Thread: Where were you Sept.11 2001?

I was in my final days of advanced training in the army, and soon to become up-close and personal with the struggle. When we heard the first plain had hit the towers I said the first thing that came to my mind “We are under attack, the next plain should be hitting soon.” The entire platoon gave me dirty looks until the word of the other plains reached us. But for the next few days we had other problems. The air force base my army unit was attached to had locked down, It was actually on a war footing at that time. And my platoon was trapped in a remote training sight with no supplies and now way back.

Mason

I was in bed, as usual that early in the morning Pacific Standard Time. As ususal, my alarm clock woke me with the CBC, but this time not the usual banter and weather and what-not, but talk of hostages and hijackings ... I thought that was pretty extreme for the radio to be taken over with that news, and then a comment about one of the WTC towers collapsing, and that was a real "holy $h!t!" moment. I listened much more intently, got up and watched the tv for a while before going to work.

About a week later, when they lifted the continent-wide flight ban, I was standing outside Church and looked up in the sky and happened to see an aircraft up there, and felt a real relief as I felt that the worst was starting to pass.

4 Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan very recently, as part of the international force trying to reconstruct that country after the Former Evil Regime was expunged. Many more have died there, and many more will die there in the future, but 9/11 is still with us.