Remembering September 11, 2001 (page 2)

little witch

God Bless the victims and their families on this day.

Thankyou to all the heroes, and soldiers, you are in my prayers daily.

May our leaders be wise and strong in their duties.

Little Witch

borgfree

Yerusalyim,

This is not meant to be critical, but rather to explain my feelings and maybe the feelings of others when we see the pictures of those buildings.

The buildings, or the pictures of the buildings, remind me of the 3000+ who died that day. To me they stand for the plane load of people who died in the field in Pennsylvania. They stand for the plane load of people who died when the terrorists crashed into the Pentagon and they stand for the two planes with the innocent people who crashed into the two towers. They also, to me, represent all of the ones in all of the buildings and on the ground who died that day at the hands of those evil people.

Besides that, the buildings, to me, represent a cowardly attack from jealous, hateful, evil people on the symbols of American power, success, and prosperity. The towers were about our financial strength and the pride of our country in our freedom and our ability to do anything we decided we wanted to accomplish. They represent the total tragedy, and the resolve that followed, of the American people, to punish evil people who would dare to do such a despicable deed and to do our best to see that such evil people never again succeed in carrying out another such act.

The pictures of the buildings no longer are just pictures of buildings, to me, they are like a monument to all of the above.

Just my thoughts.

Borgfree

Yizuman

I was getting up on my day off, slept in a little longer.

I didn't have my TV on just yet nor was I logged on the 'net. I called my sister through the relay system to see what's been up lately and she asked me if I knew what happened to the WTC and I said, "No, I don't" and she told me to look at the TV and I switched it on to see video tapes of the planes crashing into the WTC Twin Towers and I was shocked to see it. I told my sister I would call her back later.

I stayed home watching the whole thing all day long, just total shock and numbness. Then anger after what these terrorists had done.

Yiz

Tinkerbell4125

9-11 was so devastating. I remember CC calling me and telling me to turn the t.v. on. I was glued all day. Total disbelief. I saw the second plane hit the tower. I actually jumped out of my chair! I still can't belive it. My heart hurts for the surviving families. We all know this is a tough time for them.

Inquiry

I remember the shock and sadness. I remember struggling with the reality of it. It took so long to actually beleive it was real. A painful day... a painful memory. I will never forget the horror of it or what I saw. How it changed me, my country...and the world. We lost something very dear that day.

Inq

Nosferatu

I remember that day quite well. My ex-fiance had left me 3 months previously, and I was living - of all places - her dad's place. I remember waking up, still thinking I was living in my apartment as I was having a hard time getting over it. I remember hearing that a plane had crashed into one of the twin towers. At first, I thought it was just a plane that had lost control and hit the thing. So, I think nothing of it, and I go to work. Everyone's got their radios on. I figured I'd better turn mine on too.

Then I heard another plane had crashed into the other tower. I was confused, so I emailed my buddy Ed down in the states and asked "What the fuck are you yankees doing down there?" Then I heard that it was a terrorist attack. Then I knew this wasn't no accident.

I remember getting home from work and seeing the planes crashing on my ex-future-father-in-law's TV. All I could say was "holy shit". I swear to god, it looked like something from a movie, but this was no movie. This was real.

Vitameatavegamin

I will never forget where I was on that morning. I was still in bed, it was around 6:00 am PT, ( I live in Oregon) and for some reason I could not go back to sleep, so I turned the bedroom TV on to watch Fox News Channel. It was just a normal morning news cast when they suddenly had a news alert that a small plane had apparantley flown into one of the twin towers. Shepard Smith was reporting that morning, and he seemed puzzled as to what had just taken place. No one was sure at that point. He then went back to reporting the regular news. It wasn't too much longer after that when they cut in again to report that something was definetely amiss at the WTC. They began to figure out that it must have been a bigger plane that hit the tower. The most haunting memory I have is laying there watching the live pictures of the towers being broadcast from a helicopter hovering around them. I noticed in the distance what looked like a giant airliner coming towards the towers. I thought to myself, "what is that huge plane doing flying that low"? I guess Shepard Smith did not notice it, because he never commented. Within seconds I knew something was really weird, and right at that point I saw that plane screaming by and the first thing I did was say " Oh my God!!" Just then there was a huge fireball out of the other tower. I flew out of bed realizing that our country was under attack. I called all my relatives and told them to turn on the TV.

I may be 3000 miles away, but it was still horrifying to watch, and to see it as it was happening.

So sad. My thoughts are with the families of the victims of 9/11.

Aztec

I do have some vivid memories of that day. I dropped my son off at school and went home to take a bath. As I was getting dressed for work I turned on the Today show and saw Katie Couric talking about a plane hitting the WTC. As they went to a live feed I saw another plane hit the twin towers and just sat there in shock. I had a few JW flashbacks but put it in the back of my mind. I finished getting ready for work. I turned on Howard Stern in my car because I knew his show was broadcasted from NYC. I remember that everyone on the freeway was driving very slowly and seemed to be in shock. I heard Howard say that one of the towers had collapsed. I went into our little shop and asked my mother and my boss if they had heard about what was going on and they of course knew about the planes but they hadn't heard about the collapse of the tower. We all stood around the radio and listened. None of us could work. The mall I worked in at the time was deserted. A security guard came in shortly and told us that the mall was being shut down due to our close proximity to an airport. I still think that was silly as Flint, Michigan is not much of a threat for a terrorist attack. I felt a strong urge to be close to my son as I realized that alot of parents wouldn't be able to be with their children that day. I picked him up from school and took him home. At the time he was five and I didn't think about how seeing the news would affect him. I couldn't stop watching the news. Only when my son started to build towers out of blocks and then knock them down with paper airplanes did I realize how much I might be traumatizing him. I turned on cartoons for him but I still felt very numb. I didn't allow myself to cry for days. Although I felt a tug to go back to meetings and my father tried to convince me that "the time was growing short" I resisted it and I'm proud of myself for doing so.

Just some of my random rememberances...

~Aztec

Stacy Smith

The Queen authorised the Guards to play the US anthem as a mark of respect for the American people.

She is a class act. I admire her.

I was a freshman at college and was getting ready to leave when mom called me to the TV. I sat there for hours watching the coverage, shocked, sick. Friends came over and we had a big cry. I felt similar this morning.

Remembering September 11, 2001