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What did you do 7 years ago today? Let never forget

Wow- it has been 7 years since this happened....dang.  I remember Iwas at work and we just ordered omelettes from coney island.  Sausage and mushrooms.  We had an old TV in the waiting room and we all stood there watching it all unfold.  It was a doctors office but everyone was in the lobby together, silen****ching in horror.  Ive never ordered an omelette from there again.  I know sounds weird but I cant do it.
I am drinking my normal coffee with sweet and low and creamer...on my 2nd cup.  Might need some food soon too.
Take care all

SHannon

I can't believe it's been 7 years!  I had just finished doing my aerobics and I turned the TV on in my bedroom while getting ready to jump in the shower and get ready for work.  I had the Today show on and couldn't believe what I was seeing.  My husband called to tell me about it and I told him I was already watching it on TV.  Needless to say, I never made it to work that day, they had shut the borders down.  That's when it all started and my job at the time was giving me a hard time because it was taking me several hours to cross.  Felt so guilty for being annoyed with the border when so many had died from such a tragic and devasting event.  What a terrible day that was....so sad.

Carey

7 years ago today.. I woke up like any other day looking forward to running errands for my upcoming wedding. I sat at the computer to check emails and orders that I had placed. Low and behold I turned on the television and saw the second plane crash into the world trade center. I was in shock and called my DH at work. He said they heard about it but could not see what was happening. I proceeded to talk to him throughout the morning. His company didn't think that they needed to leave.

I had plans that day to go to lunch with my MIL to go over wedding plans etc. We went to lunch anyways.... Applebees was not busy that day at all. I think there was only a hand full of customers in the restaurant. I remember thinking how this day was going to change the vision of my wedding since less people would want to travel after the attacks. I was right.... People that were suppose to fly did not come in for the wedding, and alot of people that were driving chose not to come after they RSVPd. I was still married on October 6th that year. It was a beautiful day but every year I am reminded of that fateful day, and how I could have been so close to losing my life or my DHs. I was so worried that the whole country was under attack.  My DH and I honeymooned in the New England states. Needless to say it was interesting crossing the border to go to Canada and back into the US in Niagara Falls. We encountered stories of mysterious white powder in several areas on our trip. And I will never forget crossing that bridge off of I80 in NY on our way back home two weeks later. It was a somber moment, we took a quiet moment to remember what happened there just over a month prior to our trip.

I think alot about that day since it was so close to such an important moment in my life... I hope that everyone remembers the strong emergency workers, brave citizens who stood up on the plane, people who were just working at their desk, and innocent people walking by who were scared or died on that day.... May they rest in peace.

Hi guys,
I was home with my son 7 years ago...he had broken his arm and we couldn't get him in his wheelchair.....I was watching the Today show and my brain kept saying "This is not really happening!"  I had my DH leave work and go get my younger son at school.  I was not going to trust that he would be safe if anything else happened.  I had to go in to work that night and I was here all alone and kind of scared.  I think that's what was the worst part of that day and the next few weeks.....we just didn't know what was going to happen.

I heard a woman on the news yesterday say every single day we don't have a terrorist attack on us is a blessing.  I think that is so true.

I just finished a yogurt and some water and thinking of what to have for lunch.  Maybe a bean burrito.

Have a good and reflective day everyone.

       Well 7 years ago I was a Flight Attendant for NWA.  I had been flying the Detroit - New York leg for 3 days.  (Means we just kept flying back and forth, several times a day, for 3 days.)  Our last flight heading back to Detroit was one of the last flights out of New York that day.  When we landed everyone in the airport was going nuts.  I was safe, but my family and friends didn't know.  Everyone knew I was on the Detroit - New York leg.  Almost all my family members kept calling my Mom at work constantly and she just cried for like four hours, screaming that she doesn't know how I am.  When I finally got to my Mom's work, about 12:40 PM, she was still frantic even though I had called her and told her I was okay.  She begged me to stop flying, but I loved it.  I told her I couldn't.  I was fine that day, but many people weren't.  My family family was one of the lucky ones, only shaken up a bit.  

Happy Patriot's Day Y'all!

We had just started "snack" time in my classroom.  Normally, during snack time we would let them turn the tv on and watch cartoons for 5 or 10 minutes.  But that day, when they turned it on, the news was on and the first plane had already hit.  My teaching partner and I were standing there watching, trying to figure out what was happening.  As we were watching, the 2nd plane hit.  At that point, we knew it wasn't an "accident" and my students thought they were watching a movie or something.  My partner turned off the tv and I ran to the office to tell them to turn on a tv.  Parents had already started calling and picking up their kids.  One of the teachers in our building had a meltdown because her bro was supposed to be flying out Boston that morning.  They didn't know he had taken a different flight from DC, so it was a pretty harrowing time for her, until she heard from family. 

The rest of the day at school was very strange, as most of the kids left.  Parents were panicking, understandably.  I remember my drive home was in slow motion, it seemed.  Very surreal.