didnt even realize what day it was until the little date ticker popped up september 11th i remember what i was doing at that exact time. do you?
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didnt even realize what day it was until the little date ticker popped up september 11th i remember what i was doing at that exact time. do you?
I was flying an airplane, we made a stop and the ramp guy told us someone flew into the trade center, we just thought it was a little airplane in bad weather. We took off and the controller told us wherever we land is where we're gonna be for a while. We started feeling a little weird and started listening to a local station on the am radio and got that sick feeling. I remember thinking this was gonna be the start of a war.
I don't think I'll ever forget that feeling.
Sean
i was on the beach in mykonos greece...the whole beach came to the bar and we watched the second plane hit...we were all gutted...left greece the next day back to saudi arabia...what a bummer...
I was sitting on the couch, watching TV while my then-Girlfriend was getting ready to go to work. I was watching the Today Show and they announced that there was a plane crash and they cut away to a film crew on the scene. I told my GF to come look at what was going on. Like everyone else we thought it was some errant pilot who screwed up and hit the building.
A little while later, as my GF was walking out to her car to leave for work I watched the second plane crash into the other tower, and the confusion really set in. I remember running to the railing and yelling down to her about what had happened, she said "Oh my God, what is going on???????"
I started work at about 11 that day, and by the time I got to work there was a fog over every person there and me too. My emotions were a combination of confusion, anger, fear, and patriotism. By now the whole ugly scene was unfolding, including the other plane, and I remember saying "I hope we drop the big one on whoever did this and turn their country into a parking lot." :mad: We went to the electronics department and were all glued to a TV the whole day, and unable to fully comprehend what was happening.
Thanks for reminding me that today was 9/11, I had forgotten. I'll think back to that day often today and say a little prayer for the ones who lost their lives and their families and friends. If anything good came out of that it was that for a little while we all felt closer to our fellow Americans and were a little kinder to one another.
Don
I was working on the new federal court house here in town, and heard it on the radio. The whole job stopped working to listen to the various radio`s around the site. Being a federal job they shut us down for the day, and as we were rolling up our tools all the mexicans and bosnians were standing around joking and laughing like it was funny. I lost it and started threatening them to shut up or i was gonna throw everyone of there a$$es off the building! we were on the tenth floor at the time. They got the message!
The bad part is its my wifes birthday today also, so now she`s always sad on this day.
I was in math class...it was senior year in HS. For the most part the teachers were trying to carry on as normal until I got to my afternoon computer class where my teacher allowed us to just sit and watch the TV which is what we all really wanted to do. Later that day I had to go to an SAT prep class and i was hearing about towers collapsing. I wish I had the opportunity at the time to spend more time watching the news...math and SAT's mean nothing to me now. I know I am young to a lot of you, but that was a quick 7 years thinking about how I was in high school then and what i've done/not done since then...
I was working in Toronto at the time. Came out of a Board of Director's meeting. I called my secretary to tell her I was running late. She informed me what happened. While we were talking she said another plane had just hit the WTC. I was in shock. Immediately reacted and started driving to Buffalo (1-1/2 hours) so I could cross over to the USA. I was 20 minutes away and they closed the bridge to all traffic. Turned around to drive to the Kingston, Ontario bridge. I made it! I was actually the 20th car in line waiting to cross the bridge. They closed that too. What an eerie feeling not knowing if or when I would ever be able to get back to my family. Finally after 3 days, I was able to drive back to the US. I cried like a baby for a week!!!!
Screw those bastards!!!! God Bless The USA!
Pat
Crap, now tv will be full of the remembering all day. I wish someone would play the film backwards and we could watch the towers rise up out of the rubble.
I was in the recovery room in a hospital after a minor procedure and remember coming out of my drugged fog with the nurse saying that one of the Twin Towers had been hit by a plane and they thought something happened at the Pentagon as well. I was released, came home and spent the day on the couch watching the horror happen. We got home just in time to see the second tower come down. Then the eerie silence with no planes passing overhead. Little traffic. Being so close, many people from my area went to help. Not a day I'll ever forget.
I was wondering if this is how everyone thought when they struck pearl harbor. Maybe some of the guys here remember.
I was working a design contract at Pilkington glass in Collingwood, Ontario. My friend Gerhardt and I went up to the cafeteria for coffee break. We just walked in as they were showing the plane hit the second tower.
I really regret the fact that i did not join the military the next day! I thought it would be a quick assault on afganistan like desert storm was. Now seven years later with a wife and two kids and right at the cut off age ill never have the chance to go to war, and i feel real crappy that i did not participate in my generations time to defend this country like so many of you did in our time of need.
I remember that my wife was in hospital in Kingston, Ontario that day and we watched the news on TV. The horror of it all is still with me today. I saw the live coverage of the second plane hitting the tower and remember my complete disbelief when the towers collapsed.
Since that hospital is an alternative emergency hospital for disaster relief, my wife was sent home to make room for a possible overflow of injured patients since her condition was not considered critical then. At that time they were estimating upwards of 30,000 people might have been in the towers. Thank God that was not true although the actual death toll was devastating enough.
This is the day my son wished he had been 18 when we heard what had happened. Death will only erase this date, what happened & where I was at that moment in time from my mind.....joe
I was driving to work at my new job (started the week before) and heard it on the radio... was listening when both the second tower and pentagon were hit. By the time I got to work nobody there knew that anything was going on and the couple people I told thought I was full of it. Went to the gym and put on the TV and we all watched in silence as the towers fell.
-Chris
It is amazing how disasters become implanted in the mind.I got up this morning and proudly put up "OLD GLORY".I can remember as a kid when Pearl Harbor was bombed and it has never went away.
Texas is facing a major Hurricane (IKE) this week end,I pray there is no loss of life like some of the Hurricanes of the past. Prayers to all that have lost Loved Ones in their life time.
I was at work when I heard and at first I thought it was some kind of a cruel joke. When I finally saw the pictures I had the same horrible lost feeling as I had watching the Cuban missile crisis unfold. I kept thinking this was the beginning of a retaliation process that would finally escalate to the nuclear level. My main worry was the legacy of ashes it would leave to my grandkids.
Glad Don Dalton put up his flag today...everytime i see and old ragged flag at a police station, fire station, post office or even a hotel...i go in and ask them if they need money for a new flag and that they should be ashamed...usually within a week it has been changed...have a friend in north carolina that does the same thing...he got some slack from on of the hotels so he called the boy scouts in town and had them go back to the hotel and complain...the next day a new flag was flying...
My memory of 911 is like the day JFK was assassinated. The morning of 911 my daughter called and franticly said turn on the TV, I was in shock and the more I watched the more I could not believe what was happening. Earlier I had seen all of the bombing in Israel and the people be killed in sidewalk café’s, a thought came to my mind that, that could happen here, and now it was. As we watched in disbelief my wife said do you think the towers will fall? I said no being an Ironworker and have worked on buildings in Chicago. I kept thinking I would see helicopters dropping water any minute but they never came. I wasn’t thinking how big the planes were with all of the fuel, and all of the things that would go up in flames as soon as the planes hit. My thoughts turned towards my niece that I helped her decide to join the Army so she could get college money after serving. She joined in August, and one month later all hell broke loose. I thought why did I tell her to join. The buildings did fall to my disbelief I was stunned. At night I would look up to the sky and see nothing but stars no planes, and where we live is a holding pattern for O’Hara Air Port that always has so many planes over our house high in the sky. Over the days, months, and maybe a year the people were all ready to do whatever necessary to protect our Country. My niece did get sent to Iraq she was in supply so they needed people with that training. I was scared the entire time she was there, I tried to send cars of support every day. At times she drove an 18-wheel fuel tanker truck, she stands about 5’ tall but she did her job, and thank God she got home safe. I had a nephew plus great nephews, and cousins sent over there like most people that had young kids as relatives. Our leaders for a while had the chance to make this a point in time that future generations could have thought like World War II that we did the right thing but we went after the wrong people. I am as American as any body else, I’m the eight-generation in this Country, and I was a Soldier willing to put my life on the line for the good of this Country. You can’t go back and change the mistakes; all we can do now is hope and pray that the war ends soon and that this Country will take care of the ones that were injured. I have always been 100% behind the Soldiers they are doing what they are told to do. My brother went to Vietnam like he was told, and later died from cancer as a lot of Vets did from Agent Orange I stayed state side like I was told. If we could all be more kind to one another as Don stated earlier it would be far better for all of us.
Richard
Very well said Richard. Thank you and your niece.
I was in line in my 87 Jaguar at the vehicle emission inspection station when they announced the second plane. Every car in both lines pulled out and left; I remember thinking that the nukes were next and praying I could get to my kids before they hit.
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Originally Posted by jyardgirl
That is a great question. I wasn't born yet, but I remember talking to many older guys when I grew up and they had a deep seated hatred for anything Japanese. I know that you can't blame a whole nation for the dictates of a handful of people who run that Government, but I can see how they felt that way. If we had dropped a bomb and leveled the country that was harboring the idiots who were responsible for 9/11, I would have been thrilled at the time. We were all so angry, hurt, confused, and scared at the same time. It still astounds me that after 7 years we still can't find that Camel Jockey who lives in a cave. Get the Mafia on the case, they will take care of him in a couple of weeks.
Don
That's what I was thinking also Don, or the IRS one of them for sure would have chased him to the end of the earth.
Richard
I was still in High School and didn't even know about it until around 11:00 going to my next class and I was about to turn right down a hallway when someone said it to me. I thought that maybe they were lying (you know how kids like to stretch stories) and it was just some plane that hit it accidentally.
Then in class the teacher told us about it (we didn't get to watch much TV, teachers acted like nothing happened). Wish I could have joined the military right then and got sent over but I was not finished with high school and couldn't. I could still go and would like to but I am trying to figure everything out right now. A little action in Iraw would be nice but from what my friends tell me over there, it's not action now, it's sitting around and keeping order there (or trying to). Instead I joind a fire department to keep me busy and serving someway until I figure out what to do.
I was just getting off work from working the night shift at the Hospital. I remember the day shift coming on and mentioning something about a small aircraft flying into the twin towers. As I got in my car, I was listening to the news when the first reports of a commercial airliner were coming through. When I got home I flipped on the T.V. and saw the second plane hit. I was sick to my stomach. All of those people trapped in those two towers(it was terrible. My wife and I had tickets to go to europe in Feb after 9/11. All of the europeans were so nice to us, even the Parisians! Yesterday my wife flew out to Ohio on the anniversary of 9/11, I was a little worried about her flying on 9/11, but she said the airports were packed. I too went down memory lane with the anniversary of 9/11 and these posts. What a terrible date in history!
I was driving to work on the expressway when the first one hit. Radio reported it as a light plane. I was at work when the second hit. Knew then that this was no accident.
My niece who works in NY and lives in NJ, was on her apartment balcony and saw the first plane hit and then watched the entire event. She was thoroughly frightened afterwards. Her younger sister, who had friends working at Cantor Fitzgerald, was in France on business and couldn't get home due to the FAA lockdown. They, like the rest of us, will never forget.
I was eating breakfast and turned on the news---reports of a small plane hitting a building---little later became the first tower---saw the second plane in the distance and having flown out of NYC many times I knew that it didn't belong there and was going to hit the other building--I wa sin NY on a layover when they tried to blow the towers up the first time, watched the smoke out my hotel window---
After the buildings fell we went out to buy some hard groceries--potatoes, beans, rice, canned stuff sacks of flour/sugar and filled up out fuel tanks and went to the local red cross to give blood---place was swamped with people for the same thing--absolute zoo---
Last night I went thru my log books to see when and how much I had flown the 2 UAL planes---I've never been able to do that before and as I read the crew names--
Jerry