Where were you approximately one year ago?

[bmacd]

to be honest, it didn't really phase me then. They said two planes crashed into the towers and everybody at work was flipping out, meanwhile i had said "BFD". It wasn't until after i found out about all the deaths that it kinda set in with me.

-=bmacd=-

 

[Stallion]

Sept 10th is my wedding anniversary so before I went to work that night( I was working graveyard) me and the wife sat on the back deck talking about the past years.. Then as I left work at 6:30am PST one of the guys at work said on the way to the parking lot that a plane had hit the "empire state building".. This guy is a nut so we all said he was full of shiat. and thought nothing of it tillI got home and sure enough. When I got home only the one building was hit so I watched like everyone else as the second plane came into view. I ran upstairs and woke up my wife. I don't think I went to bed till about 3pm that day...

 

[AnthraX101]

I got to class early that day, and was working on my design project. My teacher smokes, so he went outside for a cig. He rushed back down seconds later and told us all that the WTC was on fire. So our whole class runs out to the parking lot (we are right across the Hudson from NYC), just in time to see the second plane hit the towers.

It really was surreal. No one could honestly get their minds around what was happening. I know the most emotional moment of that day for me was not when the towers got hit, or collapsed, or as the wounded came to the PATH station so we could tend to them. It was when we had just seen the first tower collapse, and the second one was still standing. A girl next to me (I don't know who she was, I probably never will) had her father working in the towers. She was desperately trying to call him, and nothing on campus would work. Our cell towers were on the top of the WTC, and our phone lines were jammed. Finally, she does get through, and you could see the hope on her face as it started ringing. Then, she just let out such a wail as she got the message that the cell phone was not in service.

I don't know what happened to her or her father, but that was the worst moment of the whole event.

We were quite busy that day. We ended up converting our field (which was a parking lot at the time) into a helipad, but only one helicopter ever came. I registered as being certified in first aid and a large group of us began turning the school gym into a triage center. However, we never got the wounded. The loss of life was just horrible. We never expected such a small amount of wounded to come out. It truly was a tragedy, that day. I still have a photo taken from my campus as my desktop.

AnthraX101

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[Goosemaster]

I slept late tat day..about 5pm


What confused the hell out of me was that periodically my mom would wander into my room and say something like this(in spanish)

"how can you lie ther when things as bad as this happen! YOu should be ashamed of youself..." of course Ithought she had taken a tad bit too many Allergey pills


But the definitive moment was when I got up and went downstairs and they were watching TV.

My eyes were still a little bit fogg, but I managed to see something resembling anairplane hitting a building...

I thought it was a movie until I saw the "CNN" logo and the scrolling marquee....


I probably stood there for 10 sec with my mouth open....IT was freaking unbelievable.





Perhaps a lightharted occurence that help us cheer up was what heppaened to my stepdad.

He was remodling a house( in Alexandria when the plane hit hte Pentagon. Of course he had no idea what had happened....


In the past, his last employee had gotten stone-drunk when my mom was supposed to give him a ride from work...of course he said bad things and was promptly fired.


The assistant he had around the 11th and still has was about 1 month into the job. Anyways, my s. dad though his assistant had broken the house's founbdation or dropped his myra saw....


he uttered something along the lines of "I'm going to fire this second bastard now that he has disrespected me like the other fool"

 

[Goosemaster]

obviously the days events were horrific, but it is our custom to use laughter as a cushion..not to ignore the pain...but soften the blow while still accepting reality..

 

[gotsmack]

I was in my 10am Human resources class, my friend told me about it, but I wasn't really listening. classes after that class were cancleed. I had a hell of a time getting home (I go to school in Newark).

 

[dethman]

this is like the JFK assasination thing. anyway i was in anatomy lab trying to get the heart out of a cadaver when someone told us some plane had hit the WTC. we laughed cuz we thought it was some idiot in a prop plane who was just stupid. but we went to check it out anyway, and 20 minutes later pretty much everyone in the entire building was in front of a tv in shock. but it didn't really hit me until later...

 

[gtsukada]

i was still sitting at this damn chair

 

[RichieZ]

I was actually supposed to fly to college that day (frosh yr) i woke up and "HOLY SHEIT"

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

I was still asleep when i received a phone call from a friend telling me that wtc was bombed by terrorist i said shut up and thought he was joking. Turned on the tube and sure enough there it was. After that I turned on my computer and consulted the Wise ATOT on what happened because ATOT was the source for all info useless or useful. From ATOT I found links to video clips and picture as I look downloaded and watch those footages the first tower collapsed on the television that's when it hitted me that a group of civilians just lost their lives to some cowards that crashed a plane. Right there and only there did i shed a tear thinking off all the families that were affected. Then the next week or so I shed another tear when the barn market dropped. We are a capitalist nation and I don't want it to change but when i thought back on it i was more concern about money than what happened. Very sad i know but i wasn't directly affected by the death of family members so it didn't bum me as much. what bummed me was that the cowards got what they wanted.

As we prepare for war I hope that we will accomplish what we set out to do. A regime change is neccessary to remove those who are in positions to finance terror.