Thread: remember today

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I was sitting on the couch, watching TV while my then-Girlfriend was getting ready to go to work. I was watching the Today Show and they announced that there was a plane crash and they cut away to a film crew on the scene. I told my GF to come look at what was going on. Like everyone else we thought it was some errant pilot who screwed up and hit the building.

A little while later, as my GF was walking out to her car to leave for work I watched the second plane crash into the other tower, and the confusion really set in. I remember running to the railing and yelling down to her about what had happened, she said "Oh my God, what is going on???????"

I started work at about 11 that day, and by the time I got to work there was a fog over every person there and me too. My emotions were a combination of confusion, anger, fear, and patriotism. By now the whole ugly scene was unfolding, including the other plane, and I remember saying "I hope we drop the big one on whoever did this and turn their country into a parking lot." We went to the electronics department and were all glued to a TV the whole day, and unable to fully comprehend what was happening.

Thanks for reminding me that today was 9/11, I had forgotten. I'll think back to that day often today and say a little prayer for the ones who lost their lives and their families and friends. If anything good came out of that it was that for a little while we all felt closer to our fellow Americans and were a little kinder to one another.

Don