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Where were you?
On 9/11/01 I had just moved to Houston 3 months earlier. I was a new nurse at Texas Children's and was off that day. I was getting dressed to go the Gynocologist and was almost late cause I couldn't get away from the TV. It was a new doctor who my BFF saw and she had an appt at the same time so we were going together (separate rooms of course). I'm so glad I was with her and stayed glued to the TV all day with her.
Right now I'm watching MSNBC which is replaying their coverage from that day.
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
1st pregnancy: BFP- 6/28/09 - Found out we lost our little girl on 10/9/09 at 19w 4d - D&E- 10/14/09
June 2010, corrective surgery for Septate Uterus and large fibroids
2nd pregnancy: BFP- 10/18/10 - Slow rising, non-doubling HCGs, no heart beat. Non-viable pregnancy, D&C- 11/12/10
Started Metformin 6/30/11, Started Clomid 7/20/11 - Unsuccessful
HSG and Laparoscopic surgery revealed blocked tubes and lots of scar tissue...IVF here we come!!!
Surprise BFP naturally!!! IT'S A BOY!!!
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I was a senior in college and had gone to check chron.com as soon as I woke up to see if the Astros won the night before. At that point, the first plane had hit, and there was still speculation as to whether or not it was an accident. I woke up my roommate, and we sat glued to the TV. Most classes were canceled that day, but my business strategy class was not. The professor had us get into groups and say what we would do and tell the public if we were different people/entities - George Bush, head of the FAA, etc. The first tower had gone down by the time class started. When the second one fell, someone popped their head in the room and told us about it. My stomach goes into knots just thinking about it all.
My mom worked at Enron, and I called her and told her to get out of there after the Pentagon was hit. I was so worried that there were going to be more planes going down in high-profile areas.
I moved to Houston and in with my boyfriend (now DH) about 8 months before. I was the closing mgr at PB that night and brought DH to work that morning (we shared a car). We chatted on the drive and after he got out I turned on NPR. I heard about the plane that hit the Pentagon 1st. I thought it was an accident but as I listened and realized it was intentional, I started to freak. My brother was in college in DC at the time. Of course I couldn't get ahold of him. I listened to the coverage, flew home and turned on the tv.
My brother was in an 8 am class when the Pentagon was hit. He said the room shook (he was less than a mile away) and everyone kind of went silent. Less than 5 minutes later an officer came to the class and told everyone to go home, straight home. When they went outside, people were running everywhere. THere were MPs all over the place and if you even stopped to catch your breath, they would move you along.
One of my BMs lost her aunt on Flight 93. My college roommate's mother was missing for 9 hours. She walked from Manhattan to Forest Hills, Queens, covered in smoke and ash.
I was at home getting ready to go to school. I just happened to turn on the tv to watch the Today Show while I was getting ready. A few minutes after I turned the tv on the 1st plane hit. I thought it was either a movie clip or someone just misjudged how low they were flying. When the reporters started freaking out I knew it was real. I started screaming to my mom and dad to turn on the tv now. I was almost done getting ready for class when the next plane hit. I knew this wasn't an accident and that it was planned. I went ahead and went to school because I couldn't miss class. When I got there our professor had a tv in the classroom and we were all watching the news. This is when the other planes crashed. My brain was going a mile a minute because all of my family live in NJ and PA. I ran out of the classroom and started crying and shaking horribly. All I could think about was getting a hold of my aunt and uncle because my uncle worked right across the street from the WTC. He took the subway into the city so I knew he might not have a way out. I knew the possibility that he was either hurt or possibly killed in this horrible attack. I must have called them a million times but I couldn't get through. My mom and I literally called them all day but couldn't get through. At the end of the day we finally did in touch with them. I also knew that my aunt's mom lived very close to where flight 93 crashed. When we talked to my aunt she said that they were ok. My uncle was on his way to work and he had a few extra minutes so he stopped to get a bagel and coffee before work. When he came out of the shop he could tell something really bad had happened (at this point he had no idea what was going on)and he got back on the subway and went home. Had he not been running early that morning he would have been at work already and he would have been killed. My aunt also told us that her mom could feel the ground shaking when flight 93 hit the ground (she was several miles away from it).
Sorry this was so long! 9/11 was auch a scary day that will be etched into my memory forever. Just typing this and thinking about it brings me to tears. Hug your loved ones today! Give prayers/thoughts to the 1st responders, those who lost their lives, and those who lost their loved ones 10 years ago.
I has just dropped the older girls off at daycare and was on my way to work. I heard about it on the radio and just couldn't believe it.
I worked in a teeny tiny office with 3 other ladies ad we spent the day glued to a small portable black and white tv that a customer brought to the office for us.
Teaching a class full of innocent children.
I had just taken them to PE when the coach told me something had happened at the World Trade Center, some plane had hit a building. I immediately went into my classroom and turned on the TV and was horrified. We weren't allowed to tell the kids what had happened so for the rest of the day I would go over and turn on the TV (facing completely away from them) and take a glance at what was going on (with the sound off). Throughout the day parents were picking up their kids early....it was strange and surreal because I couldn't tell the other kids who were remaining WHY the other kids were leaving.
I can remember being glued to the TV at home for DAYS after it occurred. Just harrowing!
I was a junior in college. I vividly remember walking out of the cafeteria that morning and seeing the coverage of the first plane on the tv in the common area of the student center. We went on to class thinking it was some freak thing.
Sitting in class, our professor came in a few minutes late with this look on her face that I'll never forget. She was so white and scared, and she's a tough lady. I knew something was bad. She simply said they hit the second tower and we all packed up and headed to the campus coffee house to watch the coverage and attempt to have class until the towers started to fall and we realized the reality and severity of everything.
Thank you all for telling your stories. Lots of love and hugs to those of you who this really hits near and dear to your hearts.
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
1st pregnancy: BFP- 6/28/09 - Found out we lost our little girl on 10/9/09 at 19w 4d - D&E- 10/14/09
June 2010, corrective surgery for Septate Uterus and large fibroids
2nd pregnancy: BFP- 10/18/10 - Slow rising, non-doubling HCGs, no heart beat. Non-viable pregnancy, D&C- 11/12/10
Started Metformin 6/30/11, Started Clomid 7/20/11 - Unsuccessful
HSG and Laparoscopic surgery revealed blocked tubes and lots of scar tissue...IVF here we come!!!
Surprise BFP naturally!!! IT'S A BOY!!!
I was on my way to the office. Everyone basically ran in and hit the conference room. We watched as the second plane hit and cried as the towers fell.
I was emailing a friend in DC shortly after and my last message (for the day) was holy ***, I just saw a plane hit the pentagon.
We were dismissed from work shortly after and I met some friends at Bennigan's (gag) and we watched the coverage from there.
I wanted to say another thing. The high school that I went (Austin H.S. in Sugar Land) to has a large eagle statue in the front right next to the American flag pole. They put it there in memory of a guy that went to our school. He was in the military and he was working at the Pentagon. It was his dream job and he had only been there for a short time. He was working that day and he was one of the ones missing. I'm glad though that he had a chance to achieve his dream of being in the Pentagon.
I highly recommend that if you live in the Sugar Land area that you should go and see this statue and leave some flowers. It's beautiful! I'm sure his family goes to see it and I'm sure they would be very touched.
I was at home getting ready for work. I always watched the Today Show and heard them talking about a plane that hit the first tower. I sat down and watched for awhile and then called my mom at work to tell her. Her boyfriend at the time worked at the Pentagon and I had to call her back and tell her when the plane hit there. It was awful (he ended up being fine, he was on the opposite side of the building). I ended up taking a small tv with me to work when I eventually went in, and we sat in our kitchen for the rest of the day watching.
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I was living in CA. I had gotten up early to drop my car off at the shop for repairs. It got in my car and turned the radio on and I heard all this crazy stuff and really thought it was a joke. The radio station I listened to was known for prank stuff. I seriously couldn't believe what they were saying. I pulled into the auto body shop and everyone was gathered around a small TV in the reception area. No one said a world. We just watched in horror.
Some how I got my rental car and headed to work. We moved a TV into the main part of the office and we all sat there and watched it for several hours just waiting to see what would happen next. Our boss finally told us to go home.
I was a sophomore in college at UT Austin. My roommate woke up to the news of the first tower being hit on the radio. She woke me up and we watched the second tower get hit.
We didn't really know what to do, so we went ahead and caught the shuttle to class. Of course, when I got to campus I found out classes had been cancelled. I remember sitting on the West Mall to call my mom and just crying. Oddly, DH and I had been dating at the time for 2 years already, but we don't remember talking to each other that day. I remember sitting on the couch with my roommates watching hours and hours of television.
I remember walking on campus to a football game a few weeks later and some armed forces planes did a LOW flyover right before the game started. Hundreds of people were still walking in the streets towards the stadium and when we heard the planes we all hit the ground!
I was drying my hair. My roommate came in and told me a plane had just crashed into the WTC. I thought he was joking. At first we thought something must have gone wrong with the plane. We were watching live when the second plane hit and we knew it was no accident. I will never forget that feeling.
We watched for a while but had to get to work. The receptionist had a small TV that we huddled around to watch. That morning was the weekly meeting for all the department managers/VPs at work and they kept coming out and griping at us, telling us to get back to work. It was like they didn't realize that this was a really big deal. I had the radio on in my office and I went back to watch again after the first tower fell. By that time the meeting was over they were watching too. We all cried when the second tower fell.
I was already at work. I worked with companies on the East Coast and one specifically in tower 2. We also had one of our company offices not far.
We rushed to the conference rooms after the first plane hit to only to watch the second plane hit tower 2. I lost colleagues that day at Aon Consulting/Marsh & McClennan.
We didn't know how many or who until days later when we received correspondence from them and it was so real and depressing.
As much as I hurt for them today, I cannot imagine what those who lost family members in every one of those tragedies? feel. God bless them.
I was exiting the freeway on the way to work and heard it on the radio. I went numb and couldn't believe it. I worked at a tv station then so everyone had the tvs on when I got there and we were all just in disbelief. I spent the day sending out schedule changes as we made plans to air news and other special programming. I went home in the late afternoon and my 2 roommates had both been sent home from work already. We gathered around the biggest tv we had and watched the news coverage and comforted each other. We were thankful to have each others company that night.
I was in law school at the time. I was sitting in the classroom waiting for class to start when Dh called me. He told me that a plane accidentally crashed into the WTC. We were talking about it and suddenly he went all quiet. Then he said "Another plane just flew into the building." I thought he was kidding, but he sounded so horrified.
My friend that sat next to me was so scared. Her aunt worked in the WTC and she, of course, couldn't get ahold of her.
Her aunt got out and survived, but most of her coworkers were killed.
She worked there in the 90's when the building was bombed. She said that when the first plane hit and she felt the vibrations from it she immediately left the building. She just remembered how hard it was to get out during the bombing and how scary it was, so she took off.
I remember having dinner with my friend and her aunt maybe two months after 9/11. It was so surreal listening to her describe that day and how the majority of her friends and coworkers didn't make it out.