Suze, over at Obsolete Childhood has introduced a new prompt called “Answer Me This.” Suze says it’s “an alternative daily prompt” to the WordPress Daily Prompt, which she characterized as “ones that totally suck and are focused upon the young people here.
Anyway, her prompt question is this:
What were you doing when you first heard about the attack on the Twin Towers in NYC and how did your daily routine change (if at all) as a result of the news?
I was in Merrimack, New Hampshire sitting at my desk at work when Phil, one of my co-workers, ran into my office. “A plane just flew into one of the World Trade Center buildings in New York,” he said.
We ran together to the company cafeteria where a small group of people had already started to gather in front of the TV mounted on one of the walls. Phil and I got there just as a second plane flew into the other tower.
More and more employees came into the large room and gazed fixedly at the television screen. Some stood around the TV, some sat down at the cafeteria tables. All were mesmerized and horrified by what we were seeing and hearing.
No one was speaking. Everyone in that cafeteria was shocked into a frozen silence. The only sounds that could be heard were those coming from the TV and the sniffling coming from those watching, as most of us were crying. Even I, a typically stoic, unemotional man, was crying.
I spent a lot of time that day — and much of that week — crying. And being angry. Very angry.
It was a day that changed everything.
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An unforgettable day. It did change everything for everyone
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It is one of those days in life that you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing.
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Other than the time taken to turn on the television — because someone called me to suggest I do so without exactly telling me why — and then to see the second plane run into the second tower, the situation didn’t change my daily routine at all. I was a homeschooling mom, and I did what I always did. Football practice was even still held that afternoon; I think that was the right call.
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Being in Australia, it was the morning of the 12th by the time we got any news. I was driving to work listening to my fave radio station but my 2 favourite comedian dudes weren’t on… it was just news, news, news. Initially I was annoyed as there had been no warning of a change of schedule. But then I started actually listening to the news and realised what was going on. When I got to work my boss, who was born in Chicago, was very flustered and upset. Being young and naive, I knew it was really awful but, to be honest, that day I couldn’t possibly have imagined the ongoing ramifications it would have all around the world.
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TY Fan for participating. It’s amazing at times how certain incidents create such deep memories they never go away.
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It is a memory I will never forget.
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It did change people here for a while. We pulled together and were a strong nation… then the divide started and now we are so far apart it is scary.
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That was almost exactly the same as when Kennedy was shot. Except for me, I was in the college cafeteria and everyone was crying. History weirdly repeats. Both events changed everything.
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It was definitely a day that changed the world, and not for the good or better!
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