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3 years ago today

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BHeemsoth

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I figured I would start this thread for general 9/11 memorial chat.

9/11 occured when I was still living in NY, and hit me quite hard. My dad was a firefighter approx. 50 miles from the city, he knew 12 guys who died, and he ended up going into brooklyn the next night to work at a station that lost 2 entire shifts of firemen.

So let's hear your memories of 9/11. I love seeing flash tributes, so feel free to post some.

-Brian
 
I was attending Brooklyn Technical High School at the time, one of the tallest buildings in Brooklyn, looking right across the river. I was on the 6th floor and saw some of the most horrifying images of my life. I heard the first plane hit, a huge boom, and we all ran to the window. The WTC was on fire and watched on. A few minutes later we saw the second plane hit. This was the most shocking moment of my life. The entire school was on lockdown. Everything was chaos. My girlfriend, who i am still with, lost her mother in Tower II. I love New York and how the people all stepped up right after that. September 11th will forever be fresh in my mind, as it should be for everyone on this planet.
 
I actually remember waking up that morning and reading the long thread that was on this board in ot, it was the first I had heard of it, before I went off to box with my friend. I think that thread got immensely long. I'll see if I can find a link to it.
 
I woke up, took a shower, turned on the news just in time to figure out what was happening and then see plane 2 hit. Immediately tried to get ahold of my dad since he was flying for the airlines at the time. Thankfully he wasn't in the air during the attack. My grandparents live about 2 miles from the Pentagon and the explosion at the pentagon shook their house they said.

I went to class, soon as I got there my professor canceled classes. I spent the rest of the day glued to the TV and internet.
 
my mom called me and she woke me up at around 7 am...

I watched the whole news, even when the first tower went down 🙁

such sad memories

 
I was listening to the radio here in dallas, early in the morning, on my way to work. The radio announcers were making it out as a joke. "A plane this morning flew into the World Trade Center in New York, looks like that pilot didn't know where he was going huh?" They made you think it was like a small type plane with a single pilot or something. So my memory of it was the radio guys joking about it.
 
Just reading this and this sends chills down my spine.

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Never forget.
 
I was listening to a morning show on the way to one of our off site work locations and they always did comedy routines so for a short while I thought they were joking around then I detected a special tension I hadn't picked up on at first. The woman announcer said another plane had crashed into the towers and at that point I hadn't even heard of the first one. Naturally, like the rest of America the remainder of the day was one that shall be etched in my memory.
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
I was listening to the radio here in dallas, early in the morning, on my way to work. The radio announcers were making it out as a joke. "A plane this morning flew into the World Trade Center in New York, looks like that pilot didn't know where he was going huh?" They made you think it was like a small type plane with a single pilot or something. So my memory of it was the radio guys joking about it.
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Actually, it was reported to us in NYC public schools that it was nothing big, just a small plane into a few floors. I guess they were trying to calm us down.
 
I was at my coop job on 911. I remember somehow getting through to cnn.com and seeing the first burning tower. I didn't think it was terrorism at first.

I am still amazed and shocked when I see the towers collapse on TV. It is still so unbelievable after 3 years. I visited the towers back in '98 and I remember looking up from the base...they were ENORMOUS and it is hard to tell just from TV how big of a disaster it was (not including the human toll).
 
I heard "Little Did She Know" (www.littledidsheknow.com) on the radio Friday morning for the first time as I was driving home from work. I had to pull over because I started crying so badly.

The house where I grew up (Jersey City) had a great view of the WTC. I was away at school when it happened, though. I had a 9:30 am class that morning... as per my usual schedule, I took a shower and turned on CNN back in my dorm room while getting dressed. I saw the second plane hit, and I saw the tower collapse (I also saw the live footage of the jumpers, but that's kinda disturbing to think about). I did go to class that morning, though. it was a dumb class (The Novel), but I didn't want to be alone. afterwards, classes were cancelled for the rest of the day, and I sat in my dorm room with a couple friends just watching CNN.

It's weird to think about... a few weeks later, I was walking through the dorms and I heard someone watching Comedy Central. I remember thinking "how can we ever be expected to laugh again?" melodramatic in retrospect, I guess, but I seriously wasn't sure if I'd be able to.
 
Originally posted by: Taggart
I was at my coop job on 911. I remember somehow getting through to cnn.com and seeing the first burning tower. I didn't think it was terrorism at first.

I am still amazed and shocked when I see the towers collapse on TV. It is still so unbelievable after 3 years. I visited the towers back in '98 and I remember looking up from the base...they were ENORMOUS and it is hard to tell just from TV how big of a disaster it was (not including the human toll).
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Yea the WTC were two giant buildings.
 
Well, I was in class, Physical Science to be exact. I was in 10th grade. End of the period was coming, and we were getting ready to head out for lunch.

So, waiting for the bell to ring to dismiss the class, everyone was talking, and I'm reading a book, and as usual, before lunch time, the speaker comes on, and tells us a few things about whats going on in campus. Instead, they mentioned that the WTC and The Pentagon has been attacked, and one tower already collasped from the damage. I don't remember if they went into details about the attack (airplanes), but I sat there kinda confused about the whole thing, thinking, wow this sucks, but didn't realize the significance. Everyone in the class kept talking, I'm not sure about whatever they were talking about before, or about the announcement. I just sat there thinking.

So, I head out to lunch, my friend keeps saying its not a big deal and not many people died, "not more than a hundred" he said. I told him he was full of sh*t and that there were lots of people in the towers. My friend had a portable radio on hand, and we were listening to the local radio station about whats going on, we then heard about the 2nd tower collasping. I go into my Food Preperation class, and we sat there and discussed about the little details we know. Many many kids were being picked up by there parents, eventually classrooms got a little empty.

So, the bell rings, we head out to 5th period, which was my math class. The school was on a lockdown status, no one was allowed to walk on campus aside from a few principals, deans, and local authorities (police). We then sat in 5th period for about 2 hours until the end of the school day. We had a radio on, and we heard the news. They interviewed people at NYC, a few officals, etc etc. People talked about relatives in NY, and some that actually worked at the WTC.

School was dismissed, and we all went on the school busses home. As soon as I got in, my soon to be GF called, and we talked about it. I watched the news, for a couple of hours, and that was it.

Thats about all I remember.
 
I was a hot deals lurker\occasional poster.

I remember at the time not having\wanting to say a single fvcking thing on the internet about it... Nothing I could say about it seemed meaningful in any way to me..

I just checked my posts. I had a post at 8pm on Sep.10 2001 in Hot Deals, giving a guy a hard time about not searching... Holy fvck, how stupid... then a post on 8/15 about a baby monitor in response to a Jokersmoker thread...

I heard a bit of radio broadcast today on my way home from work and the rememberance of those days and all of it brought tears to my eyes, again.
 
I remember waking up with my mom telling me a plane ran into the world trade center and me just writing it off as her misunderstanding something on tv. then i saw it on tv myself...
 
I was a senior sitting in my econ class...we got out of a school around lunch time...I watched tv for hrs ( i watch <30min a week ) so that was huge to me...i remember the wild numbers of like 20thousand + that they said would die...i dont remember the exact number but it was NOWHERE near that many in the end.
 
I remember sitting in a linear algebra course and hearing people talk in the hallway about a plane crashing. I didn't think too much of it.

Then I remember sitting in another class and hearing people saying that a plane crashed into the WTC. Then a little while later someone said that the towers completely collapsed. I went back to my apartment and turned on the news to see if it was really true.
 
my mom works in manhattan. I went to school (10th grade) and they anounced over the PA what happened, and everyone was paniced, and turned on the TVs. When I came home I rushed upstairs to call my mother at work. She was sleeping in her room. She took a sick day. I woke her up and told her what happened. I realize how good God has been to me, and how lucky I am.
RIP WTC, and all those lost 🙁
 
I just watched a short remembrance clip i have on my computer... The footage of the 2nd plane hitting the towers is just horrifying. To this day, 9/11 will always be the worst thing ive ever seen...

As for what I was doing during then: Was in a history class taught by a new teacher (Mr. Duckhorn, and I suck with names) and we watched the whole thing on television.
 
I remember hearing about it driving on the way home from dropping off my little sister to school. I was at the intersection of George Bush and Old Denton (in Dallas) when Julie, a female announcer, stated "breaking news: a plane just hit the WTC". I figured maybe a two seater Cessna hit the WTC. They treated it seriously but not too seriously, so I figured that much. Then they started clamoring about getting a TV into the room to watch the coverage, so I changed the channel and heard every other station talking about it. People were all excited (in a negative way) and I slowly realized that it was probably a big deal. Then I heard a second plane had hit the other WTC and I realized "holy fvck!!!!"

Got home, turned on the TV - NBC showed both towers burning. Tom Brokaw or Katie Couric or Matt Lauer sounded like he was in disbelief. They showed the footage of plane 2 hitting. I sat there watching it for 20 minutes before I had to jet for school. Everyone was talking about it, a few people said the towers collapsed. My accounting class - the teacher said a few things about it and went on his way with class. I think I went to raquetball next, they were talking about it, then I went straight home after that and just sat there in disbelief watching everything that had happened.
 
my math teacher refused to turn on the tv. I got up first; and left he classrom. Everyone else followed me.


d!ckhole of a teacher said that "there are more important things than what goes on with the tv and news"



I got a c in the class
 
Felt sick to the stomach on that day. I was late to class and when I went in there I didn't see the teacher. Some were among themselves chatting and others were on the Internet, and some people walking back and forth. I figured I got lucky being in before the teacher.

Then heard discussions of people saying how a plane was downed. Didn't think too much of it as things like this happen every so often. Little did I know the horrific event happening before me. I honestly could never in my wildest dreams imagined what I saw on TV that morning.

Everybody was surrounded by the only TV in the building at the front office. I sat there with everybody else. Totally stunned. There were no classes for the rest of the day. Went home and immediately turned on the TV and watched reruns after reruns of the scenes of the Towers falling down and everybody in a panic in a cloud of dust. Woke my bro right away to clue him in on what's going on.

Amazed at how everybody pulled together and going back to the scene after the Towers tumbled to get to the aid of one another. Very touched by that.

That whole day was like a dream to me. Didn't want to believe that was reality. Can't believe it's been actually 3yrs since then. Only seemed like yesterday.
 
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