9/11. Where were you in that moment you learned the horrific news?

[2naSalit]

82. I was just waking up and listening

to NPR's Bob Edwards talking to an eye witness on the phone as the second plane hit. I got right up and started to worry about my best friend on her way to Europe that morning, her flight was in the air when this all happened. I don't have teevee so I had to go and watch it on campus, I had just received my master's degree and in negotiations for a really nice job that evaporated into thin air a few days later.

My friend's experience was interesting. She landed at the regional International airport, a few hours drive from home, and saw what she described as "ninjas" running through the terminal and down the conveyor belts making prople jump out of their way, said she got real uncomfortable. She had had a nightmare the previous night that woke her up with the feeling that she should not get on the plane in the morning. So she spoke to her fellow passengers who were still with her in a group. They decided that two would go rent a van and the rest went directly to a ticket counter and demanded their luggage, a couple hours later they all piled in the van and drove home, they were lucky to get organized quickly and grab a vehicle before they ended up stranded only a few hours from home.

Another friend's daughter was in one of the towers and managed to get out from the 90th floor safely.

Some of my neighbors were getting out of control freaked out and started calling me up and telling about their hatred for foreigners and other scary stuff, I stopped being friendly with them that day. Others on campus, I lived right off campus at the time, approached me and told me to go back to Iran or Iraq etc, to which I replied in my thickest New England accent that I was born in Boston and they could go f themselves... I have an olive complexion and it's hard to guess my ethnicity.

It was very awkward in the Rocky Mountain region back then with the Bundy types getting up in my face a lot.