Hi! I was just sitting here watching the news reports about 9-11. Can you remember where you were that day? Caitlyn was 2. It was her Parents as Teachers day. I remember when Lori arrived we just sat and watched the tv. Her daughter lived in New York. Lucky she was not near the World Trade Center. I first found out when I called my parents. My dad answered the phone and said he couldn't talk that a plane had just flown into the towers. I thought he was crazy. Amber was at school. I remember Anthony telling me he was teaching that day and they watched the explosions from across the bay.
Where were you that day? Alan Jackson's song, "Where Were that September Morning," sums it all up. What a wonderful and sad sun. I cried this morning when they played it on the radio. A prayer for all those who lost loved ones on that awful day in US history.

mary

I kinda relived it myself this morning. I had dropped my son off at kindergarten, and was driving myself and my daughter to MOPS (mothers of preschoolers), when I heard on the radio about a plane flying into one of the World Trade Center towers. At that time it was thought to possibly be an accident....until the second plane flew into the other tower. I had just got my daughter settled into her group and myself seated in our meeting room when my cell phone rang. My husband (he's in the Air National Guard) told me they were on lock-down and on alert, and wanted to make sure I was aware of what was going on. It was surreal. I didn't see anything on TV until noon, after returning home, and put my daughter down for a nap (she was 2). Then I just watched with tears running down my face. I remember picking my son up and feeling...what??...to have my kids both with me. The teachers didn't tell the younger kids anything, wanting the parents to explain it as they saw fit. It was hard to find the words to tell him what was going on, when I didn't understand how people could do that myself.

I had just dropped my oldest son off at preschool. We didn't hear it on the radio, because we were listening to a Barney CD in the car. My friend called me and told me to turn on the TV. My youngest two were with me (they were very little) and we watched the twin towers burning for a while, and I was getting depressed so I changed the channel to where Barney was on. (I think Barney helped us make it through the day, frankly.) My friend called me back in tears and I changed the channel to find that the first tower had collapsed. I turned it off at that point; I didn't think my youngest two kids needed to see that. I called my husband at work, because he was scheduled to fly to San Diego that day. Of course they grounded all the planes and he didn't go. They called me from the school and said they were sending all the kids home. When I got into the van to pick him up, that's when I learned the second tower had fallen. Meanwhile my in-laws called and told me that the Pentagon had been hit, and that there had been another crash in PA.

Sharon

Where I was on 911

I was in McAllen, Texas. As I was walking out of the hotel room, I saw the first tower burning and the second plane hit. I left for the property office where we were building a new apartment complex. There was no cable yet. I was isolated from the news. My husband called me in a panic that the USA was at war. Four or five planes were down. They did not know how many more were in the aird. How was I going to get home to Houston. I told him he was panicing and there was only two planes max. And at any rate, I doubted Katy, Texas or McAllen, Texas was a top target. That night I also missed the news because there was a local event. I think I was lucky because later I heard there were people who experienced post traumatic stress just from the news coverage. We were so unprepared for an attack on our own soil. I was in denial for a while until I got to see some of the recovery. Without TV, it was so easy to think my husband was exaggerating. I had taken a co-worker who had never flown do to fear of flying. We flew donw on 9/10 of all days! I doubt he will ever fly again. His wife was also hysterical for him to come home. He had a ride with the construction foreman. I wanted to fly home. He would not leave me to drive home alone. Isn't that sweet and gentlemanly? He was like a brother to me. So when flights were cancelled through the end of the week, we drove home in the rental Jeep with no rear view mirror. First the company told me to go buy a rear view mirror if I needed one. then they told me I COULD absolutely not put my own on. I had never asked more than for them to repair it fore the 7 hr drive or change out cars. Of course, all the rental cars were gone. So that was my experience. I often watch the TV shows and documentaries as I missed the details of what really happened that day.....

Jill