First line of last night’s post has a date typo – which I’m sure all of you realize. Not 2011!!!!! But 2001. Fat fingers doing the typing
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First line of last night’s post has a date typo – which I’m sure all of you realize. Not 2011!!!!! But 2001. Fat fingers doing the typing
I was driving into Tracy with my youngest daughter Katy, taking her to school, we were listening to W CO radio, and when I got to the people’s house I was going to clean and do their laundry, I had her turn on the news on tv and we saw the second plane hit the tower. Shocking. Then the radio programming where words were blurred, or blocked, and yes, the quietness of no planes flying overhead. Then the legislation came enacting the Patriot Act where we lost a lot of freedoms, one, is you cannot cash a check unless you, or the writer of the check are customers, random things like that. If you look up The Patriot Act you will be shocked. And why did that country do this?
Hey Mary,
Well,, I did not even notice the typo because I was thinking about 9/11. I was at our daughter and son in law’s house b/c our first grand child was born on 9/3/01. She was 18 days early and still weighted7’7″.
The Today show was on mute and our daughter and I were talking when I saw the first Trade Center burning! Our daughter immediately turned up the volume and we listened to what had happened. Then, the second plane hit. Oh my!! i was teaching at the time, but had a substitute so I could help out that week. I was so glad I was there for our daughter with a brand new baby. I called my mom who was a widow and she told us that a plane was headed to the Cleveland airport which is very close to our son’s house and she was so worried. I helped her calm down a little and then called my husband who was also teaching. Our school told our teachers to turn off the TV’s, but most of them left them on because they felt it was important for the students to see what has been referred to as “their Pearl Harbor”. My substitute kept the TV on so the students could see what was happening. What a horrendous day.
Story of my life. Tiny keyboard, fat fingers, and too lazy to proofread.
I was teaching seventh grade science on 9/11 and saw the strike on the second tower in the principal’s office as I arrived at school. We had televisions in our classroom but without parental permission for students to watch this live, I was one of the few teachers who did not have the set on all day. I remember telling them that the events would change the course of history and they would member this day for the rest of their lives just as some of us remembered Kennedy’s assassination or our parents remembered Pearl Harbor.
Donna – you all knew what I meant – was it really necessary to point out to me?
Completely understandable. We did know what you meant.
Sue – yes, I figured everybody would but there’s always that one who has to correct me no matter what mistake I post. I’d like to see them keep it all straight – sigh