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rulemylife -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 12:14:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss 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? best, sunshine Yes, I want to share that we are going to have our resident conspiracy theorists on here soon claiming that none of it ever happened.

myotherself -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 12:19:43 PM)
I was at work in my London office. I was supremely pissed off because my scumbag boss had decided he would go and brief a client on a new project that I had done all the work for, despite the client asking for me to go. I was sitting in a conference room with some colleagues, having a meeting. We had a coffee break and switched on the plasma tv on the wall to catch the news. We saw the first tower come down as it was happening. I remember sitting for a second in horror, then bursting into tears. The client I was due to visit that day had its offices in the WTC. I would have been there - instead my boss was. Fortunately my clients and my boss escaped early on into the attack. I have no idea which guardian angel was looking after me that day, but I certainly owe them!

TreasureKY -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 12:22:43 PM)
While I remember the day and the memories of my emotions at the time are still vivid, the details are less clear. The following is a post of mine from a similar thread four years ago: I was out of town attending a week long certification course. It was during class that a gentleman in the room took a call on his cell phone at the back of the room. Shortly after, he interrupted the class to tell everyone that the WTC had possibly been attacked. He gave what little information that he had at that time before the instructor insisted that we return to our studies. I don't remember how long it was before we took a break, but the instructor did bring in one of the school's audio/video carts and the television was able to pick up a local station so that we could watch the news. That break not a single person left the room and we stayed glued to the television in utter and eerie silence. It was near the end of that break that the first tower collapsed. Needless to say, we were all quite upset when the instructor turned off the television and expected us to return to OSHA regulations. It was, however, only a week long course and we had a lot of material to cover. The rest of the day we watched the news during our breaks and struggled to concentrate on what we were trying to learn while feeling a surreal sense of disbelief and devastation. I've never been to New York, so it is has always been difficult for me to envision the scope of damage done. Of course, from the images carried in the aftermath and the death toll, it was obviously enormous. I found the following pieces done by the New York Times have helped me to understand better what was lost, and how the enduring spirit of hope carries us into the future: The World Trade Center Towers As They Were Ground Zero Now

BonesFromAsh -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 12:40:40 PM)
I remember hearing on the tv news that the first tower was hit and all I could think of was all the people I knew who worked in and around the area. I watched in horror as the second plane struck while I was dialing like mad any and all cell number I could think of to see who was alive. Three of those people I never made contact with again. At the time, I was less than an hour away from NYC and along a direct flight path of Westchester, LGA and JFK airports. I was used to hearing planes overhead and all I heard was military craft flying up and down the coast...it was eerie. The next day, my neighbor's husband and two sons made their way into the city to help with search and rescue...they're all firefighters. They were gone for days and when they finally came home, you could feel the despair emanating from them. The husband and the oldest son are still dealing with serious health issue due to inhaling the dust/debris.

slvemike4u -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 12:49:28 PM)
Treasure I am from New York....I watched my city completely shut down..and not just for that day either,I lived on Long Island at the time,the funerals seemed to be never ending.A good percentage of the cities civil service employees choose to raise their children outside the city proper.....Long Island lost so many fathers,husbands,wives and daughters that day....The funerals and memorials went on for almost two months. Numb became the default condition for so many of us.

CynthiaWVirginia -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 1:47:39 PM)
In the week before 9/11, mom, my son, and I were visiting with my aunt in her time share condo in Florida. There was a boat trip to some island sanctuary, and we all went on it and were away from all news of any kind. There was just sand and ocean, dead horse shoe crabs embedded along the beach, sea gulls, and sparse vegetation. 9/11 was such a peaceful day for us until the boat came and got us and took us back to shore. When we landed, everyone was talking about our country having been attacked and we just stood there in disbelief, thinking that it was some kind of sick joke. It was our last day and my aunt and her family went back home to Ohio, and my family was scheduled to drive near Orlando and stay with my ex-husband for a week. The tv was on the entire time we stayed there, and all day long, day after day, we kept watching the tv showing the planes hitting the towers and the devastation. I felt so...violated. In my entire life my country had never been attacked and I hadn't realized until that moment how lucky I was to live in a country where this was so rare. The previous time was when my grandparents had to hear that Pearl Harbor was hit. My ex is Lebanese and they speak Arabic in their home more than English...and we knew they would be facing some hard times as hostility over the attack spread. When we went home to WV, we were expecting to have our state hit too because our state is known for it's coal. Funny about the things we remember...at that time and for several years afterward, I kept remembering several years I spent in California as a kid. Here in WV, we only had fire drills. In California, school kids had fire drills, earthquake drills, and in my school days...air raid drills. When the tv kept broadcasting that our country was looking for American citizens who spoke Arabic or something like that, I tried to encourage my ex to sign up but he and his wife were too scared. They envisioned all Arab speaking Americans being rounded up into internment (sp?) camps, or of being targeted by terrorists and having whatever building they were sent to work in bombed.

samboct -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 2:13:01 PM)
I'm still angry about it. My sister was an EMT in Brooklyn, and she figured that it was going to be mass panic, and would I stock up on water so that my brother and his wife could hang out at the house in CT. I gathered up some gallon bottles of water from the office and my boss threw a hissy fit- demanding that I stay and work. He told me he'd dock my pay- I told him to do what he wanted and left. I drove up to Glastonbury about an hour away and had lunch at a Friendlys. It dawns on me now that I was in a state of shock. Every time I see a picture of the towers, I start cursing under my breath and muttering "Towelheads".... Before anybody jumps all over me, this is the word I use to think of Arab terrorists, not anybody else. I still have a hard time dealing with the picture of crowds in Egypt though, cheering as the buildings come down. Had they been empty, I could forgive that. But they weren't. I've been to the site and had friends who worked in the buildings or nearby (one of my friends then at American Express had a clear look at the people jumping.), this isn't a wound that's ever going to fully heal. Sam

tiggerspoohbear -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 3:48:55 PM)
I've been watching CNN most of the day and their various specials. I'm still haunted by that day and it's been affecting my sleep for almost a week now. I had to change the channel to watch a silly movie so I'd quit crying. I still jump every time I see one of the planes hits either tower. I still have it embedded in my memory watching a man and a woman holding hands, above where one of the planes crashed and taking that long plunge down. To think it was their only way out, that they knew this, and still decided this was their only way to keep from dying a fiery death. I can't even put into words the feelings I have for the sons & daughters, mothers & fathers, husbands & wives, friends and loved ones who had to cope with such a horrific event. Some will come to terms and gain some peace, others will be affected by this the rest of their natural lives. I'm sure the money they're getting from assorted associations helps them financially, but I'm damned well sure they'd rather have their loved ones with them. Peace and love to all. May we never forget. Chantal

dcnovice -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 5:29:26 PM)
quote: 've never been to New York, so it is has always been difficult for me to envision the scope of damage done. The New Yorker used a simple but, to me, striking image: The attacks wiped out an entire zip code.

dcnovice -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 9:27:29 PM)
9.11.11 List: Breathe in. Breathe out. Marvel at the day's beauty. Cherish family. Cherish friends. Send birthday greetings. Pray. Sing. Remember Ann. Remember Joe. Remember Brian. Tear up. Walk. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe gratefully.

MistressDarkArt -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 9:47:50 PM)
I had just met and begun seeing S a few days before 9/11. He called early that morning which was completely verboten. "This better be good," I sleepily warned him. "Not good. Bad. So very very bad." I didn't know him well and thought he was making a terribly inappropriate joke until he told me to turn on the TV. Helping each other process the sadness and horror bonded us together very quickly. 10 years later, we remember 9/11 as 'our anniversary'. I am still shocked and horrified as though it happened yesterday. I'm insulted that our 'entertainment' industry chose to capitalize on it so quickly by turning a terrifying, heartbreaking event into a source of revenue from a few crummy HBO movies. Makes me wonder how much of that revenue was then used to help the affected families.

LanceHughes -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 10:04:19 PM)
My sister designed this quilt: www.GZQuilt.com It has, for the last ten years, traveled over 50,000 miles, has been shown at more locations than I can count, and has had over 3 million hits to the web-site. Double-click on the center, then again, and again, until you "get" it. Edited to add: Hundreds of thousands of entries in the guest book. Please pass the link on to not just your quilter friends, but to all. Thanks.

tiggerspoohbear -> RE: Remembering 9/11 (9/11/2011 10:41:24 PM)
Your sister did an amazing job Lance. Kudos to her for such a wonderful piece of art.

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