What do you remember about that awful day: September 11,2001?

Question

I remember it clearly. The buildings fall one by one. People thinking that the the first plane was just confused and lost. I did not sleep for days and days.
Sorry to those that lost families and friends and coworkers. We have them in our hearts!!!

Answer 1

First I remember I was at work at the newspaper when I first heard about it.

The guy said it as if he did not expect me to believe it, and I didn't.

Second image:

Our secretary Bonnie was on vacation, taking a bus trip to NY, including the World Trade Towers that day.

Thank God her bus was turned back at New Jersey.ally Bonnie lived, but her 21 year old son died in a single car "accident" late at night soon afterwards.

I heard of a young girl, who steped in a puddle of water, after the "all clear" following a recent hurricane...and was electrocuted, half a block from a fallen hydro wire.

Bonnie's sons death, soon after the "all clear" following her 9-11 close call reminds me of that girl.

3rd image:

My good friend Dave Tricker was teaching at the Dresden High School when the news came down about the towers' collapse.

He burst into tears in front of his class (as I remember a classmate named Ruth doing the day we were told in school that Kennedy was shot).

There was a happy ending for Dave. His son, who worked in that NY building, got out safe and sound, although his friends died.

4th image:

My brother Al was working at Boston Edison that day, and his boss was flying from Boston to L.A. California on 9-11, on a plane hi-jacked and crashed in NY.

The boss had a child, back in Boston, who had to be shielded from TV that week.

The boss's spouse was safe and sound, thank God, traveling on a cheaper flight (because Edison only paid for one fare); BUT did not make it to the west coast, nor could go home and comfort their child, "grounded" in St Louis because of the "national emmergency"!

Answer 2

I had no idea what had happened, my mom had called my house and left a message, "Are you watching TV? never mind." I didn't have time to watch TV because I had a job interview, so I hurried and got dressed and got in my car and started to drive away. The radio was on in the car and the DJ sounded SO serious, but I could not figure out what had happened, I thought that maybe the president had been assassinated. I stopped the car in the middle of the street and waited and listened, and then the DJ said "The World Trade Center is no longer a part of the New York City skyline." I was dumbfounded, I turned the car around and went back home and could not believe what I was seeing. I am from New York, (I don't live there now,) and grew up when the WTC was under construction, it was a big deal. I remember when it was completed. Utter shock is the only way to describe my reaction.

Answer 3

I teach ESL to students from around the world and I remember dashing downstairs to see what was happening on TV, and the sick feeling of seeing the planes crashing into the towers, the South Tower going down, the helplessness we all felt, the horrible witnessing of people jumping rather than burn to death, just the awful feeling that it wasn't real, and that the world was not the same.

I also remember that I had just, the day before, got two new students in my class and they were women from Pakistan. They wore the full burkhas, and I thought that they needed to know that they were welcome in our class, that it would be OK, but that they might want to be careful bc some angry Americans might do heaven knows what to them on the bus or something. I had several Muslim students in my class, and we all talked about it the next day.

I couldn't go to school that day, I was sick to my stomach.

May the families and friends of the victims remember their loved ones with solemn love and peace.

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Answer 4

I was listening to the radio news when they announced what had happened. I recalled that a plane had gone into the Empire State building in 1947 but that was on an overcast day. Religion can do good things and it can also poison things. I wish that God would get more involved with Religion before something like that happens again.

Answer 5

I remember I was six months pregnant. I was watching the today show at work with my boss when the second plane hit. That's when it became apparent that it wasn't an accident.

I wasn't in New York when it happened....

Those poor people. It still makes me cry when the stories of the survivors are on the History channel or the Discovery channel...

Answer 6

I was at the office and I heard one of the girls scream from the break room. I went in to see the buildings fall. I worked down town in Memphis and there was nothing to hear, it was eerie.
When the plane hit the Pentagon, I had to wait for best friend to call me and let me know her step-mom hadn't been killed, she was far enough down that she made it out.
I am tearing up thinking about it. It was the craziest and saddest day ever.

Answer 7

I was working nights that day and had gotten home and had just gotten to slepp when my daughter called from college and told me to turn on the TV. I turned it on just in time to see the second plane crash into the second tower. I spent the rest of that day watching those planes fly into the buildings and watching them fall. Watching people jump to escape the flames and splat on the ground.

That is one day that Muslims ALLL over the world will have to live in shame over. Their Religion was hijacked that day by a few angry radical fundamantalists and comitted one of the MOST shameful acts in History. Those hijackers had a message to deliver to the American Government and yet delivered it to thousands of totally innocent civilians in a completely cowardly fashion. They couldn't get at the Government so they simply killed innocents, soley for the sake of killing innocents.

That is just ONE of thousands of instances of how the misuse of Religion can actually REPULSE folks from adopting and following that Religion. It's a sad and shameful way to try and spread the tenets of one's beliefs.

BB,
Raji the Green Witch

Answer 8

I rememeber I was at college. The school I went to is right next to a huge airforce base. Wright Patt Airforce base. I woke up turn the TV on and just stared. Then they cancelled our school for a while.

Answer 9

I remember living in Nyack the smell in the air of burning and I thought it smelled like burning people and debris. I know it sounds gross, but it was so hard to breathe and I'll never forget what a perfectly gorgeous day it was as I was walking to my class

Answer 10

I remember being awake laying in bed watching 1st tower fall, as my phone was ringing (my mom was calling from the beach) the second tower was falling. . I felt so scared and sad.