What were you doing on September 11,2001?

What were you doing on September 11,2001?

I remember the day so clearly.
I was out getting bagels for Rick & I and it was a Tuesday so it was unusal that Rick was off and i walked in at 9:30 am and he said look at the TV i new instantly something was wrong I am deeply sorry for those that have lost a loved one in such a tragedy
Thanks to all the people who came out and helped in such a trying time
I am proud to be an AMERICAN

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Well, I posted this in my thread, but I was in a German class (all us musicians NEED to be fluent in every freaking language we can, apparently), and my father called me and told me to get in my car and come straight home. He said the whole family was ok, but that he was standing at the top of the tower in his school (he's a professor at Nassau Community College), and he said he could see the towers burning. My father fears nothing, and when I heard him crying, I knew I needed to get home. I told everyone what was going on, told the teacher off for not canceling class and left.

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I can remember like yesterday also

I got to work a few minutes after the first plane crashed. Then a co-worker came to my office and said to put on www.cnn.com and there was a still picture of the building in flames. We were kind of like what kind of idiot could run into the WTC? I signed off and started to work then all hel l broke loose and the phones were ringing off the hook but I couldn't talk to them long enough to get any info until my bosses wife said we are 'under attack. two planes just flew into the WTC!'

I spent the rest of the morning and part of the afternoon trying to hold myself together and keep in touch with my DH, sister & mother until we cold all be home safely.

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I was driving to work and saw smoke in front of me while I was on the highway (I work right near the city) but had no clue what it was.

I got to work, and it was on the TV.

I asked what is that? (in disbelief) and someone said, a plane hit the WTC!

I asked 'Where is the plane?'
They replied' Inside the building'

I was like

We then watched the 2nd plane hit and watched TV for hrs.

My stnking job made us work till 5:00

When i drove home on the GCP at 5pm, i was the ONLY car on it. When I went to get on the LIE Midtown tunnell, to go to my home, cops asked me why I was driving & where I was going. I had to show ID!

Then when I got home, my apartment stunk from the WTC. I live in Queens but 10-12 min away. I live where the firehouse lost the most guys in the WTC cause they got there so fast. tHEY LOST 19 MEN!

*edited to say DH & I lost 4 friends in the WTC

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Trying to get in touch with FH who worked there. Thank GOD he was out campaigning for the primaries that day, I honestly believe that saved his life!
After he came home we went to give blood (but they didn't need it) and tried to get in touch with his mother who was freaking out in Spain. FH wasn't able to let her know he was OK and not there that day until about 4pm. His poor mom was in hysterics all day

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I also remember driving around later that day seeing lots of flags on cars and also noticing alot of retail stores closed

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I was about to leave for work but had to run next door to feed my cousins dog They were in Disney and my other cousin was moving home from L.A. that day (he was on the plane on the ruway they taxied back told everyone to get off the plane calmy and called a love one he had no idea what was going on his plane ticket says 9/11/2001) On my way across the lawn Their next door neighbor came running across the lawn screaming something about planes and that I should get in the house right now cause his cable went out. I fumbled with the key got in the house and was in shock I couldnt believe my eyes... Went to work and just stood in front of the TV the entire day. I knew people who were lost and I am Truly sorry for everyone has lost someone also

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My Mother also works at Nassau Community college on the 6th floor that faces the city. She was on the phone when the 1st plane hit all of a sudden she saw a giant fireball and just dropped the phone.

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I haven't thought about this until now, but the night before, September 10th, JT and I had been at a Yankee/Red Sox game that got rained out, so we decided to drive through the city, and we passed the towers and I told him the story of my 8th birthday when my parents took me to the top of the towers. That was literally the only time I had gone by the WTC in YEARS. It's just so eery to think about.

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My father just couldn't believe it that he could see so much. I just remember screaming at him to leave school and get home. Here he was telling me to go home and he wasn't moving.

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I work very close to the WTC, all the commotion and the running and the chaos. I walked on the FDR towards the Bklyn Bridge in awe, as I watched the buildings on fire, then as we made it onto the bridge, watch the building fall, it was so surreal.

All I can say is thank God for the designers thinking of designing the building in such a way that they fell pancake style instead of toppling. Its a day I would never like to live thru again.

Roger was away on business, coming home filled with sut all over, to an empty house was not a nice feeling.

The reality of it all did not hit me until I got home and started watching it all on TV. While walking with my co-workers everyone kept saying aren't you scared?? I felt like I was having an out of body experience it did not feel real. I was not afraid at all, it was as if my body/mind shut down and I was on auto pilot just functioning.

Oh I cried and I was afraid of going back to work, but with prayers and faith, I survived. I do not want to attend anymore memorial services this year. Last year all I did was cry thru them.

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I was in class with my new 3 and 4 year olds when one of the parents that I had known since hs came running in asking if we had a tv. I asked what was wrong and she said a plane just crashed into the WTC and her husband was working there (local 3 electrician who was thank god fine..he went outside for coffee break literally 5 minutes before hand).

I couldnt leave my class so we got updates from my director. Once we heard about the second place we all knew right away but we couldnt watch or show any emotion because of the kids. I tried calling my dh but I couldnt get in touch with him and the last that I knew that morning was that he was supposed to be working in the WTC that day. I was freaking out and the only person I was able to get in touch with was my dad. My mom and sister were together food shopping when they heard the news. My brother was in school.

Finally my dh called me and said he was sent to another job first and that he was trying to get out of the city. I could hear all the commotion and everything in the background. I remember we took turns going in my directors office to watch footage and I stood there and watched the tower crumble and cried and cried.

My dh wound up driving out to pick me up cause I was so scared to drive home alone. When I got home, my whole family was there and we went on my roof (I live in Long ISland City very close to the city) and seeing total smoke. My mom and sister actually saw the people waving the white shirts and towels out the window from the roof earlier in the day.

It was and still is so surreal. The most horrific day of many of our lives if not all. I lost many people that day that I knew or were my acquaintances. God Bless them all now and forever!

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Oh and what else was so sad, was 2 delivery guys from my company, made a delivery to Windows on the World, came out of the building and the plane hit the SECOND they got outside, they had to run from debris. They came back to my job safely but SO shaken up and crying so hard.

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On September 4th, Dan and I walked through the City....on our way to Penn Station....to get ot NJ to see our Nieces and Nephews....and I remember looking up to the skyline, as I ALWAYS do when I am in the City...and just 1 week later---it was missing the Twin Towers!

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Steve and I had overslept that day and he had taken a later train than usual. I was at work when one of the girls who works for me came in and said'a plane just crashed into one of the towers' We then put on the TV and saw the second plane hit. My friend Max called me and asked if I had talked to Steve at all, whom I couldn't get on his cell phone. My sister then called me as I started to panic and she told me to calm down it is an accident I'm sure Steve is fine. Then they hit the Pentagon and I lost it and started screaming at her don't tell me to calm down. At this point no one had any idea as to what would be hit next and all I could think was that the LIRR could be a big target. Max came and took me home all the while I was calling Steve's cell phone and job. My sister works for the same company as STeve and e-mailed his boss who let her know he had never arrived. Steve finally called me from a payphone from the Lindenhurst train station at 2:30 where I raced to. The panic I felt was unlike any I have ever known and no one close to me perished, but I have friends and co-workers who did lose someone they cared about that day. My heart aches for them when I think about what they went through and are still going through.

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I got out of the subway on Houston and Varick and a messenger was riding by on his bike and he said that a plane hit the WTC. I remember saying outloud 'like NYC needs something more to screw us up'. I walked down the street to my office building on Hudson and King and went up to the 14th flr where my division is. I found two co-workers staring out the window of another co-worker's office. The windows in our dept face south with a clear view of what was then the towers, now Ground Zero. I watched the building begin to burn and then gasped as I saw the second plane hit. I stared for a while and then went back to my desk and turned on my computer. Fh (who was just a friend at that point) has left me a message telling me what he heard on the news. I tried to call him back, but the phone were't working. Instead I e-mailed him and my brother (so he could call my mom and let her know I was okay). Then I heard some co-workers shrieking. A tower had come down. Then I ran our president's office where we all piled in on her couch and at her table and chairs and we listened to the news while we watched the next tower fall. We all cried and some people left to try to get in touch with family members. I went back to my desk and continued to e-mail FH and my brother until we were told to leave the building. A very nice co-worker who lived 4 block away invited a bunch of us to go to her appt for the day and by 7Pm I was able to get a train home. Since our office building is below 14th St, we were closed for a few days. I will never forget the feeling of helplessness as I wanted to reach through the windows and stop time. We were so far away, yet so close.