Posted on 09/11/2012 6:34:33 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
I was watching CNBC while getting ready to begin trading at my desk in Florida. They panned the camera over to the window and it showed what they believed to be a small plane had hit the WTC. When the second plane hit, it was obvious it was not an accident from their view point as the planes were large, not small.
I even tried my hand at sled hockey! What a thrill!
I passed the Twin Towers many times as I traveled to my events, not knowing what was to come.
And then, just 2 months later, they were using that very same ice rink we were on - as a morgue.
To this day, I can't help but remember that I had a chance to go up to the top of the WTC and passed on it.
And now I never will . . .
Some friends of mine had a son at Georgetown University and one of his professors, prof’s wife and two little girls were on the plane that took off from Logan and hit the towers.
I often think of those subhuman terrorists getting on the plane and surely seeing those two little girls and thinking about killing them. Killing everybody on the plane.
What kind of mind? Or non-mind.
It was one of the most shocking days of my life! It still is.
I was home with my three little children. My husband was on a plane. Crazy story of how he finally got home because no planes were flying!
Anyone currently under 21 probably doesn’t have much of a memory of that day, or an understanding of what happened and why. It is the duty of all of us who were old enough to understand this event to pass on what happened, who did it and why. Our children’s generation will still be fighting this war.
I was working at Fidelity in Boston. We could see the airport across the water from our office and once the attacks happened, we could see planes landing but none taking off. We were out of the office by ten o’clock, since we were in a tower in a major city and nobody knew what would happen next.
“I often think of those subhuman terrorists getting on the plane and surely seeing those two little girls and thinking about killing them. Killing everybody on the plane.
What kind of mind? Or non-mind.”
Islamic.
At home sleeping in after a late night, something woke me up, and I turned on the TV just as the first report came in.
Yeah the image of that second plane was just gut wrenching.
It was kinda surreal but not unexpected. There was no notice of course but I was about a quarter mile from my exit and a half mile from the overrun of the Offutt runway and all traffic had been halted. I had a clear view of the runway and the approach. As soon as I saw the fighter escorts going over and then saw AF1 on final I knew that they were going to the Stratcom Command Center. I used to be directly involved in NCA operations and flying into a secure command center made sense.
I was getting ready to go to work at Travis AFB where I worked for the TRICARE Region 10 office. My husband, a United Airlines pilot and USNR officer, was home cuz his schedule had been swapped with another pilot. We watched the tv and were stunned. Then our phones started going off with calls from work, family, friends...I remember the 3-hr drive into work (it usually was only 20 minutes) as EVERY car was checked at the gates.
I later attended a memorial service at SFO international terminal with him. It was so very, very emotional.
Memories of it all are still very clear...
Early this morning I watched the video 9/11. The two french brothers documentary. Powerful. This to remember, lest we forget.
I was in the JOC (Joint Operations Center) at SOCCENT (Special Operations Command Central). Never forget it. Obviously went to 12 on 12 off 7 days per week from then on.
I was offshore on a construction vessel for 6 weeks up to that point due for crew change on Wednesday the 12th. Started my day at 0630 with a workout in the gym facility when news came a couple of hours later urging me to have a look on the TV, it was surreal. Lord have mercy I said to myself.
Later those towers falling sent shivers through me thinking of all the loved ones lost at that moment. Then news came the air space was shut down all over the country as well as boat traffic to ports canceling my crew change by helicopter or boat. I still felt fortunate to be alive and would eventually get to go home unlike those stranded in the upper floors of the World Trade Center, God rest their souls. My prayers are with the families and friends who lost love ones on 9-11-01.
I was working at a local church as a minister’s assistant. We were called into a room where the television was reporting the first plane hitting the tower. We made a giant circle and began to pray for America and the people in the towers. It was all so very tragic.
Arlington, Virginia, in a dot-com. We were preparing for a meeting with some investors, when someone ran around saying a plane had hit the WTC in New York. We were watching on TV when the second jet hit. At that point, I ran into the CEO’s office, and told him I was gathering ALL our backups and preparing to evac them to my home, 50 miles west of DC.
Some time later, one of the programmers shouted that a jet just flew by the window (we were just above the Potomac River, and on the 23rd floor. . . ) Not long after, the building shook a little, and we heard a distant boom.
I spent the next 6 hours trying to drive out of Arlington, it was the Traffic Jam from Hell. . . and in the process, picked up 6 GIs who couldn’t get to their cars . . .
The next day was difficult for everyone who worked for the Saudi businesses.
I was unemployed at the time, my wife woke me and said I think you need to see this...
Never Forget
At home. My wife had just left to take the kids to school and I turned on the TV just in time to watch the plane hit the second tower. I sat glued to the TV the rest of the day. It was surreal. Very difficult to process. It was hard to imagine that there was not a single aircraft in the air anywhere over the U.S. Went to a class that evening, we just sat and watched the news footage. Absolutely unreal.
I was in Atlanta taking an Oracle DBA class. We were in the upper floors (35th-36th?) and stood at the windows watching all the planes landing at Hartsfield wondering if one of them was going to turn and head toward downtown ATL.
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