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Marsha Mulvey said:

I was
I was a 3rd Grade teaching assistant at that time. First period I was taking the kids to gym when another TA stopped me and told me that we were under attack. When I returned to the room, we turned on the tv and watched (no children were present). It wasn't long before the first building fell, we watched in astonishment as did others all over the world. Of course, my first thought was about my own kids' safety and what was ahead for our country.

Thoughts and prayers continue for the survivors, those who lost family and friends, and those who are having ill affects on their health due to 9/11/01.

Marsha

P.S. In my room, only 2 children were picked up early by their parents, but by lunch about 1/3 of all the kids in the building were picked up early by parents or grandparents. This event certainly did put a feeling of "terror" into the hearts of Americans.

Clementine_P said:

I was in the thick of things
Lived only 2 blocks away and was on my way to WTC 5 (for those of you who don't know, there were 7 buildings in the whole complex) for a dental appointment. I got side tracked b/c I wanted to vote in the primaries that day before my appointment which was at 9:45am. By some twist of fate, my polling site had not opened on time. Had it opened on time, I would have been there at the time of the attacks. My husband's office building (WTC 7) was the last building to collapse. By another twist of fate he was at home that morning waiting for the cable guy and hadn't gone into work yet. We couldn't return to our apartment for a couple of weeks but have family that live in NYC and stayed with them. We had to wait for 2 days outside on the Piers to be police escorted into our apartment to get our cats who otherwise would have starved to death. The police would not let both my husband and I go into our apartment building and so since the cats liked me more (hee hee!), I had to be the one to go. I had to walk up 24 flights of stairs since the building had no electricity and get the cats and walk back down another 24 flights with 2 freaked out (fat) cats. For months afterward we had to show ID to National Guardsmen to get to our building (they were young and cute, though! Nothing like a man in uniform...) since the area was still under extremely heightened security restrictions. Ironically, on the Friday preceeding 9/11, I had had a microcalcification removed from my breast. This was the breast that eventually became cancerous. So, in addition to grabbing my cats, I had to run through my apartment to grab the antibiotics (and some underwear and things of that nature) that I was prescribed from that surgery. The police only gave me 90 seconds in my apartment (but luckily for me, my police escort was overweight and I was able to out run him up the 24 flights of stairs and buy myself more time in our apartment!

Crazy that 10 years have passed already. In some respects it feels like yesterday. In other respects, it feels like forever.

I'll always be thinking of those who we lost on that tragic day.

smalldoggroomer said:

I was home that day from
I was home that day from work with a horrible migraine. Had the news on when it came across the news. I was looking at the T.V. when the second plain hit the second building. I called my husband at work and told him what was happening and his boss sent every one home. And we sat here in disbelief the rest of the day. I will never forget that day..

LoveBabyJesus said:

On my way to college
At first, I could not believe it. So although the first plane had hit, I decided to take the train to school anyway - stupid me! Everything was stopped and there was no way back, so I had to wait for a bus to drive me near home. It took a long time. Then I saw the news on TV and it didn't sink in until later that day. It was a horrible and sad day. And there is one image I was never able to erase from my mind. I pray all the families who lost someone have found comfort and are doing OK.