September 11, 2001- Where were you? (page 2)

slimboyfat

Home from university for the summer holiday, just about to go back and start my second year.

I was not alive when the earlier September 11th occurred in 1973.

Neither should be forgotten.

SophieG

Cultclasic: Hate to admit it, but I was out in field service the entire day. I can't imagine you spoke to anyone that day...our lives all revolved around the TV!

Mary:It reminded me of watching Independence Day for the first time. Now that I think of it, it's like the scene when Vivica Fox goes outside and looks up and sees the sapceship. It's like your brain is trying to digest what your eyes are seeing and it seems very surreal!!!

Panhandlegirl! Awww...Thanks...although the thought of those who live with the loss everyday far eclipses any of what we went thru in our industry.

cult classic

panhandlegirl - I learned of the events throughout the day. We were out in the neighborhood and had access to all the usual technology. Just like everyone across the country, the JWs were talking about the events of the day. I have family and friends in NY so we were trying to get through and check everyone's safety. But I still stayed out in field service most of the day. That's why I put the on my post above.

SophieG - I live in a suburb. People were out and about. Actually caught a lot of people home. They were crying.

Sad day for sure.

SophieG

Hey Slimboyfat, I had to look up that date myself. Is this what you are referring to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

cedars

Funnily enough, I too was on the ministry when it happened.

I don't think it will or should be ever forgotten.

Cedars

Emma

I was in the middle of a staff meeting at the study-abroad office at the University of Michigan. Our assistant director got a phone call from his wife saying she'd heard the first tower was hit. Most didn't believe it. After the meeting, I went to the ground floor of the student union where big TVs were showing everything live. Surreal. We dealt with panicked parents and offered to bring home their kids from programs if they wanted. Only one had their student come back.

My ex husbands wife calle me wanting to know what to do for him. Though we'd been out of the borg for several years, he thought the big A had begun and was not able to function. He shook for weeks (literally trembled) before he got over it.

My daughter and spouse were visiting from Europe and wondered when they'd get back home. We watched TV together.

rip van winkle

I had been very ill in the weeks preceding 9/11 and was asleep when it occurred. I woke up and saw the live shots of the island of Manhattan billowing with the thick black smoke. Images and sights of the falling towers; stacking, floor upon floor, upon floor. More images of the horrified and stunned looks on the faces of my fellow NYers. Head to toe, nameles people covered in ash, on streets desolated, as if in a nuclear aftermath. People jumping out of the WTC. Absolutely, devastating. And then to find out, that my accountant, who was a NYC Firefighter, perished that day. Devastating.

ShirleyW

Just got to the office, at that time I worked for the largest tenant at WTC, but in their midtown office, we had a few people their for a meeting.

It's kinda interesting that the largest tenant of WTC lost the least amount of people, just 23 or something no more than 30, PBS even did a documentary on the head of security for the company, Rick Rescorla, who "went down with the ship" on that day just doing his job.

Company is Morgan Stanley, and after the first attack in the early 1990's they had their escape procedure planned in case something happened again, which is why they just lost so few people, but my major complaint is that the "escape plan" should've been used for all tenants of WTC, it's horrifying to read that some folks were told to go back to their desks and wait! Absolutely unbelievable.

Glander

I had been in Orlando for a week on a business trip. I was to fly home to Portland, OR that afternoon at 1:30. I was packing my suitcase and had the TV on. Matt Lauer had just announced that the next guest was Harry Belafonte, so of course I switched the channel and stopped at a live picture of the first tower on CNN. The newsperson was speculating that a small private plane had crashed, just a little smoke at that moment. They connected to an interview with an eye witness and he said, no, it was a commercial jet!. I called my wife in Oregon and woke her at a few minutes before six am and told her to turn on the TV. She did, and saw the second plane go in.

What a week. I rented a car and had driven 1100 miles to Memphis when the air restrictions were lifted. I didn't get home until the next Saturday at 1 am.

I still can hardly watch all the images from that nightmare day without getting into a very sad state of mind.

mamochan13

I was at home studying. My daughter phoned and told me and I turned on the TV. It was surreal. I had only just reconnected with my daughter after she disappeared for several years (JW crap, long story), so in a way this event brought her back home.

I never had any thought that it might be the big A, although many around me were saying WWIII. Fairly early on, though, when news reports began to identify who had done it, my thoughts were that JWs were in favour of doing exactly this kind of thing to nonbelievers. Yet how horrific the reality.

Like Jgnat, I lived through the tornado. The terror of that day is forever printed in my consciousness. When you have an experience close to home like that, other disasters seem more real - not just something you see on television.

September 11, 2001- Where were you?

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