Where were you on 9/11?

[Firestorm]

Was just sitting down to watch Lock Stock the series when it changed to the WTC stuff.

Fuckers could've waited 45 minutes or something.

[Sean]

I cannot believe it's already been six years!

Jon325i - my story is actually quite similar to yours! BUT, get this - I was there only 2 weeks prior - at the end of August! I'm not sure if anyone on here knows, but OFest was that summer around August I believe, in New Hampshire, and we made a trip out of it - so we stopped in New York and toured the area - statue of libery, and all the fun stuff. Unfortuntely, we didn't go up the WTC due to time constraints, but I SPECIFICALLY remember how MASSIVE the buildings were looking up from the base. They were breathtaking. I stood at the foot of the buildings, and thought to myself, "I'll be back again sometime, and go up then." My whole family agreed we could go up again the next time we were in NY. Who knew that chance would never happen.

9/11/01 I was standing in my library during first period in 9th grade in Woodbury, MN at Lake Junior High School, around 8-9 am after checking out a book. I remember seeing tower 1 on fire - there was no sound and I didn't look long, so I just throught there was a fire and that they would get it taken care of.

I got to my next class, my math class and I found out an airplane had hit it - during that hour in class, the first tower fell. I couldn't believe was I was witnessing. And I could not stop thinking about how I had been there only 2 weeks before. It was so very much real to me, and I was just stunned and in shock.

I'm pretty sure the rest of the day all teachers had TVs on and that's all we did. I remember one teacher no having his TV on, so no one went, and we went somewhere else to watch TV.

That day was probably the most shocking day I've ever experienced. Ironically, my parents had left early that morning for Arizona, for my grandpas funeral - they called when we were home to let us know they had made it safely. There was family going to AZ from New York and they never made it because they had to go home. That day affected everyone in this country in some way or another.

I've never really posted this before, but I made a video back in high school in memory of 9/11. Check it out here: http://electrontek.com/ Includes video I found after much seearching and some very very amazing photos.

I'll never forget, ever.

[JasonC]

After i woke up, i seen it on TV. I was in shock and then anger hit me. I had to go to work that evening, and gas stations was ripping people off by jacking up the prices.

[kylebes1]

Algebra 1
Hated that day.

[Maluco]

I left NYC the day before. Was up there visiting a friend, celebrating Brasil's independance day Sept 7th and my B-day Sept 9th. I woke up that morning turned on the TV, went into shock, called my friend where I was just the day before, he went into shock and we hung up.....

[Jand3rson]

I like this post.

Of course you do.

I was getting ready for work, just coming out into the living room and turning on the tv to watch the Today Show, and there was something on about one of the WTC towers burning, something about a fire and an explosion. Then the other plane came into frame, smashing into the building and exploding in a fireball, and I can still remember actually gasping and feeling like someone had punched me in the stomach.

[Sean]

Of course you do.

I was getting ready for work, just coming out into the living room and turning on the tv to watch the Today Show, and there was something on about one of the WTC towers burning, something about a fire and an explosion. Then the other plane came into frame, smashing into the building and exploding in a fireball, and I can still remember actually gasping and feeling like someone had punched me in the stomach.

Yep, that's a good way to describe the same feeling I got when I saw the plane in tower two. Along with my heart falling.

[abepark]

I was in HS and over the PA system our principle goes "the world trade center has just been hit by a plane, please finish your current class and afterward feel free to stop in the cafeteria and watch the news"

I had a free block next so I watched the second plane hit the second tower and watch the news reporter get bleeped out when he saw it.

I continued my day as normal but with a wierd sense of feeling. I knew the world was about to change and I watched the stock market fall (had a stock marketing class that year). most of the classes that day we talked about either religion or family or bin laden.

I don't remember much details of that day except I said something really stupid because before that day I'd had never heard of Bin laden so I asked "why do people care about Bin laden, He's dead now he flew the planes into the building and now hes dead why talk about someone who died" I just got laughed at for the rest of the year.
It put everything so small into such a bigger perspective that day. It reminded me of the movie "the russians are coming the russians are coming" I was waiting for people to parachute into the back fields with machine guns.

to this day I always talk about security at the airport, and in the back of my mind have been terrorized just because my thoughts have changed about travel.

[PiercedE30]

I was in my 2nd period Phys Ed class in 10th grade. I remember going into the gym and our teacher had a TV set up. I had no clue what was going on at the time. Watched it the rest of the day in the rest of my classes.

[golde30]

Of course you do.

I was getting ready for work, just coming out into the living room and turning on the tv to watch the Today Show, and there was something on about one of the WTC towers burning, something about a fire and an explosion. Then the other plane came into frame, smashing into the building and exploding in a fireball, and I can still remember actually gasping and feeling like someone had punched me in the stomach.

yeah i turned on the TV in time to see the 2nd plane hit also. i was on the phone with my friend who woke me up, and hung up on him and called my parents to wake them up.

[NC325iC]

9th grade 2nd period Economics Legal and Political Systems

[e30sd]

wow people are fucking young as hell here.

[Jon325i]

Ok....after reading this thread, I did some digging in my box-o-artifacts and found a few items from my trip to NYC back in July '01. These pics were taken with one of those disposable cameras and I scanned them into my computer.....sorry if the quality doesn't satisfy the Ansel Adams' crowd here :-P

Two shots I got from WTC plus my ticket stub to the observation floor (110 stories up) of the south tower....



Jon

[garretvs]

Sitting in my 7th grade 1st period class watching the TV with the rest of my class and one of the coolest teachers I've ever had...

Man that was a long time ago considering I'll be a Soph in college and we still haven't got our shit together as a country. What a great leader we have...

[atomic]

Sitting in my 7th grade 1st period class watching the TV with the rest of my class and one of the coolest teachers I've ever had...

Man that was a long time ago considering I'll be a Soph in college and we still haven't got our shit together as a country. What a great leader we have...

damn you were just a kid you old enough to vote yet ?