Three years ago Sat. i was in the car taking my kids to school and we heard a brief report about a plane hitting a building. By the time i dropped by kids off at school and was going to school myself i heard about the Pentagon being hit. I thought we were under major attack, but i looked around and traffic was still as it always was. I was torn between going back and getting my kids and going home or go on to school myself. I took a lot of deep breaths and went on to school. I went straight to the student lobby and joined the silent group around the TV.

Later that day, the kids came home and said they knew about what happened, but none of us wanted to watch TV. I was glued to the internet though. The kids seemed quieter than usual.

Almost a year later, a very,very horrible event happened in our family. IT all seems like too much sorrow in just one year...enough almost to make me go running for a closet, and yet, somehow....i actually feel braver than ever. Smarter, because i've had to face and think of things i never had to before. Somehow thinking of being afraid now seems silly. The evil things i have seen now make me think "if i fear that, it will be gaining over me".
IT seems odd, but it made my faith in god/the force of life stronger.

This may seem odd on a message board, since you only get to know people in bits and pieces, but i felt like sharing it and would like to hear from others.

That was a terrible day. I woke up, made some coffee, and decided to watch TV. When I first saw the buildings, I in no way thought it was an act of terror, and nor did I think the buildings would come down.

Ron

I was sitting on the edge of the bed putting on my shoes, getting ready for work (I live in Ca.). I turned on the t.v. and it was right after the first plane hit. Then about one minute later my pager went off, it was work. I grabbed my gear and bag and headed out the door. For the next 16 hours I was at work, catching updates when I could. Those first images will be with me, as they are with everyone that saw them, for the rest of my life.

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Thinking like an Independent, while leaning to the right.

troper8...did your job or having to be on the job for 16 hours have something to do with the events of the day?

I was off work that day, sleeping late, and was alerted to the situation by a phone call from my girlfriend - who worked in the Sears Tower at the time (she was scared as hell). Think I kept the TV on the entire day.

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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."

- JFK

I woke up a little late and very alone. I turned the TV on and saw the second plane hit the tower. Then I heard Tom Brokaw say, "in what could only be described as an act of war..." My husband was out of town working in a government building that day. I called him and he said they would evacuate soon. I spent the day at my sister's office. We cried off and on, speculated who did it and tried not to imagine how many people we had seen die that morning.

That afternoon, my kids came home from school needing more school supplies. I believe that was the most surreal moment of my life. How could I possibly be concerned about buying the correct spiral notebook? I found that ordinary things were, in fact, the best therapy after that day. Anything less was letting them have another victory.

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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." ~Ronald Reagan

I do agree that it wuz a terrible day. I can't believe our own government would kill 2000 innocent people and stage an attack on the pentagon just so they could go 2 war with another nation and kill more innocents so they could control enough oil to support a conquest of the earth.

Oh, so your one of "those?"

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"George W. Bush surrounds himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a donut." —Dennis Miller

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

As usual, I had overslept(I work for myself, so it's "kinda" ok...)

I heard the phone ring and blearily opened one sleep-gummed eye.. it was my wife calling and telling me to turn on cable news.... I heard the words "plane crash" and "World Trade Center"

It took a minute or two for the information to peirce the sleep haze but it did "sink in" and i bolted out of bed and in front of the TV.

I am a worst case scenario type of person... I ended up buying my first gun that day... not for me but for my wife(she can't handle a sword heheh)

9/11 changed me similar to the way it changed Senax. Now i can no longer sit idly and let the world pass me by. Now, I feel i have to do what i can to prevent anything like that happening again in my lifetime. I had to speak my anxieties or be consumed by them....

And the "person" who posted that the United States staged the 9/11 attacks is without a doubt a waste of genetic material. I highly advocate melting him down into a microscopic DNA soup....

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I was banned from godlike productions(over 400 times)... and loved it.

"I haven't made you angry, have I?" -Malcolm Reynolds