SEPTEMBER 11: A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
I was working downtown at the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, in Restricted Funds. Being hearing impaired and an independent worker (meaning I didn't matter to anyone else as a fellow coworker) , I noticed that a lot of people were getting out of their office and heading to the Payroll Office. I followed them, and that was when someone in the Payroll office had her little 8" tv playing showing the first crash. I was like oh, wow, what idiot decided to fly into a building that you can literally see from space, how did they miss it?
I went back to my desk because 100 people huddled around a little 8" tv didn't feel comfortable to me. I tried hard to get online to see the breaking news - and every site I tried to check from CNN to MSN to local tv stations was down due to heavy internet traffic.
When I heard someone say another plane hit the towers, I was thinking it was probably the 2nd time it happened like a plane had hit it before years ago. It wasn't until I got home that I found out that it was actually two planes, the towers collapsed and that the Pentagon wa**** also. I remember my husband glued to the tv and he had the channel surfing syndrome - he kept flipping channels to get the best story.
My heart went out to everyone that was affected by this mess.
I went back to my desk because 100 people huddled around a little 8" tv didn't feel comfortable to me. I tried hard to get online to see the breaking news - and every site I tried to check from CNN to MSN to local tv stations was down due to heavy internet traffic.
When I heard someone say another plane hit the towers, I was thinking it was probably the 2nd time it happened like a plane had hit it before years ago. It wasn't until I got home that I found out that it was actually two planes, the towers collapsed and that the Pentagon wa**** also. I remember my husband glued to the tv and he had the channel surfing syndrome - he kept flipping channels to get the best story.
My heart went out to everyone that was affected by this mess.
Tia.....Venita..... Both of you ladies made me shed tears....tears of remembrance, loss, and gratitude. Gratitude you ask.....there were so many people whom out of patriotism anwsered the call for support & help. Many more of our society raced to become soldiers to fight for our freedom & to bring down Bin Laden.
I too remember where I was that day......I was visiting my grandmother when the forst report came across the TV. Instantly I thought of my daughters who were in school & my husband who was an OTR truck driver at the time. when it came on that the pentagon had been hit, I went into panic mood. Thats where my husbands load was going that day. Because there were soooo omany calls going out, the phone call to my husband wasnt going thru........all I could do was rock back & forth & pray......and of coure wait for him to call. Eventually he did, and thank God he hadnt arrived at the pentagon yet! The rest of the day was spent in trance, watching the horrific day unfold.
This is a day that ALL people need to remember & to honor.......its also a day that we should ALL say an extra prayer!
I too remember where I was that day......I was visiting my grandmother when the forst report came across the TV. Instantly I thought of my daughters who were in school & my husband who was an OTR truck driver at the time. when it came on that the pentagon had been hit, I went into panic mood. Thats where my husbands load was going that day. Because there were soooo omany calls going out, the phone call to my husband wasnt going thru........all I could do was rock back & forth & pray......and of coure wait for him to call. Eventually he did, and thank God he hadnt arrived at the pentagon yet! The rest of the day was spent in trance, watching the horrific day unfold.
This is a day that ALL people need to remember & to honor.......its also a day that we should ALL say an extra prayer!
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