Twitter would have shut down.

 

Good point... I can't even imagine what it would have been like.

I just pulled off of the road to read all of Ari's tweets. Fascinating!

 

I agree! Really glad he's sharing. We saw the moment where Bush found out, and then the Bush press conference, etc. but to hear how it all played out behind the scenes was so interesting.

I don't think I knew that the nation went to DEFCON 3 that morning. I'm fascinated by Ari's insight.

I was on a plane to Chicago that morning. Spent all day in grievance meetings while watching the news and trying to find a car to drive back home. All I kept thinking all day was that I had to get home to hug my kids.

I was working with a central Ky school district at the time and was driving to a meeting at the Tech Center. I was listening to talk radio of some kind and they announced that a plane had it one of the towers as I was pulling in. At the time the commentators thought it was an accident and were wondering how that could happen. I went in the building and one of the instructors had pulled a tv into the hallway and several students, the Director of the Center, some teachers and I were watching it live. Then the 2nd plane hit and we all then knew this was no accident. It was surreal watching the buildings peel away and fall. Total silence from everyone the whole time. We rescheduled the meeting because the Superintendent wanted input on if kids should watch and if so which grade levels. So I returned to Central Office.

 

Tough day for all Americans, but mostly for those victimized.

Amazing stuff to me:

 

@AriFleischer: I wrote on back of a legal pad "DON'T SAY ANYTHING YET". I wanted him 2b briefed b4 talking. I put my back to the press & held up the sign.

Those tweets are amazing. I'm glad he's doing that.

I watch videos from the day and one always makes me feel physically sick..

 

Watching the people jump out of the building. Knowing how horrible it was inside, not being able to breath, and realizing there was truly no way out...people just jumped. I can't imagine having to decide which horrific way to die...letting the building collapse on top of me, smoke inhalation and suffocation, or jumping from a 100+ story building to the ground full of people below.

I remember being at work that day (later in the day) and sitting in a room full of cops to start our shift and we were all watching a news report on television. It was the only time in my career that the whole room was completely quiet.

I watch videos from the day and one always makes me feel physically sick..

 

Watching the people jump out of the building. Knowing how horrible it was inside, not being able to breath, and realizing there was truly no way out...people just jumped. I can't imagine having to decide which horrific way to die...letting the building collapse on top of me, smoke inhalation and suffocation, or jumping from a 100+ story building to the ground full of people below.

 

The one special that comes on every year tears me all to pieces. It makes me want to go to war but makes me cry at the same time. I always forget the name of it but I'm sure it'll be on tonight.

I should add that my youngest is now in the Navy. He was 8.

 

That's awesome. I'm sure he knows but let him know there's an awfully lot of people out there who are grateful for people like him who keep us all safe.

I watch videos from the day and one always makes me feel physically sick..

 

Watching the people jump out of the building. Knowing how horrible it was inside, not being able to breath, and realizing there was truly no way out...people just jumped. I can't imagine having to decide which horrific way to die...letting the building collapse on top of me, smoke inhalation and suffocation, or jumping from a 100+ story building to the ground full of people below.

 

The people jumping from the buildings has always been the one thing that got to me the most... I obviously can't speak to any certainty because we don't know what it was like inside those buildings, but I just don't think there's any way I could have jumped. I would have held on to the chance that I would make it out alive. By jumping, you know the end result.

 

It's chilling even to think about.

The people jumping from the buildings has always been the one thing that got to me the most... I obviously can't speak to any certainty because we don't know what it was like inside those buildings, but I just don't think there's any way I could have jumped. I would have held on to the chance that I would make it out alive. By jumping, you know the end result.

 

It's chilling even to think about.

 

I guess that's my struggle. How bad did it have to be for people to think the best option was to end it quicker?

 

Those images and the phone calls/messages I hear....break me.

World Trade Center Documentary by ResidentPinto on YouTube is one I would recommend if you want to cry and get very mad at the same time. It's almost two hours of pure emotion. I recommend watching it once a year just so you never forget those feelings.

 

NOTE: that is raw unedited footage...there is foul language and there are bodies falling from the WTC. I still think it is important to relive those emotions and never forget.

I went to church that day for lunch after watching everything on TV as it happened while I was at work. My wife on the phone in our office with her sister who lived in Manhattan and was at work watching it all as she stared out her office window at the twin towers.

 

I went to church (St Pauls which was near my work) and prayed, came out and seen one of my best friends who was an Airport Cop and he asked what I was doing there, I couldn't even talk, just smiled as I walked past him and went to my car to drive back to work, was the first time I broke down, on that drive back.

 

Never been back to that church since then, don't know why, but it was something I felt I needed to do that day and that was to go there and pray for all the families affected that day and all the families I knew would be affected in the future because of these cowardly acts.