Where were you on 9/11?

[Gunz]

 I was on the couch asleep and I awoke to a friend beating on the front door. It was Amy, she came in screaming a plane crashed into a building in New York. I turned on the news and not 5 minutes after doing so, the second plane hit the other Tower. I watched it live. Chills, fear, thoughts of war on our land came over me as I looked at my son Mackenzie laying on the couch asleep. He wasn't even 3 weeks old and I just new that we were going to have world war 3 on OUR LAND. What was I going to do, how were we going to survive, where was I going to drive to to hide with my family.... all of this in my head. I got dressed, grabbed the keys and went for a drive. As I was driving everybody was out, the lines at the gas pumps were a mile long every where, the pharmacies parking lots were packed, grocery stores were crowded, no police around.... What was happening, what do I do.... my son.


I remember it like it was yesterday


Where were you?

[Colorado700R]

I was a Marine inspector/instructor stationed in Cheyenne, Wy. My job was to teach marine reservists in air defense, and close air support fire control.

When the towers were hit, chaos followed becuase a national guard armory had been robbed in nearby Nebraska the night before. We had no idea if the events were related, and since heavy weapons were involved in the robbery, we had to assume the worst..

The next few days were very confusing and scary. On 12 sept. I was controlling d divisions of f16 patrolling the skies over Denver. Nothing was supposed to be flying, and if it was..the order to shoot it down was going to come through me...thankfully that never happened.

[Cammy]

Wow, I was in my junior high (I know I'm young) science class. T a r d y bell rang and I walked in the room and saw the live feed my teacher had on the computer. I remember thinkin WOW whats happening? Are they going to let us out of school to go back to our familys......Will everyone be ok? Very sad day for everyone on this day ten years ago.

[frog69]

I was working close to down town okc. for a machine shop. listing to the katt on the radio. suddenly brad on the radio said this can't be right, people something happen in new york. multple things were said that happen. it took about 10 minutes before they finally new what really happen. at that point I was fealing the same about ww3. my wife had just told me she was preg with our first. I was so scared what might happen in the coming months. that's another reason Im so proud to be an aircraft mech. on our military aircraft. hopping that what I do is helping our men and women over there.

[Langford]

I was a Junior in High school, actually asleep in study hall when everything happened.  We had a nation wide high school news program on in the classroom (channel 1 news), and they were covering the attacks, but I was too out of it to realize this was all happening live.  

That class let out at 10:55 am, and I had calculus class next.  A buddy and I decided to ditch that class and go out to lunch, so we went to Ruby Tuesdays.  They had all the TV's on ABC, and we sat there for a good hour just mesmerized by the coverage...The reality of what was happening finally hit us.  

I went home after that and just stared at the TV for hours.  I felt the same way that Gunny described, WW3 was starting here on our homeland and I was terrified.  I remember sitting in front of the TV with my family for hours watching the coverage, all kinds of emotions pulsing through me...


I also remember it like it was yesterday, a day I will never forget.  

[Peelz]

I was working the weekend shift back then, and it was a weekday, so I was fast asleep. Nichole called me and she was scared....because at first, nobody knew whether this was a bigger attack... Worst wakeup I can remember....


bad day.

[russ-russ]

I was working night shift at the time, so I was still sleeping when it all started.  I woke up and turned on the TV in the bedroom.  At first I thought it was some disaster movie or something like that, so I flipped channels but it was the same everywhere.  Then it started to register what was really going on.  There was so much confusion about what was happening, who could be responsible, what was coming next, and so on.

[preddy08]

Senior year of high school. Early in the morning no one knew what was going on. The rumors were horrible, 30,000+ dead. I left school at noon and headed out to apply for a job at Fox cabinets. Remeber sitting in the lobby with everyone watching TV in total disbelief.


Remember it like it was yesterday.

[ctateusa]

was getting ready to take my wife to work and then go in about an hour later myself. Flipped on the TV and though the same that russ did.  Then it was on more than one channel and everyone was saying gas is going to hit 5 bucks a gallon.  Ended up waiting to fill up my dodge that day for 3.49 over a dollar spike in gas in 30 mins.

[Krandall]

Senior in High School. Sitting in my Calc class. Same as lang, we had Channel 1 news, and it was reported that a plane had hit one of the towers.. Classes continued, but no teachers taught class. We moved through our classes, but all we did was watch different channels on what was going on.. I remember watching the 2nd plane hit live as well.. Thinking oh my gosh, how is something like this happening.. The first thoughts in my head were.. World war 3... And will there be a draft? I dont want to go to war.

[Firemann32]

I owned a mowing business and mowed between fire dept shift days and I was driving to another mowing job when the news broke that the first tower had been hit, my first thought was that it was intentional, a few minutes later the second plane hit. I immediatly thought of the HUGE task the firefighters had ahead of them then when the first tower collapsed I knew that hundreds of my brother firefighters had just died.

The two things that I remember most about that day is the helplessness that I felt watching it unfold and all the PASS alarms going off on airpacks of the motionless FDNY members.  Not a day goes by when I hear a PASS alarm activated that I don't think of the attacks.

[Kenneth]

literature class was about to start...

[denver dude]

At work at a cryogenic company as a certified welder 8 months removed from a 9 year tenure in the Army on that day.  I was the last one to find out as the guys I worked with were concerned about how I would react as a newly honorably discharged vet.  Left work the instant I found out pissed off, and drove to the base where I was stationed.  I was turned away, as the base was locked down.  I felt absolutely helpless and unable to do anything.  Went home and watched the coverage on TV.  I can only remember thinking, "What a bunch of phucking cowards, and GERD speed to the family's and friends affected by what had happened on that day."

[Alkire193]

Junior in High School moving from class to class. French fries in one hand and keys to my car in the other (cause I never stayed for class) the TV showed a plane crash into the WTC. No one at the time knew what to make of it, the title just said "Plane crashes into World Trade Center". I kept thinking how odd it was that someone was filming at the exact time the plane hit the tower. Then they showed that it wasn't the only plane that did it. That was the second. Went home, made some pizza rolls and never left the couch, watching CNN live the whole time until both towers came down. Up to that point I had no idea about terrorism in America, or that we had ever been attacked before. Really didn't know what to say about it for awhile. I just kept asking "How could the towers fall? They didnt even shake when the planes hit." and "Is this some kind of messed up navigation? How could terrorists get control of planes?". I even thought that Flight 93 was unrelated for awhile. I really just had no idea what to think at the time.

[HK 45 Nut]

Just flew back home that morning to go to work that night. I walked in the door and my dad called and told me what was going on. I told him he was full of sh#t, till I turned on the tv. I went out to the hanger and put a sign in my car I was working on with my contact info.