Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning?
By KrauseHome
@KrauseHome (36448)
United States
September 11, 2008 9:55pm CST
With today being 7 yrs. since that fateful attack of the Airplanes on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and the famous flight 93, we here in the USA have a lot of memories, and a lot to be Thankful for indeed. For many of us, we will never forget that day, where we were, and what our thoughts we as well. For me, it is one day I just still remember and what a shock it was. It made it even more special last yr. when on September 9th or 10th, I got to see for myself Ground Zero, and look around in awe. I even had the chance to talk to people working around that area then and to hear them still talk about it...
Yes, I will never forget this day in history. I was working the Swing Shift and not planning on being up that early in the morning. But my husband comes in and says something has happened to the Twin Towers, as one of them is burning and they say a plane might have hit it. So I decided to get up and go watch the News, and we walked in just as the 2nd plane hit. I remember just being in shock for sure, and then was glued to the TV for the rest of the morning. I also remember them hitting the Pentagon, and being like what next? Then when Flight 93 was diverted I was like what next for sure. Then they put a halt to all the planes, and it was an eerie but Thankful feeling for sure. I live next to the Airport here, so hearing no planes was quite different.
But in all, I feel we here in the USA and all over the world have learned a lot from this. But when listening to the Song by Alan Jackson with this title, and thinking back, it is so true. What memories do you have from this day, and how has it changed you?
~~TINA~~
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8 responses
@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
14 Sep 08
I don't think it has changed me much, but I do have a respect for those who were lost. When the planes hit I was unaware of the entire situation. I had just had my son 11 days ago, and that day was the first appointment for my son. They had to see what was wrong with his left arm, seeing as how he had limited movement in it since he was born.
I remember getting on the bus going downtown to meet my transfer after the appointment, and hearing bits and snatches about what happened from people discussing what happened. It seemed like everyone knew but me. It had to be something important, because everyone was talking about it. It was the same thing on my transfer bus once it came.
I made it my business to find out what was going on once I got in the house. The tv was already on the news when I got in there to my children's father. I was in shock. Not in my lifetime, not in the history that I had learned in school, was there ever a terrorist attack on the mainland of the US. Not on my natural soil. I didn't know what to think then, and I still don't know what to think now.
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
13 Sep 08
I was in the computer lab at one of our elementary schools. I didn't have a class in the lab at the time and had the morning news on while I was setting up computers for the class that would be coming in shortly. I was in the lab most of the day and since the principal had instructed all the teachers to keep the TVs off in the classrooms (parent's place to talk to kids about it not the school's) all the teachers and staff kept popping into the lab through the day to catch up on reports. I was like the news person for the whole school keeping adults updated without getting students upset. On my lunch I ran home to check if my son had called - I'd been all morning trying to contact him via e-mail. He was and still is in the USAF and I was concerned for how it was going to effect him.
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
12 Sep 08
Because I live in Australia I was in bed at the time but it when I came onto the computer and saw a headline saying something like this is the saddest day in the United States it wasn't until I turned the TV on on to see what was going on...I could not believe what I was seeing, it made me physically sick and I couldn't stop crying for those poor people..
@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
12 Sep 08
Yes it was a sad day and the memories are still fresh for me since it happened in my back yard. I was here when it happened and my job had an office in one of the towers so I lost some friends there that were never found. I pray for all those who lost their lives, the rescue workers and their families. We must NEVER forget!
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@raclie (1732)
• Singapore
12 Sep 08
i was in school.
due to the time difference and being young, i just made my way to school unaware that the world have stopped turning for the people half way around the world.
the air fairs dropped, and we did not go for a holiday overseas that year.
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@knewfy (82)
• United States
12 Sep 08
I was at home, getting ready to buy dog food, my dogs were out of food. I saw the first plane hit, on tv, and of course at first thought...it must have been a terrible accident. I went out to the farm /feed store to get the dog food, and while there, they had the TV on, and the second plane hit. By then we knew. It was a terrible terrible feeling watching the fires and the flames and knowing the loss of so many lives, so senseless. I stopped at Walmart where my friend worked, and told them what had happened. No one believed me. But I urged them to turn on the regular tv channels. they only have the TV's on to channels that are for the "children" and so on, but they turned off those kinds of channels an videos and tuned to the news for the rest of the day.
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@OnLineTherapy (29)
• Israel
14 May 09
Tina - a big TY for this discussion!
First a bit of my background: I visited the (at that time) new WTC during my visit to the US (where I was born a grew up before we ascended to Israel) and it was a high point of my US trip.
On 9/11 (by the way - in the Hebrew calender "9/11" is the 9th day of the 11th month - or the ninth of Av - a day of disaster throughout our history) I had just arrived at my job as a social worker in the altzheimers ward of the Dimona nursing home - it was about 4 PM locally - and all televisions had live coverage of the outrage happening at that time in NYC. All activities were frozen as everybody - staff and patients, volunteers and family members were rivited in horor to the screens. Many - myself included - were weeping openly.
In Israel we have more than our share of Islamic terrorists, and at that time we were experiencing a "9/11" on a daily basis, and we are also very sensitive to the feelings of others, so it was not happening to strangers on the other side of the world - it was happening to US!
What has the world learned from 9/11?
Sorry to say - absolutely nothing: At presant ther is even a president in the US (I am an American citizen - and I proudly state that I voted for the other guy!) that seems to be in favour of appeasing the same terrorists that carried out the attack on the WTC and not blocking them from gaining nuclear capability!
Immagine a "9/11" with an Atom bomb!!
@greenglitterturtle (2750)
• United States
12 Sep 08
hi krause...i was sleeping peacefully in bed when the horror took place. i had taken 2 vacation days because my cousin was coming to visit, whom we hadn't seen for 7 years. when i did get up and was getting dressed, my sister knocked on my bedroom door and asked, kathy, have you heard what happened. i said no. she said, i'm not making this up. and then told me the unbelievable events. we were then almost glued to the tv set the next 2 days. you ask how it has changed me? it has because i truly felt for the victims and strongly believe remembering this for security reasons.
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