[LIforrelaxin]

This is a great thread...As all of us as American's where effected by that tragic day... we all need to share are stories from time to time...to realize that we where not alone in our feelings....

I myself remember the day very well... I was well engrossed in my work day, sitting in a co-workers office, try to figure out if we needed to order a handler kit for a new product I had coming in. In the middle of our meeting, a third person came in, and asked if we could get on the internet, something about a plane flying into the world trade center... We tried but the network was overwhelmed. So we shrugged and decided it was probably just a small plane... and went back about our meeting. It wasn't until I left his office that I realized that something major had occurred, as I took the short cut from his office to mine, across the test floor, there was not a soul to be found. I got into my office area, and heard silence... I wondered into another co-workers cube and asked what was going on... I simply pointed to the screen where there was a picture of the first tower falling... he then switched to another window and pointed at the screen a picture of the second tower burning... I fell into a chair in his cube, and he said, "you didn't know until now did you"... he filled me in, and as many others we sat there staring at the screen.

I was able to get through the rest of the day, and got a little bit of work done. However it was that evening where I felt my world change. I was single, and convinced I would be a bachelor for the rest of my life. But I sat feeling alone in the world, and finally decided to join a neighbor to watch the news unfold, with him and his family. I realized I needed more in my life...

10 years ago I was single and alone going through life... Now I am married with to Step Sons, who brighten even the worst days...