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[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Metro, on 10 September 2012 - 04:27 PM, said:

Sitting on the roof of my house, watching the towers burn and fall, and hoping everyone I knew made it out alive.

You were in NY?
I cant imagine having been there. I went to the site like three years ago.

[Monsoon]

At work in a bank tower, we got sent home as a precaution, even though reports were wondering if it was accidental, I don't think anyone really thought that, and Toronto's business centre emptied out pretty quickly.

I lived relatively close to work so I got home moments before the second tower was struck.

[Haroldwolf]

I was working a contract at Boeing in Seattle. That morning I turned on CNN and saw one tower burning. I called my wife and told her to turn on CNN. While we were talking the plane hit the second tower.

It was an unbelievable act of violence and I can't even imagine the last few seconds of terror when the passengers realized what was happening.

[The Boneshaman]

I was in Germany going to do a service on a Hummvee when I heard about it. At first I thought it was just an accident some small litter privately owned plane made an error. I couldn’t hear the radio that well with all the noise. When I got back to the barracks and turned on my TV I seen the towers smoking and found out it was a commercial airline.

Edited by The Boneshaman, 10 September 2012 - 05:20 PM.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Haroldwolf, on 10 September 2012 - 04:45 PM, said:

I was working a contract at Boeing in Seattle. That morning I turned on CNN and saw one tower burning. I called my wife and told her to turn on CNN. While we were talking the plane hit the second tower.

It was an unbelievable act of violence and I can't even imagine the last few seconds of terror when the passengers realized what was happening.

That show I was watching with the survivors, the guy in the office that got hit said he looked out the window and say the plane approaching at "face level". He dove under his desk and he said had he not he might have been decapitated by a wing. Its just amazing he survived

CG Chicken Kn, on 10 September 2012 - 01:32 AM, said:

My heroes died going UP the stairs.

I agree

[Treveli]

In Miami with my dad. Second to last day were going to be down there (IIRC) for a convention he was attending for his job. He got me to come along to be a backup driver for the rental car (which, turned out, I wasn't allowed to drive, so said the rental company). We were taking the day and heading down to the Everglades for one of the tours. Listening to the radio and hearing about the first strike, and thinking it was an accident. I remembered a history show that had talked about a B-25 crashing into one of the major sky scrappers in New York or Chicago during foggy weather, back in the forties, and thought it must be something like that. The news program we were listening to was on the phone with a witness to the crash, and I don't think I'll forget the guy's wife screaming in the background as the second plane hit, or my dad stating 'we should be bombing someone right now!' as we listened. Since we couldn't do anything (on the other side of the state from home) we kept on driving, did the tour, headed back to the hotel with nothing more than the radio reports till we got back. Kept looking around while driving through the city expecting to see smoke from an attack there.

[Landron]

I was on my way to work when my wife called me to say that one of the towers was on fire. I live in NY and at the time worked in brookiyn right on the otherside of the tunnel from the towers. I asked her what was going on and she said they were saying a plane hit it. I told her I needed to go cause I was trying to get to work and had to try and avoid the ton of traffic that was going on due to this. I was turned onto a street which put the towers right in my sight just as the second plane hit.

I saw the big ball of flames and kept working on getting to work. I finally got to work to find my boss telling me that we had trucks in manhatten and we needed to work on getting them back to the warehouse as quick as possible cause they were closing down the city. My workers and I kept going outside to see what was going on and we had papers and ash falling from the sky right on top of us. I was able to get ahold of my trucks just as the first tower fell and I ran outside to see the cloud of smoke. I stood there and watched the second tower fall.

After my last truck got back my boss sent me home saying "there is nothing more we can do lets get everyone home to their families". In all my years of driving it was the first time I ever drove on the BQE and was the only car on the road infront of me and behind me. It was a very strange feeling as I looked over at the city to my left and saw the smoke pouring out of the spot where the towers stood and looked up at the bridges as I drove under them to see the thousands of people walking across the bridge trying to get home from the city. I will never forget the things I saw that day. That is where I was on 9/11/01

[MrHacknslash]

Sitting in Kindergarten, I heard from the teacher that something bad had happened. All I remember that day was a video of the smoke and towers falling... and after I got home, my parents told me that the Two Towers, which I had always though were these amazing buildings in New York, had blown up. I didn't know what to think. I was confused, sure, but I din't understand what had happened until a couple years later.

[Coaxill]

Brenden, on 09 September 2012 - 09:01 PM, said:

Six years old in Kingergarten, they showed it to all the classrooms. Honestly thought they were showing us an Action Movie. Kind of stupid back then.

Parents came and picked me up, and that was it.

Pretty much same story here.

[MasterofBlasters]

Gettin' ready for school. I knew it was bad then, just didn't know how bad...

[UnofficialOperator]

I was just about to post this topic as well. I had read somewhere that people tend to remember what happened to them on days of significant cultural impact i.e. moon landing etc

Coincidentally enough, I was playing MPBT:3025 as a Steiner Mechwarrior. We were enroute fighting into Davion space (iirc) & its capital when all of a sudden there was a decline in matches dropping or people defending Davion space.

People were writing in lobby & ingame, that people were crashing planes into the WTC. I'm not American but it still was really disturbing to read about it online from fellow mechwarriors about what was happening to them. Afterwards when you see all those footages about people jumping hand in hand from the towers, it was just all really sad & heartbreaking.

Seize the day my fellow mechwarriors, for we never know what tomorrow shall bring...

[CTsai]

I was in Taiwan. Was still a third-grader I believe.
Remember my dad turning the TV to CNN and said "the world is never going to be the same".
Saw the footage, it seem......surreal, couldn't comprehend nor believe what had just happened.

[Dirus Nigh]

I was at work stocking just doing my thing when some one said a plane hit the trade center in new york. It was not in an urgent tone just a word of mouth thing going around. The guys working in the deli department had a radio on and word spread from their. I thought to my self WTF how do you hit such a big building? I figured it was a small privat plane.

That has happened from time to time. A small two person private aircraft, like a cessna crashes. Some times hitting a house or what ever. I went back to work. Peaple where talking about it speculating. No one really new what was happening. Then the guys with the radio started listening and told every one that a second plane hit the other tower. I instantly thought damn this deliberate.

Not many came into the store after that. Ever one just kinda quietly finished their shifts and went home. I turned on the TV to see what was going on. I watched that for awile untill I learned every thing I could. Then turned it off. I just had a radio on incase some thing new was reported. Thought about what was happing, how would the then new presodent respond, what would most likly happen.

Later that night about 12am - 2am I went down town to eat at a late night pizza place near campus. It'a a nice place just been remodeled. There where only two other tables occupied in the place. I reading waiting for my food. There was this long loud wine like the sound a plane makes when it's comming in low for a landing.

There was this long loud whine like a plane makes when it's comming in low for a landing. Every one froze. Every one one still quietly tence like mice when a falcon is over head. No one moved, forks where held above plates. A hand on glass of water resting on the table. A coulpe just looked at each other accross the table eyes not moving. A small shadow of fear was behind every ones eyes. Tense and afraid they didnt know what was about to happen.

They where thousands if miles away from New york or Pennsylvania in no way directly effect by the events of that day. They had doubt, and subconscously afraid. It was still are country. It was still in one way or another close to home. This wasn't an earth quake, storm or 50 care pile up on the high way. It was a daliberate act by a group of peaple. A declaration of war and a military attack could be digested and accepted. This was a personal attack agianst the culture and peaple of the United States.

A loud PHHUuussshhh sound sound punctuated the whine. It was the air brakes on a bus or truck out side the pizza joint. It had squeaky air brakes and was making along slow stop. The tension in the room popped with quiet self concsious chuckles, sighs, and grones. Peaple plet the doubt and fear away laughing and talking about what they just felt.

I admit I had a doubt too. I flash of thought when I first heard the noise was is that a low flying plane? I remember that moment alot more than when I was at work and first heard the news. I dont know why. Some times I just kinda stop, detach and observe whats going on around me.

Some times when under stress, or when Im drunk, just feel that some thing aint right.

Well, thats my story about that day.

Edited by Dirus Nigh, 11 September 2012 - 12:31 AM.

[Adridos]

No idea. Maybe it was in news, but being 4, I would still have little understanding for what's happening. But even then, I took my time to make sure every teacher we had a class with knew which day it was and noone seemed to care that much, so I don't think anyone careda about it even 11 years ago.

However, I would like to ask, someone mentioned he saw the seond crash first-hand, but he said there was a big explosion when the plane hit... how? Plane crash = explosion is Hollywood nonsense adn AFAIK it were catued civilian planes, not planes outfitted with explosives.

Edited by Adridos, 11 September 2012 - 04:01 AM.

[buttmonkey]

i was watching and wondering why they both fell straight down, and why the third building fell when no plane hit it. now i know why

[Sundiver]

I'd been medically discharged from the Marines a week prior after seventeen years of Service. Next day I was doing everything but threatening to make them let me back in. Wasn't to be.

[SeventhAngel]

Was working as manager for a custom finish shop wondering how many family members would soon be playing in sand.

HOOAH!

[Hodo]

11 years ago today, almost to the minute....

I was stationed on Ft. Drum NY, in 10th MTN DIV, sitting in front of the Division Surgeons office waiting for my first meeting with him over my injuries sustained in a training accident a year prior. I sat there and watched the second plane hit the tower on the 44" TV in his office, I remember quite vividly his response. I also remember his phone ringing and this O-5 Col. telling me and the Major I was with to report to our units we are on alert. I didnt get to see the towers fall, I was busy getting my soldiers inline and standing by for some form of information. We had TVs on but I was to busy to watch, and really didnt want to. I can say this was by far the most stressful day of my life.

I can tell you where I was almost 60 days later......Afghanistan, well just north east of it off loading heavy equipment from division getting read for the push into Afghanistan.

[bikerbass77]

I was living in a slum of a flat (not even any central heating, mould on the walls, etc) in the Bradford, West Yorkshire area. I had just got home from a 'New Deal' training course (I was long term unemployed at the time) and I switched on the TV just in time to see the second plane crash into tower 2 live. I do remember the newscaster totally running out of script and being useless ad-lib, he just kept saying the same things over and over again.

At the time I sat down in shock thinking 'George W. Bush is the president of the USA, he's a cowboy put in by the oil companies. This is going to start World War 3!'

Well, I was slightly wrong. We're still in Afghanistan and Iraq though.

[Coltaine]

When the towers got hit and collapsed I was on a military training ground of the german airforce doing some military exercises. First we thought of it as a fake but after we got a hand full of TVs up and running in the middle of the woods we saw what happened.