9/11

I was on my way to work, September 11th, 2001 when I first heard on the radio that a passenger plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. Nobody was sure at first if it was an accident or if it was intentional. Not until a few minutes later when the second plane flew into the second tower. I had already gotten to work by the time the second plane had hit. It was then being reported as a possible act of terrorism. I remember talking to one of my co-workers about it and told her I BET IT WAS OSAMA BIN LADEN. But she didn't even know who Osama Bin laden was. I explained to her how he had made an attempt to blow up the WTC years prior to this attack. I didn't know at the time how true my words would be.

We had just gotten a new big screen TV the day before this happened and it was one of those that if you left the TV on an image for any length of time the image would burn itself into the screen. That evening when we got home from work, we turned on Fox News and watched it all night. It was on the same channel for so long that the Fox News logo got burned into the bottom corner of our TV screen. (It eventually went away)

Nobody knew at the time, when the towers fell, how many ppl were even in the buildings or if most of them had been evacuated. We know now that thousands of ppl were still in the buildings. We also tend to forget that ppl lost their lives in planes that crashed into the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania. We forget about the real heroes of that Pennsylvania crash that kept that plane from being flown into another large public building, possible even the White House or Capital.

800-1,100 ppl that died that day were ppl who were on those hijacked flights. SO many firefighters and police officers were lost all at one time, while they were trying to evacuate the buildings.

I am glad that at least on this 10th anniversary of that fateful day, the families at least have the comfort of knowing that the man who was responsible for their family member's death is now dead and gone himself.