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Where were you on 9/11?

holyintellect

holyintellect

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9/11 was the most significant event in our lifetime thus far....do you recall where you were?

I was in Panama City Beach on vacation with my wife and son (just had one at the time). I remember waking up in the condo and watching the events on TV. I had absolutely no idea what was going on, or even where it was at. Obviously I was stunned when I realized it was NYC...

holy
 
I was at home playing Diablo II. A bunch of people were starting to talk about it in chat as the news was breaking. As you can imagine, at first the 2nd hand news was wild and varied as a lot of people knew an enemy had attacked us but didn't have any real details; some moron told me that california was being bombed, which is where I lived at the time. It made me very nervous because just before he had said that and for a short time afterwards, I had been hearing aircraft flying overhead but it had those distinct sound qualities that you intuitively identify (when you can't see for yourself) as either military or something unorthodox/non commercial. So that's what made me turn on the tv to find out for myself. My great uncle was a sr. engineer for united. His son is one of my best friends and was my roomate at the time. as the younger of two brothers, all he wanted to do was follow in his father's footsteps to gain approval, so he went to school for a couple years, got a technical/engineering related job at united and was trying to work his way up. He got laid off of course, fell into debt, we lost our place due to finances, and had to geographically part ways. It's amazing how seemingly unrelated events can affect your day to day life.
 
I was in my morning class in College junior year. i was getting calls all day on my cell phone from friends who said Morgan Stanley had 24 or so floors in the towers that were directly hit!! My brother worked at Morgan stanley at the time!! My friends were asking if i heard from him?? But none off my family did because there was a cell phone tower on one of the towers,,,so phone wise no one could get thru to my Bro's cell!!!! Ironic part was my mom went to the same college as i was attending in the Vietnam era...and she was approached by campus security who informed her that her brother, my uncle whom im named after was killed in action...So, flash to 2001, im at same college!!! All of a sudden i hear outside my apartment..voices asking girls out fron if so and so lived here (me)..i looked out and could see campus security!!!!!!!!!! My heart dropped out my ass....i knucklede up and went out to meet the securlty already prepared what they were going to say( my bro was dead)....They said..ur mother called and she was in contact w your brother....ehhhh big sy of relief. Happenes that that day 9/11..my Bro was in Morgan Stanleys main headquarters that was in Mid-Town Manhatten Many blocks from ground zero.....

So, this day holds a special special place in my heart..(as prob many).

My brother lost alot of co-workers and friends that day.

Im just glad to have my bro..who also played the role of my father(who was absent in my life)... {teering up!!}

So....
\Thats where i was

9/11............NEVER EVER FORGET
 
I was driving in the car.

The news came over the radio and I thought what an A-HOLE! that DJ is making up something like that.

I just could not believe it was happening.


BTW thank you for starting this thread!


CROWLER
 
I was in Newark NJ working on a beautiful day when the rumblings of a major incident in NYC were starting to be heard. Suddenly the air became quite clouded with smoke, it was at that time that the word came out that something terrible had happened at the World Trade Center. All you could hear from that point on was radios and tuned in to hear what was going on.

I lost two very good friends that day, one a firemen who along with his brother had gone into one of the buildings to save people not long before the first collapse. The other was my friend Fran who I had known since childhood. The ironic thing was we each other the week before for the 1st time in a few years and we had made plans to stay more in touch.

Like the generation before that endured Pearl Harbor, we know the pain and anguish of being attacked. I hope that somehow we can again find that unified spirit that we had as a country after that terrible day. We're going to need it.


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At work in the morning at Pasta House... finished up the associates I was in the middle of, then joined up.

Adams
 
at work, a co-worker can in and said " a plane just hit the WTC building", i thought it was a small plane, like a private one, then customers were calling to place orders saying "did you hear what happened", that's when we turned on the news at work, after i saw it was a "regular sized plane", i knew it was intensional.
 
Im glad to hear your bro was sparred from this disaster Livewire.

I was in 10th grade art class - sleeping. I woke up at the end of the class and everyone was watching the tv but I didnt pay any attention and went on to my next period class. It was the this class where I found out from other students talking about it.
 
metroba said:
Im glad to hear your bro was sparred from this disaster Livewire.

I was in 10th grade art class - sleeping. I woke up at the end of the class and everyone was watching the tv but I didnt pay any attention and went on to my next period class. It was the this class where I found out from other students talking about it.
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Thx Bro..means alot!
 
I woke up to Bill Handel's voice on the radio with one sentence that screamed into my waking brain "This country is at war"...that woke up up in a damn hurry, jumping for the remote that was showing the footage from Plane 2 hitting.

I spent the next hour in stunned silence...then had to run to class where, oddly enough, NOBODY was talking about it.
 
I was marching up Victory Hill...

5 hours later, at a briefing...

The next day... classified.

Since that date I have lost over 50 friends, and a part of myself.
 
i was in math class doing a problem at the board, It was annouced over the school intercom and i just looked back to my friend seated a few rows away and said; what the FUCK!?!? thats the only time i remeber swearing in class and not getting a detention.
 
i was un-employed at the time and got back from the gym, then I turned on CNBC and could not believe the 2 towers were gone... I could not believe it then i channel surf for a while and all other channels were showing the same footage, after awhile it was hard to watch the images of relatives holding pictures of loved ones that were missing, I will never forget that!
 
I was sitting at my fire station. I remember when the first tower fell, we all pretty much said "holy sh## a bunch of firemen just died." Then when the second one came down we were all in shock. In all the hysteria there were news reports of planes heading toward all the major cities. We were waiting to get the call to head toward downtown Atlanta for another one.

One thing I will always remember is the sound of the P.A.S.S alarms sounding after the towers fell. On our turn-out gear we have an alarm that sounds if we are motionless for over a certain amount of time. This is so that if we go down in a fire others will be able to find us. During the immediate news footage after the towers fell, you could hear the P.A.S.S. alarms in the background sounding. Knowing what that meant was chilling.
 
I was on vacation in Anaheim, CA with my family- drinking a nice cup of peppermint hot chocolate, when my mom announced that terrorists had bombed NY. I also heard that Disney Land ( a couple miles away) had shut down for the day because of the attack. Being 11, I assumed they were shutting DL down because it would also be attacked, and they didn't want tons of people to die. Then I thought that if Disney Land gets bombed our condo might just get bombed and I might die. And I cried. A lot. And even more when I saw on TV what had happened to the Towers. Silly little 11 year old!
 
atjnutrition2 said:
I was sitting at my fire station. I remember when the first tower fell, we all pretty much said "holy sh## a bunch of firemen just died." Then when the second one came down we were all in shock. In all the hysteria there were news reports of planes heading toward all the major cities. We were waiting to get the call to head toward downtown Atlanta for another one.

One thing I will always remember is the sound of the P.A.S.S alarms sounding after the towers fell. On our turn-out gear we have an alarm that sounds if we are motionless for over a certain amount of time. This is so that if we go down in a fire others will be able to find us. During the immediate news footage after the towers fell, you could hear the P.A.S.S. alarms in the background sounding. Knowing what that meant was chilling.
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I was watching the history channel all day so far about 9/11. I always wondered about those alarms going off til they said it on the show. Now its sad and scray kinda to hear all those going off. sorry for everyones lost.

back on topic....i was asleep (in CA) my dad woke me saying we were under attack. I was like wtf. So i went to the tv and thought we were watching a movie. Then the second plane hit. All day at high school every class was just watching TV. sad day
 
1st period, Honors Comp Science. One of the fellas comes back in from the office to say that a plane hit the WTC. We turned on the tv and watched. Pretty much all we did the rest of the day in all my classes.
 
Its touched most of us in a way that we'll never be able to put into words...As some of you know, my best friend/business partner is an IFBB Pro, but more importantly, a Fireman for over 20 years. I have lots of friends in our department, and I though a lot about them and what they do after 9/11. My brother in law, who is about as good a person as you'll find, has also been deployed to Iraq twice since then. I have basically been the male figure for his two boys while he's been gone, and I always think about the fact that he might not come home.

holy
 
^^ dont worry bro ill keep him in prayer. I have 5 friends over there right now. 2 of them are coming home within the next month. The other two just left for a 365 deployment and my other friend is in kuwait as a civilian contracter.
 
in a very nihilistic state while sitting in history class. i remember wanting to look as shocked/sad as those around me, but just not being able to.

i will tell any one of you who have lost someone that day, in that place, i am sorry. since becoming a man, i've been able to look outside of myself and see a lot more. and know that you/they all, to some degree are me, and i am them/you.
 
A jungle village in guatamala - a guy came running down the road asking if we were 'Americanos', then dragged us all to the only black and white tv in the village.

Watching it all unfold on that grainy little tv we all thought it was to some degree a hollywood stunt. I had friends in Manhatten I had visited only a few months prior.

The next day I caught a bus to the nearest city, and made a collect call to my parents in New Zealand. I was supposed to going home in a week via Dallas and LA, so got some money wired and stayed in Central America for another 6 weeks until things cooled off.

Going through Dallas 6 weeks later things were still tense. I got pulled aside and chastised for having a metal potato peeler in my hand luggage. The GIs on guard were nervous. I was nervous. Everyone was f*cking nervous.

Luckily my friends in New York were okay. Some of their friends werent so lucky.

The world will never be the same after that day.
 
I was going to sleep in it was an off day,my wife came in just before she went to work and said a plane crashed into one of the wtc towers i told her to stop playing and go to work,i layed there for about 5 minutes and got up and turned on the tv and was like WTF,i will never forget that day and the emotions i had,thanks for starting this thread bro.
 
Wow, its nice to see someone recognizing that the WTC attacks of 9/11 did actually happen. The media loves to not show the images because they may be "upsetting." This is BULL$HIT, these images need to be shown to every man woman and child capable of understanding what they are seeing. People need to realize that we are at war with islamic radicals, whether or not you see it on a day to day basis.

Where was I? It was my first week of college classes and I was getting ready to walk out the door. I popped on the TV for a minute right when they reported something hit the tower, before they realized it was a commercial airliner. I called my dad who started his own business and that was his first day open and told him what was happening. He turned on the TV and both of us sat there on the phone saying nothing, just watching as the events unfolded. After the towers fell I sort of walked around campus in a daze, I felt like I was on drugs... I couldn't believe what I had seen. I will never forget what happened and never forget the sacrifices made then and made now to protect the citizens of our great country.
 
I was changing out a kitchen counter top and dishwasher in Southie, and the old Irish lady came running into the kitchen and told me to come in and look at the TV.

Her husband was already flinging out curses and whatnot at the terrorists, even though the TV was still talking a small plane accident.

As the first tower fell, my friend from NYC was on the phone with me, on his roof, and I could hear it in the background, coming down.

I'll never, ever forget that moment in time. Sickening.
 
MuscleHeadGuy said:
In the 8th grade, 2nd period, in Mr. Caron's Math class... I find it so strange how I still remember that.
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There is nothing strange about it...its the most significant event in our lives so far, so typically people will remember things like that...my parents are the same way about the day Kennedy got shot...

holy
 
Wow, its nice to see someone recognizing that the WTC attacks of 9/11 did actually happen. The media loves to not show the images because they may be "upsetting." This is BULL$HIT, these images need to be shown to every man woman and child capable of understanding what they are seeing. People need to realize that we are at war with islamic radicals, whether or not you see it on a day to day basis.



Hell yeah they should show everything, i will never forget seeing those people jump/fall out of the windows 100 floors up.
 
j4ever said:
Wow, its nice to see someone recognizing that the WTC attacks of 9/11 did actually happen. The media loves to not show the images because they may be "upsetting." This is BULL$HIT, these images need to be shown to every man woman and child capable of understanding what they are seeing. People need to realize that we are at war with islamic radicals, whether or not you see it on a day to day basis.



Hell yeah they should show everything, i will never forget seeing those people jump/fall out of the windows 100 floors up.
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another reason why kids these days are growing up soft...eye for a eye i say. they hate us all...we are just as quilty by association as they are!

anyway i was at my new appartment when i moved to tampa to start college. remember getting a phone call telling me to turn on tv and see...i felt every bad way possible, sadness to anger!
 
i was teachin in MASS, and my sister, baby nephew and brother in law where on a flight leaving logan airport, my heart stopped, and thankfully my mother called saying they held the plane and my sister and her family never did make it to CA that year.....................
 
I was sleeping. At the time I had just gotten my commission as a 2LT and was waiting to hear about which branch I got. I was working in restaurant in the meantime. It turned out the guys that decided on my branch were in the wing of the pentagon that got hit. Delayed it for months.

My mom called and said to turn on the TV. My brother went to the University of Maryland, and a few kids had just died in a fire a couple days prior, and my first thought was that something had happened to my brother. I turned on the TV and was very confused.

WTF.

F@ck those motherf@ckers that did that.
 
In bed sleeping. Got woken up by my GF(now my wife) at the time and told that sh!t was going down. I thought it was world war three. I then proceeded to turn over and go back to sleep.
 
Was in organic chem at Tennessee (near the end of that class) when the first plane hit. Walked back to my dorm room to take a nap before my next class. Don't remember hearing anything about it on the 10 min. walk back.

About the time I hit the bed my Mom called my cell. Turned on the TV and watched the 2nd plane hit and then both towers fall.

Terrible.
 
I was in Portland, OR visiting my mom and brother. My wife (prior to us meeting) was getting ready to go to work in a store in the WTC Mall 10 floors under the towers. Crazy **** right there
 
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