I was only 10 and living in the DC metro area.  My dad often had meetings at the Pentagon, and all his computer and phone hookups went through Pentagon servers.  One of my vivid memories is not being able to get ahold of him until about 8pm.  He came home an hour or two after that.  I also remember the fighter jets zooming overhead every half hour or so for several days.  That was scary for me.  To this day, I still have an instinct to duck for cover when I hear a plane that’s flying particularly low or loudly.

I was nine at the time, living in New England, with my mother working in downtown Manhattan. I remember it was a beautiful day, but suddenly all the teachers in my school were panicking, and almost every child left school before noon. I had no idea what was going on, and it was almost 4:30 that afternoon when I found out what had happened. My mother, a native of Brooklyn, couldn’t stop crying that whole night, and found out later that one of her cousins worked at the WTC and could have died.

I think that America is still a mixed bag when it comes to whether or not we’re a better people. I think this attack has made many people more sympathetic to our Muslim brothers and sisters whose faith was perverted, but it has also made many angry at and afraid of them, as well. As for a spiritual revival, there have been some lingering effects of positive change, but again, people who were apathetic, agnostic, or atheist seem to have had their animosity toward religion heightened by believing that this kind of attack is the only end religion is capable of achieving.

I think America is right to place an emphasis on national security, but I don’t think we’ve gone about it in the right way. The FBI, CIA, and NSA should be forced to communicate with each other (they don’t currently do much of that), as each had a vital piece of the puzzle that could have stopped the attacks. I think the TSA could use some serious rearranging, as presently they seem to be poorly trained and causing more annoyance than anything. I’m not sure if we’ve given up too much freedom, but we should certainly be on guard about that- the law and the Constitution apply to the government just as much as they do to private citizens.

I remember waiting and waiting at the emergency room doors for the casualties that never came, astonished at myself for having more to learn about the fragility of life, praying that some work—any work—would take my mind off the fact that I’d not heard from my husband or brother. How quiet that ER was, waiting for the patients who would not arrive.

I was at college and walked into my part-time job just after the plan hit the building. When I was told I thought it was a joke, then an accident. Then the second plane hit and the idea that it was an accident seemed a lot less likely.

I contacted my Mom in northern VA and told her to turn on the TV. My Dad works in DC and would stop by the pentagon in the car pool lanes. I don’t remember if he had left early, not carpooled or was sick that day, but he wasn’t there at that time. She knew people who were in the pentagon at that time.

I remember the rest of the day fairly clearly, where I finished work and went to my classes. Everyone was in shock and just going through the motions.

I was sharing an apartment with pro lifers Sean Brogan and Bill Cotter on September 11, 2001. We lived on Hancock St in Wollaston, Ma., just south of Boston.
I was scheduled to work at 11 am and was working on my computer when the blurb came across the computer that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.  Thinking a little piper cub pilot had a health issue, I dismissed the thought.  A few minutes later a second plane had hit a second building. 
I raced to our tv to see what was going on and the reporters were already describing the hits the twin towers had taken.  The camera was trained on the twin towers. 
To my astonishment, as they were talking and re-running the scene of the second plane hitting the second building, the reporters started saying, incredulously, that the building was starting to collapse!
Needless to say I did not go to work on that fateful day.  The fact the planes had taken off from Boston was not immediately known.  But as the reporters dug up more facts during the course of the day the story started to unfold.
The number of people from the Boston area who were on the planes was a tragedy which became clear as the days passed.  The awareness of their flight to New York and what they must have experienced as they became aware they were going to die and then the horrible way they died stunned many people and hung like a cloud of despair over many folks for a long time.
The story of the ring leaders flying in from Maine, if I recall correctly, and the video tape of the cameras which recorded them going through security to board the flight at Logan is a scene which replayed on local tv several times…. leaving the viewer with a feeling of powerlessness.

I had just returned to my apartment from 8:00 a.m. Mass at our local Catholic church, and there was a man working on something in my apartment, and our manager was with him.  My phone rang just as I got in the door, and it was a lady from my church telling me to turn my TV on and I turned it on in time to see the one building on fire, and a plane coming from behind the other building, turning to fly right into it.  We all stood transfixed.  I couldn’t believe my eyes.  The man who was working in my apartment, said, “And I thought I was having a bad day!”  All I could do was watch, and say, “My God, all those people!”  I later heard on the news about the plane that flew into the Pentagon, and the one that some passengers on the plane, all men, went into the cockpit and forced a diversion away from the White House and into an empty field.  I remember them saying, on TV that the leader of the group said, “Let’s Roll!” I thought those men were so brave, knowing they were going to die anyway, and yet having the courage to protect the White House.

And on 9/11 I was praying and asking God what he had to say about this and I opened my Bible and it went to Luke 13 v 1-5 and vs 4-5 where Jesus is commenting “and of those 18 who died when the tower of Siloam fell, were these worse than the others? No but I tell you if you do not repent the same could happen to you”, and this hit me hard, and about another tower, and I have never meditated on those verses before and I had never opened to those verses, so I had to conclude that God was saying that He allows evil so as to bring as many as possible to repentance.

I was 29 years old and working in downtown Boston.  I had just graduated 4th in my class from college, and my husband and I were happy to have 2 incomes.  We went to Mass most Sundays, but weren’t too serious about our faith.  911 completely changed my perspective on life.  Instead of going to grad school, I wanted to start a family right away.  We were blessed to immediately get pregnant.  This also began my faith journey.  I eventually had a “reversion” to the Catholic faith, and my husband entered the Catholic Church 6 Easters later. I was headed down a career oriented path with children not on the horizon, after 911 that path was abandoned, and now I am a stay at home mother of 6.  Truly amazing!

I was 20 and serving in the U.S. Navy in the DC metro area. My base went through an evacuation and my friend was 8 months pregnant with her husband in the Pentagon. I stayed with her all day until we found out he was ok. The day was chaos. Two days later I volunteered as a relief worker helping families of those killed in the Pentagon. I spent 45 days working with the loved ones of those killed. I pray those families and my fellow relief workers have found peace and healing.

So here we are 10 years later and still there are 28 pages of the 9/11 report which haven’t been released! This video sheds a lot of light on what those 28 pages might have in them.. Let us grow out of the silly idea that a bunch of cave dwelling Afghanis were able to pull something like that off! Americans deserve closure. Send this video out to everyone you know! http://larouchepac.com/10yearslater