Before that fateful morning of September 11, 2001
I actually thought about doing this all day yesterday but life happens and I didn't get a chance to.
I actually don't think I have ever recorded what I was doing on September 11 but I will that day for the rest of my life, just like I will always remember where I was when I heard that Princess Diana had died.
We had just recently moved into our house in Saratoga Springs and if you can imagine it, Lexi was only 17 months old. I was working at Home Option and Josh was at Educators Mutual. I would always turn on the Today Show as I would get breakfast ready right before we left. As I turned it on the image that was on the t.v. was one of smoke coming out of the towers and the 2nd plane had just hit the 2nd tower and they were replaying everything that had happened that morning. I immediately called Josh to come downstairs and told him what happened. We were both in shock. We finished getting Lexi ready and headed to work. We listened to the radio the whole way in and I did not want to be a work that day, I wanted to be at home watching t.v..
I had to go and buy an antenna for the t.v. at my work and we just sat and watched it all day. Not a lot happened at work because everyone was so involved in the news of that day. I remember just shocked that this really happened. We just sat there bewildered at everything.
I can remember that day like it was yesterday and it is hard to believe that my children will only know about this day from what I tell them and what they read in history books and of course the news reports from that day. It is up to me to help them to understand the feelings that I had that day and what we were feeling as American's. I have kept a Newseek Magazine from that week and it shows many different pictures and tells about what happened that day. It is something that I treasure and will pass onto my children so that they will remember what happened that day. I have been told that I am a pack rat and keep a lot of stupid things. I keep things that mean things to me that people don't understand. I actually have gotten much better and not keeping a lot of things and even getting rid of a lot of things that I kept but this Time Magazine I cannot get rid of. When I unpacked it when we moved in I showed Josh and he was amazed that I kept it and he actually told me that I need to keep it to show our children.
This was the picture on the cover of the Newsweek Magazine
After the plane hit. I actually think this was taken after the 2nd plane hit.
Unfortunately this was very common. This picture is in the Newsweek magazine that I have.
When the towers fell
3 comments:
I'm glad you posted! I've been wanting to know what everyone was doing that day. I posted late last night. I know what you mean though that we are going to have to teach our kids this. That just blows me away that there are people out there that we associate with everyday that don't know what happened because they were too young. I too remember this day like it was yesterday. I remember the smell, my feelings.. I just cried and cried! How could this be happening to us!!
I look at that last picture and wonder what the people on the plane were going through. What a graphic sight. I saw a movie on TV the other night that I hadn't seen before about Fligth 93. They showed the control towers looking for the planes, and seeing the smoking buildings in the background. It was so horrible. I know the feeling was like those who listened to the attack on Pearl Harbor, only this was in real time. A day you will never forget. I have several of them, including the day President Kennedy was shot. This day will live on in our memories forever. Teach your kids. And pray we don't have another one.
what a wonderful post. I will never forget that day and I liked that you shared what you were doing.
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