Sept 11th Memorial Thread

[Tia Wood]

Twitter Tag: http://www.wearredon911.com/

I Believe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oOW-1OwtCA
Songs of September: http://bit.ly/126xjy
Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning: http://bit.ly/x44nu


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Victim Names: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/lists/by-name/index.html
Timeline: http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/index.html

Tribute to police officers, firefighters, emergency response personnel: http://bit.ly/czeom
Tribute to the 9/11 Firefighters: http://bit.ly/1421QP

Overcome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFXM12F2kxw

National Day of Service and Remembrance: http://911dayofservice.org

 

[Theo]

Thanks for remembering.

The story of St. Nicholas Church.

 

[Stian]

Nice initiative. I put up a banner on my site as well:

http://ehot.net/

 

[draggar]

11 days later my wife and I got married (we lived in NJ close to the city at the time). Everyone needed something like that by then.

 

[Theo]

A lot of us have stories related to this date. I'll share mine.

On 9/11/01 my wife at that time and I closed on our new home. We were at the mortgage office at 8:30am and by 8:55am we had finished signing the tons of paperwork required at closing. My mortgage officer was running late, and 15 minutes later she rushed in, visibly upset and talking about the planes crashing into the World Trade Center. Then they turned the TV on to CNN and everyone at the office went crazy. The sight of the smoking buildings was shocking to watch live on television. People started to call friends or relatives in NY. A woman was crying about her mom who worked in the 1st tower - luckily she didn't go to work that day. The hour and a half that followed was devastating. More news were coming in about the Pentagon and by then we knew it was a terrorist attack. I had a sick feeling to my stomach that the fire in the buildings would bring them down. When the tower collapsed it was unreal to watch. It felt like a mass execution of innocent people. At that time I worked for a company that'd network high rise buildings with wireless technology; NYC metro would be the next market we'd launch, along with Chicago. It didn't happen and the company went under 5 weeks later, so I lost my job. On the day of the event, we also moved to our new home. Instead of feeling excited and happy, we were depressed for days and afraid of what the future might hold. We also felt lucky that none of our relatives and friends were lost in the attack. There was fear mixed with anger and Christmas of 2001 was very depressing.

 

[Onward]

I was in Washington DC at the time...in the courthouse. Within 10 minutes of the 1st plane hitting I heard about it, but thought it was a small misguided plane - an accident....and I continued with my morning as I was in trial. About an 20 minutes later I heard the news that another plane hit the other tower. I then realized it was no accident, and was concerned and called my 2 brothers - one in NYC - the other in Brooklyn...One was fine at home....the other I could not get a hold of. I continued about my morning and approximately a half hour later - all hell broke loose in the courthouse. We were told a plane had hit the pentagon and other planes were headed to the capitol (which is 2 block from where I was) and the whitehouse. DC was was in a state of panic...at this point most of my employees/friends cell phones did not work...my cell phone worked occasionally and eventually was out.

At the time I had just hired new investigators out of college and many were new to the DC area...they were really freaking out. I lived in Maryland and I piled a few of my new investigators in my car and turned on the radio. I was not freaking out at all for some reason...and that reason was I convinced myself that I was not lucky enough to win the lottery and not unlucky enough to be killed in a terrorist attack...that thinking actually helped calm down my new investigators. To add insult to injury...the radio stations were reporting all kinds of crazy rumors...one being that terrorists had hijacked DC Police airplanes and hilicopters and were flying up the potomac river hitting random targets...we could see the smpoke from the pentagon so that added to the unknown. Fortunately, I know DC better than most cab drivers and was able to get me and my investigators back to my house in about 35 minutes...We sat in front of my TV all day and watched the events of the unfold...also bought a case of beer.

I later learned that my other brother was stuck underground in the subway - he was on his way to school and the subway suddenly stopped. he was trapped under ther for hours until he and a few broke out of the car they were in an tunneled out. He ended up walking back to Brooklyn.

It was really a crazy day.

 

[Tia Wood]

I was asleep when the first tower was hit. Then, I watched the second one on TV. I was a single mother at the time. My daughter was 1 1/2 years old. As a mother, you try to protect your child against things but there was no protecting her against things like this. I was numb for days.

Then something amazing happened. There was a beautiful sense of unity in America after the attacks. Remember that? It has since faded.