September 11 2001

[02ducky]

Do you remember what were doing when this tragic event happend?

I was at home, wife called and said turn on the television something big is happening in New York. I turn on the television and about 5 minutes later I saw the second airplaine hit.

God bless those that lost somebody, God bless the military, God bless the USA

Suck it Osama rot in hell!

[Scanker19]

Me and my Wife (girlfriend at the time) were on our way to "zero hour" at our high school. We heard about the first plane on the radio and I remember thinking "what kind of idiot can't see a giant building". At the time I though it was a Cessna or something. When I got to my ROTC class for zero hour they had the news on and we saw the second plane. Rest of the day was a blur as most classes weren't even in class. It was just watching TV all day.

[zteknik]

That is one day I never will forget--EVER
I was there for rescue operations,and guard duty

At the time it happened I was on my way to work at the Ford dealer
I diddnt have a radio in the car at tha time ,but I knew something bad happened

I got to work and heard a plane hit the towers-I just thought that it was just an accident,that happens with small planes occasionaly there
But then I saw what realy happened-By the time I got out an oh shit,I recieved a phone call from my Reserve commander telling me I just been activated and get my ass down there asap!!!

It was like something out of a movie-surreal- All these people in a mad dash to get out and me trying to get there
I was there for 2 weeks,and I have to say it left a mark on my soul greater then any combat I have been in
Combat we got paid to do a job and you expect to see casullties on your side

God Bless all the ones who helped out that day
And Pray for all of those who were lost

Keep the change- I just want my country back!!!

[Mtn.man]

Didn't know about it for 11 days. Was bowhunting top of the divide.
Came home at the end of the season and found out.
We had always joked that the world could come to an end and we wouldn't know it.

[Hitman 6]

It was my senior year of high school and I was sleeping in because I had purposefully avoided taking classes in the morning so I could do just that ( never really been a morning person).

All the sudden my hung over alcoholic mother blasts through my bedroom door like ICE on a meat plant raid and screeched "Do you know what's going on right now!?"

Me obviously still in a slumber: "Uhhh, no."

Mom: "Well there's shit blowing up in New York, you better get up"

So I got up and flipped on the tube I had in my room, and right as it came into focus, the plane rammed the second tower. I froze for about 20 minutes soaking in all that was happening, and the rest of the day is a blur. If you remember some of the media claims were pretty outrageous on some of the happenings, so I started doing some pretty bogus shit that included loading up a shotgun and almost taking it to school (had recently watched Red Dawn), because 12ga buckshot could repel a dive bombing jetliner, right? I eventually thought of Columbine a couple years before and decided that was probly a bad plan. I went to school unarmed and we watched the news all day in every class. That's about it for my wacky 9/11 story

[patrick0685]

I was in class as a Junior in High School...it was a long day all we did all day was watch TV

[ray1970]

I was on my way to work when the news came over the radio. Like everyone else, it first sounded like a tragic accident. Then the second plane hit. I was working at one of the local auto dealers that day but nearly everyone there spent most of their day in the parts department or the customer waiting area watching the televisions. No one got much work done that day. If your car or truck was in for repairs that day and didn't get looked at, I apologize.

[ruthabagah]

That morning I was running late and had to drop my new car for an oil change at a ford dealership on arapahoe road. When i got to their service area the place was empty with cars, door open, their engine still running.... As I tried to find to help this guy out of an office, look at me, then run to the customer waiting area.... When I went round the wall I saw maybe fifty people looking in silence right above my head, where 2 large tv screen were showing the burning first tower.... I left with my car and went to work. My employees where sitting at their desk wondering why they couldn't get on the Internet and why the phone were dead: I was working for a new York based bank and all of our it/telco was managed from the WTS area. It was sad, my stupid vp could not believe what I told I saw, and would not let my team leave for the day!

[Ridge]

I was a sophomore in high school at the time. I didn't have a first period at my school, so I was sitting at home, on the computer, in a chat room for a specific flight sim game. A few people on there were talking about a plane crash, when the local news on the TV broke early to Good Morning America. The first images of the building were very tight focus. I couldn't tell from the scale, figured it was a small plane. Then they switched over to a helicopter over midtown and I could see how massive the impact site was. Was thinking "What is happening here?" When another plane came in from the right and passed behind the towers, but never came out the other. Just the massive fireball emerged.

My dad was in the next room getting ready for work. We simultaneously yelled out HOLY SHIT together. Spoke with others in the chat room for another half hour or so. A lot of them were from the NYC area.

Went to school, got inside and heard on the radio in the counselor's office that the Pentagon had been hit. That is when the reality set in for me, and I knew we were being attacked. Went to a couple classes, hopped on the bus and went to the other school for JROTC. The driver told us one of the towers collapsed. Got to JROTC, watched the second tower collapse. Went back to my school on the bus, and about 15 minutes into the next period I just got up and left. Had my dad pick me up, the family spent the rest of the day watching everything unfold.

That afternoon, went outside. It was surreal. Not a single cloud or contrail to be seen. Later that night, heard a small plane fly overhead. Found out the next day it was a Red Cross flight loaded up with blood that was heading out to NYC to help the wounded. But there wasn't any.

I was heavily into a forum for the same game as the chat room I had been in that day. The thing I remember most is that probably a third of the members there never posted again after 9/10.

[wctriumph]

I was east bound on I-80 headed for Sioux Falls SD when the DJ on the radio said a plane had crashed into the WTC. Since planes had hit tall buildings before I was praying that this was just an accident but it did occur to me that it was intentional. A few minutes later they reported that the second tower had been hit by a commercial airliner I just went cold at the realization that we were under attack.

I called my wife and told her what had happened. She turned on the TV and just went to tears, she couldn't even talk. I wanted to come home but continued on to take care of business. When I stopped for gas in North Platt NE for gas, everyone was just stunned, a lot of anger apparent in people. When I got to Sioux Falls everyone was talking WWIII and young men and women were talking about enlisting if needed.

My employer called and asked that I continue on my planned trip but I was free to go home if I felt I needed to. I tried to push on but I went home the next day to be with my family.

I will NEVER FORGET. God be with us all on this day.