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where were you ? Where were you that crystalline September morning? Were you at the Pentagon? Rocking a baby? Driving? We asked, and you answered. ? Fredericksburg-area residents describe their memories of loss, horror, close calls and sorrow
Where were you on 9/11? Local residents recall the grief and horror of that watershed dayDate published: 9/10/2006 "I will never forget " "I will never forget " "I will never forget " Across the Fredericksburg region, you remember. Many of you were in the Pentagon, or close to it. Some had relatives working in the building. Others were involved in daily routines far removed from global politics--taking the children to day care, sitting in class, planning birthday parties. Some were traveling, landing to find a nightmare of closed skies and no way home. Five years ago, the unthinkable happened. Four airplanes, driving into the World Trade Center towers in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington and a grassy meadow in Pennsylvania, shattered more than buildings. In the space of an hour, Americans' assumptions about who we are and our place in the world changed irrevocably. Like other iconic events in contemporary American history--Pearl Harbor, JFK's assassination--those of us who lived through Sept. 11, 2001, will never forget that day. Where we were, how we heard. The Free Lance-Star and fredericks burg.com asked readers and Web site visitors to share memories with us. You responded. "I cried for days," wrote Stacy Horne of Fredericksburg. "My mind takes me back to 9/11 each day," wrote Scott Lee of Spotsylvania County. We present 15 of the e-mails, representative of all those we received. Some have been edited for length because of space limitations. All 68 responses have been posted in their entirety on fredericks burg.com. scott lee Estates of Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania CountyOn 9/11, I was in the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 struck the building. I knew from a telephone call from my wife that a plane had flown into one of the World Trade Center towers. A co-worker came in during staff call and he told me that the second tower had been struck. I found this even more hard to believe and hesitated telling my boss and other co-workers. A very loud bang caught my attention. It seemed odd, out of place, and my first thought was that they had finally crashed a widget (little cargo truck) into the walls of Corridor 6. They ran these up and down the corridor and I always found them to be an accident waiting to happen.
Date published: 9/10/2006
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