[CreoleInDC]

Five years ago?

I remember watching the second plane hit on television in the Ops Room of my office. We all just STOOD there and one woman screamed and fainted. I was in downtown D.C. and it seemed that the world just stopped that day. My best friend was on a plane headed to New York and I couldn't get in touch with him. I WAS SO SCARED and couldn't do anything productive until I'd heard from him. Robby, who was traveling that day as well, had already gotten to his destination and was able to contact me via instant messenger.

The scariest thing about 9/11 for me was actually 9/12. Riding the metro with people who were earily quiet...some breaking down and crying...some madder than hell. Getting off the metro in downtown D.C. and seeing troops on every corner in Humvees fully armed with their finger at the ready was like I was in the middle of a hollywood disaster movie set. I worked 60 hours the rest of that week. I couldn't do anything but.

I'll never forget. Never.

[nesee22]

Five years ago i was in the 12th grade ( in mississippi) and i did not know anything about the towers until i got home. Our school did not want to freak us out so they kept it from us. When i got home my mom was watching tv and asked me if i had heard about the towers and i was like no what happened. She told me to just sit and watch. I just could not believe it.

[jmcrane]

Five years ago today, I was headed to work. Listening to the Radio, and heard from a caller that a plane just hit the first tower. Got out of my car headed to the office door and opened it. Went to the hallway at our car dealership and turned on our lobby tv, to watch the second plane. Stood there not able to move.
I can remember to this day what the weather was like here in Alabama. The sky was bright blue, pretty blue though... But bright enought that it would hurt your eyes. Some of our trees where beginning to change colors and falling off the trees.
I know that is so weird to remember that to a "T" but I did...
May God Be With Everyone Today and Forever.

[jen-hoping]

5 years ago I was walking into a meeting with a charity that my company was going to be helping. I walk in to arrange our day of caring and the man says a plane hit the world trade center. My reply, can't be - my husband is at 2 World Financial for a meeting.

Those were the longest minutes of my life. Thankfully he was fine but I count my blessings each and every day.

[jf5505]

Five years ago today I was in Dallas, TX for work. I had put on the news and was just in disbelief at what was happening before my eyes. Then I went down to the lobby and everyone was just in shock watching the TV. They ended up canceling the rest of our trip, but we had to drive home, I spend like 28 hours driving in a car with 4 other people I worked with w/o sleep. I just wanted to get home to my family and feel safe again. I was so upset and I had anxiety for long time after that, everytime I had to fly for work after that I would get severe anxiety.

Its so sad, anyone watch the special with all the 9 11 kids who were not born yet?

[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.

[Murphy's Law]

I was on my Honeymoon. I remember flights being delayed and people having to extend their stay. I also remember not being able to call into the United States because the phone lines were so busy. We were so worried about our families and friends in New York and in Washington.

[Lou lou]

Wasn't going to respond to this because I get very emotional and angry. I don't want to preach or get others upset with my passion. I am VERY passionate about the "War on Terror", and defeating the Devil himself. We cannot become complacent. Iran is very dangerous.

Now... to answer the question "where were you"...

I was at work. One of my co-workers parents were on one of the planes that left Logan airport headed to L.A. to visit a grandchild. She lost both of her parents that horrible, horrible day.

I cried for weeks and still do now and again.

It was that day that changed how I think and feel about alot of things. That's also when I became a news/radio talk show junkie. I follow politics very closely and take the "war on terror" very seriously.

I cannot say the word "hate" because it doesn't even come close to how I feel about those people. They are pure evil and want to destroy us.

It helps to think about the sacrifice that our military is making for us every day. (while I complain about my stupid "well to do" life).

God Bless America... my home sweet home.

[CreoleInDC]

Interesting.

I'm against war of any kind.

I don't want to go anywhere and kill anyone in the name of ANYTHING nor do I want anyone to come here and kill any of us. Killing is against everything I believe in regardless if our government is doing it or some thug/drug dealer on the street. Killing is killing. The audacity of ANYONE who thinks it's okay to take someone's life is beyond me. I mean...that person, whomever they are, whatever their beliefs is going to be gone. They won't be here anymore. They are DEAD. That's not a human's decision. Death is God's decision.

Killing is killing.

[einstein]

Originally Posted by kobl

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.

Kelly,

I saw that documentary last night and I couldn't stop watching it. It made me realize how brave those firefighters were -- to know that things were so bad and yet, they still went in to try and rescue people. How their families have carried on through the years, I don't know. God bless them.

[ara79]

i was driving to class when i heard it on the radio. when i got to campus i remember that hundreds of students were walking around with blank stares on their faces. we all kept staring at eachother, slowly realizing that it wasn't a rumor or a dream. it was really happening. i didn't go to class, i found a tv in the eating area and tons of people crowded around to see what was happening. i pray for all those who lost a loved one on that awful day. there are so many heros, it is overwhelming...bless their souls.
amy

[Angel0226]

I was at work... working as a bookeeper at the time. I had no television, but did have a small radio. Listening to everything, but not seeing it was really hard and very scary. I remember going home and just sitting in front of the t.v. for about 12 hours, crying and crying, feeling so numb. I had talked to my Mom earlier in the day (she lives in another state)... and just hearing how scared she was... I knew I had reason to be terrified. When dh got home that evening, we both just laid in bed and held each other, and thanking God... we were alive and had each other.

Watching some of the programs that have been on over the weekend and ecspecially today... brought all of that back. I'm feeling pretty thankful for what I have today and my problems with infertility seem minor today! And I'm back on Clomid... how's that for being positive!!!

[meremere]

I was sitting on my bed, talking to then Fiance, talking about something had happened and Katie Couric and Matt Lower were freaking out. I remember sitting cross legged with a pillow hugging it, with tears streaming down my face when I saw the second plane hit Tower 2. I was talking normal to Dh, then screamed on the phone. DH was freaked, we had gotten off a plane the day before!
I remember going to work with the TV from my bedroom and searching the apartment for the rabit ears. I remember looking out the window and seeing no planes other then war jets screaming accross the sky on the way to the Port of Houston. I think looking up and seeing planes in the sky was so normal it was earie not to see them. I remember my husband worked on the 33rd floor of a building here and was evacuated. I remember a good friend who is from Saudi Arabia was attacked by the police because he parked his car in a loading zone of his building while he was loading computer equiptment into it from work. He was assaulted because of his skin color and home country. I remember worrying about Johnny who is one of NYCFD's finest and a friend, he was there, he was ok I later found out. I remember going to the RED Cross to give blood, waiting for hours and being turned away being told they have enough blood to "go home". I was mad! OUR FELLOW AMERICANS AND HUMAN BEINGS FROM HERE AND OTHER PLACES WERE DYING! THEY NEEDED MY BLOOD AS MUCH AS I NEEDED TO GIVE IT!!!
I remember being confussed, scared, numb, and dazed. I wondered why someone would hate another country as much as they did to want to kill thousands of innocent souls.
A few weeks later I remember driving to Katy Mills Mall ( a big outlet style mall here) hearing "Where were you when the world stopped turning" on the radio and had to pull over from crying!

I remember it all, I still do, I still hurt from it! I want so bad to go to the WTC and see. I could, but I feel that it would be so sad and hard to see it! I feel like it is gauking somewhere where so many lost their lives. I want to do something that makes a difference and someday I will so that I can always remember!

[GUS07]

I know this is after the anniversary, but it still bothers me so much and there's only so much that people can deal with talking about it. I was at home that morning getting ready to go shopping for clothes for my first real job, I had just joined Americorps and was going to be working at a VA hospital in our area. My aunt called an told me to turn on the TV just as I was getting ready to leave the door and I watched, and it seemed like for ever, and than they said there was still one plane missing and not five minutes later there was a loud crash and I knew that the last plane wasn't missing anymore, it crashed not even twenty miles from my backyard.