9/11 Tragic Anniversary - Moment of Silence

[eggcetra_farms]

I was still living at home as well (I was 17). I had just woken up and turned the tv on. I sat there, confused and half asleep, trying to figure out what in the world I was looking at. It took several minutes to sink in. I just stared blankly at the tv thinking wow, what a freak accident. Then my husband, who was my fiance at the time, called and asked me if I'd seen what was going on. I said that I saw there'd been some kind of plane accident and he said that it was no accident. It was a terrorist attack. Mind you this whole time I was still half asleep. It was as though I'd gone to sleep in one world and woken up in another. Crazy....

For a little while we didn't know if we were going to be able to get married or not. We had the date of November 21st set, and with the attack we weren't sure what was going to happen. Would there be another attack? If so, who was next? We didn't know. There was lots of talk about what a perfect target San Antonio, TX is (where I live) because of it being a military town. Would we be the next target?

We did end up getting married though. This year not only marks the 6th anniversary of the attack, but my 6th anniversary as well.

 

[MarkR]

I was where I am right now, my classroom (my kids are in art at the moment). Though, six years ago I had a room full of kids that wanted to know what was going on. . . why was the principal crying, why were all the adults so quiet. . .

I hope we never have to live through anything like that again.

Mark

 

[KrisRose]

For all the victims of terrorists-New York, Bali, London, etc..- may you rest in the arms of Angels.

 

[2mnypets]

I remember my youngest one (who was 6 at the time) say something in the van on the way home from getting them at school (the school dismissed right after the attacks). It's something that I will never forget. She said "you know mommy, I bet those bad men that hurt all those people didn't have a mommy that loved them like you love us." How pure is a childs love that can see something so simple?

Today, that same child (who is now 12) asks to wear one of my flag pins before getting on the bus and looks at me and says "you know mom, I meant what I said when I was 6. Just now I know that there are just some really sick people in the world and there "revolution" won't get them in the "book". It just gets them a one way ticket to h&$#". Well said my child...well said.

My dedication words in the signature area are excerts from a song called "One Last Time" by Dusty Drake. You can listen to the entire song at www.myspace.com/dustydrake Here are the lyrics from that song.

When she picked up the telephone, his voice came on the line
She said this cant be happening, and tears fell from her eyes
She said what am I supposed to do,
I cant handle losing you
He said I just had to call and say goodbye, one last time


He said there are some things in this life that are out of our control
Like who we fall in love with, and when its time to go
She said what about the plans we had,
He said this connections getting bad
Now come on baby let me hear you smile, one last time


She started to apologize for all the things that she'd done wrong
She said I would've loved you better, if only I'd known
He said you were the perfect wife,
Promise me you'll go on with your life
She said the boys won't understand,
He said tell them daddy loves their men and
Be strong


He said Hon, Ive gotta go, she said don't you dare hang up
Theres so many things I need to say, I love you so much
It was almost like she felt him leave,
She cried out can you still hear me
She fell down on the kitchen floor when the signal died
As the pilot tried to pull out of the dive
One last time

 

[ruth]

I was awakened by a phone call from my ex asking me when I was leaving for my N.Y. seminar. I told him "tomorrow". He said, "no you're not - they just blew up the world trade center". I got to turn on my t.v. and see the second plane hit. Then my mom called hysterical and when I answered all I could hear her say was "she's o.k., she's o.k., she's home". My mom thought I was already in N.Y.

For years I taught a seminar in N.Y. once a month in the World Trade Center. My seminar was scheduled for Sept. 13th. Needless to say I didn't make it. It was October before flights were available and alternate conference rooms in that area.

I still go to N.Y. and will be going again in Oct. but it will never be the same. I used to go once a month for 4 days and teach in World Trade Center and stay in the grand hotel Hilton Millenium across the street (hotel survived). They used to have a large open market set up on the plaza in between the WTC and the Hilton. I only go a couple of times a year now and I stay in the Times Square/Broadway area.

I hadn't realized till I saw this post that it was the anniversary. We, in the New Orleans area, just had our 2nd anniversary of Katrina so I guess for me it's a time of rememberance all around. Katrina curtailed any travel out of New Orleans since the airport was being used as a triage unit. That was when I put my seminar business and travel on the back burner. I'm just now starting to travel and teach again.

 

[countrygirl4513]

As I sit here in tears writing this, still to this day, my heart breaks for all those families. We all thought that this was a normal day we were facing. Then in a split second... that normal day, that routine day, changed... into horror! I was sitting on the sofa folding laundry. I watched in horror as the second plane hit. My first call was to my DH. No one in his dept. knew what was going on until I called. Then my next reaction was to get the kids from school. But they were on lock down. I decided to go to a nearby church where about 25 people had already gathered in joint prayer. The pain, the fear the absolute disbelief was so tangible that all we could do was sob uncontrollably.

Today at 6:30 pm central time, our Baptist Association is meeting at my church for a statewide prayer service. We have pinned the title of this meeting "One voice in prayer". I ask all of my family here on this forum to please pray with us at this time this evening. My husband and I will be singing at the service a song titled "The Prayer". It is such a fitting song for the occasion. I will also be accompanying on the piano for the congregational songs too. Please take that moment wherever you are to lift up these families and the families of our military and our brave troops.

 

[Lunachick]

I was driving to work and was at a stoplight when I looked up into the sky and thought 'what a beautiful Sept day, blue sky and not even a single cloud!' when the radio announced a small plane hit one tower, I thought 'what a dope I wonder who or why would a small plane do that?'

When I got to work, and turned on that radio, I understood what was going on. Since I'm in NJ alot of people in the area lost their lives, including friends of ours that lost their son on the 103rd floor of Cantor Fitzgerald.

People always say - 'Don't ever forget' How could you forget something as tragic as that?

 

[cockadoodlemom]

My 13 year old daughter said very sadly "Today is 9-11" and normally she shows no emotion. I was in bed sick that day and my husband came and told me "a plane just hit one of the Twin Towers and they aren't sure if it's a accident or what". I got up and went to the living room with him and seen the horror of the second plane crashing. My heart sank. Today when I saw the Flag halfstaff at my daughters school it sank again and as I drove by the Junior High they were in the process of lowering that flag. The tears began to flow and I still can't stop crying completely. I pray for all the families who lost loved ones and all those who are defending our nation in any way! I have a young family member who will be leaving soon to go on his second tour in Iraq.

 

[Wooden_Pony]

I was sitting in my truck at my now 13 year old daughter's bus stop. I was listening to the radio and heard about it.

I remember going back up to my Parent's house (we were living with them waiting for our house to close escrow) and I told them that the Pentagon and one of the Towers were hit by airplanes.

They told me I was just crazy they are in two different States that I must have heard it wrong. I kept telling them that is what I heard. My Dad finally turned on the TV and we sat there and watch the plane 2 hit the other Tower.

I still tear up and get the chills just thinking/talking about it.

I just recently watch that movie what is it Flight 93? Man that was HARD to watch!!

Does not feel like it has been that long ago.

 

[Galaxie_Man]

I was at my office, loading my truck with parts to head out for the day. When I went back inside, the girls were running around trying to hook up a portable TV to see what was going on. That was about the time the second plane hit. At that point I still wasn't sure what was happening and had to hit the road. When I got back out to my truck I heard more details on the radio, and knew we were now a country at war. As I went from customer site to customer site, everyone had a TV on tuned in to the latest. As I drove around that day, that was all that was on the radio, and I stayed glued to my TV after I got home, up way past my bedtime. I was not emotionally crushed by those events until Friday the 14th. I was at a customer site, eating lunch, when the national church service was on the radio. It took me a long time that afternoon to go back into work.

I so badly wanted to go to the Army recruiting station to re-enlist. They would've taken me at age 39 with prior service, but I could not come up with a way to do it without just abandoning my family, responsibilities, and job. It would've been a totally selfish thing to do. I don't think my wife knows how close I really came to doing that. I have since re-joined the fire service after a 10 year hiatus, and serve in the Homeland. I do vow that I will not hesitate to stop, by whatever means or personal risk necessary, those that would kill Americans simply because they hate our freedom and way of life. As someone who drives all over CT, MA, NY, NJ, and NH for work, I try to keep watch at all times for anything suspicious, and WILL take action to prevent another attack.