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I will remember the policemen and firemen running up the tower stairs as citizens were escaping. I will remember the people jumping to their deaths. I will acknowledge many more will die a horrible deaths from strange cancers and respiratory diseases because of the "dust"
I know that what we saw that day will pale compared to Obama giving Iran the bomb and increasing terrorism exponentially...and how that will affect all of us in our country in the future. Every politician has blood on their hands
Oh be quiet. Pathetic that you can pull Obama into a thread about 9/11.
The days after -- clear blue sky with no airplanes … none at all …
Eerie ...
Yes. That was eerie. My company's main HQ was in downtown Cleveland, and my office was in a suburb. When the attacks were going on, our phone system, and everything was shut down. The company (a bank) decided to shut operations down and we were sent home at noon. I was scheduled to work from 10AM to 7PM that day. Prior to all planes being grounded I remember standing in our employee parking lot and kept hearing fighter jets. I couldn't see them, but you could tell that they were military. When I got home, I went outside to smoke a cigarette, and not hearing any planes in the sky was definitely up there in terms of eerieness. Later that night, like around 1 in the morning I was awaken to the sound of a low flying helicopter! I was like "WTF?" But it was only a life flight copter.
The first thing I thought of when I woke up this morning was that it was 9/11. We lost a longtime friend who worked in north tower. Friends lost family members. My spouse and I had been in those buildings dozens and dozens of times for work related meetings, but not that day. I saw the smoke billowing for miles off the tip of Manhattan from my house in Connecticut for days and days afterward. Jets zoomed overhead flying low. 9/11 was a horrible attack by horrible people against innocent men and women just doing their job that day like all of us do our jobs each day.
I think of my friend fondly today and all the survivor families who lost a much loved a father, wife, mother, sister, brother, husband, child, grandparent, or friend.
I remember the day clearly. I was sitting on my bed talking to my friend watching the news. I saw the first tower on fire and hearing how a plane how crashed into it. Then the other plane was flying right towards the second tower and the screen went blank. We both sat silently for a moment and she said "I have to go and call my husband" (he worked in NYC). My husband was getting ready to head to CT and I told him to stay put. The skies were clear, not one cloud. We lived ten miles due south of NYC, right near an airport. It was very silent for the rest of the day. The neighborhood all went out into the street. We decided to turn off the televisions and walk into town with the kids.
I was pregnant with my second child at the time and just numb. I had to go to work later that day to help those who needed a place to go and be with others. So many sad stories I heard that day. Never forget.
I was a little late getting to work. On the radio, the DJ's were talking about a plane that hit one of the towers. I figured it was probably a bad weather day and a small sightseeing or private plane hit the tower. I pulled into the parking lot and was about to turn off my car, and the DJs said a second plane hitt the other tower. At first, I thought they were trying to make a horrible joke, then I could tell by their tone, they were serious. Once they said it was a commercial jet, I knew we were being attacked.
I went into work, moved a tv into the conference room and turned on to see the smoking towers. A lot of us spent most of the day watching the coverage. I thought it was very odd that others just continued working without as much as peeking their heads in for updates.
Every now and then rumors of planes circling cities like LA, Chicago or Dallas would crop up, and the immediate thought was "where is this going to end."
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