Where were you on 9/11/01

I was laid up that week. I had fallen in the dining room on Monday, the 10th, hurt my hip & the doctor had me on bedrest all week. Chuck (G19G26) was on third shift then, so I was home alone watching Headline News when the story began. Chuck had went out to breakfast with some buddies, so I rang them up & told them to turn on a TV if the place had one. I just couldn't believe my eyes and it broke my heart to see people jumping out of the buildings. I can't imagine what such desparation does to a person. The next few days of TV was the hardest I've ever had to watch! My heart went out to all of those searching for loved ones. I know none of us will never forget the horrific images of that day. I thank God that our family wasn't closely effected, and I pray for all of those that were! These events have caused me to be much more thankful for all the freedoms that our soldiers fight to protect. May God bless each person that is out there fighting for MY freedom! I could never give enough thanks to our service men & women, our local fire fighters, police & emergency personnel. They deserve the very best. Thanks to God for their willingness to serve & their bravery.

God bless each of you & GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
NEVER FORGET 09/11/01 & NEVER CEASE TO PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY!

Barb
 
I was living in this remote camp just south of the arctic circle. I turned on the sat tv in time to see the second plane hit the tower. Work came to stand-still; everyone was glued to the TV all day. The government grounded all aircraft, including our company's 737 that supplied the camp, for several days we were cutoff from the rest of the world, a very surreal time ...


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I live in California. The .com bubble had already burst. My employer had been hit pretty bad, there wasn't much work for the shop. He didn't mind if I rolled in around 9:30 or 10:00 because all of the work got done any way. I was sleeping till 8:00 most days.

For some reason I woke up shortly after the first plane hit and turned on the radio. I can't explain it.

I will never forget.
 
I was in seventh grade taking an English test, and a teacher watching the news in the staff room came out yelling and got everyone attention.
 
I was at work reading the Drudge Report. And then watching TV (along with everyone else) after the second plane hit.

I wondered whether my brother or my cousin or my other cousin (all airline pilots) was flying out of Newark that day.
 
bdws1975 said:
I got to work just as the second plane hit the WTC. I knew at that point, it was no accident.
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Same here. Which is really a pretty strange, when you think about it. Because if you think about it, there's no way that an airliner could accidentally crash into a building. It had to be intentional, but we were willing to entertain the notion that it was just an accident. Like the time the B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building back in 1945.

Of course, these days it's pretty much impossible for such a thing to happen by accident, but it was easier to believe the impossible than that someone would do such a thing intentionally. I guess that's what the people on the planes were thinking too.
 
salty141 said:
I was in seventh grade taking an English test, and a teacher watching the news in the staff room came out yelling and got everyone attention.
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Seventh grade?! :eek: Man do I feel old! Not as old as some of these farts though. :)

Am I the only one who avoids watching all the recap stuff they run each year? I just can't watch it, too soon for me I guess.
 
Progunner said:
Am I the only one who avoids watching all the recap stuff they run each year? I just can't watch it, too soon for me I guess.
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no, me too --- i don't want to forget, but I'm sure not anxious to re-live it either :(
 
thankyou, to all who have offered up there memories here i do truely appreciate all that was said :D May we never forget our past or it is bound to repeat itself. As 12/07/1941 lives in INFAMY so will 9/11/2001
 
I walked in to my office to find everyone who worked at the church with me sitting around the tv in my office watching the developing news. We opened the front doors of the church and left them open for the next three days for people to come in and pray and try to come to grips with reality.
 
I lived in Arlington, VA at the time, less than 5 miles down I395 from the Pentagon. It was a beautiful, sunny morning. I was in my kitchen, watching the news live when the second plane hit the towers. I then had to go to work, and was listening to the radio in my car as the Pentagon was hit, with several of my friends inside (none of whom were hurt, thank God). I drove through the smoke of the burning Pentagon as I went across the river into DC. The streets were eerily deserted, it was one of the saddest days of my life. I'll never forget it. When I talked to my buddy Paul later that day to see if he was okay, he said he was in the parking lot and saw the plane come in like a rocket, practically overhead, and slam into his building.
 
Progunner said:
Seventh grade?! :eek: Man do I feel old! Not as old as some of these farts though. :)

Am I the only one who avoids watching all the recap stuff they run each year? I just can't watch it, too soon for me I guess.
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Hey! Are you talking about me again?? :D

I can't watch the recaps, either. It's all too personal for me...and I'm reminded of it every day I go to work. I haven't even been able to share my memories in this Thread. Pretty pathetic.

Maybe after we catch those b*****ds.
 
At the time I was working part time delivering Pizzas between classes. So I remember I was loading up 45 pizzas to be delivered to an elementary school for thier lunch. Nobody could believe it listening to the radio,but we couldn`t stop working either.(Little kids gotta eat.) But I remember being glad I had my Sig in the car, and when I got to the school the doors were locked and I waslet in by a teacherusing a cellphone to communicate with the office. It was all so strange. After the planes were all grounded I remember being glad we had the tactical fighter wing at our local airport out on patrol...but after hearing about the crash in Pennsylvania I also wondered whether the Davis -Bessie nuclear plant just down the road would be a target.

Over the next few days I was sickened to hear about the way people insome countries were cheering and dancing in thestreets whenthey got the news. But I was really lifted up by all the calls and emails I got fromother friends overseas who called to express thier condolences and makesurewe were all right.

One of my best friends was on a flight to Egypt for his Army Reserve training. He was in the air when they planes hit, and after landing they went straight to the briefing room at the airbase. They were all told about it immediately, but nobody believed it was anything but a training scenario until they got a smoke break and one of the guys called home to tell his wife he`d arrived. 30 seconds later they all knew we were going to war.

Don`t forget to hug your kids when you leave the house. You never know what the day holds in store for us.
 
At my work as a police officer in S.E. KY. I watched the second plane hit the tower live while in our dispatch area in which we have a tv.,,,VWB.
 
I woke up to my radio alarm, and I could tell by the tone of the DJs' voices that something was wrong... I turned on the TV to see the aftermath of the first plane collision. I took a shower and then saw the second plane hit in real time. I drove to work, entirely in a daze, got to my office and spent the rest of the day listening to news reports and following the story on the internet with my coworkers. We did no work that day. I felt that we were seeing the beginning to WW3.

Later, my best friend called me to talk about what happened. Both of us felt incredible rage and frustration. It was, to this day, the worst day of my life.

My semiconductor-based employer took a hit in the bottom line from the subsequent business downturn, and several engineers, including me, were laid off a month later.
 
I was working at Walmart, right before I became a manager actually. Was loading up a cart in the storeroom, and it sounded like a movie trailer on the radio. I asked what movie was being previewed, and the girls in the back said I think this is real. Went out to the electronics section to see if they had the tv's on the news, and heard from the two old men who put together toys/bikes/furniture that another jet had hit the WTC. Watched it on the news in the electronics section in the store, lots of employees and customers crying. Heard that the local schools were being let out early, and knew that my parents were in the town about a half hour south of where I was. Called them, and saw the store managers carrying all the rifles and shotguns back to the storage room. Left early to pick up my little brother, they said on the news that planes were still unaccounted for. Picked up my siblings, parked up the hill from the school. As I took them out, saw a jetliner flanked by two fighters, escorts I'm guessing. Scary day, man, scary day.

Oh yeah, went south on i-83, usually fairly busy. It was empty. I'll also never forget the kids calling the DC station, asking for information about their parents who worked at the Pentagon. Chokes me up thinking about it. I maintained it throughout the day, really worried about my uncle in Jersey who drives a boom truck, does a lot of deliveries into NYC, usually Manhattan AFAIK. Seeing Tom Brokaw break down, I don't know, I could care less one way or the other, but that hit home. I will never forget what Adam Carolla said that night on Loveline. Basically, telling the terrorists, they even pissed off the bleeding hearts, they better watch out.
 
I was at home, watching CNN for all of it - first stunned. Grateful when OP called that he was not at the Pentagon that day. I think the worst was the kids- all my young ones had frieds/classmates lose folks that day. The HS even dedicated their yearbook to remember (our middle daughter was involved with that). For a Military Community the outpouring of support and patriotism was hearfelt and sincere. We spent over 8 ours to get in the gate the next day at Ft Belvoir for a medical appointment. in line behind us were some generals. Now they have secuiry tightenend and can still get people on.
 
I was at home and had the tv on and heard someone say the wts was hit by a plane. I started watching and could not believe it. I remember feeling every emotion of sorrow, rage and knowing that we would be going to war. I talked to many friends and family that day, But the hardest was talking to my youngest nephew later in the day and i will never forget him asking me why, why did this happen!... It was a day i will never forget!!!! NEVER FORGET 9/11/2001
 
I was sleeping in my apartment before a geology 101 class I had that was three hours later when I awoke to one of my room mates freaking out. I thought nothing of it until I couldn't get back to sleep. I went to see what all the racket was and no sooner than 2 minutes later after seeing some repeat footage of the second plane crash the first tower fell. I couldn't believe it was real and harbored a sense of disbelief then the second tower fell. from that point on I stopped disbelieving and it hit like a ton of bricks. I went down to the recruiters that day and the place was swamped, all of us wanted to take it back to those sons of *******es that did that to our common countrymen. I can't even watch United 93 without shedding tears and trying to rip apart furniture it.....
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HomeSeller said:
I was at home, watching CNN for all of it - first stunned. Grateful when OP called that he was not at the Pentagon that day. I think the worst was the kids- all my young ones had frieds/classmates lose folks that day. The HS even dedicated their yearbook to remember (our middle daughter was involved with that). For a Military Community the outpouring of support and patriotism was hearfelt and sincere. We spent over 8 ours to get in the gate the next day at Ft Belvoir for a medical appointment. in line behind us were some generals. Now they have secuiry tightenend and can still get people on.
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It's a good thing my superiors called me into Tower 1 for a security confab, or I probably would have been...

Close call.
 
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