Anonymous

Terrified, shocked, speechless. I was in Portland ME on business that day. My co-worker and I stopped to buy coffee and walked into the coffee shop where we heard the news .... a plane hit the tower; then another plane ... People who were in the coffee shop were scrambling to call home, call family; everyone wondering if anything else will happen ... I checked on my son who was in daycare. Called my husband who just got home from work and was watching on TV. He immediately went to pick up our son. I headed home. I called my family in CT ... one of my brothers goes into NYC to work a couple times a week. I was crazy. I couldn't remember if he was in NYC or not that day; he wasn't. A friend of ours works in Washington DC. Was he okay? We called ... yes, he was fine. And on it went. In the end, three companies that I had worked with over the years lost so many souls on 9/11. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 touched everyone's life - the world watched as the towers in NYC crumbled, Flight 93 crashed in PA to stop the terrorists on board from reaching their destination, a fourth plane crashed into the Pentagon. So many people died ... and so many people were heroes; in death, in the recovery efforts, in the protection of our nation. Thank you to those who searched for life in the aftermath, to those who went to war to protect us and to those who continue to stand and defend our nation.