Nine Years Later
* Originally Posted 9/11/2006 *
In every life there are events that happen which one remembers the smallest of details as to what they were doing at that exact moment or where they were when they heard the news. September 11, 2001 is one of those events. The difference in this event as opposed to others was this marked the 1st day of a changed nation if not world.
September 11, 2001 started for me as any other morning. I was up early, made coffee, and went down the hall to my office. My office was in my home but I normally didn't have the TV on. I was doing what I always did every morning. Looking over the loads I had to move for the day, post loads, check truck availability...just another day at the office.
By 7:00 A.M. the phones were beginning to ring, emails began coming in, carriers accepting loads, shippers scheduling loads...another busy day in the life of a freight broker. Then it stopped! It was so sudden that I remember thinking that my phones had quit working. One minute I was brokering freight, had people on the phone holding, emails being received, faxes being received...and suddenly, as if someone had turned a switch, nothing. A complete eerie silence.
I was the only one in my house and I didn’t have the TV on, so I hadn’t a clue. As odd and eerie as I new the events were I still moved forward. I picked up the phone and called a carrier to discuss a load. I still remember the conversation “oh man, we’re not doing nothing right now. Have you seen the news? A plane just hit the WTC….”
What?
So much has changed since that one phone call.
God Bless America!
In every life there are events that happen which one remembers the smallest of details as to what they were doing at that exact moment or where they were when they heard the news. September 11, 2001 is one of those events. The difference in this event as opposed to others was this marked the 1st day of a changed nation if not world.
September 11, 2001 started for me as any other morning. I was up early, made coffee, and went down the hall to my office. My office was in my home but I normally didn't have the TV on. I was doing what I always did every morning. Looking over the loads I had to move for the day, post loads, check truck availability...just another day at the office.
By 7:00 A.M. the phones were beginning to ring, emails began coming in, carriers accepting loads, shippers scheduling loads...another busy day in the life of a freight broker. Then it stopped! It was so sudden that I remember thinking that my phones had quit working. One minute I was brokering freight, had people on the phone holding, emails being received, faxes being received...and suddenly, as if someone had turned a switch, nothing. A complete eerie silence.
I was the only one in my house and I didn’t have the TV on, so I hadn’t a clue. As odd and eerie as I new the events were I still moved forward. I picked up the phone and called a carrier to discuss a load. I still remember the conversation “oh man, we’re not doing nothing right now. Have you seen the news? A plane just hit the WTC….”
What?
So much has changed since that one phone call.
God Bless America!
posted by TALTOA at
8:26 AM
