12 years ago

peacefrompaul

I was at school... third grade...

What a tragedy... 9/11/01

xavier mcdaniel

I was working overnights at the office building across the Hudson River in Jersey City. I had worked the previous night something like 6 pm to 2 am and went through the World Trade Center concourse probably at 2:30 AM or so.

Last-12-Exit

Horrific day that changed my life, for the better.

Byrnzie

The best thing that ever happened to the Neo-cons. Like mana from Heaven, and a hundred Christmases rolled into one.

JimmyV

I was taking classes during the day and working nights. Was asleep when the first plane hit, was awoken by a phone call from my mom, and put the TV on right as the second plane hit in New York. One of the darkest days of my life had just begun.

dimitrispearljam

my sister call me.."did u saw what happen in NY??
i answer...why the hell i should know what happened at NY..
she reply.."just turn on the tv.."

turn on the tv..second aircaft fall to the tower after a couple of minutes..

worst thing i ever saw on tv.....

What a tragedy that was..

mydogmookieblaylock

i was working at my dad's restaurant. It was the oddest day to be making people lunch. We had a real small black and white tv that played all day. Everyone was quiet all day. Surreal.

ajedigecko

There are only a few days that will happen in this life - where it seems to never stop.

I went to work and explained that your parents will be best to answer your questions.

pjhawks

never forget the innocent victims of the day. god bless them and their families.

Byrnzie

Actually, I had a dream last night about the twin towers. Not because I knew it was 9/11 today though. I rarely bother checking to see what the date is, and I didn't know what the date was when I woke up this morning either until I looked at the calender on my phone. It was a sheer coincidence.
In the dream I was visiting New York and was across the bay across from where the towers used to be. As i was looking around I fell in the water and struggled not to get swept away by a rip tide. All the while some bloke was sitting on a bench chatting to me about something - i can't remember what. Eventually I clambered out of the water and then realized I'd been looking in the wrong direction, and the place where the towers used to be was on the opposite side to where I'd been looking.

Weird dream. And after I woke up and was kind of half-asleep/half-awake state, I wondered whether any of the people who jumped from the first tower saw the second plane hit as they were falling, and if so, what did they think?

Then I realized that it was September and checked my phone and realized that today is 9/11.

rival.

ajedigecko wrote:

There are only a few days that will happen in this life - where it seems to never stop.

agreed. i was numb for a long, long time after this.

my aunt worked in the first tower on the 30th floor and thankfully got out alright and walked all the way home to brooklyn. cell phone service was obviously down, it was pretty frantic trying to get a hold of her. finally did many hours later. same aunt was stuck in an elevator for hours during the bombing in '93. she doesn't talk about either day much and is a complete off limits conversation around her. i can't imagine what she (like many others) witnessed first hand.

i was a sophomore in college (about 10 miles outside of manhattan) at the time and many of my roommates/friend's parents were FDNY/NYPD (all ended up safe) and i will never forget the despair on their faces as we were glued to the TV and eventually made our way down the road to see the skyline with our own eyes. on 9/7 i participated in a softball game that was FDNY vs NYPD at shea stadium (my roommate's dad was a DA in queens and provided the hook up) and it's crazy to think that a vast majority of the guys i was hanging out with that friday, playing softball, eating burgers, drinking beers on the field at shea stadium died just a couple days later.

horrible day.

BinauralJam

it was such a beautiful day out, eerie.

Indifference71

Can't believe it has been 12 years. I was a freshman in college and sitting in Earth Science class. The professor let us know what was going on and let us out. Like everyone else, was glued to the TV the rest of the day. Such a sad, sad day that we'll never forget.

gimmesometruth27

the world changed forever that day. our government changed forever that day.

we are now in a state of perpetual war against an enemy that has no nation.



sometimes i think that bin laden won.

brianlux

Also a good day to remember that living in fear is a form of defeat. Carpe diem!

Guitar92player

peacefrompaul wrote:

I was at school... third grade...

What a tragedy... 9/11/01

Same here


That was the day I woke up and saw reality. Childhood innocence was gone.

Leezestarr313

Wow, 12 years already ...
I was out trying to find a new cellphone that day. I wanted to have a Nokia 7110 and it was nowhere to be found. We went to a big department store and when the escalator reached the media department, we saw the smoking twin towers on three tv screens. It was awkward, I didn't get the full scope of it right there, but I noticed how everybody was just shocked. We spent the rest of the day watching the news annd discussing it.

May the innocents who lost their lives that day rest in peace.

mickeyrat

343 FDNY

guypjfreak

crazy how fast time flys past .
RIP one and all that lost there lives in that senseless attack

fear4freedom

Which is why the war in Afganistan had major support from most of the world! If you supported the initial response, then you supported the war! You cannot say YES, then NO when it comes to military action The Democrats hated that we were united on 9/12 and Bush had MAJOR support with his leadership that he displayed. Everyone forgets that on 9/12 they were very much in support for Bush and retaliation! Most Democrats voted YES and once you vote Yes you cannot take it back. We all knew it was going to be a 10 year war and once one votes yes, they are a YES for ten years whether they like it or not! Lesson learned here is that many politicians AND people take back their vote when it seems comfortable to do so!

Got to stand for something and if you do, then you might get something done!

are you one of the many people who changed their mind due to what the media was pitching you?
are you one that changed your mind after a year or two?
are you one that changed your mind after you were fed the realities of war?

Cant change your mind people......grow up and understand reality!

lcusick

I was teaching middle school students at the time and the principal came on the PA system announcing to the school that we had been attacked in New York CIty and if the teachers wanted to turn on the TV, they could do so. He also expressed that if any of the students wanted to call their parents they may. Well my students wanted to put the TV on. On of the little boys (6th grade)- his Mom worked at the Pentagon. Although, I live in Cleveland. She would come home on Friday evenings and fly back to DC on Sunday evenings. So we are watching this horrible tragedy and then they announce that the Pentagon had been hit. Daniel freaks out, I get another teacher in my room, we go to call his father and all the lines are busy. We run outside to my car and try to use my cell phone to call his dad and still cannot get through. Finally, I find another teacher who is talking on her cell phone and we ask to borrow her phone to call Daniel's dad. We get through to the dad and he had heard from his wife, she was ok. I suggested that Dad come pick up his son and he agreed. Daniel and I were both shaking at this point. I gave Daniel such a big hug out of relief that his mom was ok. Then went back into the classroom and tried to explain to 6th graders how such a horrible thing could even occur. We turned it off, because it was too disturbing. But I remember the need to call my husband, mother, and my three other kids to see if they were ok. I remember the feeling of just wanting to be with loved ones and as a family that evening, we all just sat in the family room watching TV and eating comfort food. My kids were 13, 16, and 18. My oldest is a firefighter and he will tell you that- that was the day he decided to become a fireman. As a teacher, we always learn about 9/11 and remember all of the heroes on that day. Out of every bad comes good- it did unite our country on that day.

Guitar92player

fear4freedom wrote:

Which is why the war in Afganistan had major support from most of the world! If you supported the initial response, then you supported the war! You cannot say YES, then NO when it comes to military action The Democrats hated that we were united on 9/12 and Bush had MAJOR support with his leadership that he displayed. Everyone forgets that on 9/12 they were very much in support for Bush and retaliation! Most Democrats voted YES and once you vote Yes you cannot take it back. We all knew it was going to be a 10 year war and once one votes yes, they are a YES for ten years whether they like it or not! Lesson learned here is that many politicians AND people take back their vote when it seems comfortable to do so!

Got to stand for something and if you do, then you might get something done!

are you one of the many people who changed their mind due to what the media was pitching you?
are you one that changed your mind after a year or two?
are you one that changed your mind after you were fed the realities of war?

Cant change your mind people......grow up and understand reality!

Thanks for your random post trying to stir something up in a post about 9/11.

But since you are talking about war...

We shifted our focus from Afghanistan to Iraq, which was stupid. I bet we could have killed Osama much earlier if we didn't focus on Iraq.

So it looks like Bush changed his mind on what was important...

jethrojam420

As a sophmore in college, as per usual I wanted to sleep in. So I woke up 5 min before class and was running out the door after the second hit. my suitemate shouted about it to me, but it just didn't register to my hungover mind until I got to class. That 930 class let out early (10). Was glued to the tv and phone ever since on that day.


In the week plus before the attacks, my friends and I would play the board game Risk, and attack from the center (middle eastern area) with fury and always with a alalalalalalalala shout.

Never played risk again after sept 10.

I dunno why I always think of that stupid game, and how it was forever ruined. With so many lives affected, I can only be so lucky.

Byrnzie

fear4freedom wrote:

Which is why the war in Afganistan had major support from most of the world! If you supported the initial response, then you supported the war! You cannot say YES, then NO when it comes to military action The Democrats hated that we were united on 9/12 and Bush had MAJOR support with his leadership that he displayed. Everyone forgets that on 9/12 they were very much in support for Bush and retaliation! Most Democrats voted YES and once you vote Yes you cannot take it back. We all knew it was going to be a 10 year war and once one votes yes, they are a YES for ten years whether they like it or not! Lesson learned here is that many politicians AND people take back their vote when it seems comfortable to do so!

Got to stand for something and if you do, then you might get something done!

are you one of the many people who changed their mind due to what the media was pitching you?
are you one that changed your mind after a year or two?
are you one that changed your mind after you were fed the realities of war?

Cant change your mind people......grow up and understand reality!

No, I thought it was a bullshit war from day one, and still do. Just as Iraq was a bullshit war. They were both about securing access to resources, and had both been planned years before 9/11.

9/11 conveniently gave them the pretext the neo-cons needed.

You don't apprehend criminals by dropping bombs on a country.

By the way, skip to the present: interesting to see the U.S supporting Al Queda in Syria. How does that tally with your simplistic Star-Spangled chest beating?

lcusick

Guitar92player wrote:

fear4freedom wrote:

Which is why the war in Afganistan had major support from most of the world! If you supported the initial response, then you supported the war! You cannot say YES, then NO when it comes to military action The Democrats hated that we were united on 9/12 and Bush had MAJOR support with his leadership that he displayed. Everyone forgets that on 9/12 they were very much in support for Bush and retaliation! Most Democrats voted YES and once you vote Yes you cannot take it back. We all knew it was going to be a 10 year war and once one votes yes, they are a YES for ten years whether they like it or not! Lesson learned here is that many politicians AND people take back their vote when it seems comfortable to do so!

Got to stand for something and if you do, then you might get something done!

are you one of the many people who changed their mind due to what the media was pitching you?
are you one that changed your mind after a year or two?
are you one that changed your mind after you were fed the realities of war?

Cant change your mind people......grow up and understand reality!

Thanks for your random post trying to stir something up in a post about 9/11.

But since you are talking about war...

We shifted our focus from Afghanistan to Iraq, which was stupid. I bet we could have killed Osama much earlier if we didn't focus on Iraq.

So it looks like Bush changed his mind on what was important...

I was always against us going to war with Iraq and protested with my children against it- in downtown Cleveland. Also, I always believed we should go to Afghanistan and get Bin Laden. My friend's son was in special forces in Afghanistan. They had Bin Laden surrounded for days, but were never given the order to take him out. He explained to me that he could see Bin Laden through his scope and the frustration he felt never getting the order to do anything. Many, many years later, they finally got Bin Laden. So Bush blew it many times. We totally got side tracked going to Iraq. The anniversary of 9/11 should be about appreciating all the heroes on that day.

PJ_Soul

I woke up to something weird on my clock radio and turned on the TV to see live footage of people jumping. I was so upset that I didn't even want to go to work, but had to. Saw the first building fall right before leaving. Took the bus up to work, and halfway there the second tower fell, and the bus driver pulled over and asked for 2 minutes of silence. A completely packed bus just sat there on the side of the road, stunned dead silence. It was a really impactful moment.

Dirtie_Frank

I am a little late to this topic, but I was at my first training excercise for my first duty assignment in Germany. We were setting up our tents when the news was passed. Being from the NJ area and only 30 minutes from NYC the attacks had big impact on me. My grandmother lived on Grand Street in Jersey City, and I could still see the towers as we went to her brownstone. I first returned that December and it was very weird landing in Newark and seeing the NYC sky line for the first time. :(