Where Were You On 9/11/01?

[mookiemookie]

It was my senior year of college in Connecticut. I had just woken up in my apartment. It was a Tuesday morning, I know that because I had my English class at 10 that day. I put a pan on the stove to cook up some eggs, and I flip on the news to hear the latest on Gary Condit, that scumbag who I was sure killed Chandra Levy. Only this morning the morning news shows weren't talking about Chandra Levy. A plane had crashed into one of the WTC buildings. I thought to myself, "gee that sucks, what kind of idiot pilot can't see a friggin huge building in front of him?"

Then I realize "ohhhh (excrement), my parents are supposed to be there today." My parents were in NYC and one of my mom's friends, a chef, had told her to go see his friend at the Windows on the World restaurant at the top floor of the North Tower. So as all this is going through my head, I watch the second plane hit the other building live on TV. I realized that this wasn't an accident. Someone was deliberately flying planes into buildings. I say to myself that I'm skipping class. No way am I going outside if someone's attacking the northeastern U.S. The rest of that morning is kind of a blur. I remember frantically trying to get through to my parents' mobile phones, just to make sure they weren't anywhere near the buildings. When the buildings fell, I went into a total panic. Around noon, I get a call from my aunt who lives in Colorado. Apparently my parents had gotten through to her and told her that they were ok, they had been on their way into the city when they got to a bridge and had been turned around by the police who had shut down every road into the city.

Absolutely frightening day.