9/11
 

Never forget. Do you remember where you were?

I will never forget.

Watching TV before going to volunteer at the East Lake Community Library in Palm Harbor, FL. Many if not all the volunteers, employees, and the like we're in shock. Same with those later that week when I volunteered at Palm Harbor Public Library. Combined these two public libraries had about 200 volunteers with many with New York connections.

I remember. I was working down inside a tunnel being constructed under the streets of Boston.

I remember. Before we moved out of NY was in both buildings quite a few times. Unfortunately the media seems to want us to forget.

Older brother knew people at Pentagon as well as in New York City in the towers who died or were otherwise present on 9/11.

I was heading in to a 9am meeting and I always got there early

On the way into the conference room, someone said that a small plane had hit one of the Trade Center towers

Wasn't until the meeting was over that I found out what had really happened

Told my boss that I was going home (had a 1hr drive at the time) - stopped at BJ's on the way home and stocked up on emergency stuff (water, canned goods, paper products, etc.)

I was working a temp job at Pratt-Whitney Aircraft, editing computer specs for military helicopter parts. It was my 2nd or 3rd day on the 4-week assignment. The spec-writing department was a temperature-controlled mobile-home office within the enormous factory (the building itself was the size of 6 football fields). We had a small TV on. We were preparing our computers and printers for the morning tasks. It wasn't quite 9 yet. All of a sudden the guy with the TV shouted for us to come look at the TV.

We all rush to his desk and crowd around the TV to witness the initial attack on the first building, replayed from only a few seconds prior. We stood there staring, more employees came into the office and crowded more - we were all in shock and horrified.

And then...

One guy in the office says - you know we would make a perfect target for them. (Pratt-Whitney had massive military contracts at the time and our branch was responsible for repair, melt-down and re-configure of the parts that make up the military planes and helicopters)

As soon as he said that, I grabbed my purse and ran through the factory, around half of the entire length of this massive structure, and drove home. Called Kelly Services while I was still crying and shaking like a leaf and told them there wasn't enough money to get me to return to a target of terrorists.

I spent the rest of the day crying while practically glued to my TV at home, terrified that my town might end up blown up and grateful that I got out of that building.

Sounds smart of you. The enemy military would probably target those kind of facilities. We did it a lot during the bombing war in WWII.

Small anchorage in Northern British Columbia returning from a summer boat trip to Alaska. Some other boaters told us what was going on. It seemed unreal in that peaceful cove and I just felt numb from the news. Details were sketchy. We didn't get more information for several more days.

I remember it well. It was Tuesday, the day of our weekly unit meeting, which was cancelled. There was a TV set up in one of the conference rooms and most of us gathered there. "Somber" was a mild word to use to describe the mood.

Interesting thing about a week later...a bomb threat was received by our service one morning. That soon after 9/11 it was taken VERY seriously. We were evacuated to a building about two blocks away while bomb-sniffing dogs were called in and went over our offices and common areas. They didn't find anything but the powers-that-be decided that we should leave for the rest of the day, and could leave as soon as our "cars where cleared". There were several deputies doing the clearing. I asked the one who was peering under my car with his flashlight, just what he was looking for. He responded "I have absolutely no idea".

The "threat" turned out to be some Jr. High student's idea of a prank.

I had been pushing Florida libraries back then to get a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory.

I had done similar things in many other states if they had such directories.


It is very hard though to help so many people affected by tragedies like 9/11.

I was the Director of Operations in the Bay Area for a company that made discs for hard drives. I was driving to work when news of the attack started on the radio. As soon as I got to work I turned on the TV. We were a 24/7 operation but after a couple of hours it was obvious that no work was going to get done. So we sent the day shift home and canceled the night shift. That was the first time in over five years that production stopped for other than Christmas eve and Christmas day.

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Budweiser 911 Tribute - Respect

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