Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic Where were you on 9/11?

Let's see... that morning, I was at church, at a meeting for stay-at-home moms. It was the first meeting of the new school year. Perfectly unremarkable... and then the cell phones started ringing. One of the ladies there was a military wife, and had only recently transferred from the Pentagon. She was frantic. The meeting broke up early; I collected my 2-year-old daughter from the nursery and drove home. The radio was on to the news channel. I had to keep telling myself that I didn't need to go get my son from preschool -- a preschool in North Carolina was probably not on their target list. But we didn't have any idea how many more attacks there would be.

I remember hearing on the radio that a plane had crashed in Pennsylvania; I just knew that it had been a foiled attack.

I am ashamed to say I was not glued to the television all day. That was too horrible to watch; I couldn't do it. Most of the day, actually, I was online -- they took the password off the IRC channel and invited everyone.

I did call the Red Cross around lunch time, though, and made an appointment to donate blood at 4:30pm. Turns out to have been a good thing; I got to skip a hugely long line. There just didn't seem to be anything else I could do.

I couldn't decide, that day, whether I was glad that my kids were too young (4 and 2) to understand what was happening, or sad that they would never remember a world where this sort of thing simply didn't happen. Both, probably.

PJ