GTKY: 9/11 memorial edition

[Deleted User] · September 2014

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tlc35 · September 2014

I was in a grad school conference and we were in morning report and the cell phone of the person who was leading the conference kept ringing. At first he tried to ignore it. He finally answered it and he said that his wife said something about planes crashing into buildings while seeming confused. We continued the conference and then afterward we crowded around the TV in the lounge and watched the coverage, aghast and in silence.

WinoGrrl · September 2014

I was at my previous job and listening to the radio in my office. Heard something about a plane crashing so a bunch of us (it was a small office) huddled in the conference room and watched the second plane hit live on TV. We watched in there pretty much the rest of the day and drove home in shock. It seemed like most everyone else just went about their day - I guess we are pretty removed from NYC and it almost seemed fake just watching something like that on TV....

We were a local branch of a moving company so we had tons of impact, changes, rerouting and flat out cancelling of moves and projects. I don't think anyone realized how big of a ripple this event would have at first.

SillySally24 · September 2014

I was at work, a .com bank in DE - plenty of perks back then (miss them

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But, I remember walking through the break room, back and forth to the restroom, and thinking what an idiot to fly into a building. Of course after the second plane, I realized it was a different kind of idiot flying the planes. We had coworkers trying to get home from Europe who were diverted to Canada and couldn't get home for a few days.

In the days that followed, it was eerie. I lived in Philadelphia Airport's flight path (depending on the weather), as well as a freight train behind the house. It was very quiet for a few days following, since all air and freight traffic had been stopped.

sonpetitlapin · September 2014

(Living Warning)

I just sat down to feed my younger daughter. She was just 3 months old. I turned on the TV to the Today show and they were showing reports and footage of the first plane crash. Talking about it being a small commuter plane and it being an accident. I saw the second plane fly into the next building and I remember thinking...this is no accident. I left to take my two oldest to the PT day care and on the way I heard the report of the plane hitting the Pentagon. I turned around at that moment and went back home.

I lived in Northern Virginia at that time. I lived by the FBI and a huge Marine base. So I was a little freaked out. Plus my mom worked in DC right by the white house so I was worried about her too. My mom also was dating a gentlemen who worked intelligence in the Army. After that day, he would randomly call her up and tell her not to go into work. It is sad to see how people's lives changed after that day. Even those not directly impacted by these events.

flyliceandcoffee · September 2014

I was at home getting ready for class when my boyfriend at the time called me and told me to turn on the news. He had seen it on a tv that he passed on his way to work, and when I turned on the tv, I immediately called my parents to tell them to turn on their news (it was 4am for them). Of course they immediately thought something was wrong with me, but we stayed on the phone as we watched what was going on together. I still thought I had to get to class so I left and went to school but within 5 minutes of class starting, we all got a notification that classes would be cancelled for the rest of the day. I went home and had the news on for the rest of the day.

I lived on the west coast at the time so I didn't know many people on the east coast, but I do remember hoping anyone and everyone I knew was okay.

hooligans4 · September 2014

Being a New Yorker this is part of us now.
I thank god everyday that every one I know who worked in the towers and the buildings around got home eventually. One friend had to walk home to New Jersey to get back to her kids.
My husband (FI at the time) called me as I was bringing my oldest to kindergarten. He said a plane just hit one of the towers and to go home and put on the news. When I watched the second plane hit we realized it wasn't an accident and everyone started panicking trying to call everyone who works in the city. We live on Long Island so a lot of people commute in.
It was horrible because cell phones weren't going through. My brother was working in the subway tunnels and I didn't know if he was down town that day. Thank god he was in Jamaica station on Long Island that day.
The next week was spent hearing word of everyone who made it out and those who didn't.
Stuff like this upsets me now so I don't watch the news or read current events in the paper anymore.

SchruteBucks · September 2014

I was a brand new mom with a five week old baby. She had just woken up and I was in the nursery changing her diaper. My (now ex) husband was in our bedroom getting ready for work. I had just sat down to nurse my daughter when the phone rang. I heard my (ex) husband say, "You're kidding." and then turned on the TV. It was my mom calling to tell us to turn on the news because a plane had just hit the WTC. I went into the bedroom and we both just stood there watching in disbelief. He had to go to work but called me throughout the day for updates.

I crawled back into bed with my daughter and watched CNN and cried my eyes out. I felt so sad and scared and wondered what sort of world I had brought my child into and wondered how I would ever keep her safe. I watched the second plane hit the towers and watched as they both collapsed. I was pretty much glued to the TV for the next week, watching all hours of the day and night.

lcwed · September 2014

I was in my 2nd year of teaching. We had PE in the morning and as we were going they were bringing a tv into the teacher's lounge. When we got in there, we saw what was happening. I ran to call and check on my mom who worked on an army base, because no one really knew much. I went through the rest of the day on autopilot just praying through out the day. I went home, cuddled with my puppy and watched the news just like everyone else and just bawled my eyes out. The next day we had to delicately talk to the kids about what happened and assure them that they were safe at school.

To this day, I always cry at the Alan Jackson song, "Where Were You" when he talks about teaching. I try to avoid the broadcast radio to because they always play the songs with the soundbites imbedded and it makes me cry. I have 8 year olds today and I realized they were born after 9/11 and to many of them it is a sad day in history and that they wear Red, White, and Blue. Doesn't really effect them the way it does us. I haven't decided if that is a good thing or bad thing.

CML11 · September 2014

I was in my last year of college and heard the news when I got to one of my classes and people were crying.

Suddenly I was in a panic because my bother left to visit his girlfriend in CO that morning, left from Logan (Boston) on an American Airlines flight. The cell towers were all tied up and I couldn't get a hold of anyone. It wasn't his plane, but the one that departed right next to him minutes before.

I call him and make sure to talk to him on the anniversary of this day. I'm so fortunate to be able to do that, so many aren't as fortunate as he was.

Still makes me cry remembering the panic and heart break that I felt that day.

Ally1177 · September 2014

I was working right outside of DC, living with my then boyfriend (now hubby). Made it home as the towers were coming down. Sat at the apartment for an hour waiting for word from his good friend that was 2 floors down from where the first plane hit. We finally couldn't wait any longer and got in the car and drove to Western NY where the rest of his friends & family were. We were halfway there when we heard our friend was OK, but we finished the trip anyway and I called into work the next day. Our friend left NYC that day and never went back. He doesn't really like to talk about it but we are all very thankful every day that he is still with us.

meredithcarole · September 2014

I was finishing school (U.T. Austin) and living with a family I babysat for. I woke up that morning early for some reason and turned on the news (which I never did). It was then that I learned of the first plane and as I was watching the second plane crashed. We spent the entire day watching the news, it was so surreal.

KirstenAlecia · September 2014

I was doing like many others....starting my day. Just dropped off My D at kindergarten and came home to get a workout in. Turned on the news like normal.......watched in disbelief. My mom called we were is disbelief. Watched the second tower get hit.......watched them go down. I think i really lost it when they went down.

My mom and i talked about what was next. The second plane hitting...we knew it was bad and as a military family.....we knew life would be different and friends would be sent away soon and possibly my step dad too.

MelissaMiso · September 2014

I was at work and we stood in front of the tv in shock. Our boss was in the air with his plane getting diverted. It was so surreal. My brother saw the news before leaving for work in the city. His girlfriend (now wife) was on the subway at the time and he just kept trying until he got through to her cell to tell her to get home. She worked at one of the WTC buildings next to the towers. Everyone in my family got home safe but a family friend worked on one of the top floors of the first tower. Being a New Yorker, we know too many people who had people perish that day. There was a weird yellow haze that was in the sky over Long Island for at least a week after that day. We saw funeral procession after funeral procession for weeks following. At the time, I was in the middle of a run of Lost in Yonkers at a community theater and yes it's true the show must go on. That weekend was the hardest to make people laugh when we did that first show. People thanked us for helping them feel a little bit of relief from the happenings of the world.
It is so difficult, even to write this, without getting teary eyed, a lump in my throat, and a pit in my stomach.

Sharon&Paul · September 2014

I had just graduated college a couple weeks before and was waiting to start my first job. I had slept in that morning and woke up to the news that a plane had hit one of the towers. At that time it was just thought to be a small plane. I continued to watch the news as it unfolded. We lived outside of NYC and could hear the fighter jets flying over head. I had such fear in my heart not know what had happen. When the towers came down it took out our TV service, so we were listening to the radio and trying to pick up Phili stations. Cell phones were mostly jammed at that point. My father called home and said he was heading to the city.He was a volunteer EMT and was called to triage. I selfishly wanted him to turn around and come home to us. I got word that My brother (who worked with FEMA) was being sent to the Pentagon. My younger siblings were still in elemrntary school and high school. There schools went into lock down. They were not sending the kids home, because too many parents worked in the city and they did not know if they would make it home that night. Sadly many kids did in fact loose their parents that day. We lost local parents, soccer coaches, girl scout leaders. Each day you learned the names of more and more that were lost that touched your heart.

Several weeks later I started my first job as a physician assistant in a family practice outside of NYC. Many of our patients were fire fighters in the WTC or families of those lost. We treated patients for lung conditions and depression for many years after. Sadly the number of first responders that have now died from the exposures they received that day are outstanding. I have since moved away of the the area to the Boston area. It is different here. There is still remembrance and I did have one patient up here that lost her parents on the flight, but it is not like my first job where we saw the affects of 9-11 day after day.

bearfootz · September 2014

I was in college and woke up to my sister calling my cell phone. I ignored it and didn't listen to the message until after my shower and then turned on the tv just after the 2nd plane had hit. I went to class and we were told that a plane had hit the Pentagon. They told us that anyone could leave if they wanted to, though a lot of us didn't know what to do with ourselves so just stayed. I called my parents - who were safe and sound in their small town, but remember seeing people frantically trying to get ahold of their loved ones. There was a large group gathered around a guy with a radio on the street listening to reports. Spent the rest of the day watching Tom Brokaw.

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