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Wed, Sep 11 2019, 1:49 pm
Today I recoiled at seeing the flag at half mast. I understand that it is a symbol of mourning. But it made me think of the towers falling, and gave the impression that the flag was falling too.
I still can't think about this day for more than a minute or so without crying. It's eighteen years later, and so much of it comes right back. It was so much that day, and that week, and the entire year afterwards, like true aveilus. A little over a year afterwards, I went to a dinner at Terrace on the Park, which is up high with floor to ceiling windows. I was so scares the whole time. You see so many planes from the nearby airports...
I am grateful that today I can look up and see a plane and not have my first though be what I should do if it starts heading for me, followed by a worry of who else it might hit. I am grateful that my friend who lost her husband that day remarried and has a beautiful family. I'm grateful that when I try to call my husband and my parents, I can reach them, unlike that day, when they were so close to everything. And I am so, so sad.
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Wed, Sep 11 2019, 1:54 pm
Today I remembered my oldest son at five months old sitting in his bouncer chair while I spoke to him over and over again telling him “I can’t believe what happened and how terrible it was”. I kept repeating and repeating it. I was in a state of shock. It was the realization that my children will never have the innocence and sense of security and peace in the world that I had as a child. I mourned that loss.
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Wed, Sep 11 2019, 1:59 pm
I remember thinking “Now Americans know what Israelis feel like all. the. time. “
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Wed, Sep 11 2019, 2:28 pm
I remember listening to the first news reports on the BBC world service. They were wondering if it was an accident, that the plane was a small plane that had hit the tower by accident. The reporter was actually standing in the lobby of the WTC.
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Wed, Sep 11 2019, 2:59 pm
amother [ Floralwhite ] wrote: | I remember my eighth grade teacher recounting her memories of JFK's assassination. Most girls' eyes glazed over, and we thought how very old she must be to have witnessed something out of our history books.
Each year, on 9/11, I try to convey to my students the frightening, awesome momentousness of that day.
To me, seems like it happened so recently. But to my 11th and 12th grade students... It's an interesting page in their history books.
I find this disconcerting! |
This!
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Wed, Sep 11 2019, 4:05 pm
I was ten years old. I had never heard about the WTC. I had never been to the USA.
I went knocking on our neighbours door calling them together to come and say Tehillim.
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Wed, Sep 11 2019, 5:49 pm
amother [ Cobalt ] wrote: |
A week before this happened, I told late DH that we are due for a terrorist attack. He knocked me down and screamed at me that I am a witch when he came out of the shower. |
Wow that's crazy you said that a week before why did you think that? [quote]
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Wed, Sep 11 2019, 6:53 pm
My husband and I were both working in lower Manhattan that day and continued to do so for months after.
My husband called me immediately after the first plane hit the WTC and I called my mom to see if there was any news.
Standing on my firm’s trading floor which had huge glass windows with all my colleagues, I watched the second plane hit and the fireball that continued. I was fortunate in that we evacuated our building right after. I remember telling my colleagues to stay away from the buildings and not understanding why people were just milling around aimlessly.
We got to the 2 train just as one pulled in and we discussed whether to tell anyone getting off to get back on the subway. We didn’t think they’d believe us and we just wanted to get home.
Train service stopped by Prospect Park because the towers had fallen and I took a city bus home. I tried to drive a colleague home but all the roads were closed.
I couldn’t reach my husband for hours. His office sheltered in place because of proximity to the Towers and he didn’t leave until close to 11. He walked home over the bridge. He has stories of men giving their socks to women who were walking in heels, shoe stores honoring sales prices as people went in to by sneakers and strangers handing out water in the street. Once he got home, he and I drove his colleagues to a park and ride near JFK where they had left their cars.
I remember calling my sister in law to tel my mother in law know we were fine because I could call Monsey but not NJ.
I also remember trying to reach friends who I had worked with in 7 WTC, hoping they were okay and how strange it was to think that part of my history was gone.
We recently went to the WTC museum. It was definitely harder on my husband who was there in the aftermath. It was very eery to see what was.
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Wed, Sep 11 2019, 10:55 pm
My sister busy in the kitchen whilr feeding her toddler son breakfast by the window and my nephew called out to her to check out the plane and the fire. She called 911 and the line was busy becuase everyone called at once. Then she reached the dispatcher and yelled into the phone that the wtc is on fire.
I remember the aftermath. Poeple crying in the street. The smells. The dust. The pictures and videos. Thenighmares. The somber moods all around. The planes overhead for months. The missing people. The heartbreak.
As a child I was more terrified. Versus now as an adult in more saddened.
As a child I was terrified for my life. I didn't understand or was able to grasp the enormity of the tragedy.
As an adult think of all these people who have died. They were all someone, parent, sobling, chold, friend, grandparent, aunt/uncle, relative...... each person mattered. There were 2,977 big black holes left behind. And then some more who died from exposure later on.
MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND.
I cannot wrap my brain around that. I don't think I ever will.
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