Where were you on 9/11?
Sep. 11th, 2006 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wraithfodderWith all the press, footage, etc. on 9/11, it's hard not to comment on it.
I was sitting at my desk at work, checking the web for computer viruses (the Beeb and Yahoo News always published news first - and that was a time when people kept sending out those nasty viruses). Anyway, I open up Yahoo News and find a photo of one of the twin towers with a hole punched in the side, some text about a plane hitting it. I went, 'crap, how could a Cesna punch a whole that big in a building?' thinking, heck, only light planes could possibly buzz around inside the city. The rest is sort of a blur, as people had heard about it on radios, or something, and then it all went to hell when the first tower continued to smoke and then the second plane struck. After it came out the Pentagon got attacked as well, I thought, geez, World War III has begun!
Somewhere during the whole mess, I emailed a friend who worked at one of the towers. No response, but way later that day I managed to fortunately talk to her on the phone. She'd been running late for work, and had the TV on. When she saw the first tower get hit, she wisely did not go into work (second tower). [The next day her email bounced back with the prophetic "fatal error" message from the server, which I suppose, bit the dust along with the towers.]
I'm lucky enough not to have known anybody who died in the towers, althought some family members did - a coworker was in one of the planes, and another friend was trapped up on a high floor, on his cellphone, making his last calls. Chilling :(
I also remember that spagetti was on sale that day. Somwhere in the attic is a box full of newspapers from that first week. I'd collected all the local NYC papers, knowing I wouldn't read them till who knows when (ditto for the videotapes I made of CNN and CBS for a few days).
I was sitting at my desk at work, checking the web for computer viruses (the Beeb and Yahoo News always published news first - and that was a time when people kept sending out those nasty viruses). Anyway, I open up Yahoo News and find a photo of one of the twin towers with a hole punched in the side, some text about a plane hitting it. I went, 'crap, how could a Cesna punch a whole that big in a building?' thinking, heck, only light planes could possibly buzz around inside the city. The rest is sort of a blur, as people had heard about it on radios, or something, and then it all went to hell when the first tower continued to smoke and then the second plane struck. After it came out the Pentagon got attacked as well, I thought, geez, World War III has begun!
Somewhere during the whole mess, I emailed a friend who worked at one of the towers. No response, but way later that day I managed to fortunately talk to her on the phone. She'd been running late for work, and had the TV on. When she saw the first tower get hit, she wisely did not go into work (second tower). [The next day her email bounced back with the prophetic "fatal error" message from the server, which I suppose, bit the dust along with the towers.]
I'm lucky enough not to have known anybody who died in the towers, althought some family members did - a coworker was in one of the planes, and another friend was trapped up on a high floor, on his cellphone, making his last calls. Chilling :(
I also remember that spagetti was on sale that day. Somwhere in the attic is a box full of newspapers from that first week. I'd collected all the local NYC papers, knowing I wouldn't read them till who knows when (ditto for the videotapes I made of CNN and CBS for a few days).
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Date: 2006-09-12 12:40 am (UTC)We keep thinking nothing worse could ever happen to our country, yet we've had Katrina, and Afghanistan, and Iraq. And not here, but the Indonesia tidal wave and the earthquake in Pakistan. I guess we have learned that the world is not a safe place--be it natural or man made disasters.
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Date: 2006-09-12 11:46 am (UTC)I got home, and I always watch the news, so I turned to BBC. I had my back to the TV, and I heard the words 'World Trace Center collapses' I immediately thought it was something to do with the markets or something, but I turned round and I saw the footage of the planes hit. And I just sat and stared at the TV for hours until my parents came home. And to be honest, it still hasn't sunk in.
I never personally knew anyone that died, though a friend of my mum's lost her mother-in-law.