OK, Very touchy subject.. for me anywat.(update pg 4 my full story.. gory details left out)

How many of us were involved in the 9/11???

I was, I was in 2wtc i got out 1 1/2 min before the building started to fall. I saw too much and felt too much.

I was just curious of anyone here has. Wondering if theres anyone else here been through what i went through.... I know its years later but i still feel the effects.. im still afraid and as the day comes closer i tend to panic more and more.. I think this is whyi even had a hard time with the boys going to school. they arent here god forbid anything happens im not there to help them.


oh well i guess i need to just get over things but still curious that way maybe if we need to we can lean on each other and talk about things tohelp us through this.

(i posted here cause it does effect my children and i post here the most)

Message edited 9/11/2008 11:02:31 AM.

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I wasn't A, but I just wanted to send you some b/c I can't even imagine what was going on in your mind that day, and what lingers there today....

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I worked in midtown at the time so I wasn't near the attacks - I just wanted to give you lots of - I know how I'm affected by 9/11 everyday - and I can't imagine how people who were down there feel.

Sometimes I still feel as if it's a bad dream and wish I would just wake up. The fact that these things happen in our world shake me to the very core.

Message edited 9/9/2008 9:49:12 PM.

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God Bless you Aeriell, and everyone that was there!!!

DH's sister was teaching in one of the buildings next to the WTC. It was a long wait to know if she was okay, but she came out physically fine.

Message edited 9/9/2008 9:51:59 PM.

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My boyfriend at that time was at the Pentagon at the time of the attack here in Virginia. On that day I was in Hawaii for work and my mom called at 3:00 am (Honolulu time) to tell me about the attacks on the Towers. That's when I turned on the TV and saw everything unfold. I tried for HOURS to reach him on his cell, not knowing if he was OK. We ended up connecting 9 hours later. I also lost a classmate who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. God bless all those lost, those who survived, and the countless heroes from that awful day.

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DH worked in Tower II. He didn't make it to work that day because he was so hung over from the bad Giants game the night before.

He has never really dealt with it. It has taken 7 years to rebuild the company he works for and he is no where near making what he made prior to 9/11.

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I was on the #1 subway going downtown to one of my job sites at the Whitehall Ferry Terminal. The subway ended up stopping around 23rd street and that was that, I got out and walked back to my office, not fully knowing what was happening....

It's still so real for me now, even though I left my city job several months later... I knew so many people that didn't make it out alive

I can't imagine being in the heart of it all. My heart goes out to you

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My only involvement was watching it all on TV as it happened. Such a heartbreaking day . I remember Nicholas and I were getting ready to go to Wood Kingdom. I put the slide show in my avatar earlier today, I watch it every year I guess as a tribute to the lives lost so they know we haven't forgotten about them.

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I cannot imagine being there...just seeing it on tv screwed me up in the head FOREVER.
I remember it being beautiful! breezy--soooooooo sunny..and eating breakfast in front on the tv after going to the deli.
I never sit...
i remember seeing the smoke and the plane already had hit.
As I was watching the second plane hit--it was surreal, I freakkkkkkkkkkked.
It caused a domino effect where everyone I ran into was either there, worked near there or died there.
my brother came back from his honeymoon to dig people out.
The woman at the beauty parlor sitting there is a coma like state, medicated describing what she saw.
It was a bad bad bad day, it also is a fact from that day addiction rose dramatically for people.
It was also a time where everyone became friends, and the honking stopped and people were nice to each other and there for each other, remember?
I also remember though...
the candle light vigils and the one night the sky parted and about hundred of bird flew through a enormous rainbow at the moment of silence--I couldn't believe my eyes!
I called my job all the way in Farmingdale and they all saw it too!
I truly think it was to let everyone know they were all ok.
it was to remind us all to hug and kiss and not sweat the small stuff.
Do not go to bed angry, enter marriage with one eye open and then close one afterwards.
You never know what ones last word will be...why not let it be a kind one?

Aeriell, you know I love you...it will be ok!

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I wasn't there, I was sitting in my German class for grad school when my dad called to tell me to leave and come home. I'm sorry to hear you were there, Aeriell. Every year around this time, I try to look at pictures and watch videos from that day because I'm so afraid of forgetting and I'm so afraid of all those people losing their lives for nothing. So, I try as hard as I can to sit through it all so that I can keep it all close and be able to bring some meaning to something so tragic and awful. Hang in there. It's an awful thing to live with, I am sure of that, but it's part of you for a reason, even if you may never know what that is

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DH was stuck in the subway after the first plane hit. I don't know the exact timing of everything that happened to him but he made it up to his office on Water St. and was then one of the people who was running and was in a cloud of smoke. He helped a lady who had shards of glass on her body and was very bloody. Later that evening he helped a girl who got very drunk to try to forget. He was living on West 57th but stayed with his cousin in the east 30s, I am not sure for how long.

He didn't take the subway again for a long time. That's where it all started for him. He now keeps emergency supplies of sugar, comfortable running shoes and extra insulin.

Message edited 9/9/2008 10:05:01 PM.

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I was 3 blocks away - I came in early to prepare for a 10am meeting at the Towers.

We lost co workers.

My BIL is now retired from the FDNY as a result of the recovery efforts.

The day - The smell - The sounds - All are forever etched in my mind.

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my dh was there. his office was in 4 world financial. he was everything and is still completely screwed up from it. he's breathing is not the same/ constantly sick. and he still works down there and walks by the site everyday. he was suppose to go to a conference with his boss at windows of the world but didnt make it. we werent married at the time but remember driving to work and i used to call him on the way and where i drive i could see the empire state building and twin towers on a clear day and i saw smoke. called him up and couldnt get in touch with him for hours. was a very scary day for me.

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Posted by twinboys425

How many of us were involved in the 9/11???

I was, I was in 2wtc i got out 1 1/2 min before the building started to fall. I saw too much and felt too much.

I was just curious of anyone here has. Wondering if theres anyone else here been through what i went through.... I know its years later but i still feel the effects.. im still afraid and as the day comes closer i tend to panic more and more.. I think this is whyi even had a hard time with the boys going to school. they arent here god forbid anything happens im not there to help them.


oh well i guess i need to just get over things but still curious that way maybe if we need to we can lean on each other and talk about things tohelp us through this.

(i posted here cause it does effect my children and i post here the most)

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I wasn't there but lost a good friend. I think about him all the time but especially as the day gets closer. I still to this day can't believe he's gone. It makes no sense to me. He was married for 3 weeks.

Although I didn't go through it first hand like you did I sometimes get waves of panic and grief as if it just happened.

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I lived and worked in DC and remember that morning being just absolutely beautiful. It happened to be the day the rest of my team had this huge meeting at the White House. I was the person dealing with another big case and had to stay behind to deal with the other client. I remember the calls and the frantic nature down in DC. I am so sorry for everything you had to go through.

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I wasn't near the towers but watched from my office window in Midtown. I was 8 months pregnant with Joseph & had him the following week.

It's been romanticized somewhat for him as he's heard the story of us walking around Manhattan & how he was kicking on the train to tell me he was ok. He asks about it as there is usually an assembly in school.

It's strange to think that all of the moms of the kids in his class either had a newborn or were pregnant on that day.

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I was not involved but DH was called in for duty to assess the damage and write up a report as to why the towers fell.

It seemed a no-brainer but the effect is he had to inhale the asbestos in the rubble and experience the aftermath up close and personal.

Now ironically he's a project manager working on structural engineering for the new towers going up to replace the fallen ones...

I visited his office and must admit the plans for that site are amazing.

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I went back to work the next day.. after not getting home till after 1am! i was put in a building 3 blocks way to work. we had to get all communications back up and running.. i stayed for a year and couldnt deal anymore left.

That day also we could find my dad.. hes a pilot... he was actually at the airport that they hijacked one of the planes from.. FREAKING SCARY!


i duno i know i need to get over it but i cant. i didnt drive for the first 3 yrs after. still freak out over every siren, every firecracker...

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Posted by twinboys425

How many of us were involved in the 9/11???

I was, I was in 2wtc i got out 1 1/2 min before the building started to fall. I saw too much and felt too much.

I was just curious of anyone here has. Wondering if theres anyone else here been through what i went through.... I know its years later but i still feel the effects.. im still afraid and as the day comes closer i tend to panic more and more.. I think this is whyi even had a hard time with the boys going to school. they arent here god forbid anything happens im not there to help them.


oh well i guess i need to just get over things but still curious that way maybe if we need to we can lean on each other and talk about things tohelp us through this.

(i posted here cause it does effect my children and i post here the most)

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I am so sorry to all of you that experienced this first hand, or who lost someone you loved.
My DH (boyfriend at the time) knew someone who was killed in Cantor Fitzgerald. He was engaged. His fiance just married last month. Ever since going to that wedding, I have been thinking about it constantly.
Emotional thing at the wedding-at the end of the night, DH and I went up to the bride to say good-bye. She looked at us, held DH's hand and said, Nick would be proud I was moving on and that I was happy, wouldn't he?
Yes, he would be so happy
Just my little story. May God bless everyone who was involved in that day in any way.