Do You Remember? I Do

[Lewkat]

 

[jujube]

I will never forget that day.

 

[Paladin1950]

I won't forget either. Some people attacked a city that I loved.

 

[MountainRa]

Will never forget even though it is distressing to remember.

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[KSav]

I will never, ever forget that day and its horror. I remember instant-messaging on the computer with my then-husband, who was in DC in his office. He said he could see the Pentagon burning. Then he said someone came running through the hallways shouting "Get out! Go home!"

The phones were out. The cell service was out. We had just moved into our house a couple of days before, and our cable was being installed that morning, so no TV. I couldn't get the Internet to load after that last message he sent. The radio station DJs were just rambling because nobody knew what was really going on.

He got home later that day safely, thank God. So many others did not.

 

[oscash]

My friend had a cousin living in N.Y and worked in the Twin Towers No.2. He rang his wife to say the building was shuddering and wasn't sure what was happening, he told his wife he loved her and to kiss their little girl and he would call again later. That was the last time his wife heard from him.

 

[Lewkat]

I was sitting on the patio reading the morning paper with my coffee. The phone rings. It's my son who asks me what I think of this? What this say I? Dawns on him, I haven't the TV news on, as per usual. Quick, get it on, he orders mom, so in I dash to the den and turn it on to CNN. Well, my first thought is the pilot must have bee a dolt. It was a perfectly clear day, yet, he slams into the Port Authority building? My son was on his way to work just across the river from ground zero as it became to be known. He told me he thought the plane was going to take the roof of his car off.

I told my son to get into his office immediately as we were under attack. For all I knew, an armada was headed across the Atlantic at that point. Well, we soon found out there were others and the Pentagon was hit. Shanksville, PA caught the one headed for the Capitol, thanks to the selfless heroism of some passengers aboard that plane. A sad day indeed and we were irate over it all. Rightfully so.

 

[dusty]

I will never, ever forget that day and its horror. I remember instant-messaging on the computer with my then-husband, who was in DC in his office. He said he could see the Pentagon burning. Then he said someone came running through the hallways shouting "Get out! Go home!"

The phones were out. The cell service was out. We had just moved into our house a couple of days before, and our cable was being installed that morning, so no TV. I couldn't get the Internet to load after that last message he sent. The radio station DJs were just rambling because nobody knew what was really going on.

He got home later that day safely, thank God. So many others did not.

We were in DC then too. HB out of town, me at post office in line. The silence was deafening so I asked and they told. I ran out of there and picked my little one (Jeremy) up at pre school and got home jusnt in time to see the second plane.....unbelievable.

 

[Lewkat]

A friend who worked for Cantor Fitzgerald was killed in that attack.

 

[Stoppelmann]

I was across the pond in Germany and saw the pictures and thought, Oh no, this will be the Pearl Harbour of our day. Fortunately, it didn't quite have the repercussions I feared, but it was a tragic loss of life and led to more loss of life. It is also traumatic for the people of New York, who experienced the first attack of this scale on their own territory, and it will remain etched into their memories.

The tragedy of the moment tends to veil the perspective from outside the US, where people perceived an attack on the symbol of global dominance and resistance to American hegemony. Destruction of this kind is, of course, commonplace outside most Western countries.

 

[Imogene]

I was living in SoCal at the time and getting ready for work. It was a nightmare vision on tv.

Traffic on the Five that morning was silent - nobody speeding — nobody trying to pass— just steering our cars to our morning destinations in silence—-

 

[CallMeKate]

I will remember forever... who could forget? When it became clear that it wasn't just a random plane crash, everything changed. So I watched... I saw both towers fall. I saw the people running like I'd seen in horror movies over the years, only this one was real.

I went outside to listen for planes. It was eerily silent, but that was a good thing on that particular morning because Shanksville was a little too close for comfort considering how fast planes travel.

And then the personal worst for me... my dearest friend was a doctor at Walter Reed AMC. He had an 10 a.m. appointment at the Pentagon that morning and planned to be there at 9:30. The plane hit at 9:37. I will forever be grateful that he called right away and said the gridlock prevented him from getting to the meeting and would be heading out of DC asap.