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Kelda:
--- Quote from: shakestheground on September 11, 2008, 08:55:55 am ---It was absolutely the most beautiful day there had been all year. The sky was clear and blue, the air was clean, the temp was warm but the humidity was low. I was listening to NPR about the time it started, it had not reached the media yet. A woman from Texas who was no fan of Bush, was giving a rundown of his first 9 months in office using many of the gaffes and misspeaks attributed to him.
I went by the credit union and told the teller people would be having emergencies all day long because it was 9/11. I then went up the hill to the Bank where we were having an office meeting. I met one of the agents in the office, she was in a good mood because she had heard from her daughter who lived in NYC and told me how much it meant for a parent her age to hear from a child.
In the meeting room another agent told how his father had been lost at sea before he was born and he never met him. It was his son who came running in late and after the women all stopped their carrying on that he had to put $5 in the jar for being late he got out the news: He had been watching the Today show on NBC and there had been a report of a plane hitting the World Trade Center.
Immediately I thought "All those people are dead, all of them on the plane, many more in the building." He went on and told how they were showing it on TV when all of a sudden another plane hit the other building. It didn't take long to compute, it was intentional. Suddenly it was all different.
The woman whose daughter had called whipped out her phone. I think she got an "Yes mother, I am fine" she worked in another part of town. Another agent who grew up in the NYC area when out in the hall and soon we heard her crying. The brokers announced the meeting was over. We filed out and tried to ascertain what was wrong. Her brother in law, the husband of her husbands sister, his office was on the 108th floor. Unless he had gone down to the lobby for donuts, he would have been at his desk.
Unable to drive, Myself and and still another agent helped her get home, me following in my car, calling my mother to make sure she knew, calling my brother in law to make sure none of his kids were travelling that day.
When we arrived at her house, and stepped in the foyer, we could hear her husband screaming. We ran down the hall, down the stairs to their den and there on the big screen was the Pentagon, on fire. Just across the Potomac river from the capitol, suddenly the attack had taken on huge new proportions. It was not isolated, it was still on going, and no idea what would happen next. The husband said to me someone was getting "ready to have their balls handed to them". It was the first time of many I would hear things like that said over the coming years.
I went home and watched CNN the rest of the day. They never found a trace of the brother in law from the 108th floor.
--- End quote ---
:'(
(You write so well Tru)
ifyoucantfixit:
--- Quote from: shakestheground on September 11, 2008, 08:55:55 am ---It was absolutely the most beautiful day there had been all year. The sky was clear and blue, the air was clean, the temp was warm but the humidity was low. I was listening to NPR about the time it started, it had not reached the media yet. A woman from Texas who was no fan of Bush, was giving a rundown of his first 9 months in office using many of the gaffes and misspeaks attributed to him.
I went by the credit union and told the teller people would be having emergencies all day long because it was 9/11. I then went up the hill to the Bank where we were having an office meeting. I met one of the agents in the office, she was in a good mood because she had heard from her daughter who lived in NYC and told me how much it meant for a parent her age to hear from a child.
In the meeting room another agent told how his father had been lost at sea before he was born and he never met him. It was his son who came running in late and after the women all stopped their carrying on that he had to put $5 in the jar for being late he got out the news: He had been watching the Today show on NBC and there had been a report of a plane hitting the World Trade Center.
Immediately I thought "All those people are dead, all of them on the plane, many more in the building." He went on and told how they were showing it on TV when all of a sudden another plane hit the other building. It didn't take long to compute, it was intentional. Suddenly it was all different.
The woman whose daughter had called whipped out her phone. I think she got an "Yes mother, I am fine" she worked in another part of town. Another agent who grew up in the NYC area when out in the hall and soon we heard her crying. The brokers announced the meeting was over. We filed out and tried to ascertain what was wrong. Her brother in law, the husband of her husbands sister, his office was on the 108th floor. Unless he had gone down to the lobby for donuts, he would have been at his desk.
Unable to drive, Myself and and still another agent helped her get home, me following in my car, calling my mother to make sure she knew, calling my brother in law to make sure none of his kids were travelling that day.
When we arrived at her house, and stepped in the foyer, we could hear her husband screaming. We ran down the hall, down the stairs to their den and there on the big screen was the Pentagon, on fire. Just across the Potomac river from the capitol, suddenly the attack had taken on huge new proportions. It was not isolated, it was still on going, and no idea what would happen next. The husband said to me someone was getting "ready to have their balls handed to them". It was the first time of many I would hear things like that said over the coming years.
I went home and watched CNN the rest of the day. They never found a trace of the brother in law from the 108th floor.
--- End quote ---
That brings it all back to us Truman...It was one of the most devastating times of my life. I am sure it was for all Americans. We arent over it yet............ :'( :'( :'(
injest:
I heard one of the talk show guys today (I Know) and he said that people have three different attitudes.
one is a September 10th attitude: that everything is ok and the world is fine and nothing like that will ever happen again.
a September 11th attitude: that we are under threat and need to be very afraid.
or a September 12th attitude: that we are determined to live our lives to the best of our abilities and try hard to be the very best friend, lover, parent, child we can be. To never be complacent again because you never know.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: injest on September 11, 2008, 06:43:09 pm ---To never be complacent again because you never know.
--- End quote ---
I think most people have forgotten this part.
injest:
Truman, when you are feeling down, here is a site that might make you smile now and again. I think you will like it.
This is part of today's entry
As someone who grew up in a residential area on a golf course and lived for years in big, exciting Los Angeles, I especially cherish these reminders that exist around me now—reminders that there was once a time in America when slick feed trucks and prefab steel barns weren’t all the rage, when mega houses and SUV’s weren’t seen on every street…and when decency, resourcefulness, hard work, and kindness were the measure of a person’s success.
But then, the wide-eyed optimist in me knows that we still live in that place. We just have to remind one another every once in awhile.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/
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