Where were you 9/11/2001?

No Source | 09/11/2019 | Vanity

[RinaseaofDs]

Where were you on 9/11/2001?

[ratzoe]

I’ve never again experienced one of those gorgeous September days we get in the DC area, without thinking of 9/11.

So true, today is warmer but a beautiful sky and breezy, a lot like 9/11/01.

I was in DC, working in a windowless office in L'Enfant Plaza. Received a call from my wife saying she had talked to her son who said a FEDEX plane had hit one of the twin towers. I immediately logged onto FR to see what I could find out. Followed one of the original threads and I believe within the 1st 20 posts, someone emphatically stated it was terrorism, soon after the 2nd plane hit. Heard about the Pentagon, went outside to hike about a block up to a Potomac overlook and saw the smoke/fire at the Pentagon across the river. Whole city in total gridlock, took me 3 hours to get home after waiting most of day. Surreal day.

I remember thinking/wondering how long the 'United' state of mind everyone had would last.

[philled]

On an American Airlines flight not making it out of Chicago. We got stacked up and was odd that there was SO MUCH traffic. Eventually deplaned into a chaotic OHare. Somehow managed to get a rental car and drove 10 hours home. That was the day I discovered AM radio. Started listening to Rush the next day and having children within the next year.

[Guenevere]

imo it was exactly the right time to do this

Omar spit on the graves of all who were murdered and she got away with it

This man, who lost his mother on 9/11 is holding her accountable!

I say..Bravo!

[nutmeg]

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[kaehurowing]

9/11 was my younger son’s first chapel at school where his classroom led the chapel, he was in elementary school, and we were getting ready to go to that. This was in Hawaii (at Obama’s school). Because of the time zone difference, the attacks had already happened on the Mainland before Hawaii was awake so we woke up to the full force of what was going on.

We woke up to the TV news showing the attacks and collapse of the Towers. The school still had the chapel but obviously it was a somber affair and not what was originally intended.

The main thing I remember is how eerily silent it was when we were standing outside the chapel, because all air traffic had been grounded—you usually hear some sort of commercial jet or airplane noise constantly in Honolulu. The only time it wasn’t silent was every once in a while when you heard military jet fighters who were patrolling the skies do a fly by around the city. Essentially Oahu was in a war status because we have such a heavy military presence, and the military at that point assumed we could at some point be under attack. It was all very creepy and scary.

[kaehurowing]

Send her back.

[kaehurowing]

See my #165 regarding a similar experience re the silence and then the fighter jets.

[kaehurowing]

“We woke up to the TV news showing the attacks and collapse of the Towers. The school still had the chapel but obviously it was a somber affair and not what was originally intended.”

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Every time I watch “Mrs. Minniver” and the final church scene it brings back memories of that 9/11 chapel service we were at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFy71uPSXwM

[Jamestown1630]

I’m very sorry for the loss of your friends. Thousands upon thousands were impacted by this and remain in grief.

[Jamestown1630]

I have to agree. The average person impacted by both 9/11 and Omar’s vicious nonchalance over this tragedy doesn’t have many opportunities to express himself in front of the world.

This man did it in his way, a way that was available to him, and it was eloquent.

[Jamestown1630]

I was living at the time in an apartment complex in P.G. County. Over the ensuing days and weeks after 9/11, we saw American flags sprouting on balconies, cars, in windows, EVERYWHERE, in my neighborhood.

This severe division among us didn’t really begin to happen until we elected that Obama ‘post turtle’. The division was engineered and brainwashed into the people; the natural inclination of Americans is very different.

[rlmorel]

I found this email at home that I had written to myself on that day: ******************************************************************** It was a day, that for me was not much different than any other day in my recent life. I got up early, ate cereal for breakfast, stayed in the shower longer than I should have and went to work the way I normally do. I got upset at the same things that always made me upset, and got excited about the kinds of things that made me excited. I walked through the day the way I always have. Until showed up in my doorway, life was pretty much the same as it had been. At 9:20 AM EST, things changed. Everything else was the same as it had been before. The sun was shining brightly with a nice breeze, Canadian Geese took to the air as they ever did. But my whole life changed at that moment. A rubicon was crossed, and it marked a division in the landscape of my life as clearly and unequivocally as a land mass is divided by an ocean on a map. When I crossed that ocean, I closed my door and was unable to look back at the land I had left behind me, because I knew it was in the past, and the voyage ahead of me was going to be very different than the one I left behind.

[RJS1950]

At the time I worked at Mutual of Omaha downtown, but I lived and still live in Bellevue. Retired from the AF in 94 out of Offutt and the last assignment I was in made me familiar with emergency relocation of the president so seeing AF1 land made perfect sense. At work we didn’t have full internet access at our desks and no TVs immediately available, only radio. Seeing the film footage of what I had listened to all day was disturbing. I had just passed 30 years total time and had been moved to the permanent retired rolls, but I wondered if there would be a call up of retirees. It wasn’t like the rapid callup of the first gulf war so that didn’t happen. I knew some people in other call centers that were also approached by the presidential communications people.