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(Message started by: Ghost on Sep 10^th, 2007, 1:56pm)

Title: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Ghost on Sep 10^th, 2007, 1:56pm

Its 6 years as of tomorrow morning, Tuesday Morning 8:46 am eastern time when the first plane hit.

:'(

Try to think back to how you have changed during the last 6 years.

Can you remember what you were doing when you heard the first time?

Can you remember how you reacted.

Can you ever feel the way you did 6 years ago today?
The day before.

Please tell us what you can.

PLEASE NO POLITICS!

I would like to start.

Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001 like the day before started with my normal morning commute to work at 6:00 am Central time. I arrived and got to my cubicle and logged into my computer to check the news before my day started. Normally I would turn on my radio to get local news at the same time but today I forgot. Shortly before 7:55 am a coworker came up and told me to turn up my radio because a plane had ran into the world trade center in New York. I thought he was joking but went ahead and turned on my radio and turned it up. Sure enough it was true. I then decided to go to our lobby were there was a television always on cnn and as I watched there it was a live feed as the second plane hit. I cant really describe what I felt it was like I went numb for a while and could not feel anything. I was frozen there just frozen. As the day unfolded I could do little more than keep going to the lobby and see what was happening.
Most of that day is still a blur.

I have since moved to Texas from St.Louis and now volunteer as a firefighter. I have changed from being self centered to trying to help others when I can. That 1 day has changed my life forever, I believe for the better.

Mike

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2006 Tuesday
Post by Lenny on Sep 10^th, 2007, 2:40pm

I will never forget that day....I was with my ex-wife both trying to wake up drinking coffee and one of us put the t.v. on (this was after the 1 plane hit) cnn or fox... As the reporter was talking with the towers in the backround i remember seeing the second plane coming in and started to scream (as i saw what was about to happen)spilling coffee all over....I did not leave the house that day,i was very deppressed and filled with alot of anger...As a matter of fact i did not go to work the rest of the week....I have a cousin that worked in 1 of the towers and we were all worried what happened to her (we kept getting rapid busy signals on the phones trying to reach all my relatives back east)finally got a call from reina to let us know that she was okay(on her cell phone...she lost many co-workers)....If i recall correct,i called a recruiting office in van nuys,calif. that afternoon or the following day and the guy kind of laughed at me when i told him my age(at the time i was 42)....I have never felt that feeling in my life the way i did ,and i still get that feeling when i sit back and think about that day (not talking about the recruiter)....I dont understand why this is not a national holiday....Lenny

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Rosybabe on Sep 10^th, 2007, 3:38pm

That morning I woke up with the usual morning sickness as I was about 4 months pregnant and my husband called me and told me to turn on the news...There it was when the first plane hit and then I saw LIVE when the second one hit and all I could do was cry and pray....I don't know how many rosaries I prayed, they just continue one after the other for the souls that died in the towers and for the ones in the planes...

my eyes hurt so much after that day and the coming days...I cried so much...of sadness for all the kids left without parents...for the parents left without their kids...and of anger for the injustice and the horrible crime commited against inocent people...

Till this day, I feel sad because I know what is like to lose a loved one, and the memories come back as fresh as yesterday...

God had mercy of all the people who died that day and of their families who still cry for their gone loved ones. I hope that to know one day they all will be reunited will bring some closure to their hearts.

Rosy.

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by JenniferD on Sep 10^th, 2007, 6:35pm

I was at my desk. We all sat silently with our personal head phones on listening to whatever we chose. I had on the local radio station and told those around me in an embarrassingly nonchalant way, "some dumbass just flew a plane into one of the twin towers. How can you NOT see a building?" It was before anyone knew what was really going on.

When the pentagon got hit, I was panicking: Darryl's load (truck driver) was right up there that morning. I couldn't think about that because one of our younger associate's mom was on a plane and the poor girl was losing it. I still had the headset on, listening with one ear, and Brea (the girl whose mom is a stewardess) and Kay were asking me for updates. I was so sick to my stomach as the 4th plane went down and I didn't want to tell her. She just crumpled on the floor and sobbed.

All work stopped. We went into a conference room. We clung to each other mentally, emotionally, physically. Then we went home to be with our families. I'll never forget.

edit to add: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_-x9kMPauc

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by chewy on Sep 10^th, 2007, 7:57pm

I was burying my mom at the National Cemetery on Cape Cod with f-14s flying over from the air base down the road. Very surreal day

How has it changed me? Well, right or wrong I have become less questioning about government intrusion in my life. If a airport security guy told me to remove my shoes in 2000 I would have asked for his supervisor. Not now. I comply without question and have thanked airport security personnel when they put me through the security ringer. Kinda wierd isn't it?

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by nani on Sep 11^th, 2007, 12:54am

I was getting the kids ready for school. Mooshie was in kindergarten and Jobo was in 3rd grade. I think I had PBS on TV for the kids. Bob, already at work, called and said "Turn on the TV in the bedroom." (The last time he called and said that was the day of the Oklahoma City bombing) I turned it on just in time for the 2nd plane to hit the towers.

I have a cousin, who's a NYPD transit cop, who was once (but it turned out wasn't anymore)stationed in the subway just under the WTC. I have another cousin who worked at St Vincent's Hospital, within 10 blocks of the WTC.

I somehow got the kids to school (after Bob told me I had to, I really just wanted to keep them close), then spent the next 7 hours frantically trying to reach my aunt and other relatives and friends still in NY. The phone lines were overloaded and all I could get was busy signals. I alternately cried and vomited all day.
Thankfully, all my friends and family were safe, but it was about 3 days before we knew for sure.

I will certainly never forget. :'(

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by gore2424 on Sep 11^th, 2007, 1:12am

I was at work and we had the TV on very depressing the mood that day and after work my wifey picked me up and we had to go fill up the gas tank and stopped at a Casey's the bastards had the price of gas at over $6.00 a gallon and I have never stopped there again cause of that and never will ever shop there for anything Terry
and on news the other night they were talking about the workers on ground zero now coming down with copd type problems from all the metals that were melted and such

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by George_J on Sep 11^th, 2007, 1:38am

The only flights overhead that day were the A10's from the ANG base here, and the fighters from the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home AFB.

Terrible day--we first heard the news on NPR just before 7:00 AM here. Although no one we knew personally was directly affected, at times like that we are all one people, and the suffering of others becomes our suffering as well.

Never forget.

Let us DEMAND justice for this act. No matter the explanations and the excuses, and the realpolitik we're told is involved--we, the American people, have waited, patiently, for justice for a very long time.

We demand it.

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by phil_h on Sep 11^th, 2007, 3:36am

9/11/01 The world as I knew it and my sense of safety changed forever !!!!!!!! Weeks of collection and resupply to ground zero......Months - years of grief work and PTSD work with pts. , memorials , funerals , fundraisers and dedications.......... I've never gotten over the emotional fatique.......the horror,the sorrow and the honor of walking with many through thier forever changed lives............ Each moment is not taken for granted ever again....... I still work with many families of grief from the loss and rescue and recovery efforts........Ours lives and the world as we knew it are forever changed ....... God bless America....God save us all.... phil h

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by ski2k on Sep 11^th, 2007, 5:11am

I was working at a job pruning some bushes. I had only been to that place a few times, and it was hard to find. Always had to use directions to get there. I know exactly how to get there now, as I can't forget how that day went.
About an hour into the job, my cell phone rang. My (now ex) wife calling to let me know there was something going at the world trade center. Didn't know if it was a bomb, or what. Everything kinda unfolded as I tried to keep working, with the cell's speakerphone on, and dangling from my waist, talking with her until about 1/2 hour after the towers fell. She was really in a panic, and I tried so hard to make it sound like it was not a big deal. I knew better. Against my advice, she went to get the kids from school early, and kinda locked herself in the house the rest of the day. I know my children remember what happened, but I think they were too young to really appreciate the severity of it.
I kept working (sorta) with the radio turned on in my work truck, keeping tabs on what was going on. Really didn't care for Howard Stern, but that's all I could get to come in there. I gotta say... Being IN New York then, Stern gave some excellent live coverage, and stayed on the air at least a good 2-3 hours after his how was supposed to end. Ended up leaving work a little early that day, the wife was not taking this well.
The drive home was very weird. 45 minute drive through the worst traffic in our area, and it was almost dead silent. Nobody honking, revving their engines, or yelling out the windows... Just weird.
Finally got home to see the news, and after just staring at the TV with a stunned look on my face for about 15 minutes, I broke down in tears. How could somebody DO something like that?!?
A day or two later, the news people were all comparing that day to the Kennedy assassination... You'll never forget where you were when it happened. I'm too young to remember Kennedy, but I'll never forget 9/11. I hope my children don't ever have a "day to remember" like that. I'm praying that was the last.

Adam

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Mosaicwench on Sep 11^th, 2007, 7:48am

I was heading out to take the dog for a walk when a neighbor walked by and asked if I'd heard what happened.

I turned right around and came back in and was glued to the tv for the rest of the day.

The most surreal part of the day was watching that first tower collapse and NONE of the anchor people said anything. I kept screaming at the tv "can't you see the tower collapsed??"

My son was in 5th grade and I really wanted to run to school and pull him out so we could all be together. Brew was working at home.

I, for one, will never forget.

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by chewy on Sep 11^th, 2007, 7:56am

No commercial airlines in the air. Eerie.

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by BarbaraD on Sep 11^th, 2007, 8:10am

I was getting ready for work and listening to Imus when his show was interrupted with the news that a plane had crashed into the first tower. At first it was thought an accident. On the way to work listening to the radio the second one hit.

When I got to the office, someone had already set up the TV and for the rest of the day we sat glued to it (might as well have gone home). One of the ladies who worked there had a son who worked with AA and he was supposed to be in NY. The office was in panic mode until we found out he was in Dallas and not in NY, but it was almost 3 that afternoon before we found that out.

When Bush landed at Barksdale AFB in Shreveport I went into a panic because my kids both worked less than a mile from there. I was glad when he took off and went elsewhere and my kids were safe.

It was a day like the day JFK was assiniated - just not something you can ever forget.

But, like Don, I don't bitch about airport security and get aggraviated with people who do. I just try to remember to wear socks without holes when I wear tennis shoes.

But 9-11 will always be a day of rememberance.

Hugs BD

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by clarence on Sep 11^th, 2007, 8:30am

I have a really hard time talking about it.

I wrote this last year, on the 5th anniversary:

September 11, 2001 (http://rainfallsoneveryone.com/2006/09/september-11-2001/)

Casey

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Ghost on Sep 11^th, 2007, 8:41am

A momemt of silence 8:46 am Eastern time, 1st plane hits the World Trade Center.

God Bless all that died.

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Charlotte on Sep 11^th, 2007, 8:55am

and all who loved them.

Charlotte

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by catlind on Sep 11^th, 2007, 9:14am

A moment of silence at 9:03 a.m. - I was in Upstate NY, my husband was stationed at Fort Drum, and 6 years ago at this moment in time, he was on the phone with me, asking if I was watching, and after that moment in time, forever burned into my mind, I learned my world was going to change in a way I never dreamed - I learned my husband was at war.
I can't stop crying today this morning - must be the Tuesday and clear blue skies.

The rest of the story....

I remember the absolutely crystal blue skies in NY state that day. It was a beautiful September day. The kids had just gone back to school, I was home with just my little one, barely over a year old. I had just stepped out of the shower when the phone rang.

Clark was calling me from the base (Fort Drum 10th Mountain Div.), he asked if I was watching CNN. I made some off the cuff remark that "duh, I have a 1 year old at home, Sesame Street maybe, CNN?? No!". He said go turn it on, someone just flew a plane into the WTC. Then he said "Oh My God, did you see that??" It didn't sink in, I was standing in a towel and told him I'd call him back. I got dressed, went downstairs and turned the TV to CNN. The OMG was because he was watching the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower.

I called him back and we talked a bit, he was in military mode so I didn't get to talk to him long. Then I sat riveted to the television, and watched as a 3rd plane (initially thought to be a helicopter) crashed into the pentagon. I knew better than to try and call Clark on the base, so I sent him an email that said "Should I be getting scared now?" He replied with one word - "Yes"

At 1:00 p.m. he pulled up in front of the house. All the fear of that day deepened 10 fold because I knew there was only one reason he was home. He quietly loaded all his mobility gear into the back of his car and kissed me deeply and wiped away my tears, then kissed his son of only a year, and said "I don't know when I'll be home again" I had a million questions, and knew that he could answer none of them. I told him to call the first chance he got.

As I watched him drive away I was mixed with a sense of terrible grief and fear because I truly did not know when I would see him again, or IF I would see him again. But more than that, I held a sense of pride that carried me through that dark day.

The skies were very blue that day, and without a cloud in the NY sky, the rain of a million tears fell upon us...

Cat

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by luveemom on Sep 11^th, 2007, 9:33am

I too remember everything I did that day and have been changed forever. My husband has been in the fire service for 27 years as a Deputy Chief so it hit close to home. When he goes off to work for 24 hours I have terrible anxiety. God Bless all those who lost their lives. It is a very dreary day here in CT.....lots of rain.....I think it is all the tears from heaven. I remember that day it was beautiful outside. I hope that our government and country has learned and made enough changes so that a tragedy like this will never happen again....sometimes I wonder.....God Bless....
Never Forget!
Alicia
:'(

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Kevin_M on Sep 11^th, 2007, 10:31am

on 09/11/07 at 08:10:09, BarbaraD wrote:

listening to the radio the second one hit.

on 09/11/07 at 09:14:03, catlind wrote:

at 9:03 a.m.

after that moment in time, forever burned into my mind,

I had the day off, radio alarm went off at 9:00am. A long familiar and very recognizable voice of Dick Purtan came on while I just laid relaxed, he said, it... appears now a second plane has crashed into the other twin tower.
A certain puzzling, very concerned, and serious tone to his voice made me jump from the bed to the TV. I had that day and the next off and never stopped watching, wondering how I could go back to work without a TV two days later.

Many moments still visually remembered. Also, seeing a first camera shot of Washington DC from far away and billowing black smoke pluming through the air, not knowing what it was yet, a very devastating time, the Pentagon too. And then another plane crashing in PA, the passenger's deaths in foiling another attempt.

:(

For today, never again, whatever it takes.

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Ghost on Sep 11^th, 2007, 10:56am

7:58 a.m. - United Airlines Flight 175 departs Boston for Los Angeles,
carrying 56 passengers, two pilots, and seven flight attendants. The
Boeing 767 is hijacked after takeoff and diverted to New York.

7:59 a.m. - American Airlines Flight 11 departs Boston for Los
Angeles, carrying 81 passengers, two pilots, and nine flight
attendants. This Boeing 767 is also hijacked and diverted to New York.

8:01 a.m. - United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 carrying 38
passengers, two pilots, and five flight attendants, leaves Newark, N.J.,
for San Francisco.

8:10 a.m. - American Airlines Flight 77 departs Washington's
Dulles International Airport for Los Angeles, carrying 58 passengers,
two pilots, and four flight attendants. The Boeing 757 is hijacked
after takeoff.

8:46 a.m. - American Flight 11 from Boston crashes into the North
Tower at the World Trade Center.

9:03 a.m. - United Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the South
Tower at the World Trade Center.

- U.S. Federal Aviation Administration shuts down all New
York area airports.

9:21 a.m. - Bridges and tunnels leading into New York City
are closed.

9:25 a.m. - All domestic flights are grounded by U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration.

9:45 a.m. - American Flight 77 crashes into The Pentagon.

10:05 a.m. - The South Tower at the World Trade Center collapses.

10:05 a.m. - The White House is evacuated.

10:10 a.m. - A large section of one side of The Pentagon collapses.

10:10 a.m. - United Flight 93 crashes in a wooded area in
Pennsylvania, after passengers confront hijackers.

10:28 a.m. - The North Tower at the World Trade Center collapses.

This I will NEVER FORGET!!!!!

http://www.september11news.com/YahooTopPicsEmail2.jpg

http://www.september11news.com/YahooTopPics11.jpg

http://www.september11news.com/WTCTowe2sequence.jpg

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Ghost on Sep 11^th, 2007, 11:01am

http://www.september11news.com/FiremenSaving11th.jpg

http://www.september11news.com/AASreeetSurvivors2AP.jpg

http://www.september11news.com/JamesNachtweyTime_alive.jpg

http://www.september11news.com/111WTCPeopleBW.jpg

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Ghost on Sep 11^th, 2007, 11:14am

http://www.september11news.com/AAAfirefighters-flag-2-320.jpg

http://www.september11news.com/AANYAftermathSurvivorSept13.jpg

http://www.september11news.com/AftermathReuters11.jpg

http://www.september11news.com/Sept11FiremenInjComrade.jpg

http://www.september11news.com/Sept11TowerOneFiremenKehoeStairs.jpg
they survived but this was the last time he was seen.

http://www.september11news.com/CNNAPLibertySkyline.jpg

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Ghost on Sep 11^th, 2007, 11:22am

The one that I picture in my mind even today

http://www.september11news.com/Sept12FiremenWalkWTCBG.jpg

NEVER FORGET!!!

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Charlie on Sep 11^th, 2007, 2:27pm

What a horror and if newer generations needed a Pearl Harbor or Novemeber 22nd, I'm sure sorry that it was such a monstrous thing.

I was lucky. I had no one hurt on that horrible day.

Charlie

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Jonny on Sep 11^th, 2007, 5:19pm

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ae9_1189540639

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b2da01b3127cce9fbec300f1cd00000046108AZM2bNk5bM6

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by chewy on Sep 11^th, 2007, 6:20pm

As I drove by the firehouse by my office this morning all of the firefighters were lined up in front saluting silently.

Powerful moment.

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Kevin_M on Sep 11^th, 2007, 6:36pm

Lots of moving emotion in this thread from that day, felt again strongly today.

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Jonny on Sep 11^th, 2007, 6:53pm

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b35_1189532118

........................................... :'(

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by barry_sword on Sep 11^th, 2007, 7:36pm

I am so emotional right now I find it hard to put into words. I pray everyday for the families and friends of all who lost their lives that day. :'(

Barry

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by catlind on Sep 11^th, 2007, 10:07pm

We just got home from the 9/11 ceremony that Clark stands in the Color Guard with - he insists on carrying the "Don't Tread On Me" Flag - and it was a very powerful ceremony. The patriot guard was stood 3 deep all holding US Flags surrounding the family members of the fallen servicemembers, continuing their honorable job of protecting them.

Of all of the ceremonies I've been too, this one had the eeriest event of anything I've witnessed, and no, it was not planned.

At the Fireman's ringing of the bell (5 bell tolls 4 times) a C-135 had just taken off from Offutt AFB and flew directly overhead at low altitude as the airfield is only a few hundred feet away. The MC waited for the flight to pass before they began the reading of the names of the fallen from Nebraska and Iowa.

It was very eerie, but also extremely powerful. I can't say that I've ever been to an outdoor ceremony like that one where every person there, to include every little toddler and baby, that not a sound was heard except the bell tolling and the plane flying overhead.

Never Forget.
Freedom isn't Free.

Cat

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by minnie on Sep 11^th, 2007, 11:08pm

Well September 11th,2001 was my older daughter April's headstart oriention .Also my Birthday so when my mom called I expected the usual happy birthday then I would wish my Dad the same.You all know the shock as I turned on the tv as directed.Shock horror and disbelief.I woke Billy up turned on the tv in our bedroom he asked what movie it was he thought he'd read a simular book.once again shock as I said no thats the news.I kept our livingroom tv to kids programs a 5 and 3 year old didn't need to see that.At orientation the teachers would descreetly go in the teachers lounge once in a while to keep updated otherwise the kept things pretty steady.
That night went to my parents for tort and cake not much of a celebrating mood . I also remember I'd been kinda sick and tired for about a month.September 14 I went to the emergency room and a spinal tap confirmed mennagitis.It wasn't the contagous type but for days the staff came in all covered gowns ,masks ect..
eery to wake up to.so the next several months went by with me in a daze still shocked that this could happen in the U.S. also still sick,tired hurting and not wanting any light near my eyes,still get migraines from it.
When I think about 9/11/01 along with the sadness and anger I try to think of all the babies born on that day and I see a little bit of light.
God bless all those who lost loved ones in this tragedy and all the survivers who ,made it through only to have to deal with the trauma of the ordeal.
Minnie
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The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

Title: Re: Sept. 11, 2001 // Sept. 11, 2007 Tuesday
Post by Teresa on Sep 12^th, 2007, 12:18am

I was a sophomore in high school sitting in my first hour Chemistry class. We started school at 8 am (Central time) and I must have been running late that day because I don't remember having the radio on or ever turning the television on. Our principal came on the loud speaker and announced that two planes had run into the WTC in New York. My uncle worked in New York at the time and, never having been to the city, I automatically thought he worked in one of those buildings. I was immediately given permission to go to the office to call Mom, who answered the phone saying "He's out of the country" (she knew it was me and why I was calling). I stood in the office at school and watched as the first tower fell. I couldn't believe what was happening. We tried to go on through the school day as normal, and many of our teachers were able to do just that. They didn't turn the television on and we attempted to continue with the daily work.

It is a day that we will never forget...unfortunately and thankfully at the same time. Makes you wish it didn't take something so terrible to bring this nation together.