Thought Provoking Tuesday 9/6/11

SamiJoeB · September 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_military-brides_thought-provoking-tuesday-9611?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:13Discussion:1c88dd55-c4a2-4e76-b69f-98a4afab9f6bPost:e1aeeef3-b70d-4e0f-8de1-20c803a17fe5">Re: Thought Provoking Tuesday 9/6/11</a>:
[QUOTE]I will say that I have told FI that I will not be attending any of the memorial things on base. I'll probably go to church and that's it. The coverage has acutally gotten a bit much for me, I can't just watch a few minutes of CNN and catch up on the news anymore, it's all 9/11 all the time. As a friend of mine said on Facebook: All this 9/11 remembrance stuff (especially the articles that started in mid-August) feel rather exploitative to me, aka, a little too similar to the lead up to the royal wedding. And that, I think, is what's bothering me. It's like there's no real difference in the coverage.
Posted by divinemsbee[/QUOTE]

I wasn't trying to be offensive or anything. I hate watching the news because I don't like them telling me how I should feel about things, or who I should vote for in the next election. I hate that. I just wanted it to be a relevant, yet thought provoking QOTD. I hate all the coverage of it, however I did watch the NatGeo show about 9/11 from Rudy Guliani's perspective. I'm sorry if it offended anyone.. because like I said.. I really wasn't trying to..

Irishcurls · September 2011

Sami I think it's a great thought provoking thread!! If anyone is offended easily, tuesdays may not be their best day around here, as obviously the point is to generate conversations with each other!

Kudos for getting the ball rolling this morning!!!

divinemsbee · September 2011

Oh, no no no. Not offended at all, it was actually really good for me to actually remember my own experience. I think having conversations about things like this are great, if sad, FI and I acutally talked about this last night. It's totally the "big media" 24/7 thing that's bugging me.

TeamBaby · September 2011

I was 23 and a young NCO stationed at the Pentagon- my 2nd duty station after Germany. I was a team leader for an Audio/Visual team that ran the briefing room equipment in a section in the "basement." We typically worked on the 1st floor of the inner ring when we weren't running briefings downstairs. I had just reported to work at around 8:45 when I got a call to grab my team because the section I worked in was "going hot." We had gotten these drills before so I rolled my eyes and hoped this wouldn't interfere with my weekend plans. I could only reach 2 of my team members since work call wasn't until 9am and they were most likely still trying to make their way through the parking lot or in the cafeteria getting breakfast. I went downstairs with 2 of my guys and routinely turned on the projection equipment- one screen always had CNN running, so there we were watching it all unfold as all types of brass (high ranking people) made their way down to my section. After a while, there were banners across the TV saying "Fires reported at the Pentagon." We literally looked around like, "I don't smell anything." Then the Pentagon footage starts to roll in. When you work there, you can tell exactly where in relation to the building that the plane hit- and thankfully it was clear on the opposite side of where we currently were and where our upstairs office was located. I watched that footage for about 45 minutes before the thought occurred to me to call home. I finally got through to my Dad at work and he was hysterical. He just kept repeating over and over "Promise me you're ok. Promise me." It wasn't until that second that it truly hit me. That day lasted forever. Since the whole building was evacuated (obviously except our section) I was there for about 48 hours until we could get the 2nd shift in to replace us. I remember going upstairs to the center courtyard that evening and seeing medical supplies all over the ground. There were (empty) body bags piled up in anticipation for the recovery efforts. The whole building had this horrible smell that I can still close my eyes and remember to this day. Luckily, our section did not lose anyone. The plane hit a newly renovated part of the building that was primarily still under construction, so it was minimally staffed. We did unfortunately have one civilian who used to work in our section, but got promoted earlier that June and she was working in the section where the plane hit.

calindi · September 2011

Oh my... TeamBaby, I'm so sorry you went through that! How are you doing with the 10 year anniversary? That's really devastating, and I'm very glad you were okay. One of my Mom's friends also was at the Pentagon and she was okay, but she did war gaming and apparently they locked her section down and wouldn't allow in-going or out-going calls so it was nearly 4 days before she was able to tell her family that she was okay. Scary stuff.

LetsHikeToday · September 2011

Irish- I'm an old hag too! Let's stick together!

I was in my sophomore year of college in a Political Science class. I was waiting for the class to start and we knew about the first plane. At that time, everyone thought it was an accident. After class started, another professor busted in the room, whispered in our professor's ear, and then our professor told us to go home and turn on the TV.

I had 5 roommates. Some of us were getting back from class while some others were just waking up. We watched TV together.

Most classes that day were cancelled however my DRAMA teacher refused to cancel class because "Life goes on." This was right in the middle of the day so obviously no one gave a shiit about drama.

CAB1217 · September 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_military-brides_thought-provoking-tuesday-9611?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:13Discussion:1c88dd55-c4a2-4e76-b69f-98a4afab9f6bPost:c8bfebff-ef67-41e0-8fa7-814c84cdcaab">Re: Thought Provoking Tuesday 9/6/11</a>:
[QUOTE]Oh, no no no. Not offended at all, it was actually really good for me to actually remember my own experience. I think having conversations about things like this are great, if sad, FI and I acutally talked about this last night.<strong> It's totally the "big media" 24/7 thing that's bugging me.
</strong>Posted by divinemsbee[/QUOTE]

I totally get this. This question today was great, it actually really got me thinking about it, as opposed to what the media is putting out there. IDK, what the media puts out does not seem sincere to me.

ggirl2001 · September 2011

Ok, I am old too here

I was in college, actually my first semester. I didn't have class until 1pm so I was sleeping when my mom called me and said "Do you have school today?" I was asleep and looked out the window, and it was a bright sunny day, my response "Why the hell wouldn't I have school today?". She told me to turn on the TV, and obviously I saw everything. My college actually was one of the ones that wasn't closed, but since all the news media were all over the place, they said it was so I ended up not going to my two classes that day. I had a few friends in college from NYC so I remember calling them to see if their family/friends were ok. I really don't remember much else from the day except sitting at home watching the TV with my parents and family members.

TeamBaby · September 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_military-brides_thought-provoking-tuesday-9611?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:13Discussion:1c88dd55-c4a2-4e76-b69f-98a4afab9f6bPost:a107f12e-15bd-4a12-8d16-79c99fc681d6">Re: Thought Provoking Tuesday 9/6/11</a>:
[QUOTE]Oh my... TeamBaby, I'm so sorry you went through that! <strong>How are you doing with the 10 year anniversary? That's really devastating, and I'm very glad you were okay.</strong> One of my Mom's friends also was at the Pentagon and she was okay, but she did war gaming and apparently they locked her section down and wouldn't allow in-going or out-going calls so it was nearly 4 days before she was able to tell her family that she was okay. Scary stuff.
Posted by calindi[/QUOTE]

Thank you. I'm doing alright with it. Although I was there, it still felt surreal. Maybe it was because I didn't physically feel it happen and never for a second felt like I was in danger. I just felt like I had a job to do and that's what I pretty much focused on.

mob2689 · September 2011

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[QUOTE]Am I really the old hag around here?? Where is mob when you need her! :)
Posted by Irishcurls[/QUOTE]

The ole hag was working damn it! :) First day back from vacation and I totally lost track of time and worked 20 min too long!

Ok I get the cane award then on this board (laughing)

My goodness, most of you are my kids ages!

Where was I that day?

I was at work, we worked at that time. On the radio we heard of the first plane. I immediately said it was intentional and was a terrorist attack. My coworkers denied it. I mentioned about the parking garage being bombed years prior to that day and they still didn't want to believe it. I just "felt" that it was an attack. ( I have these "feelings" at times weird and scary if you ask me) The second one hit and they were sorta believing me, it wasn't until the Pentagon was hit when they announced that it was an attack and then my co workers then had to face the truth.

I heard about the Pentagon being hit while I was downstairs getting a coffee and scone, someone at the deli told me about that one. I so wanted to leave work, but then I felt like I was over reacting. I had so many thoughts running through my head. I wanted to run and get my kids out of school, fill up the gas tank up and go to Canada. My dad escaped his country how did he do it, should I leave now before the mayhem gets worse? I was upset at myself for not being in the medical field to offer services that maybe needed in NYC. I was scared shitless to but it mildly. Single mom of 2 no family close, the closest was over 800 miles away. I ended up working the whole day, and it was so hard to keep focused on work.

My parents were living in Hungary at the time, my mom called to see what exactly was going on because she was just getting bits and pieces on the news there. I called the school told them I would explain to my children what has happened, I personally didn't and still don;t think it was/is the schools place to announce such a thing. To keep them safe yes.

I came home, we wanted to put yellow ribbons around the National Guard Armory but I knew that wasn't allowed. So we hung our flag out answered alot oif their questions said a prayer got the kids calm and into bed.I then just broke out into tears and they just wouldn't stop.

That night I just couldn't sleep or so I thought but I did have this dream which I will never forget. I was back at the farm house where I grew up at sleeping in my closet. But.....my head was laying on GW's bare chest (which was hairy in a sexy way and gray which wasn't so sexy), he was stroking the hair on my head reassuring everything was going to be ok. So since then he has been my "dream man". I fall out laughing every time I think of that. So even tho it was such a dark time I can laugh because of my "dream man"

LadyKnight29 · September 2011

I was 11 years old in the 6th grade or 7th grade, i was homeschooled and my mom was my teacher i would go to work with her she was a librarian at the local library i was in the workers break room watching TV and doing the work assigned to me. i remember my show cut off and it went to the news and i saw the first tower get hit and go down. i ran out of the break room went to my mom, i was yelling saying that NYC was getting attacked, and all the librarians rushed to the back and everyone else was quiet and not moving waiting for confermation. The librarians walked out with a tv and had the news running i remember a lot of parents rushing to there kids school to get them out.

DaKelliAB09 · September 2011

I was in 8th grade and I was a library aide, so when it happened I was in the library, which we had moved into our All Purpose Room because they were adding on to our school and turning the old library into new classrooms. We had all the books shelves arranged so it made it's own little room sectioned off. We were painting that back of the shelves that were visible to people with different characters from different books. So I was painting and a teacher came walking in and went up to Mrs. Mosier (the librarian) and I remember Mrs. Mosier saying that if we all had to go into bomb shelters that I would be awesome because I was so quiet and never caused trouble. I thought it was a joke I had no idea what was going on. The teacher and her kept talking about war and what not and I still had no clue. So the bell rang and we were all going to our next classes and I remember the hallways were so quiet and passing each classroom I could hear TVs on and I found one of my friends and was like "what's going on?" She told me and I was just so shocked. They thought Oklahoma was going to be attacked next so we were not allowed outside during lunch (usually we would eat and then go outside to hang out/play basketball and what not) but we all had to sit in the basketball gym. It was so eerie. We were all talking but it was unusally quiet. We were all shocked by what happened and totatly freaked out thinking we were going to be attacked next. Parents came and got their kids. My brother came and got me. I remember that night watching the news with my mom and I just broke down and cried because I didn't understand why anyone would do that and just watching people jump out of the WTC broke my heart.

The same goes with the Oklahoma City Bombing. I remember that day vividly and I was in 2nd grade.

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