Friday, September 11, 2009
where were you
i remember standing in line at the big foot gas station in jeffersonville. the lady said did you see where that plane hit the wtc. i said no. i just dismissed this as a freak accident. we turned the tv on at the shop and we all were like oh shit. as we watched we saw the 2nd plane hit the tower. man what a day. zero business and stuck in front of the tv all day and for weeks after. i remember a ups worker coming in half way through the day and wanting to know why the gas station line was backed up past the shop on 10th street. he had no idea ,he had been asleep. he sat down in front of our tv and started to cry. wow. one of our customers lost his cousin in one of the towers. i watched that stuff for days, i talking all night. just glued to the tube. man it got to me.
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i was on my was to class that morning. howard stern was on and i thought he was doing a "bit" and i remember thinking to myself, "that's kind of uncool." then i realized it was and thought..well, maybe it was a crazy caller. i turned it to whas84 and they were describing it.
ReplyDeletei had to get to class and when i got out, people were crying, etc. i went and watched the news then had to get to Jeff Schwinn for work.
i remember the line to swifty backing up. definitely a crazy crazy day.
I had just started my first job out of college. One good budies called me and said an air plane hit a world trade center. (when someone says air plane I don't think air liner, I think like a cessna, with a propeller. I turned on Cnn and saw the whole from the first one and quickely relized it was more than an air plane hitting a building, about that time I heard people gathering in large conference room. (this is on the 33 story of the aegon center) So get off the phone and walk over there to the conference room where everyone is watching news coverage, just as I walk in the 2nd hits the building. At that point, there was no question, we were under attack, thats what went through my mind. When the third plane hit the pentagon, I just wanted to get out of that building. I was actually scared for the first time in my life, the U.S. was vulnerable, for that day the terrorist had won. I remember reports of them grounding all of the planes in our air space and that there were still several jet liners missing. Planes fly right over our building every day even before 911 you be sitting in a meeting and see what looked like a jet liner headed right for the building, of course as they get closer you realize they are flying buy without incident, even after 911. The president of the company called us into a meeting and told to go home, there is no way anybody was getting anything done that day.
ReplyDeleteI still lived at home with mom, so when I made it home, I woke my little brother (he worked third shift at ups) And delivered the news. It was interesting to see the shock of someone just learning of what happened, kind of like the ups guy you ran into JOhn. I think we were all shocked and for the first time in long felt like we were not as secure as we were lead to believe.
I just couldnt believe someone could pull something off like that and with box cutters.......