Remembering 9/11

[Koren]

9/11 is one of those dates where you can remember where you were when you heard the news. Where were you when you heard about 9/11?

[Koren]

I was working night shift so I didn't hear about it until I woke up that afternoon and turned on the tv.

[Selina]

I remember working at the Engineering Library at the time, I heard about it in the morning and it was on the tv. Dad said something about how I could no longer visit the World Trade Center, not that I had ever planned to. My cousin rang to say he was fine, as he was living (and still lives) in NYC.

It was shocking and my workmate said it was like something out of the movies and that he would spend all morning looking at the news. I didn't really want to, I had work to do!

[Julie]

I was home and a friend who was the church secretary from my church called and said that a plane just flew into a building in New York and then I just watched TV all day so shocked. Both my kids were in school but they kept them there. The teachers discussed what was going on with my high school child but my younger was in kindergarten and they did not talk about it at all.
My husband had started a brand new job that day and when he came in, everyone was watching TV. He thought wow- we get to watch TV at work but then he was told what was happening and was so shocked. Very little work got done that day.

[Erin]

I was in High School in Honors English class. Another student had came in and told us to turn on the tv. We all thought someone accidentally flew into the Trade Center until we watched the second plane hit. My teacher started crying uncontrollably and we all had to try to calm her down.

I have to admit at the time I didn't feel upset or scared and I don't think most of my classmates did either, we just kinda enjoyed not having to do any school work that day. Being in Kentucky I think it just felt like a bit of a tv show, it didnt feel real. I think a lot of people my age felt that way but you're not allowed to say it.

As an adult I can't watch anything about it without crying. I don't know why I had such a delayed reaction.

[Julie]

This tragedy is still affecting the responders today due to the inhalation of the toxic substances from the buildings that were destroyed and many more lives have been lost since that day!

[Fishface]

I was driving to team meeting and turned on the car radio. I couldn't find any music; every station had the same guy talking, and as I dialed through all the preset stations I heard him say "It's hard to believe the destruction I'm seeing here at the Pentagon today." Oh, shite, what happened? I asked myself, and stopped trying to find a song to listen to. When I got to team meeting, the TV set in the group room was on -- I didn't even know it worked -- and we sat there with our jaws hanging while the towers collapsed. Then our boss announced that this was the day the news photographer was coming over to take a group photo of the staff for the ad section in the local paper. You can imagine our sunny smiles when they posted the ad. Everyone looked completely flummoxed.