MrsR
My love.
Member since 5/05 6247 total posts
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Jennifer
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Re: with all the 9/11 posts it made me wonder.. any wtc survivors on here
my next door neighbor is a survivor. 9/11 is his wedding anniversary.
In addition one of our friends lost her husband 4 months after they were married. I saw her on TV today reading names at the ceremony at ground zero. it is heartbreaking.
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bluefairyli
LIF Toddler
Member since 7/06 387 total posts
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Re: with all the 9/11 posts it made me wonder.. any wtc survivors on here
OMG I am in tears I am reading this watching the news and trying not to cry in front of my son...who is 9. My Blessings go out to all of you. I just wish there was some way I could ease the pain for everyone!! Bless you all!
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Tine73
Member since 3/06 22093 total posts
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Re: with all the 9/11 posts it made me wonder.. any wtc survivors on here
My Dad...He worked on the 96th floor of tower 2. He hasn't been the same since. He worked there for 23 years. His company lost around 80 people including his boss and his assistant who had just moved to NYC from Texas 2 weeks earlier to "start over."
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Tumbalina
Better than the news!
Member since 2/06 2840 total posts
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Angela
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Re: with all the 9/11 posts it made me wonder.. any wtc survivors on here
Posted by joenick
My husband is a 9/11/01 survivor. I am crying already, just remembering that horrible day 5 years ago.
I was teaching in my 2nd grade classroom, 4 months pregnant with our first child. A child we had tried to conceive for over a year. A friend/ co-worker came into my classroom and told me to call my husband. Of course I was confused, but leaving my students with my friend, I went to the office and called his work #. No answer. I had no idea what was going on, until I overheard 2 paras talking...a plane had hit the Trade Center. Still not realizing the enormity of the situation, I called his office again and again. My mom called my school and I got on the phone with her. She was crying and told me she was coming with my brother to pick me up from work. That's when I broke down.
That's when I new something was very wrong.
I watched the coverage on a little TV in my principal's office.
That's when I thought my husband, my best friend, the father of our most wanted and unborn child...was dead.
My mother and brother picked me up, and we drove to my grandparent's house. My MIL called to tell me one of the towers collapsed. My grandpa, who was in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's, told me our country was in the starts of a war (very profound for his condition). I remember being almost catatonic. I remember thinking I was going to lose our baby the same day my husband died. The my MIL called again and said the second tower collapsed.
Of course throughout the whole morning, I tried my husband's cell a million times. Each message getting more frantic. We then left my grandparents, and went to my parent's house. I remember going up to my old bedroom, and collapsing onto my old bed and just dying inside. Then my brother SCREAMED from the basement...my husband's voice was on the answering machine!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a glimmer of hope, but we still didn't know when the message was left...and it was so static-filled, we couldn't make out what he said.
I remember staring at our wedding picture framed in my mom's bedroom. I remember my mom saying that she loved me.
I remember my dad coming home from work early.
I remember hearing my parents cry in their kitchen and saying that I would move in with them...or they would move in with me...if something did happen to my husband.
And then>>>>> the phone rang!!! It was my husband. He managed to escape Tower 2....68th floor...and he was alive.
I drove to Sutphin Blvd , where my husband managed to travel to, and was reunited with my soot-covered husband... to the applause of people on the street. We collapsed to the ground in relief.
We went to the doctor to have a sonogram...and THANK GOD the baby was alright as well.
My husband was sobbing and relayed the day's events...the things he saw were unimagineable. He is haunted to this day. As he was running, he saw one of the towers crash behind him.
I thank God everyday, for sparing my husband and protecting our unborn child.
I pray for those who lost their lives and for the loved ones they've left behind.
Wow so sorry you went through that! Glad you are all ok!! 
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