tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492210429690434816.post4906357998909030285..comments2023-11-03T05:03:10.063-07:00Comments on Groettum Family: Where were you?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492210429690434816.post-36872574429017358972009-09-11T16:03:13.270-07:002009-09-11T16:03:13.270-07:00I'm a long time lurker but decided to come out...I'm a long time lurker but decided to come out from hiding because the events that happened on September 11th for me is pretty atypical of most Americans.<br /><br />8 years ago, I thought September 11th was the best thing that happened to me. It was just like having a snow day in a tropical world... school was canceled and I slept in all day. No, I'm not cold hearted, but since I was living on am airforce base on a subtropical Japanese island I didn't hear of the events until September 12th. So when the towers fell, I was asleep in my bed hoping for another day of no school as a typhoon hovered over the island for almost a week and circled the island I was living on hitting us not once, not twice, but three times. Well I got my wish...we didn't have school for many weeks. <br /><br />~TellieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492210429690434816.post-77166895631657111922009-09-11T08:00:11.905-07:002009-09-11T08:00:11.905-07:00I was washing a car at Enterprise and it came on o...I was washing a car at Enterprise and it came on over a radio....I remember thinking what the heck is going on. I was at a very small branch and was working by myself that day. I have such a love of news that I wanted to be at home watching, but I sat glued to the radio the rest of the day.stacyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16602546867440075587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492210429690434816.post-78211369824043228542009-09-11T07:40:30.156-07:002009-09-11T07:40:30.156-07:00I was in college in Frederick County, Maryland and...I was in college in Frederick County, Maryland and in my Anantomy and Physiology lab. Class was just getting ready to start and most of my classmates had been in A&P lecture that morning. A few of the others were talking about the lights going out at the World Trade Center. I couldn't hear everything so I wasn't too concerned. Then my lab partner got a phone call from her husband, an EMT for Montgomery County, MD, a close suburb of DC. It wasn't too much longer and an administrator was explaining to our teacher why she had to dismiss class. The school was closing for the day. I will never forget her reluctance to cancel class because there wouldn't be a time to make it up. It took a few moments for her to realize what was happening was so much bigger than her class.Ericahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12500639056217576886noreply@blogger.com