I remembered that day so clearly, right down to what I was wearing. Strange really. My story is, we had just eaten dinner, my sister, my mom and I, and my dad calls us from China, where he was on a work trip. My mom answers and at first her voice gets really paniced and she just says: "What?! Terrorist? Over there??!!" Then I remember my heart jumping into my throat cuz all I could think of was DAD. But my mom quickly got what was going on and turned on CNN (aah, the wonders of satellite), and by then I had calmed down, knowing my dad was ok. Apparently all he had said, without even a hello, was "Are you watching the news??" and after that all my mom had heard was "Terrorist, plane hijacked, and hit the tower."
We watched for a few minutes, trying to figure out what was going on, and the 2nd plane hit.
The rest of the evening I just remember sitting in front of the TV watching the same clips over and over again on CNN, and my cousins came over, and I remember calling my best friend to tell her, she hadn't heard anything and thought I was making some kind of sick joke.
I remember that day very clearly, probably because it is forever branded into my head, that feeling that I had when I heard my mom all paniced, thinking something had happened to my dad. And knowing so many people had that same feeling that day, but unlike for me, for them there was no moment of relief.
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Date: 2008-09-12 02:03 am (UTC)We watched for a few minutes, trying to figure out what was going on, and the 2nd plane hit.
The rest of the evening I just remember sitting in front of the TV watching the same clips over and over again on CNN, and my cousins came over, and I remember calling my best friend to tell her, she hadn't heard anything and thought I was making some kind of sick joke.
I remember that day very clearly, probably because it is forever branded into my head, that feeling that I had when I heard my mom all paniced, thinking something had happened to my dad. And knowing so many people had that same feeling that day, but unlike for me, for them there was no moment of relief.