We all lost something that day. And great sentiment – we can argue tomorrow. Remember and honor the memory of those lost today.

any American will ever forget where they were when they heard the news. I was in Math Class and couldn’t believe what I was watching.

God Bless All of the Victims Families

It’s one of hose moments you’ll always remember exactly where you were. I was on my way to college when it happened, but I didn’t know until I gotr into class because I listened to a cd on the way in (DMB, and the last song I listened to before leaving the car was “when the world ends” oddly enough).

I got into class (developmental psychology) and everyone was talking about the plane that hit the wtc, but it was still thought to be an accident. So we went on with a shortened class and I headed over to my next class with my friends. There we had had a projection screen with the news on, and the second plane hit seconds before I walked in the room. Now, I live in North Jersey and my school was about 18 miles from the towers. I went to the hall to call my parents to let them know everything was ok, and there must have been 20 kids balled up on the floor along the hall crying. It was the same everywhere I went on campus that day. Thats the worst thing I remember from it. Seeing so many people who just realized at the same moment that their loved ones had just died was surreal. It makes me tear up just remembering it. We could see the towers from campus and all, but thats the most vivid mental picture I have of almost any memory.

I don’t know what the point of writing this all is, just thought its good to share it for some reason. guess its a good way to get perspective on everything (sports included).

one of my roommates poked his head into the bathroom and told me that the Iraqis attached the WTC.

While this day is unbelievably tragic, i fear that it will one day just be a footnote in history like dday is for most of us (and by us i mean people one or two generations after that sad day in 1941).

sister phones, says, “turn on the TV!!!” yadda yadda yadda…

But a friend of mine worked in a law office near the Towers. He gets out of the subway & sees smoke coming out of the 1st one. “Bad” he thinks, “but not something you shut the whole city down over”. So he goes inside his building & takes the elevator up to his floor, where he looks out the window & sees the 2nd plane hit.

I work for the Federal Government in an agency which was greatly affected by the events of September 11th. It’s not unusual for me to hear the date referenced multiple times in a week, so I probably think about it more than the average citizen. That’s not to say I feel more, because after you hear it mentioned enough in reference to something job related, it sort of becomes run of the mill. I think it’s important to take time today and really realize the gravity of the event instead of relating it as part of business as usual. The tone at work today was subdued as we took time to think about that September morning and how it continues to affect us.

But it was also touching when Russians approached me to offer sympathies— people who didn’t know who I was, except that I was American.