9-11, where were you?

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Thinking this morning on my way into work I was pondering where I was on the anniversary date of 9-11.

I had just woke up and hopped in the shower my radio was playing in the background but wasn't paying attention to it. Hopped in my CJ-7 at the time and one of my two jobs was at 4Wheel Farts which was 5 minutes away from home. I realized as I was driving what was going on as the second plane hit. Once I got to work we had the TV on in the showroom and everyone was watching it. I was in shock and thinking to myself, "........send in the marines lets find the bastards!" NEVER MESS WITH THE EAGLE. :skull1: :patriot::patriot:


I took my moment of silence this morning...........

What were you doing when this happened?
 
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i was at ft campbell watching the tv when it happened. we just sat there in awe, then started prepping stuff for a deployment
 
I was in my autotech class, we were changing the rear end on a old white pontiac lemans. Another instructor came in and told us. Our shop teacher being an old vet went straight to talking about war and blowing those bastards to hell in such. I kind of panicked because my dad was supposed to be flying home from business that day. All we did in school the whole day was watch the news
 
In my bed sleeping thousands and thousands of miles away
 
I was sitting in the hallway at my high school before classes started. I was a Junior at the time. A teacher came flying down the hallway and into his room. He flipped the TV onto CNN, 10 minutes later, we saw the second plane hit. No one did anything all day. We bounced from class to class and watched the news.
 
Was on the 30th floor of a skyscraper in Pittsburgh PA at work with my brother calling me (He at the time and still does live in Brooklyn NYC) telling me to get the @!$!% out of the building. Thinking of that phone call still gives me chills.

Luckily my brother works from home but my sister also lives/works in NYC and was downtown. Was a couple tense hours before anybody heard from her. I didn't loose any friends that day but my siblings did. :patriot:
 
I was a senior in high school and had just changed classes. I had a period where I just helped out the principals secretary and she had the TV on. I asked why they were destroying the WTC when the second plane hit. Being in Atlanta, a lot of the people in my school had pilots/stuardis' for parents and they started streaming in trying to call their family.
 
I was reporting to my Boat, I am in the Coast Guard and was about to report on the 20th. Then this happened and I got the call to drop my truck off in Mobile Al, and someone was going to drive me to Pascagoula MS where I would meet the boat and do security boardiings on everything trying to get in the Mississippi river from overseas.
 
TV alarm woke me up with the news. I was a senior in college, didn't go to class that day but called the prof. and told them to turn on the tv. Classes were cancelled for the rest of the day throughout school.
 
Kittrell said:
I was sitting in the hallway at my high school before classes started. I was a Junior at the time. A teacher came flying down the hallway and into his room. He flipped the TV onto CNN, 10 minutes later, we saw the second plane hit. No one did anything all day. We bounced from class to class and watched the news.
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I was in the same High School, Freshman year. I remember being in my Computer Typing class 1st period. Didn't really pay attention to the television until I watched the second plane hit. Then we all were in shock. Same thing.. went from classroom to classroom and watched the News all day. Felt like I was in a movie or something.

Scott
 
i was in Vandemburg CA. My dad worked emergency management and vandemburg is the lead base for missil defense. I was walkin out the door fro school and my dad ripped me back in the house with a bunch of instructions and phone numbers.....it was pretty crazy...i think he thought we were gonna have a huge attack that day on teh west coast too....
 
I was restraining an adolescent at work because he overheard someone else talking about the WTC (after I specifically told them to NOT talk about it around my students) because he thought they were coming for him next.
 
Woke up by a phone call. My wife's ex (they're on good terms - she's godmother to his daughter, if you can believe that...) is on Croton FD. He called to let me know something was going on...

"Gary, if this is a joke, I will walk there and f'in kill you if I have to."
(turn on TV)
"Gary - gotta go. I may get a phone call."
 
Was in 7th Grade when this happened. I was scared to death. Went to school watching the t.v. in every class.

This is what made me want to become a fire fighter.
 
I was on the drive to work when I heard a plane had hit a building in New York. I watched the second plane hit Live on the TV at work and then the buildings fall.....

Seems like yesterday, I am still amazed how many people actualy got out.
 
I was getting ready for class (2nd year of law school), having breakfast with my wife when the first plane hit -- all the news channels at that time were reporting it as an accident, so I got in the jeep and started driving to class when I heard of the second plane... flipped a U and high tailed it home, watched CNN in shock for the rest of the day, speaking often to my wife who was having a tough time keeping the special ed middle-schoolers calm.

My biggest memory of the day, aside from shock, was the feeling of utter uselessness -- there was nothing I could say or do... My grades in constitutional law improved immeasurably thereafter.
 
its crazy to think of how motivated some people became after this......
( upon graduating i walked around MEPS with my asvab and my physical results tryin to get someone to take me in....still turned down to this day cuz of a surgery i had when i was not even one yet.....)


and how easily some people blew it off like it never happened.....
 
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in4aride said:
its crazy to think of how motivated some people became after this......
and how easily some people blew it off like it never happened.....
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I hear what you mean.........


Changed many things in peoples lives throughout the US.

.......however this is not the first time this has happened. I remember a comment made that 9-11 started off like any other day and ended up being like no other.

.......ask those that were in our shoes in previous generations during pearl harbor.

Never forget as this makes us stronger and wiser.

I work in a place with 80+ people, half of them forgot what today was, I also find the only thing mentioned is the twin towers, but not to degrade that but to make people aware there was also Flight 77 that crashed into the pentagon and flight 93 that never made it to its target as some brave souls on board choose to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Rant off..................;):patriot:
 
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