DO YOU REMEMBER? - Page 5

Mj12 · ‎03-09-2010

I was home sick in NJ waiting for gallbladder surgery on the 12th. I worked in midtown. My parents worked in NYC also. My Mom called me from work and said to turn on the tv. I saw it and said just leave now. She thought it was an accident. My Dad was downtown, also left when the first plane hit. It took him about 7 hours to get home, it took my Mom 11 hours. No cell service at all. My Dad and I went to the train station to wait for her. The local police were there noting the cars still left there, they said if any cars were left by the morning, those people weren't coming home. My town in NJ had 37 residents killed. Awful, awful day.

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

@VanSleepy wrote:
I was in the shower and I could hear my phone ringing. I was thinking who's calling me before 9:00. Well, my phone rang nonstop until after midnight that day. My husband worked in Tower 2. I was on the phone with a friend and I just remember yelling over and over, "I can't remember if he works in the one with the antenna or without the antenna." Then the second plane hit and it didn't matter anymore.

Turns out he left his office around 8:30 to go to a meeting at a nearby building, but I didn't find that out for several hours and much anguish later.

@VanSleepy , That must have been terrifying .

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

lbwshop · ‎08-23-2010

I was sleeping late, as I am a R.N. working the evening shift, when my husband came home from work and woke me. The television went on and was probably on for the next two days. At work that evening, everything was very quiet. All the patients were glued to their tvs. This was a high risk antepartum unit, so the patients were young women. I remember feeling tears run down my face and was surprised because I hadn't known that I was crying. Everyone was numb for several days afterward. One of our nurses insisted that the story of the plane over Pennsylvania was fiction put out by the CIA!!! I'm 79 now, and will never forget.

MaverDaver · ‎06-28-2013

@jlkz Couldn't help but notice you said you were at Merck that morning. Exactly where were you (bldg) on site. I ask because I worked at Merck.

mrshckynut · ‎06-19-2011

yes

mrshckynut

Goodie2shoes · ‎04-30-2012

I had just arrived to my job at the insurance company that morning and as I was walking to my desk another fellow Nurse Case manager announced what had just happened. We were all shocked and upset and started listening to the radio for more details. That was a day I will always remember. Very sad.

jlkz · ‎12-02-2013

Directions to a particular building weren't quite accurate. I always give myself a lot of extra time to drive to a client's location. All I remember is it was very large and was surrounded by " plant manufacturing " areas. (West Park?)

The building itself had a cafeteria but I just left after my last client and wanted to get on the road.

I met a lot of super ex-Merck folks at the Career Center dedicated to them.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

AZfem · ‎04-13-2016

We were on vacation staying in Jackson Hole, WY planning on that day to drive thru the Tetons for our first visit to Yellowstone.

It was all we could do to tear ourselves away from on the tv to get going. We tried to listen to the radio on our drive but reception was not good in that mountainous area.

Our return flights (2 of them) were scheduled for that Saturday. Not knowing if flight service would be restored we considered driving home but didn't know if we could even get a rental as many were in the same predicament.

Our flights were restored that Saturday but it was so scary to get on a plane let alone 2 to go home. There was a big international conference in Jackson Hole at that time & I chatted with a woman from a Scandinavian country who just wanted to get on any flight she could back to anywhere in Europe.

I was the first one on our first flight. I was wanded, patted down, my luggage searched. I was horrified to be treated like a criminal for no reason (remember this was new & first time it was done!). I still don't want to fly due to this.

conlt · ‎03-16-2010

My father died suddenly on August 31, 2001. We had just had his funeral and on 9/11, my sister was supposed to fly home. I was at home getting ready to take her to the airport. I was watching QVC and had no idea that there was a crisis going on.

I went to my parents house and walked in, seeing my mom and sister looking at the TV with the smoke coming our of the first tower. I thought it was a movie.

Her flight was cancelled. I was happy she was staying a little longer.

Life was a difficult blur for me. I had just lost dad, I was worried about mom. I could not stand to watch the tributes on TV, the funerals of the first responders.

When we attacked Afghanistan, my mother was scared. She was alive when we went into World War 2 and Korea.

This was the first year that I actually watched a tribute. I watched 60 minutes the other night. I was able to watch it but still got upset.

For me, everything that happened was too much and it seemed that my grief did not matter. I felt lost and alone. Afraid because dad was gone.

It was a terrible time.

timeless · ‎02-18-2022

I need to say as the wife and daugher-in-law of first responders- may the families of those that lost their lives that day and after due to illness find peace and know we will never forget.