News – Sept 11 is one of those days that we will never forget, and I thought it would be nice to have something simple to collect people's memories. Share as much as you want, as little as you want, or just read what others have posted.
I was in school. I didn't hear anything about it till 11:30. The principle called over the intercom asking for a semi-lock down of the school. No one told us what was going on. One guy in my class said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Later, on my way to lunch a friend told me that a plane had hit the Pentagon. The rest of the day the teachers wouldn't tell us anything, we weren't allowed to turn on the TV's or ask questions. There was a panic going through the students. We were wondering if anything else could be hit...including us! When I got on the bus that afternoon we found out that the middle schoolers where allowed to watch the TV's! When I got to my grandparents house I was glued to the TV until my mom picked me up. My granddad sat with me the whole time. I found out later, that at the time I was the exact age he was when Pearl Harbor occurred. That night, my parents and I watched the TV until we couldn't keep our eyes open any longer.
That was the day I was to begin rehearsals for the play I was directing so I had spent the entire morning working on the script etc. and hadn't turned on either the telly or radio. After lunch, I turned on the telly and was immediately confused by what I was watching. There was the mayor of New York in front of a huge clock, with a huge number of people and nothing was making any sense. It was another twenty minutes before I realized I wasn't watching a bad made for TV movie, that this was real. Then I realized I had been standing in my living room, looking at the screen and hadn't moved at all for the entire twenty minutes. The next moment I was on the floor and I stayed there until my partner came home and found me. We called my actors and everyone wanted to get to work on the play, but we worked in a haze and ended early to return home and CNN. The play opened in November to excellent reviews and we had bonded for life.
I was in the hospital waiting for my second child. I didn't know about it until I saw on the TV with my wife and my second son. So I'll always remember the exact date of this incident. It happened that my third child also born on this date but only different year. What a very memorable date for me, my family & the whole world!
Now, I'm thinking of putting the photo of my two special kids on my blog/website (www.ringgithit.com).
I was home in bed asleep. I live on the west coast and it is three hours earlier here. My son came in and woke me and said Grandma was on the phone and that terrorists had flown a plane into the World Trade Center. As I was on the phone talking to my mother and watching the television, the second plane hit. I remember feeling like I was watching it in slow motion. It seemed so unreal at first. It was difficult to believe that this was not a movie but a live newscast. We were all shocked beyond belief.
Another date that will live in infamy, to paraphrase FDR. Another day to remind us to watch our backs. Also to remind us that terrorists don't play by the rules; don't tell the truth; don't abide by peace treaties; are cowards who hide behind women and children, etc. They don't care who dies in order to achieve their objectives. They seem to be sociopathic, psychotic and fanatical. And those are their good qualities!
Alexandria,Va a few miles from the Pentagon, I was outside when the plane hit the pentagon, and heard the boom. We could see the smoke from where we were at very clearly for days afterwards. I remember being scared to drive home that day with my wife, the boss had let all of us leave early. I rememeber having to cross the Woodrow Wilson Bridge (according to the radio media it was targeted) to get back to Annapolis, Maryland. Military planes flying all over the place, the local radio media making it sound like there was more to come. A plane was spotted crashing near the Whitehouse according to the radio media, fires all over downtown it was pandemonium. Scary stuff. Ultimately most of what the radio was saying that day in DC, did not happen.
I was at work in Arlington, VA in a building that overlooked the Pentagon. All of us at work, stood by the windows watching in horror at the thick cloud of smoke rising from the Pentagon. The PA system suddenly announced that we were to all vacate the building immediately. We were all standing outside the building with nowhere to go as the subways and bus system were shut down and all roads to Washington DC and towards the Pentagon were closed to traffic. But in this chaos, people came together to help each other as drivers stopped by a crowd of strangers on the sidewalks and offered rides to wherever they were heading. In this way, I was able to get to my car parked at a subway garage miles away. I then turned around and went back to Arlington to offer rides to people to wherever they needed to go.
Well I was in the process of getting my diploma from RETS Institute of Technology. I seen when the first plane hit the first tower. I immediately called my mother and told her about what had happened and she turned on the news. After the initial shock of what took place, we were released for the day to go home and be with our loved ones. We will never forget those that parished on that day and will always be in our thoughts and prayers.
On Christopher street in the village on my way to work at NYU. Luckily I wasn't at home, which was two blocks from the world trade on Chambers Street. I didn't see my home for a week, when I did I had 10 minutes with a National Guard to take an elevator running on CNN's generator (they were using the roof of my apartment building) to clean out the fridge, grab some personal belongings and water the orchid. I stayed in Brooklyn for a month waiting to be able to move back in.
I was at work, in Balitmore, MD. My boss was such a prankster that we didn't believe him at first. I will never forget that I was wearing a t-shirt that says "Bomb Technician, if you see me running try and keep up. I had a spare shirt I kept there in case I had to leave the office and go to a customers office for a trouble call. Needless to say I changed the shirt.
I was at work standing next to my radio during my first break.I went and grabed a co-worker as this had just happened with the first plane.A few of us had gathered around and heard the news casters as the second plane hit.Horrified and shocked,how could this be happening to the U.S.?Yea I had worried about being attacked but not like this!People need to look in deeper through the internet as too what really happened that day.Who really attacked us?
I was moving into my first apartment after being sidelined for two years with panic attacks. The cable guy was scheduled to come at 9:00, so during the attacks I had no television or radio. My phone wasn't working, either, so when the cable guy came at 10:00 he told me what had happened. He had family in NYC, and was so distraught that both of us just watched the TV for an hour after he hooked it up. I went to NYU and knew many of the victims. Needless to say, I had to move back in with my parents as my panic attacks returned and continue to this day.
I was in the classroom with my middle school student. I had to watch it from another room because the other teacher in the classroom thought that the Special Ed kids would have a hard time understanding and would get paniced. The other teacher was also having a hard time because her brother was in New York. And another brother was in Pennsylvania and she didn't have the details of the plane crash there. It was a very tough day for everyone
I was in the car in the parking lot of Waldbaum's food store. With my girlfriends 2 year old in the back seat singing, Ring around a Rosy. The radio was telling about the 1st then 2nd plane crashing into the Towers. I remember
thinking, that behind me in the back seat was such sweet innocence and in front of me from the radio was such evil.
I was wondering how do you go from being such an innocent child to becoming someone that can be so evil. That you couldn't possibly have had love in your heart at anytime in your life and turn into someone that is capable of trying to destroy other peoples spirits,hopes,dreams,and families.
I was bringing my daughter to school when the first plane hit and i had no idea what was going on. I got home to watch my favorite morning shows and turned on the tradgedy. I watched as the second plane hit and there was a great since of pain and emptiness. As if it werent real. I will never forget 9/11.
I was working nights, so I was in bed trying to get some sleep in the Dallas, TX area when my oldest son called from Orlando, FL area to tell me what was happening.
His initial words were that "we are under attack"!
At first I thought he was pulling my leg. I turned the TV on just in time to see the frist WTC building come down!
From 90 thru 94 I went through the Path station in the basement of the WTC twice a day.
I still have trouble seeing the NY sky line with the twin towers!
May God be with the families & friends of those who died and those who have been affected by 9-11!
God bless you and encourage you, so that you can pass the encouragement to others in their time of need!
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have Everlasting Life".
I was working in Bermuda at the Fairmont Southampton Princess Resort getting the beach bar ready to open. I had the radio on and I thought I was listening to a fake program like HG Wells War Of The Worlds. It was all so surreal. As the events unfolded we realized that it was really happening. What a sad day.
I was holding my three month old baby and was caring for two other young children at the time. I had the Today show on and I remember them showing the WTC with the damage from the first plane, and just then the second plane hit live. I did not no what was going on. Then the news started rolling in about the pentagon, and the "missing" plane (that ended up crashing in PA) I just held all three children close ,and tried not to show how upset I was in front of them. I also called my husband at his office and ask him if they knew what was going on. None of his office had heard anything yet, I told him to turn on a tv. They all crowded into the lunchroom to watch the news together. I spent the rest of the day watching the news and calling family and friends. I will never forget that day.
I was on my way to work, with my carpool buddy, when we heard the reports of the first plane hitting the WTC. Like everybody else, we thought it was an accident, until we heard about the second plane. I remember exactly where we were when the second plane hit. We were on the offramp to our exit for the office. One of our co-workers, who had been telecommuting for some time, had a radio in his cube, so I turned it on to follow the news. I had been listening for some time when I turned around, to find that a small crowd had gathered behind me.
The elite of American political life will, I understand be at ground zero of the WTC on the morrow, Sept. 11th. No one has ever mentioned openly that 9/11 is the same numbers and date as 911 the police national emergency network telephone number. Why, because they lying about the disasters on the date because the NJ/NYC police and FBI are covering up for them acting on TV. They are doing the same for television personalities. Why, because they are to small, cheap and petty. That ain't worth dying for in a skyscraper tragedy. The current President of the USA or any President of the USA is a grunt/flunky for big media interest. Hillary Clinton's popularity with the media is an abomination.. The American politician is a ****** who wants to glorify himself/herself with book contracts for stuff that no one is going to read. Me, why, because I do not believe my wife died naturally. I am being harassed around the clock and have been for decades.Want my wife exhumed.Want a mausoleum for her.
Mencken stated something like you can never go broke underestimating the stupidity of an American.
The presentations airing on CBS&ABC this moment will deliberately leave out facts to exclude the media's and telephone companies responsibilities in the WTC&Pentagon disasters. Radical presentations like ThePowerHour.com's were tailored made to take the burden off the media and telephone companies' shoulders who are being covered for by the NJ/NY police/FBI on a 24/7/12/365 basis. ThePowerHour alleges/suggests that a military strike took out the WTC and the Pentagon. They made this presentation to cover up television programming. They did it because the top executives of the NYC media and the Bell System were/are supposed to be arrested. They did it cover up for the their fellow media entertainers. ThePowerHour.com never mentioned a single reference to 9/11 being the same numbers and the date as 911 the police emergency network telephone number.
They are liars, about 3,300 dead.
I was surpose to be in NewYork. I was in my room watching GOOD MORNING AMERICA, when they showed the first tower,I called my grandma, and she said that that's impossible for a accident because the flight plans of the aircrafts are directed away from the city. Than while talking they interrupted LIVE to show another plane heading towards the second building, and crashing. I was stunned. I got on the bus to school ,noone knew this had happened. I brought my handheld to campus, and everyone in class didnt know, and went to the student lounge everyone was watching the big screen stunned.They cancel school and shutdown the whole city at the same time.I didnt get home until 1pm.Tons of people were calling my cell because they thought I was still in NEWYORK.We didnt I couldnt get in contact with my family in NEw York. My brother called the at 2am saying he had to walk home with his girlfriend across the brooklyn bridge,because the subway were down and the cab drivers were charging outragous $
Like Dtress1d I was working nights. I was in bed when I was awakened by the phone. When I turned on the TV and saw the second plane hit. I was in shock.
I looked out the window and it was such a clear day in Big D that I thought we were next, too.
I watched and watched, like everyone else. I could not get in touch of a person that I knew who worked at WTC 1. I was scared for her. My day was going to hell and I needed sleep. But could not, I watched the news all day long.
The only happy thing that came after that day was I finally got word from my friend. It was hard talking to her, I thought I lost my friend and she did lose a number of friends. I know for one I will never forget who attacked us.
But I will remember the heros that day. 343 is a number that I will never forget. Flight 93 will be a flight I will always remember. And to all the ones who helped their fellow brethern down flights of stairs to get them out of the building. This I will never forget.
I was on my way to work in New Jersey when the first tower was hit. Initially, it sounded like an accident and that a small plane may have hit the North Tower but when the second plane hit shortly after I reached work, it was obvious that we were under attack. I was unable to concentrate at work, especially after hearing about the other 2 planes in DC and PA. I was fielding emails from close friends in South America to assure them that no one in the family was in NYC at the time and that we were all safe. I left work early and met my then 7 yr old son at school to explain to him what had happened. They had not been told as there was no way to know if any of the children in the school had parents that worked in the Towers. A son of my parent's neighbors was in the South Tower but fortunately was on a very low floor and was able to escape early in the disaster. He ran to the ferry terminals and was evacuated to NJ.
on 9/11/2001, I was supposed to be at the WTC that morning for work. I woke up late. Alarm clock didnt go off. When I got up and saw it was 8:30am, I scrambled to put up my coffee and I turned on NY1 to catch the news ad I rushed to get dressed. Pat Keirnan was reading the daily headlines and then it switched to live coverege of the WTC. When I first saw it, I thought there was a fire in the building. When the sheit hit the fan i couldnt believe it. Where I lived I could go outside and see the smoke. It was unreal. It didnt hit me until I saw the Pentagon. Sad thing, no one knew that I was supposed to be at the WTC that day - I was only told the evening before to show up for work. I would have gone, and disappeared, and no one would have known what happened to me. Today I carry an M-16.
I believe it was second period in high school, everyone was talking and I didn't really get what was going on. Then I got to class and we listened to the radio. Our school was across the water from Manhattan (I'm from Brooklyn) and all we heard was yelling and seeing smoke from across the way. When school let out later on that day all you saw around you were kids walking home.
To the dutch person...we are not arrogant americans, many of those who died were immigrants from the world over. To say we are is an insult. The WTC wa snot a result of Bush, but a 2nd attempt when the 1993 bombing failed. I wonder why do many people come to my country for what bounty we created here, then spit in our eyes because they have our freedoms that we fought for. I too am an immigrant. I chose america as my home because my Lady Liberty stands proudly for me and I will defend her. I will defend New York. I am American.
As for Islam, Islam destroyed my homeland - Kshmir. They took away the land of my people and set us to live like animals because we are Hindu. America gave me a home, an education, a Job and freedom to live. There are always two sides to a coin, look at them both. I would have responded to you in dutch, but that would be rude to everyone else.
I was in my apartment in the Bronx getting ready for work, watching the Today show when they showed it happening. Saw the second plane hit live. Didn't know what it was until they rewound the tape. At one point during the day, I went out on my fire escape and I could see the smoke rising from the south...
I was putting my 10 month old daughter in her swing when my brother-in-law told me about the first plane. I turned on the t.v. just as the second plane hit the WTC. I was in shock. I can remember looking up at the towers as a little girl and thinking they went straight up to heaven. I took my daughter out of her swing and held her the entire day. When I went to work that night, all we did was watch the t.v. and cry. The town was quiet. There was no traffic, other than occasional sobbing, you could here a pin drop. I took my nearly six year-old daughter outside this morning to light a candle, and once again, I didn't want to let go of her.
I was in the army, deployed to Al Jabber air base in Kuwait. I think it was actually late in the evening Sep. 11 there. I cant really remember. I do remember that I was trying to Quit smoking the previous few days, but things got a little crazy after that, i felt like "smokes" were the only things that seemed familliar to me. The Airmen that we lived with on that air base went from civilians in uniforms (the air force lives REALLY nice) to somthing allmost Marine like. And when that happens, you know somthing is wrong. A strange day indeed.......
To starpoet: I don't know where you are from, but today is not a day to make jokes about. Could you be anymore insensitive? If this day means nothing to you, then don't post anything about it. Did you ever the comment "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything'? Your jokes are disrespectful to everyone who lost their lives this day, and to all of the friends, families and Americans who still grieve the loss.
I remember I just got out of my first class at GSU and while walking through the cafeteria to get breakfast I saw dozens of people crowded around the television. After looking at the TV I could see the trade center on fire and the caption below that said "World Trade Center." At first I thought, "Damn, another terrorist bombed the trade center." That was seconds befor I witnessed the second plane hitting the other tower. When I got to me second class, I looked it up on CNN.com. The school was closed 30mins later and everyone was sent home.
I was watching Good Morning America and watched with millions as the 2nd plane crashed into the 2nd building, I called my partner at work and told him what had just happened in tears and as I told him what was going on he was repeating it to his staff who did not know anything had happened. Finally after awhile they started getting other phone calls and watching on their computers. After I hung up the phone I simple set in my chair and cried for hours. Then I called my parents and we talked for a long time. Peace To ALL
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In my bedroom with my husband shocked and awed by it all