Remembering 9/11/01

[Big Hurt]

I was a few months out of college and still not employed full time. I was off from my part time job and woke up and went straight to the shower without turning a TV on. I have a radio in the shower and turned that on and it was commercial. I usually listen to AM Sports Talk.
They came back from break and said they were cutting to CBS news as an airplane accidently has flown into one of the World Trade Center Towers. I was confused but figured it was an accident.
I listened to the news coverage as facts started coming out about phone calls from flight attendants and such.
I got out of the shower and turned my TV on in time to see the second plane hit. I was shocked and confused. I watched the towers fall and tried to make sense out of the crash in Pennsylvania and the attack on the Pentagon.
Like the rest of America, I was glued to my TV for the next few days, trying to find a resolution to it all. 6 years later, it still has not came.
God Bless the families of all the victims and to all those who effected by those event.

I remember in the days and weeks to follow how I just wanted normalcy to come back to our lives. I wanted things to go back the way they were on Sept 10th 2001.

Will they ever?

[Point202]

I am always intrigued by everyone's stories of 9/11 - it is truly the JFK moment of my generation. I will always remember where I was and what I was doing.

To tell my story: I was living away from home, in South Carolina, doing theatre work. I had woken up shortly after nine, poured myself a bowl of Apple Jacks Cereal, and sat down as I do every morning to watch the Today Show as I eat breakfast. As I turned on the TV, it was showing footage of the smoking World Trade Center. The first plane had already hit. I could tell there was much confusion among the anchors as they waited for information to come in. Within moments I saw the second plane hit. I literally stopped with a spoonful of cereal in my hand, my mouth wide open in shock. I had a brief moment of panic in those first moments when they said a plane went down "outside of Pittsburgh" - before they figured out it was Somerset County (an hour from Pittsburgh) I had visions of my beloved hometown in smoke.

I spent the rest of that day comforting the actors in the show we were rehearsing - most were from New York, and several had friends or colleagues that worked in the towers.

And now I marvel at how our world has changed forever - hardly a day goes by without the mention of terrorism or suicide bombs in the news. To answer your question, Big Hurt, I somehow doubt that things will ever be the same again.

[g_diddy]

Well I was sitting in a meeting discussing the finalization of a acquisition of another company. We had people in from that company who were from Montreal. We started seeing people pile into the big conference room next to us so we decided to see what was going on. Shortly after we got into the room the first tower fell. It was some time before we found out everything that had happened on the day. We spent most of the afternoon trying to figure out ways of getting our fellow employees back home from various places throughout North America and who to get the people from the other company back to Montreal.

As far as being "back to the way it was", in some ways I think that we have moved on well, but the threat is always hanging over us. The ironic thing is that today as I drove to work I realized that I would be sitting in meetings talking with another company from Montreal that we are merging with. I had a huge flash back to that day and I actually started worrying again.

Sorry to divert a little, but Point, where in South Carolina were you? Was it Greenville at the Peace Center? If it was we may have only been within a block of one another for most of the day.

[Brwnidgrl]

I also love to hear people's story, because everyone has one, everyone will always remember exactly what they were doing when it happened.

I was still in High School, my junior year, I was going to class at 2 different schools (college courses in fashion design in the mornings and then reg. classes at my normal school in the afternoon) We were all sewing and I was cutting out fabric when our principal came over the intercom, right away my teacher knew something was wrong because he never comes over the speaker, and he basically said a plane has crashed into the world trade center and if we have a TV in our room to turn on the news...we turned it on in time to see the second plane hit, and within an hour our entire classroom was full of people from other classrooms that didn't have a TV, I then went back to my normal school and in every single class we were watching the news, we didn't get anything school related done that day.

I also remember I got a job at Sears as a cashier and that was my very first night of working, the mall had closed but we still had orientation. I also remember everyone was stocking up on gas because they thought the prices were going to skyrocket.

[Point202]

Sorry to divert a little, but Point, where in South Carolina were you? Was it Greenville at the Peace Center? If it was we may have only been within a block of one another for most of the day.

I was in Hilton Head - a little further than a few blocks from Greenville :)

[Crazy8Fan]

for me its my oldest sons birthday... and my youngest son was born 9 months later...