9-11 Memorial day

I was in my drawing class. I remember very clearly because there were a few kids I was ignoring who were going on about how bad the US was and how they had no freedom and I was just about to tell them to try living in Cuba.

The radio was on NPR (as always) and just as I got ready to say something the music was interupted and they announced that a plane had hit the first tower. I asked the teacher to turn the volume up so I could hear better and that got everyone else’s attention.

I remember thinking as soon as I heard it that it was terrorism, some of my classmates insisted it had to be an accident but then they announced the second plane. Classes were cancled for the rest of the day after that

My best man at my wedding was supposed to have been in the Trade Center that morning for a meeting but it got cancled at the last minute.

I was at work. I hadn’t yet turned on my radio and gotten into the groove of the day. I worked in the operations department of a bank at the time. One of my co-workers walked in and told me to turn to a local radio station that we usually listened to in the morning. He had heard about the first plane on his way into work. I set my little clock radio on the cubicle wall and turned it as loud as it would go. Time stopped. Being in Oklahoma, this all sounded all too familiar. I don’t remember who brought in the television, but they set it up in the cubicle across from mine. The second plane hit just as we turned it on. Everyone huddled into my 4 x 4 space in silence. The next sound any of us made was gasp when the first tower collapsed. We watched the events unfold and replay. All of us in a fog. Slowly everyone began to migrate back to their respective desks. Banking industry messages were coming in like crazy as they shut down the fed. Most were ignored for the moment. All of us went to our phones and tried to contact our loved ones. Few were actually in immediate danger, but I think we all just needed to hear their voices. Eventually we shifted to autopilot to take care of the necessary business needs. We didn’t say anything to each other for a while. It was really too much for words.

No one had to ask, we knew what we could do. We put together care packages and prayed. Oklahoma City and New York City have never been closer.

I had spent the night at a coworker’s place at the time. I awoke the next morning to catch a little news, maybe some weather, and play a video game before my coworker and I had to go to work. When the first plane crashed at the World Trade Center I figured it was a malfunction of the plane; when the second plane hit, I got scared. When the third plane hit the Pentagon I ducked and covered my head, thinking World War III had started. At the same time that I was scared that the world was going to end, it also seemed unreal, like I was watching one of those action movies where Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger saves the world from Northern European bad guys. I didn’t think I’d be alive six years later to tell what surreal memories I have of September 11, 2001. Needless to say, no one worked that day and Cleveland, normally at a hustling pace, felt like a ghost town that day.

Hey, guys, follow me into the TDK Chapel.

I was at work and a co-worker had a radio on and told me about the 1st tower. I had a hand held tv that I turned on in time to see the plane hit the 2nd tower. As news of the Pentagon and the plane in PA came about the shop was abuzz with disbelief and horror. We stayed close to those we worked with and called home, children, parents and anyone else we could think of just to make ourselves believed that this was really happening. The bosses sent us home, to be with loved ones and just recover from the shock. It’s a day I will never forget for as long as I live.

I personally didn’t know of anyone who passed in this senseless act of violence. If any of you did, my deepest condolences. Please to this day, stay alert, be aware of anything odd happening around you. I truly believe that this isn’t over. Stay well, stay safe. God Bless you all. Lynn

I shared thoughts about 9/11 in my blog. Feel free to read it.

http://jenniferhast.blogspot.com/2007/09/thinking-about-today_11.html

Thank you Dee for posting the great article that I referenced

Good blog Meezer Mamma, it’s all too easy to slip back into bad habits and forget how great us humans can be when we work together for the greater good.

I want to say:

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

LET FREEDOM RING!!!!

WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!

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and last but not lease God Bless all the families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 tragity

Hi all! I’m Dorie and I live on Long Island NY(All My life) and unfortunatly I remember too well September 11,2001. I started to write this earlier but, the tears got so bad I had to stop!

The morning that this happened I was cleaning a house I did every week( I was a house cleaner) I went outside to shake a rug when a neighbor saw me and asked had I heard that a plane had hit one of the towers, I went inside and turned on the TV and watched in horror as the second plane hit! Chills went through my body because the day before I was at the hotdog cart in front of the towers with my neice, visiting my brother who was in ST Vincent’s hospital, several blocks away. I wanted to call my whole family! I called my oldest 2 children who where home and woke them up and said put on the TV, With that the towers started to fall, The fear that went through me. I pray I never feel again. The Next thing that went through my mind was how was my brother!!! With that there was a knock on the door. It was the lawn mower Man. He asked If he could see the TV, I let him in and we both stood with tears in our eyes, looked at each other and just hugged ( I had only met this man once before)

we were scared!! I tried to call the hospital but all lines in NY were out or overrun. I wrote a letter to the woman that I was cleaning for and ran home I needed my kids. I hugged them and they hugged me all of us with tears in our eyes. My youngest was in school and the school was in lockdown, I was really scared! I was home about 10 minutes when a friend called me her cousin worked at the towers, She was crying and I drove over there to calm her down!! As I was there My cell phone rang and it was the pastor of my church we had several people from our church who also worked in the towers, He asked if I could come to the church to help as the families were meeting there till we had words about the family members!! I calmed my friend down and we went to the church! (She is jewish, and I didn’t want to leave her alone, I am a presbyterian) My church welcomed her and her family with open arms. I will tell you these were the hardest 48 hours of my life! I held Children crying for there parents I held Husband and wives, Mothers Fathers, Cousins and Friends. I spent time At stores buying things that the workers needed and was amazed at the love fellow New yorkers had for each other. I found out later that day that my brother was Ok it was a relief for me but the sorrow I saw in everyones faces and the fear.

The weeks after I spent waiting with family members for news! We all knew in our hearts these people were gone but that was not spoken we all prayed that there was a pocket that Many lives were saved! I attended more funerals and memorials than I had in my life time. My 6 yr old had funeral clothes?

I will never forget 9-11-01! The families that were torn apart by selfish human beings! My anger gets worse as the years go by! And I ask God Why and in the same breath I put it in his hands for him to handle it!

I loving memory of all who lost there lives!

Peace My friends

Dorie

That brought tears to my eyes Dorie! Thank you for sharing