Writer's Block: 9/11

[unstoppablei]

I was 15 when I was in French class and the teacher got a call. It was from her daughter, frantic, telling her that she was okay, and the baby was too. "What do you mean?" my teacher asked. "Turn on your TV," her daughter said. We were giggling awkwardly at the strange look on our teacher's face, mocking her, and then she turned on the television

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[drunkcascookies]

Aw. I was in bed when I found out. My radio clicked on to wake me up for school and it was saying that the Twin Towers were hit. It didn't really register with me as actual news until I headed out to the kitchen where my mom had the TV blaring about the World Trade Center and how one plane was hit. Then I went to school and my classmates and I were kept up-to-date by our teachers, which is how I found out that the second tower was hit and later that it collapsed.

[sherrilina]

Oh no was the daughter living in NYC? Yikes...:/

[liu_xing]

I was in my classroom at school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan when they asked if we had parents who worked in WTC. My mom commuted through there and was in the buildings when the first plane struck transferring from the subway to the PATH train. She got out, passing a plane engine, and began the long walk home. Five blocks away she heard another airplane and turned just in time to watch the second plane hit. Another number of blocks away she watched the towers crumble.

I spent the afternoon wondering if she was dead.

[unstoppablei]

Darling! I'm so glad that she was okay. How scary. My cousin's husband and my uncle both worked in NY near the WTC. My uncle checked in, but my cousin-in-law wasn't able to, and we knew that he commuted thru there as well, around the time the planes hit. I didn't know until later that night. For some reason (cell phone didn't work or something?) we didn't hear from him until the next day.

Still, I can't imagine the stress of wondering if your mom is dead. You deserve all the hugs in the world.

[liu_xing]

Cell towers were so flooded with calls that you couldn't reach anyone.

[unstoppablei]

Right right. Of course.