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Remembering Sept. 11th... (1 Viewer)

semaj33

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I was driving to college when i heard on the radio that the first plane had hit...at that time they thought it was just a little plane or something, no one really knew the details. Later in Bio, my professor wouldn't let us leave our lab, as people kept coming over and walking up to us and interupting class...

I live in upstate NY, and I remember some people thinking that terrorists were going to fly up and attack our college. That was a crazy day. One that has changed my life forever. Please share your story.

 
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I was listening to Imus in the Morning on WNBC in New York.

I was working for a sports reconditioning company and was on my way to Hillsborough high school in New Jersey. (home of Ricky Proehl).

I visited four other schools that day, with each visit, the seriousness sunk in more.

 
I was working overnights and had just got in the car to head home.

Howard Stern was in a commercial so I started flipping through the presets on my radio. When I hit 101.1 I heard Mancow (I hate him) talking about how a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers and that this wasn't a 'bit'. After listening for about 30 seconds, I realized it wasn't some bs radio shtick as they were basically relaying the information that was being told to them on TV.

Then there was about a 5 seconds of dead air followed by "Oh my god, there's another plane"

:(

 
I was walking in to work (a bit late as usual :bag: ) and as I walked in one of my coworkers said "A plane hit one of the WTC towers." I figured it was a Cessna or something. Then he said "It was like a 737 or 767 or something - something pretty big." Then someone across the cubicle wall said "Another plane just hit the other tower." The first guy said "This isn't a coincidence." Spent the rest of the morning like everyone else here, glued to the innernets. I still recall hearing the guy across the cubicle wall saying "Ohmygod... the tower just collapsed." After that I said "Screw work" and headed home to be with my wife and kids.

Very sad day.

 
worked in NYC....but uptown, no where near WTC

However, I happened to take off to help a friend upgrade their computer. I was checking my e-mails @ home when the news broke

I called my office and asked what the heck was up...and they had no idea anything was gonig one. I'm like "um, turn on a freakin TV"

When the 1st tower collapsed, I was talking on the phone w/ a friend about that exact same topic...then it happened.

However, the one thing I wil lnever forget is gonig out later that day. I just nmeeded to get away from the TV for a while. It was scary b/c they had Long Island basically shut down. THere is a main road running N/S pretty far east of the city and the police had all traffic stopped at that point...no one was allowed past it. I was ammazed at how isolated we were if the poop hit the fan and how basically all of us east of the city were a unfortunate casualty of location.

 
Was at the home of the guy I work with getting ready to go out and setup some servers. Got to his house and he told me about the first plane so we were watching CNN when the second plane hit. As I recall we didn't install the servers that day. Everyone was in shock and there was lots of general chaos. Just stayed there and watched the news coming in all day.

 
i actually found out on this message board! I was in college and just waking up and the first thing i was doing was logging on to here to read up on some stuff when i saw a topic by someone that said "Twin Towers Attacked: turn on NBC" or somthing like that...me, being a little hung over and knowing what the topics on this page are really about immediately turned on the TV expecting to see some hot blonde twins on TV being interviewed or somthing....as i turned it on, the second building was hit..

 
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I was at work across the street from WTC

First plane cracked the window to my office that faces the north tower.

Second plane goes right over my head standing on the corner of Church and Liberty streets.

I hid next to Brooks Brothers as debris came down into the street.

I walked to midtown and was not there as they collapsed

Eerie feeling today as the sky is clear blue same as 5 years ago......

 
I was in New York for a long weekend from Thursday the 6th till Monday the 10th. I drove back with my wife/gf at noon Monday.

On the 11th I was at my office and got a call that a plane had hit the WTC and I assumed that a small plane had hit the WTC in Boston so I turned on the TV in my office and saw the second plane hit on live TV.

 
I had been working at Walter Reed Army Hospital for a little over a month, on their PC/LAN help desk. We were about a week into cleaning up the trouble caused by a spike on the local power grid, which had caused loss of electricity across the whole post. The hospital had been put on emergency generators immediately, but the rest of the post was without power most of the month of August.

When we heard about the first plane, most of us also thought it was just a small plane, and even one of the soldiers assigned to our department made a "Top Gun" reference: "Sorry Ghost Rider, the pattern is full" or something like that. When the second plane hit, one of the techs not born in the US immediately began saying how we had this coming, and just as the discussion started getting heated, we heard about the Pentagon getting hit and all the soldiers in our department disappeared. They got deployed to the gates while the post got locked down.

Once DC started shutting down, the decision was made to release all unnecesary personnel. While my position wasn't very critical, the IT department still needed a skeleton crew, so I volunteered to stay until things calmed down. I figured traffic was going to be a nightmare anyway, and even though I was on a military base, I felt safer there than on the road. I called my wife to let her know, but since she was watching my cousin's kid as well as our own 2 and 3 year olds, she had kids shows on and didn't know what was going on.

The only 'odd' thing (well, besides the whole 'terrorist attack') to me was when they broke coverage to go to Afghanistan, where the Northern Alliance had just launched an attack on the Taliban. It had kind of a 'wag the dog' feel to me at the time, but I dismissed it as :tinfoilhat: thinking, since everything was so raw. Still, I have to wonder about the timing of it. :tinfoilhat:

 
Watching the CNN feed being re-aired on the CNN Pipeline and after the second plane hit, the anchor from WABC is saying that one would naturally guess or speculate if some sort of navigational system or electronics went awry and that's why it was happening

:loco:

 
I was working in NYC and saw the whole thing live since I got into work early that day. Strangest thing was that I was supposed to go on one of the flights out that day that hit the tower but decided to book it a week later and towards the end of the week so I could spend the weekend in SF with my girlfriend.

 
RKMoney said:
I was working in NYC and saw the whole thing live since I got into work early that day. Strangest thing was that I was supposed to go on one of the flights out that day that hit the tower but decided to book it a week later and towards the end of the week so I could spend the weekend in SF with my girlfriend.
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You're going to have to help me out on this.Didn't all of those flights depart from Boston?
 
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I had a meeting close to my home so I was having later than usual shower when I heard commotion on the TV. I didnt think much of it and continued to get dressed. I wentto check the tv to shut it off and I realized something serious was going on. Within a minute came footage of the first plane crashing into the tower.

knew instantly what had happened. i knew that terrorism had finally hit us the way we always feared... my first reaction was omg, we are at war. second was that we would lose ten or twenty thousand if the towers collapsed. then i thought oh god... are there other planes? how many?

and then, literally, i dropped to the floor. my legs couldnt take it. i dropped. i cried. after a few seconds i realized that i had friends there, family. and shock and fear grew to intense concern and acute fear of loved ones.

i quickly calledin to cancel my meeting and got on with the longest day of my life... which was a million times easier han those who were in the city at the time (i was out on long island)

 
I heard about it on another board. Cnn.com was swamped so I knew it was real. Walked upstairs in time to see the first tower fall and then called my stock broker. Felt like real scum for doing that later.

 
I was in my office in a building that was about 250 yards from the White House on H Street, NW. If anyone knows DC, since they closed Pennsylvania Ave in front of the WH after the OK City bombing, H Street is the street that's closest to the front of the WH, across Lafayette Sq. and the front lawn. (The side facing the Washington Monument is techincally the back side).

My wife called me to tell me about the first tower being hit (she too heard it on Imus) and then we went to the kitchen where a TV was. When the Pentagon was hit, the rumor was that there was an unaccounted for flight that was heading for DC to the Capitol or the WH. That was Flt 93, and we all know what happened to it.) Our building was inside the WH security perimeter, so we were forced to evacuate.

There were rumors that the Metro wasn't running, but it was, I got on it and went home. Got home intime to see the second tower come down and spent the rest of the day glued to the TV. The next day, there were DC National Guard Hummers with MGs on every corner of K Street and other parts of downtown DC.

 
I was just getting into work when I heard it from a coworker. It was no surprise that the terrorists had decided to leave out of Boston though. I had just taken a flight out of there a week or so earlier and the security crew were horrible. I had a disposable camera that I ran through the machine and they too it out and took pictures of themselves, laughing the whole time.

 
I was a Junior at Rider University. Woke up, but flipped on HBO while I got ready for class. Left my apartment and got to class at abot 9am and they had the TV on. 10 minutes later the 1st tower came down and my mind just started racing. Growing up in NYC I knew many people that worked or had worked in the towers, but my mind couldn't focus to remeber who. My dad for works as a structural engineer for the MTA so I was afraid he may have been called down there. I left the classroom only to see my best friend at the time freaking out b/c her brother worked in the tower

(he died after leaving in the tower and then going back to help others out). Spent all day trying to get a hold on my mom. Fianlly got through and everyone on that side of the family was good. Got through to my dad the next day nad found out my uncle was missing and my heart sunk. This day is a hard day to live through, but I don't try and block out what happened. I've seen the movie, I've been to ground zero multiple times, I've been to multiple memorial masses and I just try and remember.

My Uncle

 
At the time I lived in Hoboken, NJ and had this hellish commute - one and half hours each way. I usually left my apartment between 8-8:30 and it typically consisted of walking to the path train (subway) taking the path to WTC, walking towards wall street and taking the express train to Grand Central, then taking a train to Rye, NY, and depending if I was running late or not (which I typically did) either take a taxi or if I happen to get there early take the shuttle bus.

However on that day, I called up my boss and asked to hitch a ride with him, we were on the garden state parkway listening to Stern and thought it was some lame joke by him, until we looked over to the southeast and saw smoke coming out of the tower and then the other plane hit, people were pulling over their cars and taking pictures / videos of what was going on. Then we heard all tunnels and bridges were closed and realized we were not going to make it in, before we could turn around one of the towers fell.

I remember the commute home it was very quiet, no cars honked their horns, everyone was in a zone of disbelief. I wanted to go straight to my local bar to be with friends but two blocks around the path were already taped off for emergency triage. So I went to the liquor store and got a bottle of scotch, I stopped into the local internet cafe to email my family up north to tell them I was o.k. - cell phone service was very spotty even in NJ due to the towers coming down. Then I went to a friends house and proceeded to drink :(

 
Limp Ditka said:
RKMoney said:
I was working in NYC and saw the whole thing live since I got into work early that day. Strangest thing was that I was supposed to go on one of the flights out that day that hit the tower but decided to book it a week later and towards the end of the week so I could spend the weekend in SF with my girlfriend.
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You're going to have to help me out on this.Didn't all of those flights depart from Boston?
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No Flight 11 (North Tower) and Flight 175 (South Tower) left Logan Flight 77 left Washington (Pentagon)Flight 93 left Newark. (PA)
 
superbeck1 said:
Limp Ditka said:
RKMoney said:
I was working in NYC and saw the whole thing live since I got into work early that day. Strangest thing was that I was supposed to go on one of the flights out that day that hit the tower but decided to book it a week later and towards the end of the week so I could spend the weekend in SF with my girlfriend.
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You're going to have to help me out on this.Didn't all of those flights depart from Boston?
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No Flight 11 (North Tower) and Flight 175 (South Tower) left Logan Flight 77 left Washington (Pentagon)Flight 93 left Newark. (PA)
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Thanks
 
I was conducting a training seminar that morning in Orlando, FL (I live near Richmond, VA). A woman in the class received a call from her husband on her cell phone. He explained that a plane had hit the WTC. Growing up in the NYC area I thought that would be pretty difficult to do 'by accident'.

Although very difficult, I still conducted the class. We broke for lunch and caught up on the events. I made several calls to family/friends to check on their whereabouts. We finished the class at around 4:00.

I drove home 12 hours the next morning to get to my family, my attention completely on the radio. It was the fastest 12 hour drive I have ever made.

The most surreal thing about the day, actually, was the night of Sept. 11. I couldn't believe the quiet. No commercial planes were flying. it was an eery quiet, very unsettling. I won' forget that.

 
I was on my way to work. I was listening to the local sports talk radio station when they announced the first tower. I thought it was a sick joke and changed stations as I pulled in my office parking lot. The other station was also talking about it, so I got the feeling it was real. At this point I thought it was a private plane. When I got to my office my secretary had the break room tv on it. A couple minutes later the second plane struck. A guy from the office down the hall came in to watch just before the first tower collapsed. He fell/sat on the floor. He was scheduled to fly to New York for a meeting on one of the towers the next morning.

 
I was at a pre-bid meeting for a construction project at Towson U (near Baltimore). One guy came in & kind of casually mentioned that a small plane had flown into the WTC. A few minutes later, another person came in & said a plane had hit the second tower. Everyone kind of looked at each other with an "uh-oh" look. When the meeting was over, we walked out into an administative area of the college & there were several people gathered around a tiny TV set. One lady cried out "they've bombed the Pentagon!". We walked down to the construction site. There was an old man there who was a security guard & I asked him if he had heard. He answered me in a shaky voice that his daughter worked at the Pentagon & he couldn't get in touch with her. As I left, I turned on the radio to an all-news station. They were carrying the network TV feed. I think it was ABC with Jennings. Anyway, the anchor was asking a reporter on the ground in NYC some questions when the reporter jumped in with something like "it fell down! it fell down!". Jennings (?) said "what do you mean it fell down?". The reporter responded "the GD tower fell down!". Jennings went silent for what seemed like forever.

Anyway, got back to my office about a mile from NSA & my boss said "let's get the hell out of here". I got home & it was eerie. I lived in Howard Co, MD at the time. We always had planes flying over - except that day; everything was so quiet. I stayed in front of the TV the rest of the day. My wife was in California & couldn't get a flight back until Saturday.

 
Was meeting with a builder about finishing construction on my house when one of his crewmen came into the trailer to say what had happened, but it sounded like a cessna or something small. Then the same guy comes in a few minutes later to say that a second plane hit and both planes were ariliners. We immediately tabled the meeting for another day, and I called the office. By the time I got home, Tower 2 had fallen. I sent everyone home, went to pickup my kid from daycare. Once I was assured that loved ones were safe ( sister, cousin and BIL in NYC) I took my son to the Park to play. It was very surreal. The parents all were just stunned and like me, could not watch anymore TV and just wanted to enjoy the gorgeous day with thier kids, and be thankful that they could.

That day changed me. I am not nearly as psychotic about work and realize that family and good friends are far more precious than any job or business. I used to commute through the towers for a few years in my 20's as did my mom, so it really hit close to home.

 
I remember traffic being bad that day and not knowing why. I was listening to a CD instead of the radio on my way in to work. I asked my co-worker what was up with traffic and he said "You didn't hear? They believe some terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Centers."

CNN.com was impossible to get onto.

In the entire freaking office building that I was in, there was one black and white television with rabbit ears with almost no reception to watch the events on. It made it just that much more surreal.

As the second tower fell, I remember saying "Oh no, there it goes."

For some reason, I didn't think to go home.

Living in Minnesota and having never been to New York, that city has always been almost imaginary to me anyway. The events seemed unreal to me as someone living in flyover country.

I imagine it was much more impactful to those out east.

 
2 quick stories.

I remember reading there were a few people that got fired from Cantor Fitzgerald the previous week, they had to return to the office on Monday for exit interviews :(

A friend of mine works for Marsh McLennan, he got married the previous Saturday and was in Hawaii on his honeymoon, his office used to be on the 97th floor in the North tower - the first tower to get hit, his desk faced the wall of where the first plane struck.

 
I also was at work. I work with troubled teens that already have emotional problems. We heard about the first plane and put the TV on just in time to see the second plane hit the WTC.

We spent the rest of the day in damage control with the teens. It stirred a lot of emotions in them/us and all involved.

I had a frined living in Strasburg Virginia, who worked in DC, and was able to get a hold of here. She said the scene was unreal, with military places/helicopters flying all over the place.

I remember getting home that night, and my son was just 3 months old. All I could do was hug him keep telling him I loved him...

Unreal day for all.

 
I was working for a modular furnature company back then. We were unloading a truck at a NASA base in Greenbelt, MD when the first tower was hit. We were outside and kept getting bits and peices of info every few minutes. After the 2nd plane hit, I was like forget ths and left. I remember my cell phone wouldn't work. I guess it was because the networks were flooded. Driving home was scary and sorta fun as there were no cops anywhere. I flew home, running red lights and screaming around corners.

Sat in front of the TV the rest of the day like most of you. But I will never forget this. During an interveiw with some people near the Pentagon, the people were saying how there were two planes. That there was a fighter jet behind the larger plane. I never heard anything about that since. Struck me as odd.

Oh and whe we did finally go back to work, we were unloading one of our truck that was at the Pentagon that day. As soon as the dorrs opened, we could spell gass. We found a pretty big peice of what looked like the hinge from an airplane door. The guys driving the truck that day told us how they were hopping curbs, running down one way streets in DC in a 30ft truck!

 
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Limp Ditka said:
RKMoney said:
I was working in NYC and saw the whole thing live since I got into work early that day. Strangest thing was that I was supposed to go on one of the flights out that day that hit the tower but decided to book it a week later and towards the end of the week so I could spend the weekend in SF with my girlfriend.
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You're going to have to help me out on this.



Didn't all of those flights depart from Boston?
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Seriously?
 
Alias said:
2 quick stories.

I remember reading there were a few people that got fired from Cantor Fitzgerald the previous week, they had to return to the office on Monday for exit interviews :(

A friend of mine works for Marsh McLennan, he got married the previous Saturday and was in Hawaii on his honeymoon, his office used to be on the 97th floor in the North tower - the first tower to get hit, his desk faced the wall of where the first plane struck.
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Ah, it was Tuesday when the planes hit.
 
Listening to the Stern replay live, several major news organizations reporting a 5th hijacked plane...my hazy memory of the day had concluded that several false reports came out in the chaos...but this was very clearly reported as specifically a 5th hijacked plane, they even seemed to know which flight it was...there was also talk of a 6th plane, but the 5th one sounded definitive...

Please understand that I'm one of the least conspiracy minded people you'll meet, but why did this 5th plane just vanish from the story of 9/11?

 
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Listening to the Stern replay live, several major news organizations reporting a 5th hijacked plane...my hazy memory of the day had concluded that several false reports came out in the chaos...but this was very clearly reported as specifically a 5th hijacked plane, they even seemed to know which flight it was...there was also talk of a 6th plane, but the 5th one sounded definitive...Please understand that I'm one of the least conspiracy minded people you'll meet, but why did this 5th plane just vanish from the story of 9/11?
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Wasn't that the plane headed for Ohio that they eventually got hold of. The pilot state technical errors.
 
code said:
Listening to the Stern replay live, several major news organizations reporting a 5th hijacked plane...my hazy memory of the day had concluded that several false reports came out in the chaos...but this was very clearly reported as specifically a 5th hijacked plane, they even seemed to know which flight it was...there was also talk of a 6th plane, but the 5th one sounded definitive...Please understand that I'm one of the least conspiracy minded people you'll meet, but why did this 5th plane just vanish from the story of 9/11?
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Check out the History Channel and one of the shows that focus on the air controllers that day. Watched one on Friday night. It was surreal. A lot of the mystery had to do with flights coming in from the atlantic. Many turned around and were unaccounted for by US controllers.
 
Gator Shawn said:
code said:
Listening to the Stern replay live, several major news organizations reporting a 5th hijacked plane...my hazy memory of the day had concluded that several false reports came out in the chaos...but this was very clearly reported as specifically a 5th hijacked plane, they even seemed to know which flight it was...there was also talk of a 6th plane, but the 5th one sounded definitive...Please understand that I'm one of the least conspiracy minded people you'll meet, but why did this 5th plane just vanish from the story of 9/11?
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Wasn't that the plane headed for Ohio that they eventually got hold of. The pilot state technical errors.
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Yes. Cleveland.
 
I also remember how closely I'd watch airplanes while driving once they opened up the flyways again. I bet I did this for several weeks.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I also remember how closely I'd watch airplanes while driving once they opened up the flyways again. I bet I did this for several weeks.
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Similarly, I remember being at work on the 11th after hearing that all flights had been grounded...then about an hour later hearing a plane outside and literally running to the window to see what it was...turned out to be an F-15 flying over Boston...but to this day I remember how my heart skipped a beat when I first heard it...
 
I had the morning off. Got out of bed a little late. I remember wondering if I should turn on the radio or not, since traffic was not an issue for me that day. I decided that the one time you don't turn it on, that's when the problems occur, so I turned it on. One of the first things I thought to do was to record CNN. I always try to record major events. Still have that.

 
One other thing that changed for me that day...

As the Mrs. and I attempt to be 'good Christians' for our children, we got into the habit of saying "nite-nite" prayers with our kids; nothing elaborate, just stuff like "please bless our family, friends, neighbors" type stuff, but from that night on, I always start the prayer with "thank you for keeping us safe today." I don't think you need to be believe in God to agree with the sentiment of being grateful for a 'safe' day.

 
didn't we have other threads on this years past? I looked for it for my story I wrote in the old thread but can't seem to come up with it through the search. Pruned maybe?

That thread had some incredible stories....

 
It seems that most of the replies are from east-coasters. Here's my perspective from way out west.

Back then, my alarm clock was normally set for 6am (9am ET). This particular day, I was awakened about 15mins early ("a tremor in the force" if you will; ~8:45am ET), and heard the guy on the radio talking about a plane hitting the WTC. I don't remember the details, but I was moved enough to get out of bed and turn on the tv, just in time to see the 2nd plane hit. I had to get the kids up for school anyhow, so I roused them and had them join me in witnessing history.

It never occurred to me to change the routine, so we watched until the first tower fell, then headed off to school/work. I would drop my younger kids off at gramma's, as they started an hour later than the other kids, and we got there just as the 2nd tower fell (my mother had no reason to turn the tv on, so it was quite a surprise for her).

I continued on to work, not accomplishing much other than watching a CNN feed online all day.

A few days later, when planes returned to the air, I actually ran a red light as I noticed a plane in the sky for the first time since the grounding. :loco: (not out of apprehension, but more like "oh cool, planes are flying again").

 
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