September 11, 2001...I was in college at Cameron University. I was waiting outside of my Latin class, it was an early class, I think an 8:00 am class. I loved that class and Mrs. Honeycutt the professor. She was very funny, loved her job, and cared for her students. I have been known to have a big mouth, and in this class I would always ask if we were going to get out of class early today. Her classes never seemed to last the full 90 minutes. Mrs. Honeycutt was running late that day, no different than other days. As we saw her walking down the hall to finally let us in to the class. I said are you going to let us go home early?? She responded with a yes, but you are not going to like the reason...
She then told us of the shocking news.
I don't remember what exactly happened after that, but I think I called Eric who was home with our only child, at the time, Alison. I went home and things just went into auto pilot. I remember later that day we were standing in line waiting to give blood. The ROTC department had already had a planned blood drive for that day, so that's what we did. We stood in line for.ev.er. waiting to give blood. we ended up talking with a classmate of Eric, Christopher Segovia, and we invited him over for the first of many dinners.
So, where were you?
I was at work. I was helping a good friend that was a parapelegic and he told me to stop what I was doing and look at the tv. I remember it was like everything was in slow motion. The entire nursing home was silent. All morning everyone was glued to the tv, everyone single tv in every room was turned on so we wouldn't miss much. It was an awful feeling watching all that unfold
ReplyDeletejust wrote a long comment and had it eaten. But in short, we were home and watched the live coverage. It was life changing.
ReplyDeleteI was at a doctor's office finding out I was pregnant with Alena...Aaron was on recruiting at that time !
ReplyDeleteWe were living in Pt Pleasant NJ at the time. I was taking a shower and my phone wouldn't stop ringing. I got out to find out who kept calling. It was my mom and Gordon calling to tell me to turn on the tv. I watched in horror as the other plane hit. You could see the smoke all the way up the coast.
ReplyDeleteI was in college at Washington State University, and I was running late for my 1200 class that day, which was Europe from 1914-1945. I wasn't even aware that anything had happened, but I went and parked in the library parking garage, and ran into class right before my professor (my favorite professor, as well). All the TVs were on in the building, which was weird, but I didn't have time to worry about what was on. When we all sat down, Dr. Sun turned off the TV, and asked if there was anyone who needed to leave, and about a dozen people stood up and left, crying. We went on with class, but after class I finally got a chance to ask one of my classmates what had happened, and he told me. I got home in time to watch Tower 7 collapse, and was glued to the TV for the next two weeks. One of the lasting memories I will have of that day was the college Republican and Democrat clubs standing together while we did a candlelight vigil. It's too bad we only see that kind of unity when a tragedy happens.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Judy. :(
ReplyDeleteI was at Cameron University also and upset with the Financial Aid office...I heard it on my car radio and then went into work after tussling with the FA office...I worked at CCMH ER...Devin came in early for lunch and we both went down to the cafeteria...when Devin had come in he told me about the plane that hit the Army side of the Pentagon and we knew several people there...the only time I saw Devin with tears in his eyes were when our children were born...Thank God our friends were just fine and so were we after a time...
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