The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is coming: where were you that day ten years ago when you heard?
The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is coming....where were you that day ten years ago when you heard about the attacks on the twin towers in New York City and the US Pentagon and what was your initial reaction?
I was a substitute teacher in a middle school science classroom. The school secretary came bursting through the door and said to turn on the television and keep the students in the classroom until further notice. I sat in shock, trying to answer the students' questions as best as I could. I called my mother, woke her up and told her to turn on the TV...there was a crisis! The first moment they opened the hallways for students to change classes, I found my middle schooler son then my high school aged daughter in the hallways and hugged them. My first opportunity I went down to the elementary and hugged my youngest child. The building is Kindergarten through 12th grade all under one roof and all three of my children were there. I just needed to touch them to feel a bit normal again. Just a reassurance of their safety though I knew we were all fine! On my lunch break I drove to the gas station and filled up my car with gas, just in case of price hikes.
Our family was at Universal Studios, we were literally clueless until they finally closed the parks sometime after noon. We didn't understand why, none of the attendants would give any reasons but as we walked by the shops we saw people surging around the tv and finally saw the devastation. We were herded out the gates told we could get refund tickets and everyone walked to their cars in shock. We sat all day by the tv in our hotel room wondering if the parks would be next, wondering if we should cancel and go home like so many other people were doing. Our family in Nebraska offered to drive to Florida to come and get us. But we stuck it out went back to the parks in a couple of days to new security policies and lines to get bags of all sizes checked. The only good part was that the parks were nearly empty the rest of our stay. But the images of that day and the loss of all those lives will be with us forever. God bless all those families.
It was very early in the morn. (AZ time)
~The radio alarm went off and the news was that some bomb had gone off in NY somewhere. (NPR)
~Then reporters who were now on the roof in NY said they thought a plane had hit the Towers. (NPR)
~ACK!!
~We switched to cable news and SAW the second one hit. (CNN)
~the dog needed her walk RIGHT THEN....I took her but she got a very short one so that I could go back in a watch the news.
~Even though I went to work, not much beyond discussing this got done that day.
I remember it well. I was just getting out of the shower and getting dressed for work. Watched it all on TV that morning. We actually closed our office that day. It was for sure a stressful day. My initial reaction was shock and revenge.
When the first tower was hit I was standing outside with my daughter at her bus stop. When the second tower was hit I was inside on the phone with my sister who normally works in NYC but wasn't that day, with the t.v. on. I was just speechless, horrified and profoundly sad. I cannot believe almost ten years has passed.
I had just dropped my car off to Midas to have some repairs done and when I returned to work my co-workers told me what happened. I was totally in shock and a bit uncomfortable what was going to happen next. That was truly a sad day for the American people.
Wow. I was on my lunch brake in the teachers launge. And I heard the secretary talking to someone on the phone about it. I went cold inside. I was living in Puerto Rico back then and most of my family lived in Manhattan. My aunt worked in the one of the towers. I took my purse, excused myself with the principal collected my girls from the kindergarden and asked a neighbor to pick up my son from headstart. I went to my grandmothers home, and called my mom. She was hysterical because no one knew were her sister was. This was around the time the first tower fell. It came night, around 7:40 pm I recieve a call from my brother, that she found herself stranded in traffic, she was at a bussines breackfast when it happened. When she tryed to come back, the bridge was blocked. She left the SUV there, walked and arived at her apartment around 7:00 pm. That was one of the worst days in my life. I fell asleep crying for all those people.
by Davinagirl3 13 years ago
Think back to the summer of 1999... Are you there? What are you up to?
by Donna Hilbrandt 6 years ago
Should students be allowed to charge their cell phones in school?Yesterday a student asked if she could plug in her phone in my classroom. I said, "no. I am not sure that is the intention of tax payer dollars." She came back with, "my mom pays those taxes. What if I have an...
by Sheila 13 years ago
My first day in a middle school class, two of the kids had knives, a couple were making out at the back of the room, one kid was standing on a desk ,and another proceeded to tell me every dirty word he could think of. I was twenty-one, and it was supposed to be an easy "conversation...
by L A Walsh 13 years ago
A poem about A) Your life B) Your life ten years ago OR C)Your dream life
by backporchstories 10 years ago
With economy becoming tighter and tighter, it is harder to pay bills and keep food on the table! The Bible, tells us Christians to give a tenth (tything) of our income to support the Church. How many of you still follow this rule, especially with a shrinking wallet and other needs that...
by Penelope Hart 10 years ago
Are you spending a lot less time in the sun than you did ten years ago?Do you find the sun damages your skin more than it did several years ago? Do you wear more sun protection than you did before? Do you go into the sun less? Do you still go to the beach as much as you used to?
Copyright © 2023 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2023 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |