7 years, 5 minutes ago, America shockingly, drastically and sadly changed.
Remember the victims today and never forget the levity of what happened that day.
What were you doing when you first heard?
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Too Important To Forget.
7 years, 5 minutes ago, America shockingly, drastically and sadly changed.
Remember the victims today and never forget the levity of what happened that day.
What were you doing when you first heard?
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Here's to the day that changed everything. Thank God for sports.
I was in my 8:30 freshman Comm class in the LAEB building that morning. A kid came in about 15 minutes late saying something about "they just bombed the world trade center".
I was walking back to to my room in Wiley from my freshman Calc class when I noticed everyone on the hall was watching the news at 8:30 in the morning. The most striking thing I can remember from that day was how quiet it was as I walked to my afternoon classes. Everyone on campus was stunned into silence
My parents live in the approach path of Indpls. Int'l...The days that followed were eerily quite in the same way.
That morning, my wife and I were called by my uncle who lives in NJ...he was upset simply because his friends worked down there. We hung up the phone and almost immediately, our concern for the people turned to fear of the attack and its scope. As the news came out, I couldn't help but to think about the worst possible scenarios; the thoughts of that day are still vivid to me...which is amazing because generally my memory is pretty lousy.
I rambled out my day seven years ago in a post I put up on my other site just last year (if anyone cares):
http://nottherock.blogspot.com/2007/09/day-our-lives-stood-still.html
I've since moved away but I still tremble with sadness thinking about that day, the worst day of my life. And I still hurt for those lost. And I'm fine with that. It should stay fresh. I don't ever want to forget.
And I do like to suspend the silliness here for just a little while each year. Thanks for the post, dowdy-doo.
I was a sophomore at Purdue getting ready for class. My roommate banged on my door and told me to turn on my TV. What angers me to this day is that some TA's didn't grasp the significance of the events and actually held class that day as if nothing had happened. Not only that, but I had an Asian physics TA that actually gave people grief for not showing up to class that day. That pisses me off.
I was in my soph. Horticulture class at Purdue when I heard the news. Nobody knew for sure what was going on so I went to my Soils class and the prof told everyone to go home and watch the news. Can't believe that has already been 7 years ago...
Wow, I'm not hte only guy that was a student at the time. I was in my senior year. I had worked late on my TV show the night before and didn't have class until 12:30, so I slept in and missed most of it. I learned about it when I got up around 10, turned ont he TV whsich had been left on ESPN, and saw the aftermath.
Hell of a way to start the day.
We were on our way from Georgia to Kentucky for my grandmother's funeral. We were able to listen to it all unfold over the radio. I was able to listen to history live.
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