I was in English 104 above the lobby of MWL. Class was dismissed and my roommate and I watched news coverage in our dorm room in Willow for the rest of the day/night.
9-11-01
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in college, rolled out of bed and turned the TV on. saw the breaking news that a plane crashed into the WTC.....i thought to myself what an idiot and how does even happen.....then you could see the other plane coming in and crash. then the mind changes from someone is a dumb *** to ummm we are are under attack.
I was a junior in high school and my teacher walked in right as class started and told us what happened. Everyone in the school was pretty much glued to the tv whenever possible the rest of the day. They put them in the lunch and study hall rooms so the students could watch.
The day started off strangely from the start. We got up that morning and found our dog could not walk on one paw. I took the morning off work and dropped him at the vet.
While returning home the reports started coming in of a plane hitting one of the towers. At that point it was still being assumed it was an accident. By the time I got home the second plane had just hit and it became apparent it was not an accident. I ended up not going to work at all that day and was glued to the TV. I recorded the entire day's coverage on ABC with Peter Jennings and still have it but have never watched it. I remember when the towers came down obviously no one knew how many, if any, had been successfully evacuated. Early fears were of 25,000 or even 50,000 dead.
Late in the afternoon we learned our friends' infant baby had died. It was a bad day all the way around.
I remember this too. I had gone to Hy-Vee in the early evening for something else, but I also needed gas. I saw the huge lines at the gas station and I was like hmmm, maybe these people know something I don't. And I figured I'd better fill up while I had the chance.
I didn't have class until one, so in true college fashion, I was still hungover until 10 when I got up and then proceeded to flip my ****.
God, I feel old. I was on my way to Theatre Class (Junior year). For some odd reason, I thought I was late to my class, but ended up getting there HOUR early. After getting there so early, I decided to head back to my apartment. On my way home, my roomie called me and said come home ASAP to watch what has just happene
at work, 30 years old at the time (trying to date myself), could look out my window on Collins Rd in Cedar Rapids. was a ghost town.
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I was 32 and talking on my cell phone to my wife, asking her to go get a closer view. She was around 30 blocks away from ground zero. At the time, we thought some idiot just hit one. We were talking when the second one hit. Now 20 blocks away, she asked me what just happened, and I said a second one just hit, and it wasn't small. All I could do was tell her to start walking north, and stay out of anything with more than 40 floors. It didn't seem to funny at the time, but she asked me what way was north, and I said just head away from the Towers, and Empire. We had about 30 seconds of cell time after the second one hit. It seems weird, but at the time I thought there could be others targeting NYC. She found a land line a littler later, and I told her one just hit Washington. Needless to say she was pretty freaked out for awhile.
I turned on the t.v. in my living room to see talking heads discussing the terrible event at the WTC. I thought it was the 10 year mark of the car bomb in the WTC basement so I turned the channel only to see it was on EVERY station. Even MTV. I watched it all day until 4 pm when I had to go to work at a small restaurant. We served a table of 4 that night. 4 people the entire night!!!
The boss and I stood outside watching the train of cars in both directions line up at the gas station at each end of the block. It was a day I will never forget.
The boss and I stood outside watching the train of cars in both directions line up at the gas station at each end of the block. It was a day I will never forget.
