Here is a picture I took last month of the WTC area while in a helicopter. The tall, partially-completed building in front is now called "One World Trade Center;" its name was originally the "Freedom Tower" but they changed it.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
9/11
I live in New York and was here during the 9/11 tragedy. Do you remember where you were and what you thought at that time?
Here is a picture I took last month of the WTC area while in a helicopter. The tall, partially-completed building in front is now called "One World Trade Center;" its name was originally the "Freedom Tower" but they changed it.
Here is a picture I took last month of the WTC area while in a helicopter. The tall, partially-completed building in front is now called "One World Trade Center;" its name was originally the "Freedom Tower" but they changed it.
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I was in the eighth grade. Can you believe it?
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I still remember that day like it was yesterday. My co-worker/friend and I just talked about it this remember because we were together that morning. Still hard to believe. Heather
ReplyDeleteYep, I remember that day very well. I was in my second year of college and had just changed majors the day before - which meant the morning of the 11th I was supposed to go around and get signatures to get into an entirely new class schedule - kind of went out the window with the events of the day. My campus was near the airport and I remember when the planes were grounded it just got eerily quiet.
ReplyDeleteI was at work. Someone set up a small television in the kitchen. I remember feeling incredible shock every single time I saw news coverage that day, and despite not being a crier, crying off and on for three days. Like Heather, it's still shocking just to remember it.
ReplyDeleteI remember that day. My sister, mother and me were at the mall and heared about it in the Radio. We first thought that they talked about a new action movie.
ReplyDeleteI have to say that it didn't hit me emotionally, I think that was that way beacause I was too young and for me the USA was far away.
A few years later I saw the Movie "World Trade Center", after the movie I cried for over an hour because it hit me so hard.
I was at work and I wanted to go home so bad but my sister convinced me to just stay there. As soon as I got home though I cried and cried.
ReplyDeleteI was getting ready for work, and our friend called and said, "Turn on the TV." We sat, stunned, and watched the second plane hit the tower, and saw both towers fall. We had to go to work - I remember I was starting a course in basic conflict resolution that morning. It felt ironic.
ReplyDeleteA huge emotional impact, even up here in Canada. We went to NYC a couple of years later and went to Ground Zero (which was still flat, just laying in the new subway lines then).
I was in 6th/7th grade gym class. They wheeled in a CRT television and we watched news coverage for the afternoon. It was really bizarre. I was too young to really get the impact of what happened. I don't usually remember things very vividly, but I still remember how weird it was for the whole (400 student private) school to just stop and stare at the news.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about my memories of the day on my blog today...and it still amazes me the impact it had even on folks in the midwest. I remember when flights resumed afterwards--that it made me very, very nervous for a time.
ReplyDeleteI'm always fascinated by the construction of tall buildings.
RIP to everyone who lost their lives due to this horrific crime & my condolences to all those who lost someone. I was in junior high school and just remember our French teacher telling us something horrible had happened in NYC but I couldn't quite comprehend the details.
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ReplyDeleteI like the Freedom Tower title...
I was in Hawaii (where I am originally from), at a friends house. It was close to 5 in the morning when the family I was with received a phone call from France "Do you know what is happening in your country?!"
I woke up because the television was on, and I thought that it was a movie...Why was the family watching a movie so early?
Of course, reality set in once the 2nd plane hit, and the news reporter burst into tears. The entire island came to a halt that day.
I was unemployed, at home working on renovations, had no TV and didn't turn on the radio, and so was stunned when my best friend called me at around 11 a.m. My parents were away and I went over to their place to see the news. I have often felt isolated, but that devastating day was so shocking, and it was altogether eerie to go back out into the quiet sunshine. The unbelievable quiet.
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I called my First Sergeant and asked if I should come in, then waited to hear from my husband, who was in Japan with the Marine Corps at the time. They were in lockdown for quite a while till the situation stabilized. Then I had to tell my daughter, who was in 1st or 2nd grade at the time.
ReplyDeleteI was on my way home from a meeting and called my Mom and heard on the news that a plane had flown into the World Trade Centre (yes .... all the way in deepest darkest Africa we had the news that fast!). Me thinkng it was a little plane that had lost its way phoned my Mom and asked her to put on the TV and tell me what was happening. As she turned on the TV the 2nd plane flew into the second tower and all she kept saying was "Oh my God" and I was shouting on the other side "What's happening". I got home and sat glued to the TV for the rest of the night.
ReplyDeleteYes, i totally remember.
ReplyDeleteI was at work and someone called me to tell me about it. I was in shock.
We were sent home early that day.