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If this guy had CNN on, this would have never happened….
A guy left home for work on Sept. 11 at about 6am to go to his office in the World Trade Center (103rd Fl). When he got to Manhattan, he decided instead to spend the morning at his girlfriend’s apartment in the Village. Upon his arrival to her house, he turned off the phones, TV & radio and spent the entire morning in bed with her. At about 11:00 am, while still at her place, he turned his cell phone back on to retrieve his messages, a second later it rang. His wife was on the phone screaming at him, “Where in the world are you? I’ve been trying to call you for over two hours, I’ve been worried sick about you! Are you OK??!! He unknowingly answered, “Where in the heck do you think I am? I’m in my
office!!!”
Dear Linda,
I know your post is just a joke, but there are many of us that knew someone that was in the WTC. My friend got out of WTC#1, with only cuts & smoke inhalation. She was there on a job interview.
CoheeLady
Dear Linda,
I just got home from New York, as we were visiting my husband’s family. Your site is the first one I visited on my return home. Let me first say on saturday night I was sitting alone outside by myself. All of a sudden the silence was broken by the roar of an airplane which flew over the house. I cried, as here I was in NY, all of the pain slapped me in the face, just with the sound & sight of this plane. I looked around & everywhere I turned there were flags. My friend that was in WTC#1 is lucky to be alive,as security was keeping the people inside, so they wouldn’t get hit by falling debris. My friend, whose name is Linda, insisted that she the security guard let her leave, after a few tries he gave in. I’m sure that she has never once thought about the fact that many others followed her. She tried to save an old man that was walking with a cane. She took his hand & helped him move faster, even though this was slowing her down. All of a sudden a fireman picks her up, she screamed “The old man, go back & get him”. She didn’t care about herself, at this point, only about the little old man. She was told, I’m sure he will be alright. I have been trying to find a nameless, faceless old man, every since she told me about it. I will not give up, he made two friends that day, neither one does he know the name of. I feel strange putting this under this Forum, but I needed to. A kind person would have said, “I’m glad your friend is alright”. But I guess I can’t expect others to be as I am.
CoheeLady
Actually, I thought it was a pretty funny story (sounds like something I would do)… even though, at the time, when I read it, I remembered standing at attention, a week later, after 9-11, my hand over my heart, in front of my TV screen, listening to the president speak from the National Cathederal, with Billy Graham, and all the other ex-presidents, unable to hold back my uncontrollable crying, and feeling deeply, deeply wounded.
Still, it was a funny story.
And I like funny stories.
Hey Coharie Roy,
Thanks for your post, guess you too forgot to say, “glad to hear that your friend made it out”.
CoheeLady
Okay, I was going to reply to this last night and decided to keep my mouth shut but I am an old woman and age sometimes has it’s privlages.
I am gald your friend made it out and I am truley amazed at some of the stories I have heard since that horible day. I live in Massachusetts and we lost a lot of good people that day also.
I also believe that the joke was light hearted and it made me smile and chuckle. This world had enough sadness in it that every once in a while we all need a little light hearted joke. It would be a very sad world if there was no laughter in it. Sorry if I have offended anybody because it is not my intention.
Brenda
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Life is a Rainbow made up of Many Different Colors…..
Dear Brenda,
Thank you for caring & speaking your mind.
I’m glad that after what we went through together as a nation, you could get a chuckle out of the joke. Took me awhile before I could have fun or laugh. But I’m back to normal now, even though our lives will never be the same prior to Sept.11. Not only was my friend Linda in WTC#1, but my brother was called to active duty in the Marines, he is stationed at Quantico not far away. Also, Brenda I wanted to thank you for emailing me on our mysterious Patterson family members! 
Take care & God BlessCoheeLady
The World Trace Center was a great disaster and loss of life, most of all, it frightened the heck out of me! I had to go to work that morning high on a roof. A small plane kept flying over all morning, like it was hunting me! The Creator gave me the opportunity to feel what my ancestors felt when invaded many years ago. I thank him for that fear he gave me! I can now clearly relate to how my Native brothers and sisters felt when attacked by foreign terrorists in the early years of terrorism. You see, this country was founded by terrorists! Whole tribes were decimated by them. Tribes that were not bothering anyone who had the God-given right to live in their own country. To propagate the earth with their offspring and make this a great country without foreign terrorists on their soil. Whole tribes, their culture, language, all traces destroyed by blood thirsty terrorists. Go back and try to imagine the fear our brothers and sisters had. Now come back to Manhattan, one the first pieces of land stolen by the invaders. It’s sort of a walk in the park! I don’t expect anyone to feel as I do, I just ask that you respect me for being a dumb, stupid Savage which can’t comprehend European ideals. I deeply resent the European ancestry that I have and I’m “shamed” to have it! I hope my ancestors will forgive me!
A couple of weeks ago I met an 82 year old sign salesman. A very religious old Cherokee. I thought I would trick him since he was old and outspoken. I simply said “do you think God has Blessed this country?” Remember #1 he’s old, #2 a salesman, #3 he’s fast speaking. Spontaneously he replied while laughing “ NO!, he has only tolerated it!”. He was a good salesman; I bought his sign out of my own money!
Again I only ask that you respect my perspective as I respect yours.
Hello Greywolf,
I too have thought about the invasion of Europeans & the many Indians that were killed either by gun or by European disease’s. After Sept. 11, I gave this a lot of thought, but was afraid to say so. As I don’t want to disrespect those that have recently lost their loved ones in the attack. What you said is true, it’s the closest we will ever be to knowing what the American Indians went through. I am proud of all of my ancestry. We can’t be held accountable for our European ancestor’s actions. We can’t change the past, but we can make sure that no one forgets the injustices of the past & present.
CoheeLady
There does get to be a threshold, when you’ve spent enough time thinking about what YOUR family went through, when it sinks in that their perspective is your perspective. At some point, it gets hard to understand those other people’s thinking, those foreigners. Weird, since in my case, those foreigners’ perspective has been hogging the show in the family for a good many generations, but there’s this tremendous power in the word “we” as opposed to the word “them.” It’s one thing to talk about what happened to THEM. Just change the POV from third person to first person, and get in that habit for awhile and there’s this metamorphosis that happens over time, like a lizard shedding its skin.
You know, little things like thinking, well the alien invasion of this continent (300 years ago) was terrible, but if the US wasn’t here no one would have been there to stop Hitler. But if there hadn’t been several centuries of Imperialism, there wouldn’t have been a Hitler. He was just the logical conclusion of thinking that was going on here as much as anywhere in the world, including Nazi germany. Heck, those dullards were just copycats.
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