Thread: Where were you Sept.11 2001?

This thread is a little early I realize, but I wanted as many people as possible to reply before the anniversary of the attacks on the U.S.A. I would like this to be a thread where people can post where they were, their thoughts, and emotions on September 11 2001! No conspiracy theories or politics please. Just where you were and what you thought and felt.
I will post on this later as I am finding this a little more difficult than I expected.

Mark Avery

My wife and I lived in Barstow while stationed at Ft Irwin CA. We where pretty stunned and shaken the entire day. The next day we left 3 hours early to get to work... maybe 5 hours early would have been better... Even at 3am the line to get on post was HUGE, by the time I dropped her off and returned to Barstow the line was across the vally. It took some people 8 hours just to get on post, in 100+ degree temps. I was waiting all week to get the recall notice or phone calls. Guess I got to old for them...

I was driving home from working the overnight shift. Since the President was in town(Sarasota), I did a quick drive by of SRQ to catch a glimpse of Air Force One. The very first reports of a a plane hitting the WTC were coming over the radio just as I pulled in my driveway. Got inside, turned on the tube, and sat there watching for the next 14 hours.

I remember having my alarm sound, always set to a radio station, and hearing that a plane had crashed into the WTC. Half asleep, I assumed that it was a small private plane, like a small Cessna. Later, after I had gotten out of bed, showered and was getting dressed, I turned on the tv...just in time to see the second plane crash into the WTC.

RT

I was home, getting ready to head off to start my 3rd year of university. As I was chatting with a friend from overseas on the MSN, she told me what happened. At first I thought she was just pulling my leg. Went to cnn.com and saw the news but I thought they got hacked or something. Checked out cbc.ca and watched it on TV in total shock. Took me a few weeks for the worst of it to wear off.

At work, in the clinic. I was getting the temperature of a small child with a fever. my receptionist yelled to Every one "Come Look". when I got up to the front waiting room, My Doc told me what happened. I thought he was joking, then the second plane hit, and my heart fell.

Phil

I was doing home visits, one of my patients had the tv news on when I saw the first pictures.

I was on a training course (GSM mobile networks config) with about 10 english engineers and 5 or 6 arab engineers from Jordan. We all suddenly started getting phonecalls and SMS messages from people who'd heard the news, everyone was pretty shocked including the arab guys.

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.