I was at a new job I'd started in late August and didn't know many people yet.  It left me feeling very alone being with people I didn't really know.  It was a time where you wanted to be with your family and children.   I remember the day well.

I was a part time firefighter, so this day holds even more significance to me.  It is probably the most significant day of the year for me.   I post the events of the day at the time they happened on my FB page each year.

Sep 12th was one of the best days, we were all united, one, and willing to help one another.  It's a shame that feeling didn't last for most.

 Yeah,,Greg,,,the world will never be quite the same,,,,,and that comment has been abused over and over by those that have never been able to accept our country and what it stands for,,,,First,  it was bin ladin and now it is the ultra liberals,,,

 What is so difficult to comprehend is that daily,,,Many, many people from all over the world place their very lives in jeapordy just to come to this country to enjoy it's many freedoms and way of government,,,,the very SAME freedoms and form of government that the liberal dems are trying to tear down. No man or form of government is perfect but in those days after 9/11, we did prove to the world that we CAN work as ONE in order to save our country and defend it against ALL.

 OK,,I'm done.

I was at work.  A couple of us were in another guys office.  Somebody came in and told us.  We went in the conference room in time to see the second plane.  I thought someone had made a fake film at first, it was so surreal.

Indeed a sad day!

911 started early that morning for me... Had been outside for a little while and it was so still and eerie, in fact I dropped to my knees and made a prayer for this nation and went back in and dropped off to sleep and dreamt about enemies attacking these lands and laid it to burnt wastelands where you could see into the horizon. When I went to the kitchen, mom was sitting at the table watching the TV and said an airplane just flew into one of the twin towers and I said to her that 'It has begun'... the attacks on the US from our enemies that hate us.

 We had breakfast and I went into town where I helped at a peat processing plant and it was quiet around there, some small talk but they all seemed like they were in shock.  Told them, 'lets get back to work...'

  Sure was quiet in the skies with no planes flying.

She went on to school as she figured even if school was canceled parents would be dumping kids anyway. School was not canceled but most parents had no idea,even though we are 3 hours behind NY. 

Wrenching listening to the radio and heard about it. KY102 listening to Max Floyd.

Coworker lived a few blocks away and went home and got a TV and we put it on my toolbox. Another coworker was in Arizona with his young daughter visiting his folks.

He was having a hard time getting back because of the gas issue. He saw a few fights in gas lines cause people were starting to loose there chit.

Looking outside and seeing the plane contrails making u turns and just not seeing any planes for a long time.

I remember just getting started in my work and hearing about the space shuttle Challenger exploding too.

I was at work. My desk was in the back by the coffee machine. One of the ladies came back and mentioned an airplane had hit the WTC. Sounded goofy.....like a really bad navigation error. Not likely, but possible. A few minutes later, came back to say a 2nd plane had hit. That wasn't any error....that was on purpose.

Oldest kid had just graduated Marine Corps boot camp and had returned to weapons school and was at Camp Pendleton. Brother in law was working in the Pentagon and had been standing in the spot they hit earlier in the day. He left the building and walked home. 

Think back now to all the harm that small group of fanatics have caused the world. All the damage, deaths and destruction they caused. Worry that maybe the same is on the horizon in this country if violence being caused by a small group of zealots isn't tamped down.