Comments on: Our View: Where Were You That September Morning?

By: DMAN

DMAN — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:32:23 +0000

I worked for US Airways in their support call center, and was at home sleeping because I had traded shifts and was scheduled to go in later in the day. I woke up to a phone call from a friend of my mother’s, asking if everyone was ok. I was a little perplexed, because I didn’t understand why he would call ask that. I then got up, flipped on the TV, and saw the world change before my eyes.

I went into work and it was quiet. There was almost no calls, and the few people who did call in, you could hear the sound of the news blaring in the background. Everyone was upset, scared, nervous, not sure what would happen next.
The next day, the calls were back logged in the thousands. I was pulled from customer service and placed in ticketing, processing refunds en masse.

I stayed with US Air until December, when I decided it was time I left and went back to college.
9/11 changed the course of my career, and ultimately my life. It was a day, as FDR so poignantly stated, that will “live in infamy”.

By: AirForceWife

AirForceWife — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:40:36 +0000

I was a newlywed married to my husband who is in the Air Force. He and I both were in shock and he was working nights. I called him from my job and made him get up and turn on the tv. A few hours later he was called into the base for an emergency briefing and was deployed not long after that. The world definitely stopped turning that day. We all feel for the fireman, policemen, families and civilians that lost their lives on that horrible day. Remember our fallen soldiers and the ones that are still fighting to this day. Thank a military service member and NEVER FORGET.

By: countrygirl

countrygirl — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:49:04 +0000

I was in 10th grade…. but I remember it like it was yesterday.. I didn’t know it at the time but that day changed my perspective, took my innocence, and forever changed the course of my life… like it did for most young Americans at the time. I just want to take this opportunity to thank our armed service men and women who are out defending the freedom that became so much more precious after that September day!

By: Dennis HE Wiggins

Dennis HE Wiggins — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:45:48 +0000

I was sitting in a classroom on the Atmore campus of Jefferson Davis Community College thinking about my sister and dad, whose birthdays are today. I’m sitting on the Brewton Campus today, but I work here now. It’s amazing how things come full circle in life.

By: Lisa Fuller

Lisa Fuller — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:41:24 +0000

I was at work at Central Water Works. I was extremely irritated that someone had stolen all our outdoor plants overnight. Within an hour we realized terrorists had stolen innocent lives and our feeling of freedom with security forever. What is important in life was definitely brought into perspective that day.

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:14:27 +0000

I was in Washington DC, just across the river from the Pentagon. After working many years at NAS Pensacola, I had taken a job with USDA in Washington a year earlier. The morning of the attack all eyes were on the TV showing the carnage in NYC. Then a report came that the Pentagon had been hit. I walked across the hall to the window in the men’s room that faced south and overlooked the Potomac and faced the Pentagon. The side of the Pentagon was on fire. I hurried back to my office and passed my boss who was frantically running for the exit. His wife worked at the Pentagon and his kids were in day care there (they were unharmed) . Then the word came that Federal agencies in Washington were closing and we all headed for the exits. Fortunately for me, USDA is located on 14th and Independence just off I-395 and we were some of the first one’s to hit the interstate. As we passed by the Pentagon, the I-395 overpass that overlooked the Pentagon was covered with people who had stopped to take pictures of the smoke and scorched building. I got a couple of cell pictures as we sped by but cell phones back then didn’t have near the picture quality that we have today. I got home fairly quickly but it took some of my neighbors hours to get home. Government offices were open the next day but needless to say we were not very productive.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:32:08 +0000

10th grade computer class at Tate High School. The principal came over the intercom and told everyone to turn the TV’s on. We watched the second plane crash live. We didn’t do much school work the rest of the day.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:14:29 +0000

I was listening to the radio on my way to work when I heard a “small” plane hit one of the towers. When we came out of our weekly meeting someone told us another plane hit the other tower. Since this dear lady was old and hard of hearing I knew she was mistaken. I gave it no thought, it was too unbelievable. Then our phones started ringing and to my horror it was true. I was so scared and knew immediately that America was under attack. We set up a TV and began watching the nightmare unfold. It’s still almost too unbelievable to believe. But, I could see and hear what was happening to our fellow Americans. Every year I have the same emotions I had the day it happened.

By: ProuArmyParent

ProuArmyParent — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:14:50 +0000

As this day starts ALL Americans need to stop and remember those incident lives that were taken from us in a needless act of unprovoked violence. These people did nothing more than go about their daily lives. ALL expecting to return to their families that evening for dinner, but that was not to be. As the world changed for the families who lost a love one that morning, the whole world changed for ALL Americans. We must live our lives in the anticipation that something more will follow, that there is someone out there more evil than the man that thought how to move thousands from the world in the blink of an eye. We are Americans! Life goes on! We must live our lives a little more on the alert. Yet we must live our lives.
In doing so I’d like to wish my twin grandsons HAPPY FIFTH BIRTHDAY, Wyatt and Noah Spence! Have a great Ninja Turtle day 

By: anna thompson

anna thompson — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:08:36 +0000

I was at work. I remember my boss turning on her small television and we watched in unbelief as it happened. At first I thought it was an accident when the first plane hit. Then when the second onr hit the other tower I knew it was something bad. I wanted to be with my family. All I could do was pray.