Posted on 09/11/2019 6:47:01 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
Where were you on 9/11/2001?
I was home from work that day, watching the NBC news. When the first plane hit, I immediately thought something had gone wrong with the pilot or his guidance (I don’t know much about planes.)
When the second one hit, I knew it was intentional. Started calling cousins to see if everyone we had in NYC was safe.
I’ve never again experienced one of those gorgeous September days we get in the DC area, without thinking of 9/11.
My brother’s 39th.
I was born and raised in the Ground Zero area and was still living about a third of a mile away. I was just leaving my apartment when I heard a huge explosion and saw a massive, glittering cloud rising over Police Plaza. My building shook from the impact and it was a day of atrocity, anger, shock and amazing courage. I only wish we didn’t have the media driven narratives that have covered over what really happened that day, discourages our memories of who was really responsible and have done their best to blame us for being the victims of another day that still lives in infamy despite the lamestream legacy media.
911 was a terrible day but the days, weeks and months following it were in many ways just as bad with lower Manhattan cut off from food deliveries and needing ID to cross Canal St. on foot with supplies. Waking up to the smell of smoldering ruins and ash covering everything is something that no one really ever mentions. Never forget.
I was in the air, US Air,flight from Philadelphia to Houston 8:10am, first class seat. The flight attendant came out of the cockpit, crying. I asked my wife, I wonder what’s wrong with her. The Captain then came on the inter-com and stated what had just happened. 20 minutes later, he came back and said that we had to land at the nearest airport, which was Birmingham, AL. I told the wife to rent a car and I would get the luggage, World War III, had just started. I still get the chills thinking about the events of that day.
He was. He cleaned up NY literally and figuratively and then he was solid and steadfast and unflinching in the face of MOSLEM atrocity.
He refused Saudi money. Threw it back in their faces. Good for him, and curse on that idiot black woman (Jackson-Lee?) in Congress who said she’d take it (it was mean and insulting to not accept Moslem money)!
It’s their worldview, and changing that to Christianity would solve the issue. We should have sent missionaries instead of soldiers. They need conversion to Christianity. As long as they are here and we can freely talk about the Gospel, we should.
I remember showing up at 4am in Greenwich village loading trucks full of supplies. We all pulled together. Then I went to work and got shit from my idiot boss.
At work. Glued to FR as it was the only way to get up to date news ... all the news sites were bogged down by traffic.
On a lighter note from that day, I worked with a gal from Lebanon. She and I were both browsing updates as quickly as we could. At one point, she was finding info more quickly so I asked her what site she was on. Someone else misunderstood and thought I asked her what “side” she was on! O.O
I was in Germantown Md just outside of DC working at Fairchild Defense...Things got really tight there...
I was at work in Texas at a defense contractor. Other coworkers had gone to an offsite meeting, and since I hadn’t finished a key project, I was left behind. I received a call from a coworker trying to return to site. The gates were locked by security. I had to verify he was an employee to be let in. Security said there was a security incident, so everything was on lock down.
I went into the break area to try to find out what happened, in case it was like an Oklahoma City bombing. A TV was showing a burning building, but it was in Spanish due to the maintenance crew setting it on that station. I thought that was occurring overseas.
When I returned to my desk, my coworker got back into the area. He talked about the bombings, the planes. What planes? That’s when I went to an unrestricted area and brought up the news.
The next day, we learned how hard it actually hit US. One military liaison I’d worked with died at the Pentagon. Four coworkers had been on one of the planes. Those were just names on reports to me, but one had been the supervisor to a team member before he’d transferred to our department.
I went out at luch with some coworkers and we bought American flags to display. A couple of days later, EVERYONE was out of flags. You couldn’t get one anywhere.
I was getting my grade school children ready for school and doing the morning routine. Had cnbc on as I usually did at that time of morning. Had discussion with hubby about whether to send kids to school (private Christian not public or the decision might have been different) and reluctantly decided to keep their lives as normal as possible while we waited to see what would happen. Spent the rest of the day talking with my parents who were due to fly back from Florida the next day trying to figure out how they were getting home. Ultimately they did a one way car rental and a 3 day drive because no one knew when commercial air travel would be up and running again.
When he ripped up the check in public and told that Saudi asshole to go fuck himself was awesome.
I was in the Shell refinery in Deer Park Texas. Someone rolled a tv into the room that I was in and I watched the 2nd tower get hit. We got out of the refinery quickly.
I was driving my visiting from Texas brother & wife to Vancouver BC from Seattle area...my husband had left earlier for a biz meeting there. Upon waking heard words about planes crashing into buildings...ran downstairs to turn tv on, and get on FR. Against my hubs advice we drove to BC...border crossing was long but no problem. The next days return was interesting, as my brother worked for oil company and had passport with lotsa middle east markers...after questions and a check under our car hood, we were released. We also were amazed at the quiet from lack of planes. Altho I know planes were flying as the meeting my husband was running was for a large contract and the supplier (from Southern US) needed to be there. They got a private plane and made it, after one refuel in Wyoming. My biggest memory is my 8 yr old grandson asking me “why do they want to kill us?” My reply...”there are Evil people.”
I was driving my visiting from Texas brother & wife to Vancouver BC from Seattle area...my husband had left earlier for a biz meeting there. Upon waking heard words about planes crashing into buildings...ran downstairs to turn tv on, and get on FR. Against my hubs advice we drove to BC...border crossing was long but no problem. The next days return was interesting, as my brother worked for oil company and had passport with lotsa middle east markers...after questions and a check under our car hood, we were released. We also were amazed at the quiet from lack of planes. Altho I know planes were flying as the meeting my husband was running was for a large contract and the supplier (from Southern US) needed to be there. They got a private plane and made it, after one refuel in Wyoming. My biggest memory is my 8 yr old grandson asking me “why do they want to kill us?” My reply...”there are Evil people.”
At work and monitoring FR in background mode. Saw the initial post, called an associate a few cubes down who grew up in NYC. He popped his head up prairie dog style with the phone to his ear, looked at me and said, “Seriously?”.
We headed to the conference room which had the only TV in the office, walked in on the boss holding a meeting. Boss looked at me and said, “Um... excuse me?”
“Sorry sir, but major news...”
We turned on the TV just as the 2nd plane hit and the initial assumption was that it was caught on video and we were watching the replay of the first plane. Took a few seconds to realize it was not a replay.
The entire office spent the rest of the next few hours watching and calling loved ones. Shortly after the towers fell, I headed home. Sat on a bench facing a field on the back of the property, part of my brain pondering what to expect in the coming days and weeks and the other part in total awe at the beautiful, crisp, blue, quiet and quite empty sky. Normally a busy flight path to RDU and now, not a single aircraft anywhere in the country.
I presume your schools didn’t close.
Being near DC all our schools closed - public and the private one we just started sending our live-in nephew to (he just came from CA).
Me too... this was the ONLY place on-line that morning where I could get any news at all.
I was 2 months pregnant at home with my 3 year old. I had the tv on watching The Today show. I had been laying on my couch still sleepy. When the news broke in I changed the channel to Fox. Once the second plane hit right in front of my eyes I panicked. I got up off the couch not knowing what to do. Once I realized there was nothing I could do I just sat and watched the tv on Foxnews all day long. It was a horrible horrible day.
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