9/11 - Never Forget

[Grimpala]

I was in college at the time. Stopped by the fraternity house to pick up a brother to head to our morning classes, saw the news in the living room and didn't leave the house til that afternoon. I don't think we were counted absent in class that day.

Everyone met at the house and watched the news most of the day. I remember trying to buy gas to get home that night and the lines around the corner at the pumps.

No one knew what we were going to do, but we knew we were going to do it together as a nation.

If only we could muster that comradery today.(without a huge life ending/changing event)

[David]

As time progresses by I forget more and more about what I was doing. I remember bits and pieces of the day, but overall it's not something I remember to a T.

[juiceweezl]

I was driving to work coming down 75 just south of Van Alstyne. I pulled over on the side of the road immediately trying to call my dad. He was flying that day from Charlotte to Philly and was in the air then. I was scared to death. They landed in D.C. which became even more frightening. He made it back home safely (had to rent a car and drive), but I can't imagine what the family of those in the towers and on the flights were going through.

I'm 42, and I remember exactly where I was and what was happening the day the Challenger exploded, the day Columbia exploded, and the day of the 9/11 attack. Those things stick with you.

[diablo rojo]

I was pulling into the parking lot at work in North Richland Hills when news of the first tower came in. I remember parking, and going straight to the break room to turn on the TV. It hadn't been on for more than a minute when the next plane hit. Nobody in the room could say anything for a bit.

I took the TV into the shop, and slowly worked while the day unfolded. We didn't have any customers, and I remember stepping outside after the no fly order was put out, and remarking at how quiet it was. I remember everything about that day.

[diablo rojo]

If you want to experience the spirit of New York City, and the country, from the days following 9/11....watch The Concert for New York City. Almost 5 hours of some of the greatest performances, and documentaries from Spielberg, Scorsese, etc.

The event was held at Madison Square Garden for police, fire, port authority, and rescue workers.

[SS Junk]

Worked in DC for XM radio at the time. They were not on the air yet and were planning their debut on Sept. 12. I had to go into work the night of the 11th and remember Constitution Ave. being shut down and having to navigate fucked up DC streets all the way across town. The entire city was a ghost town. No cars or people were anywhere around. I was the only one driving around. Once I got into DC before the detour I could smell the acrid smoke from the Pentagon. Fucking eerie.

[helosailor]

I was here (just off the east coast):


And we were prepared to unleash some of these if ordered to do so:

[4king]

I was about 17 at the time, my classes started later than my brother and sister, so my mom got home from dropping them off and turned on the morning news like she always does to see the world Trade Center on fire. She came up stairs and woke me up, I came down to watch it and I remember being upset about being woken up early when a small plane probably just crashed into a building. I had literally just said that and we both watched a second later live the second plane striking the tower.

Seeing it live, young, I couldn't fathom why some one would kill themselves and an entire plane full of people to blow up a building. It's something that shook me that day, being 17 I couldn't imagine killing yourself to hurt innocent people, that the world could be so crooked

And yeah she still made me go to school. We watched TV on the projector in English class as the towers fell, and showing up to school and people saying the pentagon got hit too really shook everyone up, what's next, where, why


Watching everything happen live, it shook everyone up. I can remember teachers crying, leaving the room. Some of my teachers even left for the day and I can still remember none of my friends and I left, or skipped classes. Our third period math teacher went home and we all just sat in the classroom dead silent quietly discussing everything that was happening. Why go home when all of us were there together to experience it and not hide from it by yourself. It was a dead silent day in highschool, not even any chatter between classes

[AdRock]

i had been laid off from my job the week before here in San Antonio. I was woken up that morning by call from grandmother. When i answered she asked me if i was ok? In a daze i said "yeah, I'm fine, why? Then she said "there was an attack and i wanted to make sure you were ok". What the hell..... so i turned on the tv, told her i was fine, and we hung up. Right after i hung up i watched live as the second plane hit. I sat in front of the tv in shock almost till the next morning.

[LS1Goat]

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[Rick Modena]

I'll be there in 2 weeks.

[sc281]

Never forget. She won't.

[sc281]

[Big Dad]

what a shitty day, week,month and more that was ..

rotten fuckers and still to this day lots of unknowns, wonder what we have never been told .

[juiceweezl]

RIP to so many. I was at Ground Zero again last summer. Such a reverent place. Sadly, we're still fighting those same vermin today. God, protect those that protect us!