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

I was in uniform, doing my job. As I have done my job every day since, though I left the uniform behind on 1 Sep 2002.:)

It gave my life a new focus, one that I will continue to pursue so long as I am fit to do so.
 
I was in grade 11. Heard it on the new before I went to school and then listened to more reports at school. I remember all the confusion and disbelief. I decided to leave school early and go watch tv with my family. It's funny how something so far away from us can have such a tremendous impact. I'll be raising a drink and having a few minutes of silence today for those that lost their lives that day.
 
Ken44 said:
Unfriggin believable is all I'll say! If I tell you what I really think of you two I'll be infracted, at the least:mad:



Very very sorry Jaxx, but those REALLY got to me, esp on this day.



A friend had stopped by, and the TV was off. When they got to the bottom of my driveway they called and told me to turn on the TV after hearing on radio something was going on at the Trade Center.
I turned it on before the second plane hit. It seemed very surreal, and almost as if it was a bad dream. I was glued to the TV for days still finding it hard to believe what had just happened.
Like most, i still think of it most everyday. Never get it out of my head, and don't want to. The one thing I wish i could forget though are the ones jumping from the building...that still gives me chills(and makes me angry) just thinking about it.
I did think my anger over it would get better over time, but it hasn't one bit.

NEVER forget, and NEVER forgive!!!


Thanks for starting the thread Alex.
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No need to apologize, Ken. I feel the same way, brother. If I had taken the action that I wanted to or posted the long response that I had typed out to the members who chose to be disrespectful and selfish on this thread, I'd have gone from Mod to permabanned in about 2 seconds...

...But today isn't about them, and I refuse to stoop to their level. I'm glad that you chose not to either. :thumbup:

Thank you. :)
 
OldPhysics said:
I was in uniform, doing my job. As I have done my job every day since, though I left the uniform behind on 1 Sep 2002.:)

It gave my life a new focus, one that I will continue to pursue so long as I am fit to do so.
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I humbly thank you for your continued committed service to our great Nation, Jamie. :thumbup:

...And I would like to humbly thank all members of the military and federal, state & local law enforcement agencies, and all first responders that do all that they can to protect us and help us when we are needing it the most. Bless you all. :thumbup:
 
I was working, installing High Speed Internet for a customer when he called to me and said look at this. I walked over to the TV and saw it.
 
I was a freshman in high school, in French class.

I can't believe it's been 9 years.
 
Ft.Wainwright, AK. It was maybe (5:30? am) in the morning and my unit was hanging out in the day room prior to formation for PT. We always had the news or sports on, burning time while we waited for formation time to roll around.

I remember arriving in the day room and seeing everyone gathered around the TV. All i really recall are the images of the plane hitting the south tower and a sense of disbelief and horror. At the time, i had no clue that these were planed attacks. Later, and still today I feel anger.

I remember that at the time the military was given instructions to prepare for more attacks. We spent the next day placing triple strand concertina around the barracks and having a few armed guards on duty at all times. The MP's locked the post down for a few days.
 
I was at home waking up when the phone rang shortly after 6 a.m. pacific time. It was my sister-in-law frantically telling us to turn on the news, she said a plane had crashed into the WTC.
My father-in-law and his wife Toni were booked on AA flight 11 that day out of Boston.
We wouldn't know until hours later that he had rescheduled his flight to a later one, he was on the way to the airport when it happened.
Divine intervention perhaps.
A sad day for all.
 
I was at work, and while others were gathered around televisions, I was on a tight deadline so continued working throughout the day. I caught up that night, and continued to watch the news story unfold as days passed. I felt very sorry for those caught in the buildings, as well as the emergency personnel and their friends and family.

However, and here's where a lot of folks will probably feel I step off-base, I also feel a continuing mixture of anger and disappointment about politicians who have used 9/11 as an excuse to curtail freedom within the US in the name of security. I was also astonished when our leaders launched an unjustified attack against Iraq, diverting critical resources from Afghanistan and allowing Taliban leaders to escape into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where they have been able to regroup. I get that Saddam was an absolute tyrant, but he kept Iraq under tight control, and was THE primary regional opponent of Iran -- Iraq had no part in the 9/11 attacks, and I cannot believe that, even if the people in charge were political appointees, our regional intelligence was so clueless that we didn't know that. The real threat was in Afghanistan, and we'll never again have the opportunities to "surround 'em and pound 'em" that were squandered by launching a second conflict.

One other thing as I work my way down, how stupid was the assertion that we would be greeted as liberators? We knew that Iraq's news was very controlled, and that they'd been told for years that Americans attack schools and mosques -- I'm not debating that our targets weren't justified, because military equipment was often stored in those locations, but they didn't hear that side of the story, all they were told is that the U.S. attacks women and kids. Then, prior to invading, we destroy their roads, bridges, power plants, and water distribution systems -- that isn't the sort of behavior I'd be dancing in the streets over.

I served in the Navy for just over 8 years during the 80s; I won't say that I enjoyed my time, but I have some insight into what it's like to serve. My opinion is that our armed forces have been ill-used, especially National Guard units. We've lost many more American servicemen in ill-conceived post-9/11 operations than civilians who died on 9/11/2001. In my opinion, there should be shame in Washington that their sacrifices haven't made the world a safer place for Americans. I feel strongly for each of them -- those soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines weren't just in the wrong place at the wrong time, but made a conscious choice to step into danger to defend the the rest of us. I'm bitter that national focus is so often elsewhere (even on 9/11) while they're still dying every day in a conflict with no clear enemy or strategy.
 
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I was at home sleeping. It was my day off. Was woken by my wife telling me we are being attacked by airplanes. Told her she was crazy. I was thinking military planes. Got up and saw what was happening. A day I'll never forget.
 
I was also a freshman in highschool in the class before the real classes started forgot what it was called. We watched the news in every class that day, no work, so I was happy. My brother was in 7th grade and someone said "I heard it was Russians" and everybody looked at him lol. Needless to say he had a bad day as word spread to his other classes.
 
I was working in London when happen.
Me and the people that I work with stop working & We began to watch the news with open mouth. Everyone begins to talking about WWIII.
 
I had just woken up and turned on the TV, as was my normal routine. Good Morning America had just started and Charlie Gibson was saying his good mornings, when he stopped and said, "What do you mean a plane flew into the WTC?"

We watched the news for a few hours before I finally went in to work. I stayed a couple hours then came home and started stocking up on supplies like food, fuel, and water.
 
This day is now over... but lets never Forget, or Forgive no matter the day !!!
 
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It was the second day of my senior year in highschool. My thoughts and prayers are with our brothers and sisters lost that day. Thanks to all the service men and women protecting our country. God Bless America
"Let's Roll"
 
I haven't had the nerve to read the prior posts for fear that if someone says something that is unkind or backwards I might loose what little grasp I have on my emotions. I was in Sacramento, my roomate woke me up and I thought she was showing me clips from a movie it took hours before I would believe she hadn't set it up... Today I turned on the discovery channel and my little girl looked at me after a few minutes and said "Mommy, those people look very scared, are they scared of the fire?" How do you answer a four year old girl about the terror that all of us faced that day?
 
Im on west coast time and am now wondering if Im going to have a sept 11th baby... Labor started a few hours ago.
 
I was in NJ on a business trip. I watched it happening live/real time on the TV at the hotel.

I was supposed to fly out of NYC the following day. I wound up 'stranded' on the east coast. I remember flights being scheduled then cancelled at the airport and living in hotels. I do remember tho finally making plans to rent a car and drive partway west to a functioning airport or train station to get home. Insignificant inconveniences.

I remember seeing some of the responders in the elevators at the hotels in tears.

I remember finally flying out of NY days later and going over ground zero while it was still smoking.

IIRC, I had comtemplated going into NYC when I first got to NYC (a day or two before), but decided against.

The Twin Towers were absolutely MASSIVE buildings. Having seen their scale in person, it puts it really in perspective. It's been nine years, but I haven't forgotten.

Hopefully, never again...

BOSS
 
I was coming out of the 6 train on Spring Street in NYC, where I noticed a fire of some sort downtown. I took the train up to my job at 32nd and Lexington where the building had a straight shot of the twin towers. By the time I got into the office everyone was watching the internet and the Bloomberg TV as they had said a plane had hit a tower. We could see it in flames from my boss's office. Then we watched on TV later on as the towers fell, and lifting our heads up we saw it go down in real life.

My coworkers girlfriend worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. They had had a quickie in the morning and were subsequently late to work which saved her life. However as she was getting into the office the tower was on fire and people were jumping, she saw a few people land on the pavement. The experience ruined their relationship and she subsequently moved away from NYC. I later had to walk from 32nd street to the Brooklyn Bridge and then back to my place near Prospect Park in Brooklyn. It was supposed to be my first day in grad school.
 
I was a college student when it all happened. I was at work as a delivery driver for papa johns, and it came on the radio in my car.

The first thing i heard was "like something out of a tom clancy novel, two airplanes were flown into the world trade center towers"

I thought they were talking about a book or movie. I had absolutely no clue that it was real for over an hour. When i found out, i can still remember the shock. It just seemed utterly surreal. The idea of an attack on that scale had never even really occurred to me as a possibility. I spent the evening watching news coverage barely believing everything
 
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