September 11th 2001 Where Were You When the Planes Went Down

[Trinitee]

At work and I remember watching the news in total disbelief. Such a horrific event.

 

[gregjrichards]

I remember, and remember trying to figure out what to tell my first-grader.

Salty and Roselle, guide dogs who brought their handlers -- with large groups of other people -- safely out of the Towers that day!

“Labrador Roselle led the terrified city workers down nearly 80 floors, through fire and thick smoke and out to the pandemonium-filled streets.

Once there, she helped her master escape as Tower 2 collapsed, scattering rubble, debris and a giant dust cloud in every direction.”

9/11: My brave guide dog led us to safety in tower inferno

Thank you so much for sharing this I did not know about Salty and Roselle it is incredible what they both did.

 

[Wild Rose]

My husband flew out of Newark that morning, left home around 6:30 a.m. He flew so often for work, he always called me after he landed with his hotel info and contact numbers. As soon as I saw the first plane hit on TV, I called my Dad to tell him that he was on a flight but I didn't know which one or where to. He told me he was sure it was Bin Laden with his connections and money and I knew right then that I would never cry in public because that is what terrorists want, fear. I also never called my mother-in-law to scare her, she was elderly and hundreds of miles away. I just sat by the TV determined to do whatever I needed to do with dignity for a good soul and worried about our three kids. My husband called late in the afternoon. It was so good and so sad at once, he was a fireman and we had an idea of the devastation for everyone, especially the first responders as he was very familiar with the towers through work. He had landed in Chicago with the pilot telling them to go to a bank of TVs outside their gate to see the news and as he sat in the airport stunned at the news, he said that as each colleague got off different planes from Boston and New York, it was the same feeling when your children are born. Some saw the impact through their plane windows. None of the cell phones worked. He got a landline from the hotel later to reach me. I called my Dad and his elderly Mom in Fl to tell her he was fine. It took them 5 days to get a rental car to all drive home back East. People in all the states fed them free food and water as they journeyed. As soon as he got home, he was supposed to be sent straight out to NYC with fellow firemen. They were sadly not needed. My husband flew out of the gate next to Flight 93 travelers. That is his saddest memory because he said everyone was just doing their thing that morning. Drinking coffee, reading their papers, a typical morning at Newark with primarily work commuters. Absolutely nothing seemed out of the ordinary at all. He was so sad for them. It was such a sad time.

 

[TMAN2014]

I remember one guy from college, with an unusual name. I never talked to this person, but he was a victim in the World Trade Center. One of my friends knew a job recruiter, who was there. I remember Marsh and McClennan insurance. That company was devastated.

I visited the site 2 years later, and stayed 2 blocks away. I talked to the bar owner at the Irish named tavern, and he had a ton of stories about fireman and police who died and survivors, who lived after the collape in the fire escape. It took over a year for him to reopen his bar.

 

[Ursamajr]

I was in Brooklyn. Woke up to what looked like snow falling and went outside. the smell was acrid. electrical. Papers were falling on my doorstep. SEC securities. 82nd floor. part of a law book. turned on the television. Ran to the prominade a few blocks away to see people jumping and eventually watch the second tower fall.

I still have the papers. Some with burnt edges.

 

[Paul B.]

Windows on the World at the top of the North Tower haunts me. We know from their phone calls that ceilings were falling and floors were buckling there well before the final collapse.

 

[BlackCloud]

I was in Brooklyn. Woke up to what looked like snow falling and went outside. the smell was acrid. electrical. Papers were falling on my doorstep. SEC securities. 82nd floor. part of a law book. turned on the television. Ran to the prominade a few blocks away to see people jumping and eventually watch the second tower fall.

I still have the papers. Some with burnt edges.

Shocking...

 

[JrzyGirl70]

I was sitting in my office, 6 miles from the George Washington Bridge (connects NJ to NY) when my mother called me to say a plane hit one of the Towers. I called my BF at the time who was 3 blocks away from WTC, he said "we are going up to the roof of our building to see what is happening" I didn't speak to him again until the night of September 12th, phone service was down, cell service not working. It took him hours to be able to get back to his house in Long Island and I was here in Jersey. I remember weeks later going to the train station across the street from his home and he made a remark about the cars seeming to never move out of the spots or always being able to find the same parking spot and I realized that wasn't the case. The cars belonged to victims that weren't coming home.