Where were you when the world stopped turning?

[Beer can]

Couple maybe few yrs ago my youngest 9yrs old now, asked about 911 had to have been before covid because he was in school.
Said they were talking about it in school.
I was takin aback went from it was so long ago just distant memory to it feels like yesterday. Didn't know what to tell him then decided your just going to have to see it.
We both watched a documentary on YouTube.
Had to hide my tears.
Now maybe I just forgot some of it IDK, some of it maybe I didn't remember maybe I never heard it.
Guy in the first building was talking on the phone and watched the plane hit his floor, blasted right through where he was standing, and he made it out, lived!
And then there on that documentary a fire department chief that ended up loosing his every member of his department was on a lower floor second building when it went down. Him and some others they were helping down also survived after the building fell and all above and below didn't.

 

[Beer can]

I was still in inactive reserves Army at the time, National Guard inactive reserves. I was ready and willing wanting to go back in. Every one I talked to the same.
Sourland mentioned the flags on vehicles, yeah I don't think there was a one without a flag flying, even just a little one taped to their radio antenna everyone had one and the stores never ran out of them.

 

[JaeG]

I was 20 years old and driving to Teachers College in New Zealand and the DJs on the radio station I listened to were always light hearted and joking etc. But that day they were relaying the horrific things that were happening and I was just in absolute shock. For a minute I thought they were joking (and what a sick joke it would be if that were the case), until I realised they were not. Once I got to Teachers College I saw footage on the TV there in the student area and we were all in shock.

If I happen to look at the clock at 9.11am/pm it still to this day makes me sad. My heart just went out to America, and still does, because things like that just shouldn't happen.

 

[Beamerz]

I was involved for 5 years with an online group focused on helping people learn how to use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on them selves.. DIY mostly for addictions but it works for more than that! I'm not involved with it anymore but the group is still online. We were from all over the country and meeting once a year at mostly religious "camps" which we'd rent. About 25 of us were at the camp in Ohio, on that day and when I came down the stairs in the morning the TV was on . I wrote the following FB post back in 2016 on 9./11
I'm busy and I don't prefer to be. I got up and nursing my iced coffee began my morning, checking email, visit FB stuff. My feed began with Rosemary *s must read post, which I mistakenly took for real time at first..I wondered what had happened. I started reading from the beginning again.
Reality struck, like a punch, and I remembered, it was today.. the day we all re-bonded like a weld, for reasons distorted. I'd flown out of Boston on 9/10 to Ohio to meet friends from an online group we'd formed to help people. There were about 25 of us from all over the country and we were doubly saddened when one of us, a commercial pilot , could not make it as the sky's went dead.
We were staying in a camp, living dormitory style with a camp kitchen and pine grove. At night we had camp fires to the sound of coyotes in the distance, under ancient plane-less, silent skies. After 3 days I rented a car and drove home all by myself across 1/2 of our nation, no fruited plains, or purple mountain majesty. So many over passes had American flags hanging from them and each I passed under brought me the connection of people at distance feeling the same pulse..just like now people are tuned in to that same station.

 

[tripletfeb]

I read earlier today that on 9/12/01 the Queen of England changed from a 600 year old tradition. At the Changing of the Guard, she had them play our national anthem. Today, they did it again for us. We might have won a war against them a long time ago but it's good to have them as friends now! God Bless America and God Save the Queen!

 

[Brooks_]

https://freevoice.io/blog/2021/09/11/recreating-the-creepy-feel-of-that-day/

 

[Sammster]

I was home, with my 3 sons, in 3 different schools - panicking. My eldest was at his college in the city.
The day felt surreal and so very sad. Scary.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I was at home alone in NM when a friend called and said turn on the tv. I said what channel and she said it doesn't matter. As I headed to the tv I asked what's going on and she said, we're at war. As I turned on the tv and saw the smoke of the first building I gasped, with whom? Then I felt stupid because anybody else would have said Who with? She said, We don't know yet. And the second plane hit. Later I heard about Flight 93 and I knew where it had gone down, I had worked in that area in the winter of '93. I was just in shock and scared all day. Where I lived was near two large power plants and I wondered if our area would be targeted. My husband was traveling home from Battle Creek by bus and all transportation was frozen and I didn't know when he could get home. My stomach knots up and I can taste the tears again now, remembering. The images come back. They are seared in my mind. For days, weeks afterward, there was nothing else. People lined the streets as the fire and rescue crews went in and out, searching, digging, hoping. The world we knew before did end. It ended forever. We never felt safe again as we did before that day.