9-11-01: What were you doing?

[SOLIDSNAKE]

We will never forget 911!!

I was working at NATIONAL car rental listening to howard stern when it happend.

people pulled to the side of the road in shock.
I called my parents and my mom answer the phone in tears trying to reach my familly in new york.

we lost a relative due to the twin towers. I dont like to talk to much about it because it makes so ^^^^ing mad till this day.

I was so close to enrole in the UNITED STATES ARMY.
my girlfriend now my wife and my familly beg me to death not to go.

I am still pissed about this and when i hear people talk bad about The 911 tragedy it insults me and my familly.

I wish I would have sothing to save all those lives.

Have you guys lost anyone that day?

WE WILL NEVER FORGET !!

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this trubute makes me cry !

MY thougts and prayers to all !!

There was no reason for all the lives lost that day !!

NONE !!

 

[MANGLORD]

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had the day off, was eating a mixing bowl full of charms and i too was listening to stern. thought it was a prank at first.
sorry for your loss

 

[Kuzeh]

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[Voorhees27]

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Weird. Its like ........... i've seen this all somwhere before.

 

[pixletwin]

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[MANGLORD]

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and out come the double post nazis. waiting for their apology i assume. big efen deal, the dude posted another 911 thread.

 

[Voorhees27]

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and out come the double post nazis. waiting for their apology i assume, big efen deal, the dude posted another 911 thread.

 

[pixletwin]

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@ termiroy

 

[MANGLORD]

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that's hott, i always love the pics your mom and her lover take together

 

[Voorhees27]

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@ termiroy

There can be only one 911 thread .............

 

[Voorhees27]

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that's hott, i always love the pics your mom and her lover take together

 

[devilof76]

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[ProgMatinee]

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its 9-11 or 9/11 not 911.

 

[Wetanut]

I'm a civilian working for the Army. Slept through the alarm that morning and called secretary to tell her to tell boss I'd be in a bit late. She told me that I probably shouldn't bother coming in at all since they'll likely send folks home early because of security. I asked why that would be and she said "haven't you been watching TV?" So I turned on TV to see smoke coming out of the first tower, then about 3 minutes later, the second plane hit. I sat there dumbfounded until the buildings started to pancake. Then I got dressed and headed into work. She was right, cars were coming streaming out off post. There were MPs/guards all over the gate. Was stopped, car searched, me searched, 2 pieces of ID demanded. Finally got into the office and:
- sent my son e-mail to ask if he was in lock down (he works at a nuclear power facility )
- called my hubby - also Army civilian - to ask where he was (he was scheduled to do some briefings at the Pentagon that morning and was driving from Ft Lee, VA (near Richmond) to Pentagon). He asked why; I told him to pull over and listen to news on his radio and turn around and head back to Ft. Lee becuz there was unlikely going to be any briefings in the Pentagon that day. Seemed I managed to catch him only about 20 minutes from his destination.
- spent the next 26 hours with 3 others who were part of the continuing operations team at the office trying to track down all our travellers scattered around the world to give guidance from boss on how to proceed (STAY PUT), keep in touch with their families to keep them calmed, all the while trying desperately to find out what was happening to our friends and coworkers at the Pentagon.

Hubby was stranded for over a week at Ft Lee; lost some good friends at the Pentagon.

That day is equal in vividness to my memories of when JFK was assassinated. Burned into my brain -- Will never forget

 

[holtrax]

was watching the news live when a report came on about a plane that had hit the towers.

A weird thing is the week before i was in new york myself and relations were contemplating going up into the towers to visit the observation deck. We had also been weirdly enough discussing how terrorists might one day attack!during the conversation. It was more of a generalised conversation regarding saddam hussein though. Another weird thing happened also was watching the hannibal film during the time and bin laden's pic came up in the movie as they posted the top ten most wanted. I think that was always on people minds pre 9/11.

Just all these weird conincidences that happened in the run up to the event itself. Makes you really think back over it all.

Thank god we didn't visit the towers though and put it off. Im just glad i got to see the towers every night i went walking the dog in new jersey. You could really see them for miles around. Its the one thing etched in my memory. The sight of them.

 

[The Ween]

No politics please. Just want to know where you were and what you were doing...

I was in the hospital with my wife and new born when I heard the news. We heard the news from my mom who called to tell me to turn the TV on. The first image we saw was lower Manhattan under a cloud and Dan Rather saying "Its gone." I had thought NYC was nuked or something. My brother was working as a DA in Manhattan at the time. We spent the next 4 days trying to get a call in to Brooklyn (where he lived) to see if he was ok.

Turned out after the first plane hit, he and his fiance legged it for the Brooklyn Bridge. As they were leaving the DA's office they heard the second plane crash.

Where were you all and what can you remember about that day?

I was working at the time and the teachers were talking about the towers being bombed again so they put their tvs on and found out what really happened. Luckily the kids weren't in school that day. There were people talking about the end times and stuff like that and making people more upset. I was worried about my boyfriend who had broken up with me that summer and he had went back to NY. He lives in SI, but works in Manhatten, and so does his mother. I was crying my eyes out until I could get home and call. It took me days to get through him but all was well.

Gosh I miss him.

 

[DarkArtist81]

It was my first year in, I was in my barracks building, drinking and wandering the halls with my friends. One of my superiors was this supply PO who always kept his door open and drank with the rest of the guys, but he was the angriest dude you'd ever meet... just pissed all the time.

He stepped out of the hall and motioned for us to come closer, and all he said was... "You guys might want to see this."

We stepped into his room, he gave us all beers and quietly sat down as the news played on the TV. The first plane had just struck, they were trying to figure out what the deal was... we all sat quietly, playing out different scenarios or possibilities in our minds. And then the second plane struck.

We all looked at one another, and the PO stood up and said... "Well.... that ain't no accident. You guys better enjoy today, because come tomorrow...we're going. I don't know where, but we aren't taking that lying down".

We watched in stunned silence for 30 or so minutes before the anger set in. We went to our room and started packing our seabags. We didn't have orders to do so, but we knew they were coming. An emergency meeting was called, our squadron was called to the hangar bay that night and our CO gave a moving speech that had us all in tears or close. The next day we were on our way out to sea.

I will never forget it... It was one of the most insane and numbing days I have ever experienced.

 

[Voorhees27]

was watching the news live when a report came on about a plane that had hit the towers.

A weird thing is the week before i was in new york myself and relations were contemplating going up into the towers to visit the observation deck. We had also been weirdly enough discussing how terrorists might one day attack!during the conversation. It was more of a generalised conversation regarding saddam hussein though. Another weird thing happened also was watching the hannibal film during the time and bin laden's pic came up in the movie as they posted the top ten most wanted. I think that was always on people minds pre 9/11.

Just all these weird conincidences that happened in the run up to the event itself. Makes you really think back over it all.

Thank god we didn't visit the towers though and put it off. Im just glad i got to see the towers every night i went walking the dog in new jersey. You could really see them for miles around. Its the one thing etched in my memory. The sight of them.

I was in Manhattan back in October and it was indeed weird to not see them there. Still the city has never looked so cool, its one of my most favorite visited places.

 

[DinoLast]

I had left Marsh UK a month before Sep 11 to work for a Bank.
When I found out the Planes had hit the towers I was at work.
It was shocking for me to find that the Marsh office in The World Trade Centre had been directly hit.

 

[agen_kolar]

I also remember that for about a week or so after that I didn't hear anything bad on the local news. There were no rapes, no murders, no kidnappings, no robberies... nothing. And the local news was reporting non 9/11 news since there were car accidents and fires but nothing to those real bad extremes. It was very strange.

Yeah, I remember that as well - the crime rate was nonexistent for a while thereafter. I guess it really made everyone put their negative thoughts aside and brought everyone closer together. I think almost everyone found it a very personal attack.