Where were you on 9/11/01

I was lying in bed. My alarm had just gone off, and there was a news report of a plane hitting the WTC. I though, great some dumb ass in a Cessna just killed him self and 5 other people because he was lookie-looing while flying over the city. I went into the living room to turn on the TV. I was like "holy shit" that must have been bigger than a cesna. I watched the second plane hit the second tower. Then the Pentagon got hit. I had to leave to a meeting at work (almost the whole company). We got nothing done. We were watching as the towers collapsed.
I remember thinking I was glad I had a concealed permit, and that I had a stash of guns and ammo (in case of anarchy). Kinda of a random thought, but we were near a military storage facility for chemical weapons. I remember feeling like I was in combat mode for a while. (Kinda silly in retrospect, but with the attacks, and gas skyrocketing and uncertainty that is how I felt).
 
I was in my second year or residency training and I was about to bring a patient into the operating room. The patients had these little TVs in the pre-op area and the patient made me sit down and watch the first building and then I saw the second plane hit.

It takes an awful lot to shock the people who work in an inner city operating room. My wife used to be an EMT in NYC and she trained at the hospital that saw many of the survivors. She lost more than a few friends that day. My future brother-in-law was driving into the island when he saw the first plane hit.

NEVER FORGET!
 
My wife was in the Lego headquarters in Connecticut. They have a massive TV screen in a common area that everybody was looking at. She couldn't get a plane ride back to Colorado and ended up driving from Connecticut to Colorado Springs. Along the route she met many small towns coping with stranded travelers. There was a whole planeload from Holland in one town trying to find things they needed without speaking English. The folks in the local Walmart pharmacy were trying to see what they could do about prescriptions. Other people were trying to find places for them to sleep. There was a lot of goodwill and pulling together going on in the heartland that week.
 
I was working in a nursing home, and the ward clerk came to get me. Said someone had blown up the WTC. Went to the day room in time to see the second plane hit. I remember thinking "those are people...falling..." Spent the remainder of the day trying to calm residents and staff, hoping everything was going to be OK.

NEVER FORGET. NEVER.
 
I was in a hospital to have a biopsy performed and wondering what could possibly be taking the doctors so long to proceed. When they came in they told me of the attacks. When I went back to work we stayed on 12-14 hour shifts for quite a spell.
 
Starting my day in the TV studio. Unbelievably watching the live, unedited sat feeds of the video as it happened... from shortly after the first tower was struck until they both fell. We stopped all normal programming and it became a marathon shift of "news only" for about 72 hours.

So much of the time there was nothing to say... just a silent, live image of the smoldering remnants of the towers being broadcast to our citizens.

I hope that image burned into the minds of most Americans as it did mine.

Never forget.
 
Was getting breakfast at work, just like always. We had jsut walked into the dining area when the report of the first plane came on the screen.

My buddy joked "Wonder which Kennedy was flying that one?".

We were trying to get our brains around how a stinkin airliner could "accidently" hit a building when hte second one hit.

We knew then that it was more than an accident.

I had a conference call scheduled with our Risk VP (worked for Morgan Stanley at the time) at 9:30. I was freaking out whether Andy (the VP) was a victim or survivor. Found out later he was a survivor due to a fluke that had him running late.

It came through that we ahd the option to go home. I did, wanting to get my wife home "just in case"....

After I got home, saw neighbors looking up in the sky. Thought "OH CRAP"!!

Went out on the deck and saw AF1 escorted heading towards the east.

Sat, watched, cried, worried.

What a flood of emotions that day.
 
I was woke up by my wife saying "there's been a bad accident". Figuring it was family I woke up sorta startled and confused and just as my eyes were clearing up from sleep I saw the 2nd plane hit. I knew it was no accident at that point. I think I loaded every gun in the house at that time(kneejerk reaction).......then called home to family in NY to see if they knew what was going on. After that we stayed tuned to the TV worried. The following week I was in the Riddle of Steel seminar and you can bet yer sweet booty that was an intense martial arts seminar for sure for the folks who could make it(planes were still grounded). I still remember what it was like with no planes in the air. Everyone was wondering what was gonna happen. At the time I worked at Benchmade and one of the sales people mentioned the military had just inquired about buying some knives......I knew we were going to war.
 
I was teaching my 2nd period science class when the principal opened the door and told me to turn the TV on- his demeanor was such that I thought something really odd was going on. I and my 2nd period class watched as the 2nd aircraft struck the towers, it was very surreal and no one really knew what to say or how to react. The thing I remember most was the silence overhead in the days afterward. There was a great deal of apprehension, it was an unprecedented event. I also remember (sadly) thinking and stating that people would forget these events much too soon.
 
On my way to work ,filled up at the moble station ,the cashier told me about the first plane hitting the tower . Had a hard time believing him .got back in my truck got to my business put on the news and saw the second plane hit . this am i was watching msnbc and they showed the actual footing and it was very haunting it was shown at the actual time it happened . One of my custumers was at ground zero and brought me some video and pics when he returned from 8 weeks helping I've never seen anything like it .I was in miami the day after andrew hit you just can't belive it unless you see it. WE WILL NEVER FORGET ! GOD BLESS AMERICA !
 
I was working in a Custom Fixture shop on Bainbridge Island, Washington. We heard the reports on the radio and stood stunned and in silence. The company owner came and told us to get back to work, and that it was just a bunch of media hype. He was and is a fool, that I no longer work for. I think on the images of that day often, wishing I could have been on one of those planes.

God Bless those who are gone and those who lost loved ones. I will not forget.
 
I was just leaving the house to return the powered sewer snake back to the rental shop when the first plane hit. A day earlier the sewer backed up from a tree root between the house and the septic tank. As I drove to town the whole scenario played out like a science fiction show. I dropped off the machine and felt the safest thing to do was get out of town and back to the house in the country just incase things would get worse.
 
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, weatherwise... 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 patroling 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 :(
 
I was at work, when we heard something was going on in New York I sent one of the Guy's home to get a small T.V. we watched in shock, No work got done that afternoon.
My wife had it pretty tough. She work's at the local airport for Air Canada, the tower phoned her service desk and told all active crew to expect lot's of traffic . Nobody new what was going on there till police swat showed up in tactical gear to lock down the Airport ! ......I mean no disrespect by saying my wife had it tough....I am just to tired to
retype this. My prayers for all americans and canadians that had it tough that day.
 
i was in bed, and my alarm went off, playing the radio. it was eerily similar to what the radio sounded like after the OKC bombing. i went and turned on the news as the 2nd plane hit, and called a few people. i wasn't really scared until the plane hit The Pentagon as i was driving in to work.

we watched the coverage all day, and basically didn't do much other than that.

it was all very surreal at the time. it didn't really hit home until hearing the stories of the fire fighters dying in the collapsing buildings
 
Wife was at work, she called to say there had been an accident. As I watched the news, tower II was hit.

Never forget 9/11... Never forget the 343.

Rest in peace Brothers..
 
I was getting ready to celebrate. I finished high school a year early by taking summer classes. My last day was September 10 2001. I was going to treat myself to a great day on the 11th. Instead I bought a generator and stocked up on bottled water. A day I will never forget.
 
I was in a class. I don't remember which one. I went to a lounge area and watched the news. I can't believe it's been so long, seems like yesterday.
 
I was actually at the twin towers. I was leaving the area at about 8:40. I heard the first plane hit as I drove away. As I drove down Church St. away from the towers I saw everyone looking up. No one looked away. I had no idea what they were watching. I had to find out so I turned onto Broadway. I saw paper fluttering. The paper was far away and looked like ticker tape. I was thinking parade when I realized it was letter size paper coming from an obscene gash in the tower. It was at that moment that I realized something was very wrong. I stopped my car about a block from the building. I saw the giant fireball as the second plane hit and I realized we were under attack. The rest of the things we saw were too terrible to describe. Lost a few friends. Very bad day.
 
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