I can't believe it has been SEVEN years, the memory is still so fresh in my mind. It has been SEVEN years of war ever since. No matter what, it is sad. Sad that lives were lost and lives are continuing to be lost in the aftermath.
I remember driving into work. I worked at a trucking company at a steel plant. As I was pulling into work, Mancow was on the radio and he was talking about a plane that hit one of the twin towers.
"What a horrible accident" he was saying and then it came, the second plane. The terror in their voices that played over my radio sent shock waves through me. This was no accident and oh my God, what does this mean? What is going on?
I still get teary eyed thinking about it today.
Buggy was about to turn one, I was scared. What had I just brought my child into? Would this be our world now? A world where attacks of this nature would be common?
My office watched the tv dumbfounded. Reports after reports, horrifying images, all true, all happening. All so much to wrap my mind around.
I cried. I cried most of that day, the shock, the anger, the devastation. It is still so unbelievably surreal.
To those that lost their lives, their family members and to all the families of our troops, my thoughts are with you not just on this day of remembrance, but everyday.
So where were you when the attacks happen?
I was at work at a government office. All employees were sent home for a couple of days because of security fears.
ReplyDeleteI cried all day, too.
I sat at a friends house...called in late and sat in front of the TV until late in the day.
ReplyDeleteBeing on the West Coast at that time meant that we were greated with our normally wacky DJ's sounding very somber and serious. It was scary.
Me too.
ReplyDeleteI will never. ever. ever. forget.
We woke up to it all down here in NZ ... watched for hours on the TV at home, then went to work and watched more there.
ReplyDeleteLater that day, I did a pregnancy test and found out I was expecting my first baby. I wrote a post on my blog about those feelings - it was a mixture of emotions, that's for sure.
Oops, meant to say I wrote the post last night.
ReplyDeleteI was sitting on the couch, watching TV and feeding my baby when the first plane hit...then the second. A friend of mine came over and we sat and watched and cried. I still cry when I think about it too.
ReplyDeleteI was breastfeeding my 3 month old baby on the couch when a friend called and told me to turn on CNN. I thought it was a joke.
ReplyDeleteThen I realized it wasn't and wondered why in the hell I had brought a child into this f-uped world.
I still wonder that sometimes. It's a horrible place out there.
i was listening to howard stern. i worked in reston, va (a few miles from dulles airport, and about 20mi from DC) at the time. the entire office went into a conference room and turned on the fox news channel and watched the 2nd plane hit and watched the news on the plane hitting the pentagon. i will never forget the reactions of my coworkers, what i was wearing, and who i was with. it is forever etched in my memory.
ReplyDeleteI was in a snack shop on campus. I thought it was an MTV music video - I couldn't believe what I was seeing on TV. Horrible day.
ReplyDeleteI was on my way to a meeting at work (and was running late). I ran into the office and told them that two planes had just crashed into the World Trade Center! Seems unreal that it was seven years ago.
ReplyDeleteI remember every single minute of that awful morning - from the moment my mother called and woke me up to watch it on TV on - it was awful and we will never forget it - ever!
ReplyDeleteTake care - Kellan
I felt the same feelings as you. I had just found out I was pregnant with my 2nd babe the day before. I was in the shower, and my brother called and told me to turn on the TV. He's a Marine. He told me he was going to war, and I cried... I held my baby and thought of my next child to come, and I cried, I cried like I was a baby, too.
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