Where were you on 9/11/01

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I had just finished roll call and was hanging around the office, wound up glued to the TV in the Chief's office for most of the morning. The Courthouse went on alert after the second jet crashed. What a day!
We are honoring the victims tomorrow at our Mopar Southern Classic. Everyone that enters will get an American flag to fly from the side window.
 
It was my first year teaching and I was doing a grade 7/8 Phys-Ed class waiting for my teacher mentor to arrive. When he arrived him and the principal just told me what happened. Went to the TV as soon as was possible.
 
I was in construction at the time. We was building a large doctors office. My boss came on the job site and told us that a plane had crashed into the trade center. I was standing on the ceiling joists looking down at him getting ready to frame the roof with rafters. We was like "OMG!" We just thought it was a plane crash and not a terrorist attack. Then later on in the day we heard about the second plane.
 
Frankie said:
It work at my desk. My boss (at the time) was watching CNN in his office while having a coffee, and called me in shortly ofter the first plane struck. While we were watching the second hit. We both said "Bin Laden"?, simultaneously.

What was the most personally frightening thought for me was that my oldest son works in NYC, and took the subway to work about that time of day. His train passed through Penn Station (which was in the basement of the WTC). I called his cell, half not expecting to get an answer because he was on a subway. surprisingly he did answer, and had no clue what was happening.
I told he to get the hell out of there, and get away from the towers. Shortly after that we lost the signal, and I wasn't able to contact him for about 12 hours. When he finally called he told me that he spent the last 11 hours trying to get out of NYC, back to New Jersey, and all cell service was out in the area.
Needless to say it was one of the most welcomed phone calls I ever received.
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Frankie,
Just a little correction. Penn Station doesn't run through the world trade center. Your son was on the PATH system which did indeed run directly under the towers.
 
I was in 6th grade, no one at school knew, we went to our first class, then the principle called everyones attention to the news, we sat in our first class all day watching. The next week we started a donation fund and sent school councelors up to provide therapy for a few months. I also recall a few teachers that went over to Afgan.
 
I was 19 years old and working at a local lube shop. I remember that mornting because I had just got done changing a customers oil and walked in the office and seen it of tv.
 
I was in 2nd grade I think and I really dont remember much. I think they took us in the gym and I was really to young to understand it. My mom picked me up as she got off because she works for government and they were securing D.C. or something and all and I'm in the general area. Then I got home and saw it on T.V. The videos still make me sick...
 
I was off watching tv when the news broke through and showed the first tower a blaze and I watched as the second plane hit. I knew inside of me that it wasn't right, moments later it was specualted that it was an act of terrorism. I immediately called work and volunteered to come in and assist people throught he Philadelphia subways back to NJ. The incident moved me so much it changed my career path and I entered into the K9 Unit with my partner SAM. He was headed to SPCA "death row" when I saved him and turned him into one of the best explosive detection dogs in the area. He's done over a thousand searches without complaint. He's achieved numerous national certifications and done a few covert search operations. Not to shabby for a "misguided pound dog". He's defintely given back to society "hundreds of times over" in honor of those that paid the ultimate sacrifce for this country on 9/11/01.

ZooKypr
 
I was working at a Nissan dealership and first heard it on the radio. We went into the customer lounge to check it out. It was then when we watched live, the second plane fly into the second World Trade Center building.

Thats when we knew it was no accident, we were under attack.
 
Like most of the other young guys I was in 2nd grade. Didn't know about it until I was picked up at the end of the day when it was going across the car stereo.

Had no understanding of what was going on though.
 
I was on my way to a Firearms Traning Range to hold a training session and heard over my car radio that a plane hit the Trade Center Tower. Having worked in Newark and been to the top of the one tower which had an observation platform, and knowing that air traffic was pretty well controlled along the Hudson River near the towers, I knew it wasn't an accident. I stopped at a task force off-site to see if a coworker buddy of mine was coming to Firearms Training, and he had a tv on which I was watching when the second plane hit the other tower. At that point I knew the proverbial **** was about to hit the fan. I only went home over the next two months to eat, shower and change clothes to go back to work.
 
I was in Mrs Kaisers 1st grade class at draper elementery school in draper, virginia. I didn't know what happened until I got to school. Mrs Kaiser turned on the tv and we watched all day. She explained how there are bad people in this world and all they want is to hurt people. And my friend at the time perked up and said "id never do that, you can count on me mrs kaiser..." I still think about that to this day.
 
I was home safely in Peoria, AZ. Although on 09-10-01 I traveled from JFK nonstop to Phoenix on a 3pm flight with my wife and then 1 year old daughter returning from a vist to my brothers in CT. Woke up to the news on the clock radio about 7:30 ish am phx time. My older brother was stuck in CT for the remainder of the week and my parents could not drive through NY state to return to Phoenix.

Never forget!!
 
I was in Abington, Mass. working on the road doing installs for Best Buy when I heard the news come over the television at my customers home. I watched for a few minutes in bewilderment, not believing what I just was watching. After that install I was in my truck listening to the radio about the attacks on WBZ radio out of Boston. I later found out that some very good friends of my wife's were on one of the planes.May God Bless America and those families who lost loved ones that awful day. It is truly a sad time for all of the survivors to have this anniversary every year. God Bless them all.
 
340wedge said:
I had the day off and was in the bathroom. I live right against the Hudson River and in the flight path for Military Stewart Air Force Base. I hear C5's all the time low and loud but this day I heard a plane that sounded like a VERY loud reverse thrust. It was so loud I looked out the window and saw a passenger Jet barely over the tree tops. My house being on a hill, I was looking straight into passenger windows and could tell you the color of people's shirts. About 15 minutes later my wife told me a plane hit the twin towers which I figured was a Cessna or something and no big deal. It was later I realized the plane I saw one of the planes that was flying using the Hudson River as a guide to the towers that day.
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I was just over the river from you in Beacon, putting siding on a house when the plane went over. My wife was at the Doctors not far away doing her 3 hr glucose tolerance test.
The guys who's house we were working on, called us inside to watch the tv.
I left there not long after, picked up my wife and drove her home. Dropped her off at the house and headed back to Beacon on rt 84.
3 state troopers driving trucks went by me. Never have I seen them drive so fast. They turned and headed south on rt.9, apparently headed for the city.

Isn't it odd how on days like that, you can recall just about everything that happened.
 
I was at work at the GM plant in Arlington Texas watching on the TV, could see the Dallas skyline and kept looking for mushroom clouds popping up, was spooky.
 
I work Flight Dispatcher for FedEx, and had only been cleared to work solo 2 weeks prior. Like everyone else we thought initally it was a small plane, after that I dont remember a whole lot cause all HELL broke loose. I had to account for all my planes I had flying, I was getting direct instructions from Air Traffic Management to put planes the ground RIGHT NOW, trying to communicate with my crews etc etc etc. I dont know why at the time but I kept copies lot of the transmissions
 
ZooKypr said:
I was off watching tv when the news broke through and showed the first tower a blaze and I watched as the second plane hit. I knew inside of me that it wasn't right, moments later it was specualted that it was an act of terrorism. I immediately called work and volunteered to come in and assist people throught he Philadelphia subways back to NJ. The incident moved me so much it changed my career path and I entered into the K9 Unit with my partner SAM. He was headed to SPCA "death row" when I saved him and turned him into one of the best explosive detection dogs in the area. He's done over a thousand searches without complaint. He's achieved numerous national certifications and done a few covert search operations. Not to shabby for a "misguided pound dog". He's defintely given back to society "hundreds of times over" in honor of those that paid the ultimate sacrifce for this country on 9/11/01.

ZooKypr
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How cool is that! Just a throw away dog here to help humanity.

What about those people of flight 93? They need recognition! True heroes who gave their their lives so others could live.

I hate this guy's politics, but he got this one right....

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I was in college having a few beers and hitting on the ladies. When some really weird guy came up and said that the world trade center had been hit by a plane.

I gave him an odd look as if he was an idiot. I went home for lunch and flipped on the tv and i went WTF??
 
I was working nights... got off around 6am.. turned on the tv and dropped on the couch.. a couple hours later, my mother calls me and is asking if I am ok.. shes not making much sense.. She lives in ohio, I live in western Pa.. At that time all she knew was that one of the planes went down in western Pa, but she didnt know where... I still am not making any sense out of what she is telling me as I wipe the cobwebs out of my eyes, and try to figure out why New York City and their mayor is on Sportscenter (I had espn on when I crashed) .. all I see is smoke over the city skyline, and as my mother is still trying to explain, I start reading the bottom of the screen.. I too remained glued to my tv for the rest of the day.. numb.. everything changed that day...
 
Mopower71 said:
I was just over the river from you in Beacon, putting siding on a house when the plane went over. My wife was at the Doctors not far away doing her 3 hr glucose tolerance test.
The guys who's house we were working on, called us inside to watch the tv.
I left there not long after, picked up my wife and drove her home. Dropped her off at the house and headed back to Beacon on rt 84.
3 state troopers driving trucks went by me. Never have I seen them drive so fast. They turned and headed south on rt.9, apparently headed for the city.

Isn't it odd how on days like that, you can recall just about everything that happened.
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Yes it is. One of the reasons I started this thread,I thought about it today and it all came back to me so clearly.A dark day in the history of the world.
 
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