https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h What do you remember from 9/11? Where were you? How were you affected? en-us 2020-06-29 18:48:00 UTC 2025-10-05 02:28:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1fa-1f1f2.png afrobil1 https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/648320309 I remember my history teacher getting a call and just sitting at his desk with tears in his eyes. Within minutes the loudspeaker came on that the twin towers were hit 10 minutes prior. At first I thought we were being punked. Our school's policy was to watch the TV in homeroom until we were sent home. We did not, so I literally thought we were being punked. Until my mom picked me up from the bus. Then I saw the news. My dad was sent home my little sister actually got to watch the TV in elementary school but I was in the only class that did not show the TV.  Lunch had been a mad rush for the phones, I was not allowed to call home, I wanted my mom to pick me up or tell me if it was real or a prank. Everyone was crying, but I had just read the rulebook on our policies regarding a national emergency/ terrorist attack and they were not being followed. ]]> 2020-07-06 13:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/648320309 afrobil1 https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/648328126 My friend lived in NY at the time and remembered feeling the whole school shake. Everyone was let out of school early. Some of the kids parents died but at the time they didn't know. The streets were chaos  everyone was running and screaming. She talked about knowing to go home and wait for her parents, but that just getting home took forever because of everyone running around loosing their minds. When she got close to her home it was blocked off and she had too go to her aunt's home, where her mom met up with her 8 hours later. ]]> 2020-07-06 14:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/648328126 afrobil1 https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/689562653 2020-08-20 15:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/689562653 https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/720753209 I was working in Baltimore and heard different reports about what was happening. I went to the nurses station to learn more and actually watched the second plane hit the towers. It was surreal! We closed and I went home. Before getting in the door, my wife came out and told me that a couple we knew received a call from their daughter telling them goodbye. She was on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania.]]> 2020-09-04 13:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/720753209 https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/721827389 I remember being terrified because my husband was on work trip through rural PA near Somerset and I couldn't reach him. Fast forward 8 months and he was in Iraq/Kuwait as an Army Officer. Even more scary. I was at home with 2 children-2 & 4 yo-and pregnant. I had the baby while he was gone. He returned safe and sound to a family of 3 children. We are grateful for his service and the sacrifice of other military families that responded to the call. My wish is that we would end this so no other military family has to endure what we did. Peace.]]> 2020-09-04 18:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/721827389 https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/721942881 I was in sixth grade English class, when the PA system went off several times within two hours that fateful morning. "Teachers please check your emails", the solemn voice repeated  four times. Students were confused, but paid no attention as we were not being told what had happened, and had no access to a TV. Throughout the course of the day, students were being withdrawn from school. My turn came around 1:30, when my dad came to pick me up, and sadly my friend wasn't going to come over, as originally planned. It was a beautiful September day, bright blue sky with no clouds- "What can be wrong? I thought". My dad began to explain that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and one in a field in Pennsylvania. He then told me that we could not find my Aunt, an United Airlines Flight Attendant. After a few very surreal hours, it was confirmed that my Aunt was the head Flight Attendant on United Flight 93, the plane that crashed in Somerset, PA. Very few things are as vivid to me as this day.
My Aunt died a hero, which inspired me to volunteer as an EMT early in life. Her  kindness, willingness to help and step up in the time of need has propelled and motivated in everything I do, including nursing school a little later in life. I hope my actions continually bring honor to her legacy.]]> 2020-09-04 19:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/721942881 https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/722979478 I was in China being a 3 month old baby, I don't remeber what it was like being 3 months, I know my nanny caregiver was very attached to me in the orphanage so, I was probably secretly at her house, it was also, 9:00 at night so, I was probably in bed, they said bed time was around 7 so, I was probably in bed. ]]> 2020-09-06 02:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/722979478 https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/736684622 It was another day just like any other, or so I had thought. I had got ready for school like any other day. I was in the 10th grade in a Baltimore high school. I remember an ominous feeling for whatever reason, but dismissing it as typical teenage anxiety. As I went into my 1st class after homeroom, the teacher had put the TV on. I thought this was just another video lesson, but as I watched the planes hit the tower, I got an empty, sick to stomach feeling. I kept telling myself this had to be a movie scene from some action movie I had not seen, but to my dismay, it was not. My teacher was in a major panic, as was much of the staff of my school, some literally running around the halls, on their personal phones to check on their loved ones. The school had placed on a high security alert, but our curriculum was temporarily suspended, along with transportation home. Me and my best friend at the time grabbed our things and walked home, where I reflected on the current situation with my family as we watched the developing story on the news. This situation had given me insight on a few things, one being the true cruelty of humans and the capacity of them to create harm and destruction to others. Another being the inverse, the true compassion of others in the areas hit. I seen acts of valor and compassion through journalism of this situation like that I have never even thought possible. ]]> 2020-09-10 19:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/736684622 https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/745704952 I was 6 years old at that time I was living in the Dominican Republic. My parents on the other hand were here in the States at that time, they lived in the Bronx. I remember watching the national news trying to get a hold of my family remembers that lived here in the USA, and we could not get a hold of them all the lines were busy, we did not hear from them until maybe 5 in the afternoon. It was a scary moment. I remember speaking to my mom that afternoon about it. She explained to me how she was on her way to work and had to turn back around. It was so much commotion going on. It was a heartbreaking and tragic event, a lot of innocent lives were taken that day. I was hoping one day I got the chance of seeing the World Trade Center and sadly never got the chance too.]]> 2020-09-14 20:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/afrobil1/1txfcmjq41itit6h/wish/745704952