You heard that we had a terrorist attack here on American Soil.
I was in my hotel room getting ready for a meeting with the buyer at Wal-Mart. I was ironing my shirt when they said a plane hit the wtc. immediate speculation on the station i was watching was that it was a small craft. Then the video footage started coming in from the carnage, the second plane. I thought to myself, "My God, we are under attack."
I was still the facility manager at the shop when this happened. I remember being scared and sad. I wanted to listen to every report that came on the radio but because of the field I work in I couldn't. I had to switch all the radios to playing whatever cd's we had so that our consumers would not become upset or paranoid. Then when I got home I couldn't take me eyes off the news.
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"Am I speaking in a language you're not getting here?"
I was here at my shop working. I had the radio on and they broke in with a live CNN feed. Same thing here, first they said a small craft hit one of the towers. I thought "Sheesh how do you not see the towers?" and went on working.
A while later, they changed it to a passenger jet and I went from "Oh man, that's too bad" to "Holy crap!". Then they started talking that it was possibly a hijacked plane and done on on purpose. Then the 2nd plane hit. I remember just standing here leaning against my workbench listening to the radio with goosebumps. After about an hour of that, I closed up and went home and watched on TV.
I was outside running marching band drill my sophomore year of highschool. When my instructor got the news he rushed us all in and made us sit down and watch t.v. he didn't tell us what was going on. All of my teachers brought t.v.'s into our classrooms that day and we just watched because all of the schools were locked down. I remember my psychology teacher breaking down and crying, our after school activities were all cancelled so we could go home and be with our families. Nobody really spoke that day at all, you could hear a pin drop in the halls. Everything around us just kind of stopped. There wasn't really a break between classes they all just ran into the next because everyone was watching what was going on.
