Where were you and what were you doing?

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I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember I was at work when a co-worker told me a plane had crashed into the world trade center. At first it was believed that a pilot had just really screwed up. Then it started being speculated that it was terrorists, but that thought was almost scoffed at. Then the second plane hit and it was immediately clear that we were under attack. Everything seemed to just almost stop immediately. My thoughts immediately turned to my family members who are in the military and how this would hit home very shortly. I was working a wholesale auto supply and equipment phone job at the time and the phones just stopped ringing immediately. By noon they sent almost all of us home including me. We were all in shock and being at home with family seemed like the right thing to do.

How about you?
 
That day just seems so fresh in my mind also. I was doing some housework and just happened to turn the tv on. The first thing I heard was "a plane has just hit the WTC." And then when the second one hit I I just sat there and watched, shocked and worried. I had just quit smoking two days before and I wanted a cigarette so bad. I just sat there watching not believing that this could really be happening. I thought of my daughter at school, wondered if the kids knew and if she was scared. I couldn't wait for her to get home so I could hug her and tell her how much I love her. I had the TV on all the time for days watching and praying there would be more survivors.
 
It was night time on Okinawa and we were in the middle of a Typhoon. I was at work at Fire Station 2 watching it all happen on CNN. Got to go to Afghanistan a year and a bit later for Enduring Freedom.
 
For some reason I'd turned on the TV early that morning. Was listening to the news about the plane that had hit the building, when the TV camera on the helicopter showed the 2nd hit.

I kept thinking that it had to be some kind of bad movie.
 
I was asleep in bed! My mother came in and woke me up saying " You gotta see this, New York is on Fire" Then a few seconds later the other plane crashed and we then realized it was not an ordinary fire! WE also spent the rest of the day and more watchign TV just to see what happened! Finaly it was too much of that so I found something eles to do!
 
I was at home, asleep with a sick day. Hubby woke me and said "THE US IS UNDER ATTACK!". I was glued to the TV for a long time and to this day still pray for those involved in this tragedy. GOD BLESS THE USA!
 
I was off that day. Had just gotton up and watching Fox news. The first plane had alread hit. They were talking about how it could have been a accident. Then boom the second plane hit. Knew then it wasn't no accident. Was glued to the tv the rest of the day.
 
I had taken a vacation day and was fixin to go to town to get a piece for our car. I had to call Gollum and he told me to turn on the tv. For rest of the day I was frozen to the tv. All I could say was "All those people..."
 
I was at school that day, my bro woke me up at like 5 in the morning and told me that a plane crashed into the WTC towers. I never believed it was accidental, who in the right mind would? Then what looks to be a second explosion happens, then the stupid newscasters said it was the "fuselage" then I thought to myself, it was too big to be that. It turned out to be flight 175, then Kate Couric asked "Could the World Trade Centers be a magnet of some sort?". Despite the very horrifying and tragic situation, that line from Couric was the only comical line I had heard that day.

So, me and my brother go into the car and then we find out that another flight all the sudden hits the Pentagon. It was a very horrible situation that day. I guess later on thereafter when I was in my JROTC class, probably the final flight which the passengers attacked the hijackers in crashed in Somerset, Pennsylvania.

You wont believe how many people were shellshocked by this event. But later on, I saw people gather around in candle-light memorials and they actually went outside to the flag pole to do the pledge of allegiance the next day, patriotism that hasnt been seen since the attack on Pearl Harbor. I remember attending church the Friday during that same week and we had one of the best patriotic tributes, "God Bless America" was sung by everyone and everyone also had a candlelight vigil.

Well, I just hope the people like Johnny Depp and Edward Norton who say that theyre ashamed to be Americans remember that PEOPLE HAVE DIED FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINION. I certainly hope that same patriotism that everyone had following September 11th returns again, but under more peaceful circumstances.

God Bless America :salute:
 
Thanks for sharing those guys and girls. As Kat said in another thread...I hope we never forget what that day felt like.
 
school for me...turned the tv. on and then school said we couldnt watch it. I didnt have my contacts in so I couldnt have really seen anything anyways. But I came home and watched the news for about a week, very unusual for me.
 
I was a junior in college and it was picture day. they kept talking about a tragedy on the intercom and we had no idea what had happened
 
i was sitting in a study hall in school and our teacher told us a plane hit the wtc, and i didnt think anything off it because i thought it was like a one seater or a cessna or some small plane because no pilot of a 747 could screw up that bad, and because i had read somwehere that a small oneseater had hit the empire state building one time and that was still there...

anyway, we got out of second block and we hadnt heard anything new so i had to go to band practice(its the first half of our lunch hour, its so dumb how schools schedule thigns) and thats when i heard how it was terrorists and that a second plane hit the other tower and the day was downhill from there...
 
I was getting ready to go to work. I was actually watching Good Morning America. The first plane hit the WTC, and they started showing it on tv. It was live and the next plane hit the other tower. I just stood there staring at my tv, unable to move. I believe I had to pick my jaw up off of the floor I was so horrified and stunned at what I had just seen. They continued with the live footage and were able to get a camera crew to one of the ABC reporters who just lives blocks from where the towers stood. Then the 3rd plane hit the Pentagon. Eventually I was able to pull myself away from the tv and get to work. It was then that I informed my bosses and co-workers about what had happened. We turned on the tv at the office and continued to watch off and on for the rest of the day. That will definitely be a day in my life that I will never, ever be able to forget.
 
It was a school to for me and I was asleep. It was 1 hour before I had to get up to go to the universiy when dad (gollum) came in my room and told me to get up and turn on my tv there was a plane crash. I turned on the tv and was still half asleep as they were talking about it being a piolt error but then the camra zoomed in on a second plane and it it the second tower. I was watching Fox news and you could hear a pin drop. My eyes opend wide and I was wide awake. I watched the tv up to the point I had to go to class. My first class canceled so I went to the rec. building and they had all the tvs on the news and I watched there. My second class did not cancel but we watched the tv the whole class. ON my lunch Hour is when the first tower fell. The whole lunch room was quit and still as we watched the towers fall..........
 
I was building a stairway in a new apartment building when I heard it. Sorta wierd How I looked up in the sky the rest of the day. :salute:
 
I had just got home from a walk and turned on the TV. The second plain had already hit the second tower. I didn't know what I was watching. This couldn't really happen on American soil. I had to go to work later that day. I was kinda numb the whole day.

What I remember from the first couple of days after 9/11 was how earie the sky looked with no air traffic.
 
Was driving to work, when they came over the radio & said a plane crashed into one of the twin towers. The report was real sketchy since it had just happened. I assumed it was just a small private plane until I saw people looking at it on the internet when I got to work.
 
A day that I can never forget......just like the day JFK was assassinated.

On 9/11, I was driving the shop truck taking a race engine back to Richard Childress Racing. Turned on the radio and found out the first plane had just hit about 5 minutes before. I was stunned when they later reported that the second plane had hit.

Didn't get to see it on TV until I got back to the shop about 2 hours later.

As a native New Yorker, I worked in the Wall St. area back when they were building the WTC towers. It was interesting seeing the huge pit that was dug and so many piles driven into the bedrock to support those buildings. Over the period of construction, I was able to watch those buildings rise to their maximum height ...... such an awesome site. I even had a chance to visit a customer in one of the towers.

So sad to see them gone............ such a waste of human life.
 
I was at work and as soon as I heard about it we turned on the tube and I don't think we accomplished anything that day. What a horrible sight watching those buildings fall to the ground. It was like a movie, something that couldn't happen in America. :(
 
At work in NYC...my coworker had the radio on as usual and when they announced the first plane had hit, I thought it was the Morning Zoo guys doing something goofy. Then I knew it wasn't, but I thought it was a small plane. By the time we were figuring out that it wasn't a small plane, the second plane hit. I immediately started calling my friend Michelle who was supposed to start work at 1 WTC the following Monday (she was working across the street at the time). Couldn't get through to her at work or on the cell, and people were just calling calling calling me from all over the place. At about 10:00 a.m., I lost my internet connection and I called my husband and told him that I was coming to his office because if anything else was going to happen, I wanted to be with him. I also told him I was stopping into St. Patrick's Cathedral (which is about midway between our 2 offices) on the way down, and he said, "don't do that, it could be the next target". Well, I don't often defy my husband, but I did that day, there were cops all around the church actually and it was packed, I went in and said a prayer and lit a candle. My hubby worked next to Grand Central at the time, and after the 3rd bomb scare, they sent everyone home. We ended up walking across the 59th Street Bridge and then getting a bus home.

Thankfully that night Michelle turned up OK, but I did know three people who lost their lives that tragic day. :(
 
I had just got home from work. sat down with an egg Mcmuffin and turned on the T.V. saw what was happening and as any Firefighter will tell you, you begin to count the number of alarms. then the number of Brothers on each alarm. when the towers began to fall, there was no doubt that an obscene number of people had just died.

Nothing else to do but go to my firehouse, grab my gear and start east. In the end, I had 22 close friends from the F.D.N.Y. in the pile. No chance I will ever forget.
 
It is a event and a date that is inbeded in our minds forever. Like Pearl Harbor. America will never forget.
 
I was in school, when I saw a teacher come in and tell the other teacher something, and she had a huge gasp on her face...class went on and they didnt tell us anything, and then when I got to my next class my friend told me, and I really didn't think it sounded like a big deal, but when I got out of school my mom was going to get gas and there was a HUGE LINE, and I got home and watched it on TV and I found out how big it was...:(...I will never ever forget....:( :( :(
 
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