As if you can forget.

I was in Tenerife, i never actually found out what had happened until the next day. I was just on holiday and being drunk, not paying attention to the news or watching any television. Had a very crazy night that day it happened, probably the craziest night of my life actually. I wont go into it though, for now at least, its not an appropriate story.

The morning of the 12th(i think it was still morning at least)I remember walking into a shop to buy a British newspaper and seeing the headline 'Armegedden', and then standing there in disbelief when i read further on. I bought every newspaper and took them back to my friend and broke the news to him. I read through the papers and then phoned my mum because i had visions of London being attacked as well.

Then i found a bar with a television and saw the footage, and sat there watching with further disbelief for many hours.

hey Dan

I was printing box labels in a warehouse where we totally ignored the reports at first

I was at my desk working on invoices when my boss who had a TV in his office came out and called all of us in his office saying there was a plane accident. We stood there watching as the second plane hit. No one said anything except "O My God".

I got up that morning to get ready for work as usual. my then husband turned on the tv at frist we thought it was some movie then we realized it was real. Our kids stayed home with dad and I went to my job at a local daycare and helped keep all the kids inside and calm for the day.

Just got out of the shower and was in my room getting dressed when I turned the tv on to see one tower burning and smoking then the 2nd plane fly into the 2nd tower. I was thinking WTF is going on, are these pilots drunk? Then reality started setting in and started getting mad thinking about the fear those people had knowing what was happening. I knew a guy who died in tower 1, he called his mom to tell her what had happened and that he wasn't getting out and got the answering machine. Imagine his mom coming home to that message.

I was just watching tv while having my morning coffee. I watched the second plane live flying into the second tower. I became unemployed that day as my job was organizing air shows.

oh god no

My girlfriend in Germany called and woke me up. She said some things about a war in NY (or at least that's what I could make out from the incoherent babble) and if I was okay. She has an overwhelmingly dramatic personality, so I thought she is just over exaggerating something. Then I watched the news before going to work. No one was able to focus and we went home early that day.

mrs. baker's fifth grade class.
i don't remember anything except watching the news.

I was a Senior in high school when it happened. I had a dream about the attack before it happened. I didn't put two and two together until I realized how serious it was. A very sad day.

I had turned on the news and thought a fire was raging in one of the towers at first. Then the announcer talked about a plane hitting the building. And I listened and watched and saw the 2nd plane hit and heard about the Pentagon and flight 93.

I was at my workbench at work and listening to WDVE when the first plane hit.

I was at work, partnered with a major complainer. That day he was having a fit because we were assigned to a machine that was down the full length of the building from our work area. The one good thing was that he always brought in a radio to listen to on the machine. As he sat there yelling about "why did he have to work this machine?" I heard the deejay come on sounding shocked. The deejay stopped playing music and just kept speaking about it so I yelled at my partner to shut up so I could hear what they were talking about.

He stopped complaining just as the second plane crashed. We ran down the building to the cafeteria where the tv was and stood there watching as everything happened. Our boss called a meeting saying that we were fine and should stop worrying about things because we work about an hour outside of Manhattan. Quite a lot of us had family working in the City and we wanted to get out and find out what happened to them, did they get out before anything worse happened.

My brother worked in Building 7 of the World Trade Center...the first building that collapsed but luckily he called in sick that morning due to a Parent/Teacher meeting at his son's school (he is now fighting cancer). My sister-in-law was just coming out of the subway when the second plane crashed, it took her seven hours to get out of the City that day...(she also has health problems now).

I left work and drove over my parent's house because my father worked on the electricity in the World Trade Center buildings when they were first built. He was devastated and just mumbling about "How could they???"

I will never forget where I was that day...

I was driving my cab. I really was kind of far away in Ohio so it didnt strike me so hard at the time, just listened to it on the radio. I was trying to figure out what to do for my sons birthday actually.

I remember the reports after and thinking how bad I felt for muslims in the country who would be lumped in with those involved in the attack.

I remember being floored though, actually WATCHING the rescue attempt of those children during the OKC bombing, although I dont quite remember the date of that event like I do 9/11.

It hits me hard to watch things like that happen to children ,,,,,

I think I am more desensitized to most other things but that..

I had just walked into my grandmother's house as the second plane hit the second tower. I was in my first trimester with my first child.

I was in Oklahoma, for my mother-in-law's funeral..We were getting ready to go to the Funeral Home when I walked by the TV and saw the plane hit the first tower..I really hadn't been paying attention to the TV at all and first thought it was a movie on..Then the reality hit..we watched in Horror as the second plane flew into the second Tower. We, as everyone, were stunned with the enormity of what had happened.

I was no longer living in New York at the time,but all I could do

was weep and pray for all the people, including

friends;

as I watched in horror, the news unfolding on my tv screen .


Dan...Thank You and God Bless You , for starting a thread,

in Remembrance of 9/11 .

Me and my partner were heading to a convenience store for sodas to start the day of landscaping. I saw reports of the first plane and was just kind of shocked. As we walked into the store the clerk had a look on her face and the radio was talking about the second plane. She said..."WE ARE AT WAR TODAY BOYS!"

After work, I watched the reports of the twin towers and the other planes that went down.

That was the day I learned pure, absolute hatred. I learned hatred for religion. I learned hatred for unfounded beliefs. I learned hatred for my fellow man. I learned hatred for the politicians who hamstrung our military and instead of letting them do thier job with ruthless efficiency, force them to be politically correct instead of being as merciless as those who attacked us. (killing our men and women through inept leadership).

The thing that stuck with me.....a man in a small town not too far from here, jumped on his horse, grabbed his American flag and ran as fast as he could down the middle of town flying the flag of this country at a full gallop with tears in his eyes. (Last I heard, he rides the flag through town every day)

On 9/11...I learned how much I love my country.

The horror of seeing that plane, go into that
building, wiped everything else from my mind.
I could not cope with the empathy for those
people on the planes.
You sit numbly watching.
Helpless.
Angering.
And you wait, to see how life can go on.
We are a resilient bunch.
But we don't forget.

I was at my job at Quantico Marine Corps Base, watching the Pentagon burn on a TV monitor and praying that my sister and mom had gotten out. No phone service, no word for hours. My dad finally got a call from a stranger saying they were out and safe.

I pray often for all the families of the victims and thank god daily for my own family. The way our country came together after such a tragedy is not only inspirational and courageous, it truly makes us all one.