Tell me your 9/11 stories
Each year I re-post the memories which many of you have shared with me of your experiences on 9/11 and I ask the rest of you to please tell me your stories, too.
Ten years after that awful day, I still grieve, as do many of you. And I'm still interested in hearing about where you were that day and your experiences were, whether you were oblivious ( Read more... )
Ten years after that awful day, I still grieve, as do many of you. And I'm still interested in hearing about where you were that day and your experiences were, whether you were oblivious ( Read more... )
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This was very moving to read. Thank you so much for your details.
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I must admit THAT really surprises me. One of the people who told me her story a few years ago, a Canadian, seemed to feel that in spite of her profession as a historian, that 9/11 was just another day to her and no big deal. So the fact that you feel so connected to it, not simply because of the recent NZ earthquakes, but connected enough that the day's events are imprinted on your mind, is really amazing and, honestly, awe-inspiring.
Again - thank you! *HUGE Hugs*
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A couple of people came to my dorm room and we watched the news all day, with periodic calls to and from family.
Class was cancelled the next day, but we had class the day after that, and the Contracts professor apologized for keeping us in class, explaining that he'd had no idea what had been happening.
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Your Contracts professor's apology afterwards is interesting to me, because of course he had no idea how bad it was, and he sounds like he was a lot more gracious than the profs some of my other friends had on that day.
Btw, last night we watched a few different news casts from that day and timed how long it took them to even report the first crash. It took the BBC about half an hour. They took an additional 20 min after BROADCASTING the second plane crash before they even noticed what they had aired: that a second plane had been the cause of that second explosion. It took the Washington D.C. Fox news affiliate about 20 minutes to report the first crash. If the news stations were that oblivious, how could anybody have known this was so serious?
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I was in Boston, where the planes had left from. Boston went into lockdown. They were arresting people on commuter trains, there was just general panic. They shut down the airspace and all you could hear were the fighter jets patrolling the skies, around and around and around. It was terrifying.
I was also at Harvard, where the general belief was that, if they were attacking American institutions, it was not outside of the realm of possibility that Harvard could be next.
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Wait, you mean on that day as y'all were traveling back home from work, they were arresting people on the trains? I don't remember that at all. That would DEFINITELY add to the sense of panic around you. I can't begin to imagine how scary that must've been.
I was also at Harvard, where the general belief was that, if they were attacking American institutions, it was not outside of the realm of possibility that Harvard could be next.
I had heard that. And it WAS possible. In Chicago, where I was, we were all terrified about the Sears Tower.
Btw, did you happen to hear the graduation speeches at the law school that year? Another person on my friends' list mentioned being freaked out by the tactless student whose speech was titled something like, "My personal jihad."
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