Never Forget... 9/11/2001 (Where Were You?)

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Man... 9 years ago, doesn't feel that long, and I guess those memories will never fade...
Many folks have joined this Forum since the last time a thread like this was started, and the first thread's link is posted below...

Please take a moment to raise a glass to those who lost their lives, and to those who lost a husband, wife, brother, sister, mother, father, daughter, son, relative, loved one, or friend 9 years ago today...and please take a moment to reflect on this day back in 2001. Share with us, if you wish, where you were and what you were doing or thinking about as the news broke out about the attacks...

Where were you on 9/11/01 (LINK)

Smoke rising and prayers sent for all who lost somebody precious to them that day...and a heartfelt thank you to those who made the ultimate sacrifice as well as to all the heroes and first responders who ran towards what everyone else was trying to escape from. God bless you all and God bless America.

Jaxx said:
I was at home and just waking up when the phone rang repeatedly. Missed the call, so I got up, went to the kitchen to start coffee, and turned on CNN. Maybe I hadn't fully awakened yet, because I had a hard time registering what I was seeing until the second plane hit the towers. I remembering standing in the kitchen in a daze until the towers began to fall. Reports were free flowing, each worse than the last, and after I learned that the Pentagon had been hit as well, the woman who I was dating at that time called, cheery and apparently oblivious to the whole nightmare... I had to calm myself and ask her as quietly as I could muster if she'd talked to her brother that day. She responded that she hadn't, why do I ask? ...It was very hard to break the news to her that we'd been attacked, and in addition to the Towers, the Pentagon where her brother was stationed was also hit by a commercial plane hijacked for destruction. She was stunned, and hung up with me to find him. Completely out of character, he had taken a personal leave to enjoy the day with his family... A beautiful day, if you recall, outside of the horror... Still strikes me how odd something so freaking terrible could happen on such a perfect day, weather-wise... His office was on that side, but a ring or 2 further in, so I believe that he might have survived regardless, but last I heard (years), he still feels very guilty for not being there...

It took hours for all the details to be broadcast, and I spent most of the day waiting for reports of the missing planes that had not been accounted for when the FAA grounded all flights, of course learning about Flight 93 by then.

I live under an inbound air route to Philadelphia Intl. Airport, (I'm roughly 30+ miles west of PHL) and like mike biz and many others, I too remember how quiet it was without any flights for 3 days...
Except for military patrols... On Day 2, another beautiful day, I had doors and windows open when I heard aircraft engine noise heading my way... But never like this... It sounded as if a commercial plane was having difficulty flying, revving way up, then back down repeatedly. I freaked, and figured that this might be another hijacked or stolen airliner heading to another target, the nearest visible from the air is the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant, some 10miles east of my location, as the crow flies... I rushed outside with phone in hand JUST in time to see 2 A-10 Warthogs clear the ridge behind my house and pass overhead so close and banking so hard, that I remember the colors of the pilots' helmets. One all white, the other mostly white with red on the sides. WOW was that wild. I remember feeling somewhat safer, knowing these 2 were patrolling the skies along with many other military aircraft in many different areas. These pilots were most likely stationed at, and returning to, Willow Grove AFB.

I also have Old Glory on the corner of the back window of my truck, and IT will stay there unless it fades... If or when this happens, I have several more on hand to immediately replace it. :thumbup:

How could I forget? How can ANYONE forget the horror, the emotions, the unspeakable acts committed on that day??? I try to forgive... But forgiveness doesn't seem to be easy, and I'm still mad, and still occasionally cry even, when I see the images and footage from September 11th, 2001 :(
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My alarm went off. It was on a news station, and they said a plane had struck the WTC. I thought some moron in a cessna had just crashed into the building.

Then I saw the smoke and fire, and realized it was a huge hole.

Then I saw the next plane smash into the building, and they were saying it was an attack.

I had a work meeting, so I had to go.

I will say, that I took my ccw pistol with me.

That meeting did not accomplish much, we just turned the TV's on and watched in disbelief!


I was so stressed about it. Just kid of sick. I imagine it was kind of the feeling that people got when they heard about Pearl Harbor.

Only, we had real time video's, and a 24 hour news cycle.

It would have very nice to have had a known enemy like Pearl Harbor. Some one who we instantly knew we were going to go kick some A#@, and have a reckoning with.

The problem is, now, that there really is not a country or one enemy. No way to "win".


I still feel pretty weird about it.
 
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7th grade..teachers kept it hush hush for just about the entire day. Kids kept getting early dismissals and no one knew why. God bless America
 
I got very visibly upset last year on 9/11 because aside from a 10 second sound bite on the radio in the car on the way to work, I didn't hear another word all day from anyone about it.

It seemed as if it was over and forgotten.

I have heard more about this year it in the days leading up to it than I can remember, so for whatever reason it seems to be back on radar.

I know the Quran burning plan and the mosque at ground zero have brought it back to the forefront of our thoughts, but how can so many people get over such an event in so short a time?

I just don't get it. We were all so united after it happened. People were polite and thoughtful and focused, and now the sheep out there are content to just let it slide and worry about the latest reality show or whatever.

Not me...I will never forget and never stop honoring those who died and those who have given their lives to try to bring justice to the world.

Sorry, didn't mean to go on a rant..

Michael
 
Oddly enough, I was driving to NH from MA to get tattooed when I heard it all on the radio. I remember driving back after getting tattooed and the highway being almost empty. Very creeeeeeepy. I didn't really know the extent of what went on until I got back home and saw what had happened.
 
No worries, Michael. Many of us here feel the same way.
 
I was asleep in my dorm room in Fairbanks. Day was a pissed of blur.

I often have fire or ems related posts and here is one.

We wear SCBA's into fires and smoke as many of you know. What most dont know is that these airpacs have a PASS alarm built in that is motion activated. The alarm is triggered if the firefighter is motionless. The starting level is annoying and basically keeps you moving and dancing at all times to keep it from coming on. It has 4 ascending levels. The last one is ear shattering loud. You would be able to hear it in a crowded stadium. 100's of these were going off in the rubble for days. I cannot imagine how terrible that must have been to hear that sound.

I think about that every time I hear a pack go off. It is mostly in training or in the truck when someone has forgotten to disarm the pack.

I was not a firefighter then but still feel a bond to those that died.
 
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Same here. The first plane hit toword the end of home ec. A teacher walked in, told us what happened, and we watched the news for the rest of the day.

Life in the US hasn't been the same since.

God bless America, our troops and their families, the victims of the attack, and the good natured people who went in to the fire and dust to save all who they could.
 
I had fallen asleep in the chair watching TV the night before. My wife woke me up saying there had been a horrible accident in NY. CNN was on with pics of the 1st Tower on fire when I saw the 2nd plane hit. I freaked out and knew immediately we were under attack. Not that it helped anything but I think I loaded every gun in the house and then called my parents back in NY. Pretty much a zombie stuck to either the radio or TV waiting for news after that. Kept thinking this was only the 1st wave of something even worst. I can't imagine what those people went through and what their families are still living with :(
 
From Australia ( a different time zone ):
Watching late night television in Sydney, Australia.
When the show finished I channel surfed until I hit CNN - 5 mins after the 1st plane.
When the shock subsided and I knew it was real, I put in a video tape and let it fill.
I still find it hard to watch the tape....but I will keep it.
From 2 to 4am I stood watching, thinking of our American allies. Did not really sleep after that.
When the family got up in the morning I did not know how to tell them our biggest best friend had been hit.
That day, 50% of school kids stayed home and only 2 out 3 people went to work.
Everyone here in Oz is thinking and praying for the Fallen and the Living.....lest we forget.
 
i was at home, woke up and turned on the tv, to see the towers burning.

i went to work.


we remember, and honor those who gave their lives by donning a Class A dress uniform every September 11.

ill never forget, ill never forgive.


fidelis ad mortem
 
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I was just waking up and the news on the radio said to get to the TV NOW, and I did just as the second plane hit the tower...got my wife up and we were glued to the set all day. Never forget that day.
 
I watched it unfold from the early reports that it was a traffic helicopter, then a Cessna and up until they hit on the horrible reality of what was going on.


So very sad. . . so very tragic.

Never Forget. . . Never Forgive. . .



Jerry



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Was a pretty big theing here in Oz too. All over the world really I guess. Anyway, I heard it on the radio on the way to work and didn't really belive what I was hearing. When I got into the office they had the telly on with the reports and footage being broadcast an all the channels. Awful. Simply awful.

It hit home for me, because not long before the incident, I had stood on the roof of tower one, and it made me physically ill to think what those poor buggers trapped up there must have felt, knowing the only way out was death.

I don't care what religion, politcal view or other fantasy you follow or believe in, it was plain old mass murder against unsuspecting lives. Absolute abhorrent and disgusting behaviour. Makes me feel embarrased to be a human being.
 
I was sitting in a bar in Chiang Mai Thailand......

While I was in a half drunken stupor (well on the way to a fully drunken stupor),many Thais started coming up to me and apologizing... They had genuinely sad looks on their faces...I had no idea why they were doing this,until the bartender turned on the Television for me.....

My heart sank, eyes watered, and after years of being overseas, I had NEVER
wanted to be home so badly... I flew back to the states as soon at flights were back in the air.....

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I was at work at the time and heard it on the radio. It was very shocking and disturbing especially after the second jet had crashed into the second building. Then i knew we were under attack. My friend i was working with at the time got a call from his wife who was working in a building next to the towers. Unfortunately she had looked out the window and seen the whole thing as it happened. She was quite scared and horrified. God Bless those that died that day. A day in history we should "NEVER FORGET". GOD BLESS AMERICA.
 
I was across the street from the Pentagon - we were all gathered watching the events in NYC unfold on the company TV. I had just walked down the hall to my office after looking out our secretary's 8th floor window and commenting, "Well, they didn't hit the Pentagon" and had just sat down at my desk when I felt the impact of the plane hitting next door, ran back to the window, and saw the huge cloud of smoke, fire, and debris - there were thousand on pieces of white paper floating in the air and people down below walking south for what seemed hours. It was impossible for us to leave, not only because of the impossibly gridlocked traffic, but because we were all waiting for some of our own who had been across the street that morning to return - I work there and at the Pentagon still and I'm reminded daily of that morning...

Lt Col John Gray (retired) AKA w.t."Bloody Bill" anderson
 
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I was in Physics class sophmore year of HS. the teacher turned on the TV and the class as a whole was in a Jaw Dropping Silence. For the rest of the day, all the teachers and students and faculty were tuned in. It was a Day that can never be forgotten. God Bless America!
 
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