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Remembering 9/11 - 9/4/2011 5:54:43 AM   
sunshinemiss


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Status: offline 		In 2001 I was living in Philadelphia.  We were right in the center amongst the three areas that were hit.  The mayor shut the city down afraid that Constitution Hall would be hit.  Everyone I knew, including myself, knew someone affected directly or someone who died that day.  I volunteered with the Red Cross hotline teaching parents how to interact with their children about what had happened. 

These days, I feel my US citizenship in a palpable way. 

Anyone want to share about this?

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/4/2011 6:04:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		My memories of 9/11 are as clear as if it had happened yesterday. I had just started working in my hospital. I arrived just after the first plane hit and remember thinking "oops, someone's going to be in trouble" thinking that some pilot had majorly fucked up. Just then someone came running down the hall yelling about a second plane and my stomach plummeted. Very little work was done that day apart from chemos. We all stood around the tv in the waiting room, horrified by what we saw unfolding. Amazingly enough, the day after, one of the docs told me there had been a bomb threat overnight - we're in CANADA!



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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/4/2011 6:59:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, just like it happened yesterday. We were at work, watching it unfold on our computers. I saw the second plane hit and remember thinking how many people lost their lives at that exact second. We were evacuated when the first tower fell and several of us went to a nearby coworkers house. A few of our upper managers were due to go to a conference at one of the towers in early October.

We watched continuously for about 24 hours, just knowing, hoping that they would start pulling survivors out. I remember much footage of responders stopping and running to an area that there were sounds of what could have been survivors, only to have their (and our) hopes dashed. I know they pulled a handful of survivors out (see Josephine's story and a few more), but that's what stands out the most for me. The rise and fall of hope for survivors. There just weren't any.

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/4/2011 9:14:09 AM   
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I felt like some (jackass) just fucked up mylife,
May he rot in hell......, after getting his ass ate by group of white sharks,

Edited to correct, KSA not Egypt

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/4/2011 9:46:12 AM   
NuevaVida


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Status: offline 		I woke up from my mother-in-law calling me, saying a plane just flew into the WTC. She was super upset about it.  No one really knew what was going on yet.  On my drive to work I was on the phone with my cousin in Spain and she had the news on, and started screaming that another plane just flew into the other tower.  I get goosebumps when I think of it - there was horror in her voice, and it was all so confusing. My brother called right after that and said do NOT go to work, but I went anyway.  We all watched it unfold on TV at work, and then we all went home early to be with our families.

I later learned a former co-worker of mine lost his wife on the 2nd plane.  She was on her way to see her son in San Diego, who was having problems and needed her.

I had a very good friend who worked near the area. I could not reach him.  I heard from him later that night - he was fine, he had a staff of 70 employees in the WTC and they all made it out. He and his wife lived on the west side of Central Park, and after confirming his employees were ok, he went home to be with her.

I just remember feeling very vulnerable. I'm in California but I felt our country was very vulnerable, and there was a lot of speculation going on about what might be hit next.

One of the major things that came out of it for me was realizing something was very wrong with my (ex) husband - he thought it was funny that people were so upset, and would laugh when news footage came on. He ridiculed me for crying.   It was just a couple years later that he was diagnosed as a sociopath - absolutely no conscious whatsoever. I think about his laughing every time the topic of 9/11 comes up, and what it was like to live with someone like that.


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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/4/2011 9:52:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		I remember it like it was yesterday. I was at work and my mom called me. After that everyone's phones in the department started ringing .. their loved ones were calling them as well. We gathered around the TV in the conference room and watched the 2nd plane hit. I wanted to go pick my kids up from school and hold them. I remember thinking if they were with me, they would be safe. The man I was seeing at the time was traveling (by plane) that day. It took him exactly 23 hours from the time he left that morning to get a call through to me. I had 2 very good friends that worked in the Twin Towers ... still keep in touch with their families. We were very far removed (physically) from what was actually happening, but it felt as though I was right there.

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/4/2011 10:24:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was unemployed at the time and had the TV set to go off as my alarm.  It woke me up to the plane crashing into the 2nd WTC building.  I thought no way, I'm just dreaming this.  But it was real.  I also remember quite vividly, to this day, watching a man and woman jump out of the higher floors.  Taht footage was shown as it happened and was then pulled, for obvious reasons.  It was that or burn to death.  I was horrified.  I stayed up for well over 2 weeks straight, not eating, sleeping or going out, watching all the coverage hoping against hope that they'd eventually find someone, anyone, who had survived after those first few hours or so.  Sadly that was not to be.  It's still as clear as a bell to me and will be one of the most heart-wrenching and horrifying moments in my life.

I still have nightmares and know these will become worse this year with it being the 10th anniversary (what a word for such a tragedy) of this life and world-changing event.  God bless all those who perished, their loved ones, friends and all in general. 

Here's a website I found that you can leave a message and leave the name of someone you lost that day or have the selector pick one if you didn't know anyone personally.  It's a great memorial for all those affected by that hellish day.  I've already left my remembrances and had someone picked out for me who would be remembered. 

This is our generation's equivalent to the death of President JFK and that of Martin Luther King.  Let us hope with all our hearts that the generation following ours will not be forced to see such horrors as happened that day.  It's a small hope, but one which I foster with all my heart.  I have a 16 yr old niece and wouldn't want her to have to know such tragedy, affected personally or not.  

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/5/2011 9:44:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was at the Y-12 weapons plant in Oak Ridge when the attack came.   The next day, the company president called a meeting for all project and programs managers.   The message was short and simple, we need to get ready to go to Iraq.   Just over two years later, the Department of Defense was throwing out emergency requests for proposal (e.g. screaming "we need help".)   6 weeks later, we were the first contractor to hit the ground with ordnance disposal capabilities and we had increased the Army's number of bomb techs in Iraq by 50%.

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/5/2011 11:18:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was at work (in London) when a guy came into the office to say that he's had a text from his brother to say that a plane had crashed into the WTC. We all assumed it was an accident involving a light aircraft and paid only mild attention. A little later he comes back to say another plane has crashed. Well, that just had to be a mistake - the news had got garbled - so still we paid no heed. Then guy returns to say that a plane has crashed into the Pentagon...

So we all try to access the news websites only to find they're all overloaded with traffic and we can't get on. There followed more text message updates via the guy with the mobile phone (I didn't have one of my own in 2001), including when the towers fell but I couldn't really believe it was real until I got home and turned on the TV. Then I just sat there watching all evening while e-mailing friends stateside.

Next day I was due to meet an American aquaintence who was in town on business. I only knew her casually from online and we'd never met. We had a surreal day doing tourist things but also went to the US Embassy and watched the queues of people lining up for the condolence book.

Generally I have the memory of a goldfish with amnesia, but those days remain very vivid.

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/5/2011 1:22:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		My parents and I were at the end of a fantastic and had spent the night of the 10th up in the Redwoods. Our plan was to drive down to SF during the day and return our hire car to the airport and book into the airport hotel ready for our flight home on the 11th.

My father never turns the TV on in the morning but for some reason he turned it on that morning and saw the news. Once we realised what was happening we tried to call the UK but it was impossible to get through. We decided to head down to our hotel in SF. Eventually we checked into the hotel and got hold of British Airways who told us that we would not be able to fly out for a week.

We decided an airport hotel was not a good place to stay for a week so we headed out to Lake Tahoe. We met some really lovely people who were so nice to us. When the hotel found out that we stuck there due to what had happened they gave an upgrade. We got to see the Lake which we would not normally have done.

The thing I will always remember is the kindness shown to us at that time. Although we love the US, at that time we wanted nothing more than to get home.

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/5/2011 2:33:51 PM   
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ORIGINAL: NuevaVida

One of the major things that came out of it for me was realizing something was very wrong with my (ex) husband - he thought it was funny that people were so upset, and would laugh when news footage came on. He ridiculed me for crying.   It was just a couple years later that he was diagnosed as a sociopath - absolutely no conscious whatsoever. I think about his laughing every time the topic of 9/11 comes up, and what it was like to live with someone like that.


Wow. I was with MY ex-husband at the time and remember us watching it on a hotel TV, just sitting there kind of stunned. He's never been officially diagnosed as a sociopath though I'VE certainly figured him for one many times. Even he didn't laugh or find anything light about it. I just remember getting goosebumps and waiting to hear some kind of explanation for what was going on.

I didn't personally have any connection, however. No one I knew or was acquainted with was in any of those buildings or living nearby when it all happened and maybe that is why I've always been more objective about it than most people. It was a horrible tragedy that negatively affected so many lives and, for that, it made me sad. I don't, however, think it was the worst tragedy that has ever happened. Terribly similar things have been done to other people in many other countries by our own government and others and my heart has always gone out to them for their losses as well. No, that DOESN"T make what happened on 9/11 acceptable or less tragic in any way. It just reminds me that tragedies happen to all people in all places daily and their pain matters too. It's ALL horrible and I wish none of it would happen.

On 9/11 and the time shortly thereafter, I think I was especially worried that more similar attacks on U.S. soil were going to happen. I am so glad that they have not.

My heart goes out to all of you here who were touched more personally than I was on that awful day..........luci

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/5/2011 3:39:36 PM   
NuevaVida


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ORIGINAL: NuevaVida

One of the major things that came out of it for me was realizing something was very wrong with my (ex) husband - he thought it was funny that people were so upset, and would laugh when news footage came on. He ridiculed me for crying.   It was just a couple years later that he was diagnosed as a sociopath - absolutely no conscious whatsoever. I think about his laughing every time the topic of 9/11 comes up, and what it was like to live with someone like that.


Wow. I was with MY ex-husband at the time and remember us watching it on a hotel TV, just sitting there kind of stunned. He's never been officially diagnosed as a sociopath though I'VE certainly figured him for one many times. Even he didn't laugh or find anything light about it. I just remember getting goosebumps and waiting to hear some kind of explanation for what was going on.


His reaction was pretty shocking.  Every time footage would show on the news, of people crying and reacting, he would laugh and call them idiots.  It was very revealing to me, about a lot of things, but that's another topic.

I still feel deeply touched when I see news footage.


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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/5/2011 5:13:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was only a few months at my current job. The manager of the other company was from Syracuse and has a sister that worked very near the Trade Centre, often went there for business. She came upstairs with a stunned look on her face and told me about the first building.

I got online to CNN and was watching it on their live feed. When the second building was hit the realization that it was no accident began sinking in.

Generic Dude was military then. He messaged me and told me that his phone was ringing off the hook and that his email was exploding.

That night we knew he was going to be gone somewhere and likely for quite a while. Things got really tense in our house for quite a while. It was almost a relief when he finally left for Iraq. I still remember when I got the email telling me about the capture of Saddam. Knowing in my heart that it still wasn't really over.

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/6/2011 3:28:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		The first time I ever spent the night with MP was exactly Sept 10, 2001.  I went to work the following morning thinking of how glad that this man was the first that I had shared a bed after My year of self-imposed celibacy. 

At the time, I worked with one of the laziest fucks on the planet.  When he came and told Me what happened, I didn't believe him at first.  It wasn't until the second plane hit that I knew he was telling the truth.

The military locked down that day, and here was poor MP, who had chased Me for months.  We'd finally spent the night together and now he couldn't call as promised.  He spent two hours searching for an email contact that would reach Me.  I got it around 9:30 AM, Colorado Springs time.  Of course, by then, My head was already spinning like the rest of the world.

He risked his career for Me that day.  I never forgot it.


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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/6/2011 7:17:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		I had to drive my kids to the bus stop back in those days. The power had gone ut the night before. I never,ever turned on the tv in the morning, but I did that day to find out what time it was. The second plane had just flown into the tower. On the way to the bus stop, I heard on the car radio about the tower collapsing.

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/7/2011 9:15:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you everyone for sharing your stories.

Blessing and joy to you all.

If we learned nothing that day, I hope it is this. 


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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/7/2011 11:20:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was an elementary school teacher then, the woman in the office came running into the common area and in a hushed tone let the teachers know what was going on. We turned on the tv in the library and turned it around so the kids couldn't see with the sound off. We were located very close to the Pentagon. All day long we had frantic parents running in to claim their kids and go home early. The kids were mystified, didnt' know why everyone was so somber and frightened and why they were getting a pass on school that day. We were told not to give them information, just that something had happened and their parents would explain more when they got home.

Thank goodness my own kids went to school on that campus in the high school so I had my family with me and didn't have to feel torn between going to get them and being with my students. I just remember feeling so protective of all of the kids and what was going to happen, and how were we supposed to go on from there? I was stunned to see the footage of the people jumping and told the others we needed to turn the tv off at that point. It still stuns me to know that some people had to make that choice and how brave they were. It completely chokes me up.

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/11/2011 5:13:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		I had been on O`ahu for about a month on September 11th, 2001. Hawai`i doesn't observe daylight savings time, so the difference in time from the east coast was 6 hours. By the time I turned on the t.v., as I was getting ready for work, the towers had already fallen. I very rarely turned on the t.v. when getting ready for work and in a way I almost wished I hadn't. I was dumbstruck seeing the images they were showing on every network channel. I didn't have the time to watch enough of it to really know what was going on. I nearly missed my bus to work. Until later that day, I had thought the planes were military planes from some foreign nation that had just declared war on the United States. I decided I was going to leave the USA and go home if the US was going to engage in a war. When I got to work it was very odd. No one was talking about it. Perhaps they weren't aware, but it was eery - enough so to make me question whether or not I'd somehow dreamed the newscast. It wasn't until lunch when I heard more from co-workers about it being a terrorist attack. Like so many others, I was glued to my t.v. when I got home from work. I just remember how surreal it all seemed.

That was then.

This week, I have watched some of the programs on t.v. about 9/11. I saw a replay of a segment Matt Lauer did with a 10 year old boy that I believe was done a few months after 9/11. When this boy started talking about his father, he began to cry. Seeing the pain in that boy was so unbelievably heart wrenching. I saw more recent interviews too with older folks who lost a son or a daughter on that day. They have this tired sadness in their faces that seem to convey this hole in their heart that you know can never be repaired. And the History channel aired a program called Voices from Inside the Tower with some of the last phone messages made by people in the WTC towers and by people on the flights. There was this realization that their lives were going to end. Can you imagine it? Can you even fathom what it had to have been like for them? Oh my gosh. And on another program, they showed a very realistic animation, from within one of the planes, just before it hit one of the towers. I just can't find the words to express what that image evoked.

I can't help but question why there is such hatred and evil in this world.

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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/11/2011 11:20:06 AM   
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RE: Remembering 9/11 - 9/11/2011 12:08:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		i needed a second job, and so i was interviewing at McDonalds that day. The interviewer told me what happened. i didn't believe her. i hadn't heard about it. (At the time i had no t.v., radio, computer, etc.) When i finally did believe it, i was just shocked and angry.

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