I work up around noon (I worked 3rd shift). Made me some toast and sausage and put in a preaching tape. I checked my answering machine and it was Mother saying to call her right away. As she was telling me it just wasn't clicking..but when she said the pentegon was hit, thats when I understood the seriousness. I turned on the radio and listened in unbelief. They were initially saying possibly 25,000 dead. I was in shock. I wept.
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There is a conspiracy of silence in the land.
Sitting at home, getting ready to take my 7 month old to daycare and my phone rang. We didn't have TV at the time, but my mom called crying and asked where I was. She told me what was going on and I had a REALLY hard time leaving my infant at the daycare.
I too, for the first time ever, felt vulnerable in America. I can't imagine what it must have felt like in NYC.
And my grandmother passed away 14 days later...it was a sad time for sure.
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"Just a sinner saved by grace!"
I had just finished feeding breakfast to my daycare kids and was starting to put together the stuff I wanted to pack in my suitcase. A group of us were scheduled to leave the next day for a flight to Nuevo Progresso, Mexico for a medical mission trip.
I called the leader of our group and told her that I didn't care who else was going, I had young children and I could not take that risk. Sorry. That turned out to be a moot point anyway because for several days nothing was even flying. Several of our group rented an extended van and drove down to Mexico for the mission trip. They weren't even sure they would be able to get across the border, but fortunately they were allowed.
I spent the rest of the day sitting on the couch holding my little ones and glued to the tv. Even the babies knew that something was not right.
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Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of a battle ! ! ! !
I was in an school administrators meeting. We were just about ready to start when we got word to turn on the TV. We sat and watch the attack unfold. The principals were told to go back to their schools and try to bring calm to the schools and await word on if we were going to have to dismiss schools. I was not a principal at the time. So we watched the TV at the office. At noon I went home to watch the TV and follow the coverage. It was a very scary time in America.
I had just turned on the computer and signed into messenger... immediately a friend sent me an instant message telling me to go turn on the TV.... and start praying..... I did. Just as the second plane hit.
Spent the next three or four days practically glued to the TV.
Spent several weeks after that trying to pull myself out of the depression that those days with constant exposure to news coverage put me into.
One of my best online friends overslept that day. Had he not overslept, he'd have been traveling the road past the pentagon on his way to his job.
I was at work and we were just in shock and all standing around a TV. I'll never forget the day. WE just went home after that. It was very somber. At first we thought it was a terrible accident. Then when we saw the second hit, we realized what it was, but when the first tower collapsed I was just sick to my stomach.
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There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
I had just taken everything out of my refrigerator, and taken it completely apart to clean it, when I heard the announcement on the radio. I don't think I ever finished cleaning the freezer part that day. It was like a dream.........or a nightmare!
the clips were played and replayed so many times it's hard to remember where in the sequence I came in.
I think I was in bed when the first plane hit, came to the kitchen table and saw the clip in the next room, then saw the second clip of the second hit. Maybe both hits had happened by the time I saw them.
sure makes me feel real comfortable that Islam is a religion of peace with a mosque a few miles from my house and another one on the way that I go to make hospital visits.
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Sam also known as Jim Ellis
Apostolic in doctrine
Pentecostal in experience
Charismatic in practice
Non-denominational in affiliation
Inter-denominational in fellowship
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