Can't believe it's been 7 years...

[hhleung]

I worked about 10 blocks north of the WTC at the time so this day always brings back SO many memories for me.....the gaping, smoke-filled holes in the towers, walking down the stairs in our building to evacuate (since our buillding was fairly tall, too, we had no clue if we might be a target, too), the commotion in the streets, seeing the towers collapse, staying at my supervisor's apt for several hours (because the subways had all been stopped), watching the news that night and seeing the dust and debri-filled streets of downtown Manhattan look like they were in a war zone, going back to work after a week (we weren't allowed back in our building until then) and seeing from a distance the rubble that was more than several stories high....these are things I'll never forget.)

I was blessed enough not to have lost any friends or relatives but my supervisor at the time lost her best friend and a family from church lost their sister/aunt.

I did a layout for the ADSR3 race on this day. Unfortunately, I don't have the journaling with me right now so I can't post it.

http://www.ndisb.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4826

Helen

 

[scrapmonkey]

I do remember the day vividly, but the rawness of it has faded a bit. My parents' close friend lost his brother, who worked in one of the towers. I do not know of anyone else who was lost that day, but there were several days when they were still assessing who was lost in the towers that there were some concerns that I may have lost a college/grad school classmate or two, especially one friend with whom I had lost touch with who had last worked with one of the banks housed in that building. But his name never appeared on the lost ones list at my university's website.
I was living in Houston at the time, and I remember going into work early that day and I had been listening to music on the way in - nothing had been announced yet on the radio, because that was when it was thought to be a small plane accidentally crashing. When I got into work there were a couple of people there. When someone called about what happened a couple of us went into the conference room where the TV was and finally got a signal to a local station. That was when the second plane hit. I called my husband at work - I told him what happened and he was like, you are joking, right? I remember none of us got much work done that day, all of us milling between our workstations and the conference room, but I didn't want to go home because I knew that I would just keep seeing that image over and over and over again. My DH had just been to the top of the towers only 2 months before then, just before we got married (we got married in Connecticut). He was in utter shock for days and watched nothing but news for at least 5 days after. One of my coworkers in Dallas had a brother in NYC who worked in one of the buildings nearby - he went to the roof after the first attack and got pictures of the second attack before he was evacuated. I blogged more about the experience 2 years ago (http://scrappingmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/09/911-5th-anniversary.html).
A lot of people don't realize that the 9/11 attacks were not the first attack on the WTC - my parents were only a few blocks away from the WTC when it was bombed in 1993. If we had only learned the right lessons about our vulnerability from that attack, just maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened.
Prayers and hugs go out to those who had loved ones or friends lost in those attacks (especially you, Paula)..

 

[crecia27]

I never even thought about children who never met their fathers. I was pregnant at the time even, we had our first prenantal class that night. It does seem like just yesterday. My husband said this morning "so, its been what 4 years?" HELLO, how old is your child? SO much has changed in the world since then!