Where were you during 9/11/2001?

[airborneranger]

I was a mechanized infantry (Bradley Fighting Vehicle) company commander. We were conducted Table VI in preparation for vehicle crew qualification. My wife called my cell to tell me that a plane crashed into the WTC. Shortly thereafter, the entire BDE was recalled back to our station (Baumholder). We parked Brads at the gate and no one was allowed on the post. We were ready to go to war that night, but my BDE didn't get a chance until late, late 2003.

[eadgbe194]

I was on duty on board the USS Albany in Norfolk VA, watched it on the mess decks on CNN.

[mrghost]

Woke up with a hangover in San Diego to the news coming from a roommate then us being glued to the TV the rest of the day. We often had west-bound flights come straight overhead from MCAS Miramar, but I can't remember hearing or seeing any action that day.

[claimbuster]

Getting ready for work when my wife hollered that a plane had just hit the WTC. Like many, I first thought it was an accident.

How about one more, where you when President Kennedy was shot? Bobby Kennedy?

[anaphylaxis]

I was at work -- just started day shift at a local hospital. I remember coming off an elevator and a respiratory therapist asked if I had heard that a plane hit the WTC.

[rockhound]

this post is late, was trying to wrap my mind about what one could say that would matter on a day like 9/11, i guess just remembering is tribute enough.

i was at my financial planner's office, handing over 15K for my IRA,
that account still hasn't recovered.

watched it play out almost all day,

agree it was surreal, like watching the challenger explode. you know its real, but when it has no direct effect on you, imagining what others must be going through is no the same,

peace to all those who suffered.

[Rucker61]

I feel the pain there, my grandparents were vacationing in Greece that day, they were supposed to fly back on the 14th but instead didn't fly back for another 5 days. They always said that was a very scary time to be out of the country- even if it was a moderately friendly/safe place.

I remember the graciousness of the British and Indian people during that time. The French newspaper Le Monde ran a headline stating "We Are All Americans", and it certainly appeared that the world felt that way. I can't remember how many times, upon finding out I was American, that total strangers came up to tell me how sorry they were for the events of that day.

I also remember the incredibly long lines at Heathrow Airport, and more incredibly, the sight of so many heavily armed British police walking around everywhere (By heavily armed, I mean MP5s, sidearms and body armor, but that's a big step for the normally unarmed Bobbies).

[van7559]

I just got my license. Was on my way to school at Fountain Ft. Carson High school, being a military school it was very somber. No learning was going on. Everyone was just glued to the t.v. in the classrooms. I will never forget that day or the brave men and women who lost their lives

[ColoWyo]

We were camping near West Creek. Driving down towards the Platte for a day of fishing. Three airline pilots and two flight attendants. Quite surreal as I recall. We just decided to stay there and fish. Couldn't find a safe place to be.

I don't think I'll ever forget when my buddy who worked for United at the time, stopped, got out of his jeep and walked back to my truck and told me to turn the radio on.

[whiskeyjack]

Bible study.