Never forget.
Never forget bump...
Gawd. What a horrible, HORRIBLE day!
Thanks for starting this thread TWENTY YEARS AGO ago, though. :)
20 years later.....
Next to the days when friends and family have passed away 9/11 ranks among the worst in my lifetime.
I still get chills running up my spine 20 years later.
21-year bump.
Never forget.
Never forget.
Never forget…
We were on vacation and our 20th anniversary at a great Oregon Coastal hotel.
For some reason, the next morning, I was awake and watching tv with mute on.
I couldn’t believe the first plane slamming into the tower.
My wife woke up to see the second plane crash.
We decided to cancel our reservations there and back down the Oregon coast for the next 2+ weeks.
My wife called the desk to tell them we were checking out and that I was getting our Bronco gassed up.
The manager said no problem, and they would give us a basket for breakfast/brunch.
As I was checking out there were some librarians from Canada basically cheering what happened. With some help from other Americans and the management, they shut up and went back to their meeting room.
As we were loading our vehicle for the return trip, a couple from Portland were heading to the tennis courts as if nothing happened.
Our cellphones didn’t work and basically the radio stations down the coast were worthless.
We stopped at a MO’s for lunch and watched the TV news, stunned. Our family was scattered safely over Oregon, SF Bay Area and one son hunting for deer. Our phones were still worthless.
Later we pulled into the Rogue
River lodge where we had ressies for a week, the following week. We cancelled those ressies, and their desk people got us ressies at Brookings for at least one night.
We had just checked in at Brookings after seeing near fights over gas, a limit of 5 gallon per vehicle. When 3 black suvs pulled up with guys and gals in suits. The head guy and I looked at each other, and he said “No Such 5 years ago”. I said yes.
He advised that we spend the night there, and he would leave a message with us re staying or driving on home.
We had dinner at the Pizza place which was about the only open food place. Two groups were bravely celebrating 2 birthday parties. The pizza place gave us pizzas for breakfast and lunch the next day.
My New Such buddy and his crews had left to go to airports in Oregon and Washington.
He told the night clerk to tell us to head home the next morning if we hadn’t heard from him.
We left the next morning with our cold pizza and nothing from our new friend.
Basically there was minimal if any traffic for the next 400 miles. All of our family members and friends were safe and scared and mad.