At the beach, on vacation without tv or smartphones or anything.
I remember seeing planes literally reversing in the sky overhead. Later, we passed another walker on the beach, and when we said “beautiful evening”, they replied “way better than in New York!” We had no idea what they were talking about.
The next day, we went into town , noticed all the flags at half-mast, then raced to the newspaper display to see the headlines.
So Horrifying. Still is.

Anonymous wrote:I worked in Roslyn. A bunch of us went to an upper floor conference room and watched smoke billowing out of the Pentagon.

FBR?

I was in high school. The teacher pushed in a tv on a cart, turned it on and told us to watch history in the making. Students were crying, students were calling home, students were not aloud to leave as we were on lock down at that point. Every helicopter or airplane we heard above us was scary. Cars started to fill the streets around the school as parents were trying to get their kids but not allowed to because of the lockdown. It was horrible watching the students whose parents worked in the building and they could not get in contact with them. To the poster that said to move on, it is hard for some of us. I am glad your brain is capable though.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over it. Moved on. Yes - I remember it like D-day but I'm not dwelling on it. I "remember" it each time it takes me an hour to get thru security at the airport.

Just move on then. There are family members that are being mourned. You can always skip a topic that you have 'moved' on from.

Yep like every other single war - even the Iraq, Iran, Palestine, etc etc etc etc since 9/11

Move on

Anonymous wrote:Where were you 23 years ago this morning?

Watching the Pentagon burn from Rosslyn. Awful day.

Anonymous wrote:Where were you 23 years ago this morning?

Newly pregnant, Falls Church, fixing my 2 year old a breakfast and listening to 107.3 morning show (Jack Diamond/Stacey Binn) on Spacesaver (under cabinet) radio.

Program was interrupted with report that
a plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers. Jack Diamond ad libbed and said that perhaps it was a smaller twin engine/news & traffic plane. Stacey immediately interjected to say not possible that news and traffic planes have restrictions.

Pulled DC out of the high chair and spent the next hour watching tv & making frantic phone calls to my local parents with repeated busy signals. Pentagon hit. Sibling worked there. Finally got through to my dad who said sibling evacuated and reached home.

I had a miscarriage at 630 pm on 9/11/01. Surgical intervention 9/13.

Anonymous wrote:Over it. Moved on. Yes - I remember it like D-day but I'm not dwelling on it. I "remember" it each time it takes me an hour to get thru security at the airport.

Just move on then. There are family members that are being mourned. You can always skip a topic that you have 'moved' on from.

Over it. Moved on. Yes - I remember it like D-day but I'm not dwelling on it. I "remember" it each time it takes me an hour to get thru security at the airport.

23 years after Pearl Harbor was December 1964.
I don't recall much remember signaling. Of course, there was only the newspaper.

A block from the Capital...

I worked in Roslyn. A bunch of us went to an upper floor conference room and watched smoke billowing out of the Pentagon.

Anonymous wrote:Where were you 23 years ago this morning?

Watching in disbelieving horror from Jersey City.

Where were you 23 years ago this morning?

It’s hard to believe it’s been 23 years.

Here we are on this day.