Where were you on that day, September 11th 2001?
I was in Parisppany, NJ working for a utility consultant firm. The whole business stopped and tuned in CNN. I saw this video on that day. I will never forget that day, I will never forget the emotion that it cause me to feel. I was scared, angry, confused, enraged. I remember my employer at the time asking us to leave work and to go home to be with our families.
When I left work I stopped at a store, it was strangely quiet everywhere. I made it home where I spent the rest of the day listening to the radio as I worked in my basement. My most vivid memory of the day is just how beautiful the weather was that day. Such a beautiful day for such a horrific attack to happen.
We must never forget. The terrorists took more than our friends and family that were in the planes, Towers, or the Pentagon. They took our feeling of security away. I am thankful to all those men and women who stepped up to help after this horrible event to help give us back some of what we lost.
Please remember this day, I know it is tough to think about how vulnerable and scared we all felt that day but a bigger tragedy will happen if we forget. It will likely happen again, history has a way of repeating itself. Please remember this day.
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Oct 05, 2010 @ 14:10:21
I lived in Staten Island, right across the harbor. My kids were on their buses, I was getting ready to head off to work, when…
the morning was a muddle of trying to figure out who was where, how…why… then I got a call from my daughter’s (Dx Downs) school: the Verrazano bridge was closed, Brooklyn ASD students couldn’t get home, and I was the only parent with a relatively ASD-proof house. The kids ended up at my house, which was actually therapeutic: changed my focus from bombs/planes/dead people to kids.