[ilovemyglo]

I was staying with my boyfriend the night before and his roommate came in around 10 and said "Get up classes are cancelled and we are going to war". My boyfriend grabbed his gun and we went into the living room and saw what had happened to the towers, and then we saw them collapse. The replays over and over and people jumping out- I was bawling like a baby and my boyfriend was so unsympathetic. I got in my car to go to the sorority house to go to class and I was so shaken I couldn't see. I remember looking in the cars around me, everyone was totally in shock and disbelief. No one smiled. I remember I was at a light and my cell phone rang. It was my dad and all he said "I have been calling you all morning... when something like this happens I want to hear my family's voice" and I lost it. I just bawled. The sorority house was like a block away and I turned in and parked and went inside. Everyone was sitting on the couch watching. I remember one of the girls sister is in school at the fashion design school near the WTC and she hadn't heard from her and she was totally a mess. We all held her and took care of her. Her sister finally called ona friends cell and told her she was okay but she was evacuating and to pray, just everyone pray.
I had a class in the Garrett Ballroom and I got there, it is a journalism class. One of the girls was just freaking and crying... her roommates father was on one of the planes, and he had left a message on their machine...
That was bad. She didn't want to be alone so she had come to class. We just sat there hugging. I was so out of it, tears kept coming down my face and I didn't even feel them.
Our professor came in and said he wasn't keeping us for class. This was our generations' JFK- we would remember this day for the rest of our lives and tell our grandchildren about it, so leave, go watch, and pray.
So then I walk out and there is a big screen tv int he ballroom seating area. There were about 40 students sitting around watching it. No one knew each other, but everyone suddenly starting holding each other's hands. I didn't know any of these people but there we all sat. I finally got up and stumbled back to the house in a daze. My friend is the in Marine Reserves and he called me and we went to get some lunch and come back and watch more CNN. We sat there and I kept hugging him cause I knew he would get activated and he was so afraid about what and where he was going to.
I don't remember anything except watching tv for the next few days. Some guys had asked my sisters if I was okay cause they had seen me going to class that day and saw how shaken I was. We went to church that night I remember that.
And the girl in my class who's roommate lost her dad didn't come back for another week. When she did she couldn't talk about it.

I will never ever forget 9/11 and why we are fighting the terrorists. And I pray for them and will tell my children and grandchildren about that day when they arrive here.