Posted on 09/11/2013 4:03:33 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
I was working at my desk listening to my radio. When word of it might of been a large commercial airliner hitting the north tower I decided to go next door to our fitness center where a TV was located.
For the next hour I rotated back and forth from my desk to the fitness center to watch it unfold.
When the second plane hit the South tower I was still watching the TV and immediately knew it was deliberate. America was at WAR
from that point on I sat riveted to the TV. When the South tower collapsed I was dumbfounded, I could not believe what was happening - it was all so surreal
Working in my home office- had one of those little tv’s in the bookcase part of my desk but muted. I looked up and saw the first tower with smoke and unmuted it ..FOX discussing probable terrorist attack. My son was sick home from school and had the tv on in living room. I remember hearing him shout just as I watched the second plane hit. He had visited some friends that summer in NYC and had been to the WTC - he was in shock. We all were, weren’t we?
I had lived in NYC years before and was familiar with the whole area but my cousin worked 3 blocks from WTC and it was a long few hours before she was able to let us know she was well.
After the plane hit in Pennsylvania I decided to go to the grocery store- remember we didn’t KNOW what might happen next. I stocked up, let me tell you. Even down here in Florida people in the store looked dazed. None of the friendly chit chat thats normal. While driving home I was amazed to see MANY cars already flying the little car flags.
My mother was living with us at that time and when I came in with groceries she was in the kitchen washing dishes. I asked why she wasn’t watching tv and she told me what she’d learned when she had one brother in the Pacific and one in Europe during WWII. Pay attention to what’s going on “over there” but stay focused and busy here. It kept her sane.
I will never forget the agony and horror and rage of that lovely September day.
In a chaotic O’Hare concourse after my United flight grounded.
Later that afternoon, it was eerily quiet without all the air traffic. No sound of cars or animals.
As of now, Google has a black ribbon below the search box; nothing at Yahoo.
I was on Free Republic after going outside to revel in the beauty of the September in Connecticut bright blue sky, all-encompassing greenness of the trees and crickets chirping through the silence. My spouse had a presentation the next day at the North Tower, and was thinking about just attending the first day anyway.
On his drive to Manhattan with his business partner, he heard the radio news and decided to come home. He then called and demanded I turn on the TV. I still can’t believe it. Those towers could never fall in my mind.
The last thing I recalled was the airspace silence for a few days. Typically lots of flights would pass over to airports in the New York area.
God Bless America
I was at home, listening to the TV, getting ready to go to the library. I heard something that caused me to go to the TV, where I saw a replay of the first plane hitting the WTC, and then saw live the second plane hit.
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