[kobl]

I am from NYC and was living there on 9/11. I had been working at the WTC the year before but then asked to be transferred back to midtown because the commute was easier for me. I had worked on the 28th floor of Tower 2 and everyone I worked with got out okay. Six weeks before 9/11 I quit my corporate job because I wanted to do something different, I was thinking either teaching or social work. Anyway, I was living in NJ at the time in a condo right along the Hudson River with a great view of the WTC. I woke up that morning a little after 9 and saw smoke across the river coming from the WTC. I put on the news trying to find out what happened while watching out my window. I tried calling my dh who worked in midtown but all the phone lines were jammed. Then all of a sudden I saw one of towers collapse and just started crying. Just then my sister got through to me on the phone and was crying because her dh who works in construction was on a job downtown and she couldn't reach his cell phone. He later called her and was fine. But it was just such a crazy, unbelievable thing, still hard to believe it really happened.

Did anyone watch the 9/11 documentary on CBS last night, the one following the firefighters on that morning? It was really moving at the end when they showed the pictures of all the firemen who had been lost that day. Just really heartbreaking to think of all those families left behind.