I have this pic on my desktop....
If I don't remember that terrible day and all the Americans who perished, on my own, this reminds me to think of them.
Posted on 09/10/2008 5:49:12 AM PDT by StarCMC
Where were you?
Special ping to the Smackdown crew.
Pinging a few friends.
I was at work in NYC in Midtown. Someone across from received a phone call and yelled out (A plane it the WTC). It was still another 5 or 10 minutes before it was on TV. At my house in Brooklyn my wife went to the Elevated AVE P. subway stop and recorded the smoke coming from downtown 6 miles away. From my house the column of smoke went right over up in the sky. The wind was blowing from the north. After the buildings fell my was has it recorded on film the ashes dust but it looked like snow. One day i will post the video and probably on here first.
Wow. I cannot imagine seeing it first hand like that. It was hard on TV, but that had to be truly awful- in every sense of the word.
Good morning, Star.
I was in the car driving to work in KCMO with NPR on the radio when they reported that a plane had hit the WTC. I had been thinking to myself what a beautiful day it was with an incredibly clear blue sky. I thought to myself what a terrible accident. What an awful thing to happen.
I got to the office and people were already clustered around a tv, the second plane had hit and the sky in New York was just as clear and beautiful as in the midwest, but there was nothing but horror. I knew we were at war and I was glad George Bush was the president.
Aww! I know someone here who had a baby that day. They said it was like God gave them something good to offset some of the sorrow of that day.
I have this pic on my desktop....
If I don't remember that terrible day and all the Americans who perished, on my own, this reminds me to think of them.
My father was working on an elevator across teh river, I was listening to the news on teh radio when the first plane hit.
Then I flipped on the Tv and watched the second plane take out transmitted TV broadcast.
And my first thought was, “What’s this guy doing?”(About the second plane.)
Here in Ohio, the weather today is essentially exactly like it was 7 years ago. Interestingly, there aren’t even contrails in the sky this morning.
I work right next to Orlando airport. I remember pulling into the parking lot right as the news reported the first plane hit. Thinking the news was (once again) getting it wrong over plane type and size, I went inside thinking it was a private plane such as a Cessna that had done it. Listening to the radio inside I kept thinking this until the 2d-plane hit. Immediately I knew it was a terrorist attack.
The thing that sticks out to me of that day and the days following were no aircraft coming in or out of OIA. It was almost eerie.
Funny, we’re having the same weather here in NY today as we did then too. Tomorrow supposed to be the same.
BTTT
Right here on FR. I posted twice that morning saying a prayer for the nation. I was running back and forth between the tv set and the computer.
The no aircraft in the skies was very very odd. It was so quiet. I was walking into my sisters house when I heard the first plane after all that silence. I actually let out a scream! Scared the heck out of me, I thought we were being attacked, again.
Spent most of the time on FR reading the live threads. We were all family that day.
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I remember on that day I had just gotten into work after leaving earlier to get a number of letters that both my mother and I had to mail out. I had phoned home to tell her I had mailed the letters when she told me that there was a plane crash in the first WTC building. I had thought it was an accident at first. But when I had heard another plane had hit the second WTC building, I KNEW it was not accident and I was in COMPLETE SHOCK that day. I worked at a local community college. Everyone either had watched or listened to the news report. Plus also everyone was sent home from work or class.
We were for a short time, a country united....grieving for her and her people.
Our Bond: God, family and country.
God Bless America and Its' people. Wrap your arms around us and keep Us Safe!
I dropped off my son at preschool and Neil Boortz said that a plane had hit the WTC. He was musing on what kind of plane and how a pilot could have done that. When I got back into the car, they were just reporting that a second plane had hit. We all knew then that this was done on purpose.
Needless to say, the whole tone of the conference changed. We spent the rest of the morning discussing radical Islam and praying. My pastor had been in his office watching TV, letting the invited speakers handle the group. He came into the sanctuary to tell us all that both towers had fallen, were gone. Since we didn't see it happen on TV, it took a few minutes for that to sink in, to understand what he was saying. I must have made some type of a noise because he turned and looked right at me.
At home, we didn't turn off the TV until 3 am and then turned it back on a 6.
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