September 11th - 3 years later

Willow Rosenberg

Willow Rosenberg

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Can't believe it was only three years ago...seems like yesterday. I know it's a very sad subject, but I can't help but wonder what you all think about what happened and looking toward the future.

I'll never forget where I was when it happened..I came out of class and everyone was glued to the TV in the Lobby...at that point only one plane had hit, so many were assuming it was an accident. So I walked out to my car and got in and started driving to the other building across campus when I heard the news of the second plane. I immediately parked my car and called my mother to find out where my dad was because he works in the city and had just gotten off work not an hour before...I was so wound up I locked my keys in my car and my mother had to come bring me my spare set. Turned out my dad got out of the city on the last ferry and watched from the river as the first tower collapsed. A nice stranger gave him a ride to a place that was in walkable distance to our house.

That's just my story I thought I'd share...
 
I was at work and was walking past my coworker's office when he said a plane had hit the tower. So I got onto CNN.com - we were all thinking it was an accident. And then the second one hit and we knew it wasn't an accident and the whole office was in the tv room watching. When the news came of the third plane going towards where we lived, everyone left the office. There were no buses for 6 hours to where I lived, so a girl I worked with and I took the bus to her house and then she drove me to where my car was parked. Then I spent the rest of the day on the boards just talking with others and watching the news. I will never forget what a beautiful sunny day it was - something really unusual for Pittsburgh. It just felt like the world was ending.

Two of my friends worked in the towers and walked out thankfully. I almost had a job on the 90th floor, but I got beat out for it by one other person.
 
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The "world was ending" comment really hit home for me...its so eerie though how this weekend is that same type of beautiful sunny day
I was in my 5th grade classroom, during Social Studies class, then my Math teacher came down the hall and told my SS teacher to come here. So he told us to be quiet and that he'd be right back. It was normal to us so we didn't pay any attention.
He came back and told us there was a plane crash, and there was nothing to worry about. (Two years later, i went back to his room and he told me that he had known what happened, he just didnt want to scare us)
But my mom had to pick me up early from school cause we were going to my aunts so my mom could get her car fixed by my uncle.
When she did, there were like 30 parents picking up there kids. I remember asking my mom why and she said there was an attack on a building in New York.
So at that point i was like, huh?
Then we got to my uncle's garage and they had they TV on CNN. So that's how i found out the truth. And i was confused, i didnt know what was going on, but i did know it wasnt right.
later that night, my 2 1/2 (5 now) sister came up to my room and i was watching the news, she asked me what was happening and why the people were running planes into buildings.
Thats when it finally hit me, and i started crying. I hugged my sister and cried.
3 months later my uncle (a different one) was sent to war.
 
I was at my current job at the time for a bank (that part will come into it later.) One of my workmates was on break and saw it on the tv and came up. The phones were silent, obviously everyone else was watching the news. We all locked our pcs and went down. I stood there crying as I watched, as it was an emotional thing and i'm an emotional person. I couldn't believe what I was watching.

The first thing that came into mind (and I never told her this, until now) was that at that I was relieved that Buffy Summers was over in Pittsburg and not in New York. Everyone thinks about family and friends, she was at the time the only real friend I had over there, and the thought of losing her was too much. So there you go hon i'm a big sap and when you told me you almost had a job there I was never more relieved that someone didn't get a job.

We went back to our desks and a few phones started to ring, with customers asking if the financial market will be ok and will their money be safe. At the time I sorta blew at them saying people are dying and your worried about your money.

My aunt was at home at the time, and i'll never forget this. Her husband called and told her to put on BBC1 for the news, she turned it on and said the news wasn't on, she said it was one of those Bruce Willis movies.

Being over here I was pretty far away from the devastation I couldnt watch the news, I couldn't watch familys look and discuss losing their loved ones, as I couldn't stop crying. It was a horrible day, a day that should not have happened, and one that will be remembered in history for all the wrong reasons.

I'm not sure if some of you guys were here at the time, but we actually set up a forum for support on it here for people who had friends and families there, and for others who needed it. It was a forum that I could not go into without getting choked up.
 
It was a gorgeous sunny day here in London ON on that day. I was on holidays that week, and I was on my way to where Mrs. D works with my tools to put together her new work station. I was in my car at the time the first plane hit, and it was announced on the radio. By the time I got to Mrs. D's office, the second had hit, and The first thing I said was "terrorists". Sorry I was right...I did what I had to do, and spent the rest of the day watching CNN...I also called my friend in New Orleans to check on him...Ever since that day, I've had an American flag on my cars to honour the people who lost their lives that day, especially the emergency crews and police. I'm not sorry you didn't get the job in the tower, B. I'd rather have you here.
 
Wow... I was going to make a topic like this...

Yeah... 3 years... It didn't really hit me until about a year after. I was in 6th grade when it happened, I was just grumpy because my teacher made us write an essay about what we think about the terrorist acts... (I hated school back than too and I sucked at essasys, well any writing assignment)
 
I remember I was visiting a friend, and at the time she lived with my social studies teacher (she rented a room in her appartment).. Suddenly my teacher came into my friends room (where we were) and said "have you heard what's happened..?" and she looked really serious so we got scared.. And she told us about the planes and we got shocked but I don't think we really understood at the time (I live so far away from USA so I didn't know what it really meant)..

(Later I found out that my uncle's brother worked there, but he wasn't there then, he had just gone out somewhere..)

And I remember that some people were all like "This isn't that big a deal,, if this happened here or in Africa it wouldn't even be on the news".. We had lots of debates about this.. But I still don't think I really understand everything that it means..
 
The world changed for the worse, didn't it? My thoughts will be with the victims' families today.

I remember being at work when someone came back from lunch and said that there had been an attack on the Pentagon and that there was something happening in NYC. No-one could get on to any of the news sites so we put the radio on to find out and it just kept getting worse. I remember feeling so sad and depressed and angry and sorry and ashamed of my species...it was possibly the worst day of my life that didn't involve the death of a loved one.
To cap it all, we had our grandson Connor (he was three at the time) over that evening and we were watching the news together when the footage of the planes hitting the WTC was shown. He said "Look, fireworks", not understanding, and I nearly cried...
 
I remember I was getting ready for my 2nd day back at U of T (in my 3rd year). My dad yelled to me and I ran to see what had happened just after the first plane slammed into the building. We watched in horror as the second plane hit the buildings. I recall being horrified and suddenly the buildings were collapsing. It's an image I will never get out of my mind, it still seems surreal.

I had to leave to go to school and I recall everyone stopped on the street (at our busiest intersection Yonge and Bloor) watching the billboard TV on the corner. Our class ended up being very short, sice noone wanted to be there.

Mostly though I remember the stories of bravery of the NYPD and the NY Fire Department. I also remember the many stories of Americans taking refuge in Canada when they couldn't fly home (I was watching Canadian news as well).

Amidst the devestation the wealth of human compassion was displayed.
 
Wow. It was just a half an hour ago when I remembered it was 9/11.

I was watching the planes crash. It was on the news, and my mom was watching it. It was about 8:00 and wanted to watch somthing, but the news was on, so I watched that instead. I was really sad that entire day. It makes me sad just thinking about it too. ::crying::

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Wow, hadn't realized it was 9/11.

Can't believe it's been three years and people still believe the arab myth, oh well.
 
I will ALWAYS remember that day. I was just getting out of my grade six class, when my best friend's sister came to the door to pick her up. She said a aeroplane had hit the Pentagon. I had NO CLUE what that ment, and went outside to my mom's truck. She drove me home, and i thought nothing of what had happened, but I had asked her what the Pentagon was. She told me and I thought nothing more of it.

When I got home, my dad didn't say a word. I don't even think they knew what had happened. I turned on the TV and was left watching a plane smash into a building, millions of peices flying everywhere. I was confused, like, what, was this a movie? But then people were screaming. for real. People were running around, and some people were jumping from the windows of the Trade Centers. I was thunderstruck. My mom got really upset, and my dad was as shocked as I was. I will never forget it. It was awful.
 
The attacks have changed our society a lot. Now NYC is like on 24hr guard duty. The airport is even more of a mad house. We need to improve on security much more though. People come together during hard times like this...which is good.
 
I wonder, if anyone else noticed that 9/11 was the same as 911? I noticed that last year.
 
I was in school. I was in 7th grade at the time. I was in second period (Language) when someone came to my door and called my teacher outside. She was gone for a good ten minutes and when she returned she was in tears. Right away we knew something was wrong. Being in a school system in a time of panic, the teachers weren't aloud to tell students what happened. Parents started calling kids out of school like crazy. Half the school was probably gone by the lunch period. I was in my elective class and our teacher lets us listen to the radio. I wasn't paying attention really, but it was a radio station that played music, when the announcement came on. My teacher turned it off and refused to let us listen to it. Everyone seemed to have their own ideas about what was going on. Some said there was a danger in our school. Something about a bomb. My friend and I blew it off once we left school, thinking it was just some stupid bomb threat that was made. We were walking home when someone pulled up in their car and told us to get home. When I did get home I finally realized what had happened and went in my room to watch the news. I called my friend who I had walked home with and we watched the footage over and over again of the planes crashing. It was on every single channel. After about five minutes I found myself sobbing and asking how someone could do that.

I had three family members there. Two uncles and an aunt. Thank God they weren't harmed. My Aunt wasn't at work yet and when she saw the planes hit she turned around. My Uncle was actually in the towers when the planes hit and he was lucky to survive. A few months later at church he told the congregation what happened. It was so odd to see a grown man from Brooklyn crying in front of 100 people. His story was so chilling. The part that sticks out the most in my mind was when he talked about how he watched his friends die and saw pieces of bodies. That was really when the horror of everything hit me. I knew that it happened an hour away from where I live, but when someone you love was there, it hits home a lot harder.

A year later we had a lot of memorials in our town. The first was at our school. So many of my friends were crying, but I had to keep a stiff upper lip because I was the shoulder they were crying on. My friend, who lost an uncle, was holding onto me and so was one of my close friends. My favorite teacher, and a close personal friend, couldn't finish his speech at the podeum because the tears started flowing. At night we had a candle light vidual in the park, which I attended.

I, for some reason, find it more upsetting and hard to understand years afterwards than I did when it actually happened. I don't think I'll understand why people have to kill thousands of innocent people because they don't like our "western ways." Assholes...
 
That was really scary for me. I was in 3rd grade. I mean, watching the planes crash, over and over again, was really creepy. Because I was so little, I had no clue what was going on, and our teachers were trying to keep quiet about it, but it wouldn't work. We kept asking questions, but they didn't want to answer them. At the time, I really didn't feel safe in anyother place but in school with my friends. It was really scary! ::crying::

And to think, many years from now, this will be in the history books, and every american student will know what happen on the day the towers crashed to the ground.
 
I was just sitting watching a special with my mother and I said, "Will we still be memorializing this in 50 years?" and she said, "I don't think so. Something much bigger will probably happen that we'll have to memorialize." What do you think about that? Do you think it's true?
 
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That was really scary for me. I was in 3rd grade. I mean, watching the planes crash, over and over again, was really creepy. Because I was so little, I had no clue what was going on, and our teachers were trying to keep quiet about it, but it wouldn't work. We kept asking questions, but they didn't want to answer them. At the time, I really didn't feel safe in anyother place but in school with my friends. It was really scary! ::crying::

And to think, many years from now, this will be in the history books, and every american student will know what happen on the day the towers crashed to the ground.
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Haha, it's already in my contemporary history book. The cover has the towers.

I just wish that many years from now the real version will be on books, like how they now teach Serbia's innocence regarding Franz Ferdinand's death.
 
Hero said:
I was just sitting watching a special with my mother and I said, "Will we still be memorializing this in 50 years?" and she said, "I don't think so. Something much bigger will probably happen that we'll have to memorialize." What do you think about that? Do you think it's true?
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If you think about...In 1941, everybody was saying Pearl Harbor is the biggest tragedy in the US, (which it was back then) and we will remember it forever and we will always be in a day of sorrow on December 7th.

On December 7th of this year, I was at a wedding. And not a single person i know said ANYTHING about Pearl Harbor. My grandma couldn't even remember when it was.

September 11th is something that will probably be the same way. That if you were alive when it happened, you'll always remember it but in 50 years, half the people won't even think about it.

Sad, but true.

September 11th is the same as Pearl Harbor. 1,000's of people died and we were 'pushed' into a war.
 
I remember this so well. I was being picked up from class by my mother and she turned the radio on and that's when it said about the first plane crashing. I didn't think to much of it as I'd never heard of the twin towers. Your hear about the Empire State building and Statue of Liberty but never the towers so I just assumed that it was was an accident on these two unimportant towers. That was when I turned my TV on. Oh My God. I couldn't belive what I was seeing. And when the second plane flew in I knew that this wasn;t an accident someone had a serious grudge against America!!

But I Think what shook me most was when the tower's fell down and the clouds of dust a rumble chased people down the streets. I saw footage of this one woman who took refuge in a burger bar I think it was and left her shopping out on the street and insisted on going to get it. Luckily she didn't as it was swept away with everything going on.
 
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