Where were you on 9-11-01?

[DallasApple]

My husband woke me up to watch the news ..which is the only time he has ever woken me up to watch anything let alone the news.He said you have to see this a plane just flew into a building in NY..I said oh thats sad that happens I'll see it later.He said no you should really watch this.(my husband is not an alarmist he is the opposite).

I knew nothing about the Twin Towers.Never even heard of them.But I was absolutely blown away that huge building had been hit at all let alone by a huge passenger plane.HOW in the world could they have been flying that low..What in the world happened here?

I kept thinking all those people are dead.( I have a special spot for that my father died in a plane crash).

Good GOD..another plane hit while we were watching.THIS is ON PURPOSE!NO NO NO NO!This can NOT be happening!!It felt like the ground came out from under my feet..ALL those people.

Then the reports and images of people jumping..THE HORROR!You are sitting there watching in real time thousands of people dying and you cant do anything but watch.

Then the tower leaning..NO..then it went down in a matter of seconds ..NO!!!then the other one..THEY ALL DIED!!!

Other reports coming in of other planes unaccounted for or not on their flight path.It was serioulsy the most sureal moment in my life so far.My brain couldnt absorb that it really was happening.My children were in school..What are they going to hit next!Then reports(ended up being false) but of trucks with bombs in them going off in front of buildings.

My husband had to go to work in downtown Dallas..I begged him not to go.He foolishly went anyway.

I was numb.I happened of all things to have a therapy session that day.I contemplated not going.By then I beleive they had grounded all planes..I decided to go.

My therapist was in shock.I had to fill her in they only had radio..She didnt even know the second tower had collapsed.As another poster mentioned she was talking about WW3 as well.

And the following days were just as eerie..We live in Dallas suburbs.Planes fly over head every 10 minutes or so.We have DFW and Love Field and a smaller airport in Addison and the absence of the sound was LOUD!

People were walking around in what seemed like a zombified sate.Just blank.

Watching the people in NY walking around with signs begging that anyone who may have seen their loved one contact them..In vain.

Just brutal.

Now when I hear of a natural disaster that kills X amount of people..Or X amount of people killed in this part of the world in war..It has a different meaning to me.

What happened on 9-11 is seared into my mind so that when I think about it I relive the same emotions.And I remember it minute by minute like watching a recording in my mind.

And finding out about the brave souls on flight 93(I believe) that mangaged to foil the terroist plans for that one..Just makes your knees weak with humility.

Love

Dallas

 

[DallasApple]

WHOA!!! LOL!!! Sorry that was so long..I went into my mind too long.

Love

Dallas

 

[Kathryn]

I was at my office picking up some paperwork on my way to the AIRPORT to fly to New Orleans on a business trip - flight leaving at 11 am. My boss came literally sliding around the corner thru the doorway of my office with this wild look on his face and said, "GET ONLINE AND LOOK AT THE NEWS!" We watched in stunned silence as the second plane hit the second tower. I looked over at him and said, "Well. We're at war."

I worked at a staffing company and our lobby was full of applicants - who were all staring at the TV in silence, some with tears streaming down their faces. I went out to the lobby and said, "If anyone wants to join our staff in a prayer for the victims and for our country, come on back here with me." Every single person in the lobby rose to their feet and joined us.

Needless to say, I didn't fly out that day. I went to my church at noon and it was packed full of people from every walk of life, who had simply gravitated there to pray together - many were complete strangers.

I bought the last American flag at Wal-Mart and hung it outside my house, so that when my kids came home from school they would see it. My oldest daughter told me later that night that when she walked up to the porch, she grabbed the flag, and sat on the porch step hugging it and crying.

My youngest son was called to the office at his school. He told me that he believed all the way there that they were pulling him aside to tell him that his mother had been killed on one of the planes. (I had just called the schools to tell them to let my kids know I wasn't flying out that day.)

I still have the plane ticket from that day. It clearly states "September 11, 2001" on it. I keep meaning to have it framed somehow.

Two weeks later, as I drove to New Orleans for the postponed business trip, I took the back roads all the way there. Nearly every home, from the palatial, to the smallest shack, had an American flag snapping in the autumn breeze. Suddenly, the tension from the past two weeks hit me. I cried for three hours straight driving through my homeland.

 

[arimoff]

I was in high school at that time in Brooklyn NY, my mom called me and asked if I have talked to my father that morning since he had an appointment to on of the towars that day. I gave hima call he said he cancelled the visit because few of his workers who were arabs didn't show up that day at work so he didn't go, I felt. So relieved at that time.

My school was about 30 min. Drive from the towars, but the smoke from the towars. Whent so far reaching the atlantic ocean. Later when they collapsed we were able to smell the burning and had some ash falling on the streets.

They closed the roads and transportaion right away, people had to walk hours toget home from the city, I know some people who it took around 5 hours just to get home.

 

[arimoff]

It was scary, the next few days everything was so quite and calm in NY. I hope nothing ever happens like this again, anywhere in the world.

 

[DallasApple]

It was scary, the next few days everything was so quite and calm in NY. I hope nothing ever happens like this again, anywhere in the world.

You poor thing what an experience to be that close.. :flower2:

Love

Dallas

 

[blackout]

I always hate drawing that card...

Actually for me, the Tower Card, as it applies numerologically to my name(s),
has a very great and positive significance for me.

I would go on here... but it would be significantly off topic.

My previous answer was true though.

That day was the catalyst for the collapse of my whole world construct.
Govt.>> Religion>> everything.
My Tower was a freefall in slow motion for months & months after.

While i am obviously not happy about what happened on 9/11...
the collapse of my own personal Tower,
(life/reality...trust/belief construct)
was the very best thing that could have possibly happened to me.

 

[Madhuri]

It was scary, the next few days everything was so quite and calm in NY. I hope nothing ever happens like this again, anywhere in the world.

That would be wonderful but unfortunately these things happen all the time in the world (tragedies, not places hitting buidlings). We're just lucky that we live in nations that are normally unaffected.

 

[Falvlun]

I was homeschooled through highschool, so I was at home. My dad called and said to turn on the TV pronto. So we all piled onto my mom's bed and watched as Peter Jennings tried not to cry, and the second plane smashed into the Tower. We watched them fall. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Later that day I went sled dog training as scheduled. My mom didn't want to let me go, but I needed that sense of normalcy and routine. Life was going on.

 

[Smoke]

I was at home in my apartment in Columbia, South Carolina.

I'm not really ready to talk about 9-11 yet. John and I went to visit Ground Zero a few years ago, but we didn't talk about it.

 

[Katzpur]

I was in my car, driving, and listening to the radio. Oddly, when the announcement was first made, I thought it was going to be some kind of a dumb joke. It didn't take long for me to realize that it wasn't, and that this was a really, really big deal.

 

[mrscardero]

I was going to play hooky from work and go to the city that day.
For some reason I decided to go to work.

 

[Enoch07]

I had just gotten off work at 8am (EST) that morning. I went to meet my girlfriend at the time that worked at the local Waffle House. We had a bite to eat and talked for awhile before heading back to our place. So we get home feed and walked the dogs, do some other choirs when I turned on the t.v. (I think I turned it on at about 9am), which just happened to be on one of the cable news channels, to the devastation in New York.