Tuesday Question...Paying Tribue

Where were you on 9/11? We had just gotten home from Branson, MO. Where there any incidents around you? My dad went to go get gas and a man tried to get confrontational with him (long lines and such). Did you know any of the fallen? I didn't know any of them - but continue to pray for their families. Any other comments? May God bless EVERYONE! Tonja

I was sitting in front of the TV...watching in disbelief the horror of building 1, when the airplane flew into building 2.  I thought it was a big joke at first...not believe the tragedy of what I was witnessing. I lived on Tinker AFB at the time.  My phone rang.  It was my husband stating that Tinker was going to go on lock-down and that I needed to get Jacob (then 4) from preschool, or he'd be in jeopardy of having to stay there due to the lock-down. I ran to the preschool building (well, drove) and guards were all over the place.  Grabbed my son and left for Stillwater.  Stayed there until my husband said it was okay to come back home. It sends chills down my spine to remember.  I didn't lose anyone close to me, but the horror of it... Cathy

I was driving my kids to school and was listening to the radio and shortly after dropping them off I heard about the first plane.  I stopped at a drive thru to get a bite and thats when the second plane hit. After getting home I immediately called my husband who was on tour with  Tonic at the time and on the east coast , funny thing about it was just not to many days before he was in a hotel near  from the Pentagon. He  said they canceled the show  and were getting a hotel.  I turned the TV on and called a friend and we cried together and  both decided to leave the kids at school for the day. Then the 3rd plane hit.  Then I went and spent the day with my father who only made matters worse he was a Marine so he had to many opinions!  My sister was freaking out over the gas prices going up so fast and ran down and sat in line for about 30 minutes to get gas. It's weird how I remember almost every detail of that day. I can only imagine how vivid the memories are for the families who all lost loved ones that day. I remember feeling scared but numb all at the same time. The day just drug on and on.  It was such a tragic day for our country!!!!!!!! God Bless our Country and Always Remember!!!!!!!!!!!

I was at work on the 52 floor of the second tallest building in Dallas.  We were told we could leave, but would have to take a vacation day (our company was in the medical field and the docs couldn't leave so the office workers couldn't leave).  I had a bunch of people in from out of town for a seminar, and we just went on with it as best we could. I felt like if I left I probably wouldn't go back.  When the planes started flying again we all flinched a lot when one got too close.  The building was in the flight path for Love Field, or rather next to it. A few years later I was taking a train into NY from NJ and they happened to be dedicating a statue that day.  The speaker said the parking lot was usually empty by 7 pm, but stayed full for days, full of commuters who left for work and never made it home. Of course I am angry about it, but the blind hatred really saddens me.  Anyone, of any religion, who commits atrocities in God's name is fooling themselves.

On 9/11 I was living in Denver North Carolina. apoximatley 17 miles from Charlotte, N.C. and I was 10 miles away from the biggest nuclear plant in NC. I had gone outside to feed up the horses when I heard my phone ring, I turned around went inside sit down and started talking when all of a sudden the tv has the plane going into the first building. I heard the nuclear siren go off and I just stood still...thinking okay rememeber evacution plan..OMG the horses  the dogs I can't load them up by myself. Then the next plane hit and I just said F--k IT and went out fed the horses and the dogs then went back inside and watched the news. Since we were east coast there were mass evacuations from Charlotte because of it being a finaicial capitol. My phone started ringing off the hook with family and friends wanting me to leave the farm because of the plant. I laughed and said hell with leaving. I am staying till I hell freezes over. By noon it was so werid no planes flying over head, the traffic jam out on the road, phone lines being jammed, neighbors come riding up on horses, and the gas....thank God we had a 100 gallon tank of gas that was just filled the day before! For me I was more concerned about the men and women trying to rescue the survivors...Thinking I am a believer in God How could these people commit sucide and kill so many people in the name Of God...Makes me wonder what kind of a God would santition death like that....Praise God not mine! My first cousin and his som were in the building when the first plane hit. They did not survive. To this day his wife will not allow a memorial service for them.  The tragedy that Bin Laden did for me and mine has become a moment when we realized how important each minute is. Not a day has gone by since then that we don't call each other and say we love the other one.