Where were you???????????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9PwWkV4HQ4As for me: I was suppost to got to work (I had a load on my truck and took the day before off and was suppost to leave out on my way to Temple TX on that morning)!
I called the company and told them that the load was going to be a day late as I was not going to leave out that day. They understood!
I was just too tore up to even think about driving the truck that day!
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I was awakened from a deep sleep by a woman's voice screaming "Rusty you get better down here now!"!! She was already unlocking the safe and yelling at the kids to get in the house...
That woman wasn't much good for anything else but she would go down fighting for sure!!!0 -
I was working hoot cleaning a warehouse and slept through it. Finally found out about it around 4 in the evening. 0 -
I was just getting off work (3rd shift). I didn't find out what happened until I got home.......Then I sat there with my familly in shock[:0]...... 0 -
On September 11, 2001
I was forman of an erection crew. as it was 7:00am on my side of the country, a few of us had just finished rollin out our gear for the day and a semi that had been full of steel at 6am just pulled away headed back for another load.
The boss boss and crane operator had just returned from another job and As i exspected he would jump out of his truck and into the crane and fire her up for the day. He did not, he called us all over and we spent the next hour listening to the events on the radio. I believe that tower one had just fallin, I can remeber feeling very NUM as i listen to the reports of people throwing them selves out of 80+ story windows.
Have being an iron worker and understanding the ways steel can be stressed and fail. I can't imaging what it must of felt like to have the floor literally fall out from underneath those trapped inside and then to think of the floors above, then another and another pancaking atop them. I felt very small snd insignificant in the world that day. as I do every year when the aniversary of 9/11 rolls' around.
God bless those who died and those who risk there lives everyday to save the lives of others.0 -
I will never forget that morning; it is one of the time that get burned into your memory. I was 15 years old and a sophomore in high school. Every morning I would wake up and turn the tv on in my room as I dressed and prepared myself for the day; but 9-11-01 was different.
I flicked on the tv and got out of bed to find something to wear, it took me about 30 seconds to realize that something was different about the local mornig show that I watched, At that time only the first tower had been hit and they were not sure why it happened. I went into my parents bedroom to wake up my mom and as doing so turned the tv on. About a minute after turning on my moms tv the second plain hit. I then knew something was very wrong. At the time I knew very little of politics and war. I did not understand what it meant. I have learned a lot since that day. Thank you to all the men and women who keep us safe and free! Your sacrafices will be remembered0 -
Working in an elementary school, where my children attended. Stopped at my parents house that morning, for some reason, shortly after the first plane hit. Figured it was an accident. Went on a home visit to one of my student's parents, with the school psychologist. Parent is easilly one of the top 3 most disturbed people I ever want to meet. She met us at the curb, just raving,"Oh my God! You have to see this! This is historical!" babbling and ranting, excitedly, on and on..... Watched it at the home for a while, then decided to preemt the visit, as we were likely needed back at the school, and the parent's reaction was just too surreal compared to our reactions.
Arrived to find staff had gathered around a TV, trying to decide whether school should just close, as we had a steady stream of panicked parents coming and taking their kids home. We decided it would be best to continue the school day as planned. The little ones didn't need to be home watching it all unfold, might find it and the reactions of adults confusing, frightening. Older students were allowed to watch the newscasts the rest of the day.
Most vivid recollection from that day: the complete absence of vapor trails in a crystaline, blue sky....0 -
I was at the Outer Banks of North Carolina...starting our two week vacation the sat before, and getting the last min. details worked out for our wedding that night at 6:00pm on the beach at the shipwreck Coquina..that was the only good thing to happen that day except for the lives that were saved by all the heros in NY..GOD BLESS all who perished and especially the ones left behind..and the good men and women who have gone on since..Loko[;)] 0 -
I was offshore in the Gulf of Mexico on a platform. I'd just swapped tools and we were running in the hole. It was hot so I went inside to get a drink and saw one of the twin towers smoking. I asked the platform operators what movie they were watching and they replied that it wasn't a movie it was really happening. Just then the second plane hit. The only wording I can describe I was feeling was stunned.
Later that day we were told to rig down asap we had to catch a chopper to get in. Chopper landed and we started flying in and the pilot told us he got told over the radio to put the chopper down at the next possible moment or they would put us down for good. We landed and then eventually were allowed to fly back to the platform we had been working on.
To be honest I was real edgy being out in the middle of the Gulf with that going on. Three days later I think we were allowed very controlled flights in and the chopper was allowed to fly to its headquarters and that was it.
I'll never forget the details that morning. Even down to what the living quarters looked like and how the platform was layed out. God bless the victims....We won't forget.0 -
My base had just started a Deployment Operational Readiness Exercise the day prior and I was just finishing up an overnight shift. Was supposed to go home at 0800...we had the tv on as always in the Medical Control Center and all watched the first tower burn and thought that it had to be a terrible accident.
When the second plane slammed into the tower we realized that this was a terrorist attack unfolding. I can still hear the hospital commander standing behind me softly say "Our world has just changed people...we are now at war".
We quickly shifted from an exercise mode to real-world mode and spun up all our personnel for possible deployment to augment either rescue/recovery efforts in NYC and DC or to supplement our forces in the Middle East. It was the first time I can remember actually pulling the realworld DEFCON notebook out of the safe and picking up the secure phone to the Air Combat Command Operations Center and actually upgrading our DEFCON posture and going to THREATCON DELTA in the states.
Definitely a day that I will never forget...and I hope that no one does.0 -
Standing in my backyard, watching the buildings burn and the ashes falling on me...........[V][V][V] 0 -
I was headed north going through our little town about 7.am with a 330 Cat hoe on my lowbed when a friend came on the cb and told me to turn my am radio on. I will say it took a moment or two to sink in.
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There teaching school, walking down the hall and I heard one teacher say to another, "You have to think, if they can get hold of one airplane what else can they do?" I felt a chill come over me and I knew that something terrible had happened.
I went to an empty classroom and watched it on TV. Saw the towers fall. My sister and brother in law worked in NYC at the time and often had meetings in the towers. I spent the rest of the day trying to get them on the phone. I found out later that they finally got home at 7:00 in the morning. The NYPD had commandered all the ferries and were using them to ship people across the river. My sister said all the windows on the ferries were blown out and broken glass was everywhere. She said there were probably about 10 thousand people waiting to go across the river, and it was as silent as a tomb.
My wife was home sick in her apartment in Arlington. She said it shook like a semi had hit her building. She had been watching it on TV and the Pentagon crash happened and she said she was sure she was going to die.
The worst part of it all was only a year and a half ago, when the trial of the 20th hijacker was going on, I looked in the paper and saw a man I'd done a lot of volunteer work with years before. He was, and is, a tremendous man, quiet and soft-spoken, hard-working, very thoughtful, and his daughter was an absolute delight. She was very quiet and I used to joke with her that I was going to have to lower her grade because she didn't answer enough questions in class. Well, the man's wife, the girl's mother, had been killed at the Pentagon. Burned to death. He was speaking out at the trial and urging the prosecution to go for the death penalty. I felt just absolutely awful that that wonderful man and girl had lost her. What a terrible thing.0 -
Read about the first plane on the internet. Figured no big deal, just a single engine plane, pilot error. Then it came across about a plane hitting the other tower. Immediately turned on the TV and watched in absolute horror as the events unfolded. My wife was a wally world shopping. I called her and told her to get home. I remember watching the NBC correspondent at the Pentagon reporting from inside the building, and pausing in his report, and saying something like, "Wow! That felt like an earthquake!" Then found out it was hit. About lunch, after it had all played out, opened the church. About 25 people came in and we spent the rest of the day in prayer. I remember wondering what kind of world my children were going to grow up in. I knew for a fact that the "innocence" I had grown up with was gone forever. The days ahead were pretty sobering. 0 -
I was home, watching the news, as it happened - Pacific Time - and I couldn't believe it. I tried to reach each om my three Sons who were in the Service and couldn't.
DougII was a WMD expert stationed on the East Coast, and was flown to NYC. SonDave was in LeMoore, Ca with a Navy F18 unit which flew to the boat and did CAP for the West Coast, and Darren was at HQ First ID, which went on alert.
Was not able to reach them for quite awhile.
Read my sig line.
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quote:Originally posted by njretcop
Standing in my backyard, watching the buildings burn and the ashes falling on me...........[V][V][V]
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At work building custom log trusses for a house we were building, heard it on the radio, and got more info about it from my friends wife over the phone as she watched on tv. I remember exactly where we were and what we were doing and how unbaleavable it seemed. 0 -
I was just leaving class for lunch, about 11am. A buddy of mine called and told me to turn the radio to a certain station (I was listening to a CD). I remember driving for a 1/2hr in total silence.
I'll never forget it.0 -
Where were you???????????
I have an ironclad alibi. Don0 -
...I was on the firing line at thepolice range conducting range qualifications, when one of the guys showed up and made us aware of the attacks. My first call was to my parents to ask them if anything was on tv, they were not aware of the situation unfolding around the country. They became glued to the tv, I went on with my job at hand but you can guess the topic of conversation the rest of the day.
Ironic, we tell people to call 9-1-1 for emergencies, do you think there was a message in 9/11/2001?
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I forgot... 0 -
i was building a club house at a golf course 2 miles away from a plant that makes rocket motors and other destructive devices that are used in iraq
GOD! BLESS THE USA0 -
I was eating breakfast at the table with my mom when the second plane struck the tower. We were not sure what we had just witnessed. Then I was sitting in Mr Martinez's art class at my high school when the towers fell. I will never forget that moment, thinking that there was no way this could be real. 0 -
Talking to a new customer on the phone.
Told him what was on the news.
He didn't believe me.0 -
I was in Ft Sill in AIT. Running morning PT when the first plane hit, and eating chow when the second hit. 0 -
I was at home, in bed. My wife came in, woke me up, and I got to see the second plane go into the tower. Watched all day.[:(!] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by njretcop
Standing in my backyard, watching the buildings burn and the ashes falling on me...........[V][V][V]
Watching it on tv was bad enough... I must say I'm glad I didn't have your view!!!0 -
Woke up in time to see second plane hit on TV, went to class at UH, and still had 2 months left of my IRR. 0 -
I work on an active duty US Army installation. That morning I was with about 40 other government employees in a training class watching an on line video conference from an education facility within the Pentagon. Right around the time the plane struck the Pentagon our video went blank, and no one knew what was happening. They gave us a break while the geek squad tried to figure out what went wrong with the program. I took my time getting out of the class room, and when I did a fellow coworker came running up to me in tears saying that she had heard that two planes had struck the trade center buildings, and that a bomb had been dropped on the Pentagon. I had to have looked at her like she had two heads. She knew I was an LEO, and she was looking for me to give her a warm & fuzzy feeling that all would be OK. Heck, I didn't have very good feeling ether, so I went into a class room everyone was crowding into that had a TV, and started watching the news on CNN. When the first tower fell I quickly departed the class, and went straight back to work. Upon getting to my office building I found out that all the other supervisors were already in a meeting at the Head Quarters building with the Division Command Staff. Everyone was asking me what they needed to do, so I went into my boss's office where his phone was ringing off the wall, sat down and turned on his TV. When I did I got to see the second building fall, and it finally dawned on me that this was an act of war, and our threat level would be increased. My boss called and told me what our threat level was, and that I had to ensure everyone implemented the security steps that came with the increase. One of them was to have every vehicle parked within certain proximity of any building moved or towed. That was a logistical nightmare to say the least. Guards had to be placed on critical areas, and everyone entering any building had to have valid identification. All our entry gates were closed, and we backed up traffic for miles with people trying to get into work. Every vehicle was stopped and thoroughly searched. There were certain military units that were given a green light for clearance, and when they came & went anywhere they were given police escorts to ensure they were not held up. I am kind of proud to say, that some of our folks were the first ones to have boots on the ground in Afghanistan. I will not say exactly how fast they were there, but I am not talking in days, I'm talking in hours. I didn't go back home for over 48 hours.
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Bird hunting.. good day too ..shot a bunch of doves. 0 -
I was asleep, I did not get home till 3:00 AM and I had schuduled the day off, my wife rushed into our room and told me, I spent the rest of the day stuck to the TV watching the footage over and over. 0
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