story7484.xml
Title
story7484.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-15
911DA Story: Story
My fiance (@ the time) & I are native New Yorkers. I'm from the Bronx & he's from Queens. We're both cops here in VA. I work for Arlington & he used to be a SWAT team memeber @ the Pentagon. I'm a cop in Arlington.
I had asked him to take our daughter to school because I had a migraine & wanted to try to get rid of it before I went to work that evening. He was home still because his supervisor decided on 9/10 to let the team come in to work @ 1100 hrs-which was considered late for them.
Wnen he got back, he woke me. Soon the phone rang & it was a friend (another New Yorker) calling from MD telling him that the Pentagon had just been hit. My finace thought he was joking & told him to stop messing around. His friend told him to turn on the TV & told him the Twin Towers had been hit too. When he turned on the TV, I was numb! I forgot all about my migraine & my fiance was panicing because he never got paged. (Of course all communication was destroyed.) He got dressed & left & I followed soon after. Traffic was a mess. I hit my hazards & took the shoulder until it ran out. Interstate 395N from the mixing bowl (I495 N/S, I95 NY, NJ, Baltimore) to DC was shut down, but the cop posted there let me thru when I showed him my shield.
By the time I got to work, I was told to hit the streets & answer calls like I do everyday. But 9/11 was NOT an "everyday" day. I remember the streets being quiet, deserted, it had no life. It seemed like even the bad guys took this particular day off too. We hardly received any calls to run. You could just feel the whole county's numbness.
A year later, I still don't watch the news like I used to. Things have gotten "back to normal". I thank God that I didn't lose my fiance that day. He's now w/ another federal agency. I pray for & thank ALL the heros of that day. Not just cops, fire fighters, EMS workers, but the rescue dogs, Red Cross & the Christian Church who came to give a hand; those who were in these buildings helping strangers & friends get out safely even tho their lives were in danger too; those who were on PA's Flight 93 who took it upon themselves to take back our plane. Everyone who played any kind of selfless part on 9/11.
Thank you for letting me tell my story. GOD BLESS
I had asked him to take our daughter to school because I had a migraine & wanted to try to get rid of it before I went to work that evening. He was home still because his supervisor decided on 9/10 to let the team come in to work @ 1100 hrs-which was considered late for them.
Wnen he got back, he woke me. Soon the phone rang & it was a friend (another New Yorker) calling from MD telling him that the Pentagon had just been hit. My finace thought he was joking & told him to stop messing around. His friend told him to turn on the TV & told him the Twin Towers had been hit too. When he turned on the TV, I was numb! I forgot all about my migraine & my fiance was panicing because he never got paged. (Of course all communication was destroyed.) He got dressed & left & I followed soon after. Traffic was a mess. I hit my hazards & took the shoulder until it ran out. Interstate 395N from the mixing bowl (I495 N/S, I95 NY, NJ, Baltimore) to DC was shut down, but the cop posted there let me thru when I showed him my shield.
By the time I got to work, I was told to hit the streets & answer calls like I do everyday. But 9/11 was NOT an "everyday" day. I remember the streets being quiet, deserted, it had no life. It seemed like even the bad guys took this particular day off too. We hardly received any calls to run. You could just feel the whole county's numbness.
A year later, I still don't watch the news like I used to. Things have gotten "back to normal". I thank God that I didn't lose my fiance that day. He's now w/ another federal agency. I pray for & thank ALL the heros of that day. Not just cops, fire fighters, EMS workers, but the rescue dogs, Red Cross & the Christian Church who came to give a hand; those who were in these buildings helping strangers & friends get out safely even tho their lives were in danger too; those who were on PA's Flight 93 who took it upon themselves to take back our plane. Everyone who played any kind of selfless part on 9/11.
Thank you for letting me tell my story. GOD BLESS
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“story7484.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 10, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/4764.