Posted on 09/11/2010 3:38:07 AM PDT by davidosborne
Thank you for your service. My prayers are with you.
Was pregnant with our second child. Woke up that morning and went outside to find the most BEAUTIFUL morning I’d seen in quite some time. A surreal, cloudless, azure sky...almost translucent.....and the air was incredibly clean with no humidity. Touch of fall.
Husband was getting ready to go to work and I got a phone call from my mom to tell me to put on the TV. Husband and I watched in the bedroom as the second tower was hit. I was frightened.
Tried to call my sister in Philly and the circuits were busy. Finally got through and she was panicked. She was keeping an exchange student who was on his way to the Twin Towers on a tour. He was due to be on the observation deck @ 8:30. She got a call that the bus was delayed in traffic and they were OK. Sister wanted to reach his mother in Germany to tell her he was OK.....but the mother spoke no English. I called a relative in France who was a translator and he and his wife were able to relay the message to her.
After that....my toddler and I went down to WalMart....bought an American flag....and put it up when we got home. I stayed glued to the television.
I WILL NEVER FORGET.
How soon did you learn your son made it out? I cannot imagine how horrid that time was for you and every other family remember waiting for news.
Last night I posted how I often wondered what was going through the minds of the people that jumped, as they were falling to the pavement. My mind cannot even begin to understand what that must have been like for the.
"Where were you when the world stopped turning?" Alan Jackson.
Most Americans HAVE forgotten. The media will no longer show the photos of the explosions.
I’m sorry, but I don’t see where GWB hit back hard at anyone except conservatives in his own party.
Thanks davidosborne. Here’s something that should stop:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/stamps/eidstamp.asp
“The EID postage stamp was introduced by the United States Postal Service (at the then-current 34-cent rate) as part of its Holiday Celebrations Series on 1 September 2001, just ten days before the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The EID stamp has since been reissued at updated first-class postage rates in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, and most recently in September 2009.”
This is the Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris “If This Is Goodbye”,which is a 911 song.
Breaks my heart every time I listen to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McnNd3zCMv4
(This is on Swedish Television; there may be a better recording or you might want to own the song).
I was at home. Got back from Dallas the day before. My wife and I were having a satellite dish installed and I took the day off so the installer could get in the house. After my wife left for work, I turned the tube on to see what was going on in the world. Turned to CNN and saw the aftermath of the first tower’s attack. Like everyone that day, I was glued to the tube the rest of the day.
Such a sad day in this country’s history. Too bad so many have chosen to forget what happened that day. I haven’t
NEVER FORGET!
Sleeping west coast time. My husband woke me and I thought he was joking. I remember all the first responders called and triage set up and waited and waited. Reality set in that many people didn’t make it out alive.
It’s hard to believe that the pain is still deep and this present situation with the mosque has reopened the wound.
Let’s Roll is still appropriate today. America under siege.
I just hope the next president tells the Imams that one more incident and their Mecca “toilet in the desert” is green glass.
I understand there are 57 muslim ‘states’ hence, 0’s mistaken state count for the US .
NO MORE PC...EVER!
Sleeping when my daughter called telling us to turn on the TV quick. She said something awful is happening.
The Day we got hit, I put a signed picture of George Bush on my desk. It infuriated the liberals. One man, a POS immigrant, upon seeing it gleefully told me America would lose this war. It almost started a fist fight, then and there.
I’ve got a very large US flag outside facing the ocean and I have never seen it as glorious as it is today! It is so proudly shining and billowing in the wind. It’s gorgeous just like the day!
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