3 years ago today

[foolish501]

Karsten thank you for that slideshow, i'm all teary eyed now.

I rememer 9/11 so well, i was back in the UK, i had been to see a movie, and left a restaurant afterwards, and the bbc broke the news on the radio that a plane had crashed into the WTC, as i drove, i heard of the 3 other planes crashing. I sped home, wanting to call my wife. When i did get home, there was a message on my answerphone from my wife. I called her straight away to make sure she was ok

I will never ever forget 9/11 or those people who lost their lives on that day.

 

[no0b]

Was a sophmore in HS my principle announced the attacks and later the collaspe.
I didn't watch any TV until 11:00 I had to work from directly from school to work. After that I think I stayed up til 3:00 glued to the TV. I ended up watching a BBC program that was being rebroadcasted on The Discovery channel that showed the whole chonological chain of events.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I along with the rest of my residence floor were just waking up and eating breakfast before the first classes of the day ... the TV was on in the caf/lounge hall ... then it cut to the news.

The rest is a blur I don't remember.



- M4H

 

[WhiteKnight]

I'm from NJ, right outside Manhatten. I was visiting Europe for my first time on 9/11. We were at the auto show in Frankfurt and had just finished seeing the BMW exhibit when we just happened to walk by some TVs on the way to the bathroom. That's when we saw it. Both planes had already hit but neither tower had collapsed yet. I can just remember being sick to my stomach because I knew people from college that worked there, plus my family would go into the city often so I had no idea if they were ok. We ended up getting stuck in Germany for about a week.

 

[CountZero]

I had been laid off on Sept. 1 and because of the surprise of it decided to take a couple weeks off before the job hunt. The morning of 9/11 my phone was ringing very very early (I'm in Seattle) when I pick it up my mom is frantically saying something about a plane crash and the WTC. My first thought was that my step-dad that frequently flies had been in a plane crash. I turned on the TV in time to see the plane hit the second tower. And my entire morning was spent watching TV and reading this board to get as much information as possible.

It was later that day when it hit me what a truly horrific thing myself and most of the country or even world had witnessed. When that plane hit the second tower live on TV I was watching hundreds of people die. When the towers collapsed thousands more died. So many lives lost, so many more lives changed forever. I didn't want to hear about it anymore, I didn't want to see the footage over and over again. But you couldn't escape it, all TV, all radio, everything was about the WTC. I remember trying to read but couldn't concentrate. In the days and weeks that followed I frequently felt that my own problems, my submissions of resumes and everything in my life was amazingly insignificant with the back drop of what had happened.

 

[toekramp]

 

[conjur]

I remember listening to the news on the way in of Iraq claiming to have downed a drone plane of ours. Then, later on, I was in our data center when a vendor came in and he said he'd heard a plane crashed into the WTC. My first thought was a small, single-engine plane and someone probably had a heart attack and lost control and crashed. I mean, jets just don't fly into buildings. They can pretty much take off and land by themselves with all of the automated flight systems.

Then we heard of the 2nd plane and then my pager went off and it was CNN Breaking News that the Pentagon had been hit. We all left to watch it on TV and saw the towers fall.

I can't explain the dread I felt and that horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach as what I thought was well over 25,000 people losing their lives. It's amazing it was less than 3,000 at the WTC that day that died.

The brave firefighters and police that saved people at the risk of their own lives are the true heroes of our great nation.

 

[Doboji]

3 years later on sept 11th I'm in the Pentagon....

-Max

 

[RedPickle]

Its wierd because I seem to be hit harder this year than any other year. It seems like so many people seem to have moved on with their lives, people laughing and playing, relaxing and working. Its still with me and I guess I can't move past it yet. I kind of feel alone here on campus. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is upset here, but things just don't seem the same.

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: toekramp

 

[DrPizza]

I was teaching.. we had an announcement about it... all the faculty watched it in the faculty room whenever we could get there... a few classes were watching it on tv at first. Then, the administration realized that it was too emotional for some of the children to handle and anxiety was wayyyy up, so they shut off access to the channels (we have large televisions in every classroom). I didn't think it was odd at the time, but after the towers collapsed, everyone kept asking me how they would go straight down and not tip over... A lot of people thought there must have been explosives all over the building, or something else to make it fall that way... I provided an explanation for them, and was seen as the "authority" on the matter (as the physics teacher)... When they finally announced a year later, or whenever it was exactly what caused it to collapse, I had been about 90% accurate in my description to the other faculty and students who inquired.

But, now, 3 years later, I find it wierd to think about it... they were doing what they could to get the deaths out of their minds and think about some other aspect.

 

[mpitts]

It's so weird for me.

I was sitting in my office when a co-worker ran in and said "A plane just crashed into the WTC."

I turned the radio from sports radio (the norm) to the local news/talk station and listened. I scoured the web for any and all the info I could find.

I had a meeting at 10AM. It lasted about 10 seconds. My boss sent us home. I remember driving home as fast as I could just so I could be with my wife.

It has all changed for me now. My son was born September 11th of last year. It is just a very emotional day for me now. Too think how I felt that day, and how I felt two years later when was born.

 

[Wheatmaster]

I was still a freshman then. I heard it from my friend and i told him, "A plane crash? Yeah right. The Attack is just the new sandwich they're promoting in NYC." How wrong i was my bio teacher told us all the bad news, eventually i watched cnn in all my classes just repeating the crash over and over again. I was scared crazy.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

It's been 3 years since anyone's heard from HawkeyeNJ.

I was sleeping when a long-since-gone member of AT called me and said we were under attack, that both WTC towers had been hit and the pentagon was hit. I was so tired that I told him to fvck off and let me sleep. He begged me to get up because I was missing history in the making, but I just hung up on him and went back to sleep. When I woke up for work at 10am pacific, I didn't really watch the news or anything. I just went to work. I found everyone off their phones, crammed into the lunch room around a TV. That's when I heard wtf was going on. We were ushered back to our phones but nobody called in for support for their cable internet. Left my phone ready to take a call (which would have auto connected) and walked across the street to the store with some friends to buy a small radio. We came back an hour later still waiting for a call. We used the radio to listen the rest of the day.

 

[Karsten]

Originally posted by: Nik
It's been 3 years since anyone's heard from HawkeyeNJ.

There was quite a discussion about him in thouse days. Anyone knew what really happened?

 

[ICXRa]

Originally posted by: Karsten

Originally posted by: Nik
It's been 3 years since anyone's heard from HawkeyeNJ.

There was quite a discussion about him in thouse days. Anyone knew what really happened?

I remember HawkeyeNJ well from these forums but I never heard for sure either!

 

[Skiguy411]

Originally posted by: ICXRa

Originally posted by: Karsten

Originally posted by: Nik
It's been 3 years since anyone's heard from HawkeyeNJ.

There was quite a discussion about him in thouse days. Anyone knew what really happened?

I remember HawkeyeNJ well from these forums but I never heard for sure either!

On his profile, it says his last visit was on 09/23/2001 at 07:31 AM.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

yay!

 

[ICXRa]

Originally posted by: Skiguy411

Originally posted by: ICXRa

Originally posted by: Karsten

Originally posted by: Nik
It's been 3 years since anyone's heard from HawkeyeNJ.

There was quite a discussion about him in thouse days. Anyone knew what really happened?

I remember HawkeyeNJ well from these forums but I never heard for sure either!

On his profile, it says his last visit was on 09/23/2001 at 07:31 AM.

Yeah but he was a active poster here who suddenly stopped posting.

 

[apac]

http://attacked911.tripod.com/

 

[talyn00]

I was a freshman in college at the time. I remember my mom called me to tell me there she had heard a loud explosion and saw an huge hole in the tower. She was worried about my father, who worked in 1WTC. (luckily he had left his office a few minutes earlier) I remember feeling fear, panic, despair, and a bunch of other emotions. It was quite possibly the worst day of my life.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

I was at JFK airport dropping my grandmother off and she boarded the plane at 8:20 and i left when the first plane hit and i could see the building on fire.
at the time all the radio stations and TV thought it was accident, i went home and saw on TV and then second plane hit and right away went back to the airport. they were taking people out and hoping my the plane my grandmother was on didnt take off.

While at JFK the Second Building came down and you could feel the ground shake.

 

[GimpyOne]

My wife and I were getting ready to head to work.(well, me to school) We were watching the news and it came up with a special report....watched the second plane crash live....then began swearing at the TV as the idiots tried calling it a private jet when it was immediately obvious in the pictures that it was a large boeing passenger plane.(profile and engine placement)

Tried to go to the lab, but the entire internet was basically dead as everyone tried to get news. So I spent the day watching it on TV until I couldn't stand any more, then just vegged out playing games on the computer till my wife got home.

I don't know about anyone else, but for the next couple of weeks we probably rented and went to as many movies as we have during our 7 years together. There was only so much of it you could watch without really getting sick to your stomach.

 

[suklee]

Originally posted by: toekramp

 

[apac]

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