. I was glad that my shift was off that day, because the Chief of the Fire Department put everyone on high alert and the folks worked close to 24 hours that day.
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Its been six years ago today that our country was attacked. Where were you when you heard the news? I was on my way to my parents house when I heard it on the radio, I remembered I just pulled over in disbelief and horror and saying what? how? I can't believe it. I got to my parents house and my dad had the t.v. on watching the news and feeling so sick to my stomach and my heart going out to all the souls who were killed. . I was glad that my shift was off that day, because the Chief of the Fire Department put everyone on high alert and the folks worked close to 24 hours that day.
. I was glad that my shift was off that day, because the Chief of the Fire Department put everyone on high alert and the folks worked close to 24 hours that day.
Wow, six years....
i was 20 years old on my way to work and heard it on the radio, when i got to work the resteraunt was empty ( that was creepy ) and i found everyone in the bar glued to the TV...
i was 20 years old on my way to work and heard it on the radio, when i got to work the resteraunt was empty ( that was creepy ) and i found everyone in the bar glued to the TV...
I was watching the Today Show and drinking my morning coffee and they did show live the second plane that hit. At first they said a small aircraft hit one of the World Trade Center Buildings until that second one hit. I also had to go to the hospital that day for a CT and found out that this hospital and all hospitals in Pittsburgh we on stand by alert. As we all know there were no one to transfer. I called my daughter's work as the DH and my daughter we enroute to her job to let them know. She works for the United Jewish Federation and as soon as I had my CT we stopped at her job and told her she was going home I was concerned about her safety.
My sister in Seattle called me to tell me the World Trade Center had been hit by airplanes. I barely understood what she was saying because I was fuzzy from sleep (this was between 5:30 and 6:00am) and what she was saying was so incomprehensible. I woke my husband. We turned on the tv and were dumbstruck as we watched the towers collapse.
I immediately got dressed and went into work. I expected chaos when I walked in (I work for the Red Cross), but it was strangely quiet. Everyone else was either already there, or coming in, including a number of volunteers. We were receiving information from our National Headquarters via e-mail, and all of us had Fox or CNN up on our monitors, but the phones didn't ring for about two hours. Then it was like an avalanche.
Calls coming in from people who have family in New York, calls from people wanting to help, calls from more of our volunteers ready to deploy at a moment's notice. We had a plane on its way to Korea grounded at the airport and we needed to take care of all those folks until they could get back in the air.
We didn't shut out the lights for three days straight, and were open between 12 & 16 hrs a day for a month after that. I'm TRULY thankful for our volunteers.
I immediately got dressed and went into work. I expected chaos when I walked in (I work for the Red Cross), but it was strangely quiet. Everyone else was either already there, or coming in, including a number of volunteers. We were receiving information from our National Headquarters via e-mail, and all of us had Fox or CNN up on our monitors, but the phones didn't ring for about two hours. Then it was like an avalanche.
Calls coming in from people who have family in New York, calls from people wanting to help, calls from more of our volunteers ready to deploy at a moment's notice. We had a plane on its way to Korea grounded at the airport and we needed to take care of all those folks until they could get back in the air.
We didn't shut out the lights for three days straight, and were open between 12 & 16 hrs a day for a month after that. I'm TRULY thankful for our volunteers.
We were going to pick up our kitty Mississippi who we were adopting that day when we heard about the first tower. When we got home we turn on the tv. It was our late day for work and when we got to work, our admin decided to close. It was weird cause there were no planes flying in the sky and hardly any cars on the road. When we got home, we were glued to the tv.
This is such a profound question - where I was and what I was doing illustrate who I was back then, and it wasn't pretty.
I was in my boss's office with two other consultants - we were discussing how to control the employee's disk usage. We were trying to determine which classifications of employees we had to create and how much disk each of these classes of employees should get. I had selected the software and had it running on the test server - we were hammering out the rules for implementation to 5000 end users. There was this old-time mainframe scheduling dude in the office next door who kept knocking on my boss's door and trying to tell us what was happening. We kept tossing him out of the office - he was the guy who ran the football pools in the office, had been around forever, and none of us took him real seriously about much of anything. He was waiting to retire and we had important things to do... He would knock, stick his head in and try to tell us what was happening and one of us would say - "Not now, George." or "Later, George - we'll all listen to you later." We were such self-important little snits, worrying about who was saving personal documents to corporate disk drives and how to put a stop to it... while the world was changing, right outside our door.
Two years later I walked away from all of that and I now teach english at a community college. I am so ashamed of who I was and what my priorities were...
I was in my boss's office with two other consultants - we were discussing how to control the employee's disk usage. We were trying to determine which classifications of employees we had to create and how much disk each of these classes of employees should get. I had selected the software and had it running on the test server - we were hammering out the rules for implementation to 5000 end users. There was this old-time mainframe scheduling dude in the office next door who kept knocking on my boss's door and trying to tell us what was happening. We kept tossing him out of the office - he was the guy who ran the football pools in the office, had been around forever, and none of us took him real seriously about much of anything. He was waiting to retire and we had important things to do... He would knock, stick his head in and try to tell us what was happening and one of us would say - "Not now, George." or "Later, George - we'll all listen to you later." We were such self-important little snits, worrying about who was saving personal documents to corporate disk drives and how to put a stop to it... while the world was changing, right outside our door.
Two years later I walked away from all of that and I now teach english at a community college. I am so ashamed of who I was and what my priorities were...
I was working as a teacher's aid in my children's old school. Never be ashamed of who you were but proud of what you have become and have the wisdom to know there needs to be a change.
I wish you all the time and healing necessary ... even six years later the scars are still painful I am sure.
Tara
I wish you all the time and healing necessary ... even six years later the scars are still painful I am sure.
Tara
I was on the phone with a friend and fellow greyhound owner in Ridgefield, CT that morning as we would often chat early in the am after her husband went to work. She had her tv on in the background and suddenly started screaming when the first plane hit. I turned on my tv and she asked me to stay on the line. What I didn't know at the time was that she worked at the WTC and had had her wedding reception there. Also many of her neighbors worked there and I believe 11 residents of Ridgefield perished.
I remember sitting with my neighbor (who was expecting her first child) on my deck just staring into the skies later that afternoon and remarking how silent everything was. I was scheduled to leave for CT three days later and almost cancelled the trip but as it was by car, I decided to go. I also remember seeing the smoke even from a distance and the massive # of military and service vehicles going to NYC. I made a point to see many of my East Coast friends that weekend as we all felt the need to just be together.
Kathy
I remember sitting with my neighbor (who was expecting her first child) on my deck just staring into the skies later that afternoon and remarking how silent everything was. I was scheduled to leave for CT three days later and almost cancelled the trip but as it was by car, I decided to go. I also remember seeing the smoke even from a distance and the massive # of military and service vehicles going to NYC. I made a point to see many of my East Coast friends that weekend as we all felt the need to just be together.
Kathy
I was just waking up, and as I was coming down the stairs, DW was hysterical trying to tell me what happened in NY. As I was looking at the tv, I saw the second plane hit the tower.
I was walking my two greys when a neighbor stopped and told us the first tower had been hit by a plane! They came back a little later to say a second tower was hit and the first was now falling....it was just unreal. I hurried and turned on the TV when I got home. We had a moment of silence while walking yesterday at the designated time.