9/11! Rememberance, looking back 5 years ago

And we were both in 4th grade when it happened!

wow..

I just found some pictures, thought I would share!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

I saved the issue of Time Mag. that was dedicated to 9/11 .... the before and after pictures really are amazing !! I still can't fathom the many stories and lives lost or changed forever. Bless them !!! The people jumping from windows still haunt me !

I also saved one of those memorium books for my daughter. She was in my belly when it happened but, I'm sure some day she will be talking and reading about it in her history book.

I was at home doing my bible study work getting ready to have bible study that evening when I got a call from a good friend who asked me if I had heard about the attack on the US. I turned on the tv and lost it. What a truley tragic day for the US.

I woke up late for work that day and Im not sure I would have caught it on the morning news here. I chose to drive the Samurai that morning because I just recently bought it and the portable radio was stolen from it either that morning or the morning before. When I got to the shop somebody quiped a plane hit the WTC, and I thought it was a small plane. It never crossed my mind that it was a commercial liner, my brother in Chicago had the exact same thoughts.

I realized the seriusness of the situation when I got in the van to head to the jobsite to work. I didnt get very far from the radio that day and I have been hooked to talk radio since.

Im not sure if I heard the live reporting of the second plane hitting or a replay of the footage, I didnt move for an hour after the broadcast over the radio of the buildings collapsing.

My dad bought two huge wallpaper pictures and it covered his whole garage wall and it was a picture of new york and the twin towers ant night time! I put on up in his garage and then saved the other for me for when I get my own house...it was a really great picture!

We'll NEVER forget !!

I was in 8th grade at the time. I was still in bed when I got a call from a friend to turn on the news. When I did I saw that the two towers had been hit by planes. I watched as they fell. I don't think I totally got what was happening, I was shocked really. I live right next to an army base and I was worried about my friends parents and any attacks on the base. Then I had to go to school and for all of my classes we watched the news. We just sat, talked, and watched what had been happening. A lot of people where being picked up by parents (mainly military kids) and after school I remember the kids telling me the next day that the bus that went to the base was stopped at the gate and searched completley as well as checking all their military ID's. Anyone without one got taken off the bus and had to call their parents.

I was in 7th grade and i didnt wake up till after it happened and i didnt watch tv or anything before school so i didnt find out till bout 10. We were in a fundraising assembly in the gym i was on teh bleachers near the right hand doors the 4th row up against the wall. Alot of people were getting picked up since alot of the people around where i lived worked at McDill Air Forse Base(Tampa) and i just asked why everyone was leaving. And she said two planes hit the WTC. Now i didnt know what the WTC was at that time so i didnt think it was that big a deal., Then 10 minutes later we walked into Mrs. Browns English class(the things i remember) and i chose a seat cuz the classroom wasnt organized like it always was. And she had the tv on then i turned to the tv and saw the planes flying into it an dit collapsing and i ran to the trash can and threw up. I know a few friends had people affected by it. I never knew the people though they were just people in their family. We didnt do anything for 3 days afterwards. I wont ever forget that. And whoever made the comment bout history books, its already in my american history book!

There's one thing for sure that made an impact on my life because of that tragic day. I'm not turning this into any kind of religious reply.. I just wanted to share this. Prior to the 9/11 I really didn't believe in God.

I remember that wednesday after it happened a friend of mine from work called me and asked me if I would go with her to her church because they were having a prayer time for anyone who wanted to come pray for the people still missing and those already greatly affected by that attack.

I thought... ah heck, what can it hurt. I went with her and that night forever changed my life. I remember sitting there feeling so out of place. I looked around and saw so many tears. I tried really hard to hold back my tears so I could try and figure out how to pray for everyone from 9/11.

We sat there for what seemed like an eternity. People started to shuffle out and there was only a handful of people left in the sanctuary. I remember a few coming over to me... I was afraid to look up and acknowlege them because I didn't know them and really felt out of place.

But something inside me just made me look up and listen. The pastor asked me if I knew Jesus. I got a lump in my throat and really coudn't talk. I didn't know if I was mad, sad, happy, scared or what.

It was that night that I let jesus into my heart and I will NEVER forget it. It was such a horrible time for the U.S and they said that during that time frame there were sooooo many people who accepted christ into their lives.

I still ache for those families that lost loved ones. How do you overcome such a grief as that. Something so senseless and full of hatred??? I will never understand. All those innocent lives gone.... and all those children .. those pictures are forever etched in my brain. I get so emotional thinking about that day. Hard to believe it was 5 years ago... seems like it just happened.

So, I will always remember 9/11 for the tragedy it was and for the spiritual birth in my life.

I was a month off being 21, working with horses at the time and I don't know why but that morning I decided to drive home for lunch which was about 30 miles away, and not something I usually did... So I was in the pub having lunch with two friends when the landlord came out and switched on the tv in the bar, he said "You'll never believe what's happening." The whole pub congragated around the tv, and watched in horror as the planes hit..
Lord only knows why, I chose to go home THAT day???...

I know exactly where I was!

Walking down Bold St in liverpool, waiting at the cash point. Some guy was talking about it on his mobile.

I went home, put the TV on and watched it happen (the second plane hit)... Was gut wrenching to actually SEE it happen.

So....

In rememberence.

I would also like people to spare a thought for the thousands of inncocent men, women and children who have died at the hands of the US and the UK in iraq, afganistan (etc etc).

I was pregnant with my 3rd child and had just arrived home with my boy, from Pre-school.
When i switched on the TV i was shocked, stunned and speachless, with what i was seeing

RIP all those dear souls that were so tragically taken that day!

I was in 6th grade. I didn't even know what hte Twin Towers were. Heck, I didn't even hve much of a clew what a terrorist was. We had two 6th grade teachers in my school. The other teacher came racing into my room and told my teacher to turn on the TV. When we watched the second plane hit, I just really didn't know hwat was going on. I think my 6th grade teacher, Mrs. D, might've been crying..but I really can't remember.

I was at work. It was my Dads birthday. A customer came in and said that a plane just hit the WTC. It was around lunch time, we dialed up to the net and watched CNN from my bosses 20" monitor. We watched the second plane hit and we couldn't believe it was happening.
Strangely enough about an hour after the second plane hitting, a car bomb went off next to a power substation and wiped out half of Cape Towns power supply, so we were all pretty panicked!

Anyway, turned out to be unrelated, we went out for my Dads birthday and were the only people in the resturant that night. It was a pretty somber day to say the least.

I was at work. I remember just wanting to get home, to check on family and get away from Philadelphia. When my company let us go, shortly after the second plane hit the second tower, there were still planes unaccounted for - several that were later discovered safe and sound, one that ended up in the Pentagon, and one that ended up in a field in PA - and I had a half incredulous, half serious fear of one of those missing planes. Incredulous because of course, how could that happen? Serious because it just had, four times.

I was working at burger King at the time. I remember the first customer that said anything about it and I was thinking "what a looney tune" Then another one said something and another and another so finally we went in the back and turned on our little tv and sure enough there it was. I can't describe how I felt at that time. So many emotions all at once.

Seems like it was just a few months ago.

P.S- Dizzy you forgot to mention at the hands of Canadians and Australians too. you might not hear about them but they are there doing their duty. Unfortunately for the innocent civilians, those terrorists are cowards and hide where as many people will be killed as possible.

I mourn for the whole world today. this has done more damage than we know. our whole way of life is threatened by these cowards. but how can we defeat an enemy like that when we can't even stop the fighting within our own countries. Everytime we fight about the legitimacy of this war, the terrorists win, everytime we question if it is worth it, the terrorists win, everytime you hear on the news the "terrible things" our troops are doing, the terrorists win. We must stand tall and stand proud and most importantly we must stand TOGETHER to defeat this enemy. this is bigger and more real than I can even comprehend.

God bless us all.

yes - I meant them all.

If, buts and who's who, who dun it and all that - I was just sparing a thought for the innocents that died in the result of this so called "war".

This is not the correct thread for pointing the blame, and I'm sure we COULD get into a lovely debate about it - but there IS a time and a place for everything.