8:46 am on a tuesday

Gern Blansten

I remember being at my desk listening to the Bob & Tom Show on the radio when the second plane hit.

The first plane was thought to just be an accident, first reported as a small plane. I am pretty sure it was Tom that reported the second hit and said something like "this clearly is some sort of planned attack"

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

24 yrs

Can still feel like yesterday, sometimes. A blue sky. Plane overhead. Quiet.

gimmesometruth27

yeah 24 years has flown by. crazy. that was nearly half of my life passed by that fast.

mickeyrat

Halifax2TheMax said:

mickeyrat said:

24 yrs

Can still feel like yesterday, sometimes. A blue sky. Plane overhead. Quiet.

I often catch sight of aircraft that initially seems out of place only to discover its just an odd flight path but normal...

lastexitlondon

I can remember exactly where I was here in the UK. I was working in a garden and the customer called us in to watch the TV.  Awful and surreal. Sad . Really sad

We All Believe

So much from that day is so vivid, still.

I was working in lower Manhattan on Water Street, half a mile/a 15 minute walk or so from the World Trade Center.

I had just gotten off the train, oblivious, and was ready to talk shit to my boss, who I beat in fantasy football after the Giants lost to the Broncos on Monday Night Football, when he told me about the first plane.

I looked out the window for the first and only time, and decided I wasn't going to look anymore.

We walked down 32 flights of stairs twice - when the building was evacuated the first time, and then the final time, after the first tower fell. I remember exactly what I was wearing (a green polo shit and blue slacks), and I remember being mad because I had brand new shoes on and was annoyed that we had to walk down 32 flights of stairs twice.

I remember the last work e-mail I got, from my brother: "Get out of there.".

The street, and everyone/everything on it, was covered with the dust/debris, like a snowstorm. I will never forget the smell or the taste.

I spotted a construction van with an address that was near where I lived, and they said they were going home, and offered me a ride, along with a tourist from Atlanta. I tried calling my uncle and cousin, who worked in Midtown, to see if they were ok and needed a ride home.

The two construction workers were under the first tower when it fell. They were completely covered in debris. One of them coughed up/threw up dust and debris for the entire ride home.

I got in that van at maybe 1030 AM. They dropped me off at a bar near their office at 530 PM, and my mom picked me up. I hugged my brother and went to bed.

Gern Blansten

We All Believe said:

So much from that day is so vivid, still.

I was working in lower Manhattan on Water Street, half a mile/a 15 minute walk or so from the World Trade Center.

I had just gotten off the train, oblivious, and was ready to talk shit to my boss, who I beat in fantasy football after the Giants lost to the Broncos on Monday Night Football, when he told me about the first plane.

I looked out the window for the first and only time, and decided I wasn't going to look anymore.

We walked down 32 flights of stairs twice - when the building was evacuated the first time, and then the final time, after the first tower fell. I remember exactly what I was wearing (a green polo shit and blue slacks), and I remember being mad because I had brand new shoes on and was annoyed that we had to walk down 32 flights of stairs twice.

I remember the last work e-mail I got, from my brother: "Get out of there.".

The street, and everyone/everything on it, was covered with the dust/debris, like a snowstorm. I will never forget the smell or the taste.

I spotted a construction van with an address that was near where I lived, and they said they were going home, and offered me a ride, along with a tourist from Atlanta. I tried calling my uncle and cousin, who worked in Midtown, to see if they were ok and needed a ride home.

The two construction workers were under the first tower when it fell. They were completely covered in debris. One of them coughed up/threw up dust and debris for the entire ride home.

I got in that van at maybe 1030 AM. They dropped me off at a bar near their office at 530 PM, and my mom picked me up. I hugged my brother and went to bed.

crazy stuff...

eddiec

About a year after, I was in an Italian restaurant a few blocks from my apartment, which was also a few blocks from Gracie Mansion. It was early on a Sunday or Monday night and only a few tables were taken. My girlfriend at the time (now wife), was visiting from overseas, and halfway through dinner I asked her, you know who that is two tables over?

She was like, no.

It's Giuliani, I said.

She was kind of in awe because he was so well respected in the media after 9/11.

When I think of him now, it always reminds me that 9/11 was a long time ago.

Gern Blansten

eddiec said:

About a year after, I was in an Italian restaurant a few blocks from my apartment, which was also a few blocks from Gracie Mansion. It was early on a Sunday or Monday night and only a few tables were taken. My girlfriend at the time (now wife), was visiting from overseas, and halfway through dinner I asked her, you know who that is two tables over?

She was like, no.

It's Giuliani, I said.

She was kind of in awe because he was so well respected in the media after 9/11.

When I think of him now, it always reminds me that 9/11 was a long time ago.

yeah it was odd seeing him go to the dark side...completely destroyed his legacy

mace1229

Seeing this date fade in the public eye every year is always a little sad to me. So many of us know exactly where we were when it happened, and now we're at a point where almost half the country doesn't even remember it. My first few years of teacher we'd have a big ceremony on this day, now there is a quick and rushed announced about it. It seems like an after thought to a lot of people. I imagine veterans of WWII thought the same way about Pearl Harbor when I was growing up.

gimmesometruth27

Gern Blansten said:

eddiec said:

About a year after, I was in an Italian restaurant a few blocks from my apartment, which was also a few blocks from Gracie Mansion. It was early on a Sunday or Monday night and only a few tables were taken. My girlfriend at the time (now wife), was visiting from overseas, and halfway through dinner I asked her, you know who that is two tables over?

She was like, no.

It's Giuliani, I said.

She was kind of in awe because he was so well respected in the media after 9/11.

When I think of him now, it always reminds me that 9/11 was a long time ago.

yeah it was odd seeing him go to the dark side...completely destroyed his legacy

yeah rudy made his career as a mob prosecutor and successfully used rico statutes to bring them down. now look what he has become. its a shame, honestly.

Halifax2TheMax

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