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 driving into the city. There were about 10 of us commuting in a van. Ambulances and fire trucks were flying by us but we had no idea what was going on.

When we tried to get where we were going in Time Square there were police barricades everywhere. We asked what was going on and a police officer told us (incorrectly) that they had bombed the WTC, the Whitehouse and the Pentagon. We laughed at him because it sounded so far fetched. He told us to turn on our radio and we heard it for ourselves. We also started seeing the smoke rise into the air.

NYC was on lock down. I was there for a week without being able to leave. All phone communication was cut as well so I had no means of contacting my family to let them know I was OK.

I worked at Ground zero for a few days. The aftermath was unbelievable and surreal. I was supplying the workers, firefighters, volunteers with food, water, clothing, whatever they needed. I also ended up fitting people for gas masks and putting them on. It is a very strange feeling as a civilian fitting FBI agents and CIA agents with gas masks.

I'm never going to forget that day or the months that followed it.

I don't think I have ever seen people so united though in the weeks that followed it.

I was home from work with the flu. My Mother-in-law called and told me to turn the TV on. I tuned in just in time to see the second plane hit the WTC. I sat numb for hours watching the news. I can still remember waiting for days to hear which country we turned into a smoking glowing hole for committing this atrocity.

This year I'll be on the Alouette in a canoe, talking theatre and making plans with Nigel.

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