Never Forget | Pad Patter 9.11

[keepscrappin]

Patriot Day is an annual observance on September 11 to remember those who were injured or died during the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001.

I will never forget that day when my husband was traveling for business and called and said turn on the tv. I was at home with my two littles (1 and 3 yrs old). I turned on the tv and saw the horror and just cried and cried. I hugged my kids close to me and thanked the Lord that my husband was safe and me and the kids were safe. Thankfully my husband wasn't on the East Coast, but he was delayed flying home that week.

This morning I hugged my husband and my DD who lives at home a little longer and harder than usual and told them that I loved them and that it was Sept 11th. I sent my big kids at college an extra text telling them that I love them too.

So today remember to tell your family that you love them and don't forget to thank all the people who put their lives on the line each day to help and protect us.

 

[Cherylndesigns]

Thanks for posting this. I remember that day like it was yesterday. Same thing - my husband came in and told me to get up and I knew something terrible had happened. He turned on the TV in the bedroom and we just sat there in horror and watched, live, while that plane hit the second tower. It felt like we were watching a movie. It was surreal. I posted this on Instagram last night at midnight. We must never forget or let the generations coming up after us forget! It was the day that changed our lives forever.

 

[cfile]

We lost many from my home town on 9/11.

Here is a photo from the Volunteer Fire Dept. from my home town with the memorial to those we lost. The 2 brothers - John (FDNY) and Joe (NYPD) Vigiano [Two Towers], Ray Downey, SR. FDNY amongst others... in addition to everyone that passed that fateful day... so very sad and it still continues even 17 years later with first responders now perishing from cancer from inhaling asbestos and other harsh chemicals during recovery. May we never forget.

The September 11, 2001 Memorial in front the Deer Park, NY Volunteer Fire Headquarters on Lake Ave. in Deer Park NY

 

[HeatherB]

I remember watching the news in horror as the day unfolded. I was at work, and we turned on the TV very soon after the first tower was hit. Such a tragedy for all who lost their lives and all their loved ones. A colleague of ours had a meeting in one of the towers but at the last minute his boss went instead. He didn't make it out. So many stories like this one from that day.

 

[jk703]

I will never forget. I will also never forget how lucky I was.

I was to have started a new job in NYC on 9/10, and would have been walking through and under the towers when the first plane hit at 8:47a. For some unknown reason, I decided to push my start date to 9/17. Needless to say, luck and guardian angels were watching me. After... for years after I watched that site, saw the debris, read missing flyers, watched the smoke rising, breathed it, heard the clean up/recovery and beginning of the rebuilding, and took a boat across to the seaport to work with a lump in my throat.

I see the memorial lights every year from my front door, and will always remember.

 

[HavaDrPepper]

I was at work and we had no radios or tv's in the offices. Several co-workers and I always took our break at 9:30. My boss usually came in at 10:00 so he wandered through while we in the break room. He told us that a plane had crashed into the WTC. The 3 of us all thought small plane and he said that it was a jet. Needless to say we were shocked. We talked a few more minutes about it and wondered who was behind it. I said that I wondered if it might be Osama Bin Laden but we thought no way.

When we went back to the office, my boss had told the others. A manager knew where they had a small tv so he got it out and hooked it up and hoped that we could get a tv station using the rabbit ears. We could only get one station... the one 14 miles from us. He set it up in the conference room and left it on. Every so often someone would wander down there to see what was going on. The payroll clerk had a radio in her office that she never used but turned on after hearing the news. She ran out to tell us about the 2nd plane, the towers falling and the other 2 planes.

The town with the tv station we had on happens to have a large oil refinery and a plant that makes the tanks the Army uses (I had worked there at one time). The 2 places happen to be right next to each other and only about 9 miles away. So paranoia was rampant that if this was a huge concentrated attack on the US, could that city of 40,000 and the surrounding area be a target as well. It was a very quiet day in the office and everyone rushed home when their shifts were over. I was glued to the tv all evening and cried lots of tears for people I didn't even know.

It was only 3 or 4 years ago that I found out that a guy I know (I had been friends with his wife and him in college and was in their wedding) was actually in the Pentagon during the attack. He was in one of the other areas but he lost friends he had served with in the Army for many years that day. He is still affected by it... even though he had been on deployments for combat himself.

 

[QuiltyMom]

I had been outside in my neighborhood taking a walk with the kids when someone told me it had happened. I didn't believe it was true. Then we heard the plane crash into the Pentagon (I live just a few miles away from there) and we didn't know what happened, except that all the kids in the school behind our house were immediately called back inside. I had friends who had an appointment at the hospital not long afterwards and they said hospital staff was waiting outside for the ambulances to arrive. It was a very sad day for all.

Now the schools around here hardly acknowledge it because a few minority groups felt they were being persecuted by the remembrances, that they were being "blamed" every year for what happened. Sigh. What a world we live in.

 

[Sunberry2]

I remember I was getting ready for class (college) when my roommate ran in from working his graveyard shift, yelling at us to turn on the tv. We all just stood there in shock at the image of that first plane when the second one flew into the second tower. Most of my classes for the day were canceled, the teachers that didn't actually cancel class were just letting students come and watch the footage. It's something I'll never forget and now that DS is older I want to teach him about why we have this remembrance day.
Locally, there's a memorial that gets set up every year. The picture is from the city webpage.

 

[Cherylndesigns]

We'll never forget where we were when it happened.

Some of you were VERY close and could have been right there at any one of the sites. My sister worked just a few blocks from the Pentagon and she said the sound was the most hideous sound she had ever heard! They KNEW something terrible had happened, even before they were told. Her grandson was in a pre-school right off The Washington Mall - in The Smithsonian Building Complexes and all she could think about was getting to Dylan! It happened to be Dylan's birthday, too. He's always said that he wished his birthday was on September 11th.

 

[IntenseMagic]

I was standing in the exact classroom today that I was standing in 17 years ago. One of our teacher assistants had been in a science class where they just happened to have the news on tv. She came down at the end of our 1st period and said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center and to turn on our tv. It was shortly after that the plane hit the Pentagon. I remember just thinking "what next". The school was almost silent that day, every classroom watching everything unfold. I remember trying to calm student fears when I had many of my own. But, what I wanted most was to get home to my kiddos who were 10 and 6 at the time. I also remember how quiet the days after were with no planes in the sky. It was so eerie.

 

[jk703]

I also remember how quiet the days after were with no planes in the sky. It was so eerie.

I didn't have kids at the time, but I don't know how you all kept it together! Teachers amaze me, unknown strength reserves. I went home and basically cried for the whole day watching the news.

Now that you said that about planes, I remember the quietness. We are near 3 major airports - so the odds of you seeing a plane in the sky by me is probably 98% (Newark, NYC - LaGuardia, NYC - Kennedy). The skies were clear and so quiet. Eerie is the right word.