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I have been talking to my kids about this for about a week or so. Both of my older girls were sure to wear patriotic clothes today to show their respect and remembrance. A couple of teachers at their school have actually been discussing and studying the events that took place seven years ago. My oldest was asked where she was when the first plane hit...she was on a field trip to a US Post Office of all places!! a government building!!! I was in a tanning bed listening to the radio,(KTK), and it took me about 5 seconds to jump up and run out into the salon so I could be with friends...it was scary hearing that all alone in there. The next morning I was driving in my car and Brooks and Dunn's 'Only in America' came on and as soon as I heard the words 'sun comin up over New York City' I had to pull over to contain myself. Do you remember where you were?

Karen

I was heading to work at the time. I had gotten up and ate breakfast and then I saw it on TV and was in shock. I couldn't move and just stood there and cried for a while. Then I headed into work. I worked at a daycare and when I got there they were discussing closing. Parents just started getting their kids and taking them home. I think at a time like that you want your little one close to you. Now that I have a daughter I understand even more.

I was at work, and honestly, when the first plane hit I just thought "wow, what a terrible accident" In her office, my boss was watching the live coverage. She started crying. After the second plane hit, she sent us home, where I spent all day on the couch watching things unfold on TV.

What I remember most is the dawning realization, and how it crept through me like a chill. the realization that a) it wasn't an accident and then b) we are under attack and then c) I can't believe the horrors those people had to endure, both on the planes and in the Towers.

I was visiting my parents in Indiana at the time. I was watching cartoons on PBS with J who about 9 months old. My FIL's wife came through the door and asked if we had heard what happened. We quick changed the tv station as the second plane was hitting the WTC. Here, we thought it was a replay of the first plane hitting, and it was actually the second.

I was scheduled to fly back to Florida about 4 or 5 days later. Instead, I flew back about a week late. Hubby was actually seconds from booking a rental car to come and get me. It was even scarier for us because at the time we lived just a few miles from one of the hijackers.

I was looking at clips yesterday and found this totally by accident. It is Bette Midler singing Wind Beneath My Wings at a 9/11 tribute in Sept of 2001. Don't watch if you don't want to cry. What a moving moment...it caught me completely off guard...

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Karen

I was just waking up in the morning at my in-law's house (in CA) when I saw my MIL gaping at the t.v. I was less than a week away from my firstborn's due date. When I was in the hospital giving birth, all we could do was keep our eyes glued to the t.v.

A good friend of mine went into labor on 9-11-01 with her firstborn. Her brother was in the Pentagon when it happened! She waited anxiously to find out if he survived (he did - but was in the rubble). He was on his computer reading his email that his sister was in labor - but if he had been where he was supposed to be at that moment he likely would have died. Isn't God's providence amazing?

I was babysitting for my friend's infant. I had just put him down for his morning nap and went downstairs to watch TV. As I was flipping channels, I saw the first tower on fire, but thought it was just some random movie (I figured the news headlines at the bottom were all part of it), so I kept flipping. A channel or so later, I realized it wasn't a movie and flipped back just in time to see the second plane hit. I was in shock, and just curled up on the floor. It hit me that the U.S. was under attack. I didn't know what to do. I went upstairs and got the sleeping baby and brought him downstairs. I just held on to him. I felt like I needed to protect him, and that we were so vulnerable. I called my parents at their offices and they immediately got online to look.

My good friend's father was a Colnel in the US Air Force working at the Pentagon that day. He and his siblings called their mom who reassured them that their father was ok. They found out later that she hadn't yet talked to him. In fact she didn't hear from him until 10pm that night. She was just trusting God that he was ok. Fortunately, he was.

It's such a scary thing.

3Monkeys, that is such a great story! I was at work, in Tampa, reading email. I heard my office buddy in the office next to mine say, very loudly, "oh no", she was being told on the phone that a plane just hit the first tower. She then told me to go w/ her to the breakroom to see what was being said on TV. As we walked in we saw, live, the second tower being hit. It was like a dream, a very bad one, I get chills and tears just writing this. My family is from the NE. My Dad grew up in NYC. I love NYC w/ all of my heart and it felt like a personal attack and loss.

3 Monkeys, what a story! I remember hearing all those stories of "right time, right place/wrong time, wrong place" and just being amazed at the luck/fate of it all.

I was in the newsroom of the paper I was working at, at the time. So the alert came over almost immediately. Everyone just kind of read it confused, because at that point they were saying it was an accident. Then as more started to unfold, we realized what was happening. We watching the news all day, everyone calling friends and family members. I called my boyfriend/now husband and woke him up so he could watch; he had a late class that day.

I went back to NYC about a year and a half after it all happened and went down to Ground Zero. It's such a moving and somber place. I would recommend anyone go.

I must be the youngest of us all here. I was a senior in high school sitting in my favorite teachers drafting class when my other teacher came running in and told us to turn on the tv, just as the second plane hit. A chill went through the whole class. Within minutes of that my best friend had gotten word that her sister, in the AF, had just been sent out for "active duty." We all held a prayer, in the middle of the school yard. We held hands, sang Amazing Grace and then cried.

KE mommy. i was a junior in HS so I might be younger I was homeschooled and we hadnt yet started class when we were watching Tv and saw it right then and there. At the time I lived in NH and my oldest sister lives 3o mins from the city in NJ and has a clear view of NY skyline from one of the streets in the neighborhood. She said they didnt leave their house for a week because it was too scary. Millitary planes flew around the area for days as well as news crews and whatnot. They even lost power for a bit and the phones went down..just thinking about that day gives me chills. Its a very sad memory that will never be forgotten.

I had just lost my job, so I was home online talking to a friend when my cousin who was living in NYC at the time IM'd me to tell me about an explosion at the first tower. At the time it wasnt sure exactly what happeend. i thoght it was one of those explosions by a terriost as it was in the early 90's. But then she came back and im'd me and said was a plane crash. I quickly turned on my tv and saw it replayed...then the 2nd airplane stroke the south tower ...and not to long after that the Pentagon.

I paniked since my brother in law worked for the pentagon at the time so I called my sister...then we tried to reach my aunt and cousin. My counsin, Lenny worked for the NY/NJ police and my uncle (his dad) worked downtown of nyc... we were not able to contact them until many hours later and they both were safe.

Because there was so much going on, the cell phones were jamed so no body could get through. come to find out my uncle was trying to get out of the city but everything was closed down so he had to walk into Jersy to catch a train. My counsin never made it into NYC,they kept in Jersy to direct traffic after the first first or 2nd plane hit.

I could remember how this was emotionally overwhelming. It was very scary. The next day, I saw airplanes flying very low over the schools where we lived and I thought that was unusual. Come to find out the county was keeping an eye open and they were in a safe distance.

One of my online friend -her husband worked in one of the towers and he was severally burned. She volunteered w/ the Red cross and helped feed the many firefighters/police as they searched for more people

Our son was just 14 months old. He was on my lap on the recliner in front of the television; we were watching one of the morning shows (well, I was watching and he was probably babbling adorable things).

I saw the coverage from start to finish (I must have sat in that recliner until 11:00 that night, with the exception of leaving to pick our daughter up from school).

I shall NEVER forget being on NW 34th Street heading down to University Avenue. There was weird quiet and calm everywhere. There were no horns honking; no commotion of any kind. It was very strange.

I guess we were all busy with thoughts and sadness running through our minds that day AND we were realizing that we, as a country, are a family of one. There was no left or right, politician or pastor, Hollywood or middle America....we were just grieving family members who were working thru a state of shock.

The only thing that irked me that day was listening to Katie Couric; one of the first things that came out of her mouth was, "I wonder how this will affect the Bush presidency." Her priorities were disturbing. She just didn't get it....

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Originally posted by FLNonny:

The only thing that irked me that day was listening to Katie Couric; one of the first things that came out of her mouth was, "I wonder how this will affect the Bush presidency." Her priorities were disturbing. She just didn't get it....

I agree Nonny...I also remember the media ranting because President Bush's EXACT location was not readily available to the press and I remember thinking, "We as a nation are under attack and I think the last thing that needs to available to the world is the exact location of our commander in chief", I was glad his location was hush hush!!

Karen