My Memories of 9/11/2001

Source: mediaod

There are certain days in our lives that we remember forever every detail, thought, and even the people around us at the time are imprinted on our brain forever from that day forward. Such a day was 9/11/2001, I went to work at TXU that day like I always did I was listening to my favorite radio station and listening to some country music. I parked the car in downtown Dallas a half a block from work and walked into the building. They didn't check badges at the building hadn't since I started there about 4 months earlier. Rode the elevator to the fourth floor and went to my desk then someone said the World Trade Center had been hit by a jet. The woman next to me got her radio out from under her desk and turned it on. That was the end of work in that office. All day all we did was listen to as many details as we could gather from that radio. We heard rumours a plane was on its way to Texas to knock down the Chase tower.

I looked out the windows on our floor and all the restaurants were shutting down and going home to spend time with their families. Most of the businesses downtown shut down for the day not TXU we worked our regular hours. In the afternoon a call came through from the main office that we would need a badge to get back in the office the next day. There were about 4 of us who walked over to the main office to get our badges. Downtown was a ghost town that afternoon there was no one walking around downtown just us five. Once we got there we went to the security area but they said we needed a supervisor's signature. Back to the our office to get the supervisor who was on the phone with security already. After he got off the phone we went to the main office again and he went with us this time and everyone got their badge for the next day of work.

That evening I went home the road were almost bare I felt like I was driving in holiday traffic and it wasn't a holiday. I got home and watched the T.V. to see the visual events of the day. I was glad to be home with my family and know they were safe and around me.

The next morning I was driving into work and I was driving up the road downtown to my parking space and all I could do was look at the sky for a airplane and cry.