Grambi

I was sitting on the couch watching an episode of Little House on the Prairie, thinking about going to bed. I'm an RN and had worked the night shift in Labor and Delivery. My husband called and told me to put the TV on one of the networks--the first tower had been hit, but not the second.
I woke my 19 year old daughter and we watched the TV in shock for hours. I finally had to go to bed so I could work that night. When I got to work that evening, one of the staff had brought in a small TV and had it set up at the Nurses Station. We had no laboring patients so we basically continued watching the coverage all night.

maxsoncreations

I was on my honeymoon. It was really hard. No one was smily or happy. We tried to make the best of it. People were crying....including me!! We will always remember our anv due to it! Now my brother fights for us overseas!!

RobertaMarie

I received this today:
Subject: Special Edition of the Little Quilts EMail Newsletter


Dear friends,
At this time we all can’t help but remember, in our own way, the events of 10 years ago on Sept 11th. We all remember where we were and what we were doing that day. We recall how we sent a note to our 500 email newsletter subscribers, asking for quilters to make a small quilt not bigger than 24 inches square. In times of tragedy or sorrow, quilters just need to take fabrics in hand and ‘sew something’. We offered to collect these small quilts, and send them to the families of the police and fire departments in New York City who had lost loved ones in the tragedy of 9/11. That message was forwarded to fellow quilters who also forwarded it on to other quilters. We were overwhelmed by the response and received more than 2200 small quilts shown here. We laid them out in our parking lot and the fire department sent a ‘bucket truck’ so we could go to the top and make a photograph of this heartwarming event. This picture was shown on national television and magazines. We received many notes from the quilt makers who tried to find, and recognized their quilt in this beautiful maze of small quilts. This post card was sent to the participants. We wish we could have met everyone personally to express our thanks – perhaps we will someday. God Bless Us All. Mary Ellen, Little Quilts staff, & Kathy Niemann, email newsletter editor.

mrs. fitz

I was making coffee and my husband said "come here, look what I just saw on television". and automatically we both looked out our living room window which faces the New York skyline. We saw the actual buildings with smoke pouring out. It was very bizarre - both of us kept looking down to the tv, up to the window, down to the tv, up to the window, as if we expected one of them would change. Like most people we were in shock and couldn't quite process what was happening. Today we see the new building, beautiful with its multi-colored lights, and as always we feel love for and pride in the U.S.A.

Momof3Es

My mom called and woke me up as I had worked late the night before. I turned the tv on and I just didn't understand what was happening. Just after they fell I started to panic as my mom worked @ Fort McCoy @ the time. They went to lock down right away and I begged her to go home or come to my house just in case it wasn't over and she would be in trouble @ work. I was just so scared for all of the people and the little kids that had lost their parents! I thank God for our soldiers everyday for going and fighting for my freedom!

Momsmurf

I got up later than usual that day and came out just a few minutes before the second plane hit the 2nd tower!

Spent extended periods of time watching newer presentations this evening.

May in Jersey

When tragedy strikes quilters make quilts. At that time I belonged to Alex Anderson's quilting message board and one gal suggested we make quilts for the familys of the fire fighters from the fire house in Manhattan that had lost most of its members. I said my DH and I would deliver them as he knew how to drive in the city. What started out as about 35-40 quilts for one firehouse mushroomed into about 400 or more quilts from the message board's members all through the US and Canada. We mostly made child or lap size flannel rag quilts but we received quilts of all sizes and fabrics. Quilt were also sent to another member who lived in Queens. She had contacts within the fire department and we both delivered the quilts directly to fire houses in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. We had lunch with the fireguys and gals in Brooklyn. DH and I also delivered quilts directly to the Port Authority HQ in Jersey City, NJ, Captain there shared quilts with families of Port Authority police and well as the families of the PA office staff who died in the Towers where PA HQ had been. He arranged for a police car escort for DH and I to the NYC Police HQ at 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan. We didn't actually get into 1 Police Plaza and that was barricaded, some police men came down to meet us outside of the barrier. The quilts kept coming in and I shared them with the group in the town next to me, Middletown, NJ, that had lost about 40 residents, most who worked in the towers. I was going to get the album I have about these quilts to get exact info about the number of quilts but I became too emotional to do it yesterday on 9/11.

PS: I gave one of the quilts to my letter carrier as she had the heavy task of delivering so many packages and big boxes of quilts to me. Met her recently at the post office and she said she still uses and loves the pink flannel quilt I gave her.

sueisallaboutquilts

May, what a story! :thumbup:

madamekelly

I just stayed home and said a prayer for tolerance for us all. All Humans. :!:

Lynnc

My husband and I were driving to work when the first plane hit. My husband's boss let them go home. I had wished I could also. That is until I got home and saw how traumatized he was. My husband had sat and just watched people jump from windows all day. That is a subject that is not talked about in our house. He still is traumatized about it.
My brother had just taken off from Baltimore airport. I'm glad his plane wasn't picked to be hijacked. He got stranded in Georgia and all the rental cars were gone. So his co-workers and him hired a limo just to get home to Maryland.