I remember.

[forHISglory]

I remember.
I can't forget.

Where were you 10 years ago today?

[Daisygirl]

I was in our basement recroom with my baby, who was 11 months old at the time. I was feeding her. I had just taken her big sister to school. I turned on the TV to the image of the first plane hitting. I thought it was a horrible accident - like lost communication or a plane malfunction. Then the next plane hit. Then another.

I cried, because I was in another country and my former home and playground, NYC, was under attack.

[Ramona]

I was sleeping in and woke to a phone call from my BFF. I asked if the pilot had a heart attack. She said, "Oh, look at the television."

The world as I knew it changed forever.

[oheoh's momma]

I was running late no coffee or news. Turned on my car and it was on the radio It was like 10 in the morning I never made it were I was going. I called a friend of the family and their son worked at the Pentagon it was his day off. Very quiet here we are in a rural area. NO planes no cars just silence.

[mh3rdwheel]

10 years ago, was like yesterday, I dropped the kids at their schools, then was going thru Bridgeport, Ohio (Greebo you know where I mean), I was going over I-70 from Howard Street over to Route 40 then I heard over the radio. I worked at a car dealership, when I wentto do the titles the title dept had a tv hooked up and we stood there watching, when I got back to the car lot, everything was shut down.

Flight 93 flew over my area, that is very scary. I listened to the tv last night and listened to the last messages of the people in the towers right before they fell.

[hotprincesscm]

I was driving to the grocery store with my then 2 year old son and I was pregnant with my youngest. I thought it was a joke...when I heard it on the radio...because the radio station I listened to at the time, had a tendency to bring the very early listeners(6am) on a joke that they would play on the not so early listeners...they would come up with emergencies or other weird stuff and talk about it all serious on the radio and they would have people call in and kinda play along to convince other people of the fake emergency, etc. So I thought that's what it was...I did my grocery shopping and errands and went home, then I turned on the tv...and realized that it was no joke...I just stood there staring at the tv in shock...couldn't move or speak or anything....and then I remember thinking about my unborn son and what kind of world I was going to bring him into. I have puposely not watched any of the coverage or remembrance specials on tv this week....for the simple reason...that I don't want to be forced back into that depressed, shocked and helpless state of mind. I will never forget...I will always think of all the helpless souls lost in that awful tragedy.

[Ashley01]

I was in music class, grade 8. Our teacher turned on the radio and we listened to the reports. It still seems so unreal.

[Josephhgoins]

IN 95 I started with my current employer, a Department of Defense Contractor. We work with all sorts of people in the military.

When the first one hit I was sitting at my desk and a coworker looked over at me with a look of bewilderment and said "a plane just hit the twin towers" I said that it was probably just a little cessna and I hope everyone was alright, I hate the pilot probably died.

I then went outside to do Fire Extenguisher training. As I was standing there, the President of our company beside me our Sales Manager walked out and whispered something in his ear. He said what, she repeated and he said what a second time and finally a third. She then Yelled "A Jet has hit the twin towers" we then went inside and he turned on the news. Shortly there after he made an annoucement and even though we are in southern VA, several people had to call family members just to make sure they were ok.

We closed early that day as production had ground to a halt. I was in a Biology class that was cancelled that evening. No announcement was made and I went to the school anyway, I remember that all the curches I passed were packed and I couldn't figure out why.

[madhen]

Ironically, I was driving to the World Trade Center in Los Angeles.

[daylily]

We were still living in our 5th wheel trailer, we hadn't built our house yet. DD2 was in college. DH had gone to his physical therapy appointment. DS and I were getting ready to pick corn to can. He was in the bathroom and I had the TV on watching Bloomberg TV.

I forget the reporter's name but I still remember the look of shock and pain when he said that a jet had just flown into the tower. He had a lady reporter on the phone that had an office in the bottom of the other tower. She reported hearing a loud noise and he told her to get out. She said "I think I will!" Apparently she did. I will never forget that man trying to hold his emotions in check and report the news. You could tell it was a struggle for him. He said he had many friends that worked in the towers. I always think of him with admiration because of the way he kept himself together and didn't just freak out.

I yelled to DS that a jet had hit the twin towers in NYC and he cam running to see what I was talking about. We never did pick the corn. We couldn't pull ourselves away from the TV!

[forHISglory]

"Defining moments": Those moments that you will never forget. Every detail is burned into your consciousness. You can recall who you were with, where you were, the sounds, the temperature, the colors. In some way, this moment changed your life.

Ten years ago today I was teaching a journalism class. So many of my defining moments have happened while I was in school: JFK's assasination, The Challenger explosion, the OK City bombing... And then: 9-11. Ironic.... a journalism class deals with news. But this was more than mere news. One student, Phil, was watching TV to gather news headlines. He informed me of the crash. I dismissed it as minor. Then he informed me again. Now it was major. My students looked at me with fearful eyes.

I gulped, and remembered my parents and grandparents talking about Pearl Harbor and the invasion on our soil. It was suddenly deja vu all over again. The whole school joined in prayer, and then we somehow muddled through the day. I didn't teach; I couldn't. I just kept staring out the window into the perfect fall day drenched with sunshine and tried to wrap my mind around the horror half a continent away.

The day before, I had taken my car into the shop. They gave me a loaner: a behometh moby dick, a huge white whale of a SUV, and told me to return it with a full gas tank the next day. Alas. I waited until after school to fill the hungry beast, and by then, gasoline had shot up to $5 a gallon. Plus I had to wait in line over an hour to get to the tanks. People were standing with gas cans between the cars that spilled out of the filling station lot and down the street. The skies were becoming silent with the grounding of air traffic, but the radio more than made up the chatter.

All over the area, families were gathering and churches were filling. But I was stuck at school for back to school night. I was probably a bit incoherent that night; I just wanted to be home. When I finally arrived home, I just grabbed my husband and we held each other silently.

Defining moments change us. I felt that innocence was stripped from me and replaced with cynciism and distrust. I felt that someone had broken into my home and stolen my most precious items. In the past, I had enjoyed meeting people from other cultures and forming friendships. Now I viewed anyone who looked middle eastern with uneasiness. I felt exploited. I also learned that I began to cherish the small moments of life, and that I didn't want to let go of hugs. My family had always been inportant to me, but now they were in my thoughts continually. I found myself praying for them more and more. I can't forget.

[many houseapes]

I was about 6 months pregnant w HA #8...helping the children w/ their language lessons at the kitchen table when dh called me from work after the first plane hit the towers. I told him "It has to be terrorists". He called me back a short time later to tell me that a second plane had hit & that my speculation was right....a few minutes later,calling again to say that the Pentagon had been hit & that another plane had crashed in a field.
We cut the school day short & watched the news. My older 2 sons were teenagers -not old enough to enlist- but they were so angry that they wanted me to sign papers so they could enlist.My little girls wanted to go give blood for the victims and send whatever stuffed animals that we could to the children who lost their parents.
I am still so sick over what happened to our country that day...and to think that 10 yrs later, the type of people that share the views of the ones who hijacked those planes...they are imbedded within our administration deeper than ever before, trying to take our beloved country down from the inside.I'm not trying to create a political stink here....but I am saddened from what I remember...and what I continue to see happening within our nation.

[fernykins]

I was watching TV while my kids were getting ready for school. At first we thought it was a joke. My youngest so was in 10th grade and thats all they did all day was watch TV. That there are all these evil people out there that could do something so terrible. My niece lost a friend in the pentagon that day. Even after 10 years just thinking about it makes me cry.
Fern

[Sophia]

A day late to post. sorry. I was in the waiting area waiting for my youngest son who was 3 at the time to finish speech.They had the tv on and I watched the planes crash in to the trade centers. I went out and called my dh on the cell phone and he had got an e-mail and had watched it onthe computer he had heard about it. I don't think anyone will ever forget where they were that day. Still tears me up to think about it. TC

[shoiji]

I had just opened the blinds thinking how beautiful it was outside. Made a cup of coffee and turned on the Today Show. Sat in horrow watching everything unfold not knowing if I should be doing something to be safe.