9/11 remembered

bearpanther
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:54:44 +0000

I remember watching, at home with my 11 month old. Good Morning America was supposed to be ending and then it didn’t. My older son was at school. My H was at work in DC at a hospital. When the plane hit the Pentagon, they went into disaster mode and had the ORs ready to accept any and all patients.

My dad worked for the government at the time and some days worked at the Pentagon. All my mom knew was that he had indeed headed into the city that morning but she wasn’t sure which office he had gone to. The phones were terrible. I had better luck reaching my MIL in CT than reaching my H 40 minutes away. My MIL was in fact able to talk to my H before I was and she called me and told me what was going on with him.

After a few long long hours we finally tracked down my Dad (not at the Pentagon after all) and I heard from my H. My son was sent home from school early. One of H’s old friends from residency was in town for a conference and couldn’t get home to FL. He moved in for the next 4 days waiting to get on a plane or a train or even get a rental car.

We found out later one of H’s great friends from childhood worked in one of the towers and didn’t make it out. It is very surreal to think it has been 15 years.