September 11th, 2001 - I was sitting at my desk at work starting my day, either skimming the web or checking my e-mail while listening to WLW radio (waiting for a favorite talk show to start). Heard that a plane had crashed into the Trade Center, immediately thought about the 1945 accident where the B-25 hit the Empire State Building (I'm a history buff). Thought it was a small plane until I heard them interviewing a witness on WLW/ABC News radio. He was going on about the burning building than then shouted "OH MY GOD!" as the second plane hit. After that nobody got any work done...
I had just gotten back from walking the dog, flipped on the tube while I was getting ready for work--I think it was NBC--and they cut away to show where a plane had crashed into the WTC. I thought it must've been a small plane & was digging around for a pair of clean socks...they were interviewing some NBC producer on the phone when the second plane hit...I screamed, "Oh, My God" repeatedly...then screamed, "Osama bin Laden--that SOB bin Laden." I woke up my hubby (he works 2nd shift) and he couldn't figure out why I was shaking and screaming until I pointed at the tube and said something incoherent.
I never realized what my parents, grandparents--heck, the whole country, if not the world--went through on December 7, 1941 until that day.