Remembering 9/11

At our offices that morning we had no internet connection or incoming phone lines. Verizon was screwing around with the building. So when the first plane hit, none of us really knew. Again, no internet and people weren't getting incoming calls.

Then when the second plane hit, you could hear 50 cell phones go off at the same time. It was the scariest sound you can imagine.

Then when we all got the news, we turned on a radio in the office and listened, horrified.

A few minutes later, under the perfect blue sky we heard and felt thunder, the building shook. But it wasn't thunder. It was the plane hitting the pentagon just a couple miles away. We went outside and saw the smoke, heard the sirens and bowed our heads to pray.

Panic ensued. All of us have friends and family working in the pentagon. The cell phone lines were all busy, for hours upon hours. When we did hear from people we knew, we got other phone numbers and promised to let their families know that they were safe. My sister had to walk 8 miles to get out of the Pentagon area too.

I was scheduled to fly out on a business trip the next morning to New York. Thank god it was supposed to be the next day.

It is too soon for me too. I don't want to see the movies out or spend too much time watching tv today. I'm just not ready yet...