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Originally Posted by 2BNTV
My son was working a few short blocks away in the basement of a building when the first plane hit. The building shook and all three workers looked at each other and said, "what the heck was that". They went outside and saw the first plane sticking out from the tower, My son starting walking uptown when he saw the second plane hit. At that point, a lot of debris was filling the air and he started running uptown to about 53rd street to meet his wife. He stayed in the lobby of the hotel while she was finished work and took a bus out of Manhattan.
I was working,oblivious to what was going on and he called to say he was alright. I remember saying to him, "why wouldn't you be alright? He then informed of what transpired.
Another person I know son, was working in the twin towers and luckily was late arriving for work that morning. He got off the subway, saw what happened and walked across the street, and took the subway back home.
NEVER FORGET!!!!!
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Your son, thankfully........as well as the other son mentioned were among the fortunate ones that day..........
We will never forget.....ever.
I never had put the morning news on prior.........but for some reason I turned on the early morning t.v. news and saw it from the very beginning when they thought a plane had crashed accidentally into the building.....then the rest unfolded..............by then I had called our son in Colorado, our daughter up north, my husband, etc. and everyone else I thought should know...........everyone was in disbelief. Then we saw the news that one had crashed into the Pentagon (we knew people who worked there) and then the terrible tragic flight of the one that crashed in Pennsylvania.......as someone else just mentioned.
My brother in law was stranded in England, a cousin was stranded in Italy. No one could get flights back.
We were scheduled to fly to a wedding out west in ten days on American Airlines. Half of the wedding guests CANCELLED due to a fear of flying out of Newark's International Airport or New York's airports, etc.
We got to Chicago and O'Hare was literally EMPTY. I spoke to a few other families, also going to weddings in Colorado........no one wanted to be flying.........but we had no choice.
The stewards, stewardesses and the pilots appeared EXTREMELY NERVOUS........and this was ten days after 911.
It was a very strange time. Coming home was exactly the same.
A time not forgotton..........I later heard from friends and cousins who had young adult children who had been "up in the air" on flights that day..........and those flights were brought down in strange cities, where they had to rent cars to get to wherever their original destination was.
We were all glued to our televisions watching over and over again those towers come down.........praying for all the families who had lost loved ones..........trying to comprehend the horror of it all and the senseless act that caused that horror.
Boston Marathon, although smaller in scope, brought back the memories of 911.......... I also remember all those firemen's funerals, the police, etc. and the victims, etc.........very sad time in our nation's history.
WE later found out that some of the pilots of those hijacked airliners TRAINED IN VENICE FLORIDA...........not far from where our beachfront condo was in 1994 and 1995. Ironic. We might have passed them by and not known it........if they were there then. I'm surprised the owner of the flight school didn't think something was strange..........but easier to say in hindsight.....
Thanks for sharing your memories.........