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[Adrienne Vorton]

i was playing something online, when a friend told us on teamspeak: "Hey, turn on the TV, USA have been attacked, WTC has been bombed or something" i was like "uuh, wtf?" took me a while to realize it was real...

[Ransack]

I had just spent the weekend in Washington DC, had a great time. Took the Amtrack to Penn station, and remember seeing those Towers welcome me home as they always did. The next morning I went to work. On the train an announcement was made that there were delays because a plane struck one of the towers. We all shrugged it off, thinking that it was a cessna or something small. It wouldn't have been the first time. Finally arriving at 5th ave, I exited the train, and you could see the smoke billowing. I hurried the few blocks to work, setup the TV, turned to NY1 and the whole office gathered to watch the events.

I lost a few close friends that day, It is a day that I will never forget.

[Bighelmet]

I was sitting in the office of the head of Corporate sceurity in the head office of an oil company watching it on TV in the largest office building in Western Canada...

The executive committee kept calling and wondering if we were next...

[wanderer]

I worked at the Wizards of the Coast shop right across from the Pentagon.

The absolute traffic gridlock heading that direction from home was my first warning. Turned on the news for a traffic report and heard what happened, turned around, went home, held my wife and watched an awful lot of people die- and hoped all along none of my friends in Jersey or NYC had gotten caught in that. Thankfully, none were, nor did any of the people I knew that worked at the Pentagon.

And then the real horror began as we turned that into a dozen+ years of endless warfare.

[bikerbass77]

Coaxill, on 10 September 2012 - 09:49 PM, said:

Pretty much same story here.

This makes me feel old.

[0101101]

came home from professional education and saw the second plane hit the tower live at tv. thought it was a movie first...

Edited by nr1pusher, 11 September 2012 - 05:08 AM.

[EyeOne]

I was 17 years old. Me and a friend were teacher's assistants for the band director. We snuck out of the band room while he was gone and were roaming the halls. We saw a teacher we knew well running out of the office with a very serious look on his face. I thought we could get the scoop on someone getting in trouble so we ran up and asked what was going on. We watched the TV for the rest of the period. After we went back and filled the band director in he let us go back and watch some more. We did nothing but watch TV all week in our classes and our whole school was on lock down.

Southeastern US

Edited by EyeOne, 11 September 2012 - 05:14 AM.

[Mordecai Walfish]

I was living in on the 19th floor of the 2nd highest building in my city, mainly inhabited by people of arab and indian descent.

I woke up to a friend from across town calling me and frantically telling me to turn on the TV.. when I asked him what channel, he replied "It doesn't matter". I think discovery channel was the channel I fell asleep watching and sure enough, it had live coverage of the towers and I got to see the 2nd plane impact as well as building 7's miraculous free-fall (from a minor isolated fire?) I was reminded time and time again that day about the tactical importance of my area (many aviatronics and weapons manufacturers and a close nuclear power plant) to any would-be attackers. Everyone had work off for the day and there were many discussions about the events that unfolded in the commons area in the building.. I dont think many of the inhabitants left the building much that day/week/month because of the uncloseted racist zombies that were polluting the streets around then.

Bless the men and women who put their lives on the line as a result of this horrible act.. it is such a shame, the response that came from our government after these events.

Oh what a day, what a day.

[Aza1979]

Sitting in my room and writing an exam for university (this sort of doing dozens of pages just to fulfill some crappy requirement). TV was muted and running in the background, so I missed the first plane hitting the tower. Then a mate knocked my door so consitantly I smelled something had happened. He just informed me about NY, I turned the sound on and we just saw the 2nd plane hitting the towers. At no second I doubted it to be an attack - and sadly I was right.

I just stopped working on my exam and kept watching german news. That day one of the moderators really impressed me, as he refused to go home, kept reporting professional, intelligent and informative - and all that sitting in Germany whilst he knew close relative(s) to be in NY and not having any signs from them. Chapeau!

[Cungr Vanck]

I was in the office doing my daily routine while reading the news online. Then I noticed that the news website I was looking at had seized up. No big deal, I will go to another site...locked up...another site...unavailable...another site....nada. I remember thinking that it was really odd that every news site was locked up at the same time, but nothing had been reported about the attacks yet. Figuring it was a technical glitch, I just went back to work.

Not long after, my boss gets a call from a friend who tells him to turn on the TV in his office. Not long thereafter, he told everyone to get into his office and watch...and there were the Towers burning. I remember someone saying "Was it the Russians or Chinese?" to which I responded (I was working at the Military Channel just a year ago as a researcher before it went out of business) "No, it isn't the Russians or Chinese...they have missiles and would be hitting military targets. This is something else."

[Exilyth]

I saw a plane flying on TV. Then it flew straight into a tower. Thought it was a small sport machine at first, with what little footage was available at the time, it was hard to identify. Didn't notice much more about the event that day as I had some appointments.

We talked about the event in school next day. I don't remember much more.

Edited by Exilyth, 11 September 2012 - 05:15 AM.

[Throat Punch]

Was at the car dealership where i worked at the time. Saw the footage of the first plane on the TV in the customer waiting area, then saw the 2nd plane hit live. Spent the rest of the day glued to that TV with no customers to speak of. I had just gotten out of the Army maybe a year prior on a medical retirement and spent the better part of the next week trying to get back in on waivers or loopholes after that happened.

[Skylarr]

I live and work in northern NJ. There are many places you can go to see the NYC skyline. On 9/11 I was working with a crew remodeling a Pathmark. At first we thought the person telling us about the first tower being hit was a joke. Then we all started speculating it was an actual accident. In 15 minutes the second plane hit. After cleaning up the job site in case we were not back for days my foreman and I who were car pooling to work set off to get home. When we get in the car we heard about the pentagon being hit.

As we drive home we see fighter jets patroling the airspace around NYC. NJ State Troopers speeding high speed toward NYC. A 20 minute trip took us 3 hours. Cell phone coverage was crazy. All line were busy. I had a friend of mine who was sitting on a roof top in NJ right across from the towers. They saw the second plane come in and hit.

I lost a friend that day. My wife knew 2 others who died that day. She was working at a Hospital in NJ. She was sitting with a fellow employee who's husband was a FF in NYC. They both watched the towers come down on TV. That employee lost her husband that day.

I worked part time at a local hospital and was called into work. The next 2 days was crazy.

I had another friend who was working in lower Manhattan that day and had to walk up to the GWB to get out of the city.

[Ashnod]

Was in middle school, teachers turned on the tv's was pretty crazy.

[NvrPhazed]

11 years old in my house doing home school work. One of my friends' Mom called and said to turn on channel 4 and nought 15 seconds later after we tuned in, the second plane hit. I watched all those buildings fall and my mouth dropped open. I stayed glued to that tv screen till around 3 or 4 when my Mom asked me to finish my work for the day.


R.I.P. New Yorkers, you have moved on to a far better place than here; though I know not where.

[Radman]

I was playing the MPBT:3025 beta when someone said an airplane hit a building in NY. I turned on the TV just in time to see the 2nd one hit. Horrible, horrible day.

[BinarySpirit]

I was in 6th grade at the time. An Indianapolis middle school, to be exact. It was about lunch when I first heard the news. The principal was blaring out on the intercom that recess was canceled. Instead of recess, we were led back to our home room.

It was there that we were given the news. I was...confused at the time. It didn't register to me why or who in the right mind would attack an important series of buildings such as the World Trade Center. Of course, we all knew that it was the extremist Islamic terrorist regime of al-Qaeda that was responsible.

The rest...was history...

Edited by BinarySpirit, 11 September 2012 - 06:28 AM.

[RotS Targe]

I remember coming down the stairs to see Dad watching the tv. I don't know if it was live, but just as I got down the 2nd plane hit. I do remember my teacher telling us about it, but I don't remember what she said
This day definitely means more to me now than when I was 7, and seeing how some people responded, the Fire Fighters, those who joined the military, makes me proud to be human, let alone American.

[DocBach]

Watched it on TV as I ate cocoa puffs. Next year on 9/11/02 I was at basic training in Ft Jackson, SC doing a hand grenade range.

[Adridos]

RotS Targe, on 11 September 2012 - 06:32 AM, said:

This day definitely means more to me now than when I was 7, and seeing how some people responded, the Fire Fighters, those who joined the military, makes me proud to be human, let alone American.

Military... while I have respect for all soldiers fighting for their country, in the basic of principles, they are the ones doing the same to someone else, killing their relatives, who will get to know about it in horror just as they did 11 years back.