9/11 - Where were you?

[Oldschool]

On the factory floor wiring machines.

We were told something was happening in the USA.

A lunch we were call into the offices where management had set up a TVs to the news.

Once we were told and shown what was happening we returned to work.

It was very quiet.....

I have never seen a place so hush and around 2 pm we stopped again and ended the day without permission.
At that point we all knew it was at the very least state sponsored terroism and we were going to war. Not much debate as typical for Canadians where the discussion of foreign wars is concerned.

I have often wondered how things today might be different had that morning never happened. We got to see an real ugly side of humanity real close and personal.

 

[C9H13NO3]

Was eating breakfast with my sister, brother, and mother in NYC when the first plane hit.

We went to the person we were staying with's apartment, where I saw both towers go down.

 

[Neck]

I showed up at work just after the second plane hit, and just before the first tower started to fall. The TV in the lunchroom was on as it always was when I walked in, and all the occupants of the shop were watching. Someone explained what had happened but it just couldn't couldn't sink in. Nobody new anything about terrorism in the U.S. then so all we could think of was a terrible accident, but how could there be two planes?! and then the first tower came down. I wouldn't have believed it was possible if I hadn't seen it happen. Not much work got done anywhere in the entire city that day. Before that day I could drive a city truck into the Rose Bowl at will during New Years activities. After that day, you wouldn't believe what you have to go through just to get down the road to it!

 

[catfishman]

i was out fishing on the missouri river, i started hearing tornado sirens, but the sky was clear and sunny, i just thought they were maybe testing them, then i got home and started watching the tv for hours, then 2 weeks later i get laid off from my job.

 

[Tom S.]

I had just gotten out of bed (PDT here) and turned on the news to watch while I had breakfast. It was horrible.

 

[Oldsalt]

Was in a lab acting like I knew what I was doing. A friend from engineering came running in with the news. Said there were a TV set set up to watch. I didn't want to see it. But to no avail. In the coming days there was no way to hide from the horror.

 

[dobber]

I was at work, At Gateway Computers Inc in North Sioux City South Dakota. I was a Production Team Leader at the time. We first heard about the first plane, and turned on every tv in the place to see what was up. I was watching when the second plane hit the Towers and right then in there we had a Supervisors meeting and shut the plant down and sent everybody home.

Later that morning I was at my house in Sioux City IA, and heard a large plane and Jets, so I went out side to see what it was. What I saw was a Air Force 1, and 2 fighter Jets escorting it. Not sure if it was the real deal or if it was a Decoy, but we are not that far out of the flight path to Offutt Air Force Base. Also we are home of the 185th. So It could have been the real deal.

 

[alexp]

In my second week of 3rd grade. i had no idea what was happening at the time.

 

[Quickdraw]

I was on a commutor train heading to work

 

[DZLBIKE]

Later that morning I was at my house in Sioux City IA, and heard a large plane and Jets, so I went out side to see what it was. What I saw was a Air Force 1, and 2 fighter Jets escorting it. Not sure if it was the real deal or if it was a Decoy, but we are not that far out of the flight path to Offutt Air Force Base. Also we are home of the 185th. So It could have been the real deal.

It was the real deal, Bush was being escorted by two F16's out of the Texas ANG, if I remember correctly.

 

[45t]

I was on my way to work listening to "Man Cow" on the radio, a local shock jock in Chicago back then. He had annonced that he was going to pull the all-time biggest radio prank on 9-11. He broke into his regular scheduled program and announced that this was not a prank and that NY was being attacked. Of course I didn't belive him until the second plan hit the towers and he freaked out on the radio. Between the shreeking and long moments of silence on the radio, I knew something was wrong. When I got to work I turned on the lunch room TV and sat watching in disbelief. The Director came in and said that if what was going on was too much to handle that all the staff could go home if they wanted. I stayed and tried to work but it was too hard to concentrate when so much was going on and so many innocent people had lost thier lives. I kept finding myself in the lunch room watching and seeing more and more devastation with the flight over pennsilvania and the pentagon. I felt sick and numb with grief.

 

[jesse8931]

I do remember getting picked up from school and we went to the movies probally not to scare us kids I was in 7th grade and my sister in 5th

 

[Jeff Clark]

In Lake Havasu City at my shop listening to Howard Stern, Robin got on and told Howard a plane just hit one of the towers. Sad day indeed.

 

[ratrod1313]

I was working at XL specialty percussion in a small machine shop listening to some music when a coworker from the assembly department came and told me what was up. I thought she meant a cessna or some small plane. Then she told me another plane hit and i turned on wowo on am and litened to that as the towers came down. I knew deep in my stomach we were under attack. Remember feeling, sick, disgusted, and angry all at once. I went home and became a news junky. All i did was watch the horror and remember being upset when tv returned to normal.

 

[Oldschool]

I was working at XL specialty percussion in a small machine shop listening to some music when a coworker from the assembly department came and told me what was up. I thought she meant a cessna or some small plane. Then she told me another plane hit and i turned on wowo on am and litened to that as the towers came down. I knew deep in my stomach we were under attack. Remember feeling, sick, disgusted, and angry all at once. I went home and became a news junky. All i did was watch the horror and remember being upset when tv returned to normal.

Thats the impression I was left with when we started to hear what was happening in your country.
Small plane or something.

It was not long after that when that Katrina storm hit I turned off my TV and never watched it again.

TV is something that too easily manipulates you.
And the images are simplyt to hard to watch for me now.
I can't watch movies or TV if there are children or women being abused or mistreated.
Recently I watch this film at work ( on lunch break ) call "the road".
I am not the hard boiled person I used to be.
Empathy is something I feel deaply now and watching people suffer without doing something about it is just too hard.

Since the horrors and hardships of this past decade I have tried to be a better person.
I do a few nights a month at the food bank.
I give what I can to the USW humanity.
I tried to raise my boy to see violence as a cowards way out.

Of course he likes guns and violence and the violent games on the computer.
So in some respects I failed.
He knows I don't hunt like I used to and I try to explain to him its because I don't like to see anything people or animals suffer.

Some would call my change very liberal and left wing.
I don't think so.
I love a good feed of fish but I can't stand seeing even a bass in a cooler gasp as its out of the water waiting for me to clean it....

2000 to 2010 you were a decade of bloodshed and mysery I wish I could forget......

 

[Tom S.]

In my second week of 3rd grade. i had no idea what was happening at the time.

That's the spot I was in when President Kennedy was assassinated. I was in 1st or 2nd grade. I guess I knew what had happened, but was just irked that there was nothing fun on TV and everyone was grumpy.

 

[alexp]

That's the spot I was in when President Kennedy was assassinated. I was in 1st or 2nd grade. I guess I knew what had happened, but was just irked that there was nothing fun on TV and everyone was grumpy.

Well my parents explained it more. Because my aunt was in the second tower but thankfully she escaped when the first tower was hit and was on the 40th floor when the second plane hit!

 

[Spyderdregg]

I was working at a discount store at the time.The store had small TV's above each register line all tuned to CNN(So the customers had something to watch while standing in line)That day I was stocking the Dairy cooler when I heard someone said"A plane just hit the world trade center"
A couple of us ran up front and there it was on 8 screens,the first tower burning.A few minutes later the whole store,customers and workers alike,watched the second plane hit.
I swear no one seemed to even breath for what was like an eternity,no one could believe what had just happened,
I really hated working at that place,and now I will never forget it because of that day.

 

[JOHN R GANG]

Me and 2 employees were installing a new HVAC system in an old mansion in Detroit for an architect on 09/11/2001
All we had was WWJ AM radio playing. By the time the news trickled down to us, it was 9:15 AM.
I knew enough to send my guys home post-haste to be with their families and prepare for war.
To my horror, but not surprise, an early local news report told of a restaurant full of arabics in dearborn cheering when the first tower collapsed.
Try to find that video....

 

[ratrod1313]

i remember seeing the videos from all around the world. ppl partying like the last jihad was starting. well, they poked the wrong giant and 10 years later we are still at war and several of the other countries are in revolt.