It’s Friday so I’m also linking up with Fairytales and Fitness for the Friday Five linkup! Join in! Don’t forget to link back to your hostess and visit some other bloggers.
My Topic for this week appropriately is: Remembering 9-11
1.World Trade Center
1991
I had the luxury of visiting the Twin Towers before 9-11-01. I brought foreign students there to visit several times. So glad I did. I even saved the ticket stubs (and I am not a saver.)
2. September 11, 2001
I remember the day it happened and actually watched on TV live when the second tower was hit. It was shocking. I’ll never forget what I saw.
3. January 2002
My hubby and I visited NYC 4 months later and there was still smoke in the air. We visited the Ground Zero. It was very sad.
4. Recent NYC Visits
Since then I have visited the Memorial and often run near the Freedom Tower.
Every time I see the new tower, I think about what used to be there.
5. Remember and honor today as runner
- Run or Walk a Virtual Race:
- Run or walk at 8:46, 9:03, 9:38 or 10:03 am EST.
At 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked and crashed a passenger jet into the north tower of New York City’s World Trade Center. A second plane slammed into the south tower at 9:03 am. At 9:38, a third airliner dove into the Pentagon right outside the capital. At 10:03, fourth jet, bound for Washington D.C., crashed in Pennsylvania.
- Run or Walk 9.11 kms or 9.11 miles.
I plan to walk 9.11k.
I’m also linking up here:
Formerly the Running Coaches’ Corner, it’s back with new co-hosts Coach Debbie Runs, Running on Happy, Confessions of a Mother Runner, Mile by Mile, Runs with Pugs, and Fauxrunner.
Happy Running! Do you remember 9/11? How do you commemorate the day? Please share.
My First 5K and More... 
It is a day that none of us will or should ever forget. It was my daughter’s first day of preschool that day
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Awful memory!!
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Even with all of the craziness going on this year, I could never forget about 9/11. I still remember where I was when I first heard the news and then where I was when I saw all of the horrific images.
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I know. How can you forget something like that?
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Thank you for the reminder, Darlene. I was teaching that day. After the first plane hit, students asked me to turn on the news so I did. We were watching when the second plane hit too. I can remember big teenage boys saying to me “I’m scared!” I was scared too! So glad I went to NYC to visit the 9/11 memorial. It was very moving.
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Yes. It was. I need to go back.
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I remember it so vividly. We were living in TX back then. Mr. Judy was oddly enough at home, as he had a meeting to go to that was closer to home then it would have been had he gone to work that day.We were both in my office, and a friend called and told me to put on the news (back then I was still working & of course there was barely an Internet and certainly no cell phone for me!).
One of my most vivid memories of the days afterwards was the silence. We lived near the airport in Austin (then, it’s since moved further north) and planes flying over the house was a common occurrence. It was so eery.
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I forgot that you didn’t live in NY then.
You must have visited the Twin Towers when you were younger.
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Nope, never. I hadn’t lived in NY since I graduated college — not til 11 years ago. And we lived in TX a long time. Plus I lived in 2 other states as well.
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I know. I meant in the 70s or 80s when you were younger. I only did because I took others to visit. Who knew it wouldn’t be around forever?
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Nope. Back then we’d usually go in to a see a play, once in a blue moon a ballet, or visit a museum.
I don’t think I ever actually went to the Empire State Building with my parents, either, although I have been a couple of times.
Not sure if I visited the Statue of Liberty with them, either, although I’ve been about 3 times.
Or maybe it was because my mom is afraid of heights.
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I never visited those places with my parents either.
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I’m a federal employee and I was at work that day. I watched the clips on CNN.com as soon as I heard about it. All of us were worried if federal buildings would randomly be targeted after that. Security drastically changed then where I work and at all federal buildings as well. It was such a horrific event.
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Sure was. Unforgettable.
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I did not ever get to see the towers! I have not even been to the Memorial. One of these years I hope to visit it. I think we all remember where we were that day! I still remember my friend saying he thought it was something from a movie until he saw it was actually a reality. So sad!
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Yes. You need to come back to NYC.
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