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Where were you on 9/11/2001?

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freshman year of college, getting ready to go to my calculus class. i heard about the attack in the elevator down on the way to the shuttle stop from my dorm room.
 
Was in the Air Force in Wyoming. Was at the clinic getting cleared to back on duty (jacked up my ankle a couple days before) just got the OK to back on duty as it was happening. A couple hours later I had grabbed my weapon, a buddy and his weapon, our MEEDS boxes (Missile Electronic Encryption Devices), a tahoe and we patrolled the missile field.....I worked for 21 days straight. When I had asked which flight area we were going to, I was told "all of them".

Good times were had. I think it was a few days after coming back from the field, we were getting ready for our deployment to Afghanistan. We had all of our equipment, weapons, everything ready to go and they cancelled the deployment. Was pretty disappointed that it was cancelled, given the time and being 21, we were all ready to do our part.
 
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Drove home from work after a grave shift and went to sleep on the couch. Didn't know anything was going on until my brother came home from class and woke me up in time to see the second impact and both collapses. I thought I was dreaming.

I remember that a matter of days after flights resumed a jet crashed into homes in NY when I was walking into Charter Communications office with a wall of TVs showing coverage on all the major news networks. Everyone was freaking out about it being another attack.
 
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Roommate woke me up and said something had happened in NYC. He's originally from NYC. We watched as the 2nd plane hit. Then watched both towers fall. Then I went to class.
 
At work. Very painful day....

Actually found out about what was happening on ATOT....then went to news sites and finally turned on TV at work.
 
On my way to fly from Calgary to San Luis Obispo on a business trip when my Manager called and told me to "hold off"
 
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I was in 8th grade and they hardly told us shit until one of our teachers let us watch the coverage in the afternoon since so many rumors were going around.
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lol I was in 10th grade. The first plane hit when I was in 2nd period (world history). Another teacher came into class and was like "you should turn the tv news on" and our history teacher did. We watched for like 5min and she was like "that doesn't look too bad" and turned it off.

I think the news guys were saying that they didn't know what kind of plane it was and it could just be small commuter aircraft. But I was like you can clearly see the 2 under-wing engines, it's probably 757/767 in size (i was/still am an aerospace buff). So I argued w/her and she turned the tv back on literally in time to see the 2nd plane crash live.

I don't think we had any real classes for the rest of that day.
 
I was asleep at my apartment while at College (BYU - Provo). My Grandfather in Hawaii called me and woke me up. He told me that "America was under attack."

I turned the TV on just in time to see the second tower collapse.

Later that day I took some pictures of my apartment with one of my friends new gadget, a camera that takes pictures digitally, and doesn't use or need film!





My brother who passed away three months later:
 
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Just got done taking a shower and was listening to soad - atwa when I turned the tv on. Saw the first plane crash and did not know it was the news though it was just a movie or something. Then when I changed the channel and every station was playing it I realized what was going on. Song always reminds me of that day.
 
I was living in Tacoma, Washington - I was an Air Force JAG and had just arrived McChord AFB a couple of weeks earlier. I actually first learned of the attacks on this very forum, which I was reading before going into work. I was deployed to a classified location in the Middle East on one day's notice in late September.
 
I was the new kid at a high school freshman year. Totally sucked. We were in earth science class making no-bake cookies for some reason. The English teacher ran in and said something about a plane crashing into the WTC. We turned on the tube and watched as the second one crashed, and subsequently watching the towers fall. What a surreal experience. So long ago. It was a beautiful day in small town Nebraska.
 
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