Reflection

[devinam]

Just thinking about 9/11...and I'm curious...where were you on this day in 2001? Everyone in my parent's generation knew exactly where they were when JFK was shot, and when Pearl Harbor was bombed, this is one of those monumental events for our generation

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[tannyho]

I was waiting in line for my latte, listening to Howard Stern. I didn't believe it, b/c it came from H.S. only until I got to school and everyone started freaking about how to help the kids... I didn't realize the how huge the whole thing was until I got home that night-- the school didn't allow any watching of the event. I have always felt a little more removed than I think I should be for this event...?

[lemurkitten]

I was in the shower. I had just moved to Seattle, and had a roommate named Dan, who was very polite and respectful of my privacy. So it was very startling when he busted into the bathroom in his underwear, with a phone to his head, yelling something about people bombing NY. I told him I'd be out in a minute and to try and pull himself together. By the time I got out and put on some clothes, he was watching the news, and we sat on the couch and watched the second plane go in. We both stayed home from work that day.

[monkeybard]

We'd flown home from New Orleans a day or two before and woke up to NordicBoy's radio alarm coming on and announcing that a plane had gone into one of the towers. We didn't understand at first--not awake yet, you know. We thought it was some retrospective report of something that had occurred years ago in some war or something. Then we figured it out. We spent the day at Sanafi and Fitanna's place watching telly coverage until we were completely numb. Sanafi was in NY at the time and had to train home. (She has photos of the towers that she took on the ferry the night of the 10th.) I called MyKarl in NY and left a message for him to call me back as soon as he could get through, no matter what time it was. He did that afternoon.

[silvana]

I was at a little corner grocery store in Washington DC - roughly 4 blocks from the Capital. I was supposed to have an understudy rehearsal that afternoon and a show that night, so I went home to turn my groceries into "packed lunch and dinner" to discover my mom had been calling frantically for 15 minutes (of course, I didn't take my cell to the store that day

[shiva_diva]

simpleton_prime and I were getting into the car to go to work in Bellingham when felipemcguire came out the door of our shared apartment saying that someone had blown up the WTC. We were like "yeah, whatever, funny" and just got in the car. It turns out that he was not, in fact, joking. I was pretty much just kind of bemused by the whole thing until the afternoon when I heard about the people jumping to get away from the fire. That part still kind of gets me.