And you are probably right about September 12 being worse, although I had never looked at it that way. I am so glad to hear that all your friends made it out. And that Craig was on vacation at the time – man what a horrible thing to come home too.

Thanks for sharing. I’ll try not to make you cry again for awhile

I had many friends who lived and worked in NYC at the time. My mom knows NYC very well, so I called her hysterical telling her the addresses of my friends apts and their work places…to see how close they were to the WTCs. My friend Mark lived in Battery Park at the time…RIGHT THERE. Me=even more hysterical. (Come to find out, he was standing a corner right outside the WTCs and saw that first plane…then it disappeared from his sight…then he heard the explosion and saw the fire, etc. The stuff he told me about that day is grossly burned into my memory forever.)

I grew up with a guy named Craig. He’s a flight attendant. My mom said something that made my heart stop…”Craig flies on American Flight 11″. In the two seconds it took her to say “but he’s on vacation in Spain right now”…I had already fallen to my knees. (crying now just thinking about it). Thankfully, Craig was in another country…BUT…my heart still broke for him because his fellow crew members had just died. Ugh.

Anyhew, I didn’t get through to any of my friends or bosses until around 12:30EST. I had left messages for all of them saying how much I loved them and snotting all over myself sobbing. I don’t know that I’d ever prayed so much and so deeply in one day.

Wow. I’m babbling.

So, the day was horrible. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing on TV and the internet. It just didn’t seem real. And I truly think September 12th was worse in some ways…because we woke up and realized the 11th REALLY did happen. It wasn’t just some sick nightmare we were all having simultaneously.

I had just spent a weekend in NYC in June 2001 for my friend Danielle’s wedding. I stayed with Mark in his Battery Park apartment. I didn’t get any pictures of the WTCs when I was hanging out of his window because my camera was out of film (before I went digital). I only got pics of the Hudson which was to my right while hanging out the window…and some other beautiful buildings in front of me. I hadn’t made it to the point of taking pictures to my left yet. I figured I could just get pictures from that vantage point on my next trip to NYC…….

I think many peoples’ parents woke them up with the news that day..glad to hear your roommate’s parents were alive!!

I was asleep in my dorm room, also a freshman in college, and my roommate’s parents called and woke us up with the news to tell us they were alive (she was from NYC and her dad worked in the Financial District). We didn’t even know what had happened until they called. Stupid hippie college that doesn’t believe in TVs!