9/11. 22 years ago! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[HeatherC]

Today is the anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States. Cannot believe it has been that long ago. I remember it like yesterday and still get chills thinking about that horrible day.

I do, however, miss how “United” we were back then. I wish my kids and grandchildren could know that feeling.

Never forget!

 

[Dan Murphy]

I do, however, miss how “United” we were back then. I wish my kids and grandchildren could know that feeling.

So very true.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

It’s so hard to believe it’s been 22 years since that tragic day so very sad we’re right now compared to them and everything that’s going on we shouldn’t need a major crisis to bring us together not meaning to be political just saying

 

[Snowflakey]

Oh we all were so united. Despite the horrible sadness, what a time to be an American.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

We were just talking about it at home this morning. My kids were in preschool then, so they don’t remember it happening even though they were part of it for me that morning. I was getting them ready to go to school when it came on the news that the first plane hit, and that the planes had taken off from our local airport. I watched coverage for a bit at home, then I put it on in the car. That’s where I heard the second plane had hit. When I got home, my mother and I sat and watched coverage for hours. I was so shocked and saddened seeing people jumping from the burning buildings, and of course, then when they fell… We had been to the top of the WTC not too long beforehand, and we’d eaten lunch at the restaurant on the side of the first level. Surely one of those times we’ll just never forget.

 

[kittylady1972]

NEVER FORGET.
My STORY: We were actually in Walt Disney World that week, it was my son's first trip (he was not quite 18 months old) so it was a bit surreal to be so disconnected from the real world. We had breakfast at Chef Mickey's that morning...but back then cell phones were not as prominent with news so we sorta heard some whisperings on the monorail of something happening but didn't know for sure. Walked into Magic Kingdom, went to the Baby Care center to change a diaper, came out to be told by my husband they were evacuating the parks. WHAT? So much misinformation early, they thought planes might even be targeting the area of the parks. We were staying at Contemporary so were able to walk back to our resort, and my in-laws were staying at Wilderness Lodge so we caught up with them later and just hung out together for the rest of the evening. I'm thankful my son was too young to really understand what was happening, but I do remember walking the corridors of the Contemporary and seeing newspapers outside everybody's doors with the news. Since I'm from the MD/DC area, my mom worked in DC at the time and it was nightmare for her to get home that day with everything happening at the Pentagon, so I was also calling to check in on her while we were in FL. I think she ended up at home after 9pm that day. We were scheduled to fly back home that Friday, and although airlines were operating again by that time, Hurricane Gabrielle hit FL that same week and our flight got cancelled so we spent an extra day at Contemporary, and had Saturday to visit the parks before our rescheduled flight, and it ended up being a beautiful day with not very crowded parks.

 

[DeeBee3]

Will never forget the day or the feelings. Was in college and due to my roommate having the TV on, saw the plane hit the 2nd tower. Saw the collapse live when I got to class (when everything was still chaos and no one knew what to do.)

 

[Travel60]

I was volunteering at son's elementary school. Heard about it on the way, walked in just as second tower was hit. Secretary's sister worked in towers and she was frantic. We are close enough to DC that people commute there to work. Parents started showing up at school to get their kids - they put me in charge of "sign-out". Fear and bewilderment in faces. I said "Someone tell my son that I'm in the building."

Daughter at all-girls school 12 miles away with strict no-phone policy. She texted me "Mom, the Sisters are taking us to the basement. You can't get here because there's a bad wreck on the bridge". I responded "Do whatever the Sisters say- one of us will get you when we can."

Later heard about people we knew who were in towers - husband had communicated with a colleague that morning on routine business. He didn't make it out. Friends had children studying abroad who were told "Don't go out, don't let anyone hear you speak, don't let them know you are American."

 

[JLTraveling]

My cousin was born in 2001. Despite being an incredibly intelligent, insightful and empathetic person, she just cannot wrap her brain around any of it...what the day was like, how incredibly united we all were, or how many freedoms were lost as a result. This is the only world she's ever known, and I find that so incredibly sad.

 

[Moliphino]

I was a freshman in high school. I had gym first thing and I remember thinking it was such a nice morning - clear blue skies, lovely weather. Then in my second period Modern World History class someone came to the door and took my teacher out in the hall to tell him. He then brought us upstairs to a classroom with tvs and we just watched the news for the rest of class.

 

[BrianL]

I was in college at the time. A friend called to wake me up and tell me what had happened. They were just showing the second plane strike when I got the news on. I know at first they thought it had been an accident, but then with the seocnd plane it was certain to be an orchestrated attack. I went to school, but classes were cancelled. I ended up in one of the common areas watching more coverage, learning about the Pentagon and the other plane in PA. It was all so surreal and everyone was just sort of walking about aimlessly. We didn't know what to do - what could we do? What would happen next? It was all so horrible and terrifying.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Always such a sad week, thoughts of hope for peace are with the all families who lost loved ones on that day and the additional people & families hurt by the ongoing illnesses attributed to the dust/chemicals etc that filled the area.

When I saw it unfold on channel 11 I thought it was the old movie Towering Inferno playing at an odd hour but kept on with my chores, it took a while before it sank in that I was watching my hometown. Looked like a terrible accident, thought the second plane was going in to rescue people, the horror of what I was watching still chills me. Then there were the other locations unfolding, the whole event, all those innocent people just showing up to work like any other day. It all just broke my heart & still does, nothing else has had such a lasting impact on this country.

9/11 changed everything about the way Americans live our lives but doesn't get enough acknowledgement.

 

[Dan Murphy]

 

[nw6675]

I was at work and remember turning a radio on for the patients in the waiting room. Several of us got in my friend's van to watch the tiny TV. Most of all I remember praying with a coworker for our military (in addition to the victims and first responders). My husband was active duty and I knew it meant we were going to war.

 

[nw6675]

Also, every American should visit the 9/11 Memorial. Most moving experience I've ever had.

 

[JLTraveling]

I was living in Central FL at the time, and everyone in my friend group including me worked for the parks. A friend had spent the summer in CA, and flew home the night of Sept 10. A big group of us went the airport to pick her up...all the way to the gate. We then went back to my parents' house for a Welcome Home party.

Everyone was still crashed out on the living room floor when my dad came and woke us up. The second plane had just hit. My parents had the news on, and we all crowded into the room and just stared at the TV for hours. There were so many rumors...that Disney was next. Or maybe Universal. And meanwhile my mom was trying to get hold of her best friend, as the friend's parents were scheduled to be on one of the hijacked planes (thankfully they had a last minute change of plans).

It was about 1 or 2 am that night when people finally left. My parents had a nice big house, but we were all crowded into one of the smallest rooms all day long. It just felt safer, and there was something comforting about being together.

When flights resumed, I happened to be chatting with a friend who lived directly in the flight path for the Orlando airport when she heard a plane overhead. I will never forget the sheer terror in her voice just listening to the plane and praying everything was OK.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

of and a to all.

Indeed let us always remember and also give thanks in all. May each of you also remember a little extra today to tell someone you love and care about that you do and let them do likewise for you! As I become older being Patriotic has also come to mean even more to me. Thank you all for being united through kind friendship

 

[rlk]

Never Forget


I was newly pregnant, walking across the street in Manhattan with my not-yet-one-year-old to vote in the primary when my husband called to tell me a plane had flown into one of the towers. My husband's office was near the Trade Towers so that he could see out the window.

As I waited for my husband to walk the six miles uptown to our apartment, I watched the endless stream of fire trucks and emergency vehicles racing down the avenue. I also watched the plume of smoke from the fire.

 

[Smugpugmug]

My mom worked in the World Trade Center and was there that day. She knew coworkers and friends that died that day. She doesn't talk about her experience that much but she did tell me that all she could think about was getting out of there and home to my sister and I. I also had a classmate whose mom died that day. Every year I think about her and her mom.

Never forget.

 

[RangerPooh]

I was in college and it was my late class morning. So slept in until 7am and went to turn on Good Day Sacramento, which of course was not airing. Being on the West Coast, I was late to learn about the events. But remained at home watching what was unfolding, sad and scared for those there. I headed to campus early and watched news coverage from the auditorium with other students who were on campus. Classes ended up being canceled, but I remained watching coverage. The replays of the planes hitting, the towers falling, etc. Seemed surreal that week.