Posted on 09/11/2010 3:38:07 AM PDT by davidosborne
Where were you nine years ago today?
He does!!
Thank you.
I had dropped my car off for service and a friend picked me up so we had a quick breakfast. I’d been home about a half hour when at 9:30am my mom called asking if I had the tv on; I didn’t. She was talking about WTC, but I must have had a different channel because it was showing the Pentagon. So I kept asking her what she was talking about. I said “mom, I know what the Pentagon looks like, I’m looking at the Pentagon, not World Trade.” It took a few minutes for both of us to catch up with what was happening.
Hubby works at ABC network and at the time he was at The View. They were told to “get over to News right now and stay there.” He didn’t get home until about 8pm that night. His brother called from California that evening and said that he knew he was nowhere near WTC but he had to hear his voice.
I was at home alone when the towers fell. I remember standing in the kitchen in front of the tv with my hands at my mouth for at least a half hour. I could not move. My brain was not processing what I was seeing, and I believe I was in physical shock.
A friend lost a son-in-law and all they had to bury was a bone fragment identified through DNA. Hubby lost a couple of former colleagues that worked at the television transmitter at the north tower. My boss lost many friends at the company he’d left only 4 years prior; he still cannot talk about it in any great detail.
This happened to all of us. I am still mad as hell.
I woke up late that day, I had a 7 month old baby who had kept me up most of the night. My husband had been out of work for close to 6 months. I turned on the news, and saw what had happened. By then the towers were already down.
I woke my husband up in horror, and we watched the news the rest of the day.
And cried,.
At about 11am our time (pacific) my husband got the call that had gotten a job. Even after 6 months, we could take no joy in that. It seemed so irrelevant compared to what had happened on the other side of the country.
I will NEVER forget. I am still angry. I still blame Muslims. I will not tolerate the religion which took joy and pleasure and righteousness in the murder of 3000 people.
What Muslims like our President can't understand is that we are still at war. A Muslim president bowing to Muslim dictators doesn't make them like us.
Ozero’s speech at the Pentagon today was horrible. There was no emotion whatsoever. He may have been in a coma. It has made me very sleepy.
Sorry for the long post:
I was working in on 7th Ave in my office near 45th st. One of my friends IM’ed me saying a plane hit the WTC and could I see it from my office. I went to the south side of my building and could see the smoke pouring out. I went back to my desk and asked what the news was showing - we didn’t have TV there and none of the internet sites were updated yet. He said a small plane had hit the WTC. I told him there was no chance it was by mistake, the WTC was the biggest thing from here to Chicago. That it was a crystal clear day. That a mistake that size is impossible.
I spent the next few minutes going back and forth to my desk to see if the internet had any updates. I was in a conference room with a clear view of the towers with about 10 co-workers when I saw the 2nd plane fly into the tower like a missile. At that point everyone just froze. After a few minutes of stunned disbelief and everyone asking each other if they saw what they thought they had seen someone wheeled a TV into the room. It was an old antenna TV with lousy reception but it worked well enough being only a few blocks from the broadcast homes of ABC and NBC. We were able to hear and see the chaos on TV while seeing the towers pour smoke out our window.
I was going back and forth, talking with my friend on IM, hearing all the rumors about other planes hitting the Capitol, the Washington Monument and the Pentagon. Like everyone else I was a combination of stunned, scared, sad and angry. My company had an office right near the WTC. I had friends there. I had no idea if they were ok.
At about 10:00 we got notified that the offices were closing and we had to leave. I live out east on Long Island. The only real way for me to get home is the LIRR which had been closed. I considered walking across the 59th st. bridge but that would have just left me stranded in Queens. I decided to wait it out near Penn Station.
The walk down 7th Ave. from my office was surreal. Lower Manhattan was a wall of dust 50 stories high. I had walkman radio with me and was listening to the Scott & Todd, local DJ’s. They were talking to people who had escaped the tower. Those people were talking about the ones who chose to jump out of the 100th story of the WTC rather than face the burning hell inside. They talked about the sound those people made when they hit the ground. Of all the images and all the sounds from 9/11, those sickened me the most.
I was sitting in Al’s Deli on 7th next to Penn Station when they announced that the Tower 1 had fallen. They were talking about the hundreds of people inside. Someone was crying on the air. Then the Tower 2 fell. I was looking out at the Empire State building wondering if I was going to see a plane fly into it and trying to figure out if I was better off running uptown or toward the Javits Center if it did. That’s when we heard a humongous roar. Fighter jets flew over the island of Manhattan in formation and for the first time I thought “we’re ok”.
I moved to the south side entrance of Penn Station as there were fewer people there. I was one of the first people into it when they opened the doors and I was the first on my train. The train was quickly loaded to probably triple normal commuter capacity. When we came out of the tunnel we were able to see all of lower Manhattan for the first time. It was completely covered in smoke and dust. People were crying on the train. A lot of people. Men, women...everyone.
I went down to the Pile in the days afterword a couple times with people from work. We handed out water, gloves and helped clean down there. That’s when the walls and walls of “Have you seen me” and “missing” signs began showing up. I don’t think I’ve ever been so sad. That memory, of all the people and their heartbreak and their loss that got me into caring about politics. I really didn’t before 9/11. I had voted but I didn’t care because while it mattered, it wasn’t life or death. 9/11 showed me how naive I was.
true story: about the fourth anniversary I was having drinks with a young lady who was introduced to me by a friend. This friend thought we’d have something in common. Educated woman, good job, blah, blah, blah.
Around 11:00 the news comes on and mentions the anniversary of 9/11. She said to me “ Are they still talking about this? What was this, like 5 years ago or something ?”.
They are out there, my friend. Some people just do not care.
I live only 35 miles outside NYC, and folks in our company had many family members, friends and customers in and around the Trade Center. I watched the horror until around noon, then went home. My wife and I drove to the town beach on Long Island sound, where, on a clear day, you can see the NY skyline in the distance. That day, we saw the funeral pyre of the Trade Center.
In the end, we knew two of the dead personally, knew of another half-dozen by name (Marsh & McLennan and AIG were customers at a previous job). The mother of my son's classmate was killed. My next-door neighbor had a day care very close to the Trade Center - ultimately it was closed and relocated. Thankfully, none of the kids' parents were killed. A friend at work resigned to become an NYC firefighter. A friend at church continues to thank God for his escape from the 60th floor of Tower 1, and speaks to youth about his story.
Today in Connecticut, the weather is bright and clear, much the same as that day 9 years ago.
How true MestaMachine. NEVER FORGET.
Only 30 percent of Muslims agreed with the 9-11 Muslims, and our government continues to let them come here.
The next hit is going to cure this asinine policy ... if we survive it.
I find it telling that neither Obama or Michelle were at the WTC site. Orders from their imam?
I would give a lot to actually know what the reactions of these two were on 9/11/2001!
New tagline after Obama's speech.
God Bless President Bush, and Mrs. Bush.
To: Republicus2001
It takes a lot of cash to smash two jets, don't you think? Can you say Osama bin-Laden?
89 posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:08:58 AM by HalfIrish
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Dude. I'm very impressed!
Please, no pictures of Muslims today, I think I’ll puke.
You don’t see the full blown military invasion of Islamic country as “hard hit” ????
Thank you for your service.
I was at work in Wisconsin. One of my coworkers said, “Someone flew a plane into the World Trade Center”. I thought he was reading e-mail, and said, “That has to be a hoax!” He said, “no, no, Fran (his wife) just called and she’s watching it on the morning news.” About that time, the second plane hit. The rest of the day, in between calls, we watched on the internet. I was an L-dotter at the time, so alternated between checking Lucianne and the BBC. Couldn’t get to Fox, CNN, or any American news web sites.
A few weeks later, was part of a group to lead patriotic and religious songs in a memorial observation at work. (I work for the state of Wisconsin.)
Ever Notice, Obama never tells where he was that morning.
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