Thread: Where were you Sept.11 2001?

Sitting in my small office in Baumholder, Germany. Then the boss yelled at everyone to come into his office. He had the TV on and we all watched as the second plane hit. Suffice it to say we were all in shock, as we knew at that moment exactly what was going on. After that, everything ramped up and a lot of us stayed in the office for about 4 days straight with little to no sleep, working our asses off.

On my way in to work, the morning radio show on OKC's classic rock station 107.7 were talking about a plane had hit the WTC. At the time, initial reports were a small plane like a Cessna. We loaded up vans and proceeded with the work schedule for the day, mostly dismissing the incident. I ran my first service call at a company near 122nd & Penn. I can't remember the name but I can drive right to it. When I finished the radio folks were discussing how the 2nd tower had been hit. I went to my next service call, a webhosting company called Catalog.com. The guys had a TV in their conference room and we watched the coverage for a few minutes. When we had all of our service calls out of the way, we went to Home Depot and picked up an American flag. My operations manager at the time was a former Marine. We affixed the flag to the building. We were all saddened by the tragedy. Thankfully the initial estimated of loss of life were way off. In the end I found it to be like the OKC bombing, where the total saturation by the media just numbed me to the whole thing.

Was at work in the distribution area of my utility. Someone wheeled out the TV cart and was talking about a plane crash. While watching, we too witnessed the second plane crash. We later saw the plane that hit the pentagon (footage still exists, but I think it's not re-aired due to security reasons). It was hard to maintain normal business that day with the news on, but we did.
It took months to get those people jumping out of my mind. One person in particular had obviously spent a lot of time working out, made me think about how many people had spent the last few months dieting, working out, quitting smoking, or otherwise depriving themselves of things only to have this happen. Probably sounds silly, but it put some things in perspective for me.
On the drive home someone hung a flag from one of the bridges that crosses the freeway. I thought it was a neat symbol of unity as it meant more that day than any other day in my life.
-Fred

Where were you September 11th, 2001?

I was in my office on the 95th floor of 1 WTC, working on the expense report that I was supposed to have submitted the week before.
I was flying home from Boston on United Airlines flight 175 to visit my family. It had been a long time since I'd left Burbank and I was homesick.
I was setting up the conference room for meeting of my group at the Pentagon. The projector had been acting up and my boss wanted this meeting to go off without a hitch.
I was working as a flight attendant for United Airlines, on flight 93 from Newark to San Fransisco. I was tired and ready for a day off.
I was on my regular shift as a Paramedic/Firefighter for the NYFD. I'd tweaked my back during my last shift and I was hoping for a quiet day.
I was trying to figure out a problem with a network router for a financial services company on the 83rd floor of 2 WTC.
I was on my third sales call to a prospective client in Santa Barbara, they just needed one more visit to pull the trigger. Fortunately American had a seat available at the last minute. Had I'd flown flight 11 before? I think I'd flown every flight from Boston to LA, they're all pretty much the same.


I was all of these, and 2,967 others.
I was.

Copyright 2007, John M. Luker

Thank you to all that have posted so quickly! I am hoping that many more will also post.

I was in Scottsdale AZ. I had just flown back from San Diego where I had gone to pick up my mother so she could be helpfull to my wife when our first child was born! My wife was eight months pregnant. My mother came into our bedroom,woke me up and said you better come see this. It was like a dream. My mother told me later that she initially thought that she was watching a bad movie. I spent the day making sure all the young kids that worked at the bakery where I worked weren't too freaked, of course how do you comfort anybody after such an event?

It wasn't until five months later when I visited New York city and went to the WTC site that the enormity of what had actually happened hit me!

I was in our old office. As soon as we saw the footage in the morning, our boss gathered us immediately to talk. While nobody knew for sure, he was certain it's an attack, and was concerned about friends in the DoD. I thought he's wrong because I couldn't believe someone would do this attack... naive, isn't it

He let us all leave and take care of our families as we see fit, offering any help if we needed it.

This was very nice of him

Ivo

I heard about it on the bob and tom show while I was driving to work.Thoughr it was a gag bit on their show so i changed the station.Saw it on the news when I got home and found out it was real.Thought to myself "this is bull...." then spent the next couple of days deciding wether to get married next month or do I enlist.I decided I'd be more usefull as a husband than bullet fodder.I don't have the killer instinct that is required for combat.

I woke up Very Hung over to the Phone. My cousin in Arizona: "John, What the hell is going on out there?" "Huh". "John The Country is under attack!" All day I watched Fighter jets over DC. And "the Army"' (all of them) rolling down the highway. DC shut down that day. Total ghost town- Like a zombie movie 28 Days later, empty. I would have cried for our Country's Losses, but I'm still too damn Mad.

Thank you all who posted thus far! Looking forward to seeing more posts.

Senior year of high school. I was brushing my teeth when I heard the house phone ring. My mom answered..."What? No...OK, hold on... OH MY GOD! MARK! GET OUT HERE!"

I ran out to the living room and stopped cold. I don't remember how long that toothbrush was in my hand.

I drove to school that day in a sort of daze. In my first classes, we watched the news. At lunch, the quad was nearly a ghost town; everyone was watching the news in one room or another. Conditioning for the volleyball team was cancelled.

I get chills thinking about those whose lives were taken, those who suffer, and the echoes of that day's events through history.