September 11th, 2001 - 10 year anniversary

getting ready for work when the 1st was hit. Once I got to work, everyone had tvs and radios going for the rest of the day.
 
I was getting ready for Art Class when my mom screamed in panic. Saw the first tower smoking then watched the second plane fly into the other building live. Craziest thing I have ever scene in my life. Went to college but they cancelled classes. Immediately came home and watched 14-16 hrs of tv straight. I remember around 2 or 3a that night they released footage of the first plane crashing. I hope my little son never has to witness anything like this in his lifetime.

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My father is a Fire Chief at his local volunteer fire department. It saddens me to think about all the firefighter, police, paramedics, and first responders that ran into those buildings to do their job and lost their lives in the process. I remember talking to my dad on the phone while he was at work and we watched the first tower collapse live. We were silent for a few minutes, then he said a prayer for the fallen. Once the film crew started filming from the some and rubble we started hearing all the alarms most of which were the non-movement warning boxes worn by firefighters. :sadface: We went to ground zero a week before the 1 year anniversary and it was very quiet even though there were thousands of ppl down there. Very depressing. We ate at a pizza place about 1-2 blocks away and the workers told us more bones were found on the top of the building that had the big American Flag on it next to where the towers stood.
 
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This is a small summary I wrote several years ago about what I saw that day.

My story starts with being in a hotel in Virginia. I was 13. It was just my dad and I. My mom was home and my brother at school. We were going to see my dad's parents in Massachusetts and bring her a Maltese puppy. My dad went down to the lobby that morning to get breakfast and came back and told me I needed to get ready and hurry down. Once we got to the lobby I saw that the first plane had hit. Moments later I saw the second one hit. We grabbed a quick snack for the road and off we went. He had the radio on listening to the news and I remember asking him a lot of questions. I was petrified! We continue driving a while. We were on one of those highways that's split into 3, 2 going north. Well we were stuck in the middle..lol I just noticed that we had passed a sign on the highway that said Pentagon. Believe it or not...i looked up..and said Dad look! A plane! It was slanted just over the trees bout a mile from us? It disappeared. He didn't think much about it. The highway turned a bit..and the next thing i know is *BOOM* to the right of us a HUGE BLACK CLOUD of billowing smoke! The person on the radio starts freaking out. Then the next thing you know people are reversing on the highway. Unidentified cop cars putting lights on the top. Ambulance, police, firefighters zooming past everywhere. We reversed out of there and turned off to go south. We found a little gap in the highway that everyone in the middle was using to get out. We got stuck in traffic for ages. My mom called freaking out. She'd taken my brother out of school. She's looking at a map trying to figure out how to get us out of there. She sends us on a scenic route through Pennsylvania. Luckily we didn't see the other plane. Several hours later we made it to my grandparents. That's my story in a nutshell.


This is my shirt:

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It has the names of every person who died in the planes, towers, and pentagon that day.

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Dragon '09

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Dragon '10 (Don't ask what crazy shenanigans were going on in this photo)
 
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This commercial was only aired once as not to make money off of 9/11 tragedies
 
I remember being at work when it happened. I called family members, who live in Manhattan, to make sure they were alright.

I had been in both of the world trade towers many times, taken friends up to the observation deck, onto the roof, in the restaurant "Windows on the World." It is hard to imagine what it was like in those buildings ten years ago today. How horrible!
 
I was on South Washington Blvd. just north of 395 near Columbia Pike waiting in traffic when outta the corner of my left eye I noticed something odd a plane that seemed a little low and then it was getting closer and closer and then it was infront of me pretty much and then a ear splitting boom tons of smoke and people running away..... My first responder instinct kicked in and I went running to the Pentagon to help with the injured and dead and after all of that I drove home to get a shower and then later that night everything finally kicked in and I just broke down in tears..

Fvcked up part with all of this is I get harassed daily, if not verbal its by there actions..... Gotta love idiots in office who don't truly mention who them and they in his speech afterwards and now that if you look remotely middle eastern, people automatically think your a terrorist..
 
Thank you for everything you did that day, Nathan. :bighug:
You're the only person I know that saw that same plane that I did. I'm lucky that I didn't see the kind of devastation that you had :(
I have a hard enough time with the little bit that I did witness...
 
Nice work Nathan. Sorry u & Christina had to witness something so terrible. On our way home songs like Angel was playing & had audio of little kids telling the ones they lost how much they miss them & how they hope they r proud of them. Sad!!
 
I was in my 7th grade "Gifted Enrichment" Class, I know sounds wierd, I was put in it due to scoring on a test we were required to take. I remember my teacher freaking out and turning on the TV, and I really didn't comprehend everything that was going on until about two days later. I'll never forget watching it on TV that day...
 
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