Where were you on September 11th?

MattCameronKicksButt
MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
edited July 2007 in A Moving Train
I was on my final break at work and my boss came running in with an email about it.

(Don't worry, I'm not taking this lightly, I'm just curious).
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I was in the pub on my lunch break and was watching the news on t.v after the first plane had struck.


    Where were you August 20, 1998 when the U.S bombed a medicinal factory in Sudan, resulting '...in the deaths of "several tens of thousands" of Sudanese people from diseases such as malaria and TB because they were deprived of the medicines manufactured at the plant?'
  • Delivered_Wings
    Delivered_Wings Posts: 123
    I was newly single and living with my mom. That morning I was sleeping and my mom came into my bedroom screaming that we were being attacked. Unsure if I needed a weapon or what the hell she was talking about, I refused to get up until she ellaborated. She was freaking out and just hollered to get out of bed and look at the tv. When I began watching the first plane had hit but not yet the second.

    I will never forget that day. The sky looked different, the air was different. Very surreal.
    Be Sound...
  • CorporateWhore
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    I was in the 10th grade in French class and the teacher received a note about it and told the class. It got everyone excited so we just talked about it all day.

    Quite a maturing experience.
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    on the school bus.. couldn't believe it at first
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I was in the pub on my lunch break and was watching the news on t.v after the first plane had struck.


    Where were you August 20, 1998 when the U.S bombed a medicinal factory in Sudan, resulting '...in the deaths of "several tens of thousands" of Sudanese people from diseases such as malaria and TB because they were deprived of the medicines manufactured at the plant?'

    I was 18 then... Nope, sorry, I don't even remember that. Pretty good point which I am already aware of.
  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    I was about to turn off the late news and jump into bed when they broke the story. I'd only just got back from 3 weeks in New York on the 28th of August staying with a friend who was working there for a year.

    About the third night we were there we headed up to the "Greatest Bar on Earth" on the 107th floor and ended up having one of the best nights of the trip. All the staff were so polite and curtious. I sometimes wonder how many of then aren't with us anymore.

    So I rang my mate to see if he was safe and when I did get hold of him his office window faced downtown and got a eerie commentary for about five minutes before hanging up to get in touch with his family and friends to say he was OK.
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    Delivered_Wings wrote:
    I was newly single and living with my mom. That morning I was sleeping and my mom came into my bedroom screaming that we were being attacked. Unsure if I needed a weapon or what the hell she was talking about, I refused to get up until she ellaborated. She was freaking out and just hollered to get out of bed and look at the tv. When I began watching the first plane had hit but not yet the second.

    I will never forget that day. The sky looked different, the air was different. Very surreal.

    lol... sorry but i found this bit funny - "Unsure if I needed a weapon or what the hell she was talking about"
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,469
    home. i worked the night before in jersey city, which is right across the hudson river. i was in the concourse of the world trade center at 2:30 AM going from the PATH train to the subway.
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  • Delivered_Wings
    Delivered_Wings Posts: 123
    I BrisK I wrote:
    lol... sorry but i found this bit funny - "Unsure if I needed a weapon or what the hell she was talking about"

    It is in hindsight. But at that moment I really had no idea what was going on.

    It would help to know that my mom went through WWII, saw a lot of shit living in Yugoslavia. When the bosnian/serb war was happening my mom almost had a nervous breakdown. So the idea of war, bombs, etc. causes her to react.

    She was really freaking out that morning and my first thought was that there was an intruder in the house. I was scared. 2 women...one 33 and one 65, that's why the weapon idea...I figured out of the two of us I was going to have to be the creative one.
    Be Sound...
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    A teacher said 'there was something in the United States so kids going home for lunch don't tell anyone else'.

    This of course led to mad confusion. my dad told me when i got home.
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  • GraySaturday
    GraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    I was in Math class back in Highschool.....

    One of the pilots children went to my rival high school. I lived about an hour and 1/2 from NYC.. Many people worked in NYC that lived around us, and it was really scary for the kids I went to school with, everyone was trying to call their parents and stuff...


    ugh...
  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    I was still asleep. My hubby who was visiting in San Diego called and told me to turn on the tv. Wow. Watched when the second one hit. He was supposed to fly that day, waited another two, then finally rented a car and drove the 24 hour drive home. He just wanted to be home and I sure wanted him here. It's just so sad. :(
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  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    wolfbear wrote:
    I was still asleep. My hubby who was visiting in San Diego called and told me to turn on the tv. Wow. Watched when the second one hit. He was supposed to fly that day, waited another two, then finally rented a car and drove the 24 hour drive home. He just wanted to be home and I sure wanted him here. It's just so sad. :(

    yes. I wish I hadn't asked now. It didn't have a big impact on me personally but now I feel guilty for digging up old memories. Sorry. XXX
  • Skitch Patterson
    Skitch Patterson Posts: 642
    pooping.
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,234
    I was a freshman in college on 9/11. I woke up and started that day like any other and when I was leaving for my first class that day I heard some people saying things like "Did you hear about it?" I had no idea what they were talking about because nobody was saying what "it" was. Well, I got to my class and a guy that had been watching the news that morning notified everyone of what happened and the professor cancelled classes for that week. I got back to my dorm room and turned on the TV just as the second plane crashed. It was very surreal and scary watching everything on the news that day.
  • EyesForTheSkies
    EyesForTheSkies Posts: 26
    ****sorry if this is in bad taste or whatever, but as soon as i read the thread title, that south park song came pouring into my head***


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    Did it make you feel like crying?
    Or did you think it was kinda gay?
    Well I for one believe in the Ladder to Heaven
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    I said 9-11 9-11 9-11 9, 9-11
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    my alarm went off at 6 am pdt and i had bad radio reception so the only station i could receive was the am news station......all i heard was a plane had crashed into the wtc.....so i turned on my tv and as i was about to turn off katie couric i watched the second plane hit.......i didn't move from the edge of my bed for the next hour and a half......it remains the most surreal thing i have ever witnessed....
  • Zanne
    Zanne Posts: 899
    Standing in front of my TV crying.
    Just me
  • EyesForTheSkies
    EyesForTheSkies Posts: 26
    cutback wrote:
    my alarm went off at 6 am pdt and i had bad radio reception so the only station i could receive was the am news station......all i heard was a plane had crashed into the wtc.....so i turned on my tv and as i was about to turn off katie couric i watched the second plane hit.......i didn't move from the edge of my bed for the next hour and a half......it remains the most surreal thing i have ever witnessed....



    isn't it fucked up tho that this event that our entire generation will remember where they were when it happened, and the only thing everybody was doing was watching tv?...
    he's not a leader, he's a texas leaguer...


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  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    cutback wrote:
    my alarm went off at 6 am pdt and i had bad radio reception so the only station i could receive was the am news station......all i heard was a plane had crashed into the wtc.....so i turned on my tv and as i was about to turn off katie couric i watched the second plane hit.......i didn't move from the edge of my bed for the next hour and a half......it remains the most surreal thing i have ever witnessed....

    Someone else said something and it made me think where the rest of you might have been. That's all.

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