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Who Are We To Forget

Forgetting about a tragic event is like a punch in the face followed by a gut punch!

Sometimes, we forget that we’re all part of the same world. When I watch, people roam about like the only thing that matters is what’s going on with them personally. I won’t go on and on today about self-absorbed behavior, but I will on another day. Today, I choose to give respect to the lives lost in the tragic event that changed our world.

I’ll never forget where I was when I watched the attack happen

I was nine months pregnant, sitting on the couch while my husband worked from home. He received a phone call from one of his co-workers, and he said,” Hurry, turn on the news.” 

My next thought or fear after seeing what had transpired was, “I have to have my daughter and get ready for war”! (I was honorably discharged shortly after 9/11, so I was able to remain home.)

Do you remember where you were on 9/11?

You could have chosen any blog to read, but you chose mine, and I’m honored!

~Belladonna~

71 Replies to “Who Are We To Forget”

  1. I remember where I was, hadnt been home very long from work when some one called and told me to turn on the TV. It was right before the second plane hit. Thought it was fake at first so changed the channel to only see it on every channel, and i had to leave for class shortly after.

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      1. I Have , my daughter wasn’t born yet and my sons were only 2 and 4 years old at the time. I am so thankful that i listened to my gut. I was a smoker at the time and took smoke breaks, so I am convinced that I would have been in the elevator at that time.💕🙏💕

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      2. Oh thank god you listened to your gut. I just watched a documentary on Sunday and there were so many people in the elevator trying to get out. Finally they did, but I can’t imagine the panic.

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  3. I was at nursing school waiting for the chemistry lab to open. We watched it on TV in the commons area. When I got home, my two little children were upset, thinking it was going to happen to them, where we live. I remember rocking my babies and reassuring them as best I could. 🤍🌺

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  5. My husband and I were getting ready to head out to work. My TV was on and when Matt Lauer from the Today Show began acting strange on air, I was puzzled. What unfolded next was incomprehensible. How can we forget or dismiss it’s occurrence? Good reflection QB. 🙏🏼💖🙏🏼

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  6. I was working nightshift at the local hospital. At the end of my shift, I gathered in the waiting room with some other doctors and nurses to watch it on TV. I’m sorry to say that the Muslim doctors were all smiling. I’ve never forgotten that.

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  7. I was inspecting microfilm on a microfilm reader at my job (when the news came on the radio) our biggest client is the Libray of Congress and people feared we would be targeted. Someone brought in a tv and we watched the footage, eventually called it a day prior to lunch. That was one hell of a day.

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      1. Being a 1/4 Syrian with relatives who are Muslim was an incredibly challenging time for my family, its bad enough the end of 2001 was hard to deal with as well with my Mom battling breast cancer/which became bone, blood and brain and she was gone by Feb 7, 2002. I personally dealt with a coworker who assumed I was terrorist just because of my ethnicity. Dining in a Syrian restaurant around thise years I bore witness to a rock thrown through a window near my table with fuck off and go home terrorist scum on the rock. I am truly Dawn experienced what she did but people ARE NOT ALIKE all over.

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      2. I’m so sorry for the loss of your mother! Then on top of that dealing with the stupidity of others. Yes you are right and thankful that people are not all alike.

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  9. I was in a classroom with 7th graders but getting emails from my husband and the school about the news. I finally saw a television in the library during my off period. The next day, I remember a little Muslim boy in my class who started wearing a pin of the American flag, and he looked so scared.

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  10. My brother and his wife worked at NY Hospital and were very busy. They lived in Manhattan. I was in graduate school and at my part time security job training for a new position. The manager, Chuck was so unnerved that he shook as he drove us to the new site. There were many agents on top of the building we were to provide security for including DEA agents, CIA, FBI, etc. It was surreal. I called my mom, a native New Yorker, living down South and retired. She was hysterical as she was unable to contact my brother in Manhattan. My husband, retired Army, intelligence officer told me we must go shopping, get supplies, and stay safe. I was mute.

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    1. I also have to confide that I was an adjunct at the time at a public university and a private university. The Saudi students at the private university were picked up by a helicopter the next day and returned to the Middle East. At the public university, we were cautioned at how we spoke to the Middle Eastern students and were given a lesson in this. It was definitely interesting and eye opening time for me.

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    2. Oh wow!!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing this. I’ve met so many people that were so close to this tragic unforgettable event.
      I wass like you, completely silent. It was so hard to form a thought.

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  11. Yes-I remember picking up my son from school. The towers fell right after we turned on the tv. Then we went and played music at a nursing home later that day. The residents were so confused and scared. Never forget.

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  12. my sister was living n Stamford, I had just visited her that spring..it snowed, I got lost getting back to her place my first day in NYC and coming back on the train…I started walking in the wrong direction, then turned around and got lost again..and this may sound horrible, I was in the ‘hood. I ddn’t notice, and afterwards i guess a lot of people asked me if I knew where I was, I didn’t notice….that first day in NYC, I ate at a coffee spot near the towers, I made my way to the top, I remember someone welding on the edge, while I was shaking in my sneekers on the catwalk….when I got down I remember asking a security guard where the subway was, I remember the pretzel seller near Brooks Brothers….omg I miss the hot dogs and sauerkraut….those people were my first thought, okay my second, my sister when working was usually in the fashion district, so yep phoned her over and over again, I finally got her, she’d stayed at home that day….I remember going for a run, and no one else here was out…and that night, hearing a plane fly over our house….lots of memories…hard to beleive it was 22 years ago….I think about my sister’s co-worker, she was at work that morning, a friend who I’d spent time with when I was there, she ran a company called Be-Bop entertainment, I reached her…..I was on the phone a lot that morning, the next day I interviewed a jazz musician who lived in New Jersy…..I could write a book

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    1. OMG Warren I want to read more! Okay so on that day you were at the towers?
      The hot dogs and sauerkraut are definitely the best in NYC.
      Be-Bop entertainment was located in the towers?
      It is unbelievable that it was 22 years ago, how could that be. Seems just like yesterday and all the emotions come flooding back over us all. So unreal!

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  13. I heard about it when I got to the staffroom at work. Several years later, I’m scrolling to the comments section of a YouTube video and someone comments that they had to do an assignment about the event in history class. That’s how I realized how much time had passed.

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  14. I was on my way to work when my wife told me about a plane hitting the trade center. I listened on the radio and they were talking about a small plane but when I got to work and looked at that gaping hole, I knew it wasn’t a small plane. Those towers were city blocks wide. And then the next plane hit and that’s when we all knew for certain that this was no accident.

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  16. I was dropping my kids off to the babysitters because my husband was in the hospital. As I dropped them off, I saw the first plane hit – we all thought it was an accident. By the time I got to the hospital, the second plane had hit and we were all just slack-jawed.
    It also happens to be my father’s, sister’s, cousin’s, two friends’ birthdays. And the day Mick (husband) friend’s first child was born.

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    1. Oh wow, I know you didn’t want to let your kids go at that point. I also have a friend with that birthdate. I always feel so bad for her.
      I was actually do with my first child but she decided to come two weeks later.

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      1. I didn’t feel that same need as many did – plus, with the first plane, we thought it was an accident, so… And I had my hubby who was in the hospital, trying to catch his breath.
        My eldest was also a couple weeks late!

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