Posted on 09/10/2020 6:00:21 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
OMG!! Actually teaching history....maybe there is hope. I pray so.
It was only minutes and I saw the second plane hit. I watched as I got ready for work, and took a little 5" TV with me. Lots of huddling around it while we all tried to work....payroll had to be done for cutting checks on Wednesday. I stayed glued to the TV for days...at home and at work. Within hours everything red, white, and blue was gone from stores. And then the planes were grounded. EVERYthing in Alaska depends on planes.
We will NEVER forget!!
Good morning, E...((HUGS))...yes, we must never forget.
Hope you and Gizmo can get out for some good exercise.
Happy Gizmo!! d:o)
It looks like Gizmo had a much better time yesterday. Got to run in the dry and even found something (hopefully not too smelly) to roll in. LOL
This was originally posted (I think) in 2005. It's been an annual repost since then.
At about 8:40am on that morning, I was walking into the Court building on Adams Street (actually, the Court St. entrance) in Downtown Brooklyn to start serving jury duty. As luck would have it, I had been halfway to the train station before I’d realized that I’d left my Walkman on the kitchen table, so I didn’t bother going back for it. I figured I’d just get a newspaper. Besides, I didn’t know how well I’d be able to pick up AM inside the building anyway.
I sat in a dark room watching a video on How to Be a Good Juror, oblivious to what was going on right across the river. We were told to relax in the room that they have, and I looked out the window at the Marriot Hotel. Traffic on Adams St was snarled, not moving. Must’ve been an accident on the Brooklyn Bridge, I thought. (It was a block away.)
People were standing around outside the hotel. Must be waiting for a tour bus or something. What did I know.
Fire trucks and ambulances started flying by on the wrong side of Adams Street, which had no traffic. Okay, traffic doesn’t come into Brooklyn much in the morning, but something was odd here. I had been facing 180 degrees from where I needed to be looking.
Finally, they had made an announcement. America was at war, under attack. The World Trade Center and the Pentagon had been destroyed. They were trying to get coverage on the TV sets in the jury rooms. I don’t think they succeeded. Even if they wanted to, only CBS would be available because it still broadcast from the Empire State Building.
People were beside themselves, many broke down, everyone was rushing for the payphones. I met a woman who had been listening to her radio. She let me share her earbuds. She was shaken and needed a cigarette. I don’t smoke, but I walked her to the smoking room. (There was one on the floor. Quite a few people were there.)
We were dismissed. Not much was going to get done in the Court building that week. Groups of people huddled outside with questions, comments, gossip and hearsay. Some of the lawyers said they saw it happen. What kind of plane was it?
Does anyone know if the trains are running? What about the buses? No trains. No LIRR. A few buses and they’re all packed. It was time to start walking and no one wanted to walk alone. We walked in groups.
Dust was falling from the sky in downtown Brooklyn like a dirty snow that was covering the cars. Papers fell too. We started walking up Atlantic Avenue. People were wandering around with their cell phones out trying to get a signal. no luck.
We took a turn down Third Avenue. I needed to. I wanted to stop at my mother’s house. It was a good resting point for me. The group I’d tagged along with decided to join me. One guy stopped in a hardware store for masks and passed them out.
When we passed Third St and reached the Gowanus Canal, we had our first real look. It was like a scene out of a bad movie. The skyline was there. But the Towers were missing. Just a terrible column of smoke and a cloud drifting our way.
We didn’t stay long. We kept walking. I made it to my mother’s house and said good-bye to the others. Some were walking all the way to Staten Island. One who had joined our group had walked over the Brooklyn Bridge — after having walked down 50 floors of Tower 1. God was looking out for him.
I watched some of the coverage until the trains were running again. I took one that left me about a mile or so from my inlaws, the meeting place for the rest of the family. I stopped in at St. Athanasius on the way. I hadn’t been there since a wedding about 15-20 years earlier. I stayed for a little while and walked the rest of the way.
Thankfully, my wife, who worked at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge on the Manhattan side had evacuated immediately before the trains had stopped running.
It’s not a walk that I’ll ever forget.
TS
I was on duty at the FAA of all places that day. We had a new guy that asked where to get a cup of coffee. I took him up to the cafeteria and was talking to some people at a table when the second plane hit. That must have been quite a first day at work for him.
I’ll Never Forget!
I’ll Never Forgive!
Good afternoon, TS....I was hoping you would stop in and repost your “up close and personal” experience. I read every word each time you post it. Amazing story on a horrible day. Thank you!
Out and about now that school has started (no kids yet, but up early and traveling).
My wife had Jury duty in Boston that day.
I’ll Never Forgive!
Nor I, Taxman, nor I!!
I cannot imagine what it was like on that day....
We have to keep working on the problem until it is solved!
President Trump is a problem solver!
We’ll stick with him and help him solve the problem!
Hear! Hear! He sure has been a solver of problems...and with very little help.
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