"Dimitri" > wrote in message
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> I'll bet you remember what you were doing 7 years ago today.
>

I was at work and I hadn't been on Usenet for very long but I remember a
post from a group that I read back then that was a PING to me about the
Pentagon being next. I'm like, WTF? I hadn't heard about the tower hit
yet, and that PING post totally freaked me out. I'm in Maryland and not
close to the Pentagon, but being *close* enough to ground zero in DC it was
scary not knowing if there'd be more targets. They let us out of work
early, and I couldn't get a hold of my son and I called his boss to find out
where he was dispatched to that day. DC area, but not near the Pentagon. I
remember making a choice to NOT drive the Capitol Beltway thinking that with
the traffic we're sitting ducks. I also recall that sitting at a red light
in heavy traffic and hearing planes overhead even after they were all
grounded. They were military and flying very low. I'll never forget how
everyone I could see in cars around me had their heads out of their windows
all looking up at the sky.

At work before the second tower hit a guy I work with said we were under
attack. I don't recall the news saying that after I was able to find out
what was going on. The news web sites were all unavailable due to high
traffic and I can't get radio reception in my building. It was horrible not
being able to find out what was going on. We had to rely on a co-workers
husbands phone call reports to us before they let us out of work.

My parents were on a cruise at the time in the Pacific and the fear of not
knowing if there would be more targets scared the shit out of me. Finally
got a hold of my son, and he laughed at how scared I was as his whereabouts.
Of course I lost him about 1 and a half years later, and that was a much
more life-changing event than something that impacted the whole country
because it impacted me personally. But I'll never forget 9/11.

Cheryl