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NBR: remembering 9.11; where were you?

breezy0629breezy0629 member
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 ...in the busyness of life.... take a moment to remember....

I had been married just shy of 2 months. Working at a NC Office Depot as a cashier. I just finished my break, had coffee in my hand, and a customer walked in and asked if I'd heard. As I made my way off the floor to the breakroom tv set, the second plane hit. The chatter that abounded in the store after the first plane stopped immediately & the remainder of the day it was quieter than ever before; customers friendlier than ever before; bond stronger than ever before; and any customer going about their routine daily tasks got sneering looks from other customers and employees alike.

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Re: NBR: remembering 9.11; where were you?

  • nanakwaznanakwaz

    Great idea.  Everyone has a story to share.

    My daughter and I were living at my parents' house.  I was just waking up to the radio on my alarm clock and the dj said "You have to turn on your TV!" and gave the information that they had at the time.  I jumped out of bed.  My mom always had the news on in the morning but, for some reason she didn't that morning.  I turned the TV on just moments before the first tower fell.   I debated on whether or not to send my daughter (she was 6 at the time) to school that day but I decided not to stress her out over something she wouldn't understand anyway (who really did understand??).

    I was also working in retail at the time and there was definitely a change in the air.  People seemed to want to get along a lot more.  The hardest part was when a lady that worked at the high school I went to came in to buy dark colored clothing for her brother's funeral.  He was one of the pilots on the plane that crashed in PA.  

    On a side note, my grandfather passed away on 9/11/06.  I will also be remembering him tomorrow.

     

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  • KateLouiseKateLouise member

    I'm in NZ I was in bed asleep. A friend rang and told me to get out of bed and turn on the news.

    I don't think the news channel got turned off in our house for about 3 days. 

     

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  • Kristin78Kristin78
    I was pregnant with Gregory.  I was sleeping when both planes hit.  My husband called to tell me to turn on the news.  Needless to say, I got ready for work really slow.  I remember watching the news all day at work, I don't think anybody really worked that day.  I also remember thinking I was bringing a baby into a messed up world.
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  • skittles_123skittles_123 member

    I was driving to Target and heard it on the radio and at first thought it was a joke, seriously. Got to Target and checked the electronics section for a TV to see what was up. I was completely in shock.

    I worked for a university as a grad assistant and was do to report at noon, as I was the only one on staff in my department, as my staff was all at a conference. I went in for a a few hours and realized the university was completely dead, so I shut up shop and went home and watched everything unfold. Our class was canceled that evening as well. My dh (boyfriend at the time) worked at our city airport  as an engineer for UPS. He was on shut down and I couldn't get a hold of him.

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  • Glendi2.0Glendi2.0

    I was working downtown (Boston) when we got word in our office... since the planes originated from Logan, speculation automatically began that perhaps Boston was a target as well... it was absolute chaos- people were getting all sorts of "stories" from unreliable sources, even the news outlets weren't able to distinguish what was true and what was fabricated. Buildings were evacuated, subways were jammed, traffic was at a standstill with people trying to get out of downtown... it almost felt like a movie set from one of those disaster flicks, like it wasn't even real. I ended up walking back to Cambridge to my then-boyfriend/now DH's place, thinking how ironic it was that I'd never done that walk before, b/c it was quite lovely, yet I'd never do it again because it will always remind me of that day... My brother was working for the State Department in DC at the time, so when we also got word of the Pentagon being hit, I  began freaking out when I couldn't get a hold of him- thankfully my mom was able to. when we finally tuned into the news and they revealed the name of the first pilot, who was from my hometown, I just lost it. Just thinking about all the lives that were lost and all the grief their loved ones were about to endure... it was overwhelming, to say the least.


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  • nanakwaznanakwaz
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    I was also working in retail at the time and there was definitely a change in the air.  People seemed to want to get along a lot more.  The hardest part was when a lady that worked at the high school I went to came in to buy dark colored clothing for her brother's funeral.  He was one of the pilots on the plane that crashed in PA.  

     



     

    We lost a number of members of the local community. One of the pilots was buried out of the local parish church which brough our small town to a standstill.

    A man from my gym was killed.

    Wasn't it so hard to look at the families knowing that they were in unimaginable pain?  

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