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My random ramblings on 9/11.

I live almost in the middle of the three locations where tragedy struck 14 years ago today.  There are many in my area who commute to either NYC or DC on a daily basis.  DH & I have family that live in all three places include DH's brother who can be in and out of the Pentagon on any given day.  And we live very close to an Air Base so the place were still flying in our immediate area for several days.  One of the pilots was a neighbor of DH's first cousin.  Several of our friends who are Philadelphia Police, Fire Fighters and EMTs went to NYC to help in any way they could.

I remember being at work, horrified at what was happening and not being able to do a thing to help.  DH was home, laid off.  He woke up when I called him about the first plane hitting the tower.  He turned on the television just in time to see the second plane hit.  Everything seemed so unreal and yet so very real at the same time.

While we were not directly affected, we know many who were that day.  Our hearts still go out for all those who lost a loved one on that day.

 



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I was at home getting ready for work when I heard it on the news. It was pretty scary when you kept hearing the twin towers, pentagon and the plane that crashed in pa. You didn't know if more was going to happen. We live near a military base and they closed it off to civilians.

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When I first heard the news, I thought, "Some fool has flown his small aircraft too close and hit the building." Then I got on the Internet.

I was supposed to leave late morning to drive to New Jersey, then Connecticut.

Plan cancelled.

 

DS2 had started a job a week before, on the 7th floor of the Mercantile Exchange. The geography is, walking West from the WTC subway station, pass the Deutch Bank building, and then the Mercantile Exchange and the Hudson River.

I'd given DS a cell phone as a "congrats on your new job" gift a week before.

I started calling him ...

 

 

After the first plane hit, he was ordered to evacuate, and walked down the stairs with hundreds of other people, When he got to the street, he and one co-worker decided to walk North, to New York University, where his CW had buddies living in a dorm. Most of the people turned and looked at the Towers, and just stood there watching.

He called me when he was 10 blocks north, just before the first tower fell and communications went out.

The dust cloud stopped about a block south of him.

Our next contact was from one of his friends in college 60 miles away, telling us DS was in a chat room from a dorm at NYU.

He was safe, with access to food, water, bathrooms, and INTERNET !!!

 

In the mid-afternoon, when it was announced that the trains would start running again, he said he'd like to stay in the dorm a couple more hours to let the rush pass.

I told him to get to Penn Station and get out of the city ASAP, that I would pick him up at any train station.

He walked in the door at about 5:30.

I was frightened for him all day.

 

 



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I posted about it on FB. Here's part:

On 9-11-01, I received a news email about a plane crashing into the WTC. Working in an office at time which was very much in the public eye, I had access to a television. I turned it on, and began watching live coverage of the first burning tower. News first reported it as an “accident.” A colleague came in to view it as well, said, “Can you believe some idiot flew into the WTC? Sheesh? How can anybody not see that on such a clear day?” Without thinking I said, “It was no accident.” Then we froze as we watched, the second plane, “live”, flying into the second tower. It was at that time we realized. We were under attack.

What was next? We went up and down the halls, asking others what we should do. Did they know what we just saw? Are we imagining this? How could this happen? Then the other reports started pouring in. Most of which were false, thankfully, but at the time, who knew? The report that a plane crashed into the Pentagon…was it true? Then we saw it from our window. The huge, black cloud of smoke which emanated from the Pentagon’s destruction. Were we next? After all, our office handed down the indictment from the first attacks on the WTC. Would there be retaliation?

Not wanting to wait around to find out, I decided to leave, and grabbed co-workers along the way and told them to do the same. Walking down the stairs (rather than the elevator) from the 5th floor, I got to my car and was third in line to get out of our parking garage and on to safety.

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Wow, FNW, you were to close for comfort.

Hugs to you.

Ed, I hope writing about your son's story helps you heal. He IS alive.

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it was a sad day that will always be remembered.

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I was at work in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, the first town on the Hudson River north of the George Washington Bridge, waiting for my 1 year performance review, when another employee came running in shouting that a plane had hit the WTC. We all thought it was a small private plane, that perhaps had had engine trouble. We had a portable radio as our news source, and when we figured out it was more serious, I ran back home & brought back a transistor TV. Needless to say, I never got my review that day.

DH was driving from NJ to NY, and was caught on the GWB when the NYPD shut down both levels. The police turned every vehicle around, and sent them all back to NJ. It took DH over 3 hours to get back to NJ, and he could see the smoke all the time.

DD #3 was supposed to go in to work for 2nd shift at 3:00 at Goldman Sachs, about 4 blocks from 1WTC. She's been on psychological disability ever since.

Our neighbors across the street in Staten Island lost their son - he was with the firehouse that was destroyed, and he was in the towers when they collapsed. He left behind a beautiful wife and 3 month old baby.

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Oh momala, I'm so sorry. This tragic event touched and caused hurt and pain for many Americans and nonAmericans that day.

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I was teaching class, homeschooling, when my mom called and said to turn on the television. It was just prior to the pentagon being hit.

DH had gone to a metropolitan planning meeting downtown. I immediately started calling his pager. He finally left the meeting and called me. I told him that the U.S. was under attack and asked him to come home. He asked what I meant and I had to explain. When he returned to the meeting, an official had just come in to deliver the news and the meeting was adjourned. He arrived home just before the first tower fell.

Now for something eriee. DS Sunday school teacher often gave the kids that arrived to class early a piece of paper to draw on before class started. On Sunday, Sep 9, DS drew what appeared to me to be an airplane with a propeller and a lot of wheels under the wings. I commented "airplane". DS replied that it wasn't an airplane it was a cross. What I thought was the propeller was a crown and the many wheels were God's hands. God's hands?? His reply was they were God's loving hands, sympathizing hands, caring hands, helping hands, and might hands. I wrote what he said on the back of the paper, folded it and stuck it in the back of my Bible. When I unfolded it a few weeks later, I had cold chills.




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One of the things that confirmed my respect for my fellow Americans - - DH and I drove to the main donation center of the NJ Blood Bank to give blood, and found that the line to donate stretched out the door and all the way around the building! Local restaurants sent over dozens and dozens of pizzas, coffee urns, cases and cases of sodas, and all sorts of other comfort foods for the donors and staff. Because the area hospitals were not overwhelmed with patients, the Blood Bank finally started asking people to come back in 7-10 days!



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I was folding clothes on the couch, Jesse and Aaron were playing. Caitlyn was at school.

I remember watching in disbelief.

When the second plane hit, I became physically ill.

Then the phone rang. It was the schools. Saying the schools were fine, on lock down. If we wanted to come check our kids out, to bring I.D. and they would release the kid to us and it would be excused.

My mom was working at the school. I let Caitlyn stay until mom came home.

The kids had no idea what was going on.



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I was working on an Air Force Base just a few miles from Boston. I was in the midst of putting together an important briefing to be presented at the Pentagon (not by me but by my colleagues who worked in DC). I walked by a conference room that was filled with people staring at a TV so I went in. I looked at the TV and saw the first tower with smoke pouring out. I asked what happened, oh some plane hit the tower, we think it was just a small plane. As that explanation was being stated I saw the second plane to in. I new we were under attack. I went and packed up my laptop and personal items and left. I had no idea what to do, but at least knew that soon all non essential personnel would be told to leave the base.

There are so many other stories I could relate. Such as my SIL catching the 8 AM United flight out of Logan headed toward the West coast, we didn't hear from her until late in the afternoon, her plane was forced to land in Chicago. There is more to that story, but I don't have the energy to type it out. My colleagues at the Pentagon; they all got out, but we didn't know, nor did their families, The public transit shut down and cell phone service was nearly non existent. And then there was a HS friend of mine who received a call from her DS around 8:30 in the morning; he was at work in one of the towers, above where the plane went in. He knew he was going to die and spent his last minutes on the phone with my friend.

We couldn't go back to the base for about a week to work so we worked from our homes. I had to fly to DC two weeks later. It was the most enjoyable flight I have ever experienced. People were so friendly and helpful.

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Ikwtd, how awful for your help friend. That is heartbreaking.

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Ikwtd, how awful for your help friend. That is heartbreaking.


 You know dug the knives into her back was? The NY Post followed her around to document her shopping habits. She was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on purses and clothes. They dubbed her something like the "911 Widow shopper" her life was front page every day.  It was awful. Even Oprah attacked her.



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Watching the documentary of that morning now.

It isn't any easier to watch now.

The devastation. The disbelief.

It's heartbreaking.

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Ikwtd, how awful for your help friend. That is heartbreaking.


 You know dug the knives into her back was? The NY Post followed her around to document her shopping habits. She was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on purses and clothes. They dubbed her something like the "911 Widow shopper" her life was front page every day.  It was awful. Even Oprah attacked her.


 What a bunch of jerks.  I can't  even imagine what  your friend  as been  through. Why would  someone  do that to someone  who lost her child. She was grieving. I knew a woman  who lost her 16 yr old to a car accident  and she shopped a lot  too.  Another reason never to watch oprah.



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I posted this on FB:

Today, on this anniversary of the horrible terrorist attack that occurred 14 years ago,

I am thankful that my 10YO daughter has been taught about this event in school. We live in a State and a school district that think it is important for the children to know about this attack on America and learn about it.

I have her sitting on the sofa next to me watching the horrid videos that came out from that day. She is so enthralled, intelligent, and mature about the subject matter and is now recording the video on her iPod. I held her hand when the bodies fell. She gets it. She is our future, so are your children. Let then watch the videos and teach them just how humans help each other. Hugs to all my friends and family that were directly impacted by this terrorist attack. Know that our future is in hands such as my daughter's.

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I posted this on FB:

Today, on this anniversary of the horrible terrorist attack that occurred 14 years ago,

I am thankful that my 10YO daughter has been taught about this event in school. We live in a State and a school district that think it is important for the children to know about this attack on America and learn about it.

I have her sitting on the sofa next to me watching the horrid videos that came out from that day. She is so enthralled, intelligent, and mature about the subject matter and is now recording the video on her iPod. I held her hand when the bodies fell. She gets it. She is our future, so are your children. Let then watch the videos and teach them just how humans help each other. Hugs to all my friends and family that were directly impacted by this terrorist attack. Know that our future is in hands such as my daughter's.


 This is the best quote I've read on this subject. Very well put Ikwtds!



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I posted this on FB:

Today, on this anniversary of the horrible terrorist attack that occurred 14 years ago,

I am thankful that my 10YO daughter has been taught about this event in school. We live in a State and a school district that think it is important for the children to know about this attack on America and learn about it.

I have her sitting on the sofa next to me watching the horrid videos that came out from that day. She is so enthralled, intelligent, and mature about the subject matter and is now recording the video on her iPod. I held her hand when the bodies fell. She gets it. She is our future, so are your children. Let then watch the videos and teach them just how humans help each other. Hugs to all my friends and family that were directly impacted by this terrorist attack. Know that our future is in hands such as my daughter's.


 This is the best quote I've read on this subject. Very well put Ikwtds!


 Thank you TD, she is so smart and mature it scares me at times.  But she is our future. She will make a difference.



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I was living in SoCal at the time. I was sitting in my truck at college waiting for class to start listening to K-EARTH 101 (oldies). When the station started broadcasting the attacks, I started to get excited because the way they were doing it made it sound like an advertisement for a movie and it just didn't sound real. I only found out it was real when my uncle called me to tell me to be very careful because the theme parks were potential targets.

The campus was eerily quiet that day. I attended all my classes that day and it was odd for the classroom to be so quiet. Some of my teachers talked about the attacks. Some didn't.

I can't imagine the horror and helplessness those thousands of people felt. I don't personally know anyone who lost a family member that day but I still can't read about the attacks without crying.

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I was living in SoCal at the time. I was sitting in my truck at college waiting for class to start listening to K-EARTH 101 (oldies). When the station started broadcasting the attacks, I started to get excited because the way they were doing it made it sound like an advertisement for a movie and it just didn't sound real. I only found out it was real when my uncle called me to tell me to be very careful because the theme parks were potential targets.

The campus was eerily quiet that day. I attended all my classes that day and it was odd for the classroom to be so quiet. Some of my teachers talked about the attacks. Some didn't.

I can't imagine the horror and helplessness those thousands of people felt. I don't personally know anyone who lost a family member that day but I still can't read about the attacks without crying.

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 Wow, they didn't shut down the school for the day?  I think most everything in my area closed, offices and schools anyway.



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No, they didn't. I don't think anything got done but classes were still on. I think the theme parks may have been evacuated but I don't remember.

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My kids stayed in school that day.

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I was driving to work, listening to Bob & Tom (they started out as local radio hosts, but I think they're syndicated now). Anyway, they specialized in raunchy humor & I loved to start my day with them.

They were just beginning to report the attacks, and their tone of voice was deadly serious. That really scared me.

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I was driving to work, listening to Bob & Tom (they started out as local radio hosts, but I think they're syndicated now). Anyway, they specialized in raunchy humor & I loved to start my day with them.

They were just beginning to report the attacks, and their tone of voice was deadly serious. That really scared me.

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 Yes, I noticed that as well.  Suddenly all my talk show hosts who typically focused on the bad in politics, talked in compassionate ways, not one bad thing said about anyone.  Refreshing memories of a horrible time.



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My kids stayed in school too. I was sleeping I worked nights. The guy I was dating at the time called me. I turned on the tv but I wasn't really awake enough to understand what was happening at first.

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I was particularly proud of the way the nation came together during that time.

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I was particularly proud of the way the nation came together during that time.


 It renewed my faith in humanity and I thought maybe now, even out of this horrible attack, we would fight together for out Country.  Sadly, that "came together" thing ended quick.



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I can't help but think how different the thinking is today compared to then.

It's like a big sack has been pulled over everyone's eyes.

And then I think about how it all would have been handled 50 years ago if this had happened then.



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I can't help but think how different the thinking is today compared to then.

It's like a big sack has been pulled over everyone's eyes.

And then I think about how it all would have been handled 50 years ago if this had happened then.


I'd really like to know your thoughts on this, if you'd like to share.

 



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I can't help but think how different the thinking is today compared to then.

It's like a big sack has been pulled over everyone's eyes.

And then I think about how it all would have been handled 50 years ago if this had happened then.


I'd really like to know your thoughts on this, if you'd like to share.

 


 I don't care to share.

I think there would have been a massive influx of military, possibly a bomb dropped. I don't think there would have been the hand ringing that we had.

 

You are older than me. What do you think?



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I can't help but think how different the thinking is today compared to then.

It's like a big sack has been pulled over everyone's eyes.

And then I think about how it all would have been handled 50 years ago if this had happened then.


 

But it did happen a little more than 50 years ago.  Pearl Harbor.



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Yes. That's my point.

There is a stark difference in how the two were handled.



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I can't help but think how different the thinking is today compared to then.

It's like a big sack has been pulled over everyone's eyes.

And then I think about how it all would have been handled 50 years ago if this had happened then.


 

But it did happen a little more than 50 years ago.  Pearl Harbor.


Yes, and when the Japanese attacked us, we went to was with Japan, not India. 

When we were attacked by terrorists based in Afghanistan, we destabilized the Middle East by disarming IRAQ. STUPID STUPID STUPID.

 



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I can't help but think how different the thinking is today compared to then.

It's like a big sack has been pulled over everyone's eyes.

And then I think about how it all would have been handled 50 years ago if this had happened then.


 

But it did happen a little more than 50 years ago.  Pearl Harbor.


 Watching Pearl Harbor right now.  Many parallels to what is happening today.  World doesn't change much.



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I can't help but think how different the thinking is today compared to then.

It's like a big sack has been pulled over everyone's eyes.

And then I think about how it all would have been handled 50 years ago if this had happened then.


 

But it did happen a little more than 50 years ago.  Pearl Harbor.


Yes, and when the Japanese attacked us, we went to was with Japan, not India. 

When we were attacked by terrorists based in Afghanistan, we destabilized the Middle East by disarming IRAQ. STUPID STUPID STUPID.

 


 And now arming them with nuclear weapons?  Talk about stupid...  Regardless of the past, we have to think about here and now.



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I was in class. With no idea what was going on.

I lived in the central time zone at the time. I had a 7:00 - 8:15 class. I lived on campus, I had rolled out of bed with just enough time to sprint across the street to class from my dorm. So when I got home at about 8:20 CDT, I grabbed my robe and headed straight for the shower. On my way down the hall, I saw someone had drawn what looked like two tall buildings with a plane crashing into one of them on the white board on their door. I remember thinking what a weird thing to draw. I took my shower and turned on the TV when I returned to my room - just in time to see the first tower fall. I stood there, in my towel, dripping, staring at the TV.

I felt so alone. Away at college and all I wanted was my family. I didn't know what to do, so I went on with my day. I was due at work for my campus internship, so I went to work and sat and watched TV in my boss' office with the closest thing I had to family there. The president of the university called a prayer vigil at noon, we walked over together as a group. I had class that afternoon. The professor told us it was our choice, we could A) have class as normal B) watch the news C) cancel class. We chose B. Our professor told us we could leave anytime, and we could stay as long as we wanted. We stayed for over an hour. I think we all needed to be together. At the onset, I felt alone without my family, and I ended up finding I had a bigger family than I knew, as I sat there with my fellow Bulldogs.

It seems every generation has their event. My grandfather once told me exactly what he was doing when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor. My mom can tell you exactly what she was doing when they heard JFK had been assassinated. And I can tell you exactly what I was doing on the morning of September 11, 2001. One of the hopes I have for my nephew is that he never has to have one of these events to haunt him for a lifetime.

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I was already at work. We heard immediately when the first tower was hit and turned on the television. I was watching it live when the second plane came in and hit the second tower - that is an image permanently burned into my brain. And I remember in that moment the horror of understanding this was not an accident.

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lilyofcourse wrote:

I can't help but think how different the thinking is today compared to then.

It's like a big sack has been pulled over everyone's eyes.

And then I think about how it all would have been handled 50 years ago if this had happened then.


 

But it did happen a little more than 50 years ago.  Pearl Harbor.


Yes, and when the Japanese attacked us, we went to was with Japan, not India. 

When we were attacked by terrorists based in Afghanistan, we destabilized the Middle East by disarming IRAQ. STUPID STUPID STUPID.

 


 And now arming them with nuclear weapons?  Talk about stupid...  Regardless of the past, we have to think about here and now.


Someone will have to arrange an "accident" in their bomb factory.

 



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ed11563 wrote:
jlbear71 wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:

I can't help but think how different the thinking is today compared to then.

It's like a big sack has been pulled over everyone's eyes.

And then I think about how it all would have been handled 50 years ago if this had happened then.


 

But it did happen a little more than 50 years ago.  Pearl Harbor.


Yes, and when the Japanese attacked us, we went to was with Japan, not India. 

When we were attacked by terrorists based in Afghanistan, we destabilized the Middle East by disarming IRAQ. STUPID STUPID STUPID.

 


 We also went to war with Germany. 

 

And thank you for your political tirade on this memorial thread.



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