cheri stonespinner

I took the day off because my daughter had oral surgery to remove her wisdom teeth. She was still pretty druged when laying on our couch she asked "mom is this real or a movie?" I was prepareing lunch in the kitchen. I came in and it took me a while of stareing in an mistified manor at the tv. I slowly said "This is real." We both started crying.

Ramona Byrd

I was sitting in the exam chair of the eye exam area of Costco when all this happened. Then I walked out to go visit my DH, who was in a rehabilitation hospital just a few miles from my town, and I didn't pay much attention to the TV area of Costco.

I never have my car radio on because it irritates me, and when I walked into DH's room he was still drugged up and kept asking if I could get someone to fix his TV. It kept playing the same movie over and over. Took me a while to realize that it was for real.

After visiting him, I went on to the Blood Source at the hospital and suddenly we were massively swamped with donors till we had to shove them out the door at 11 PM. It was wonderful to see all those lovely people wanting to help in some way or other. Local restaurants and fast food cafes kept sending us (For donors also) huge sacks of sandwiches, and I remember a whole lot of ice cream snacks, and a lot of the hospital's workers kept baking us large trays of cookies...I'll never forget that day, how so many just plain folks rolled up their sleeves and were grimly determined to do their duty.

mountain deb

I work in a nursing home and was catching it on different TVs. It still gives me the goose bumps. Now we know what our ancestors went through when Pearl Harbor was bombed.

Greenheron

I was at a computer training session at another school. The Principal let us know that something had happened in NY and the tv reception was out (and, of course, the computers). We had no way of knowing if the events were connected or if we were having a local problem. After a bit I went to the office and requested use of the phone. I was speaking to my husband (we live in a different town), who was watching the coverage, when the first tower came down. I went back to the group and told them what had taken place. They said they knew from my face that the news would be horrible. And then, the Pentagon and flight 93.

That afternoon and evening I watched the tragedy re-played over and over, trying to comprehend the scope of horror and heroism.

dljennings

i was at work in the boston ma terminal when a girl that worked for me came in & said a plane had hit the towers. i assumed that it was a small plane and thought it was an accident. once she came in, i had to run out to the recruiters office and drop off some papers for my ds. i was watching with the marine, navy, air force, army & coast guard recruiters when the 2nd plane hit. we were all just stunned silent when the air force recruiter said "where the f&^% are we?" then said "sorry ma'am."for swearing in front of me..

i went back to work & we turned on the radio & listened all day. we have 2 customers, boston scientific & haemonetics, that ship medical supplies. both thier traffic managers called me very early on, looking for info on how fast we could get empty trls there & how fast we could move it to nyc...

sadly, the equipment was not needed.

came home early from work, the mass pike was free as all the state workers had been sent home and boston was shut down for all intents & purposes.

it was a tragic day, but one that made me realize how resiliant americans are, and how willing to help one another. i'm proud to be an american and thankful for our military personnel, fire fighters & all first responders & their families that sacrifice so much.