9/11

[okarol]

 

[paris]

It will always be one of those moments that you remember exactly where you were when it happened.   A very sad day.

[Sluff]

I like to think of it as a wake up call for our National Security, it's just sad that it took so many lives.

[twirl]

I lost a friend that day, he was on one of the planes.

[boxman55]

I will never forget seeing it on TV I was just mesmerized and in total disbelief...Boxman

[Mimi]

That day the terrorists wiped away our security and peace of mind.  One hundred and two minutes that changed our lives forever.  May God watch over us and help us make the right
decisions about our government and our grandchildrens inheirtance.

Mimi

[Ang]

here  in  oz,  i  was  channel  surfing  and   all  tv  channels  (4  of  them  )

broke  in    to  their  transmission  at  about  10 pm


and  i  sat  there  like  most  others  dumbfounded  and  just  saying  to  myself  WTF  happened.

[del]

Hubby was at dialysis when it happened and was watching it on TV.  I was at school and didn't know anything about it until after lunch.  Terrible.  A lot of the airplanes that were grounded landed here in Newfoundland at Gander.  People were in hotels (free of charge), schools, people's houses anywhere there was a space.  They were well fed and looked after.  Many have come back to visit since.  Hope nothing like that happens again!!!  Think it was a wake up call for everybody.

[mikey07840]

I was at work at the time. After the first plane hit, we all huddled into conference rooms with televisions to watch the news updates and watched as the second plane hit. Right after that, my company closed for the day. We were all crying. I kept trying to reach my brother in law who works in lower Manhattan to make sure he was ok. He was, but it took over 6 hours for him to be able to get out of Manhattan. I remember riding home that day on the interstate. On all of the information boards was the message: ALL TUNNELS/BRIDGES TO NYC CLOSED. New York City was closed down for days afterwards.
 

[Adam_W]

I was in college when it happened. I woke up and heard my roommate talking to one of his friends on the phone, and he was saying something about hijacked planes crashing into buildings and I was thinking "what is he talking about?" He hung up and told me about the WTC and Pentagon. He went to be with his friend because she was scared, and I stayed and turned on the news. I turned it on just as they were confirming the crash of flight 93. Some classes were canceled that day, but my diesel class was not. We were supposed to have a hydraulics test that day, and although we did take it, EVERYBODY failed it. After that we just spent the rest of the class watching the news and talking about it. I still remember as if it happened yesterday.

Adam