I was seven months pregnant and we were at our home in Phoenix. I had just gotten out of the shower when I heard my husband say, "Oh no...OH NO!!!" I got dressed quickly and went to the living room where he was watching TV, and he told me what was happening.
We were watching in shock, he remembered that his stepsister was employed at the WTC. He started to panic and I told him to call his dad. Somehow we managed to get through, found out his stepsister had left her job a month previously to start a family.
We both worked at the same coin shop, and were there a little later that day. The whole day was surreal, the card shop next to us had the TV on, the news reports kept coming in, everyone was talking about it. And the rest of the week, and the week after, more of the same. Reports of terrorist activity, rumors of terrorists poisoning water supplies (a local DJ quipped, "what could they possibly put in our water supply to make it worse than it already is?!"), horrifying nightmares, etc.
Interesting how we're all talking about 9/11 four months before the fifteenth anniversary. The baby I was carrying is now a teenager taller than even his dad.
We were watching in shock, he remembered that his stepsister was employed at the WTC. He started to panic and I told him to call his dad. Somehow we managed to get through, found out his stepsister had left her job a month previously to start a family.
We both worked at the same coin shop, and were there a little later that day. The whole day was surreal, the card shop next to us had the TV on, the news reports kept coming in, everyone was talking about it. And the rest of the week, and the week after, more of the same. Reports of terrorist activity, rumors of terrorists poisoning water supplies (a local DJ quipped, "what could they possibly put in our water supply to make it worse than it already is?!"), horrifying nightmares, etc.
Interesting how we're all talking about 9/11 four months before the fifteenth anniversary. The baby I was carrying is now a teenager taller than even his dad.
Comment