September 11: What's Your Story?

[twofbyc]

I had a job interview at 7:00 am CDT. When I left the interview I heard talk in the radio but couldn’t make much sense because it was only a 10 minute drive to class (at 8:00). When I got there, nobody knew what happened- thought it was a small plane. It was a four-hour class and we broke at 10. Instructor was a former Seal and he updated us all as to what he knew of what happened, and ended class early.
I got the job but it wasn’t the one I actually applied for; company was only hiring for positions that generated revenue. I almost didn’t take it because of the travel involved- taking it was one of my better life choices, 47 states (including multiples to Alaska and Hawaii) and 7 Canadian provinces later.
I started traveling about four weeks after 9/11; it was interesting.

 

[Padreruf]

No real story -- drinking coffee at the local coffee shop with a group of friends -- lawyers, mayor, etc. We did this every Tuesday @ 9am. We had a special prayer service midweek with good attendance, but Sunday was something else -- standing room only. People were there whom I had not seen at church in several years. High attendance continued for most of the fall through Advent, then fell back to normal.

 

[alabama mike1]

I had just walked in to our library at school to get a Columbus Dispatch from the librarian. She always had a paper for me to read during my planning period and always had the TV on. We both made small talk for just a few minutes when NBC interrupted local programming to announce the first plane hit the WTC. As we continued to watch, another plane hit and we both knew that we were under attack.

Parents came to school in masses to check students out. Colleagues all gathered in the library or some classrooms to watch on TV's mounted on carts. Students who could not go home that day sat in disbelief at what they were seeing on TV.

Like most, as soon as I got home that afternoon, I sat transfixed to the TV and watched until the early morning hours of the next morning. At school on 9/12, an assembly was held as teachers, administrators and junior high students shared their feelings.

 

[Tug Tide]

I didn't think you were working up north any more?

I was asked sometime in May to come fill in on a NE boat and haven’t made my way back to the GoM since.