{"id":24342,"date":"2018-09-11T11:06:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=24342"},"modified":"2019-11-26T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T00:14:14","slug":"september-11-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/09\/11\/september-11-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"September 11, 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24343\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/09\/11\/september-11-2001\/ilovenyweb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ILoveNYweb.jpg?fit=640%2C934&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,934\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ILoveNYweb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ILoveNYweb.jpg?fit=206%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ILoveNYweb.jpg?fit=640%2C934&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24343\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ILoveNYweb.jpg?resize=500%2C730&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ILoveNYweb.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ILoveNYweb.jpg?resize=206%2C300&amp;ssl=1 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 9.11.01, I had just finished feeding an 18 month old Lloyd breakfast. Joe was asleep, at the time he was working a 2nd shift job, the night before he had worked late, and hadn&#8217;t gotten home until 1 am.<\/p>\n<p>My phone rang, it was an art director from The Daily News asking me if I had my TV on, I hadn&#8217;t. He told me that a plane had accidentally flown into The World Trade Center. I turned my TV on, ju<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">st in time to see the second plane hit the South Tower &#8211; obviously this was no accident. Like millions of other Americans, I was riveted to the TV &#8211; shocked by the destruction, the dead, and the frightened people covered in dust, running to safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A half hour later, Flight 77 hit The Pentagon, and 15 minutes after that Flight 93 crashes into a field southeast of Pittsburg. I woke Joe up, and filled him in. I also packed a diaper bag and a small overnight bag, and set them by the front door. I reasoned that Philadelphia was a historic place, a large enough city that perhaps we could be next. I don&#8217;t know where I thought I was going, U.S. airspace had been shut down, and all Amtrak trains were cancelled. I guess it was a combination of busywork, and a feeling of helplessness. I began thinking about donating blood to The Red Cross, but as time went on &#8211; sadly, it wasn&#8217;t needed.<\/p>\n<p>In the days that followed, there were news accounts of everyday people doing heroic things &#8211; like the hundreds of boats that rescued a half million people from Lower Manhattan. The best quote from the video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MDOrzF7B2Kg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Everyone was helping everyone.&#8221;<\/a> Let&#8217;s hope that it doesn&#8217;t take another tragedy for our country to reunite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 9.11.01, I had just finished feeding an 18 month old Lloyd breakfast. Joe was asleep, at the time he was working a 2nd shift job, the night before he had worked late, and hadn&#8217;t gotten home until 1 am. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/09\/11\/september-11-2001\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,104],"tags":[4509,4515,4514,4513,4512,3130,4511,4510],"class_list":["post-24342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-philadelphia","tag-9-11-01","tag-flight-11","tag-flight-175","tag-flight-77","tag-flight-93","tag-the-boy","tag-the-pentagon","tag-the-world-trade-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6kC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12017,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/03\/07\/pine-barrens-mexicos-lone-eagle\/","url_meta":{"origin":24342,"position":0},"title":"Commemorating Mexico&#8217;s Lone Eagle in the Pine Barrens","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I was looking through the negatives shot by John B. 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