So sad to hear about your friend, Jules.  Rest In Peace, Alicia.  

Here in NY, I was on my way to play golf with a good friend who worked at Lockheed Martin as an executive. As I pulled up to the toll booth, I saw 2 F16's go screaming over my car, fully loaded with missiles. Just then my cell rang and it was my friend telling me we were under attack, and he was going to be at his office until further notice and to go get my kids from school and keep them close.

I still remember looking at the sky, and it was such a beautiful day just like today was here. It's going to be with us forever folks.

Randy

I was at home when it happened. Got a phonecall from a friend of mine who  told me about it...then he cried into the phone. 

Out of a class of HBA students who finished in the class of '88 at UWO about half of them were working there. All but 4 of them were killed....

Julibee,  special prayers go to your friend...

May we never forget but try not and be afflicted by it also. May the young ones learn a lesson about it as much as the other date that will live in infamy.

julibee


I post this in loving memory of my friend, Alicia Titus, Flight Attendant on board plane number two.  I'll never forget you, or your smile, or your grace. 

The air got  a little heavy in here as I read this.  The deepest pain can be expressed in the fewest words.
While we all lost something on that day, I especially feel for those of you who lost someone close.

Well said, Robert.  

We were in a scholarship program together, Robert-- we weren't in touch after, but she is not to be forgotten.  Not today. 

Thank you guys for remembering her.

I was running late for work that morning. Never turned the TV on ... just showered, and ran to the car.

I remember two things vividly about that day.

1. How little it effected the people around me here in the midwest. I was almost in tears, then came rage. Everyone where I worked was like, yeah yeah, making phone calls, plans for lunch ... and nobody ever talked about it.

2. I remember a lady New Yorker being interviewed on TV. She was talking about the rivalry between NY and NJ and how she changed her view of us. She said "'Those people' were lined up for blocks to donate blood and help out ... but nobody ever came to the emergency care centers because there were no survivors." You either walked away or you didn't.

I didn't know anyone there, but my sister did.

I have a cousin who was supposed to be on the United Flight (as a Stewardess) but was out sick that day.

It all seems somehow even more unreal, surreal now, looking backwards.

I remember the day as well. I went into the lobby of a country hotel where a group of people was standing silent, stunned, in front of a TV. It took me the whole day to somehow REALLY comprehend it was all true and happening.

Homo Sapiens is so difficult to understand, so difficult...