Where were you?

[mr8ball]

I was at home washing my car and my friend pulled in the driveway and told me we were at war and that NY was being attacked. I did not know what to think but then I saw it on TV and knew it was real. I felt helpless and sad that I could not do anything to stop it. That is when I decided to get my CCP to try to protect me and my family. Now everything I do I am always on the look out for the one that stands out in the crowd and I keep my eye on them. When I fly I try to get the emergency exit seat so I at least have a fighting chance. I may be small but I know what to do if I get my hands on someone that is trying to hurt me. I just pray it never happens again.

 

[09BusaDrvr]

I was a senior at West Point...walking to my aerodynamics class when the second tower was hit. It definitely changed our lives and attitudes about our chosen professions. It got real...and quick.

 

[The Tekken]

I was on the golf course. We had seen the first tower being hit before we teed off and assumed it was a random thing. One of my playing partners is a pilot with American Airlines and about 8 holes into the game he noticed that there had not been a single plane in the sky for over an hour, which of course never happens in Dallas, but would only be noticed by a pilot. Hard to believe it has been ten years. Harder still that a dozen pricks with box knives have changed everything!

 

[afrothunder]

I was in a 9th grade geometry class praying that is was not the plane my mom was on.

 

[superbeagle]

My wife and I where in D.C. on our way to the Pentagon. We just happened to turn on the radio in the car to hear the second tower being hit. It was surreal we just looked at each other like what the heck? We then heard on the radio about the Metro having bombed threats. Than about the Pentagon having an explosion. My wife and I went to the Hotel to try and figure what the heck to do. We called my mother who lived in Lebanon, PA at the time. They told us what was going on and we should just heard back to there house. I remember leaving D.C. that day. It was like a seen out of the movies. All the lanes come out where packed. No one was going in put Military personal. Very surreal moment in time. Then seeing on the T.V. we just sat there and cried.

My god rest there souls.

 

[cdhoroho]

I was on way to work listening to Bob and Tom
Got to work and didnt leave the computer the rest of the day
I didnt fair well after that for a while very emotional as was most people around me

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[proud dad]

Driving home from work listening to Bob and Tom.First time I remember them not joking around.Got home had to turn the TV on to convince the wife.The more I watched the madder I got.AND I"M STILL PISSED!

 

[GIXERHP]

I had just got home from work, witch i work out of Logan airport,, only to find out later that day that friends fro United Airline where aboard the flights!

Things have really changed around the airports, but i still see problems! TSA is not doing a great job, and improvement is needed!

 

[Busa1166]

On the job, driving down to Key West FL. Was on the 7 mile bridge when I heard it on the radio.

 

[newman]

I remember coming down stairs and my dad saying a plane had crashed into a tower-block in America, I thought it was a little plane until i saw it.
First of all I thought it was a accident.
This must have been on the morning news here in England, and couldn't have been live because of the time difference.
Then they showed the second plane hit, but the way it was shown it was like it was happening at that moment.
I remember thinking how could another plane hit a tower-block, I thought there had been a massive **** up somewhere.
At the time I didn't even think about the time difference, so it was like it was happening live.
Then the first tower collapsed, followed by the second tower.
Didn't know what was happening, just felt really sorry for the people caught up in all this.
As the day went on and details started to come out, I started raging, I remember saying to Lynne we should nuke the people who had done this. Yes a knee jerk reaction, but I was so angry.
What made it worse for me was that the US and UK always stand together, and it felt like it had happened to my people, I don't care what race or creed you are, all sorts of Innocent people were kill that day.

 

[dadofthree]

I was at work. The guys wheeled the TV from the conference room into the office and we watched it the rest of the day. We discussed the failures of the sprinkler system and talked about the fire weakening the steel, and the hammer effect as each floor collapsed upon the other. I was flying out of New York on a Friday when the first attack took place in '93.

 

[red1100cc]

i was headed to welding class. went out to fire up the chopper and my downstairs neighbor told me "Were under attack!".
went back inside and turned on the TV. got to see the replay of the 1st plane once or twice before the 2nd plane hit.
i don't remember moving or even blinking for the next 3 months! im sure i did, i just don't remember.

i do remember wanting to ride there. to help? to..i donno. if anything else to just see it for myself. :down:

 

[lovelessjl]

I was in Tulsa getting ready for a flight that obviously didn't happen. Just sat there watching everything unfold on TV in disbelief. It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years already. The innocent lives lost as well as the service men and women that have paid the ultimate price in the search for justice will never be forgotten. Semper Fi

 

[ogre]

lane 5, early morning conditioning for varsity water polo during my junior year of high school. we thought the coach was messing with us.

 

[skydivr]

I was a MAJ (USAR) and my Brigade Operations Officer; we had been at drill all weekend, and I was at work trying to clear my head from a long weekend. I had been thinking about retiring. My daughter was 4 months and one day old. At first I thought, "some dumbazz in a Cessna sightseeing", but then I saw it, and then the second plane, and I knew it was deliberate. At first the horror, then the anger. We all went on alert and put our emergency site lockdown plans in effect (nobody knew what was going to happen). Stayed in 8 more years.

Everybody in the world had better know - you mess with the US, and we will spare no expense or heartache....we will hunt you down no matter how long it takes.

 

[MO-BUSA]

on my way to work, listening to the Johnny Dare show, news started coming in and things got real serious on the show, got to work everyone was gathered around the big screen tvs in the commons area watching, it was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop

 

[icehacka]

I was in high school taking the I-Step test which is required to graduate. I was a sophmore at the time. Because we were testing, we didn't find out until hours later. We definitely knew that something was going on, because teachers kept coming in and out of the room. They would swap so that the other could go check on the news. Looking back, it was crazy that they waited so long to tell us about seeing as someone could have had family traveling. Still crazy that it was that long ago.

 

[The Tekken]

What made it worse for me was that the US and UK always stand together, and it felt like it had happened to my people, I don't care what race or creed you are, all sorts of Innocent people were kill that day.

True that. It wasn't just an attack on America. It was an attack on a whole way of life, which is shared by us all.

 

[MC MUSTANG]

I was the Maintenance/Material Control Officer of a 46 Squadron on Okinawa. Watched the news about the first plane and thought it was a movie; saw the second plane and started getting dressed... got called back to work about 10 mins later and had to brief the CG on how I was going to get our planes to Korea...

 

[Gregor6]

I was working second shift, so I was asleep. Shortly after the second plane hit, my ex came bursting into the bedroom saying "baby, the world is comming to an end!" and she turned on the tv so I could see the news replaying the second plane over and over.
I just kept watching the plane over and over thinking OMFG.