Where were you...

nm reef

nm reef

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...the day the world changed?
9/11/01 was a truely world altering day...I can remember being in class when President Kennedy was shot...watching the moon landing with my father on TV...the death of Bobby and Martin Luther...students dieing at Kent State...the lies of Nixon...the murder of Lennon...there have been many histroy making pages during my life but none affected me the way that fateful day did. I was at work listening on the radio...and can still recall the anger/fear...emotion of that day.Politics have overrun the initial objectives...Bin laden is still free and terror still reigns...and the world will never be the same.
So...where were you?
Do you remember?
Will the sources of this terror ever be help accountable?
 
bang guy

bang guy

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I was on the phone with payroll at the central office. I was a consultant, the central office was in tower 1. The lady in payroll said they had been told to evacuate.
Nobody from there made it out.
I didn't enjoy being unemployed, but there are worse things.
 
lovethesea

lovethesea

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I remember exactly. I woke up very happy that it was my 40th birthday and I was healthy and happy to have a beautiful family. Took the day off of work to treat myself to some girlie things and wanted to get some house work done first. It didn't register at first when the Today show announced that two planes flew into the trade towers. I knew it couldn't have been an accident.
The world will never be the same. If Bin Laden is gone, there is another fanatic behind him in the ranks. Unfortunately other countries are now experiening the horrors that we experienced that day.
I don't know how any one person can be held accountable, and if there where....who would be the country/ies holding them responsible. That is a slippery slope.
God rest those souls lost 3 years ago, and protect the ones protecting us.
 
avbryce1

avbryce1

Member
I was at work doing construction when the first plane hit. when we got our morning break my co worker and i went to go to the store
and howard stern was on the radio and we could tell somthing was wrong but we couldent figure out what had happend so we made a quick stop at this resturant where we knew they had a tv
almost as soon as we walked in we saw the second plane hit . I was in total shock followed by an overwhelming anger it was the most horrible day in american history, and hopefully It will remain that way.
will the sources of this terror be held accountable?
I belive that the hijackers themselves are and will continue to burn in hell for all eternity. as for bin ladin ? as each year goes by I grow less and less confident that we will ever catch him But he WILL meet his maker, I just hope we can help
 
lionfish12

lionfish12

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I was at school and i nodiced that the office kept on calling people to the office to be picked up. Then once i got home i found out why so many kids were being picked up. My parents thought it was safe at school and they didnt worry about it.
On a happy note: happy birthday! :cheer:
 
salty cheese

salty cheese

Active Member
I walked into an office to pick up an invoice but the office was empty and on a shelf in the office was a radio, Mayor Giuliani
was talking about evacuating the school children and that Manhattan was closed down because of the fire. I thought to myself that must one big fire to close down the whole of Manhattan. As I was walking back down the hall I noticed a group of people watching TV in the conference room and peeked in, that's when I realized what the "fire" was all about.
To this day I still get the shivers when I think about it.
Here's a link to a Flash tribute made by someone from New York and it's a pretty powerful one at that.
Warning it's a 7 meg file.
http://www.kaosweaver.com/flash911.html
 
marvida

marvida

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I had taken the day off for no particular reason. Being an early riser I turned on one of the 24 hour news stations sometime between 5 & 6AM Pacific time. One of the towers was on fire and they were talking about an airliner hitting it. I thought it strange. A few minutes later I watched as the second plane hit. I suspected that there would be at least a partial collapse involving the top floors. Being a former firefighter, my first thought while watching the fire, was the realization that hundreds of firefighters were about to die.
 
robchuck

robchuck

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I was in the car on the way to work listening to the local news radio station. They had just teased an upcoming segment about a hot British toy called a Healey and then went to break (for some reason, I was really intrigued to find out what a Healey is). Not more than 15-20 seconds into the break, they interrupted the local spots with the WCBS-AM feed out of New York. I knew something big was up right away when they interrupted a commercial break to take the local feed from NYC. I listened to the events take place on the radio for the next hour as I drove to work.
Nobody was at their desk that morning; we were all crammed into the conference room watching the news coverage of the fires and the subsequent collapses of the WTC towers. A lot of my co-workers in the room at the time had worked in NYC, and I remember clear as day the concern and fear that they displayed.
WBBM's broadcast never made it to the segment about the Healey toy, and to this day, I still don't know what a Healey is, but it now seems so insignificant compared to what happened that morning.
 
moto757

moto757

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was already stationed over seas in japan and heard about it around 230 in the mourning and was on a ship 2 days later heading out to sea.
 
beth

beth

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Staff member
I was at work. We have a few TVs at work. I got word from an office mate that a plane hit the tower. At that point, everyone thought it was an accident. I went to the conf room with co-workers to watch on TV and caught the 2nd plane plowing in. It was clear then what was going on. Shortly afterward the towers crumbled before our eyes. Needless to say, no one did much "work" that day.
Must be hard for those who have a BD on 9/11. Happy Birthday, lovethesea!
 
dburr

dburr

Active Member
I will never forget.
I was at work and the first reports thought it was a small plane. After the second tower we all new it was an attack.
My mother in law was there in the tower on the Thursday before with her bother from Italy. She bought T-shirts for my 2 boys and they happen to be wearing them that day. The pre-shcool teacher looked at my wife dropping them off like she'ed seen a ghost. My wife didn't know what happened until the teacher told her.
Our country will never be the same again.
 
coxy101

coxy101

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I was a student at University of Michigan and I slept in and was skipping class that day. When I woke up, I turned the news on just as the second plane was hitting. I tried so many times to call my (now) husband but it was hard to get through. His roommate was from New York and his dad worked in the towers. We spent the afternoon praying for all of his family and friends. The most emotional day of my life. His roommate's dad ended up being on wall street that day so he wasn't in his office. But he did lose a lot of family friends.
I pray for all the families who lost someone on 9/11. I especially pray for all of the children who lost a parent.
 
neoreef

neoreef

Member
I had just put my kids on the schoolbus, and heard that a plane had hit one of the towers. The radio guys were not sure if it was possibly a mistake in some control tower or something more sinister. It was unreal. Then the second one hit. It didn't sink in to me that these were commercial airliners until I got to work and my office mate pointed out the planes originally were headed for the west coast, and so would have been filled up with jet fuel. He predicted the total collapses before they happened. That much jet fuel pouring over the infrastructure, I remember he said....Someone stumbling down the hallway sobbing, "the top of one of the towers has crumbled. It's so scary!"
I remember the eerie silence the next day or so, since there were no planes flying. And how startled I was when the first one to start up again flew overhead.
We ran out of flags in St. Louis. I made one out of ripstop nylon to hang from our front door overhang. Occationally it would slap us in the face as we went in and out. Appropriately. The only flowers that survived my negect that fall were colored red, white, and blue.
That's where I was that fall.
 
skirrby

skirrby

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i was eating chicken tenders in the mid fl tech lunchroom and seen it on the news...i was speachless.
 
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autopilot

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I was skipping my math class at college, I saw the news at radio shack in the mall.
 
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