I think it took my mom awhile to reach home....I was worried...she works in Manhattan and she saw all this smoke...

I was in high school...They cancled all our classes....Every one had to stay
in a room and not leave it...We watched the 2nd plane hit on the tele....

Just 2 think it was 8 yrs ago....I'm getting old

nyse said:

I know...I was also in high school...

Anyone watching remembering 9/11 on the history channel? Very sad....

I had just gotten up not sure why.

I was at work. We didn't have the radio on or anything, but my wife called to say that a plane had crashed into the WTC, so I turned on WPLJ. The DJ's were talking about it, since they could see the WTC from their offices. Then as more news came in about it being a passenger jet & all that, our boss made us turn the radio off (assh*le). So we were fed information by our various spouses calling us every 5 minutes with an update (so much for not losing any productivity!!!!) I lived 15 minutes away, so I raced home at lunchtime to watch the images and I was horrified.

Yeah, I was filled with anger. It was such an incomprehensible feeling of sadness + grief + hatred that like a day or two afterwards I was driving to work and I actually started crying in the car.

I also remember all the middle-eastern gas station owners around town putting American flags all over their establishments.

And let me say that the way that Bush managed to quickly turn a worldwide feeling of sympathy for the United States into contempt was inexcusable.

sad thing was when arab men and women were getting attacked verbally and physically. I just heard on tv how these two guys were saying we should bomb...eliminate them....stuff like this brings out so much hatred in people.

I was 10 I didn't really know what was going on but I was terrified

Well, I live in Australia so it all happened around midnight our time. My Dad woke me real early in the morning, around 4am, barging into my room shouting "World War III has started!". At first I thought it was some kind of joke. I walked down the hall to the TV all dreamy and blury eyed, but within 30 seconds of seeing those images I was wide awake. I just remember having that sinking feeling and thinking "oh shit!". I remember my Dad going on and on like "Just you wait... Once the Yanks find out who did it, they're going to nuke them!... just you wait!".

Later that morning I was in town waiting for a bus to get to University and it was all cold and rainy. Even in such a far away city, the whole place seemed really quiet and empty. Everyone just seemed a little dazed. I remember I ran into an old school friend who I hadn't seen in a while and we talked about it. I got to Uni and the tutor obviously hadn't seen the news because he carried on like normal (it was a Jazz Theory class - typical Muso ). There was probably only half the class there. We all kept looking around at one another thinking "Does this guy even know what's happened??" . Eventually someone brought it up and we spent the rest of the session watching the news again.

Man, weird how vivid all this seems despite it being 8 years ago now!

I live in Brooklyn, NY. I started driving to work when the radio reported that a small plane hit one of the towers. I continued driving thinking it was an accident and then the second plane hit. I knew it was terrorism. The sounds of the sirens of the emergency vehicles passing me in Brooklyn, to go to Manhattan were continuous and deafening. I realized later that day that many of those men and women never made it back. I could see the smoke in the distance. I work for Social Services, so I figured I might be needed. I continued to drive to work. I arrived in downtown Brooklyn about the time the first tower fell. As I walked to my office I saw a man holding up a woman who was crying hysterically. I was crying too. The streets were full of people but it was so quiet except for the roar of the sirens. My office was on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge,in the area around the Brooklyn Promenade, where some breathtaking pictures of the NYC skyline have been taken. It was about a mile and a half away from the WTC. When I reached Montague St. the smoke hit me in the face. I will never forget that smell for as long as I live. War planes started to loudly roar over my head and at the time I was not sure if they were US planes or terrorist planes. I couldn't believe I was living through this. I arrived late to work, and my coworkers were by the window watching the last remaining tower burn. They started to scream as it started to fall. I wouldn't look. I just closed my tear filled eyes and I prayed.

My cousin lost her husband. Her three young children lost their daddy. He worked on one of the high floors. A few months after his death, they found a piece of bone to bury. The custodian at my job lost his 23 year old son who had just started a job with the Port Authority. A caseworker turned firefighter that I once worked with also died.I cannot bear to watch the footage of that day. The memories are too vivid, even 8 years later. The horror is still very real. New Yorkers have gone on, but we will never be the same.
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funkteer said:

I was at work...and on the org!

I was at work. Someone in medical records had a radio on and heard about the first plane...then we turned the tv in the conference room on and watched silently. After it was over, every one in the office gathered in the lobby and held hands and one of the doctors said a prayer. It seemed more like a bad dream than reality.

Fury said:

You're in Baltimore, dude? So am I! As a matter of fact, when this all happened, I was working at that SSA building in Woodlawn. At the time, I lived right down the street from the Best Buy at Security (by Rolling & Tudsbury). I just remember hearing from a co-worker about a plane crashing into the towers, and I said, "Damn, that was a fucked up accident!" to a friend I was talking to in the building via the phone. A little later, someone said it happened again, and that's when I logged onto CNN.com to follow everything.

Small world, ain't it?

I Was in fifth grade!, We were at Recess and the teachers were talking about it and we got inside and turned on the television and there it was…….. That shocking image that will live in our heads forever):

We had a class dog named Lucky I rember everyone was holding onto her a lot that day for comfort I also had a project to do over New Jersey and at one o clock our teachers turned off the T.V and had us do the project for a few minutes…


There was also of coarse ton’s of parent’s getting there kid’s the hallways we’re nearly empty it was a chilling feeling…

Being that we were young we didn’t know how to react my best friend Chris was saying he wanted to join the army and kick butt he always has had that attitude lol and actually joined The Marines last year so he kept his promise except with a different military lol

But then we went home my family got Popeys it was busy a lot of people didn’t seem in the mood for cooking that day…


It was a chilling day event though I was young I still rember…

I was in the UK filming Eastenders (played one of Sonya's college friends for a few episodes)

Anywayyy it was lunch break and i walked inside the lounge area and saw both the crashes replayed on the tv, i refused to believe it even happened for a few hours because that is some movie shit that doesn't happen in real life, i moved to New York a few years later and can't even begin to imagine what it was like being downtown on that day.

I was in my last year of high school in a SAT course when the announcement was made that a plane had hit tower 1. So then we turned on the news right when the other plane hit the 2nd tower and the room was so quiet all you could hear was hard breathing and tears bein choked back. But as usual especially in good ol' South Carolina where I live, after two weeks of cryin, candles, "UNITED WE STAND","GOD BLESS AMERICA", hand holdin, singin and flag wavin, I saw a bunch of teachers and students start lookin at every Muslim and Arabic transfer student they taught, laughed with, smiled at, and called friends less than a year ago like they were terrorists. But the cherry on the sundae was the sign on my high schools' front lawn that read..."GO HOME SAND NIGGERS".

To no suprise the future young republicans of the world giggled and grinned.....the staff didn't care and to no shock the sign wasn't removed for a month right about the same time all the singin, cryin and flag wavin stopped. The most fun part were all the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps recruiters crusin all the unemployment offices, shoe stores,high schools and malls in the area like sharks but once I started talkin to 'em I realized they were nothin more than pimps in dress blues and fatigues.

But what was worse than hearin the playbacks of all the last phone calls being made, the bodies that fell 70 stories, the bodies they never could find months afterward, and all the tears I, us, we, and they shed was findin out that all this bullshit ended up bein about oil and money. I was shocked but then once I looked at the Gulf War, the Cold War, Vietnam, Slavery, the Holocaust and every other war, I realized that every time the country needs money we go to war. But it's never Them the politicians or thier kids, it's just us the ones they call the poor, lower, under and working class that suffer 'cause it's always the expendable who have nothin to lose while power, oney, greed and infuence prevent their kids from rollin over a landmine, bein in the market with a suicide bomber, or firing that M16 Carbine at men, women, and children.

Son Of A Bush-Public Enemy


Dying To Live-Edgar Winter


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I was scheduled to work that evening so I was at home that morning. I woke up, made me some coffee and turned on the TV. When I turned it on, apparently the first tower had just fallen and the only thing on the screen was the ocean out by the Statue of Liberty and a huge cloud of smoke or dust in the background where New York usually is. I couldn't see any buildings whatsoever, just that huge cloud of smoke. At the bottom of the screen was the words "New York" and the CNN announcer was talking and was playing audio of George Bush announcing that we were under a terrorist attack. From the way the TV screen looked, I thought the entire city of New York had been blown off the map until the smoke cleared and I saw the other tower on fire.

Then the news was reporting that another plane had hit the Pentagon and another one had come down in a field but was originally intended for the White House. I started getting scared them wondering what was going to be next because it seemed to be endless. I was scared that Armageddon was beginning.
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I had been laid off from work and was sitting in my apartment in Ann Arbor, Mich,, about 2 miles from the school. I had just gotten up, was making peanut butter and jelly toast with some coffee. I wasa watching the TODAY Show on NBC when it all went down.

Called my friend in Lower Manhattan in New York City - he used to work for the National Football League - and told him if he knew what had happened. Called a second time and could not get through,

Found out my father was stuck in Chicago on business. He ended up renting a car with complete strangers and drove back to Cleveland by nightfall.

Strange / eerie thing : I had visited my NFL friend in NYC Sept 9-11 2000, the year before the attacks. The Sunday morning, Sept 10, before the football game, we traveled down to Battery Park, visited the stock market and the twin towers, Didn't get to go up, but went into one of the towers in the lobby, checked out the subway, and relaxed in the plaza between the two towers.

Alej said:

Um.. I got this email on Sept 11 this year and this is how one of my friends from my class remembered it.

"I thought of how you skipped school, seemingly traumatized and/or wanting to stay home and watch the news, when in fact you just wanted to go to the CD store and buy the latest Mariah Carey."




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Cinnie said:

This sounds insensitive, but Sept 11, 2001 was also the release day for these CDs and I had already planned to go to the store for them.





How *I* remember it was... basically seeing it on CNN and the spectacle honestly felt at first like a movie or nightmare to me... (<--sign of trauma) I really didn't know much about the WTC prior to 9/11. I did not realize at first that, with the time difference, a lot of New Yorkers would have already been in the building for a normal work day. It really took me a long time to realize that there was people in the building and on that plane and that it wasn't just a symbolic "attack" on a financial building.

I didn't know anyone who worked there. I had a friend in Brooklyn who I talked to that day.

It left me an eerie feeling as I watched the second tower collapse live on television. I think some of my current-day WTC truther views comes from the fact I have a difficult time coming to terms with such a tragedy.

Cinnie said:

That album That was ota around the time I fell in lurve with her music

Flying from Ireland

http://www.youtube.com/wa...iUPb7y0hgE

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I woke up that morning between 5.30 AM and 6.00 AM West Coast time, to start my daily routine of going to work. I usually catch some TV news beforehand, so I turned on the TV and was immediately shocked to see a burning building. I recoginzed the Twin Towers immediately, since it's images was iconic, when you think of NYC, that's one of the images you think of.

My partner was still sleeping, so I woke him up and told him a plane just hit one of the Twin Towers. He's orignally from New Jersey and was concerned, but not enough to get out of bed . So, I watched the rest of the news by myself and saw the 2nd plane hit the 2nd Tower live. So I yelled to my partner, "Another plane just hit the 2nd Tower". I think he got out of bed then.

Ironically,we planned on visiting NYC and New Jersey to see his Family a month later in October. We talked about cancelling our trip due to the fear of flying, more terrorism etc, but decided to go anyways. Those fuckers weren't gonna ruin our plans. The experience in Manhatten was surreal though. Lots of people, New Yorkers and Tourists alike, were still walking around in a daze. I remember the hundreds of flyers of missing people pasted all over Manhatten. The public were kept several blocks from Ground Zero, but from my vantage point, you can still see part of what was left of the Towers, the facade that was stretched out over the street. And the smell in the air, I'll never forget, like an acrid chemcial smell, mixed with something else. I thought at the time, this is how Death smelled like.
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funkteer said:

I wasnt going to post,but decided to even though it's days later....I still remember my sister calling me on my cell asking what's happening.She worked in the Empire State Building and her floor had no electricity,she heard the sirens and all, but they wasn't letting them leave yet..So I was giving her details and i started heading towards the promenade.(We lived in Downtown Bklyn).When i told her the first tower fell,she went hysterical and said "I'm getting out of here before this building is next".She said she was the only one who had a signal on her cellphone(Jah Bless) and i could hear the other people in the background screaming and yelling.I too was walking down Montague and the smoke was just coming towards us like a big wave.Then her phone went out.I got to the promenade and just looked at the ESB,hoping it wasn't the next target..hoping my sister gets to saftey.She got home,but my best friend didnt...8 years later and It still hurts..Me and my sister NEVER bring that day up

SavonOsco said:

I totally understand.

sleeping. then my partner woke me up to tell me. and i said
BAH! whatever they say the our government has everything to do with it.
and went back to bed.
frankly im sick of hearing about it.
the only thing i would be interested in hearing is the truth of the matter.
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