Blonde Logic
Yes. You can.
Where were you when you first heard about 9/11?
I had only been living in the UK a month. I was at work in Brighton, and it was afternoon.
Some ladies in the office were stood behind me talking quietly. I kept hearing certain words "planes" "New York" "Awful" "Explosions", etc.
I was trying to wrk out what movie they were talking about. Stallone? Schawarzeneger? I turned to them and asked them, are you talking about a film?"
They all went quiet, and din't want to say anything. Finally they told me2 planes had crashed in to the Twin Towers. I said, "Oh my god - how bad is it? " And the said they words they said hit me, but didn't make any sense. They said, "The Towers are gone...."
I could not get my head around it and siad "Gone?? What do you mean gone?" They said they had fallen. Gone.
I thought they were a bit dramtatic, so I called my husband.
"What has happened in New York!!??" He said, he had hoped I wouldn't have hear until I got home. He told me the same thing - that the twins were "Gone." I thought what IS it with these people??
I said, thinking he too was exagerating, "So you are telling me that when you look at the skyline, you cannot see them? THat they are no more. GONE. " And he said, "yes."
I was stunned. My first thought was my brother who sometimes worked there. Thankfully - not that week. I did not know that my best friends cousin was on one of the planes. Or my other friends neighbour too.
I got through the day but my mind was not on work. My mind was trying to comprehend the two towers suddenly wiped from the skyline - erased - and what that meant and entailed.
I finished at work, got in my car, and placed the little american flag I had (for whatever reason??) in my car, in the windscreen and drove home crying all the way. Looking at other drivers, wondering if they too knew the horrors that had occured just hours before. Or if they were like I was hours before, blissfully unaware.
When I saw the news, I felt I was watching a horrible horrible movie. It couldn;t possibly be real. And when I saw people jumping, my heart ached and the tears flowed, along with most of the rest of the world. And I felt that something special in life had been lost, forever. Innocence was already lost - the world was already too far gone to say that - but something dear was lost. No one - NO ONE should have to look to their colleague and say, "Well - shall we jump??" It is unthinkable.
Like most of the world, I watched the news for days and days, read all the papers, and tried to comprehend how what happened was possible. I have never reconsciled it, and never will.
So, where were you?
I had only been living in the UK a month. I was at work in Brighton, and it was afternoon.
Some ladies in the office were stood behind me talking quietly. I kept hearing certain words "planes" "New York" "Awful" "Explosions", etc.
I was trying to wrk out what movie they were talking about. Stallone? Schawarzeneger? I turned to them and asked them, are you talking about a film?"
They all went quiet, and din't want to say anything. Finally they told me2 planes had crashed in to the Twin Towers. I said, "Oh my god - how bad is it? " And the said they words they said hit me, but didn't make any sense. They said, "The Towers are gone...."
I could not get my head around it and siad "Gone?? What do you mean gone?" They said they had fallen. Gone.
I thought they were a bit dramtatic, so I called my husband.
"What has happened in New York!!??" He said, he had hoped I wouldn't have hear until I got home. He told me the same thing - that the twins were "Gone." I thought what IS it with these people??
I said, thinking he too was exagerating, "So you are telling me that when you look at the skyline, you cannot see them? THat they are no more. GONE. " And he said, "yes."
I was stunned. My first thought was my brother who sometimes worked there. Thankfully - not that week. I did not know that my best friends cousin was on one of the planes. Or my other friends neighbour too.
I got through the day but my mind was not on work. My mind was trying to comprehend the two towers suddenly wiped from the skyline - erased - and what that meant and entailed.
I finished at work, got in my car, and placed the little american flag I had (for whatever reason??) in my car, in the windscreen and drove home crying all the way. Looking at other drivers, wondering if they too knew the horrors that had occured just hours before. Or if they were like I was hours before, blissfully unaware.
When I saw the news, I felt I was watching a horrible horrible movie. It couldn;t possibly be real. And when I saw people jumping, my heart ached and the tears flowed, along with most of the rest of the world. And I felt that something special in life had been lost, forever. Innocence was already lost - the world was already too far gone to say that - but something dear was lost. No one - NO ONE should have to look to their colleague and say, "Well - shall we jump??" It is unthinkable.
Like most of the world, I watched the news for days and days, read all the papers, and tried to comprehend how what happened was possible. I have never reconsciled it, and never will.
So, where were you?