Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning?

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[StarCMC]

Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning?
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Always United - Forever Free! Slide Shows   The 9/11 Tragedy Slide Show The World Stops to Remember 9-11 Then and Now Slide Show	Interview of my friend, a 9/11 Survivor    1.  Where were you on 9-11? Outside, a few blocks east of the WTC. Being on the east side actually prevented me from seeing the very worst of that day, although what I did see what hideous enough.       2.  What is your most vivid memory of that day? There are so many, it's hard to say. The disbelief and uncertainty right after the North Tower was hit, before we even knew that it was a plane. It just seemed too "furious" and hot to be a regular fire, so I felt that it was something extraordinary, but I didn't know what.            I remember calling my father to let him know that there was a big explosion at the WTC, but that I was OK -- and then him hearing on the radio that it was an airplane. While we were talking, there were secondary explosions inside the North Tower and then little bits and slivers of glass fell on us. I also vividly remember watching people falling/jumping and just refusing to believe that it was happening. Another strong memory is of running for my life when I was told that the South Tower was coming down (not realizing that it had collapsed into itself, I assumed that it either toppled or exploded and took out everything for blocks in every direction). The awful noise, the abject horror on so many faces and then trying to outrun that debris cloud. I remember wondering if I was about to die. And when I heard that awful, familiar rumbling again, I stopped to watch the North Tower just pancake downward, realizing that thousands of people were inside -- including people I knew. Sometime shortly after that, as I was walking uptown along South Street/East River Drive, I somehow got to talking with a shell-shocked guy who worked on the 9th floor of the North Tower and he wound up telling me every gory detail of what he saw on the way out. He also kept trying to walk back there, because he wanted to take the ferry back to New Jersey, so I had to keep pulling him back by his arm.       3.  How did your life change as a result of what you saw or experienced? PTSD. I didn't sleep for more than a year afterward (never more than a few hours a night). I feel as if I've lost a certain innocence and now realize that my neighborhood could really be blown up again, and maybe me with it next time. When I see footage on TV of terrorist attacks, I feel as if I know what it's like there -- the confusion, the horror, the mental disconnect as you don't want to believe that it's really happening, the fear, the smells, etc. I guess it feels like my life is divided into pre-9/11 and post-9/11, in terms of experiences, perspectives, etc.       4.  When someone tells you that you need to "move on" how does that make  you feel? Angry! Very few have said that to me, but the few who have been stupid and insensitive enough have felt my wrath.     5.  Do you believe that most of America remembers?  Why or why not? Hard to say. I think it goes along political lines -- those who remember are those who tend to support the war against islamofascism and understand why we're doing it, and there are those who are stuck in the Clintonian mindset of "tit for tat," in that we wait until the terrorists hit us, and *then* we strike back...proportionately, of course (like bombing empty buildings in the middle of the night, to "make a statement")...and then call it even.     6.  Is there anything that you, as someone who experienced the horrors of that day first hand, would like to say to the rest of us? Thank you to everyone who remembers and has prayed for us.   Please keep the survivors of the 9/11 attacks in your prayers.  It is not easy for them. Thank you to the troops who have put themselves in harms way to ensure that this does not happen again on American soil.  The men and women of the US Armed Forces are the best in the world, bar none.  God bless you all!
The YouTube Smackdown Crew wanted to post a thread asking you to tell us where you were, and we'd also like to invite you to work with us in our efforts to take the hirabist scum videos down off YouTube.  If you're interested, click here and go to the current YouTube Smackdown thread.  We appreciate any help you can give ~ it's our way of fighting back after 9-11.   Please add your thoughts, videos, music or anything else you'd like to add about that day.   And I'd really like to know...   Where were YOU?  What do you remember?

    

[StarCMC]

I was at home, and my friend Michelle called and told me to turn the TV on. It was before the second plane hit and we thought it was an accident at that point. As we were talking, we saw the second plane come in. We were both crying on the phone. I remember that we were also having a retaining wall built behind our house by someone who was also a friend. I took a radio outside for him so he could listen to the news radio station while he worked and I remember being glad he was out there.

Where were you?

[StarCMC]

Special ping to the Smackdown crew.

[StarCMC]

Pinging a few friends.

[TornadoAlley3]

I was giving birth to a beautiful baby boy and will celebrate his 7th birthday Thursday.

[jy1297]

I was at work in NYC in Midtown. Someone across from received a phone call and yelled out (A plane it the WTC). It was still another 5 or 10 minutes before it was on TV. At my house in Brooklyn my wife went to the Elevated AVE P. subway stop and recorded the smoke coming from downtown 6 miles away. From my house the column of smoke went right over up in the sky. The wind was blowing from the north. After the buildings fell my was has it recorded on film the ashes dust but it looked like snow. One day i will post the video and probably on here first.

[StarCMC]

Wow. I cannot imagine seeing it first hand like that. It was hard on TV, but that had to be truly awful- in every sense of the word.

[Bahbah]

Good morning, Star.

I was in the car driving to work in KCMO with NPR on the radio when they reported that a plane had hit the WTC. I had been thinking to myself what a beautiful day it was with an incredibly clear blue sky. I thought to myself what a terrible accident. What an awful thing to happen.

I got to the office and people were already clustered around a tv, the second plane had hit and the sky in New York was just as clear and beautiful as in the midwest, but there was nothing but horror. I knew we were at war and I was glad George Bush was the president.

[StarCMC]

Aww! I know someone here who had a baby that day. They said it was like God gave them something good to offset some of the sorrow of that day.

[NoGrayZone]

I was at work. We have satellite radio and they broke in with the terrible news. We were all standing around, Dr.’s, staff and patients, listening, when the reporter started to scream. That was the moment the 1st building came down. I burst out crying (remembering that moment is making me cry again).

I have this pic on my desktop....

If I don't remember that terrible day and all the Americans who perished, on my own, this reminds me to think of them.

[Darksheare]

My father was working on an elevator across teh river, I was listening to the news on teh radio when the first plane hit.
Then I flipped on the Tv and watched the second plane take out transmitted TV broadcast.
And my first thought was, “What’s this guy doing?”(About the second plane.)

[GreenAccord]

Here in Ohio, the weather today is essentially exactly like it was 7 years ago. Interestingly, there aren’t even contrails in the sky this morning.

[VeniVidiVici]

I work right next to Orlando airport. I remember pulling into the parking lot right as the news reported the first plane hit. Thinking the news was (once again) getting it wrong over plane type and size, I went inside thinking it was a private plane such as a Cessna that had done it. Listening to the radio inside I kept thinking this until the 2d-plane hit. Immediately I knew it was a terrorist attack.

The thing that sticks out to me of that day and the days following were no aircraft coming in or out of OIA. It was almost eerie.

[NoGrayZone]

Funny, we’re having the same weather here in NY today as we did then too. Tomorrow supposed to be the same.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[xp38]

Right here on FR. I posted twice that morning saying a prayer for the nation. I was running back and forth between the tv set and the computer.

[NoGrayZone]

The no aircraft in the skies was very very odd. It was so quiet. I was walking into my sisters house when I heard the first plane after all that silence. I actually let out a scream! Scared the heck out of me, I thought we were being attacked, again.

[spectre]

I was watching TV. My husband was sleeping and I ran into our bedroom..woke my husband up and we watched in horror as the second plane hit the towers.

Spent most of the time on FR reading the live threads. We were all family that day.

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[Biggirl]

I remember on that day I had just gotten into work after leaving earlier to get a number of letters that both my mother and I had to mail out. I had phoned home to tell her I had mailed the letters when she told me that there was a plane crash in the first WTC building. I had thought it was an accident at first. But when I had heard another plane had hit the second WTC building, I KNEW it was not accident and I was in COMPLETE SHOCK that day. I worked at a local community college. Everyone either had watched or listened to the news report. Plus also everyone was sent home from work or class.

[Sacajaweau]

My friend called me from Florida. It was horrible to see. I waited and prayed for all and waited for a call from my son in NY. It finally came and he was okay.

We were for a short time, a country united....grieving for her and her people.

Our Bond: God, family and country.

God Bless America and Its' people. Wrap your arms around us and keep Us Safe!

[georgiagirl_pam]

I was on my way to a PROPHECY Conference at Church!

I dropped off my son at preschool and Neil Boortz said that a plane had hit the WTC. He was musing on what kind of plane and how a pilot could have done that. When I got back into the car, they were just reporting that a second plane had hit. We all knew then that this was done on purpose.

Needless to say, the whole tone of the conference changed. We spent the rest of the morning discussing radical Islam and praying. My pastor had been in his office watching TV, letting the invited speakers handle the group. He came into the sanctuary to tell us all that both towers had fallen, were gone. Since we didn't see it happen on TV, it took a few minutes for that to sink in, to understand what he was saying. I must have made some type of a noise because he turned and looked right at me.

At home, we didn't turn off the TV until 3 am and then turned it back on a 6.