going to work on september 11th

[Alysser]

I was at school, my dad was on a plane. Everyone was leaving school early and I didn't know what was going on. I was 8 years old. I went home and saw the footage. Wow. It was a shock. It brought the entire world closer together.

My heart goes out to all the people who died on that fateful day.

[RICHARD]

Did any one see the freedom flag?

Very interesting, and did you fly a flag today?


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Airplanes.

What do you think Wilbur and Orville would have thought about 9/11?

One of my passions is aircraft and living where I go I hear and see plenty. The one thing that changed in my life was the way I look up when something flies overhead. Before it was to maybe see a plane or jet that were always buzzing around.

Now, when wayward plane buzzes the area I look up, to see what is in the air, and in the back of head there is always the fear of another tragedy like 9/11.

Sad.

[joycenalex]

life STILL is good richard, very good and oh so precious and short and wonderful. when the NY Times reported out that the search teams reached the body of the port authority dog, SIRIUS, who was on duty that day i wept like a child, and i saw some of the photos of his body being carried out, covered by a flag, exactly as they carried out all the other rescue personnel, i think his handler, (who was not with sirius at the time, he was caught in the rubble in another part of the building and i believe the handler was injured) at his side, leaving the trade center, one more time together, i wept. heros are rare, very rare, and life is still good.

[smokey the elder]

A lot of the songs on Bruce Springsteen's The Rising are about trying to heal from 9/11. They played some yesterday on the radio, along with some songs from the Concert for New York in Oct. 2001.

[AdoreMyDogs]

It's amazing that after all these years, it's still so vivid in my mind. I was at work. Someone came into my office and told me to come with them to their office, there was an airplane that flew into one of the World Trade Center towers and they had a TV to watch the footage. They knew I'd want to see it because I had returned from vacation in NYC not a month earlier. I toured the WTC. Marble everywhere, gorgeous, fancy and clean, big beyond belief.

I watched in my co-workers office, the horror. Watched until second building was hit, then the office was closed for the day. I will never forget it. I will never forget how scared I was. I thought this was it. I thought this might be the beginning of the end of the world. The sky was erie. I did, however, see Airforce One flying, as the president was going somewhere. That was interesting to see Airforce One and to know that it was Airforce One, as no other commercial aircraft was allowed in the skies. It was the Airforce One surrounded by several military aircraft. Any other time I'd be so excited to see that, it was interesting but I was too frightened and ridden with grief to appreciate it.

I will never forget one of my co-workers screams. Her daughter worked in the WTC. Her mom was watching from a TV screen, the building that her daughter was likely in burning up. This woman, whos name slips my mind, was one of my favorite people there at work. Very lovely woman. She screamed and the feeling of complete helplesness was sickening.

She ran out, frantically trying to call her daughter. I found out the next day that her daughter was only on the 6th floor and was one of the first to make it out safely, thank God. I can't imagine being several states away from your child and watching from a TV screen such horror. Many did the same worrying about their loved ones but the outcome was not happy for them.

Sickening

I stayed up so very late last night watching a special on the History Channel. It was footage from all the folks in NYC who were there to witness and record it. I sobbed myself to sleep.

[lizbud]

I remember it very well. Had called in a sick day at work earlier that
morning and I was just lazing around on the couch watching TV. When
the news people broke into the programming with word of the first plane
crash, then the 2nd & the third. It feel so surreal. I couldn't take it all
in at first. I called a co-worker to talk to someone & see if they knew
about it too.

Almost everyone else in my neighborhood had gone to work & so the
area was pretty quiet. The very next day, almost every single house
had put out a flag or pasted the flag in a front window. I was amazed
but pleasantly surprised by the shared patriotism.


Ps. I hope someday the terrible people responsible for this attack are brought to justice.