We were living in northern California at the time. Sept. 10th had been emotional for me as it was my late sister’s birthday and she had died in April. It was also my in-laws’ anniversary so it had been a busy day. Maya was about 11 months old and a handful, so my in-laws (who are from India and were staying with us at the time)decided to let me sleep in the morning of September 11th.
My first memory is my father-in-law shaking me from my sleep (he’s very old fashioned and NEVER had even been in my bedroom) and shouting at me, “Oh, my God! Oh, my God!” :*(
I thought something had happened to Maya, but he told me she was fine. His first words were, “The Muslims have attacked the World Trade Center!” -let’s just say my husband and in-laws have little patience for muslims-he was prescient, because he told me this BEFORE the second plane hit!...I immediately rushed down the hall to our study where we had a tv (don’t know why I didn’t check the one in our bedroom in hindsight) and we both watched in horror as the second plane crashed live on tv. :*( What was extremely scary was the fact that my in-laws had been in NYC the week before and had just come back on Sept. 8th—they had almost stayed an extra week with friends out there but had missed Maya too much THANK YOU GOD!! or they might have been in the middle of it all. :*( I called my husband at work, hysterically crying, and asked him if he saw it on tv—he was clueless and apparently so was everyone else on his floor—I yelled at him to turn on a tv, two planes had flown into the WTC towers, and he immediately cursed and said, “Muslims!!!” and hung up to go find a tv...then I called a very dear friend (like a second mother to me) back in Texas and she was crying and I was crying and my father-in-law was crying, and I remember my mother-in-law coming in, holding Maya who silently observed all the adults around her crying their heads off. :*( “What’s happening to my country??!?” I remember asking my friend that day, and there are some days
when I still ask myself that question when I see the horrible directions we’ve taken morally in America. :*(
God bless America, and all those affected by 9/11. My prayers and thoughts are with you all.
‘“The Muslims have attacked the World Trade Center!” -let’s just say my husband and in-laws have little patience for muslims-he was prescient, because he told me this BEFORE the second plane hit!
‘... two planes had flown into the WTC towers, and he immediately cursed and said, “Muslims!!!”’
Must be nice to be from a culture that doesn’t have PC hang-ups! :-\ When we white people say that, we’re racist! Too bad we were all correct!