Thread: Where were you Sept.11 2001?

I was in school. Since I grew up in a suburb of NYC, it was a big deal. My hometown is a big commuter town, so a lot of students had parents working downtown or even in the Twin Towers. A few teachers had been showing news coverage on TV's, but the administrators made sure they got shut off because students were very concerned. When the cell towers got overloaded, there were a lot of distraught students.

I am and was at the active service by then and we were at some forest camp when my wife called and told me about the first plane. I thought 'yeah, sure, women'.
Few hours later she called again. I still did not believe a word and when i told what she had said to my collagues they tought she must be having time with some other 'military widows' and being drunk.
I took some few hours until we got a change to watch tv and then we realised that my lady had just told the truth of what happened.

Strange morning for me. I was asleep in my childhood bedroom while visiting my parents after getting out of the Marines 2 months earlier. I partied really hard the night before and was hungover. My dad woke me up and told to turn on the tv and find out why I am going to get a phone call to go to war. I saw the 2nd plane crash and thought to myself(whoever did this was a mastermind or we are really ****ing stupid and blindly confident). I also thought about when I was in high school how terrorist were saying that the job was not finished and they would be back. That was in 93. Oh well we are doomed to repeat the past because we will eventually forget on purpose.

Living off post at the time while in the Army, Lots of anxiety for weeks after. Getting to work was insane, up to 8hour waits, to get on post, not uncommon the first few days...

I was at work (IT) around lunchtime when the first report came in. A colleague came in saying he'd heard on the car radio while he was out for lunch.

We all tried to get onto the internet for news but it was completely clogged up. Someone dragged a TV out of a meeting room and we watched it on that. All worked stopped for the day.

Gareth

Asleep resting for the next nights work at the airport.....Got a wakeup call from my older brother saying that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center and I walked downstairs to watch as the other plane flew into the second tower.....I remember the to people who turned to each other to embrace as they stepped off the building to avoid the flames ...less than a week later we knew they all came Saudi Arabia all but 2.They're our allies in the war on terror.What are we doing in Iraq?
Mh

Thanks for bumping this up Mark. I am surprised I hadn't already posted my little story.

I was in my office in Stamford, CT when my secretary Dorothy came into my office with a smirk saying, "Some knucklehead just flew a plane into the World Trade Center". She was listening to a NYC radio station and was hearing very confused reports. I went online to the CNN website but the news was also confused. I called my girlfriend to see what she knew. As Scarlett and I had only just began dating toward the end of 2000, she had not yet moved to Connecticut and was at work in an office in Woodbridge, NJ. From her office window she was watching the smoke rising off one tower of the WTC and was on the phone with me when the smoke was suddenly eminating from both buildings. WHen Scarlett told me that both buildings were burning, I told Dorothy this was no knucklehead, we were under attack. Dorothy began to cry. Scarlett was also crying and became more agitated as one building fell. She was nearly hysterical as the second building collapsed. As I was trying to comfort her I remembered my brother had jury duty that morning and was to be down in the financial district. I had Dorothy trying to get him on the phone but the cell phone system was overloaded. It was a very strange situation. The World Trade Center was pretty much in the middle between Scarlett and I (about 20-25 miles away as the crow flies). We wanted to be together but because of our proximity to the WTC, we couldn't get across the Hudson River. She was stuck in New Jersey and I was stuck in Connecticut. I let Dorothy go home because she was worried about her little baby at home. I left shortly after her. When I went out of the building, the smell of smoke was in the air. The entrance and exits of I-95 were locked down. There were military and special police vehicles everywhere and the only machines that flew through the normally busy sky were military aircraft.

The next day the schools in Fairfield County were closed because so many students' parents didn't make it home from work last night. The railroad station parking lots along the Metro North New Haven Line were full of cars whose owners never came to pick them up. I wondered about the pets who starved alone because their owners were gone.

My brother finally showed up the next day. He was on the subway headed south when the train stopped and he joined the mass exodus of people who were walking back uptown in the eerie silence.

Grand Teton Lodge, Jackson Wyoming, and I had to drive back home that evening.

Originally Posted by fccexpert

Grand Teton Lodge, Jackson Wyoming, and I had to drive back home that evening.

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

At work in Minneapolis. Someone heard about the first plane on the radio and of course, it developed from there. I remember seeing Bush's face when he was getting off of Air Force 1 at some other base in the U.S. and thinking he looked fearful. At the time I lived a few miles from the Mpls St. Paul airport directly under a flight path. At times, the planes over the house were so loud you couldn't speak to the person next to you if you were in the back yard. That week or so after with no air traffic, a concept that otherwise would have been simply glorious to me, was empty, eerie and very sad.

Chris L