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Today’s blog topic: What were your first thoughts, 12 years ago today, when the twin towers and Pentagon were struck? The winners will be selected by random draw and will be announced tomorrow morning.
We are going to war. Sad as it may seem.
Tom
That the world is beginning to come to an end! 🙁
Unbelief! How could this ever happen in America!
I was living in England at the time. My reaction was of disbelief. It was hard to take in the images and reports. My wife and I, or the first time in our travels, felt homesick.
To get home as quickly as I can and hug my family. Couldn’t believe the fact that my employer at the time did not want to cancel a district meeting that afternoon, our minds were elsewhere, thankfully I am not with them now.
…I was terrified to see these structures crumbling down. Structures that represent the might of the strongest economy in the world! Sad sad state of affairs!
How could this be happening!
I was walking by the television when I saw the first tower hit by the plane, thinking it was an accident. When I saw the plane go into the second tower I knew at once it was no accident. The phone rang, it was my 37 year old daughter saying “Mom, I am scared” and I answered “I am too honey” Then with the plane 93 headed back over Pennsylvania, she asked if she should go get her two children from school and I advised her to go get them. We live in Pittsburgh, Pa., and shortly after, the flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pa. not too far from all of our family. Our hearts sank and put fear into all of us forever. What a terrible day.
Total disbelief. It had to be an accident. Then the second plane struck. Sudden realization that U.S. was under attack. When the first tower fell, it was an overwhelming sickness at the thought of all the lost lives. The people where I work watching the TV couldn’t talk.
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I was told of the twin towers disaster while I was working with no access to any television coverage. My first thoughts were this must have been a small plane where a pilot had some medical problem and blacked out. When I saw the live pictures of the first plane, I could not stop thinking of the scores of people dead or those trapped in the burning building.
My first thought was “This is the start of a lot of attacks.” Living in Houston at the time, I thought the refineries were easy targets. I still do but I’m glad I was wrong about the attacks.
I thought “My Goodness…what a tragic accident”. I could not believe someone would do something like that on purpose.
First plane: an accident. 2nd: that was deliberate, we’re under attack
First building I thought was an accident, pilot error. Second building, reality starts to set in, then the Pentagon, Shankstown. Mixed fealings of rage, sadness for victims.
wondered if we were about to be at war with a foreign nation on our own soil.
I was at home and saw the replay a number of times. I felt personally threatened even though I was living in Albuquerque NM at the time. Later in the day i was driving east toward the Sandia Mountains which were about 8 miles in the distance to do some errands. All of a sudden large planes appeared in my minds eye coming over the mountain ridges. I could hear them and smell the smoke. It was very frightening.
Completely transfixed at the horror of what I was seeing.
wondered if my friend of 40 yrs was safe……….
I was at work, I didn’t pay much attention at first.
I wondered who had attacked us and if any of my friends family were in the towers.
Someone’s gonna pay
I don’t remember my first thoughts, but I remember where I was. I was in high school at the time and I was in the cafeteria.
I was at a coffee shop that morning and a guy came in and told about what was happening. I went home and watched the TV coverage the rest of the day in shock.
I was working in the hospital where I am still working St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport CT about 50 miles from NY and I remember that I was helping a patient in Radiation Theraphy and my first thought was about the people in the top of the first tower What are they suffering?
This is just the beginning !!
I was attending Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, and living in a small apartment near the campus. I’d arranged my classes to give me Tuesdays and Thursdays off so I could maneuver doctor’s appointments, etc. around my schedule, and fortunately, had no place I had to be that day. I turned on Fox News just as word of the first plane was reaching them. When they showed the hole in the first tower, I immediately knew two things: (1) the plane was not a small, private plane as originally thought because the hole was enormous, and (2) anyone above the point of impact was trapped and would most likely die because I couldn’t see how the firemen could get to them. The only thing I could think to do was pray. I planted my face in the carpet, and stayed there for a long time. After the towers fell, I went up to the campus for the noon Mass. It was absolutely jammed. After the Mass itself, the priests processed with the Blessed Sacrament to an outdoor amphitheater area, and nearly the whole congregation followed. Throughout the afternoon, students came and went, but the crowd in the amphitheater–including several priests and nuns–remained at about 200 long into the evening. It was an experience I’ll never forget.
Stunned.
I was transfixed and unbelieving!
I sat their shocked thinking This can’t be happening.
We were in a staff meeting, discussing unimportant things. When our secretary told us about the first crash, I thought of the WWII bomber that crashed into the Empire State Building, a long time ago. Then we heard the second building had been hit, and it was clear this was no accident. We left early, that day, and i passed a gas station with a posted price of $6.95 a gallon. There are always people willing to take advantage.
HOLY S—!!..What THE F!!! Time to Pray for all……Called the wife…and kids….
My only child,my son,I had just dropped him off at college,230 miles away…I was helpless not knowing,initially, if he was safe. I didn’t know if anyone I love was safe.
I was working as a Security Manager at the time and was off work that day. A phone call woke me up telling me about what had just happened. I was not asked to come in to work at but to monitor the conditions and be available if needed. I turned on the the TV and I was pretty stunned by what was happening. I don’t think my emotions were functioning well at the time as don’t remember feeling anything but just numb. I just kept watching the horror unfold and couldn’t believe what I was witnessing..
Utter shock
First thought was shock–what a terrible accident..when the truth came out..damn those jihadists.
It felt so incredibly “surreal”. My mind just had a real hard time coming to grips with what I was observing.
I wondered what other landmarks would be hit next.
first thought was what movie is this? then thought about end times and destruction of new babylon. then thanked god i didnt take the job offer to work in the kitchen on the top two floors of one of the towers. windows on the world offered me a job few years before. all those kitchen workers died.
I was at work. We were doing a hostage negotiation scenario. When they came in and told me somebody had put a plane into the towers I was like what has that got to do with my scenario I was horrified was a horrible day. My son was afraid that the planes had went into the prison where I work he was young and heard about it at school
I was too scared to think. I worked from home and had to turn off the computer and was glued to the TV. I could not believe what I was seeing. I happened to be watching when the live images of the 2nd plane hit.
Shock and disbelief.
Shock, numb, scared and pissed off all at the same time.
My best friend is a Secret Service agent who worked at the World Trade Center in NYC. I wondered whether he was alive, and was too afraid to call his wife. I found out hours later he had survived. I won’t go into what I think of those who did it, but I’m pretty sure most of you know. We didn’t have a tv at work, but I had a radio with earphones and listened to the news all day. I informed my coworkers what was happening, at least up until I went into the mens room and wept.
Impossible to describe the feeling of being so ungrounded, not having any idea what was going to happen next…..
I was in disbelief until the first tower fell. Then, I understood the graveness of the situation, thinking, “How many people just died?”
”Aey kaayeen hogyo?”in Marwari dialect meaning “what the hell is this?”
“Oh my God,I can’t beleive this that a plane with all that much fuel can bring steel megastructures to ground!”
This is getting close!
The first thing I thought was Armageddon was starting and an attack on Israel was next and then Israel was going to nuke Iraq.