Thread: Where were you Sept.11 2001?

I was working in Brooklyn, my building was evacuated because it housed a large Federal Office inside at the lower level. I spent the rest of the morning in the law office helping console two women, one an 8 month pregnant woman who couldnt get in contact with her husband he was inside the South Tower, luckily he made it out. Another was a black woman who husband did not make it that day.

I later went home driving along the causeway home I could see the smoke from the Towers, I called my ex at the time, who was at a bar in PA, and being the skank she was.

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I was at a friends house when the first plane hit and I initally thought it was an accident. The second plane hit while I was driving home, which dispelled any thoughts of it being an accident! I heard on the radio and then I saw the news footage when I got home.

I just couldnt believe what I was seeing, it was just too big to get my head around. When I think back on it now it still feels ethereal, like watching yourself watch something. There were news articles on Friday here about it and when you see the pictures it just takes me right back to it, there just arent enough words to describe it.

I was in London at the time...actually, those days we were working outside London, in the countryside, at my boss' home as we were in the middle of moving to a new office...it was a relief not being in the middle of a prospective target (I worked i the City), but my wife was at home in Central London, so I was worried about what could be next...to be honest, I expected a war, although not sure against who....

Originally Posted by JokiJo

I can hit that place with a rock from my front porch.

Lucky you, I wish I could live in a place like that.

I was in college.
My thoughts would not be popular so I will leave it at that out of respect.

(some of the timeline doesn’t quite fit in my recollection….things take too long, or might be a little out of order. I don’t want to bring up these memories for my family , some members of whom are in therapy and others can not hear the sound of a plane without a panic attack, so I’m not asking for clarification)

I was at work. I worked (and do again) in the financial services industry, so all the TV's in the office were on the news. I called my father, who worked a block from the trade center, and couldn't reach him. He was in the building for the 1993 bombing, and had made my mother a promise. If there was fire in any of the surrounding buildings, he wouldn't wait...he would get out. Though they were told not to, he left his building. I called my older brother, who lived at the time in the closest residetnial building, and in the closest edge of that building to the WTC. I couldn't reach him. His schedule would have put him either next to or in the first tower at that time. I called my mother, she had heard from my dad, who hadn't heard from my brother. We didn’t know where he was. His wife was a manager on a very high floor of tower two. She hadn’t left for work yet because she was on the internet looking at a dog she wanted to adopt. That dog is the only reason she wasn’t in work already. No one that was in already survived.
My father was outside walking towards where my brother lives when the first tower came down. He dove behind a van (he is older and quite out of shape) severly injuring his knee. he has since had replacement surgery, but it did not work well, and he walks with some trouble and a lot of pain. He refuses any compensation, as there are many people who need it a lot worse.
Cell towers were not working, and my father made it to my brother’s building, saw my brother’s wife coming out of the fire exits at the same time my brother showed up. he had been underneath the first plane as it hit. They all walked down to the water, while my father’s leg got worse and worse, and were ferried across the river to NJ.
I left work, as did anyone else who wanted to. I got home, and my ex wife (married at the time) came out of the bedroom, just waking up from a late night. I asked if she had turned on the TV yet. She saw the horror in my eyes and asked why. Telling her what I knew is honestly the hardest memory from that day. Not not knowing where my family was, not watching those terrible scenes, but feeling like I was the one to take away the security that so many of us felt until that day. We sat stunned and terrified for hours watching the news.
At 2:30 pm, I had to put on a tie and go to the first law firm interview I ever had. It was also the first time in my life I have ever been offered a job on the spot. We didn’t talk much about the law, or my qualifications.
Oh, and my brother and his wife adopted that dog. He saved her life.

Welding on a furnace shell rebuild in a Ravenswood WV aluminum plant. My foreman came down to the furnace and told us a plane had hit the trade center. We went to the break shack and tuned in on an old radio someone had in there locker. That evening I went home and remember how strange it was to not see a man made light in the sky.

I was in the basement of my home in Oregon just waking up when I saw footage being played on the TV... I thought it was some made for TV movie or something, then my brother came into the room and we saw the video being played again with newscasters in between. Then we both looked at each other and couldn't even speak. I will never forget that image.

I was working in our Prague office. We were watching the news and video feed via internet. Initially, our minds wanted to reject the information, it was so unbelievable and "bizarre". What had looked like a bad movie initially turned into panic when the second plane struck. We had a couple of our American colleagues visiting for a strategy meeting and they felt very far from home from that day on until they were able to return.

I was Just getting Out of bed after staying up most of the night talking to my wife then my some what girlfriend on the Internet.I was half asleep and my dad was telling me about it I was thinking uit was some kind of hoax or something till the second plane hit the second tower then I just set there in shock most of the day. Then that night my church had a specail service and my whole family went to that