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lusciouslips19 -> Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 12:27:23 PM)
Where were you on 9/11/2001? I was taking my son to his first half day creative child care program. He was 2. I came home and was watching ABC news. I watched them report on the first plane. They didnt know what happened. Then we saw the second one in real time. We all had the horrible realization at that time that it wasnt an accident. I watched in real time as the towers fell like dominos. My stomach dropped and I wanted to get my son but the YMCA said to leave him there to the regular time. It was probably best for him. I held him very tight when I picked him up. I cried alot that day and for a couple of days after.

DaddyDomsgirl -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 12:32:07 PM)
i was at my ex in-laws.....we seen it happen from the first planning hitting.....my heart dropped and we started to call back to New York(ex-husband's family is from there)...they also work in downtown near where the towers were...we couldn't get thru...we tried and tried for hours....till finally we got thru and found out everyone was ok....we sat and cried and held each other for hours....my ex mother-inlaw also passed away 2 months after 9/11...it's still hard to this day to think about all the people that were lost there....to think what thier families and friends most be going thru today....it's to much

Thadius -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 12:35:03 PM)
I was eating breakfast and watching the news, which at the time was doing the weather with a live view of the towers as a background. While the numbers and letters obscured the view, it was clear that something terrible had happened as the first plane hit, and the reaction of the weatheman were similar to mine as my heart sunk to my stomach. I had just finished reading a novel that described a similar type of attack, only it was during the inauguration and designed to take out much of the leadership of the country, when news broke about the attack on the pentagon, I realized my worst fears might be coming true. I can only imagine the same sort of feeling must have been present when the news broke during the attacks on Pearl Harbor. It is something I will never forget, even if I am not able to put those feelings into words.

LaTigresse -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 12:36:58 PM)
I was right where I am now. At work. We didn't get alot done. We kept going to the computers and listening to our radios. It was a weird and quiet day.

GabrielleSlave -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 12:37:42 PM)
i was at home, signed off work with depression and a broken foot. i had turned on the news just after the first plane hit, then watched in real time horror as the second one happened... My problems paled into stupid insignificance, i just sat, stared at my tv screen in London and cried and cried...

kittinSol -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 12:39:24 PM)
I was in France at the time, it was around lunchtime, I switched on the news and there it was... my son had just gone back to school. Bad stuff [>:] - I still can't see the footage without choking up.

popeye1250 -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 12:39:51 PM)
I was in New Hampshire and had just woken up. I was going to put on some Irish music but "something" told me to put on the news and when I did I saw smoke comming from the North tower. When the second plane hit I knew immediately that we were at war. In the next few days lots of my neighbors were wearing guns on their belts and I called all the Armed Forces recruiting offices and tried to get back "in." They told me; "You're too old!" I was 51. So, I called a travel agency and made reservations to fly to Ireland. I asked the Irish lady at the travel agency in Boston if I could carry a gun with me on the plane, and she said, "Aye ye can!" "We're having a special for those with guns!" I told her, "Fuck those assholes I'm flying!" In December me and a few other people visited NYC to see ground zero.

sub4hire -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 12:49:50 PM)
I was at work. There was a television around and we always had the news on. So quickly I became transfixed just like everyone else in the world did. It is now 8 years later and it may sound cold hearted. Though I have lost literally hundreds of friends in my life to death. The time has come to say goodbye. All a yearly pause does is perpetuate fear. I know I am not the only one who watched that fateful day and wanted to strike back. If I knew who it was then, I would have. Just as today if we were hit, I would strike back. Yet, I think it is time to put the fear to bed for once and all. Stop living in the past and looking to the future.

hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 1:12:20 PM)
I was at home, in my old house, getting ready to take my grandmother to a meeting she had scheduled with a bancruptcy councilor. I had just gotten out of the shower and was walking across the hallway to my bedroom to finish getting dressed when they broke in on the TV with the announcement of the first plane. I watched the footage of that, listening to commentary in a state of semi-shock, while I put clothes on - and had just gotten done putting on some makeup when the Live broadcast of the 2nd plane hitting happened. My oldest (the one who turns 21 tomorrow) was at school. My youngest (the one who turned 10 a few days ago) was across town with her father's family. My grandmother, who lived with me at the time, went into complete hysterics - worse than if she had actually been in NYC herself. A few minutes later, I logged on to check email prior to taking her to that appointment - and was asked by a buddy of mine who lives in Tulsa to see if I could call her family out here in Oklahoma since she couldn't get through to them, and she was Scheduled to be taking a tour through the WTC when the second plane hit. (Fortunately, she was still at her hotel, running late, when the first one hit - it kinda changed her plans for the rest of her vacation to the east coast!)

DomKen -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 1:19:15 PM)
I was on the "L" when the first plane hit. All I heard at first was that a plane had hit the tower. I assumed it was a small plane and went to work. When I got into th eoffice everyone was watching the TV in the conference room and I walked in just in time to see the second plane hit. That's when I knew this was an attack. I went into my office and stared across the street, at the black wall of glass and steel that was all the Sears Tower that I could see from there. It struck me then that if terrorists had attacked the WTC that the Sears might be next and we were right across the street from it. I knew I had to get the people who worked for me out of there so I called the owner and explained the situation, she was in traffic and hadn't been listening to teh radio, got the office closed and all appointments canceled and sent everyone home. When I got out on the street I saw everyone with their cell phones out and it struck me that a friend who worked in Tower 1 might be dead. I started calling and getting that horrible "all circuits are busy" message. It took until the next day to get in touch with him to find that he had been in the subway when the first plane hit and had been sent out of the area before the towers fell, my friend literally owes his life to flextime.

Thadius -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 1:26:53 PM)
Not to take away from this thread, but in hopes of adding to it and the others on these boards. Another important part of the incident, at least for me, was the days and weeks following this tragedy. Those days and weeks highlighted what it was to be American, in how we all came together, regardless of race, religion, gender, or political party, we were for a short time all in tune with simply being a better citizen of the country that we love. I do long for that feeling of unity again, and I hope that the conflicts now going on amongst those various groups may someday lead to a coming together not based on tragedy, but a simple understanding that each of us is different. I wish you all well, Thadius

WinsomeDefiance -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 1:47:03 PM)
I was in bed, and my boyfriend at the time woke me up and turned on the TV just in time for me to see the second plane hit. The only other emotional response I recall feeling as gut wretchingly was when my mother told me my dad had cancer. They stand out in my memory as the two most shocking and horrifying realizations I've yet to experience. That, and my boyfriend telling me "see, I told you a world catastrophe would take place, if you ever turned down sex." Which, actually he had joked about it the night before when I declined the offer of sex. Since it was such a rare occurence, he said the balance of forces in nature must surely be heralding a major catastrophe. (sighs) I'm not a terrorist, I swear!

LaTigresse -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 1:47:06 PM)
Thank you Thadius. I was just thinking a similar thought the other day. I've been trying to avoid the political threads for a few days because all the vitrol being spewed makes me want to spew. We are all Americans and want the best for our country.

SilverMark -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 1:55:13 PM)
I was in Elk Grove, Illinois on business. Watched as most did on TV in shock....scared....a long way from home and by Myself. The oddest thing was after the fact, I had to get used to no noise from O'Hare which was within a few miles of Me. I had been there for a few weeks...had finally gotten used to the airplanes....then SILENCE..... When I finally saw another plane in the air I remember it almost brought tears to My eyes....

LaTigresse -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 2:06:01 PM)
I had almost forgotten about the silence of no planes. As most here know, I live in the country on a hilltop. I am outside at night after dark, or early in the morning before the sun comes up, quite often. I am used to wandering around out there with the dogs and looking up at the stars and planes going overhead. We seem to be under several major flight paths as there is always half a dozen up there passing over. Always the white trails crisscrossing during the day. It was so strange to have them missing.

slaveboyforyou -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 2:07:11 PM)
I was at home and I had just woke up. I was working a night job at the time. I hadn't turned on the television, but my brother called and said one of the twin towers got hit by a plane. I turned the news on and had it on in the background as I was making breakfast. As soon as the other plane hit, I knew it wasn't an accident. I don't remember feeling sad; I was pissed off.

CalifChick -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 2:11:09 PM)
I had finished getting ready for work a bit early, so I sat down at my computer to see if any friends on instant messenger were online. One of my friends had changed his display name to "HOLY SHIT TURN ON THE NEWS!"... which was very uncharacteristic of him. So I did... that was right after the first plane hit. I took a portable tv to work and not much got done that day. It did spur me to make a phone call that day, to someone that I thought was going to be in NYC (he lived about an hour or so outside of NYC). It was someone I had "met" on the internet that had given me his number a week or so earlier, but I had not called him as of that point. He was not in the city that day after all. That man became my husband, the one I'm waiting on the judge to sign a restraining order on (hopefully will have an answer tomorrow; otherwise Monday at the latest), and for another judge to sign final divorce papers on. So I blame Al Qaeda for my first marriage. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Cali

lronitulstahp -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 2:11:46 PM)
i was 38 weeks pregnant with my son. i was having breakfast with my daughter, who at the time was 16 months old. my mother called from NY, and said " Baby sit down, and turn on the news." i watched the smoke rising from the first tower.... i prayed it wasn't another attack. ( i lived in NY when the WTC was bombed.) When i saw the second plane, i cried, and it was the sort of gut wrenching cry one tries to never have in front of a small child....it was a horrible thing to see, and i hated the powerlessness i felt, knowing of a good friend that worked in one of those buildings might be there. Amazingly enough, my friend, Gerry W. was late for work that day...and his life has never been the same....

popeye1250 -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 2:12:39 PM)
Yeah, I remember seeing the contrails of planes very high above us in New Hampshire, six of them at a time at hourly intervals so we knew that they were military planes headed East! I was hoping that they had nuclear weapons in them and that they were headed for Mecca and Messina. After all this fighting it doesn't seem "enough." We need to drop at least one nuke somewhere over there, how about Syria? No-one cares about Syria anyway.

CalifChick -> RE: Where were you the day the U.S. Paused? (9/11/2008 2:15:05 PM)
Oh yes... the silence of no planes was eerie. What was more eerie was that we have a National Guard Air Base here, attached to our city airport. The silence of no planes was broken very occasionally by the sound of F-16s, and everyone would stop what they were doing, go outside, and look up. Cali

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