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9/11/2001; Tell me your story
Topic Started: Sep 6 2011, 07:31 AM (898 Views)
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My alarm was set to Mark and Brian, who are a pretty famous L.A. based syndicated morning show. They're typical pranksters and I remember hearing them talk about a plan hitting the Twin Towers and thinking it was a sketch. But then they kept it up and there was no punch line. Within just a minute or two, I threw back the covers and hustled to the living room to turn the T.V. 'cause I still wasn't sure if it was a long sketch. It wasn't.

I went to work, but spend the rest of the day with a radio on at my desk. I remember the surreal feeling of it all. Of thinking whether or not I was safe (figured the answer to that was yes...we've got a nuclear power plant...but population isn't dense). Of wondering how someone could have that much hate.
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I was at the doctor's office getting my allergy shot when the first plane hit the towers. They had the radio playing in the background and at first I couldn't understand what had happened, or even really believe it. :o

I got in the car and turned the radio on and what seemed too awful to believe was true. I drove to the Humane Society, where I was scheduled for my weekly volunteer session taking care of the cats. We had a radio on in the cat room and barely got anything done, as we listened to the horror. We cuddled a lot of cats, though.

Didn't turn off the TV for the rest of the day after I got home. My hubby was home too. We were in shock. Our daughter was in school, she would have been 6 years old. Being in Michigan we were not too scared for her being in school, but everything was in chaos, with the airport locked down, etc.

A terrible day, to be sure. :no:
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Buryinghill1
Sep 7 2011, 05:27 AM
That made me cry......

So touching.
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I was at work when the first plane hit. My department was just shocked-all work stopped and we were glued to the tv.It was weird...No one down stairs in the office could have cared less. :no: They sat up and took notice after the second plane hit but still-no emotion-no reaction. Just-business as usual and we better get back to work.
Mr macmtn called me after the plane hit the Pentagon-he knew my brother was doing Navy stuff there. The plane hit where he would have been, had he been at work. It took the rest of the day to find out my brother was out of town on travel. I left work at noon over the protest of the managment who could *not understand* why I couldn't at 'least finish out the day" :sigh:
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I was working the midnight shift and all night had had that feeling of something wrong, couldn't shake it. It was so bad that I went straight to the barn after work, something I never do. Got to the barn and went out to the pasture to see Lizzy (this was about 0830) and gave her a big hug. Hung out with her for about 20 minutes and finally started to feel better. Headed on home and got home just a few minutes after 9 and the phone was ringing.

It was my husband calling to tell me that 2 planes had crashed into the WTC. I immediately turned on the TV and then ended up online at COTH and shared the horrors we witnessed with everyone online there. A lot of people who didn't have tv access were online at COTH as well looking for information and updates since that was their only source of info.

I remember Gwen being a worried wreck as her husband was an NYPD officer and was working that day, and the deep breath of relief we all had when she posted that he had called to say he was safe.

A few weeks after 9/11 my husband and I went down to NY to pay our respects and to drop off some supplies. We were both in uniform (my dispatchers uniform and his FD uniform) We kept getting waved past checkpoints and before we knew it we were there at Ground Zero. We never expected to get that close...and I will never for get what we saw and experienced.....
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Oh dang it BH you had to post the bud commercial :,( Makes me cry everytime.

I was at the dressage barn in Houston where I worked, feeding horses. I was getting ready to turn everyone out, when a friend rolled into the barn with her Clyde cross mare to use the arena. She came straight in and cross tied her mare, then proceeded to ask me if I had heard the news. She said that a plane had hit one of the WTC towers in NYC. I honestly thought she meant one of the sightseeing planes that seem to always have issues there. We went upstairs to the office to turn on the TV and when I saw the tower, I remember thinking, "that was a BIG plane!!" Not a minute later the second plane hit while we were watching. Her husband was a pilot and he was flying that day on the east coast. She hadn't heard from him up to that point, so she packed up her mare and headed home.

I called KMD and he told me to get my things and head to the pre-school to pick up the wee squid-o and head home. He said there were more planes that were unaccounted for and he wanted to know where we were. He was at NASA, and was going to have to stay for a bit. :(

I filled all the horses' water buckets and gave them all planty of water. I then headed to the barn where I boarded Luna's dam (who was in foal with Luna at the time) and did the same for her, then I headed out to pick up the squid-o.

We left two days later for a trip to Colorado (planned) and it was the oddest feeling. I wasn't honestly sure what we would be coming home to. In a way I was happy to be on the road, headed away from civilization with no TV around.

The most startling thing I saw was the next day leaving Texas around Lubbock. Miles and MILES of army vehicles on trains painted in desert fatigue. It was really sobering. There must have been THOUSANDS of them bound for military bases at Ft. Hood.

The other vivid memory I have is the SILENCE in the skies in the days following. Q U I E T...beautiful blue skies.
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I was at school, but I also worked for a DC newspaper at the time and I remember having trouble getting down into the city that day. It was a hard time to work in the news and keep your emotions in check and get your job done.

I left the house that night since I couldn't quite sit still, and wound up driving around the beltway and there was no one - and I do mean no one - on the road. To the extent that I could literally use my brights on the beltway, something that I'd never been able to do before or since. I wound up at another friend's house, and we watched the news together. Nearly every business was closed.

My father worked at the Pentagon for many, many years. He even had a meeting scheduled there that week. Apparently if it had been about ten years earlier, it would have taken out his office. I'm grateful that he moved into the private sector but a lot of people he knew were not so lucky.
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LoriO
Sep 7 2011, 10:59 PM
I was working the midnight shift and all night had had that feeling of something wrong, couldn't shake it. It was so bad that I went straight to the barn after work, something I never do. Got to the barn and went out to the pasture to see Lizzy (this was about 0830) and gave her a big hug. Hung out with her for about 20 minutes and finally started to feel better. Headed on home and got home just a few minutes after 9 and the phone was ringing.

It was my husband calling to tell me that 2 planes had crashed into the WTC. I immediately turned on the TV and then ended up online at COTH and shared the horrors we witnessed with everyone online there. A lot of people who didn't have tv access were online at COTH as well looking for information and updates since that was their only source of info.

I remember Gwen being a worried wreck as her husband was an NYPD officer and was working that day, and the deep breath of relief we all had when she posted that he had called to say he was safe.

A few weeks after 9/11 my husband and I went down to NY to pay our respects and to drop off some supplies. We were both in uniform (my dispatchers uniform and his FD uniform) We kept getting waved past checkpoints and before we knew it we were there at Ground Zero. We never expected to get that close...and I will never for get what we saw and experienced.....
Wait, have I missed something? Are you a poster with a name change? I don't recognize the login. Do I have "Old Timers" already? :huh:
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I just remembered this morning, via FB, that a former boss and friend of mine lost his brother on 9/11. So sad.

I was in Richmond during college, at work in the AM before class. I remember that the first plane hit, and nobody knew anything. I went to class not really knowing anything. Once I got out of class, the second plane had hit and I think they had started to fall. All was pandemonium. I couldn't reach my folks, and when I finally did, I was trying to figure out whether to get out of Richmond or not, since its a target city.

Calling everyone...panicking. Not knowing what was happening or why. And a few months later, driving past NYC and seeing a different skyline.
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