tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2861888522042894435.post8266346671059480710..comments2020-01-28T04:58:17.370-05:00Comments on My Three Kids: Everything Changed That DayElliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700012822599821641noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2861888522042894435.post-29823911427302138492011-09-24T00:20:48.386-04:002011-09-24T00:20:48.386-04:00wow. i'm not american but we watched as this h...wow. i'm not american but we watched as this happened to your country. even after 10 years, i am overwhelmed. got goosebumps reading this. thank you for sharing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2861888522042894435.post-77098172148547899562011-09-15T19:11:59.269-04:002011-09-15T19:11:59.269-04:00The horror of that awful day lives in my bones sti...The horror of that awful day lives in my bones still... It will live in all of us for as long as we live. Thank you for a beautifully written, evocative post.judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18377391982685515559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2861888522042894435.post-51437393581545357022011-09-11T21:43:05.848-04:002011-09-11T21:43:05.848-04:00I have a friend who still works there. Not sure I ...I have a friend who still works there. Not sure I would have wanted to go back, but glad to not be in that position to find out!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2861888522042894435.post-80125253591573966902011-09-11T13:49:54.971-04:002011-09-11T13:49:54.971-04:00Cassie, there was a guy from our church who worked...Cassie, there was a guy from our church who worked high up in the Sears Tower - his secretary ended up never coming back to work after 9/11 - she suffered panic attacks at the idea of going up in the building. I've wondered if she ever got over that fear or if she still can't bring herself to go into those buildings.Elliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700012822599821641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2861888522042894435.post-72472826002555606552011-09-11T09:31:53.030-04:002011-09-11T09:31:53.030-04:00I was on my way to work, dropping my kids off at d...I was on my way to work, dropping my kids off at daycare en route. Sometime when I was in the building at Parkview Montessori delivering them to their classrooms, the first plane hit. When I got back into my car the news folks were talking about a plane having hitting, making it very clear it "obviously" must have just been a small plane and an accident. Then they had someone live on the radio they were talking to who witnessed the second plane hit, and that person was the first time there were references to it being intentional. Frankly I remember the news radio people not being sure what to even make of it. Coverage continued as I drove up River Road and Milwaukee to work. Once I arrived, everyone was talking. We were gathered around cubes of people who were having luck getting on the internet. I think literally our thousands of employees were all trying to look up info at the same time. So everytime someone accessed a new bit of info they'd sort of read it out loud to everyone around. That's how we heard word of the towers falling. By mid morning our work had huge video screens in each building's cafeteria streaming live coverage so we could watch here and there throughout the day. As you said...being in Chicago, you wondered if the Sears Tower was next. My personal connections...my brother in law, who works on Wall Street, commutes into the city through the train station at the WTC and was in the building about 30 minutes earlier; We spent the day trying to get in touch with him. In his town, kids were not allowed to go home from school until a parent picked them up, because they knew they were going (and did) lose parents that day (his neighbor was in the towers and able to evacuate). A coworker on one of my teams in our Connecticut office lost her father in law, who worked for Aon. And my brother, at work in downtown Cleveland, was out having a smoke break with a few people and they saw a plane in the sky make a complete turn and head back in the direction it came from, thinking it was an odd sight. I'm pretty sure we later learned that the flight that went down in Shanksville made it's U turn somewhere over Cleveland. We visited NY with the kids in March 2007 and visited Ground Zero, the nearby church that is now pretty much a museum, the fire station on the south side of the site which has a small memorial display. This past week - much like 10 years ago - I've been up into the wee hours of the morning watching the coverage and the aftermath specials. It's all very surreal. - CassieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com