tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post6313867628187361401..comments2023-11-03T06:44:41.540-04:00Comments on Wednesday whining: Special Edition: 9/11Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-69363293795490696082007-09-13T00:02:00.000-04:002007-09-13T00:02:00.000-04:00***Sorry! Reposting to correct my name! I am Mary-...***Sorry! Reposting to correct my name! I am Mary-Ann and I hate when I am called Mary only. LoL (can someone delete the first post- so sorry for being so stubborn about my name!)<BR/><BR/>I drove to campus on that day, oblivious to what had happened just an hour or so before. As I came in the building I heard some students talking about people not liking us and something about bombs. I thought, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-18039469919578100352007-09-12T23:56:00.000-04:002007-09-12T23:56:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-88505416867600329952007-09-12T01:01:00.000-04:002007-09-12T01:01:00.000-04:00I grew up about 30 minutes outside of Manhattan, i...I grew up about 30 minutes outside of Manhattan, in northern NJ. I remember thinking that the whole world was over. I remember taking out my high school yearbook and comparing the names to the list of the victims. And I remember calling my long-time-ago first boyfriend/oldest friend because I couldn't imagine a world without him in it. His sister worked in Manhattan but was OK, and what sticksdebangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07475451004512848266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-21816142460252484792007-09-11T23:22:00.000-04:002007-09-11T23:22:00.000-04:00I am way too far south to have had my life touched...I am way too far south to have had my life touched by actual loss on 9/11. I did not lose anyone that day, but I still feel the pain of every death as if I knew everyone personally.<BR/><BR/>I know that we observed a moment of silence at school today, and we said the Pledge of Allegiance (something we rarely ever do) at our adult Girl Scout meeting this evening. <BR/><BR/>I heard the news when KLeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00432371404842970536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-15405006279405784302007-09-11T20:09:00.000-04:002007-09-11T20:09:00.000-04:00i heard the news at just before 6 on npr which is ...i heard the news at just before 6 on npr which is my radio alarm...i went to turn on the tv. <BR/><BR/>when i got to school (west coast) , the new teacher i was mentoring came in and sat down on the floor at my feet, completley distraught and looking for guidance as to what to say and do with her classes that day. i remember thinking, i have 30 yrs teaching experience, and i hardly know what toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-39553630284557817892007-09-11T14:06:00.000-04:002007-09-11T14:06:00.000-04:00On that day, I was at my office, and my boss stuck...On that day, I was at my office, and my boss stuck her head in to say that someone said that an airplane had hit the world trade center, and did I know if this was true? I tried to check on the web, and when none of the news sites would load, I figured it had to be true. We ran to her boss' office, where there was a television and saw the first images.<BR/><BR/>I spent the next several hours Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09640027981607230423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-73860611199004854442007-09-11T13:43:00.000-04:002007-09-11T13:43:00.000-04:00Like Elizabeth, I am glad that it is not a bright,...Like Elizabeth, I am glad that it is not a bright, beautiful sunny day without a cloud in the sky. For a long time, those days made me shudder. The effect is fading now. My own remembrance is posted <A HREF="http://republicofheaven.blogspot.com/2007/09/september-11-2007.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Mrs. Coulterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439504732028752632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-85339123138825059192007-09-11T11:29:00.000-04:002007-09-11T11:29:00.000-04:00Tuesdays were advisory in the school where I taugh...Tuesdays were advisory in the school where I taught, and I had preps before it that day, so I heard at the xerox machine. I went from watching the collapse in disbelief on a staticky television in the main office to telling my collection of fragile-souled seniors something they couldn't believe. While I was still helping them absorb it, the dean of students came along to say that planes had S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957943262402999997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-35474488531541841932007-09-11T11:19:00.000-04:002007-09-11T11:19:00.000-04:00my heart goes out to everyone who lost someone. w...my heart goes out to everyone who lost someone. <BR/><BR/>when i saw the first report of a plane hitting one of the towers, i thought it must have been a small plane and a terrible accident. then i read about the second plane, and i thought we were at war. [the war we ended up in, though, was thankfully nothing i could imagine that day.] miranda hit the nail on the head -- our children would kathy a.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14479337952651746193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-58091825696620062042007-09-11T10:06:00.000-04:002007-09-11T10:06:00.000-04:00I looked out the window this morning and saw a per...I looked out the window this morning and saw a perfect blue sky here and my heart sunk a little. I am a little further away - physically - from the sites than I was then, at the time I was in central Virginia. I spent the day in a fog, I couldn't stop working so I found something totally mindless to do and listened to NPR. I didn't see any images until lunchtime and even then I couldn't watch. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-45924128056980480322007-09-11T09:08:00.000-04:002007-09-11T09:08:00.000-04:00It's a gray overcast day here in DC, and I'm just ...It's a gray overcast day here in DC, and I'm just so glad that it's not another fireplacing perfect fall day with a bright blue sky.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09640027981607230423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1118512024199280584.post-16013948263379706242007-09-11T07:00:00.000-04:002007-09-11T07:00:00.000-04:00I'll come back later to share my remembrances, Kat...I'll come back later to share my remembrances, Kathy. But I wanted to thank you for starting this thread. I fear that the reality of that day has started to be lost in the mists of time and propaganda.<BR/><BR/>I just knew when I first saw footage of the Towers, one had fallen and smoke billowed out of the other, that the world my children would grow up in was going to be a lot scarier than Mirandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17213051651383936247noreply@blogger.com