I was sound asleep in my bed when my mom came bursting into my room saying, "I can't believe you can sleep through this, our country is under attack!" I obviously had no idea what was going on, I was sleeping peacefully. I drug myself out of bed and sat on the couch with my mom just in time to witness the 2nd plane crashing into the building. What horror I felt. I felt helpless, yet so angry. I made my way to work that afternoon with thoughts of anger. When I sat at my desk my co-worker, Kim, was just mad. She was having the hardest time working that day (obviously). In fact, I am not sure she did, she was reading everything she could on the internet to see what was happening. We just sat and shared our feelings that whole day.
One of the things that I remember also is that I purchased our airline tickets to go to Mim's wedding on Sept. 10. That was really scary to think that I was going to be getting on an airplane in a month.
So where were you and what were you feeling?
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I was doing my hair listning to the radio when they annouced it. Not beleiving them I ran downstairs and turned on the tv to see Pres. Bush make a speach (he was visiting an elementry school) and then watched footage of the rec. Absolutly horrified for the future.
Hey Bri! I was newly married. One of my favorite things to do after we got married was to wake up and here the top headlines that Matt Lower and Katie Couric would do @ 7:00a.m. When I turned on the today show on Sep. 11 I was shocked to see the kaos that was happening in real time.. I called my Mom and said OH MY GOSH, what is going on, and what are the world trade centers? How does a big airliner accidently fly into a building? A few minutes later I learned it was no accident.. At the time Jake was in flight school to become a commercial airline pilot.. So this was all hitting home a little hard.. For the first time in my life I realized we may not be safe in our own country. This was very frightning to me. I started to cry when I heard the details of how the pilots were killed and all those poor people. I thought to myself this sort of thing should never have been able to happen? My emotions ran wild.. I could not turn off the t.v. as I saw all of those victoms trapped in the rubbel, and their loved ones living out their worst nightmare.. I also recall how very fast it all happened when people were running out covered in ashes and blood. (This is something you see in movies, not in real life.)
It was an experience that made me very proud to live in a country that could fight back and not back down to those terrorist a--holes.. I worry what are kids will see in the future, for I fear these terrorists will continue to bring much evil to this world..
I just had my first child and had been home from the hospital about 2 weeks, I woke up at 6am to my husbands voice calling me, "Marie, come!" I ran to the living room where he had the t.v. on and after watching what was going on I couldn't stop crying, (I honestly though for a second that it was the second comming)...I just remember seeing people throwing themselves off the towers from the 100th floor to their death because they would rather die that way then get burned to death, I remember the news talking about all the children that lost parents that day and I just cried, while holding my new born baby being greatful that I still had her, and praying for the families that suffered so much pain on that day?
I still get really emotional when Sept. 11 comes around.
Hi Bree, I will never forget that day. I still can't bare to look at some of the pictures. It just makes me sad.
I got her pictures taken at JCPenney. I still need to go get Ryder's birthday pics too...hopefully I will be feeling better soon and can go do it! :) I'll bring you over a pic of Kam too...but once again...that all depends on how I am feeling.
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