Where were you and what were you doing?

[jon2]

I was at home and my brother called me. I worked the 2nd shift so I was asleep when he called. My brother was freaked out and he doesn't freak out at all. He just yelled out "TURN ON THE TV!" and when I did I saw the first tower on fire. I thought there was a big fire, than I saw the plane in teh background than WHAM! I almost dropped to my knees in pure disgust. till this day I can't stand to watch it. I had a friend that I lost in that tower. I also remeber pics being shown waving for help and then the gruesome ones where you see them falling even praying as they fell down to their deaths.

I am sorry to bring that up.It was very difficult tosee it then and has not changed now.

 

[4u2nv]

a image thats kinda burned into my head is one I saw on the newspaper the next day. It was a person who had leaped from the building who was in the fetal position, going down head 1st. The building was on fire and smoking of course, but It just made me think of how horrible it had to be up there, that jumping out of a window, pretty much guranteeing death, to leap from the window..

I have the documentary 9/11 movie that I watch every few months of so. I think its important for people to remember this. Just to not take life for granit and just remember how fast stuff changes. Seems like a different world ago since sept 11th 2001 and Sept. 10th 2001.. Country hasnt been the same.

 

[Plaidfish]

I was in shock....that would have been my regular dean Whitter pickup times when I was a bike messenger...between 8 - 10 on tues & thurs every week I was on the 72nd floor of WTC 1......my best friend worked for solomon smith in building 7 right across the street from WTC and that monday was his first day back to work after having major knee reconstruction....I just freaked until I heard from him later that night.....I lost a good friend Kareem that died in the hospital 2 weeks later and another friend Tracy who was never found.......I still have not gone back to ground zero in 5 trips to NY......I can't get much further than Canal st without feeling sick......

 

[Ryan with savage]

I was at my desk (working for a Japanese bank in London, UK) and was having lunch (it was 12.46pm here) and was browsing my usual news websites (BBC, FT, bloomberg,) and a news flash came in that there were reports that a plane had hit the WTC, I assumed it was some bozo in a Cessna or something. About 2 mins later my mum phoned and said the WTC had been hit i said "Yeah I know, was it a Cessna or something?" and she said no more like a 737. I then went up to our trading floor and watched the rest of the terrible events unfold. The UK then went into lock-down mode.

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Typically my wife never remembers anything or thinks ahead, but for whatever reason that day, she thought to pop a blank tape in the VCR and hit record. She taped the entire days news and the next two or three days as well. Even now, she can't recall what prompted her to do that (seriously, this is a woman who will put a cup of hot chocolate in the microwave to reheat it and leave there until the next morning).

She actually asked if I wanted to watch it with my son yesterday evening to show him what happened. I told her I didn't even think I was ready to watch it again, let alone expose my 7 year old to that. He's super inquisitive by nature, so I can only imagine the questions his little brain would drum up.

Maybe in five mores years I'll be ready to watch it with him.

 

[robriguez]

I have never been able to watch any of the replays. I walked out of the 9/11 movie that recently came out after only 20 min. I took the Path train downtown about a year ago and the moment it passed by ground zero I had an anxiety attack. I havent had those since I was 10. Maybe being so close or the thought of possibly losing someone close to me has made it more intense for me but its still very hard to deal with.

 

[SaVaGeR21]

i didnt know about it until about three days after it happened. i was in the 6th grade and our class went to science camp so there was no tvs or radios there. when we were about to leave to go home they just told us planes crashed into some buildings. so i didnt even kno what happened until i got home. i think me and my class that was there were the only people who didnt kno about it the day it happened in the whole world!

 

[SMaxxin]

Typically my wife never remembers anything or thinks ahead, but for whatever reason that day, she thought to pop a blank tape in the VCR and hit record. She taped the entire days news and the next two or three days as well. Even now, she can't recall what prompted her to do that (seriously, this is a woman who will put a cup of hot chocolate in the microwave to reheat it and leave there until the next morning).

She actually asked if I wanted to watch it with my son yesterday evening to show him what happened. I told her I didn't even think I was ready to watch it again, let alone expose my 7 year old to that. He's super inquisitive by nature, so I can only imagine the questions his little brain would drum up.

Maybe in five mores years I'll be ready to watch it with him.

My wife also recorded for a few days so we could show it to our son when he was old enough. Like you I'm not ready to answer all of the questions he would have, his little brain doesn't need to know about those things just yet.

 

[Jeep]

I was just out of the shower, getting dressed for work. I saw that one plane had hit, and I couldn't at that time tell that it wasn't an accident, I thought to myself 'how in the hell could a jet liner accidently hit the world trade center' then I saw on live TV the second plane hit, and of course, I realized there was nothing accidental about either. I was speechless. I'm as patriotic as anyone who ever lived. The laws may say you can legally burn a U.S. Of A. flag, but you better not try it in front of me!


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