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  Readers Remember 9-11 Attacks web posted September 11 2012  COUNTY – Tuesday marks the 11th
anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed over 3,000 in New
York, Washington D.C. and Flight 93, whose passengers overpowered the
highjackers and crashed in Pennsylvania, averting a possible attack on
the White House or the Capitol. It was a day that shocked the nation
and brought a renewed resolve of the people of this great country. It
is a day burned into the minds of every American and readers provided
some of their memories of that day.A reader who asked not to be identified wrote: "I will never forget 9/11/01. I got a phone call to turn on my TV because a jet crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. I was stunned and could not figure out how a pilot could not see a building on a clear day. Then on live TV I saw the second plane hit the other tower. I knew this was not an accident and Osama bin Laden had to be behind it. The next few hours were surreal. I called my wife and told her what had happened and for her to get the kids out of school. I left work and stopped at the grocery store and bought canned and frozen food and a few gallons of milk and water. I made a stop at the ATM and got all the cash it would let me get out of the bank. When I got home the kids were crying, my wife was crying, and I did my best to act as in control as I could but I really wanted to cry with them. I was sad and mad at the same time. We gathered together and prayed for about half an hour. I gassed up the cars and got gas for the generator just in case. I will never forget the fear every time I heard a jet fly over during the next few days thinking it might be another attack, maybe on the bomb plant, until I could see it was our brave folks in the military keeping us safe."  Ann,
from Edgefield wrote: " I was taking
my daily walk listening to a
tape in a walkman. I got home and took a shower and the phone rang. It
was my husband. He told me a plane hit the World Trade Center and it
was on fire. I turned on the tv while we talked and about that time the
second plane hit and it was a feeling like I never had. I knew right
away we were being attacked and they were using planes as bombs. My
husband tried to assure me everything was alright, but I was crying. It
was horrible and it just got worse with the others planes crashing. It
was the scariest day of my life."Ron W., of Trenton shared his memory, "I was at my house in Buford, Georgia that morning. I was working in my home office and did not have the television on. A friend called and asked me "have you been watching the news?" I said "no, what happened?" (knowing from the tone of his voice that something was wrong) I turned on Fox and within 20 seconds the second plane hit. It was right then that my initial thoughts that the first plane might have been an accident were erased. I called the schools where my wife worked and where my sons attended. (coincidentally they were both in the same grade as the children President Bush was reading to when he was notified of the attack) Both schools were already aware of what was happening. They did not plan to release anyone." He continued: "My own thoughts and fears at that moment in time were mostly about how far this attack would go. I wondered if this was just the first stage of a major nationwide offensive. It would have been odd that a military operation would have started in such a manner so I had to assume it was a terrorist action. Then the plane hit the Pentagon. I wondered what to do and felt frustrated because there really was nothing I could do at that time. I checked the gas in the cars, food supplies etc. It was too soon to mourn over any losses. I went to the store to fill the cars and all of my gas containers. I bought some batteries. I was mad at myself because...... I was unprepared." Martha S. McGee wrote: "We were keeping our 3 year old grandson. He was watching JJ the airplane program for little ones. All of a sudden the TV became snowy, so I turned the station to see if it was the TV or the station. Just as I turned the station I saw the plane go into the 2nd tower. My Husband had just gone to sleep from working nights. I had to go wake him to tell him what I thought had happened. He got up and watched as much as he could with me before he got sleepy again." Editor's note: This article originally ran on Sept. 12, 2011 and is reprinted for today. © Copyright 2012 All material is property of
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