Remembering 911

[kingricefan]

I was home, still in bed. My phone rang, I didn't get up to answer it and let the answering machine click on, it was my sister and she was screaming 'We're under attack! We're under attack! Turn on the TV!' I jumped up and got the TV on and was stunned. After about 5 minutes of watching is when the plane hit the second tower.

 

[Riot87]

I was in middle school at the time back in Jamaica and i didnt fully understand what was happening back then. When i think about it now though i always cry


R.I.P to all those people who lost there lives on that horrible day and my thoughts go out to the familes as well.

 

[BeverleyMarsh]

God that made me cry again.

I listened to this tonight. I know its Howard Stern, but it you listen long enough its horrible and it is just as we all felt.

Thanks for uploading this Not_Nadine. I had never seen it. It is so different to all the broadcasts I had heard in the UK when it happened. They really discussed frankly what we were all thinking. I found a retrospective that Howard Stern did about this show after I watched your link. It's really worth a listen.

(((America)))

 

[Grandpa]

Our youngest son knocked on the door and told us that a plane had hit World Trade Center. By the time I made it down, the second one had hit as well.

Horrifying. Grandma and I drove into town, glued to the radio, and heard the news of the collapse.

Nothing was getting done at the office. We were all just listening to the news. I finally had to go to a meeting, and one of the guys there was the most abrasive, contrary, hostile person I've ever known. He was muted. We were all muted. We just all went through the motions and left.

All planes were grounded. I had some business in Denver the next day. I drove there, and instead of the steady air traffic going to and from the airport, the skies were empty but for the occasion roar overhead of tandem F-18s. It was surreal.

In the days that followed, flags popped up on cars and trucks and outside homes. These words started appearing on stickers all over:

We need to return to that sentiment. As a country, we tend to push things to the background, to be brought out on proper occasions, like an anniversary. But this one, we should not, must not, forget.

 

[AnnaMarie]

I was washing dishes. My oldest son came into the kitchen and said there was a report on the radio that a plane had hit the Trade Centre. He thought it was someone with a little private plane and didn't think much of it. I asked if it was terrorists. A few minutes later he came back out, ashen faced and said a plane had hit the other tower.

I had a toddler and refused to have that on the tv. We went out to the laundry matt. Someone had put the tv there to CNN. People walking along the street would come in to watch a bit, then back out.

Someone asked where's the other one? Isn't it called twin towers because there are two?

A young man came in, humming a song. He was there to fill the pop machine, just minding his own business and singing. He suddenly noticed the crowd and asked what was going on. Nobody said anything, but the crowd kind of pointed to the tv. He looked up, his jaw dropped. And the second tower went down.

And like so many people, he looked shocked and horrified and he said "Who would do such a thing?" And someone said one word. "Terrorists" and looked at him. Accusingly. And that young man looked so scared. It was in that second that I realized how much the world had changed.

My husband was on the west coast that week. In five days he had five or six flights. He had not left me a list, so I didn't know if he had any flights that day. And I could not get ahold of him. Even though he was in Canada, it was easy to believe a plane here could have ended up being a part of that. By the end of the day I was really hitting panic mode. He was on one of the first flights to take off in Canada after the 11th.

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[SharonC]

Tribute only...
This is the commercial spot Budweiser produced after 9/11. They only aired it once, during the Super Bowl of 2002 - they just wanted to acknowledge the tragic event. I remember being incredibly moved when I saw it.
Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words.

All I can say is "Oh, wow!" How incredibly moving.

 

[Houdini]

I was washing dishes. My oldest son came into the kitchen and said there was a report on the radio that a plane had hit the Trade Centre. He thought it was someone with a little private plane and didn't think much of it. I asked if it was terrorists. A few minutes later he came back out, ashen faced and said a plane had hit the other tower.

I had a toddler and refused to have that on the tv. We went out to the laundry matt. Someone had put the tv there to CNN. People walking along the street would come in to watch a bit, then back out.

Someone asked where's the other one? Isn't it called twin towers because there are two?

A young man came in, humming a song. He was there to fill the pop machine, just minding his own business and singing. He suddenly noticed the crowd and asked what was going on. Nobody said anything, but the crowd kind of pointed to the tv. He looked up, his jaw dropped. And the second tower went down.

And like so many people, he looked shocked and horrified and he said "Who would do such a thing?" And someone said one word. "Terrorists" and looked at him. Accusingly. And that young man looked so scared. It was in that second that I realized how much the world had changed.

My husband was on the west coast that week. In five days he had five or six flights. He had not left me a list, so I didn't know if he had any flights that day. And I could not get ahold of him. Even though he was in Canada, it was easy to believe a plane here could have ended up being a part of that. By the end of the day I was really hitting panic mode. He was on one of the first flights to take off in Canada after the 11th.

The chief victim that day was our loss of innocence.

Houdini in Omaha

 

[AchtungBaby]

U2's 2002 Super Bowl performance. So moving. Other SB performances have been technically better, but not have been as emotionally fused as this one. Definitely worth a watch....

 

[Lepplady]

Well done.

 

[not_nadine]

I am afraid to watch. But I will.

I am incredibly angry and sad all over again.

I was so worried. We called or tried to call everyone we ever knew.. just to make sure that they were safe. I was so afraid of airplanes. For long after.
My niece, who was teenage took off on one of the first flights that was allowed. She went to Poland to be with her dad. I was so afraid for her.

But I thought get outta here, you have more guts than I do for flying right now.

Years before, my sister and brother in law and I flew over NYC in his small plane.
It was so beautiful we circled the trade towers, the Statue. And just cruised the Hudson River. The buildings high above us. It was incredible. The buildings all looked like they were embers with the fading light.

 

[not_nadine]

It was like a regular highway down there on the Hudson. Other planes tipping their wings as we passed.. I guess that does not happen any longer.

 

[hossenpepper]

For everyone from Oklahoma, especially those of us who played any small part in the events of 4/19/95 or lost people there, 9/11 was different for them than most people watching that day. It immediately brought back the memories and sense of insanity that had saddled us just 6 years before. And the end of it (OKC) being a US citizen as the culprit. Another level to the insanity. That sense of shock will never go away. I suppose in that sense, the two groups of people affected by these events share a common emotion.

All this violence. I'll never get it, nor will I ever be able to fully agree that responding with it does much good either.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

USS New York (LPD-21)
Motto: "Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget."

(7.5 short tons of the steel used in the ship's construction came from the rubble of the World Trade Center.)

 

[not_nadine]

U2's 2002 Super Bowl performance. So moving. Other SB performances have been technically better, but not have been as emotionally fused as this one. Definitely worth a watch....

Oh My God. You are right. No one knew what to do.

Thank you for posting that.