09/11/01 A slideshow for Remembrance

[Horry For 3!]

Yea, I did. I didn't read all of them, there were just way too many. It is sad when his mom says something tho. Like just the night before him and his sister were practice dancing for her sweet 16, then that next morning it happened. Then if you click "Work" under pictures. Its just...idk.

Damn and his desk was right aside the windows.

[TOP-CHERRY]

My neighbor called me from work. He asked if my husband was still in DC at the Pentagon. I said yes. Then he told me what happened. I told him if he was joking I would kill him. It took my husband several hours to get through to me. Luckily their meeting that day was offsite at a hotel and not at the Pentagon. He was smart enough not to turn back in his rental car, so when they cancelled all air travel he just drove the rental all the way back to San Antonio. It took 3 days but at least he got home. I was never so scared in my life as those couple of hours before I heard from him. Not knowing if he was in the Pentagon or not. I never want to feel that way again.

I'm glad he was okay.

[Spurfect]

holy cow it's been FOUR YEARS already? wow. anyway i had just started a new job the day before at an ob/gyn clinic. Had Sept. 11 off. I was asleep all morning and didn't realize anything happened until I turned the TV on at about 10, or 11 or so. Of course by then the coverage on it was all over the place. Like most everyone that was watching it at that time, I was glued to that TV for the rest of the day and night.

[Sonia_TX]

http://www.pauljbattaglia.com/

Another website with more information on scholarships and such. Under the LINKS section they have up the link to the Express Article but it has expired already.

I didn't know anybody that day but reading about him and all the posts people wrote in his guestbook makes me feel like I did know him. Too bad it was under these cir stances.

[Horry For 3!]

http://www.pauljbattaglia.com/

Another website with more information on scholarships and such. Under the LINKS section they have up the link to the Express Article but it has expired already.

I didn't know anybody that day but reading about him and all the posts people wrote in his guestbook makes me feel like I did know him. Too bad it was under these cir stances.

I looked at it. That is crazy, his desk was right aside of the Trade Center windows.

[Spurfect]

wow that website was depressing as . now i'm crying.. thanks

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

The National Geographic Chanel I believe had a great special on that about 2 weeks ago. I mean a really detailed account from the planning to the actual attack themselves with plenty of background of all the hijackers and some emotional interviews from people who escaped the towers. It was rough to watch.

I was so pissed that my DVR screwed it up and I missed seeing that special.

I remember that day so well.

I remember I specifically set my alarm to get me up early so I could go downtown and try out for "The Weakest Link" since I thought it might be fun and I had the day off.

I remember hearing the radio turn on, but not getting up immediately. I remember I had it on the Ticket and Tony Bruno was on...I remember him saying something about being sad and asking people to pray because of the "accident" in New York with a plane crash.

I jumped out of bed and in my normal fashion, turned on my monitor and started trying to browse the news Web sites, but to no avail.

So I ran to the back of my house and turned on the TV only to see the second plane hit the tower and I think I just started shaking and such.

I called my mom's school and asked her if she had seen it and all she said was that they had seen it and that people were just going crazy.

I threw on some clothes and flew to the school and ran in (since they were close to lockdown). I go to the library where she worked and they had the TVs off since the district had sent a message to every school to turn them off. The only problem was teachers and parents kept coming in asking if we knew more, so we got permission to close the blinds in the library and have the TVs on.

We just kept watching and watching the coverage. Eventually, a number of people were hungry so I drove to McDonalds right down the road and bought a bunch of food. They had some black-and-white TV that got ty reception and while I was talking with the manager, she told me she was worried about her kid at the school. I told her that the kids were being restricted from knowing what was going on and that none of the TVs in the classrooms were on.

I grabbed the food and drove back. About 20-30 teachers and staff started eating in the library while we had the coverage on. I distinctly remember having to run and turn a TV off since some of the kids walking by in the hall looked in through a crack in the blinds and having some teacher yell at me for doing it.

I remember snapping back at her, but I don't remember what I specifically said.

About an hour later, they started reporting that blood drives were being started around the city so I decided to drive to the Blood & Tissue center and getting in this HUGE line. They told us the wait time was about 2-3 hours from where I was at, but not one person complained.

About 20-30 minutes later, they came asking for people who wanted to donate platelets, which I normally do. Because I said yes, I got bumped up to the front of the line and was sitting down in 20 minutes.

Usually, you watch movies while you donate, but I asked them to put it on the news. That was about the time they kept replaying the videos of people jumping from the towers. I'm surprised I made it through without being sicker than I already felt.

I also remember getting into a media ethics discussion with my next-seat neighbor, a woman about 30 years old who seemed to love the discussion and had a lot of questions.

I remember finishing up and driving home. Walking in and just sitting there with my parents trying to figure everything out. I will never forget that day.

[ZStomp]

I was reading an article in the paper a few weeks after 9/11 and they had a story about Paul Battaglia ...a young man that lost his life that day. A member of a weblogging community, he blogged until the day he was killed. I found his blog and it was just so sad to read Guest Book entries from people that were wondering where he was "YOU WEREN'T IN THERE WERE YOU?". Ugh, it just gets me! His moms posts are the worst to read. So sad. When you go to his guestbook click the link that says "first post."

[Cant_Be_Faded]

My neighbor called me from work. He asked if my husband was still in DC at the Pentagon. I said yes. Then he told me what happened. I told him if he was joking I would kill him. It took my husband several hours to get through to me. Luckily their meeting that day was offsite at a hotel and not at the Pentagon. He was smart enough not to turn back in his rental car, so when they cancelled all air travel he just drove the rental all the way back to San Antonio. It took 3 days but at least he got home. I was never so scared in my life as those couple of hours before I heard from him. Not knowing if he was in the Pentagon or not. I never want to feel that way again.

Lucky, indeed. Also coincidental that a huge portion of workers from the WTC and Pentagon were not in the building for other various issues. Glad your husband made it out though.


I was coming home from a morning class (i went to V-town Community) and watched it. The second plane had just struck and i was trying to get a grasp on what was going on. I fixed a toast and bacon sandwhich, watched some news coverage, then watched a little bit of All My Children. Then i picked up my backpack, was out the door, and went to my next class.

[Ishta]

There are no words to begin to explain how I felt that day.I will never forget the feelings that hit me, and my family.That day was surreal.I hope to never go through it again. My day started off normally, but took a left hand turn real quick. My oldest daughter had just started school, My parents were in San Antonio, we were in Dallas..It was awful.just awful

[1Parker1]

Has anyone on the forum ever visited ground zero? I went there about 7 months after it happened........and to see it in person is just heartbreaking. There must have been at least 400 people there the day I went.....and it was dead silent as people just looked around at all the memorbillia that was left, the wall of photos and personal things family and friends of the lost left in their wake, and police officers patrolling the area. It was crazy to be in an area of NYC where when you look up.....you could actually see the sky and sunlight instead of another skyscraper blocking the view.

[TOP-CHERRY]

^Were those nets w/ the quotes about the city there already when you visited? The quotes were awesome.

[1Parker1]

Hmm...What do you mean nets? I don't think so. There was like a whole wall that was just filled with stuff. I did some great quotes and poems and stuff amogst it.

[TheAdmiral#50]

WE WILL NEVER FORGET....

[smeagol]

I was at work on 51st and 7th, in Midtown Manhattan, when our group's secretary received a call from a friend that was in downtown saying that a plane hat hit one of the Twin Towers.

We changed the TV channel to CNN but they were still showing the regular program. 20 seconds later they cut to a live shot of the crash and started reporting non stop the attack (which at the time, people thought it was an accident). Some of us went to the south side of our building. We could see the North Tower in flames and the hole the plane has left. Probably an image I will never forget.

I went back and called my mom and two friends in Argentina. While I was on the phone with one of them, the second plane hit. Around 10.30, our building was evacuated. I walked home (the streets of Manhattan were full of people). I called my wife and told her to get her ass home, that there were still reports of unaccounted planes. Obviously she did not do as I said and came home around 2.30 PM. We spent most of the afternoon trying to contact our frinds and acquaintances which worked and lived inthe City.

The next day I went to work. It was the most erie site I have ever seen. There was no car to be found on the streets of Manhattan. Those streets and avenues were there is always cars and noise, were ghost streets. I got to work and there must have been 5 people at the office (when usually there is more than 100); the guys who lived walking distance from work.

That Saturday (I believe 9/11/01 was a Tuesday) me and my wife we walked towards downtown to see how far we could go. Every time we walked infront of a fire station we saw kids' drawings and letters with prayers stuck to the walls and flowers (lots of them) and candles. I broke down and cried several times (I saw walkers-bye just hugging for no reason with fire fighters; it was very touching).

We got as far as we could (Canal Street) and we saw ambulances, fire trucks and other vehicles going from and back to Ground Zero. Every time one of this vehicles that came from Ground Zero full of rescuers and volunteers drove by us, people cheered. Again, I cried.

Damn, I get chills just remembering.

[ZStomp]

There was a photoshopped picture of the Statue of LIberty flipping the bird and saying something to the likes of "we're coming for you ers"...anyone have that picture?

[A Serbian Beast]

9/11/01 was a Tuesday.

[KEDA]

I remember that day like it was yesterday.


I was asleep when the first plane hit, but I remember waking when the special report came on (I sleep with the tv on), but they had not identified the plane as a commercial jetliner, so I thought it was a private plane, so I rolled over and went back to sleep. I then awoke to my mother running into my bedroom and screaming "we are under attack". I had no idea wht she was talking about, then she went on to explain that not 1 but 2 commercial airliners had crashed into the WTC.

I went downstairs and proceeded to stay glued to the television for the next 24 hrs. I had the day off on 9-11-01.


I will never forget 9-11-01!

[spurschick]

There was a photoshopped picture of the Statue of LIberty flipping the bird and saying something to the likes of "we're coming for you ers"...anyone have that picture?

[ZStomp]

Yes!!

Thanks Spurschick!

[midgetonadonkey]

those bas s that did that. them hard in their butts.

[A Serbian Beast]

1 bomb could kill them all too...hmmm.

[ZStomp]

Remember!