I am so glad that your dad got out of there alive. I was a volunteer at the WTC just after. Things were still burning when I was there. I will never forget it. I have a T shirt that I wear every Sept 11. I will have to take a picture of it and post it on here. It is very touching. I can't describe it and do it justice

No, not been back yet.

Gosh, I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. I remember my dad picking me up from school right after the 2nd plane hit the towers, (all the schools in my city closed a couple of hours later) and I remember asking him what had happened. He was trying to explain it to me, and I remember having no concept of why someone would want to harm so many innocent people. I guess I was still very innocent back then....I was in middle school at the time.

I got home before the 2nd tower collapsed. My mom was 7 months pregnant then with my little sister and I remember just all of us sitting there in stunned silence when the first tower collapsed. Then my mom completely broke down and my dad was worried that she'd have the baby right there on the spot.

I also have an aunt and uncle who live in Brooklyn, so I remember my mom frantically trying to get a hold of them to see if they were OK.

Just some of my thoughts when I reflect back on that day 7 years ago...

I can remember taking my daughter to school when we heard the news on the radio.  I thought we were being bombed or something.  It was so scary.  I keep my American Flag flying each day of the year.  I will remember all of those who lost their lives and loved ones on this horrible day.  May God Bless and keep us a strong America.

I was working in an off site therapy center on 9/11 in Wisconsin. We did not have access to tv and didnt know anything was going on other that what was reported on the radio. It just said at first there was a plane crash in New York. After I saw a couple of patients my boyfriend called me he was at home that day watching what was going on tv. He was telling me that the a plane crashed into the World Trade Tower and as he was talking to me the other plane crashed. I got off the phone with him and was all confused on what was happening. We were all pretty scared because we didnt know what was going on. I remember that day we all kind of hugged each other and were praying it wasnt as bad as it seemed. Later I watched it on tv.  It was horrible.

I was in Biology class (in college...), one of the students came in late...the only open desk was next to me...she tapped her pen on my desk and said, "did you hear a plane crashed into a building?"  I looked at her and shook my head...she raised her hand, she said the same thing to our teacher.  We all got up and the teacher led us into the cafeteria, right as she did, the second plane hit.  I ran upstairs and called my Dad, he worked in downtown Dallas, not to far from a building that was named "The World Trade Center," and I asked him to leave and go home.  My Alegbra teacher was of middle eastern decent and told the class he did not want to discuss the happenings of the day...needless to say I left class early (and oddly enough the school asked all middle eastern teachers not to conduct classes for the next week)....and I went home, watched the news and then drove out to my grandmothers grave, she had only died 4 months earlier...and I cried.  I sat with her for hours....and I remember telling her (I talk to her...I know that is weird..but hey) that I was glad she didn't have to witness what happened. 

Glad your Dad is ok...this will be one history making event that no one will ever forget....

ProudNavyWife says ...

and I went home, watched the news and then drove out to my grandmothers grave, she had only died 4 months earlier...and I cried.  I sat with her for hours....and I remember telling her (I talk to her...I know that is weird..but hey) that I was glad she didn't have to witness what happened. 

Talking to your loved ones who have passed on to a better place is not weird. Both sets of my grandparents have been gone for many years, and many times I ask them to put in a good word for me in Heaven.

I had just entered the home of one of my home health patients for a vac dressing change.  Everyone was in the living room of that tiny little house in shock.  When I left that home...........didn't say many words during the visit.  My patients wound was looking great and when I got out to my car, I tried to call my mom, she was suppose to be flying in from Vegas from a trip and all phone circuits were busy.  The flights all over the country were downed as we all know.  Bless those people who were murdered that day.

 I was watching the news live when the first plane was flying by a news person was video tapping the twin towers for another piece and all of a sudden we saw a plane in the view that was flying really close to the tower, then it hit the tower, it was like time stopped for a minute, I was not sure if it was real or a movie, I sat up in my chair and could not move for a long while, it was terrible.

I was flying from SC to PA to visit relatives.  The pilot came on and said we had to land in Memphis TN.  Rumors had spread on the plane by people who were getting cell phone calls from people on the ground about hijacking and the towers being hit.  The pilot nor the flight attendants would give us anymore information.  We circled and circled the Memphis airport.  It was kinda scarey because some were wandering if perhaps our plane was hijacked.  We did not know at the time that ALL planes were being ordered to land.

Once on the ground I had no way to get to PA nor back to SC.  No planes, all buses and trains were booked.  All cars had already been leased and hotels were all booked.  I was stranded in the airport for 2 1/2 days until I could finally get a bus back home.  I concidered myself blessed though.  I was just inconvenienced.  All of the souls in the other 3 planes and all of those people who were killed in the towers and Pentagon were dead.

It's funny that this topic came up again today. I went to the Newseum today in D.C. and they had a whole exhibit about 9/11 from the journalism perspective. They had a video about all the journalists who were reporting that horiffic day. Very emotional. They also had a portion of the antenna from the North tower on display. Very sad to re-live that day again.