First time poster, long time lurker here.
I was at home with my babies, and my husband called on the phone and told me to turn on the tv, he had heard about a plane hitting in New York. It wasn’t long before I realized we were under attack.
Seeing those poor people jumping out the windows, moms like me, just trying to do their best that day.. they had gone to work with hopes and plans and now they were forced to jump to their death... will always be etched in my mind and my heart broke. Seeing the first tower go down, it seemed like it was just a plume of smoke coming up, it was too inconceivable that the tower had fallen.
Hearing about our President flying around on AF1 because he might be under attack was scary. Seeing no airplanes for the next few days was surreal.All of it was heartbreaking.
Thank you for breaking your silence to post your story. Every story is important, is part of the fabric of the whole. When I saw people jumping, it just made me shudder. As someone said, what was so horrible that made jumping the better option.
I became so ANGRY at the press when they criticized our president for being in AF1 as he tried to assess the situation and save our country. That was the beginning of REAL fake news, IMHO!