We were staying close to the airport and when the flights were grounded, it was spooky quiet....
We left for home that very week and traveled by car across country ....no flights available and I don't we would have flown if we could.
All across America on our trip folks were flying the flag....every building, office, home & bridge, it seemed.
I will never forget it.
What memory this video triggered...
..Like the woman, I was sobbing...(even with the time difference, I found the news on Free Republic before I turned on the TV)
When the first tower started falling, my husband & I turned off the TV and prayed for all those lives and families....
..and for our own families, not knowing what this meant for our country.
My husband was getting ready for work and I turned on the computer (Free Republic) and told him something strange was happening....all flights are canceled....(that's where we came in)
He thought I was making it up, until we turned on the TV.
The one thing that touched me is that for the first week or so after 9-11, the politzei all displayed the American flag in their van windows. For the rest of the time we were there, both the German cops and the German military were very protective of Americans. Of course, that didn’t stop the communists or the hateful ex-patriate americans from doing their “protest” thing.
Without a doubt, the very WORST people I met in Europe were the americans (small “a” is on purpose) who were living over there because they just HATED America. 9-11 meant nothing to them and to a man, they felt we “deserved” it.