Where were you seven years ago? September 11, 2008
Posted by stshores24 in Musings, News.Tags: 9/11, days of infamy, disaster, new york, remembrance, September 11, September 11th, seven years ago, terrorism, terrorists, tragedy, twin towers, USA
trackback
Since Paisano brought it up, I thought I’d weigh in.
I was at Networld/Interop, a networking conference that they used to hold in Atlanta. My friend Blaine and I had just gotten off MARTA and walked into the Georgia World Congress Center. As we entered the conference call, we were talking about our booth-hopping strategy when we noticed everyone clustered together around the television monitors.
What I saw looked like the latest incarnation of Quake…it was so unreal that I swore it had to be a video game. Trouble was, this wasn’t E3. This was real life.
Planes and towers, smoke and fire, debris and chaos everywhere.
I’m afraid the conference didn’t hold much appeal after that…we picked up a few brochures and left to go be with our families.
I went home to the apartment and my wife and I watched CNN Headline News all day long. And we prayed.
See other remembrances by my wife, Paisano, Dana, Lizzi, Michelle Malkin, and Renée, who was nearby at the time.
Comments
Sorry comments are closed for this entry
Thanks so much for sharing this.
I was in college and it was a Tuesday. I didn’t have any class that day in Minneapolis and I was going over to the Mall of America until I walked down the hall and realized that planes hit the World Trade Center. Needless to say the mall was not open anyway (I was headed there for the General Mills cereal bar). Apparently, the fear was that allowing people to shop would encourage the terrorists. But many people were pretty freaked out. In fact the president of Wheaton College (Billy Graham’s alma mater) said in recollection that he thought the Christian school of 1,500 students would be a terrorist target.