Where were you that day? (9/11/01)

Post by **Jesda** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:31 pm

9/11 thread (tomorrow marks three years)

I was at home, dad woke me up early and said "Look, someone flew a plane into the World Trade Center." I told him he was nuts and went to lay down, then he turned on my TV and I'll be damned... there it was on fire. And then BAM, #2. Then the Pentagon and the crash in PA.

I remember looking up at the sky those nights and realizing that there was nothing moving: no aircraft sounds, no flashing lights in the sky, no contrails -- just stars and the moon. It was the most chilling thing I had ever seen.

Remind me to never listen to the radio near or on 9/11. Every year they play a tribute to the victims, people call in, or they play a sad song with a montage of audio clips and man... it really gets me.

-Jesda

Post by **navysnail** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:43 pm

at school, my frend told me and i was like "no way" then he told me one collapsed, and i serriously thought it was BS, at school they try to censor it so nobody heard about it untill they got home, exept for my science class, teacher turned on the tv anyway

Post by **gabossie** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:51 pm

I was at home. My sister was getting ready for school, but I hadn't started college yet, so my *** was asleep. She woke me up, I got out of bed and watched the news all morning as I think most people did.

Is this something that we're gonna have to put up with every year for the rest of our lives? I guess the people that were around for Pearl Harbor and stuff talk about it alot on the aniversarry every year too, but it just gets so tiresome. Bleh </rant> (maybe I should move this to the rant thread )

Post by **AZhitman** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:59 pm

gabossie wrote:Is this something that we're gonna have to put up with every year for the rest of our lives?

I'm sure the kids who lost their parents in the WTC attacks can sympathize.

Anyway - I was driving to work - Got to work, and since I have a TV in my office, everyone was crowded in there watching.

I ran everyone out, and I sat there with my partner, just shocked to the bone, horrified, and crying... The world changed that day, plain and simple.

Post by **180crafter** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:00 pm

Working... Heard it on the radio. Had Patients coming in telling me about it the whole day..... I still cant believe that happened. I used to live right there.......

Post by **240DRFT** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:00 pm

i was at school in the locker rooms changing after p.e., they teachers let us watch it pretty much all day.

Post by **Bubba1** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:11 pm

I was at work on a conference call with our office in Jersey City. That Jersey City office had a view of the WTC. The manager watched it happened and described it to everyone that was on the conference call. Very eerie.

Post by **prigo** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:16 pm

I was waking up, walked into my mom's room, and saw what I thought was a movie or something. I got to see the 2nd plane hit the tower

Post by **180fan** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:22 pm

I was driving to school and saw a bunch of people at the bus stop and then saw a sign that said Classes cancelled. So when I got home my family was glued to the tv and wondered what was going on. Bam. Damn.

Post by **prigo** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:23 pm

Lucky you, I still had to go to school.

Post by **Jesda** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:49 pm

If you couldnt be in New York at the site, this is an amazing QTVR photo of the spotlights that shined for 6 months after 9/11:

http://www.panoramas.dk/fullsc....html

Post by **cys19** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:07 pm

I was in my history class in high school and saw it on cnn.com off my teacher's computer and I thought it was some type of photoshop hoax on a fake cnn.com website.

Post by **Cold_Zero** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:27 pm

I was coming into work when the first plane hit the tower. At first I thought it was a plane that ran into the tower on accident (like the Empire State Building being hit by the b0mber). When I got to work, they were trying to get better TV reception on the Training TV so I drove home to get my amplified TV antenna. While driving back, the radio reported the second plane crash. At that point, I knew it wasnt a hoax or an accident. From that point on, there were a lot of false and true stories circulating around. They asked us around noon to try and work, but it was a waste of a day.I still remember vividly walking with my sister into work a day or two after 9-11 and no plane was in the sky (FEDEX flies their planes over head on their way to the Indy Airport). It was a very quiet day.bud

Post by **Hijacker** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:44 pm

I was sitting at my computer when I was in Osaka. My friend, Phillip, IMed me and told me what had happened. I didn't believe him at first because he has a tendency to pull practical jokes. One year, he took the html script from a CNN.com news page and made a fake obituary for Bob Villa (it was a long running joke about how cool he was in our circle of friends). Thinking that if it was true, he was stretching the truth out and a small cesna had somehow managed to hit one of the towers. I checked CNN.com and a bunch of other news sites, but they were all down due to traffic overload. The TV stations in Japan were carrying it though by overdubbing CNN broadcasts.

Post by **240sxGT** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:51 pm

I was at work, a friend called me to let me know what was happening. He called right after the first plane hit. As we were on the phone he screamed in horror as the second plane hit. I was freaked and wasn't sure what was happening. One messed up day.

Post by **Rockenreno** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:02 pm

I was asleep and one of my friends called and said a plane hit the World Trade Center. I thought it was just an accident and it probably wouldn't do much, but eventually he convinced me to get up so I went out to the TV and my parents were watching the news. Then the second plane hit and my jaw dropped to the floor. I sat there on the phone with my friend and watching the news most of the rest of the day (college hadn't started yet).

YouTube · Post by **EZcheese15** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:15 pm

I was sleeping when it first happened. My roomate at the time ran in my bedroom, woke me up and was like "you wouldn't believe what happened!" At first I was pissed at her for waking me up, but then I learned it wasn't a joke and I woke up quickly. I think we sat around the rest of the day watching it on TV. I had a couple classes that day, but I think they were all cut short or cancelled.

Post by **Altiman94** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:16 pm

I was between classes when someone told me. I walked into class and saw it all on tv.

Post by **skydragoness** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:17 pm

I was in a graphic arts class at the time, when one of my professors ran into the room and said what happened. There was shock,dismay, one girl was crying her eyes out because she had family in PA.

There was a NYC class trip planned for the 28th of that month, and there was talk of cancelling it because of what happened, but we went anyway. It was moving to see all the memorials spray painted onto the corners of every street, cops were standing around everywhere, anything past canal st was blocked off, and smoke was still climbing into the air that you could see it in NJ and Staten Island. I took some photos from that trip, really quickly scanned:

anyhow, that was an interesting experience. The dude the top right pic was making a mosaic on a lamp post. Lots of people were standing around watching. I especially like what they did with the lights in Jesda sig

Post by **Axel Grungy** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:33 pm

i was in drafting class. heard rumors about what was going on, then the teach flipped on the tv and everyone stopped drawing. we watched it that whole hour. went to lunch....no one ate...and just watched in horror

Post by **The Mic** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:33 pm

I was getting ready for school, excited that the very next day was my birthday. But then tragedy struck. A sad day indeed.

Yes, on September 11 everything changed, except it didn't.

Before 9/11, our government got involved in protecting us from all sorts of hazards, from the Budweiser frog to asbestos, from road rage to internet p0rn. And by watching the nightly news, you'd think the greatest threat to our personal safety was either shark attacks or mold. But then came our 9/11 "wake-up call," and everything........

Please. If everything changed, how come we're still fighting the old, stupid wars alongside the real war? Why are decent citizens still being jailed for smoking the wrong plant, easing the suffering of the terminally ill, or accepting cash for sex instead of the customary dinner and drinks. My last, best hope of ending the Drug War and other absurd laws quickly ended shortly after 9/11, when it became apparent that we were all politicians, and even in the light of new information--you know, the we're under attack thing--we still did not "waffle." We stayed loyal to stupidity and the stupid stuff that had always failed, because we're loyal and have honor and integrity. The Drug War would continue!

But for a couple of weeks there, I had hope. After all, a new day had dawned, and everyone was in agreement that we'd just gotten our priorities slapped into shape like 2 weeks at juvenile boot camp. Attorney General John Ashcroft said, "We cannot do everything we once did because lives now depend on us doing a few things very well."

Awesome. Well said. The guy really gets it.

Except, of course, he doesn't and didn't really mean it. cut to post 9/11. People keep saying, "we need to remember September 11." Yeah, but what we really need to remember is how we felt right after September 11, those heady few weeks when we couldn't believe how petty we'd been in the past, or how perfectly Seinfeld had captured the zeitgeist of the 90s---because it turned out everything back then really was about nothing! Impeachment was nothing! Elian Gonzales was nothing! Gays in the military, smoking in movies, childproofing Las Vegas---it was all nothing! We all came to our senses for five minutes and realized how nothing it all was and how much a new set of priorities was in order.

And then we forgot again.
Modified by S13GUY at 11:40 PM 9/10/2004

Post by **jdmfreak** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:03 pm

Hmmm.....No New Yorkers posted?

Well I was in, you guessed it, NY. I live about an hour and a half from the TTs. I was in my freshman year of HS and I was walking to my 4th period class. Once I entered, I saw the first building was on fire. There are TVs in just about every class room(big HS) and Basically everyone out of 3000 plus students saw it. Then the second plane hit. Then the pentagon. Then PA. That whole day over and over and over and over, I watched those planes hit the buildings. Teachers didnt teach, kids were crying, and if it wasnt on in a classroom then the teacher was talking about it. For the most part every1 was stunned. It took us a while to actually get back to our usual routine. I for one was scared b/c my mom works as a nurse in the Bronx(About an hour away from my house). But she came home fine. It really hit home. It hit damn hard.

IDK if you heard this, but there's a nuclear plant thatis about 45 miles south of me. They upped the security A LOT, but it still aint enough. If that gets hit, then Both NYC and upstate NY will be gone.

I love this state more than any other. If Im gonna go, then Ill go down with it. Im not gonna move b/c of 9/11(I know some that did).ILL BE RIGHT HERE!

Post by **cys19** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:07 pm

I'm thinking those who lost their loved ones during 9/11 really resent Bush for slacking off and not going after Mr. Bin Bin.

I would. And I would have gotten all ****ing racial about it too.

Post by **ilovedrifting** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:14 pm

9/11/01 was 3 years ago, but im still MAD AS HELL. I will never forgive the terrorists who did that and we need to persue and execute every single terrorlst.I don't think i'll ever not be pissed about it, I just wish democrats were the same

Post by **Jesda** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:18 pm

Lets keep the Bush-Kerry jibberjabber out of the thread and remember the event and the people who suffered.

Post by **The Mic** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:38 pm

ilovedrifting wrote:I don't think i'll ever not be pissed about it, I just wish democrats were the same

Post by **gabossie** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:43 pm

I didn't mean to offend anyone by what I said, I was in a bad mood and have had multiple people ask me the same thing today and it got rather annoying to be honest. I of course think the events of 9/11/01 need to be remembered, but it's not about where you were when it happened, it's about what you learned from it, and I haven't seen many people learn anything from it yet except hate and fear. Two things which we could do with far less of in this world.

Post by **skydragoness** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:23 pm

gabossie wrote:.... it's about what you learned from it, and I haven't seen many people learn anything from it yet except hate and fear. Two things which we could do with far less of in this world.

Post by **Hijacker** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:26 pm

Jesda wrote:Lets keep the Bush-Kerry jibberjabber out of the thread and remember the event and the people who suffered.

what's with all this jibba jabba?!

But I agree with jesda

Post by **MainEvent212** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:05 pm

i was in 10th grade at the time, i was in earth science class...we were supposed to be watching a video of space ships that exploded by accdient, so i thougth this was one...but then i realized that it was the WTC...i was relaly confused. then the pentagon got hit. being that i'm in DC area (the actual town that the pentagon is in) they locked down the school. no one could get in or out until school ended, then everyone was to go home immediately, walkers had to get rides from parents. (walkers are kids that live too close to catch a bus home)

i remember seeing the smoke from the 3rd floor window after the pentagon got hit...then driving by after school...it was horrible...the roads were all blocked up and the pentagon looked like a site from a space movie when the ship crash lands...cept this was a plane or something...and it was real

since my house is under a flight path to reagan national airport, the following few weeks after 9/11 were very quiet...no planes and stuff...alot of people didnt bother to even leave the house...the neighborhood was very sad looking...no one was outside, not as many people driving around...kids all stayed indoors cuz they were afraid

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