Comments on: We Remember

By: k

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:33:27 +0000

okay i know im sooo late on the comeup but 9/11 is actually around the corner now since its august now.

but damn i know im hella young compared to some ppl but i was in fourth grade when it happened. now im gonna be a sophmore in high school. but yeah i remember my mom woke me up hecka early, like an hour earlier than i usually wake up. i keep thinking it was at 5 o clock but thats probally wrong but anyways she woke me n my sister up n we went downstairs and she had it on like CNN. i remember it didtnt even register in my mind what was actually happening. like when ppl were jumping out of the buildings me n my sister were laughing. now i feel so stupid and ignorant for doing that. but after watching that we didnt do nothing in school that day just watch CNN. i only actually hit me when i was in eighth grade and we had to watch a documentary on it and some kids were laughing or just didnt care. but i was crying, it actually made me feel patriotic, how much you truly care for this country despite all the corruption in it. sorry for writing so much or for offending any body. my heart goes out to the family and friends who lost anybody.

By: natual hair girl

natual hair girl — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:52:01 +0000

Its always sad to think about that day. I hope we don’t have to go through that Again. let hope and pray!

By: Bree

Bree — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:48:35 +0000

Not trying to offend you but I think that the comment was uncalled for. You lost income, but people lost lives and family members. If I was you I would have ommitted that part because it was insensitive.

But as for me, I remember that day clearly. I was 18, and was due to start college a week after the attacks. I live in Chicago and was working at Marshalls. I remember a couple of people talking about bombs and terrorism. But I thought they was talking about something oversees so ignorantly I blew it off. My mom actually called me at work and asked me if I heard about the attacks. Ironically 9/11 is mother’s birthday. She orginally said that they had bombed the buildings in New York and that they were on their way to chicago and LA, because thats what she heard before she actually had the correct news. I immediately was ready to leave work. The whole mall and all the businesses too around chicago so it took me 2 hours to get home where as it would usually take only 20 minutes. When I got home my mom, dad and I laid in the bed and watched CNN the whole day. I remember thinking oh my God…I don’t feel safe. I didnt want to start school because my college was downtown Chicago near the Sears Tower and I was thinking it was next. It broke my heart watching the city full of smoke and the fact that people actually had to go thru that. All I could do is imagine my city going thru that. May all the people who lost their lives on 9/11 rest in peace.

By: LBellatrix

LBellatrix — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:37:48 +0000

In case anyone’s offended by my previous post…I don’t mean to offend. Of course this was a terrible tragedy that affected all of us deeply and profoundly. I was just mentioning one of the many ways it affected me (loss of income).

By: LBellatrix

LBellatrix — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:33:20 +0000

I was in my apartment in the south suburbs of Chicago, finishing up my yoga tape and about to start work (I was working from home then). My father called from Ohio to tell me about the cruise he and my mother had just returned from (remember how hard it was to get back into the country those first few days afterwards?). Normally I would have turned my TV off after yoga but I kept it on and had it on mute while I listened to him.
Then I saw a picture of a high-rise on fire and as I saw the distress on the anchors’ faces I asked my dad if he had his TV on. He didn’t, so he turned his on, and at about the time we’d figured out that a plane had hit one of the towers, we saw the second plane hit the other tower. Up until that point I’d thought it was a horrible accident, a terrific mistake…but when I saw the second tower get hit I knew immediately that we were under attack. And then shortly after that the Pentagon…my dad and I started flipping through news channels trying to figure out what the fuck was going on. Thankfully I was able to reach my NYC friend by that afternoon; she’d been in Midtown when it all went down. But for literally the next 36 hours I was glued to the TV. I only turned it off when I grew too physically ill to watch any more.
Ironically, I was working as a contractor at United Airlines at the time, and once 9/11 happened, all non-critical contracts were canceled, including mine. So, um, Osama? Where’s my MONEY, motherf***er???

By: crow

crow — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:31:17 +0000

I had just taken over as Director – Corporate Communications BWIA and we had direct information fed to us as we buzzed around the crisis centre looking for our two aircraft that had left the ground just minutes before the first impact…we didn’t find them immediately and rumours were hard to seperate from fact…the second one hit while we were still looking for one of ours – they were between the ground communication and the next signal range…that was a long few minutes.

By: Niki

Niki — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:03:59 +0000

I was on my way to work, catching the bus. I was in a rush and didn’t watch the news that morning, so I had no idea what an older lady on the bus was talking about when she said “It’s a shame. We can’t even be safe in this country any more.” And proceeded to talk about something involving planes and the World Trade Center. I couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
When I walked into my office building, I saw people standing around, all fervently speaking to each other. I asked the security guard what was going on and that I heard something about planes. He told me about the WTC, the Pentagon, and a third plane that may have been hijacked.
Our boss brought a TV out and kept it tuned to network news and we all had CNN.com up on our computers for any updates. I saw the second tower of the WTC fall live on TV–it was terrible knowing so many people were still inside. Over the next week, I was haunted by images of people jumping out of windows and the news playing the footage over and over again. I had some nightmares during that time. I remember being paranoid about opening mail (remember the anthrax scare?). I was in St. Louis, MO but I felt like a New Yorker that day.

By: Sweet

Sweet — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:39:21 +0000

I was a junior in high school when the towers fell. I remember being late that day and when I walked into class all eyes were glued on the TV. The class was silent. My parents pulled me out of school that day and later that evening we crowded around the TV and wept. My family members who lived in the area were all safe but that didn’t lessen the pain. So many emotions flooded through me that day; terror, confusion, fear, desperation… it felt so surreal. So many people lost…

By: simone

simone — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:35:31 +0000

i was running on the midway plaisance in chicago – training for my first marathon. when i came in there was a message from my mom telling me that there was a rumor that some planes had hit some buildings in the new york but that it just sounded like to wasn’t true. i don’t think i reacted. i turned on npr where it was revealed that something terrible had happened but, you know, for a while it wasn’t at all clear what was going on. the journalists were describing what they had seen and trying to make sense of it. i kept moving through the day. i don’t have a tv. i had a hair appointment, so i rode my bike up there to check in and everyone was there. all tvs were on. and we just watched.

i think that event more than any other ever made me feel the bubble of security and playfulness that shielded my life, as it burst. i dont’ feel safe. i feel alert, vulnerable, strong.

but i’d rather have knowledge–be aware of the world, be cautious about my privileges and comforts than be safe, comfortable and innocent like a child.

By: MoniMoni

MoniMoni — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:42:39 +0000

I have been waiting for this day to end.

Simply put, Due to a banking error that I had to immediately take care of, I was late for work.

I worked right across the street, at the World Financial Center (aka WFC). I have told story too many times, and really do not want to get into details. But I will say this: I knew 4 people who died. Mind you, when the first set of attacks in ‘93 went down, I had just left the Trade Center (WTC). I went back to work at WFC after a year and a half layoff, and I just quit working there 2 months ago. I kept having eerie feelings being in area, (along with health issues). I must have a hell of an intuition, cause last month the Dutche Bank Building burned AGAIN. (It should have been torn down 6 years ago!) To tell you the truth, I have never been on time to work since then. The “progress” of all the condominiums, new office buildings going up (all around the “renewal” area made me sick; I see it a greed, greed, greed. Thousand of people have health issues, and their putting up million dollar penthouses. I hung in as long as I could, but I had to leave, I WILL NEVER WORK LOWER MANHATTAN AREA AGAIN!!!

Bless the all victims of WTC, Pentagon and United 93 (Pennsylvania). *bows head in silence*