Share your story...what were you doing when the planes hit? I was getting ready for work and turned on the news (I was on the west coast). My hubby (now ex) had just started work at a new firestation (he is a firefighter) and I watched in horror as the first tower burned and saw live the second plane hit. I was 6 months pregnant with Michael and so my hormones/emotions were already in high gear.
I remember I didn't want to go to work that day, just wanted to stay home glued to the tv set. And I was calling my husband and telling him that if anything happened in LA to PLEASE run away from the building, not to go inside any high rises. I told him I'd rather he lose his job than his life.....
I have a book with a bunch of stuff I collected from that day. News clippings, magazine articles, the 9/11 video documentary, poems, etc. It is something I have tried to explain to my kids. I remember the story of a man who worked in the Twin Towers. His sister and her daughter (and their best friend and her daughter) were on one of the planes that hit the towers. He was just entering the lobby when the plane carrying his sister and niece hit the building. How terribly ironic. They were traveling to Disney Land (where dreams come true). Just one of many horror stories that came to life that day.
I cannot imagine how hard this day is for those living in the city or for the survivors and their families.
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Thanks for sharing your stories. Jyl, I am so sorry you knew people who died that day. Liz, I can so relate to the tv thing. And Loony...what a nightmare, huh?
I am wiped out. I just spent most of today (well yesterday now) watching the History channel's annual coverage of 9/11. This time I watched with my son and tried to explain the unexplainable. He couldn't quite grasp that this ACTUALLY happened, it wasn't a Hollywood video, movie or game. He kept getting confused between real and fantasy. Watching it all again (I have really just stayed away from it since then, except for maybe the 1st anniversary) brought back alot of what I felt, but the rawness was gone. It is still hard to watch, but it's like my nerves have healed a little. But I want my kids to know what an important day that was for our country and why. So many firsts that day...first time we had a terrorist attack at home, first time planes had been flown into buildings on purpose, first time civilians were unwittingly used as missles while other civilians were attacked for doing nothing more than living ordinary lives , first time body parts rained from the sky and skyscrapers fell to the ground, first huge loss of life of fire and police personnel on a single day at a single incident, first time we could watch on live television such horrendous events unfold, first time planes were voluntarily pulled out of the skies to keep us all safe (remember how eerily quiet it was?), first time we watched some countries dancing in the streets and others mourning with us over the events of that day. I could go on and on....
Let us all pray there will never be another day of firsts like those again....
