Where were you?
last year,september the 11th when you first heard the horrible news?
I had just gotten out of bed and i did what i usually do in the morning,had devotional time and then logged on to the internet when i had happened to turn on my yahoo messenger i think it was and a friend had asked me if I had seen the news,told me I needed to turn on cnn,so i did and i remember being in absolute shock.i couldnt believe this had happened,looking back i still cant believe it
I was in my office, 5 miles from the Pentagon. We had been watching the Tower disasters on our break-room television. I had just gotten off the phone with a client at the Pentagon when the building was hit.
It was two days later before I learned that my friend who worked in the Towers had survived. It was three days later when I learned that two people I knew at the Pentagon had not.
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I was in Caracas Venezuela when it happened. At first I didn't think it was true and I thought some idiot (pardon the expression) had decided to crash into the twin towers because he was drunk lol.
But when I sat there watching it all live on CNN I saw the second plan hit the towers. As I sat and watched I thought to myself that the building's wouldn't fall but while I was thinking about that and having a discussion with a few friends of mine, the tower's collapsed. I cried my heart out when I saw that, as well as everyone else I was sitting next to who weren't even from the US.
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i was at work. i'd gone in early that day, cause i dropped somebody off at thier work at six. somebody else had heard about the first hit and the few of us who were in already went to their desk and saw the live feed of the smoke in the first tower.
i spent much of my day trying to get onto varios public radio realtime radio to hear what was going on. vido wasn't much good to me. i think the audio was more than enough. i don't know how i would've reacted to seeing people falling or jumping from the buildings.
i worked all day that day.
didn't get much done.
one of my best friends was in the first tower when it was hit. she got out just fine.
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I was at work when someone told me a plane had hit the WTC. I thought it was just a small plane. I went upstairs to the cafeteria where we have CNN on all the time and saw thge devastation. I watched the 1st tower fall and my heart sank. I work across from NASDAQ headquarters and a Sikorsky helicopter plant in CT. The local police had every street in my office park cordoned off. They were letting no one into the park at all. We got the call from our superiors to go home and be with our families. That was the best decision they could have made. I immediately called my father to get my wife, who also left early. As I left the park, they had the entrance blocked with a flatbed trailer that had 5 policemen standing on it holding riot shotguns. There was an officer checking the IDs of everyone leaving the park. I met my wife at my dad's house and sat with him for a while. My wife had the best idea after that. She wanted to go on a picnic to keep our lives going. It was the best way to cope with the day. We went to the state park nearby and had our picnic. It was really eerie though not to see or hear any aircraft at all go by. The next day we found out that my wife's cousin was in Tower 1. He called his mother and wife to say goodbye. His wife was 81/2 months pregnant. We called her that night. My company is having a memorial service on 9/11 at 9am. I plan to attend and wear the button I have that has my wife's cousin's name and the date of 9/11 on it.
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I was at school, in the break between my 2 and 3rd hours that I we have on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I was walking down the hall and my friend came running down the hall and told me about it, then I went to my Computer Applications room to see it, because they had it on the big screen. I thought he was joking, and they were just playing a movie or something. But then I realized that it was on practically every T.V. in the school. We continued the rest of that day watching T.V. in every class; I still almost can't believe it...
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I was at work, where I stayed for the next 72 hours, I was one of only three people their, and we succesfully landed every plane within the state in a half hour. now if you know anything about air traffic control, you will understand how complicated that can be. By the time I left work I was a wreck, suffering from both sleep deprivation and mild dehydration, but I knew that in my own small way, I was making a difference. I lost two friends in the towers, and another at the pentagon. Since that day three more friends have died fighting the ongoing battle overseas. I miss them, but I understand that they fight so the rest of us can keep our freedom. It was a sad day we won't soon forget, and for some of us the fighting is far from done.
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I was at school when a teacher broke the news of the planes hitting. Some of us were paniced, enchaned by the plane crahing into the Pentagon. I went home early because I was scared.
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(9/10/02 10:51 pm) Reply
Re: Where were you?It was basically a regular morning for me. I was on my way to visit my high school that I had graduated from a year earlier. I was going to pick up transcripts for college, but I always hang out there for about an hr or 2 and chill w/ my friends there.
I was in my old Senior Advisors (one of my fave teachers, too) office, when he told me what happened. I thought he was joking around and "BS"ing me. He logged online and showed me. I couldnt believe it. He and a few other teachers asked me to stay so I could help move kids to their parents and run the halls sending messages to the different teachers and students.
By the time I made it home, it was the first time I cried. I dropped to my knees and let it all out. Being born and raised in this city, it was rough. I have 3 cops in the family and a very close friend who, that year, was a rookie firefighter. I thank God everyday for them all being alive and well.
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I was at a friends house sleeping when he comes in all frantic like basiclly saying th sky was falling--according to him washington had been blown up and planes were falling randomly from the sky. Well of course that wasn't what happened--but i recall thinking Armageddon was about to hit or something!
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I was on my very first trip to New York. I was sitting in Central Park having a cup of coffe when this woman pointed away to the skyline and asked me if that was smoke. Our point of view was partially blocked but then we saw the smoke jump and almost double in size. These two older ladies were running by frantically and I stopped them to find out what was going on, and they said that two airplanes had just crashed into the world trade centre. We couldn't figure out what to do, so we started walking towards where I was staying and trying to reach my friend who had already gone to work at the UN building that morning, unsucessfully (found out later that they had been evacuated immediately). I honestly didn't have a clue what to do, in a foreign country and clueless as to the lay of the land, but figured that I couldn't be idle so I called an editor I knew and went to a makeshift office that they were setting up for the Associated Press and Canadian Press as their offices had been evacuated. I made my way over there and then proceeded to spend an extremely very sleepless week sorting through photographs that were going onto the newswire and deciding which ones were to grizzly or obscured to print.
Not the most enjoyable vacation I've had. Home had never seemed so far away, and my eyes were becoming glazed from both exhaustion and desensitization. But in a way I was (and still am) proud of that experience.
I was proud of my profession for that first week for I had never, and likely never will again, seen journalists act so cooperatively, oblivious of allegiances or bylines in order to work together to get the most and best information out.
I was proud of myself for working harder than I had in my life, and in an extremely small way using my skills to do some good. I know that seems odd for a journalist to say, but my editor told me that people were going through a great deal of pain and wanted as much information about the why's how's and what's as possible, but that we had to make sure that information and imagery we shared caused as little additional pain as possible and still focused on the truth.
And I'm proud to say that I experienced some of the most amzaing acts of kindness and generosity I've seen. I was a foreigner in a city I didn't know in a time of crisis and people did nothing but help me with places to stay, directions, advice, solace and just their presence. They opened up to me completely.
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(9/12/02 9:03 am) Reply
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Dont be a stranger, Widow. Come back to town!
Titans AdventuresHe’s always so cold, Barbara. Even with me. Even after everything we’ve been through …Why can’t we connect? Why are we always like this? - Nightwing
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(9/15/02 1:01 am) Reply
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I should hope so! Im already getting one EzBoard visit when that person comes to town.
Titans AdventuresHe’s always so cold, Barbara. Even with me. Even after everything we’ve been through …Why can’t we connect? Why are we always like this? - Nightwing
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