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Sorry- didn't mean to double post.

I was working in the warehouse of a local beer distributor. We all basically stopped working and were huddled around a radio listening as the reports were coming in. After about an hour we closed down and went home to our families.

I was asleep at home, until my girlfriend(at the time) started blowing up my phone. I was actually very irritated at her...I kept thinking "What is so effing important that she has to call like this??? She knows that I didn't get to sleep until about 6am!(my shift ended at 4am)"

So I'm ready to tear her a new one, thinking that she was bothering me for something stupid. Grumpily I answered "What??!! You know that I just got to sleep a couple of hours ago!"

She replies "I know sweetie, just turn on your TV."

"Ummm, okay." Then I turned on the set, only to witness the second plane being flown straight into the second tower.

After that I was speechless. The plant that I worked at was shut down for the day, because it had been heard that it was a potential target. So, with the day off, I headed over to her place, but only after talking with my family over the phone.

senior kindergarten, geting ready to go b4 we saw the dust on the tv, my mom said "thats like the dream i had the other night". turns out my mom is like sandra bullock in premonition, watch loose change, it will open your eyes! regards to all the families who were affected by 9/11. also read we all fall down, best book ive read this year!

sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:I was leaving for work when the new's of the first plain hitting hit the new's so I ran up to my roff and watched the secnd plain hit.It was so unbleaveable.I then got into my car and headed for work knowing that the city would be needing matirals from us [ I was a maneger for Home Depot at the time] As I was getting on the L.I.Expeseeway I stoped on the over pass to see the Towers from a better position and I watched them fall.It happened so quickly I was shocked!!!!!We closed the store down and gathered ever bucked,hardhat and many other suplys we could think of and handed it to the F.Department.After wards a few of my friends my daughter and myself picked up as many water bottles that we could get our hands and drove over to the Willemsberg bridge and started handing them to all the people walking over.I tell you the sight of those people covered in grey and white dust is a sight I'll never forget.

To this day I'm still amazed at how everyone within a stones throw tried to help imediatly. I live right near all the Hudson crossings and recall late into the day seeing ambulances and firetrucks from as far as PA rushing down the highways.

I was in 7th grade science class, when I heard people running down the hall yelling all this stuff. Some teacher walks in the room and tells us to turn on the tv. Everyone ignored class bells and we just sat there and watched it. After the Towers came down, that's all anybody wanted to talk about that day. Which was okay, but after a few hours, I was all like "Yeah, it sucks and it's depressing, but talking isn't going to change that it happened, can we talk about something else please". Shoot, it was all on the news that night, and I had already become sick of hearing it all, so I watched a DBZ marathon that night. However, I still have all the newspapers from the next day, cuz those suckers are going to be worth some money one day.

I was waking up to go work on the Naval Base at Bremerton, WA. I though what they were announcing on the radio was apart of the dream I was having before fulling waking up. So I thought I had dreamt it until I turned on the TV before having breakfast. I saw both towers fall before heading to the naval base. They ended up canceling classes at the lunch hour. I was told by the people at my home naval base in Bangor, WA to not even try and come in for the next couple of days due to them setting the highest level of security. Rightfully so since it was a ballistic missile submarine base.

It was freshman year of highschool. I woke up normally and walked to school that day, not knowing about it. Everybody was talking about it there. We still had classes but we just watched the news reports all week pretty much.

Spoon wrote:Just an other day at school.
/care about 9-11

I've had enough of assholes like you. If you don't care, then don't post, just because you live in a country that no one gives two shits about doesn't give you the right to type crap like that. All your post proves is that yet again the Internet and anonymity gives voices to the pussys of the world.

I'm glad you were in school, cause if you were in mine, you might have been in one of the classrooms in the World Trade Center. That's where my school had classes.

I was at Napleton Pontiac getting a warranty fix on my car for a broken fan speed switch after taking a personal day from work. I remember commenting to someone in the waiting room about a B-25 bomber crashing into the Empire State Building back in the late 1940's. Then I saw the second plane hit live on CNN and my first thought was this was no accident. The rest of the day was kind of a blur.

I was in my Co-op business class in 11th grade. I was sleeping.

Although, aside from the whole terrorist thing. It was the best day ever. No homework, no class, we all just gathered and watched the news. Then I went home and played some Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast.

It was awesome.

And, I pretty much agree with Spoon. Sure it was a tragedy. But it happened 6 years ago. Let the past be the past, and lets keep focusing on the future.

Senor Hugo wrote:I was in my Co-op business class in 11th grade. I was sleeping.

Although, aside from the whole terrorist thing. It was the best day ever. No homework, no class, we all just gathered and watched the news. Then I went home and played some Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast.

It was awesome.

And, I pretty much agree with Spoon. Sure it was a tragedy. But it happened 6 years ago. Let the past be the past, and lets keep focusing on the future.

Excuse my language, but f*%& you! You know what people died that day, there's nothing awesome about that day. One of my friends had family that died in that attack. People get this mindset that "oh, this was 6 years ago big deal", but really it still has an impact on our lives today. Military Alert is still elevated, and the threat is still out there. Fortunately the enemy hasn't been able to attack again, but doesn't mean they won't attempt to try again, so really keep it that memory with you.

Great Atlas wrote:

Senor Hugo wrote:I was in my Co-op business class in 11th grade. I was sleeping.

Although, aside from the whole terrorist thing. It was the best day ever. No homework, no class, we all just gathered and watched the news. Then I went home and played some Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast.

It was awesome.

And, I pretty much agree with Spoon. Sure it was a tragedy. But it happened 6 years ago. Let the past be the past, and lets keep focusing on the future.

Excuse my language, but f*%& you! You know what people died that day, there's nothing awesome about that day. One of my friends had family that died in that attack. People get this mindset that "oh, this was 6 years ago big deal", but really it still has an impact on our lives today. Military Alert is still elevated, and the threat is still out there. Fortunately the enemy hasn't been able to attack again, but doesn't mean they won't attempt to try again, so really keep it that memory with you.

So, there was nothing awesome about that day?

It wasn't awesome when so many people who couldn't get a hold of loved ones in new york, finally did?

It wasn't awesome to see America band together to help out in that time of need?

It wasn't awesome, not in the least to hear that the casualty rate was much much lower than it could have been?

It wasn't awesome hearing how people on a hijacked plane, stood up and saved even more people from being killed?

Yes. PEople died that day. Good people died. Police officers, firemen, people working in the buildings themselves.

But from that one single tragedy. So many good things came from it.

If the only thing you see when looking at September 11th, is the terrorist attack, the destruction, the loss. Look again.

i guess you're not getting what i'm saying. Of course it was good that less people died, people banded together, and people fought back. What i'm saying it was still not an awesome day, we were attacked and people died. Enemies of my country attacked on my home soil. It should be a day to honor our fallen, but no one should say it was an awesome day. Just like Pearl Harbor, it is a "day that will live in infamey"

Great Atlas wrote:i guess you're not getting what i'm saying. Of course it was good that less people died, people banded together, and people fought back. What i'm saying it was still not an awesome day, we were attacked and people died. Enemies of my country attacked on my home soil. It should be a day to honor our fallen, but no one should say it was an awesome day. Just like Pearl Harbor, it is a "day that will live in infamey"

I still say it was an awesome day, not just for my selfish reasons. But a lot more good came out of that day than bad.

To Senor Hugo.

I lost friends and family that day.

I can very much agree with your second statment as I love the fact that the whole of this nation came together in brotherhood.

However, to your initial statment, especialy the last line of it, I cannot disagree with you more!

This was not an attack on our fighting forces. Not that it would have made these events acceptable. This was a cowardly assault on regular people just looking to earn an honest living.

6 years, 10 years, 100 years, whe should never forget these events, and all those like it lest we give welcome for them to happen again!

Senor Hugo wrote:I was in my Co-op business class in 11th grade. I was sleeping.

Although, aside from the whole terrorist thing. It was the best day ever. No homework, no class, we all just gathered and watched the news. Then I went home and played some Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast.

It was awesome.

And, I pretty much agree with Spoon. Sure it was a tragedy. But it happened 6 years ago. Let the past be the past, and lets keep focusing on the future.

Same here, pretty much.

Yes, people died. Yes, it was sad. But if we put the past behind us, we can live much happier lives.

And Liege Evilmus, if they were cowardly, would they have done it?

Shadowman wrote:Yes, people died. Yes, it was sad. But if we put the past behind us, we can live much happier lives.

Tell this to the people that went through D-Day..
Sure D-day happened in 1944, HOWEVER go to a D-Day tribute and watch the emotions on those peoples faces. Grown men still weep for their fallen comrades and the things that they experienced that day so long ago on the shores of France.
They put the past behind them and move on BUT they never forget what happened and they still get emotional about it.

This is for you guys that had something to say negatively about the subject.
Try and respect others and how they choose to morn things and not act so arrogantly.
If you don't morn it then fine but DON'T STEP ON THOSE THAT CHOOSE TO MORN..

Got it?

Oddly enough I was up at 2am watching the whole thing unfold on live broadcasts.

I was in year 11, and had stayed up to finish an assignment that was due the next day, but had turned the tv on at midnight to watch Freaks and Geeks. A little over an hour later there was a cut to live feeds from CNNN and BBC across all channels, claiming a small plane had hit the Trade centers, and from the footage they were showing (from a traffic helicopter), it did look like a small plane.

At first I didnt think it was much, but it was all of 2 hours later that I was proven waaay wrong.
I pretty much saw everything as it happened because of the live feeds, and even all the way back here in Australia I knew it was bad.

I am still amazed at the low level of casualties from the event.

I was getting ready for school around 7 a.m. My mother then rushed to me, telling me that the World Trade Center was attacked. It struck me senseless, for I could not utter a word. These are harsh realities we must face. And to all the soldiers fighting to protect our liberties, our hopes, and ours dreams. I salute them. Remember 9/11!!!

i was in the 7th grade in my geography class. we were discussing "newsworthy" things to write about(weird, huh?) when the band teacher, who apparently had a friend who worked in one of the towers was going from room to room telling people to turn on the news. it was scary. then in math our teacher made us do classwork and didnt let us watch the TV because "it probably wasn't that big a deal." how wrong she was.

sparty2304 wrote:I was trying to enjoy my 21st bday...at work.

Happy Birthday

I was sitting in my living room watching it on TV.

My little brother usually watched Cartoons after I watched a bit of the news and he was complaining about not getting his turn before we had to leave for school.

I was watching a show called Good Day LA. I still remember the people talking to their coorespondent in New York and he suddenly yelling there was another plane. From the angle they were shooting, the second plane disapeared behidn the first tower and jets of flame shot out the other side and everything went really silent. Then someone asked "Was that another plane?!"

It was very sureal. I was in 7th grade at the time so when I went to school very few kids were aware what was going on. Me and my click were talking about it but we were all kids and didn't understand anything like that so when we got into our home room and watched everything on the TV a couple of kids in my class started to cry.

It was all very sureal. It's strange to think about it to, because at 13 years old I knew that the world had just flipped. Before 9/11 I was completly ignorant of world events, news, political issues, everything. I didn't know a thing about the world I lived in.

Post 9/11 I know a substantial amount more about the world and how we all effect it.

If any good came of 9/11, it was that it made a lot of Americans sit up and pay attention.

I was in school teaching my 6th graders.

I was told by a teacher to check my internet, but to keep it on the down low. We had to keep the students ignorantly bliss, until it was decided we should share. We had so many parents come in and take their children home that day. I did not have the time or opportunity to communicate with those dear to me, because I was busy helping others feel re-assured.

I remember having to tell my class about it, and students instantly becoming hysterically panicked about family members they knew were traveling on airplanes, who had family in New York. How do you honestly reassure children that things will be okay, when something so mind blowing for an adult happens in their innocent world?

I remember driving home, calling my soon to be wife. The craziness of lines at gas stations as we feared for the worst, in many ways. Watching the news, and the replays of the crash footage. The uncertainty that we would ever get to see our wedding that was less than a month a way.

It was quite a day, and certainly one I will never forget, in fact, for years beyond that. Things changed. The way everybody did things changed, and it may have made us more aware of our own mortality, and just how little in control we are of our lives, but many of us were never prouder to be an American citizen.

I understand Senor Hugo's, Shawdowman's, and Spoon's comments to a degree, even if it seems they are simply baiting others into a fight. For those of us who have never been involved in anything related to the front lines of a war--to acts of violence and aggression so horrible they boggle the mind, through family/friends, etc., it is hard to imagine how such a thing can be so harmful, when violence and war is made glamorous daily. If you have not had strong emotional ties to something, it is a little harder to find meaning in, and empathize with those who have, to the degree that they have.

Many of us only have an outwardly empathetic feel for this. For people like Getter, and Cyber Bishop, who have been a part of huge tragedies, violent or otherwise, this can run very deep, and many of us just cannot understand the feelings and emotions this brings back in the form of close personal memories.

Everyday we should be thankful that nothing along these lines has happened again, that we have not been 'drafted' into war to serve for our family's and country's freedom, and that those who are protecting us are doing the best job they can. Be thankful they feel as passionate about being a part of the protection, as you do about your collecting passions--even more so.

I have been fortunate to never have had lost anyone close to the violence or war, or other forms of violence like school violence (remember Columbine--my first year as a teacher was when that happened--how the hell can you assure students that someone will not all the sudden turn violent and do the same to them--it's a crazy helpless feeling--). I was not directly involved, but I have to learn how to deal with these things daily, and reassure others that they are safe, others who understand even less than I do, about why others feel it is necessary to be violent toward other people for whatever reasons that justifiy their actions.

It's a really crappy feeling to feel so helpless and unsure about where the future is going in these times. 9/11 reminds me that things have gotten better since then, and that the future is still there, and we do have people who are trying to make it safe for us.

I pray that none of us have to live through something similar again, and Hugo, Shadowman, Spoon and everyone can be thankful that there are people who learn from this pay attention to it, and use it to help make our lives safer, and protect our freedoms to express whatever opinions you may feel at whatever time.

At that point in time I just had started at Target and was there only two weeks.

I didn't have to go in until noon I was on the planogram team and the store was remodeling.So I was awoken by my mother saying that a plane crashed into a tower.I automatically remembered back during WW2 a plane crashed into the Empire State building.

So I put CBS on listening to Bryant Gumble and then as they were showing the tower from some angles the second plane hit

I couldn't believe my eyes

I remember saying to everybody the same mistake can't happen twice in a short span.Thats when I knew it was terrorism.

I watched as the towers fell...At that point in time thinking there was nobody still inside

I got to work and the break room was filled with people watching the coverage on TV.I asked to leave early and they let me

Some people in that Tower were from my hometown of Norwalk CT.I didn't know them but still...

I called my ex who was still living in Norwalk at that time and saying that Norwalk sent some of there Fire units to NY to help out

Norwalk is about an hours drive off I-95 away from NY

Years earlier I would help my brother who was private garbage man in Greenwich and there was this area where you could see the WTC on a clear day.Well he said he stood there along with the residence of that area seeing the smoke coming away from that area like a volcanoe exploded.

Since then I went back to visit Norwalk in 2003 I had a camcorder and my brother who still lives there told me that people who had camcorders were being watched

True enough I recorded some things and was stared at like I was an alien.