10 years ago today…
- My marriage was a little over a month old.
- I was working at Liberty Baptist Church.
- I still had one college class left to take. I crammed 4 years of college into 6 (working full time at a church will do that to you).
- My favorite band was dc talk.
- I had never heard of Chipotle…my favorite restaurant!
- I wore a suit to church.
- I was at the Dr. because I was urinating blood and they didn’t know why.
- I was feeling sorry for myself because the Dr. was poking and prodding me in ways no grown man should experience. I still shudder when I think about it.
- I heard an announcement over the loud speaker at the Dr. that the World Trade Center was hit by a plane.
- By the time I got to work they announced it was a terrorist attack and the the Pentagon was attacked as well.
- I watched on TV as the World Trade Center buildings fell.
- Everyone was sent home from work to spend time with their family.
- I ate Taco Bell for lunch and had the Chicken Quesadilla for the first time.
- Jamey Menser and I watched the news for hours.
- At the end of the day I didn’t feel so sorry for myself. God taught me a lesson that day that every day is a gift from Him. Even when things aren’t going my way I should be thankful for the life God gives me.
- They never found out why I was urinating blood. I think I experienced a miracle because I haven’t since.
- Today I’m thankful for my country! I love America! 9/11 was a horrible day in the history of America, but it every year the anniversary comes around it makes me thank God for the country we live in.
Do you remember what you were doing on 9/11?
I wrote in detail about it last year on my blog. So many memories.
http://sepfowler.blogspot.com/2010/09/remember.html
Thanks for sharing Susan!
Living in a suburb of Chicago. Husband working downtown. It was my second child’s 1st birthday! Saw everything unfold on the morning news. Was scared that the husband was downtown. I worked the 3-11p shift that day delivering babies. I will always remember the couple that I took care of were waiting to hear from her sister who worked at the pentagon. They hadn’t been able to get in touch with her. I was in the room with them when they finally got a call from her (around dinner time). She was fine and they were so relieved!
Wow. What a story. Thank you for sharing that.
I was a junior in high school. I just picked out my class ring and was walking to my second class of the day when one of my teachers told me of the first tower being hit. I stood there and watched as the second tower was hit. tears came to my eyes as I at 16 realized my world just changed forever even before I knew it was an attack on our country. Went to class told my teacher what had happened he did not believe me until I pulled the news up on my computer and we as a class watched as the towers fell.
To this day I have my class ring order form because it has the date September 11, 2001. In a lot of was I grew up fast on that day.
I don’t even have my class ring. I lost it. You still have the order form for yours. What a memory.
i was sitting in english class in 5th grade. its hard to believe it was that long ago. a girl in my class was called out to the hallway because her dad was a fighter pilot and was sent off from langley that day to try to intercept any other planes. i went home from school and watched the news pretty much for the first time ever with my mom for hours. the next day the entire school met in the cafeteria/auditorium and sang songs for america.
Wow. I hadn’t heard that schools got together to sing songs about America. Do you remember which songs they sang?
Thanks for sharing today. A day that changed things for all of us. I still feel it today with the increased security at the government facility where I work, every time I go to an airport, and whenever I even do something as simple as mailing a package. Blessings.
Daniel, you are right. Our world changed that day. My kids will never remember the day where you could walk through airport security with your shoes on.
Someday I’m going to write my story of 9/11. From Bangkok. It was 8pm. We had CNN on, not unusual. We saw the chaos of the first plane. My husband said, “That’s a terrorist attack.” Minutes later, we saw the second plane hit.
We watched the coverage.
I couldn’t sleep.
We had a mandatory staff meeting the next morning at school. We were an international school (with a weak UN affiliation) and we were beefing up security.
For me, though, 9/11 was the day I stopped differentiating myself from Americans. As a Canadian living abroad, you get mistaken for American a lot. But 9/11 marked the day I stopped doing that. I started defending Americans.
In my own small way.
Wow! Sometimes I forget that you are Canadian. Kidding. On a serious note I hadn’t thought about how other countries were impacted by 9/11. Thanks for sharing that.
Let’ see. I was stationed at Fort Bragg. My first duty station. My unit was in the field for a training mission, and I remeber walking into the OPS tent, and seeing our platoon huddled around a small TV, with a feed coming in. The LT was crying, and when I asked her what was going on, it did not take me long to figure it all out. We actually saw off some of the first units to head to AFGHAN. Post was a mad house, they canceled the field assignment, and put the unit on alert.
Joseph, thanks for serving our country! That day was so crazy. Our military gave many people hope that day. They are the best. Thanks!
I was in bed – it was pretty early in Seattle and Greg was already at work. He called me and told me to turn on the news. It was right then – that the second plane hit the south tower and I watched it live. My kids were both in school – Ashlee was 14 and a brand new freshman in high school – and FREAKED OUT by what they were showing on the school monitors. Shawn was not quite 10 years old – but he remembers it. It really does put into perspective our silly little problems, doesn’t it? As I was watching many of the special tribute programs this weekend – one thing that a survivor of the north tower said when someone was all bitchy at his work after the attack, “As long as a plane isn’t crashing into the building – it’s a good day”. So true.
So true. It does put it into perspective. I watched a couple of specials. So many stories put tears in my eyes. That’s a day that I don’t anyone will forget.
I was about a week into my first year of teaching. I was in 3rd grade that year. All of a sudden handfuls of students were being picked up early & our principal announced for teachers to drop in her office after we took our class to lunch. I didn’t find out anything until almost noon. I had no idea what was happening. We were told not to tell our students & it was hard to finish out a “normal” school day. Came home and watched the news with you & Jamey. Was anxious to hear from my bf Shima who was living in NYC at the time.
I hated that I couldn’t get in touch with you. I don’t think you had a cell back then.
I was sitting in speech class at LU…it was my first semester there. I never really saw much of the footage because no one had any tv’s on campus.
Interesting. That’s a unique perspective. So when you see footage does it impact you?
I was in my 9th grade science class and had no idea what the WTC towers were. There was no work done the rest of the day. I remember when I got home from school I realized what was happening and had no idea what to think
I remember thinking that we were going to live in war the rest of our lives. It was a scary thought.
Trying to find parking from my high school…
Nice way to remember Rob.
It was my 1st day at the Pentagon. I left that morning with a kiss to my wife telling her I’d probably be at the Pentagon checking in. Ang, who was about 7 months pregnant with Katelyn, and Emma (a little over 1 at that time) were staying in temporary lodging on Bolling AFB. It was about 5hrs before I could get in contact with her to let her know I was okay. Others weren’t so lucky including a great man I had worked with for 3yrs at a previous assignment. It was a day I’ll never forget.
I was working on a new building in Allentown, PA across the highway from the Lehigh Valley Airport. The sky was clear and blue. As the news spread across the job site, it was surreal to hear absolutely nothing in the normally busy sky. I couldn’t wait to get home to hug my wife and kids.
I was a sophomore in college… just got out of a shower and turned on the TV to find the second plane hit the tower a couple minutes later. I was shocked. I stumbled to class… where everyone was shocked. Classes were cancelled that afternoon, so we gathered together to pray. Won’t forget.