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Where You all were at that moment? What did You think about it?

#1: Eva Aldrich (vevaldrich) on Sep 11, 2013

I was at home teaching my kids. My husband called to let me know of the attack.

I was at home also. My daughter called to tell me.
thank you for the pbn, Thomas.

I was 7 1/2 months pregnant; I was in a laundromat when I heard of the first attack, and I stayed glued to CNN the rest of the day. I had been to the top of the towers back in 1992, so it really hit me hard to watch them fall.
I had to go on bed rest for the remainder of my pregnancy, because of the stress.

How did people react in Europe, Thomas? I would imagine it wasn't nearly as distressing, unless you personally knew someone who worked in one of the buildings. My husband lost a friend from the Air Force, who had been working in the Pentagon.

In NYC thinking how is it possible that people hate more others than love themselves.

Good answer, Jota. I heard an Israeli peaceworker say that there will be peace in the Middle East when Arab women love their sons more than they hate Israel. I was watching CNN when the first one hit, i remember how we were all wondering how it could be real when we saw the second plane hit live. Then when the plane hit the Pentagon i started feeling very unsafe... what was coming next? I lived in Vegas at the time and that was considered a likely second target. I didn't feel safe for months afterwards.

I cried

Teresa, that was actually Golda Meir.

I was taking my son, who was ill, to my mother's house. We turned on the TV and watched. We didn't see the 2nd plane hit, but saw the smoke and didn't understand, at first, why the 2nd tower was burning. I then went to work at my school which is very near the municipal airport. I was distressed when in the middle of the day I heard an airplane take off after all flights had been grounded. I live near one of the largest Air Force Bases in the country. I later learned that the President had been routed to that base in Air Force One. The plane that took off from the public airport was the press corps that was following him (with permission) when he left to go elsewhere, I think to Colorado.

I was at work when I heard about it,I couldn't watch any news coverage until I got home,but all day long I felt sick with upset about what was happening to our American neighbours. When I heard and watched stories of bravery and unselfishness from some of the people,both professional and your average Joe,I kept thinking that I would hope that I would be brave enough if I was thrown into that situation. Say what you want about Americans from the United States,but when their country and freedom are in peril,they know how to be there for each other and they will do whatever it takes to protect their freedom. I think it was noble of you Thomas to make this puzzle in honour of what happened on that day. Thanks.:)

I would normally have been working, but I was sick in bed and had nothing to do but watch TV. I felt like I was in shock. I didn't want to watch, but I was mesmerized. I didn't, and still don't, understand how anyone could hate that much. I was in a daze for days. Yes, Thomas, this horror is something we must never forget. Thank you for the reminder.

I was on my way home from work (graveyard shift) and didn't have my car radio on. I stopped at a grocery store to pick up of few things and when I checked out I asked why the long faces. I was told, "Oh, you haven't heard have you?" I rushed home and glued myself to the TV right after the second hit and before the towers collapsed, not believing the horror I was seeing.

We were transferring a patient to Ottawa when my partner yelled for me to come talk to him up front. He had been listening to the radio and heard the news. When we got to the hospital in the city, all the waiting rooms had tvs on and everyone was watching horrified. After we dropped our patient off we were told to standby because officials felt that our capital city may be a target as well. I just wanted to get out of there and thankfully nothing happened. Very scary moments wondering if we were going to have to respond to something like New York or DC or Pennsylvania.

And what were you doing Thomas?

At that moment there were afternoon in Europe. I worked as the leader of a family house building. My mother called me and said that New York is burning. First went to the school for my brother's daughter, and then all the evening watched the TV. We saw the falling of the the towers live and couldn't believe it.
Few weeks later I was called from a local broadcast to explain, how it could be happened statically. I showed 3 versions of possibilities, but I don't know exactly until nowadays, which was the true.

I was home getting ready for a job interview, the TV on in another room and I heard Matt Lauer announce and describe the first hit. I watched a little of the report, took the fastest shower of my life, and was back at the TV when the second strike happened and we all learned it wasn't a horrible accident, but a planned attack. The first tower fell while I was en route to the interview and we had a hard time getting through it. I lost an acquaintance who worked in one of the towers, someone I generally saw once or twice at my camp in the summer.

I find these responses so fascinating. My mother commented that on Sept. 11th everyone had a look about them that was the same look she saw on people's faces the day Pearl Harbor was attacked 60 years earlier. She was nearly 11 yrs. old at that time.

My family had an apple orchard at the time, and that morning I was delivering apples and other produce to stores in a regional chain. I was in the van, listening to The Big Show with John Boy and Billy, when they cut in that a small plane had hit one of the towers of the WTC (at the beginning, everyone thought it had been a small plane). After listening a bit I thought they were doing a comedy sketch and I said to the radio, "I know y'all do low-brow humor, but to joke about this sort of thing is really low." And I changed the station out of disgust, but they had news on the same thing. I tried a few others, and they all were talking about it, with varying degrees of usefulness. I went back to that show. They seemed to be the calmest, oddly enough; instead of speculating on what had happened, they were giving advice for people to prepare in case that wasn't an isolated event: contact loved ones, make sure of where everyone is, get things together in case of evacuation, etc.

For several of the stores, I was the one to tell them the news, as well as for my family at the farm and some of our customers once I got back.

I don't think I could have handled watching stuff on TV.

I was home, alone in Iowa, no tv on. My husband was at work, our three middle schoolers were in school. Our oldest daughter called me from Florida and said, "Mom, turn on the TV." Our oldest son had just moved to New York City a month earlier. Try as I might, all circuits were jammed and it was many, many hours before he got a message through to us that he was safe. I can hardly even think about it even now.

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