Where were you on 9/11?

[Labrocca]

I was in NYC at that time. I watched the second plane hit from Manhattan Bridge while I Was on the train going to work. I got a very very clear view. I will go into more detail later on that day but I wonder if anyone else wants to share their 9/11 story?

[FucangLong]

I was sitting in my 5th grade classroom. I walked into the room and my teacher was crying and the news was on. I was so confused.

[Alonzo]

I was sitting in an english class I believe. I remember the rest of the day was full of confusion. People thought there were more planes in the are, other building were hit etc. I remember a few days after that a theory that was simultaneously the best (as in interesting) and worst (as in racist) developed. This one I actually heard from a teacher and much of the class believed it, it was that all arab people avoided the trade centers that day, before the attacks, even cab drivers refused to go near it.

[mis_chiff]

(I live in Canada)
I was watching CNN right after the first plane hit. My friend called
and told me about it. I was watching on tv when the second plane
hit. I couldn't believe what I saw! I thought they were replaying
the tape.....Oh my Gosh, I was in tears...I didn't know what to do
it's like it happened right here...my heart goes out to those lost :((

[Deacon]

I was in 2nd period in my 6th grade class, They held an assembly and told us what happened, I didn't know what the Twin Towers were back then. Anyway I didn't know my dad was flying on business, so around 7th period in Spanish I was called out, and my mom was crying, she told me my dad was okayÂ*Â*that it wasn't his plane that crashed, I was shocked when I got home to actually see the planes hit the buildings on the news. I was confised that whole day! I could see the smoke from the shore becasue you can see the sity from the Jersey shore were I live


:( :( :( :(

[E-Z-B]

I was at work sitting in my cubicle. Someone walked over to the secretary, and told her that a jet had fired a missile at one of the WTC towers. I tried getting on CNN.com quick, but the networks were all down due to everyone trying to find out what was happening. My cubemate who HATED politics refused to care about it. However, he found out his brother was in one of the other buildings at the WTC site, so he left about 5 hours later to find out what happened to his brother.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

I was actually off that day and asleep on the couch and left the TV on all night. I was dozing on and off seeing some big building was on fire. I couldn't remember what finally woke me up, I think it's when I saw the Pentagon was on fire too. That really shook me.

A high rise fire was something that didn't immediately jolt me up. Then I realized that wasn't just an accidental fire.

I ran upstairs to grab my roommate and brought him downstairs to the TV. He kept saying WTF is so important that you're dragging me down here? Then he saw the burning towers and the Pentagon shot and started saying WTF, WTF over and over again.

Local news cut into network coverage between when those targets were hit and before they collapsed. I was swearing pretty loud wondering what could be so important locally to cut into this national story? Flight 93 had gone down in Shanksville, PA about 65-75 miles SE of Pittsburgh. After that the city of Pittsburgh evacuated the downtown and business was done for the day.

My roommate and I were both ex-military and he asked what we thought we should do. In hindsight it seems funny that we were this paranoid but who knew anything that day? I said go fill your Jeep with gas, fill up the water bladders we have (They were about 50 gallons total.), lock and load a weapon, if you get a connection to the internet (We were on dialup.) don't disconnect and get ready to start consuming that stockpile of MRE's in the basement if the grocery stores close for a week or so.

For some reason my most vivid memory that day is the haze of burning buildings half asleep. Not the terror of the situation but the sense of unreality of being half awake, half asleep and not being able to comprehend the images in front of you without yelling voices, loud noises, sirens that I expected. It was the most eerie sense of twilight sleep and reality I've ever experienced.

Years later when we invaded Iraq embedded reporters were showing satellite phone images of rolling troops, tanks, hummers and Bradleys I frequently woke up thinking I was actually inside a vehicle again going through Iraq. I couldn't turn the TV off through those events even when I slept.

The feakiest story I know from someone that was actually at the WTC site was a former co-worker at Morgan Stanley. We had a training center there and he was down in the plaza when the first plane hit on a smoke break. He never went back in, left his things and just trucked it back to his hotel or somewhere. Funny that smoking may have played a part in saving his life. I think MS lost 13 people that day.

I don't know what I would have done in his position. Probably the same thing.

[Muhammad Haris]

I was in my country but my friend was at the same place watching the planes crashing.! :(

[Old Corps Gunny]

I had just turned on CNN and heard a reporter saying a jetliner had crashed into one of the towers. I remember thinking how could that have happened because the departure routes don't even come near the towers when the second jetliner crashed into the other tower. At that instant I knew war had been declared on the US. I didn't realize the full extent of the attack until the third plane had crashed into the Pentagon.

[December]

Where were you on 9/11?

And where are you, Labrocca?
Where did you go?........

[PatrickHenry]

And where are you, Labrocca?
Where did you go?........Lab sold the forum, started another one, went crazy and ranted here at DF, and had his membership deleted.

So long, Jesse Labrocca...we had a love/hate relationship!

[potter]

I was in my office trying to work.

The boss sent around an inspirational message later in the afternoon saying that no matter what, we must move forward.

Twas' a dark and depressing day...even tho' the sun shone brightly.

[December]

Lab sold the forum, started another one, went crazy and ranted here at DF, and had his membership deleted.

So long, Jesse Labrocca...we had a love/hate relationship!

Wow!!!
He was making very clever comments actually....

But at the time he couldn't stand an opinion different from his, so he did his best to lock a thread or remove posts which he disagreed with.
I think he was trying to imitate Bill o'Reilly......

[purple-orange]

I live in Australia. At the precise moment that of hijacking and the events that followed I was probably asleep. But... when I awoke, I was shocked by what I saw transpiring on my television screen.

[DamnYankee]

I came in the house from working outside just as the news was breaking on FoxNews.

[4Reaganomics]

8th grade classroom

[Buck Laser]

8th grade classroom
That may help me understand why you call yourself "4Reaganomics." It's much easier to believe in if you weren't aware of what was going on.

As to 9/11, I was on the phone with my daughter, who was going to be involved with the aftermath of the attack. Several hundred AON employees lost their lives, and she volunteered to be one of the people who facilitated AON's response to the parents and family of victims. Her involvement continued well over a year.

[Mia]

New York. About to get on a plane to come home that very morning. I was trapped for ten days, and had to travel to Boston to get the first flight out.

[Osborn F. Enready]

I was off work sick that day, had slept in after calling off. When I woke up, I turned on the news just after the first plane hit. After that, I cleaned up and spent the rest of the day at my Dads house watching the news.

[Truth_and_Power]

I was at a new job, my first day on the job. I'm just meeting people, getting oriented, etc. We hear something weird is going on, that a plane hit a building. We walk to the main conference room where the news is on. I am watching the smoking building for maybe a minute, listening to the commentators try to make sense of it when out of nowhere the second plane hits the building. At that point the 'holy shit alarms' start going off for everyone.. we all realize immediately that this is no mistake. That first day was a total wash.