Tribute to the Fallen !!
Never Forgotten in continum...here are some random comments from the web. These are touching, funny , but it shows the reality of what people still remember !!
- "Was sitting in a bus station when friend got an SMS saying the towers & pentagon had been hit. "
- "the CNN site going entirely text based that day"
- "I was in... Polish Harry Potter chatroom and for about first five minutes I thought they are talking about a movie, or something"
- "I knew he was not scheduled to be on a commercial airline, but I was still terrified. That day changed our lives forever"
- "He didnt realise it WASN'T a hollywood film until he saw the newspaper headlines the next day" -A friend of a Hashish smoker in Amsterdam
- "yahoo changed the headline & story to report that it was actually a passenger jet... and thats when we knew something very very big was happening."
- "there was also a sense of bewilderment and the feeling of being lost, scared and lonely. "
- "I will never forgot that day, b/c it touched my life even when I didn't know a single person in new york that day."
- "It didn't really hit me that it was real until the second plane hit"
- " went out to the living room and turned on the tv, and watched from that point on. "
- "My wife came home from work crying because people were saying it was the "end of the world" comming."
- "I believe I had a mini panic attack"
- "To this day she remembers that on that one day there were no airplanes flying." -father describes what his 5yrs daughter remembers.
- "got into school everyone silent"
- "After about 20 minutes of utter disbelief I pinched myself on the arm very hard. I hoped that I was dreaming"
- "I do remember seeing that Google page, though, trying to figure out what was going on."
- "I turned up Stern, and listened to him until they evacuated our building at 11:30 AM "
- " I initially thought it was just a large fire. "
- "That night I had my first sociology class. Coincidentally the topic was about the psychology of suicide. It was a bleak day"
- "We got nothing done that day. We all just sat in utter shock."
- "I took a greyhound bus on september 11 5PM"
- "My first class was physics, which we spent watching the news"
- "I remember feeling sick to my stomach, not understanding what was happening or why"
- "at the same time the 2nd plane struck the WTC i had a car accident... SERIOUSLY"
- " It just took me a couple of seconds to understand i was not going to go anywhere that day."
- "Everyone just sort of pulled together"
- "logged into my workstation, and saw an email from another Googler, saying that one world trade center had collapsed and asking if the Google NY office was alive."
- "totally shock....am i watching Hollywood movie or real? "
- "when I saw the towers on fire, I had the wind knocked out of me"
- "..pass along the information, to all the crew onboard the USS WInston S Churchill"
- "I was shocked. I never did find out who called me before that"
- "At first i dident even know if it was real or not."
- "As I drove to the conference, the Pentagon was hit"
- "We heard a plane fly very low overhead – we both hugged each other"
- "I then remember the next day phoning my family, just to talk to them"
Please leave you comments of your recollections and thoughts.
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