Game - What were you doing on this date in history?
If you have a specific date, please identify it. Not everyone will remember the date but can remember the event. If it's an event that we would all know, then no date is needed.
What were you doing the 9/11/01?
I had Carol Duval on so there was no news. I got into my car to come to work and heard them discussing it. I thought they were rebroadcasting War of the Worlds! I switched to a sister station and they had it on! I switched to an all sports talk, country western music and rock stations. All of them had it on! My heart sank. I got into work and turned on the radio. We were all listening to it. I got onto a chatboard and posted a prayer for all the people there. My thought was .... someone's mommy, daddy, husband, wife, father, mother, sister, brother or friend went to work today......
I was at my Mom's house, on the phone trying to find a rental car. I'd flown into Pittsburgh the night before and she's picked me and DF (now DH) up at the airport. We had the TV on, a morning news show, I think. I was getting married in 5 days and wanted to rent a car to get around in while I was in town, as I still had a huge list of things to do for the wedding. Needless to say, no rental cars available once all the flights were cancelled. In addition all the area stores closed early (like before noon) so that people could go home to be with their families. When it came down to it, I was so thankful to have my family there, the details of the wedding completely escaped notice.
I was a work and my boss has a TV in his office, so when he saw it on the news he ran back and changed the channel on the TV we had in the back. We couldn't even concentrate to do any work and sat there all day watching it unfold. It was so sad!
I was at work and my dh now (but was just a co worker then) came to my desk and said a plane had just hit the twin towers. I went into a state of depression for weeks afterwards - those poor people & there families
It was a little after 10:00 and I had just gotten out of the shower at my dorm at school and walked back into my dorm room. My roommate's mother called a few moments later and told her to turn on the TV.
"What station?" My roommate asked.
"It doesn't matter." I could hear her mother say.
There they were. Two towers burning.
I thought, "The twin towers are on fire?"
The shot switched to the pentagon.
I thought, "AND the pentagon?"
Only then did I stop to listen to what they were saying as they replayed shots of a plane flying into the side of one of the twin towers. Over, and over.
Okay, I was at home with my youngest son doing his physical therapy (he was 2) -- my parent's were out west on vacation and I still had to call their cell phone just to hear their voices. It is also one day after my birthday, terrible, terrible day
So, if you don't mind, can I change the date -- Where were you Supper Bowl Sunday 2007???
Lasy years superbowl I was at a superbowl party at a friends house. Yelling and screming when I saw devin hester run the first kick back. SOOO fun!!! Cant wait for Sunday!!
I was on my way to campus at the University of Texas for work. On the radio, the DJ said something about reports of a plane flying into the World Trade Center, but at the time they seemed to think it wasn't a big deal -- just a small twin engine or something. Then, when I got to work, the security guard had a little tv out on her check-in table and asked if I had heard. Then, for the next couple of hours, my cubicle-mate and I tried to get onto CNN.com or some other news site to find out what was happening, but all of the news sites were jammed. We got some more updates from the security guard, and then I went to my other job, which happened to be at a federal building. Well, they closed all federal buildings that day, so I went home early and sat in front of the tv for hours. The University, however, didn't have the foresight to cancel classes, so I actually had to get back in the car and drive back to UT for a 7pm class that night. We had about an hour of class and then the professor tuned the classroom tv to the President's address. After that, he dismissed us. When I got home that night, I called or emailed all of my friends who worked in Manhattan (including one whose brother worked in building 7 -- he got out safely and had already called home).
Was at home in the mountains. Woke up from a dream about being on a plane and really wanting to get off. I was also sitting next to Mariah Carey.
I woke up. Turned on the tv and saw the headline, "American Under Attack". I literally looked out the window (it was actually a really beautiful day) and thought "what are they talking about"? Then I saw the footage.
Here in Pennsylvania Sept. 11th was an amazingly beautiful, clear, crisp fall day. The sky was so blue and the sun was so bright. That's the first thing I remember. I was getting my daughter ready to take to the eye doctor. The phone rang and my Mother said...turn on the television...NOW!
Growing up and living most of my adult life as a New Yorker made the whole thing even more surreal. My husband and I just sat there wondering how they were going to put it out. We sat there in shock, and then the unthinkable happened, the towers fell. I don't think either of us spoke for what seemed like a lifetime.
My sister in law was in the south tower and miraculously made it out. They found her wallet in the rubble months later and it was returned to her. We know so many people that lost loved ones that day.
We left for New York a couple of days later to be with our family. Driving over the Verrazano Bridge into brooklyn with all the army vehicles was something out of a nightmare. To see our hometown like that was devastating.
9/11/2001 - I was walking from my car to the office when my cell phone rang. it was my husband saying "a plane just flew into the world trade center". Then a pause and he said "holy **** - another one!" He saw the whole thing live and narrated it to me as I stood in the middle of the parking lot. Our office closed and sent everyone home shortly after that.
Another date:
1/28/1986 - The day the Challenger blew up.
I was a senior in high school and it was my 18th birthday. My mother's 2nd cousin (Christa McAuliffe) was on the shuttle. I walked into my 5th period class and everyone was clustered around the TV. Someone said to me "The Challenger just exploded" and I said "yeah, right, funny joke for my birthday".
9/11/01 -- I was still a teacher then, and one of my co-workers came over, having just gotten a cell phone call from her brother in DC. We went to the library (where they actually had a TV that was connected to the outside world), and saw the footage. We spent the rest of the day trying to explain to 5-11 year olds in a small rural town in NC what in the world was going on.
1/28/86 - I was eating lunch in a Steak & Ale restaurant; the TV in the bar was on, when suddenly everyone started pointing and it got eerily quiet...
I was in a hospital waiting room with my Dad waiting to have a chest scan. The tv was on and I remember watching it develop. Somehow it didn't seem realy though.
I was in high school and it was shop week. There were a few of us that were just hanging out in the classroom off the shop watching TV when the news switched to broadcast the live shots. And that was right before the second plane hit, about 15 minutes before. So they were discussing the first plane hitting and filming the first tower burning when I saw the second plane hit live on the air. Everyone who was watching at that point was devasted! The planes that hit had flown out of Boston (I went to high school just outside of Boston). So most of us know a person or two aboard that flight. One of my classmates family died on that day in those planes. It's a shame.
Game - What were you doing on this date in history?
