The September 11th attacks. 6 years ago, so many innocents lost their lives. Many additional lives lost in the aftermath, especially of those fighting to keep the battle off our soils.

Do you remember hearing the news? How did you hear? Did you lose someone in the attacks or in subsequent military action? Are you afraid today?

Prayers to those who have lost....heartfelt thanks to those who carry out the battle still today.....hopes that this will end and peace will come.

cj/

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I remember the day very clearly. I was up getting my daughter ready for school and the tv was on. I always had the sound off because of the baby and saw the scenes with the Towers. I remember thinking what has happened now. I didnt realize the impact of what was happening and just thought it was another plane accident!

I remember feeling shocked that someone could actually do such horrible things. I had a doctor appt that day and was going to cancel but was encouraged to go anyway. Im not really afraid, but concerned. I really cant live in fear and stop living because of what happened. Even though it still affects me and saddens me at times.

One strange thing though.. I remember that day being the most sunny day I have ever seen. I live in Ohio and I guess for September that was just very very unusual.

My heart goes out to the families and others deeply affected by this. Peace to you all...

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I first heard about it here at MyCoupons ,from then on I was glued to channel CNN for over a year.I always thought it was weird that the date this happened on was 911.

I was in Pittsburgh visiting my mom while my husband was still in NY. He worked in the Empire State building at the time. I just remember my Aunt calling my mom and asking her where we were and to put on the news.
I kept telling my mom at first that it HAD to be flight control messed up, that a small plane got lost somehow and the wind swept it into the building.
Never imagining the real evil behind it.

I remember how sick I felt not being able to see if my husband was in the city that day because all of the phone lines were down for a while. Then the calls made to our friend who worked in the Deutsche Bank on the lower levels of the towers to see if they were ok ( yes, she was, thankfully)


It was VERY scary to fly home to LGA airport with our daughter.
I felt it was going to happen again. And to see the smoke rising from our beautiful city was disgusting.


Seeing the desperate people looking for family/friends with posters hung up was sad.

Coming into the city to see the miles of letters and photos taped to walls/gates everywhere..the police and fire stations knowing they were missing entire teams of men... I've never seen anything like it.


I also wanted to add- I can't believe how naive I was at the time. I felt when recovery efforts started they would just start discovering hoards of people alive in these cavernous areas under the rubble.

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Sitting on the floor at work, listening to the radio because the Internet was slammed. DH and I had just found out we were pregnant again. I had the most awful, "My God, what kind of world I am bringing this child into?" feeling.

Keeping all of those victims and their families in my thoughts and prayers today.

I was at work outside of Baltimore. I worked 60 miles south of NY, 30 miles NW of the Pentagon and 1 mile south of the Abrdine Proving grounds. I even remember what was said between my mom and I as she gave me reports and updates.

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I was at my sisters house babysitting my 5 month old nephew. I was watching the Today show and Matt Lauer was in the middle of a story about plane 1 hitting the first building. We were waiting to see what kind of an accident it was when he said.. Oh My God another plane has just hit.. It looks as if we are under attack. I ran upstairs and got my baby nephew and held him tight. They grounded the flights in cleveland where my sister worked. I called her and she could not get out of her building due to lock down. I still cannot watch the carnage on television w/o getting tears in my eyes.

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ds was 3 months old, and at the top of the hour when NPR news came on the radio, i heard and proceeded to turn on the TV. i couldn't believe it, and i was going through PPD from ds so i was a mess. we ended up going to the park at 10am and taking a long walk, away from it all. like another poster mentioned, the weather was eerily beautiful. the sky was so blue.

I remember the day just like it was yesterday. I was driving to buy groceries when the first plane hit. I had just gotten into the store when the 2nd plane hit. It was on every radio station, so I listened as I grabbed groceries as fast as I could. I flew home and was glued to CNN and here most of the day.

I remember being very sad and crying because I was just devastated. No one I personally knew was at the towers that horrid day. But just knowing so many wonderful people were lost for something so ridiculous really bothered me. I remember doing the pros of cons in my head of going to the school and getting my kids to be home with me. (I should have because they came home scared to death.)

Not to mention the following time and the insanity everyone went through. Storing food, plastic...

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I will never ever forget that day. I was on the phone with my mother and as i was talking to her i saw a plane go in to the building and my jaw just dropped. I didn't know what happend at first, but when i heard it was terrorist attack i was scared thinking something else could happen. I thank and apreciate all the military that is out there today and my heart goes out to all the families that lost their loved ones on this day. Sad sad day today.

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Everyone's post made me start crying......It was a very sad and horrific day, and I remember every detail of my day, DH was gone, and I was afraid he would be deployed somewhere w/o even getting to see him before.......but the thing I remember the most are the days afterwards when flags were everywhere, and the goodness we saw in so many people.

Let us always remember with honor and pride those who were lost, those who mourn those lost and those who are still sacrificing their lives today.

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What a horrible day. I was home with 2 of the kids, and d/h called me from work to tell me to turn on CNN. I just sat on my bed and cried, then had to turn it off and try to keep it together like everyone else.

I remember standing out on my lawn with all my neighbors, while we decided who was or was not going to take their children out of school, discussed who we knew in the City that day and tried to use our phones to find out whether people were okay. One of my neighbors had just moved down from North Jersey, and her old neighborhood lost so many.

I also remember having to figure out how in the *&(^ to explain this to my older kids without scaring them to death.

And watching the sky. The absence of planes was surreal and terrifying.

My prayers today are with all the families affected by 9/11.

My oldest had just started kindergarten and I was coming home from dropping her off when I over heard something on it, I came home to the phone ringing and a message on the machine saying turn on the TV. I was 3 months pregnant with my youngest (who just started kindergarten this year), my dh's found out while the towers were coming down that his company was sold, it was a tough day in many ways. (although the sale did work out)

I was in a business class. The director of the school said we were to all go home that the "Pentagon had just been attacked. That our country is under attack." She was crying when she got on the PA system.

I came home that day and watched the TV and was just shocked at what happened. I picked up my then 2nd grader from school after I heard that a plane went down in PA.

Watching the stories, movies, etc always brings tears to my eyes. For the lives lost, for the people that are grieving. The hate that these people have for us simply because we are Americans is sad.

It's also hard for me since I have a "911 baby." Eryn was the baby that I prayed for. The baby that I longed to have for almost five years. I truly believe that she was given to us because of this tragedy. It's weird for me to explain it. Don't get me wrong, I'm so thankful that I was given her, but I never dreamed that I would get pregnant with the child I longed for for so long after thousands lost their lives. <sigh>

I'll never forget that day. I'll never forget that thousands of people died that day. We didn't know anyone that died. A lady I was in school w/ her husband was supposed to be at one of the towers for a meeting that morning, but he got up late and didn't go. That was about as close to "home" as it got for us personally.

Am I afraid now? Not of a terrorist attack, more so of something happening at one of my kid's schools.

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and announcing......
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and 21 3/4 inches long on 10/13/09!

I was at work. There was a fire in the computer room, and we closed, as the first plane hit the tower.

I listened to the news the rest of the day, week, and month.

I was in contact with someone whose son has asthma, and it was flaring for a LONG time after. (as they were close to the towers)

I havent talked to her in years

jason

Yes..we were in an RV park in Golden, CO

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I was at home taking care of our newborn, when a dear friend of mine called me and asked me if I had been watching Today Show, I told her no, she told me to go turn it on. At that time only one plane had hit the towers. We hung up about 5 or 10 minutes later, as soon as we did the next plane had hit the second tower, we called each other back immediately. Both of our DH were stationed with the 82nd at Fort Bragg, and we had no idea what would happen from that point on. About 2 hours later, she told me to come over with the baby, since we had just gotten word that our DH were on high alert and wouldn't be coming home in the near future. It was such a weird feeling driving on post on Sept 11, in those two hours the post went from a pleasant community to having hummers with machine guns mounted on the back, stationed outside the schools. I remembering everyone was so panicked thinking that one of the military bases would be a target, as terrible as that day was, I do look back now and think it could of been worse. We have no idea how many others planes could of been hijacked, the death toll could of been in 10,000 like first thought.

Since then DH has only been sent to Afghanistan, a war I support! I honestly don't know how I would of felt if he had been ordered to go to Iraq. He recently retired with 24 yrs at the end of June, so I don't have to worry about that anymore. I now just worry about my dear friends husband and friends of ours who are currently serving in Iraq, and pray for all the families we know who have lost someone in Iraq.

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I remember it clearly. I was teaching (I live in Silver Spring, MD a few miles from the DC border) with my classroom doors closed. The office was next to my classroom. At 10:00 am, I opened the door so we could go to the bathroom. The art teacher was in the hall and said to me "Their bombing the whole country." I had no idea what she was talking about. She explained what had happened in NY and the Pentagon. I happen to have a student in my room whose father worked at the Pentagon on some days. It was the other 5th grade teacher's son. I asked him if his father was going there today. Luckily, he was not there that day.( The plane hit near the area that he usually worked in). Then I went into my partner's room because I knew she was from NY. She had a brother who was a fireman (He was on vacation that day.) Parents started coming to get there kids. Most of them were crying. We were finally told that we should only tell the kids that something happened in NY. My class went to music class so I then tried called my husband but you could not get a dial tone (I bought a cell phone the next day). School closed at 11:00 but it took many parents longer to get to school. Some of the parents took the DC metro to work so they had problems getting out of DC. My dh came from Baltimore to pick me up but I could not leave until all students were pick up which was about 1:30 pm. Our ds was in the military at the time as a nurse at Walter Reed Hospital. He had off that day but he got through to my dh to tell me that he was called to the hospital and that they told him to pack a bag since they were not sure when he would be able to go home. (he only stayed that day) The army asked him to go to the Pentagon to help remove bodies. He went not that day but a few days later to help in the first aid tent for workers (so he got to see the Pentagon close up) School was called off for Wed. and Thurs. On Friday, we had a planned professional day for all the Catholic school teachers in a hotel in DC. So the students did not come to school. Most of the teachers did not want to go a Friday. We were all scare. But they made us go. I went so I could been seen and then left ( I had to take the Metro). On that day late in the afternoon and evening, all we could hear were fighter jets flying over head ( all planes were grounded except fighter jets esp. over DC)

It was a sad day but I was happy that all our students got home safely. Most families in our school were lucky but some lost family members.

I was watching the morning news waiting for my two younger kids to leave for school. We saw footage of the first plane hit and thought it was an accident but a weird one. Just as the kids were walking out the door the second plane hit. My husband and I knew right then that it was no accident, we were under attack. Living close to Chicago was scary. They really thought we were next. I wanted to go get my kids but the schools were on lock down.. no one in, no one out. I have never been so afraid in my life. I really can't even imagine how europeans lived through the world wars.

I too remember it being a very mild but sunny September day. It seemed ironic that the weather was so pretty when such horror was going on.

I agree with all the other posters about the sky being so blue. My daughter, then 8, had just left for school. I drove to the store to buy a coffee. As I was driving, I heard on the radio the news. I wasen't sure if it was a joke or not. When I got to the store, I had asked the clerk if he heard anything. He confirmed the news. I got home just after the second plane hit. I immediately turned on the news and was stunned, shocked, scared, confused, angry and very, very, very sad for all those people who had suffered that day. I remember being glued to the TV for over 3 months.

As I watched the news today, I cried the same tears I cried 6 year ago. My heart goes out to each of the families that were affected that day and all the families that have been affected since.

May peace come to our planet soon!!

Judi

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"Try to see the glass half-full."

We live only about an hour from NYC and they were calling for volunteers from the local fire departments and rescue squads to go in and help. DH wasn't on the fire department at that time, I was due with DS and had him 6 days later, but we still just wanted to go and help. We were so close and being called for something so important, made me want to go even 9 months pregnant.

Today as I was driving DD to school, they played one of the songs that was written for 911 and it gave me goosebumps. I wish all of the flags still flew and everyone was as patriotic and unified as we were on and after that day.


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I was at work in a call center. One of my coworkers told me a plane hit the WTC. I assumed it was a little Cesna or something. Then the second plane hit. Someone pulled the tv out of the conference room and we were all around it, watching. When the tower started to fall I saw it live and everyone was saying OMG! OMG!

The phones were pretty dead and when they did ring it was usually someone from the West Coast who had not turned on their tv yet. I was telling people to turn on the tv and call back later.

We were sent home from work early.

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I remember that day well. I was getting ready for work when the first plane hit, I thought it was an accident. I dropped the kids off at school went to work and heard more as I was listening to the radio driving. I got to work (I work on a military base) it was an open base at that time, but not after 9-11. There was a electronics section in the store where I work so I was contstantly walking over to check on what was going on. After few hours I decided to leave work early because we had all our cell phone service cut off (I am assuming this was secrity measures taken by the base, also no internet service) the phone lines were just overused you couldn't make a call. I couldn't reach my DH or my adult DD or my teenager. I went outside and there were military personel everywhere, every 50 feet or so carrying M-16's surrounding every building on the base, blockades had been put up and you could not get a vehicle within so many feet of a building. As I was leaving the base you could see armed guards searching every car that came onto the base, long lines of people trying to get on the base, tanks with soldiers in them at the gates just guarding. I was almost on empty, I needed to get gas, the gas lines were several blocks long and gas had gone up to $5.00 agallon. I was just talking to my other adult DD tonight about this, she was in 9th grade at the time, their school went into lockdown mode, they all had to stay in home room for whole day, meals were brought to their classrooms, same with the elementary where I had a kindergartener. The scariest part for me was not having cell phone service and internet it was just totally blocked off and scrambled, I know this didn't happen in other areas, so I am guessing it was because we live near a military base.

We put up a flag that day and have had one up since that day. It was amazing to see flags on every house for about a year. Then it was only some houses in the area. Now we are the only house in our neighborhood that flys a flag.

While I was at school and my dh was in Baltimore, my dd was at the local community college. My ds was called to Walter Reed and my dil was at Children's Hospital in DC (she heard the plane crash into the pentagon). My other son lived in TX. We could not get dial tones on our phones for most of the day. The next day I went to buy a cell phone because I wanted to be able to contact my family. Of course, I would not have been able to get through on such a day. The following Oct. we had to deal with the sniper for 3 weeks.