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I remember it like it was yesterday. I was at work...and all of a sudden I got a breaking news email...and the internet was so bogged down we could hardly get to the news...and we all ran downstairs to the first floor cafe...it had a tv up on the wall...and we just stood there with our mouths hanging open...transfixed...in shock...we saw the second plane hit, and there was this collective gasp from everyone. I'll never forget that day.
I don't think anyone could forget the horror of it!!!
I was out on the water, we didn't learn about it till late in the day when the company sent out an immarsat c telex to the boats. It was months before I saw the footage of it.
The one thing that sticks with me about September 11 was that it was a beautiful fall day. Crisp, clear blue sky. When we got sent home I remember numbly walking outside and thinking how messed up things were on such a pretty day.
My husband had left for work; I had the day off and was at home. It was a Tuesday. I can't remember if I was sleeping or puttering around, but he called and told me to turn on the television, because he heard on the radio that something had happened. I stared at the screen, thinking it must be a mistake or a sick joke, or that I was watching a movie and it wasn't really happening. I don't remember taking the girls to daycare, but I must have at some point. I didn't know what to do with myself. I finally went up the street to a church, which was locked, but while I was standing there, an older man (a trustee, I guess), came from around the corner and unlocked it for me. I went inside, sat down and cried. That's about all I remember.
My husband's brother and sister-in-law both work in finance in NYC. They lost something like 30 friends and colleagues that day. They were married earlier that year, in March, and my family stayed at the Marriott at the base of the towers for the wedding. I can't believe that was 10 years ago.
Yeah fleetie, it was a pretty lovely day weather-wise. I do remember that. I was in 5th grade at the time, our homeroom teacher got a phone call and when she put it down she told us what had happened and put on NPR. Pretty soon everybody knew, they let our parents come pick us up early, that was it basically. I found it surreal. Apparently my mom was driving on the highway in Arlington, VA and noticed there was a lot of smoke somewhere, so she switched on the radio and found out. My dad was working in downtown DC at the time, he said that there were cops everywhere and possibly even military.
Sorry, peeps, it's way too early for this remembering. We've lived with it for the last 10 years.
I think we have a mandate to remember it - it's part of our social consciousness and history.
And I don't say that about many things. Maybe because I was born a New Yawka and will always be one, but there are history-shaping moments that we need to recall, lest we forget the lessons taught us ... no longer do the tribal elders sit with us around the campfire and tell tales of bravery, courage and strength, so this is our substitute.
Well as you all know I am not American, but I remember the day so vividly.
The TV was on and I remember walking past it and seeing the total chaos. I sat down and started watching it all unfold and I was horrified. I watched those brave men going into the first tower and then of course the second one fell and they were all killed. I sat in front of the TV for hours crying.
Crying for the brave souls, the children, the innocent.
The US was a super power, how could this happen to them?
So even from across the world, in New Zealand, there were people thinking about you all, and feeling just a small amount of your pain, for the people and for the country.
The US was a super power, how could this happen to them?
Do you really want to open up that can of worms?
A discussion like that, here, would probably get this thread moved to Politics.
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