Remember 9/11

[Scandia]

Remember and honor the victims and the heroes.

It is NOT the USA's fault.

That day I was giving a test to my 8th grade science students. A girl came in late and said that two planes had smashed into the Twin Towers, another one into the Pentagon, and that there was a fire next to the White House.

I will NEVER forget.

[ferrus_manus]

Originally Posted by Scandia

It is NOT the USA's fault.

How naive.

[DaemonSeid]

I was working in downtown Baltimore...initially we thought it was an accident with a small cessna plane as that weekend before, a small plane has hit another building elsewhere.....and then we watched the rest of the events unfold online...many of us started panicing because we worked next to a gov't building....I remember calling one of my co workers....a doctor on his way to a conference near the pentagon (and also muslim...mind you we still didn't know what happened but it just didn't look good) and told him the first chance he gets to turn around and get home. I remember another friend of mine around 10am and he was trying to get across the brooklyn bridge and then the phone went dead....I remember talking to him aweek later and how he told me that he was late going to work and if he didn't just happen to stop in a coffee shop (lateness be damned) he would have been dead...he lost all of his coworkers that were on the upper floors. I remember also calling friends in DC and freaking out for about 3 days until I could account for everyone.....and luckily no one was hurt...

[SWTXBelle]

I was homeschooling my two girls - who were then 11 and 9, so the television wasn't on. My sister came over and said "Have you seen?". I was 7 months pregnant with my eldest son - and I remember watching in disbelief, and wondering what this meant the world would be like for my unborn child.

[WVU alpha phi]

I was in 11th grade in Mrs. O'Keefe's Public Speaking class. I remember aides delivering notes to all the teachers, then the principal coming over the intercom and telling the teachers to read the notes to the classes. Everyone was in shock and we had a million questions, and to this day I can't believe my teacher's reaction: "I don't know any more information than you do, but we are not going to let this interrupt class." Every other person I know was allowed to watch TV and see all the footage, and we weren't even allowed to discuss what had happened.

We ended up being sent home at noon that day- I grew up in MD and kids in my school have parents who worked at the Pentagon. I also remember we were allowed to use our cell phones to call our parents, and I panicked because both my parents worked for the federal government (one at NSA headquarters) and neither answered their work phones. Luckily, they were released immediately when the attacks on the Pentagon happened.

Strange stories- my ex boyfriend's friend's father was supposed to be on the flight out of Logan. He didn't get a first class seat so he decided to wait for the next flight. Also, one of the kids in one of my HS classes had a mom who worked at the area of the Pentagon that was hit- she stayed home that day with his sick sister.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by WVU alpha phi

Strange stories- my ex boyfriend's friend's father was supposed to be on the flight out of Logan. He didn't get a first class seat so he decided to wait for the next flight.

My stepmom was on a flight out of Logan, sitting on the runway, ready to take off, when all flights were grounded. Everyone on the plane was mad and didn't know what was going on.. until they got off the plane and back into the terminal.

[Leslie Anne]

I was asleep and got this early morning phone call. I couldn't imagine who would be calling me before 8 am. It was my sister and she sounded hysterical. She said, "we're being attacked!" I got up and spent the entire day watching CNN. It's was so surreal. I couldn't believe it was actually happening.

My big used to work in one of the towers. I think it was for Dean Witter. Even though I knew she no longer worked there she lived near by. I tried calling her frantically for 4 days, left messages but didn't hear back from her. Finally, I thought she might be in Ohio and even though it was 2 in the morning there, I called her and as soon as I heard her voice I started sobbing and blubbering. I was so happy she was okay.

My dad was on a flight home from Toronto the day it happened. They were about 30 minutes into the flight when they had to turn around. He spent the next few days there in Canada until airtravel resumed.

Damn, that whole thing was so scary. I never want to experience anything like that again!

Later, I read that two KDs were among those who perished. At least one of them was on one of the planes that hit the towers.

So much pointless loss.