkish gov't was going to buy one of our old U.S. Navy destroyers and I had a team inventorying the store rooms on that ship. The U.S. sailors were in an office above us and one called down to come see what was on T.V. We came up just as the second plane hit. One of the guys who was with us made a joke about us retired Navy guys going to be recalled and laughed and made a comment how 'awesome that looked, the plane crashing into the buliding. I almost punched him out! About an hour after lunch, we were told all civilians had to leave the base (Norfolk Navy Base). That weekend, a bunch of us volunteered to load food onto the USS Roosevelt CVN-71 that was getting underway for the Gulf in a couple of days. My team (we do logistics for the turn over of ships we sell to foreign navies) took the overtime, but all 5 of us agreed, we would have done the work for free if we had been asked to.

I still remeber where I was when we got the knews the President Kennedy had been shot: 11/22/63, 11th grade, Advanced English class. The halls were VERY quiet between classes that day.

October 12, 2000. Does anyone remember what happened on THAT day?
Ever hear of the USS Cole DDG-67 (17 men and women killed, 39 wounded by terrorists). I was doing a project at Quantico, USMC base and had turned on the CNN news when I got up Friday morning.
Remember the Alamo? No. Remember the COLE!
(USN, retired)

2007-07-20 17:39:55 · answer #2 · answered by AmericanPatriot 6 · 0 0

When 9/11 happened I was 11 and in my class we were deciding who should be head girl. When I went home the 9/11 event was on the news. At first I thought it was a like a movie...but it was real. I was a bit shocked but I wasn't too disturbed. I went to school next day and a few people mentioned it but it wasn't really talked about. I only felt deep sorrow for the situation later that week when a documentary was shown of it. I didn't really know what the world trade centre was before 9/11.

2007-07-20 03:03:46 · answer #3 · answered by Hope 5 · 0 0

I was at work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rather than panic or fear, people seemed concerned for those people being directly affected by the event. No one I know seemed disturbed or shocked. It was genuine sympathy and/or empathy for others that seemed to be the feeling of the day. I hadn't felt a feeling of togetherness like that in my lifetime, although I imagine there was a similar feeling during World War II.

A trivial thing that I will always remember is seeing the skies over the Bay Area clear and blue, without an airplane in sight. Very unusual. To the point of seeming surreal.

The most meaningful thing that I will remember is the togetherness. The sense of concern for others and selflessness. If we could only have such compassion for everyone without having destruction as the catalyst.

2007-07-20 02:58:01 · answer #4 · answered by silverlock1974 4 · 1 0

I was in my junior year of high school. At the exact moment the planes hit the buildings, I was in gym class. I went to a Catholic HS, so during homeroom the nun on the loudspeaker says, "Let us pray for all those who died in the plane that crashed into the World Trade Center." At the time I just thought it was like a dual passenger plane. Then like two periods later I was in lunch and my friend told me that one or both of the towers came crashing down. The school was sending the seniors with cars home, and I took a ride with my friend around the corner. When I got home I watched it all on TV, people in the studios covered with soot and ash. I live not far from Manhattan, probably about 30 miles away in NJ. When I looked out the window at work, I could see the billowing smoke coming from downtown Manhattan. We set up a TV at work and watched President Bush give his nightly speech about the events of 9/11. Never going to forget that day.

2007-07-20 02:34:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Strangely enough I was working in a nursing home too, it was not long after lunch and came on the TV. I can remember being completly in a daze with the turn of events. It was like watching a far-fetched film, but it was real.

Still can't find the words to describe how it felt. Complete horror, shock, sick, doesn't even begin to cover it.

2007-07-20 02:35:15 · answer #6 · answered by Louise 3 · 1 0

Was taking the doggy to the vet when it came on the radio. Had a feeling it was a terrorist attack when the first one hit. Got to the vet's office & the doc was crying, a relative of hers worked there. Was a beautiful day, remember that. Went & picked up my daughter from school, the teachers didn't tell the kids a damn thing, which pissed me off - isn't it better to know than to wonder??? Watched it over & over on the news all day. Started a painting of it a couple days after - before, during & after, still have to finish it...
But I think it depends on how close to NYC you are. Seems like people farther away could give 2 shites.

2007-07-20 02:43:35 · answer #7 · answered by lyobov 3 · 1 0

I was with a friend watching television and he and I just couldn't believe what we were watching, we both cried I think and then rang our families. We then went out for a walk in the park and even here in England the whole place was deserted, people stopped everything to watch the events unfold on the television or the Internet it was very bizarre, I was at work when the London bombings in 2005 happened and it was very strange, our Headteacher tried to keep it quiet so the students didn't overreact, so those of us that knew what was happening had a very strange few hours of putting on a face of calm whilst internally feeling quite distressed.

2007-07-20 02:37:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I was at school. I was never told what happened. I was in first grade, so they didn't want to scare any of us. They did though. All of the teachers were balling their eyes out, and every one was leaving. I was in the room with two other people. No talking,no getting up,no bathroom,(thank goodness no one had to go)no anything. Finally,it was time to go. I had sat there from the time they hit untill 2:30. I want home and played video games. Everyone was so solemn that day.I never understood. I never realized why that day was so horrible untill the next year when I saw a rerun of the crash. I wish I had known sooner.

2007-07-20 02:47:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

We are a military family and we lived in Sasebo Japan at the time. It was in the middle of the night for us. I couldn't sleep, so I got up and put the news on, (CNN), one of the few things that were in english. They just showed the first airplane going into the building, when the reporter said there was another one and they showed the second airplane hitting the building. My husband had duty that night and shortly after seeing this on TV, he calls me and asked me if I knew what was going on. He than asked if I could go knock on a neighbors door who was also stationed on the ship, because they were doing an emergancy call in for all of the base and he wasn't able to get ahold of him on the phone. The Japanese that we came incontect seemed very kind and asked how we were doing.

2007-07-20 02:37:23 · answer #10 · answered by Kourtney M 5 · 1 0

I had just headed into work at aninsurance company. I was 4 months pregnant and was so worried about the world I was bringing the baby into. I was also very upset because my husband is in the military and I was afraid he would have to leave to go overseas and would miss the birth of the baby. I felt so horrible for the people trapped in those buildings and could not imagine the chaos that was going on in NY.

2007-07-20 02:32:57 · answer #11 · answered by Rob 5 · 1 0

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