Sit down and give your mind a rest, 9/11 topics merged Options

[Melie]

where were you on 9/11? tell ur story.




i was stationed in germany and i was doing maintenance on my PLS. a lot of the sergeants always tease me about being from NY and my heavy accent. so when one of the sergeants came out to tell me that a plane crashed into the twin towers, i thought they were kidding. finally, he comes back out and tells me that we have to go back to the unit because of an emergency formation (meeting). i didn't finally see the images of what happened until i was in the dining facility and saw it on TV. i cried because i couldn't believe it. plus, i have family that work by the tower. so i called my parents on my cell but i couldn't get through for awhile but finally they told me that everyone is fine.
that night, all of the soldiers were waiting for instructions on what we were to do. they closed the post so no one was able to leave and we were stuck. so one soldier brings out a boombox and plays afroman - "cause i got high". ever since then, that song reminds me of 9/11 but it gave us a little bit of hope. weird, i know but it was what made all of us cheer up on a horrible day.

[tokyo-rose]

As far as sitting down and giving my mind a rest is concerned, I wish I could. I've always got something I'm thinking about. I swear, my mind never shuts off. :x

Same here; I think way too much.

I was in my second freshman year that day. The United Airlines flight actually came over my school.

I can remember getting home and crying, because I called my mom at work, but got no answer. She would take the path over to her job down in the Wall Street area, so I knew she was on one of those trains. I didn't hear that she was safe until about 6 o'clock that night. When she came home, we all went to church and prayed, and thanked God that everyone was alright.

What high school did you go to?

I was sitting in my fifth-grade classroom when another teacher came into the room and said something to my teacher. She looked out the window at the Twin Towers, which were easily visible from my classroom, and started crying. She turned on the radio, my classmates asked her what was wrong, and she told us that the Twin Towers had been hit. So everyone, including myself, went to the windows and saw thick black smoke billowing from one of them. One of my peers said, "I think it's going to stand," since the towers hadn't started falling yet.

A lot of parents came to get their children from school, but my mom couldn't since she was working in Manhattan. I remember that I was really worried about my mom even though her office was not near the World Trade Center, but located in Midtown. I'm not sure when she got home, but she had to walk a long way with a lot of other people.