i no it will be upsetting

[lucylocket]

but ehere were you when the twintowers were hit

god bles u all

xxxxx

 

[Michaela]

I was only like 9, but I was at school and Iremember being so shocked when I got home at what had happened, theimages were just terrible:cry1:

 

[HoneyPot]

I was in a swimming pool in Ft. Lauderdale at afriend of my cousin's house.We were gettingattacked by a mad dragon fly in the pool, so we left early.When we got back to her house, I turned on the TV and it wasrightafter the 2nd tower was hit.

I wascaught in Florida and could not get home for an extra week.

__________
Nadia

 

[Starina]

I live in NY 100 miles from the city, in themountains. My mom called and woke me up ( I was working the graveyardshift at Kmart) and asked me if I was alright. She didn't think abouthow far away I live from Manhattan. She was just worried. I was notborn or raised in NY, so it didn't devistate me. I had no connection tothe buildings. My BF was born and raised in Brooklyn, he wasn't reallyphased by it, either.

~Star~

 

[undergunfire]

I was in the 8th grade and remember it. I remember being SO mad that we didn't get sent home for the day.

Then over the next few days I watched TV and was SOOO scared that we were all going to die because I was only 5 hours from NYC.

I had never seen the towers, nor did I know anyone who died in them. Iam not a person to be upset over other people I do not know. Now, if itwas full of animals, then I would be sad.

^ Sounds kind of selfish, but I have always cared more about animals than people I do not know.


- Amy

 

[JadeIcing]

I was at school. Watching.

 

[maherwoman]

I was in the livingroom playing with mythen-infant daughter. We turned on the TV just after thefirst tower was hit...and watched the second tower get hit, and thenthe buildings fall. I cried a lot, and was in shock for agood few days. Even now in writing about it, I can feel thetears form.

I lived in New Jersey as a kid, and we frequented New York, for a dayhere and there. I've always had a special place in my heartfor those beautiful buildings. They were such a trademark ofthe city...and I tear up everytime I think about them beinggone.

I haven't visited New York since, and I just know that when I do(because I have such love for the city), I'll have to spend some timesoaking it all up at Ground Zero (wherever they may let people spendthat time), and say some thanks for those that survived and specialprayers for those that didn't and their families.

I love to hear stories (though I bawl every time) about the people thatperished...they were such incredible people...true angels in the formof people.

Really amazing...

 

[HoneyPot]

I've been to NYseveral timessince. I was there a couple months after it happened, verysad and very tragic. The memorials that people has posted alllong the walls around the wreckage was the most heartbreaking.

_________
Nadia

 

[maherwoman]

I've been kind of approaching the whole thing alittle at a time. It was so upsetting to watch, I find myselfhardly able to see any special shows about it or anything. Iwatched about fifteen minutes of one on the anniversary this year, butthat's all I could take. It just really breaks myheart.

I hope to be able to actually visit the site within the next fiveyears. I really want to pay my respects...but I'm having towork up to it a little at a time. It's about all I can handle.

 

[Bassetluv]

I was a member of another online forum backthen, and was at work listening to the radio on my headphones when thenews announcer said a small plane had hit one of the Twin Towers. Theyhad very little info, and made it sound as though a tiny commuter planehad crashed accidentally. But I felt the hair on the back of my neckstand up, as if I knew something was extremely wrong. And it wasverified not long afterward when the talk show host on the radio said,'This is strange...there's been an unconfirmed report of another planehitting the Twin Towers'. At that point I was starting to feel panicrise...I went around the office and told as many people as I could, butthe reaction was mostly 'really? weird' and then they'd go back to work.

The forum I belonged to was made up of mostly American members, and forsome reason I became terrified for one of the people...a man I wasfriends with at the forum. He didn't live in NY, but he did - onoccasion - have to go into Washington to work. I was attempting tocontact him and some others in the forum when the report then cameacross about the Pentagon, and I felt sick to my stomach, I was soafraid for him. (No, he didn't work there, but I truly was afraid forhim anyway.)

In the end it took over an hour for him to show up and let us know thathe was okay...he worked in a govt office and they went into lock-downmode immediately; no one was allowed to use the phones or Internet, noone was allowed to leave the building. The initial reports comingthrougha small radio at his work were that terrorists werebombing multiple gov't offices, so you can imagine what must have beengoing through their minds while being told they had to stay put. (Theyeven tightened security immediately where I work, and I'm in Canada.)And another man at that forum, a fellow I knew who did live inNYC, lived right across the street from the fire station that wound uplosing the most men that day. He took it all very hard.

I vaguely remember calling my son at home and telling him to turn onCNN. He told me later that he watched all of the coverage, and when Iwent home that evening I turned on the tv, but turned it off againafter only seeing 2 or 3 minutes. I just couldn't watch...all of thepain and terror that people were going through...it still haunts metoday.

May such an event never take place again, and may there soon be peace in all countries of the world...

 

[NZminilops]

I was in my room, chatting away to someone on MSN, here in New Zealand.

 

[katt]

biology class when the first tower was hit, bythe second one i was in the hall watching it on a big screen tv.classes continued for the day, but nobody really did anything, justwatched and talked. . .

a friend of mine at the time was an exchange student from france, shehad visited the twin towers with her exchange program just 2 weeksbefore. . .it really shook her. . .

 

[SweetPeasMommie]

I was woken my by hubby(bf at the time) that thetwin towers was on fire. We turned the tv one just when the 2nd planehit. I was devastated. My hubby was spending the night at my home. Ourcity was shut down since we were only 8 hrs to NYC. so he could not gethom by bus.

My dad's cousin worked in Manhattan, and his other cousin worked in thePentagon. My hubbys good friend he graduated with was a fire fighter,he went up the day it happened and was killed there too.

I cry everytime I hear about 911. These are our ppl, I understand thatyou love animals and would cry for them over ppl that is wrong. I cryfor all. Sorry to sound like this but us americans should be payingrespects for the thousands of lives lost including the ones in war. Itupsets me seeing ppl saying I cry more over animals over ppl or notcare even though you may not know anyone who lost their lives there.Many jumped off the building so they don't get burned.

Let me ask some of you questions that really don't care about that.

How would you feel if that was your mom, dad, brother, sister, cousins,etc? Would you have more sympathy and paying respcets or no?

sorry to sound this way.

 

[aurora369]

I just woke up and when I left my bedroom my momhad the TV on. Which is really weird because we never, everhad the TV on in the morning, that was the one and only day.

I didn't quite understand what actually happened, so I went about my business as usual and went to school.

I remember my social studies teacher explaining what happened to us, and she was crying.

--Dawn

 

[NZminilops]

It didn't upset me as much as it would someoneliving in the states probably would have; althought it was huge newshere as well. I feel it's sad when any large disaster hits any country,even the ones no one seems to care about.

If it had happened here I think I would have been pretty devastated,it's sort of hard to relate to and get that emotionally involved inanother countries bad times.

 

[SweetPeasMommie]

minilops wrote:

It didn't upset me as much as it would someone living in thestates probably would have; althought it was huge news here as well. Ifeel it's sad when any large disaster hits any country, even the onesno one seems to care about.

If it had happened here I think I would have been pretty devastated,it's sort of hard to relate to and get that emotionally involved inanother countries bad times.

I understand for those that are over seas, many over seas have wept forthe fellow americans. I don't mean just you, I mean for anyone whothinks it don't mean nothing.

 

[missyscove]

I was in 6th grade, but when it happened, I wasat home. My dad called and told us to turn on thenews. We still went to school, and they let us watch it for alittle while, but they didn't really want us to see it, I think theyweren't sure how people's parents would react.

 

[OneBadBunny!!!]

I was in 5th grade and we could see the smokefrom school. I remember my dad asking if I knew whataterrorist was when he picked me up. Most of the school went home earlycause we were so near NYC. I had no idea what a terrorist was, therewas no reason to...Luckly I didn't lose anyone too close, though a lotof my friends lost relatives, parents included. My dad, a NJ policeofficer,was even sent to the scene a few weeks later tosearch through the rubble for bodies.

I was not born or raised in NY, so it didn't devistate me. I had noconnection to the buildings. My BF was born and raised in Brooklyn, hewasn't really phased by it, either.

I'm sorry, I know I'm new and you of course are entitled to saywhatever you want. But how could this not "phase" anyone? I mean, thesewere innocent people. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons,daughters, husbands, wives, etc.

 

[NZminilops]

I know you didn't just mean me , and I didcare - just not as much because of the distance and not knowing anyoneat all in the area. My Ohio friend was pretty devastated and I feltterrible for him. It's horrible when any huge disaster happens, I feelequally horrible when I see war on TV, it just doesn't seem to touch usso bad down here in little NZ.

You get the feeling living in NZ that we are expected to care moreabout what happens in America than, say, Iraq, or famine in Africa, butour ties I think are closer to Britain and Australia than anywhere.

 

[BinkyRabbit33]

undergunfire wrote:

I was in the 8th grade and remember it. I remember being SOmad that we didn't get sent home for the day.

Then over the next few days I watched TV and was SOOO scared that we were all going to die because I was only 5 hours from NYC.

I had never seen the towers, nor did I know anyone who died in them. Iam not a person to be upset over other people I do not know. Now, if itwas full of animals, then I would be sad.

^ Sounds kind of selfish, but I have always cared more about animals than people I do not know.


- Amy

Haha thats so me. You should see the weird looks i get when werewatching war movies in history class and i call out Poor horse! whenthere are 5 dead men around it. But hey, animals are innocent, peopleare the ones who start fights. Anyways I was at my aunts house when thetowers were hit... My uncle was going to go to the worldtrade center thatmorning but decided not to, thank God.