Remembering Sept. 11th... (1 Viewer)

[Keys Myaths]

I hate telling this story, but I always do anyway.

I was an RA in the dorms. Sophomore year of college. On Sept. 10th, three of my residents came knocking on my door at 7:30, well before I was awake, wanting directions to a building on campus. I had given them all maps, and taken them all on a tour, so I was pretty upset to be woken up. I was nice about it, surprisingly--just asking them next time they had a problem like this, do it the night before, or sometime when I'm not sleeping.

The next day, I didn't have class, and had an Italian test at 12:00. I'm not sure what time it was, but I heard another knock on my door. I was asleep--so I wrapped myself in my comforter and answered the door, with a pretty angry look on my face.

Three of my residents were there, crying. Two were from NYC. Thankfully, their families ended up being okay. The third girl, however, said something that still makes my heart sink:

"I think my parents were on one of the planes. I can't reach them."

It was the worst day of my life. We spent hours trying to call and figure out what happened, until the police showed up asking for her.

I can't imagine what it was like for her when those people came to tell her that her suspicions were true. Terrorists had killed her parents.

Oh, and I'd like to still give a big f-you to the Italian professor who gave me a 0 for not showing up for the test.

 

[tommyboy]

i was driving to work at 6AM (9am EST) and heard on the radio that a plane had hit the WTC, it was being reported as an accident at that moment.

I go to work we have morning meeting 6:30 AM (9:30 EST) and we come out around 6:45 and its all over the office there's a terrorist attack underway in NYC as WTC 2 was hit. There's 2 televisions in our office, one in the conference room and one in the presidents office, both rooms are filled with people watching CNN live and seeing the horror. Some people are on the internet (myself included) trying to dig for info. Its really shock. A short while later WTC 2 goes down. Soon after WTC1 goes down. Now its more than shock, its numbing. People are freaking out. You've got planes in the air, apparently the Pentagon is hit and flight 93 goes down. It was about that time, and I'll never forget this, the president of the company comes out to the floor and says "Its been a rough morning, now lets get back on the phones and sell". It was like the guy was some subhuman peice of crap that was incapable of empathy. I'll never forget that. People did that for a short while but by lunch around 11:30 the office was emptying and by 1PM it was shut down.

 

[Skipdog77]

I was at work like most - My cousin just started a dream job working in the towers PICS.... At 1st also, like most we thought it was a small cessna and not much would happen - When you 1st got the news there was no way you imagined what was about to happen....

We hoped for the best....

He started a web site not too long before that date and the messages will always give me chills.....

Paul's Site

Paul, I hope to god that you are ok. You are my brother and always will be. Andy

Andrew Finiasz <afiniasz@hotmail.com>

binghamton, ny USA - Wednesday, September 12, 2001 at 10:14:29 (PDT)

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Paul, we're really worried about you down here at the good old H. Please let us know you're alright.

Nicholas E. Venti <nick@whrwfm.org>

Binghamton, NY USA - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 20:35:33 (PDT)

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Paul, where are you? Are you okay? I have been trying to get in touch with you. If anyone reads this message and has any information or contact/phone information on Paul, please email me ASAP.

Erin <brownee@georgetown.edu>

Washington, DC USA - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 10:47:56 (PDT)

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Hey Paul are you alright? You weren't in there were you?

Fluffhead <nick@whrwfm.org>

Binghamton, NY USA - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 10:14:16 (PDT)

Damn...my wife works at his old University. And the year he graduated, she was in charge of the Commencement ceremonies. Seeing those pics on his site are sobering. Very sad.

 

[kentric]

I was working in mid-town Manhattan. Was working when the people I work with and I heard that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I figured it was a Cessna or other smaller plane. Then we found out it was a large passenger plane. We were listening on the radio with a female co-worker who was rather distraught as her brother worked in one of the WTC buildings (found out later that he had died). It was a terrible day as I have a brother and sister in law who worked at American Express in one of the WTC buildings (WTC 5 I think). My bro-in-law said he saw people keep jumping out of the towers but that he got out ok. My sister-in-law was late to work and was walking toward the first Tower fell. She ended up finding refuge in a building a couple of blocks from the towers but it took her hours to get in touch with us and she was totally covered in the white dust many had been covered with. I believe she still keeps the outfit she wore in plastic with the dust remaining on it.

 

[regularguy]

I was at work like most - My cousin just started a dream job working in the towers PICS.... At 1st also, like most we thought it was a small cessna and not much would happen - When you 1st got the news there was no way you imagined what was about to happen....

We hoped for the best....

He started a web site not too long before that date and the messages will always give me chills.....

Paul's Site

Paul, I hope to god that you are ok. You are my brother and always will be. Andy

Andrew Finiasz <afiniasz@hotmail.com>

binghamton, ny USA - Wednesday, September 12, 2001 at 10:14:29 (PDT)

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Paul, we're really worried about you down here at the good old H. Please let us know you're alright.

Nicholas E. Venti <nick@whrwfm.org>

Binghamton, NY USA - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 20:35:33 (PDT)

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Paul, where are you? Are you okay? I have been trying to get in touch with you. If anyone reads this message and has any information or contact/phone information on Paul, please email me ASAP.

Erin <brownee@georgetown.edu>

Washington, DC USA - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 10:47:56 (PDT)

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Hey Paul are you alright? You weren't in there were you?

Fluffhead <nick@whrwfm.org>

Binghamton, NY USA - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 10:14:16 (PDT)

Jesus.This is flat out devestating. Thank you so much for sharing this with us- I don't even have the words to describe how much this just put me back into that day in a way that, even living here in NYC, I didn't think I'd experience.

I'm frigging crying here.

And he didn't even post the message from Mom at the top.

 

[Reaper]

Oh, and I'd like to still give a big f-you to the Italian professor who gave me a 0 for not showing up for the test.

Crazy...I had Bass lessons that night and... As I posted above my cousin is missing...So I call in to tell my teacher I won't be in and his wife picks up and replies "Are you kidding me, you can't just stop your life after something bad happens.... Beside we had it coming to us"....I couldn't get words out of mouth at that point........

 

[Usual21]

I was at work like most - My cousin just started a dream job working in the towers PICS.... At 1st also, like most we thought it was a small cessna and not much would happen - When you 1st got the news there was no way you imagined what was about to happen....

We hoped for the best....

He started a web site not too long before that date and the messages will always give me chills.....

Paul's Site

Paul, I hope to god that you are ok. You are my brother and always will be. Andy

Andrew Finiasz <afiniasz@hotmail.com>

binghamton, ny USA - Wednesday, September 12, 2001 at 10:14:29 (PDT)

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Paul, we're really worried about you down here at the good old H. Please let us know you're alright.

Nicholas E. Venti <nick@whrwfm.org>

Binghamton, NY USA - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 20:35:33 (PDT)

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Paul, where are you? Are you okay? I have been trying to get in touch with you. If anyone reads this message and has any information or contact/phone information on Paul, please email me ASAP.

Erin <brownee@georgetown.edu>

Washington, DC USA - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 10:47:56 (PDT)

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Hey Paul are you alright? You weren't in there were you?

Fluffhead <nick@whrwfm.org>

Binghamton, NY USA - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 10:14:16 (PDT)

Jesus.This is flat out devestating. Thank you so much for sharing this with us- I don't even have the words to describe how much this just put me back into that day in a way that, even living here in NYC, I didn't think I'd experience.

I'm frigging crying here.

And he didn't even post the message from Mom at the top.

WOW. Just read Mom's message at the top. =(

 

[snogger]

Sitting at work and I happen to be on CNN's web site before it "crashed".

Called wife who didn't have the T.V. on so told her to turn it on as I can't get any info here at work.

She's watching as the 2nd plane hits.. then informs me of the Pentagon crash.. She start relaying how they are concerned about other planes including one near Seattle..

Not a lot of work being done so I'm basically relaying the info to other co-workers who can't get online to read it either...

Wife tells me "ONE OF THE BUILDINGS JUST FELL DOWN!!!!!"..

My first response was "oh, part of it fell down??".. "No the whole building!!!".. I'm still sitting here disbelieving thinking that part of it must have collapsed as I can't fathom a building that size "falling down"..

Then the next building comes down.. At this point I told her I had to go as it was too difficult to listen to it and relay it to co-workers as I was in complete .

 

[Please See Mine]

I was working in Yellowstone Park. I had worked until 6 am and was sleeping. GF called at noon and made people come wake me up. I was half-asleep as she's telling me about it and I was like, I think you're overreacting a little, it's probably nothing.

Nobody who was there really seemed to care about it. I felt strange because I am from Philadelphia and my family was there, so it was a little unsettling as to what would happen next.

Later that day, some old guy whose whole job was to drive around a '74 station wagon and collect cardboard said "Now we're gonna go after Saddam." I'm like, ok, whatever man, figuring he was insane.

 

[Reaper]

Wife tells me "ONE OF THE BUILDINGS JUST FELL DOWN!!!!!"..

I think that is when it REALLY hit home......Many of us grew up looking at those towers and it was just unimaginable to think they could ever fall.It was just a Heavy, paralyzing feeling to hear that news.

 

[Strumey]

I was in the hospital with my wife while she was having our daughter. I know I have posted the story here before, but it was a strange day with such high and low emotions. friends of ours were calling us just to "talk to someone who had some good news"

We got to the hospital at 6:30am CT. 8:30am the nurse comes in the room just as I was about to take a little nap on the couch. She tells us to turn on CNN cause a plane crashed into the WTC. A few minutes later, we watch the 2nd one crash into it live. During the deliver it was...

wife, me, nurses, doctor: [watching tv]

doctor: PUSH!!

wife, me, nurses, doctor: [watching tv]

doctor: PUSH!!

wife, me, nurses, doctor: [watching tv]

doctor: PUSH!!

wife, me, nurses, doctor: [watching tv]

doctor: PUSH!!

wife, me, nurses, doctor: [watching tv]

doctor: PUSH!!

Wife: baby!

 

[Sabertooth]

I'm a teacher and that day was just like any other. As I was walking my students down to the library, I overheard the secretary say that a plane had hit one of the towers. When I got to the library, I asked the librarian to turn on the TV. Like alot of people, I thought a Small prop plane or cessna had hit the building like what happened with that Cory Lidle last year. When she turned on the TV, it was exactly at the same time that the 2nd plane hit. I yelled "HOLY SH__!!" in front of my students. I was so shocked that I forgot where I was. Streams of parents came in to get their kids. One of the secretaries lost her sister-in-law and one student lost his Mom. I will never forget waiting with that student for his Grandma to pick him up.

Wow.

 

[El Floppo]

bump

:(

 

[Gawain]

I am very sad that I don't have a copy of the FBG thread from that day (I believe it was still the yellow board). If anyone has it cached, I'd appreciate a PM.

 

[tommyboy]

I am very sad that I don't have a copy of the FBG thread from that day (I believe it was still the yellow board). If anyone has it cached, I'd appreciate a PM.

check the internet wayback machine