Remember, Remember the 11th of September


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Remembering 9/11

Every Genereation Has a Moment in Time that Cements its Collective Experience:
Pearl Harbor, D-Day, JFK/MLK/RFK Assasinations, The Challenger Disaster, Hurricane Katrina etc.

For most of us September 11, 2001 is that defining moment.

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So I ask:
What do you remember about 9/11? ​


Here's what I remember:
I was pregnant on 9/11. At that time I still had friends working in the white house and after the towers were hit I was worried about them following the procedure because we were all pretty laxed about security in my day. I used to think what could really ever happen to the White House? I'd pay to be that optomistic again. I remember crying, thinking it was the beginning of WW3 and most of all I remember...wanting the head of whoever was responsible. Five years later I'm still waiting...

-A
 
What where you doing on Sept. 11, 2001? I remember that that was the day after I found out I passed the bar. I was still happy about that so I got up Early. I was at my parents house in MIssissippi, and they had both gone to work. I was surfing on the SWACPAGE, and Good Morning America was just kinda on the TV in the background, when they said a missle had hit the WTC. I was watching whe the 2nd plane hit the other tower and my mouth just fell open.

When I saw that the Pentagon had been hit, I was running around the house screaming like a lunatic. I have never been so mad in my entire life. It really seems like it was just yesterday. I can remember all the events so vividly. The next day F-16 were doing combat air Patrols over my city. I could actually see the missles on the underside of the fighter, its a strange and scary thing to see.
 



I was teaching at an Intermediate School in Houston, TX. My planning period was first thing in the morning so I was in my room preparing for the day. I had the radio playing the Tom Joyner Morning Show low in the background. The news reporter for Majic 102 broke in and reported a plane had hit a building in New York. I remember looking at the radio and trying to comprehend what was being said.

I turned on the television in my room and was immediately bombarded with the news of the crash. Next, I walked down to the library and asked if they had heard the news. They had no idea, as the TV was off. They could not believe what I was saying. We turned the TV and were in awe. Needless to say, there was a pall over the entire building the rest of the day.

Over the course of the morning parents were descending on the building checking their child out of school left and right. By my last class of the day I had about 7 students.
 
I was surfing the web, when someone instant messaged me asking had I seen the plane hit the building. I thought nothing of it really, until I looked at the tv and I knew it wasn't a small plane. As I was viewing the building, the second plane hit.
 
I was sitting in my office and my manager screamed out that a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers. I cut my little television on and we were watching it when the second plane hit. :(
 
I was at home and getting ready for work when I first heard (by radio). I was a reporter at the time at the Clarion-Ledger. Everybody in the newsroom had assignments that were related to 9/11. I was sent out to the schools to see how teachers were discussing what happened with their students.
 
On Sept. 11, I woke up and got ready for work. This is when I lived in Tucson, AZ. I usually would watch the news before I would go to work. On this particular day, I didn't watch the news before going to work. Well, once I got to work, I noticed a lot of people didn't show up at the office. I turned on my computer and got on the internet. Once I opened USATODAY.COM all I saw was the pictures from the Airplanes hitting the Trade Center. I was shocked. It messed me up. I don't even think I stayed at work no more than an hour after that. I remember that like it was yesterday.
 
I was at work at Jones and I was reading usatoday.com and when I hit reload the News article read: TWIN TOWERS HIT!!!!
I was like WTF!!!! :eek:

Then all of a suddent all of the TV's at Jones cut off from Stock Reports and Bloomberg straight to CNN. I was in total shock!!!!!
AFter that the other tower got hit!!!!!!
I thought the world was going to end folx. I had friends that work in the International Headquarters of Morgan, Stanley, Dean & Whittier on the 25th Floor of the World Trade.

I tried to call them up but the phone lines were down. Everyone who I knew in NY; I couldnt contact by phone. It was CRAZY!!!! Absolutely CRAZY!!!!!
 
SONNY said:
I tried to call them up but the phone lines were down. Everyone who I knew in NY; I couldnt contact by phone. It was CRAZY!!!! Absolutely CRAZY!!!!!
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The phones were down. We were trying to reach my sister-in-law, who lived in Queens at the time, and couldn't.
 
I was sitting here at the Fulton County Government Center watching the events on T.V. We set up a t.v. in our large conference room and watched the second plane as it flew right into the second building. Needless to say after that, I left work and went home. I didnt want to be no where near anything dealing with the government.
 
I was living in MD at the time. I was going in the direction of Andrews Air Force Base to a job site and was nearly run off the road by police cars going towards Washington, DC. I turned my car around, ran home, and tried to call my family. The lines were busy but eventually I got through. I sat home and watched the news all day and night. :(
 
I was on a business trip in St. Louis. I would always watch the news in the morning before heading into the office. I walked away from the TV just before the news broke about the first plane. I get to work and a guy comes into the conference room to let us know a plane it the WTC. We thought he meant a small twin engine plane. Well about 15-20 minutes later, cell phones started ringing like crazy and that's how we got the word on how serious this was. We stayed at work that day, but not much work was accomplished. I ended up driving home from STL.
 
I was at my old house grabbing things to leave for work when I looked at the tv confused about why there was a hole in the twin towers and. Grabbed the remote and turned it up to hear Katy Couric and Matt Louer explain that there was some sort of accident "probably a helicopter" that ran into one of the twin towers.....Then as I was watching it a plane was flying near and then suddenly it slammed into the 2nd tower. I screamed telling Mike that the US was under attack....:bawling:

I kept trying to reason why would two good airplanes fly into a building. I was thinking that someone hacked all airplane computing systems and possibly scrambled them....never thought about hi-jackers....I was so scared. I went to work and the demise played out while I read notes that some of you put up on TSPN announcing the pentagon and other possible attacks....
 



SONNY said:
I had friends that work in the International Headquarters of Morgan, Stanley, Dean & Whittier on the 25th Floor of the World Trade.
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Did your friends get out safely?

One of my boys sister worked on one of the higher floors and she never made it out.
 
I had just made it home from an overnight audit at Holiday Inn. I sat in the recliner per usual and began watching Good Morning America. It was around 7:30 a.m. Diane Sawyer said that there were reports of a plane hitting the WTC and cameras were heading there to capture the event. I switched to NBC and saw the second plane hit the south tower.

What was profound for me was that just a month to the day before my ex-girlfriend and I were at the top of the north tower at the Greatest Bar on Earth drinking martinis, enjoying vacation.

My mom called me later that day and said that she was so relieved that we went when we did.
 
I was at this job, watching tv and surfing the net...it was all over the news and nobody was working. Finally, they reported something on the news about some schools being attacked and that's all I needed to hear. I politely got up from my desk, grabbed my purse, and told these folks, "I'll holla, I'm going to get my child and go home"...and that's exactly what I did. I watched all the events, on the news all day and talked to family. :(
 
cat daddy said:
Did your friends get out safely?

One of my boys sister worked on one of the higher floors and she never made it out.
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Yeah, he said that he went to the cafeteria on the lower floors when the plane hit. He said he felt like the earthquake when it hit. He manage to get some elderly folx out of the building while he was trying to escape.

He is truely blessed to be alive.
The lost of life is very saddening. :(
 
I was at Howard in DC and I had just taken the metrorail to class. When I got to campus everyone was talking about it. When we got to the school of business folks were talking about missiles hitting the WTC so im like what the hell. By the time I made it to my class they were watching it on tv. Then someone ran in and said a missile had hit the Pentagon so we all ran to the window and saw the Pentagon burning. Everybody was freaking out and the next thing we knew there were fighter jets flying over the city.

They shut the metro down so I was stuck and all you could hear were sirens coming from everywhere. We were walking back to my room and a caravan of black suburbans came down Georgia Avenue wide open so really we had no clue what the hell was really going on. Folks were crying, phones were jammed so you couldnt send or receive calls...it was like somethin out of a movie. All you could see on peoples faces was confusion and fear. A friend I met from VA picked me up and we went to her parents house in Arlington and stayed there until the next day.

For a while after that, whenever a plane, helicopter or anything else flew over you could see people peek up to the sky to see if it was flying low.
 
unknown1 said:
I was at Howard in DC and I had just taken the metrorail to class. When I got to campus everyone was talking about it. When we got to the school of business folks were talking about missiles hitting the WTC so im like what the hell. By the time I made it to my class they were watching it on tv. Then someone ran in and said a missile had hit the Pentagon so we all ran to the window and saw the Pentagon burning. Everybody was freaking out and the next thing we knew there were fighter jets flying over the city.

They shut the metro down so I was stuck and all you could hear were sirens coming from everywhere. We were walking back to my room and a caravan of black suburbans came down Georgia Avenue wide open so really we had no clue what the hell was really going on. Folks were crying, phones were jammed so you couldnt send or receive calls...it was like somethin out of a movie. All you could see on peoples faces was confusion and fear. A friend I met from VA picked me up and we went to her parents house in Arlington and stayed there until the next day.

For a while after that, whenever a plane, helicopter or anything else flew over you could see people peek up to the sky to see if it was flying low.
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I was just thinking about that this morning. I saw several Helicpoters fly over my head this morning on my way to work. I was on Constitution Ave. in D.C. Seeing those helicopters flying low to the ground had me thinking about what was it like here during the Attack on the Pentagon. I bet it was really bad around D.C./MD/VA during that time.
 
Re: Remembering 9/11

Stormy,

Just FYI, there's a thread already started about this on small talk...maybe we can combine them. :idea:
 
Off work that day and was on the SwacPage while watching the Today Show. (just like today.)
 
I was walking out the door to a job interview. I was about to turn off the tv and head downtown. Before turning off the tv, they showed the 2nd plane hit and I just stood there like WTF? I know this not a movie. I had to sit down, as I was in shock. I watched for about 20 min, then I listened to the radio as I was en route. By the time I made it to the job interview I was a nervous wreck from listening to all the events on the radio. All kind of thoughts were going through my mind...the victims, the city itself going crazy, my friends that lived there, and how this was gonna effect EVERYTHING in the economy as a whole. Interview went well, however it was just a solemn ssession. It took over 3 months before I got the job as there was hiring freeze as a result of the attacks. Without people traveling, hotel rooms were vacant for a long time, therefore, there were even more layoffs. Later that night we learned that my dad's fiance' was at the Pentagon during all the chaos, and was trampled on and suffered minor injuries but we were thankful she made it out without being hurt severely.
 
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