9/11 - Never Forget

[Lilaena De'Ville]

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[Kraehe Branwen]

o.o I can't believe I didn't remember that today. I've been thinking about it for the past few weeks and today is the day and I forgot...

I still can't believe something this horrible happened though.. I will pray for the families of those who died tonight. :(

[Fiona Devlin]

I'm holding a prayer circle with candles tonight, to remember all the people we lost that day.

[Kelly Perris]

Today is the "11th hour of prayer" at my church. Every month, on the 11th day, from 11am to 11pm, people are continually praying in the sanctuary. The fact that it falls on this day, as well as rememberance day [November 11th] seems to give special meaning. I remember waking up to the radio that day to the news. I remember being in school that day, and just sitting there watching the news in the career center, because the teachers were in meetings that day figuring what action was to be taken in light of this. It was just kind of a daze.

I don't think anyone who was aware that day will ever forget. I know I won't.

[Terran Starek]

It was my Freshman year of college, and I was sleeping in (like a good Freshman) and I remember waking up in my dorm room to the phone ringing, and my Dad - on our answering machine - calmly saying, "Son, get up and turn on the news. The nation is under attack by terrorists. I'm not kidding. You need to wake up." It was one of the scariest moments of my life. My roommate and I sat around in our pajamas and watched the news all day long.

I'll never forget. My heart and my prayers go out to those families.

[Khendon Sevon]

In a classroom looking across the Hudson onto Manhatten, we had a discussion with my professor about that day.

Other than that, it's a normal day here.

I know a lot of people affected and I was in Jersey only a 30min drive away from the event (my sister was at NYU attending classes when it happened); yet, I think we all pretty much came to terms with it a few years ago.

Times marches on.

[Kraehe Branwen]

I was in school that day too, in DDP class. I was done with my project so I was using the comp to check some posts on the board and saw the first thread on the boards I frequented that covered it. It was posted by someone that lived near NYC that didn't have work or school that day and had saw it on the news. I was the first to know in my school since we don't have cable TV or radios in it. So when people saw the look on my face they began to read over my shoulder. News spread quick and eventually some of the teachers went out to their cars and turned on the radio and found out more. Someone had a boom box in their trunk and brought it into the teacher's lounge to get updates to give to the students round the clock. A lot of people were crying. I felt completely numb about it, like it couldn't have happened. It didn't really hit until I got home and saw some of the images on TV. The thing that made me bawl the worst was when I saw a music video done on VH1 with scenes of the wall of missing people to the song "Hallelujah". For about two or three weeks I had a hard time sleeping at night and couldn't stop crying once I got started. People kept telling me some of the most awful things that couldn't leave my mind about it... Even now I'm tearing up. I really don't understand why anyone would plan something this devastating and so needless.... Why would anyone want to harm anyone else? Why would anyone want to destroy so many lives?

[Park Kraken]

I was a sophmore in High School, and we were in the process of switching classes when the principal came over the loudspeaker and ordered everyone into their classrooms. I got into my science class just in time to see the second plane smash into the second WTC tower. My first thoughts were, wow, and my second thoughts were, someone just made a big mistake.

[Karl Valten]

7th grade, I was in pre-algebra working with my group when one of the other teachers came in looking really worried out and started whispering to my algebra teacher. I listened in and overheard that the trade centers had been hit by an airliner. At first I thought, "what?".

But my algebra teacher freaked out, her brother was a commercial pilot and he was flying to NY that day. A TV was rushed into the class and the news was turned on. I remember the class just dropping everything and staring awestruck. Creepiest thing was that the day before I had watched the movie Executive Decision. It was like some hollywood movie come to life.

[JMK]

I was at work and heard the first attack announced on the radio...I blurted out 'f'ing terrorists'...of course I was half joking at the time and I just thought it was some horrid accident....then 10 minutes later they broke in again about a second plane. Then we all looked at each other and headed to the boardroom to watch what was happening on tv. It is in the same vein as the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, Challenger exploding, the Pope dying etc as one of those events that, if you were alive, you never forget where you were when you heard about it. Nobody got any work done that day, we were all transfixed to the tv. Our office at the time was directly next to the Montreal Int'l Airport and at lunch I went outside to watch ALL of the airplanes on site being arranged neatly as if in a parking lot. It was a horrible day, but it made for some unforgettable (for all the wrong reasons) sights that I'll never forget.

[Aramis Rakai]

I was at a civic theatre with my twins 1st grade class to see a Johnny Appleseed play. Over the loud speakers our school was told to return as soon as the play was over. I thought it was weird, because we were supposed to take the kids to the park for lunch and have a day of it. Afterwards we still had no idea what was going on until we got back to their school and had a lock down. I heard the teachers talking about it and finally got to hear what was happening. On the way home, I saw all these cars lining up at the gas stations, it was so strange. Then I saw the news once I got home, I couldn't believe it...it was surreal.

[Ramoth Ocran]

I was also in 7th grade at the time. In Social Studies as a matter of fact, World History. That was an irony in and of itself that I was sitting in that class when World History was being made. Because alot of the people at our schools are the children of pilots and other reasons, the school did not allow any students to watch the news and forbid the teachers from turning it on until they could decide what to do about it. I heard a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but I didn't find out what had really happened until I got home later that day.