9/11 Dark day for America

[shortyb]

I know today seems to be foreshadowed a bit by the events that happened yesterday in Utah. However, I know most (if not all) will never forget what happened to this country, and the great loss we suffered, 24 years ago today. Lot of healing since, but the memory remains.

I was working that day at my agency in VA when it happened. Several of us were tasked with responding to the Pentagon to help do what we could. Don't ever want to see anything like that again as long as I live, nor the smell.

 

[ATex7239]

I’ll never forget it. I was sitting in my second period computer science class in high school and they stopped class to turn on the TV so we could watch it. The teacher said kids you are watching history unfold in real time. Bone chilling. I might have never joined the military if it wasn’t for that day. Wasn’t really on my radar. For sure changed the course of my life forever.

 

[Rand]

I still remember where I was and what I was doing.. I cant remember what I had for dinner last week.

 

[Pew]

I still remember where I was and what I was doing.. I cant remember what I had for dinner last week.

Same. I was walking to the bathroom in 5th grade; I didn't understand at all what was happening.

Now it's all surreal.

 

[Pablo]

I was driving to work, flipped the radio on to all hell breaking loose.

 

[walterjay]

I was turning into a road at an intersection.

 

[buster]

I was working and across my computer terminal the news scroll bar we had said a plane hit the World Trade Center. I looked at my manager at the time and we both thought it was just small plane that accidently hit the building. Little did we know at that time it was far worse.

 

[Dave Sherman]

I was reading e-mails in the cubicle farm where I worked when somebody said they had just heard a plane had crashed into the WTC. I remember thinking it had to be a terrible accident, but when the second one hit it was clear it was no accident.

 

[I<3oil]

I’ll never forget it. I was sitting in my second period computer science class in high school and they stopped class to turn on the TV so we could watch it. The teacher said kids you are watching history unfold in real time. Bone chilling. I might have never joined the military if it wasn’t for that day. Wasn’t really on my radar. For sure changed the course of my life forever.

I just came out of Physics as a Senior. Our tvs in the commons were showing it. Went home for lunch with my gf and by then, obviously both towers were gone....I told her, "welp, we're going to war." I joined a year later on 9/11/02.

 

[Rand]

I had just moved out to an apartment.
it was my day off..
I was upgrading my pc to 768MB ram.. and it was causing out of ram messages
(that version w95 didn't like more than 512MB )

I was online on a MUD* and someone said a plane had hit the WTC.. so I turned on the TV in time for the second plane to hit.



*Multi user dungeon a text based online game

 

[AZjeff]

Don't ever forget, forever stay angry.

Our small town puts on the most amazing memorial, one American Flag for every person killed on this day, each flag has a bio of one of the victims. I'm not moved by memorials but this one is different. I'll post pics later when we come back.
Healing Field of Northern Arizona

 

[wavinwayne]

I had taken the day off work to stay home with my pregnant wife who was 2 weeks from giving birth to our first child and had been put on bed rest. We were still asleep when my MIL called and told us about the 2nd plane hitting the WTC. I remember feeling helpless and scared, but mostly ANGRY.

 

[slo town]

To this day I still can't watch anything about 9/11 because of my never ending outrage.

Scott

 

[ATex7239]

I just came out of Physics as a Senior. Our tvs in the commons were showing it. Went home for lunch with my gf and by then, obviously both towers were gone....I told her, "welp, we're going to war." I joined a year later on 9/11/02.

For sure man.

It’s people like you, me and the others I know and serviced with that makes me get so furious when people start bashing Millennials for being lazy, entitled or whatever. That’s why I unapologetically don’t sit back and just take it.

We stepped up to the plate and volunteered (not drafted) when duty called so folks can stand down with that crap as far as I’m concerned.

 

[demarpaint]

I remember it like it was yesterday, the weather here was perfect here like it is today. It was a Tuesday and I was off. Sending prayers for all those who passed that day.

 

[JeffKeryk]

I got out of bed; wifey had the tv on and said, "We've been attacked." It got worse from there.

 

[BrianF]

My wife and I were just talking about this. Just horrible.

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

Arguably the worst security lapse on all levels in US history. We just got home from Germany the night before. My sister and BIL lived a few blocks away. BIL was supposed to be there for a meeting but it was canceled.

 

[wander2039]

Job interview at AMD for a security officer position. Halfway through someone came in and told the interviewer, he switched on the TV right before the 2nd plane hit. Never forget that feeling. Going home from Austin TX to Springfield MO right after and having to fight to find a gas station. Unfortunately this event defined my career to this day.

 

[Number_35]

I was at work, and and a woman came over from Drafting and told us that an aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center in NYC.

As a history-nerd child I had heard that shortly after WW2, an aircraft had crashed into the Empire State Building, and assumed that this something similar.

A few minutes later the same woman came back and said "You guys won't believe it, but a 2nd airplane just crashed into the other tower!"

At that point I think we all realized that the world had changed forever.