Never Forget - When the World Stopped Turning: A 9/11 tribute

I was actually at work getting ready for a government inspection team to inspect us.  It was their first morning on site and we all caught the news and the team had to go back immediately to their respective installation.  They were not allowed to fly, of course, so they rented cars and returned.  I'll never forget it. And a great tribute song topdown. I just thought I would add where I was when it happened.

I was kind of lucky, we were in a briefing room with large screen TV and we all watched in shock.  And yes, the tribute does bring tears to your eyes.  I am an old softie anyway.  Thanks for posting that.

I was also at work but was ble to watch it all unfold on TV, only to find out later that a friend of my wife's was on flight 93, sad sad day. Like the rest of you, it's a day I'll never forget.

Cam

I was servicing an account on my route and I finished my inspection,I went to the employees lunch room and found everyone in there, I watched it and talked to people and then they hit the other tower,worst thing I think I have ever seen.

I was checking outta a motel in Denver, Co. when the 1st plane struck. Not knowing any better I left, heading towards Louisiana, to very empty highways.

My twin brother was in central Mexico on business and could not get a plane back into the states. He finally got a flight into Mexico City, rented a car, drove to Nogales and parked the car, walked across the border and rented another car and then drove from Arizona to Louisiana.

Nela

I'm sorry but I can't even watch the youtube tribute.  Still, nine years later, I can't get thru the day without a sinking feeling in my gut and some tears.  I'm grateful that I didn't know anyone who was killed on that day, but have friends and relatives who where unaccounted for but thankfully escaped.  We lived in the tri-state area and my husband worked in NYC.  I was working from home that day and he called to tell me to turn on the TV; I watched in horor as the 2nd plane hit, then flight 93, then the Pentegon, and as the towers fell.  I couldn't move from the TV.  Besides all the people in the buildings and on the street, I couldn't stop thinking about the people in the subways below the buildings. My husband's normal one hour commute took him nine that day.  I didn't know where he was most of the day as all phone service was cut out; he did manage to get a message to me that he was ok.  I used to work in that area years before so I was familiar with the buildings that were collapsing one by one.  The horor and the trama of 9/11/2001 and the days that followed (the Anthrax attacks) will never be forgotten.  It is still an open wound for the city.  Thank you for posting this tribute.

I was on the operating table at the hospital recieving a five-way heart bypass. I was surprised the doctors and nurses did such a good job on me with the T.V. news on during my surgery.
All I knew was I went to sleep with the U.S. at peace and I woke up in I.C.U. hearing the radio say we were at war. I asked everybody," How long was I out?"

On my way to work in the morning, I drove right past Dulles Airport.  I was used to seeing planes taking off and landing - huge overhead looking almost as if they were to land on the road.  That morning, a plane taking off went overhead and I got the shivers.  Later I learned that one of the planes had left Dulles about the time I was getting to work and I have always wondered if it was the one.  If I was able to feel the evil intent of the perpetrators in my car as it flew overhead.  I'll never know, but I've fairly convinced myself that it's the case.  '

Our campus included a government istallation that was important to the events of that day.  As I left, the guards who were always pleasant and waved had changed clothes to combat gear and were carrying machine guns.  Strict control of traffic was maintained.  It was spooky to leave and get on a highway and be the only one driving out there, excepting black Suburbans with government license plates, police cars, and tow trucks removing any and all abandoned vehicles. 

My wife and I sat on the edge of our bed, holding our four month old, wondering what kind of a world she was going to grow up in.  I don't think we left our bedroom all day - glued to the TV set as we were.