Where were you on 9-11?

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        Personally I was in Honduras on the assignment of a lifetime (from a selfish perspective), and on 9-11 my Honduran friend and co-worker said "I Hope they didn't have people in there!" andf then when the death toll became apparent, "I hope the US kills everyone person who made this happen. Fuck those people."

 

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
there has already been an article exactly like this. more than once
Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top
In Cognitive Absentia...
after the second plane (3 of 4) hit the other tower.

I didn't hope. I was ready to get on a plane and fly over to their home to deliver some 'SPECIAL GIFTS'! MUHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHA They w...*CLASSIFIED*
Fnord.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
8th grade American History class when I heard about it, English class when I saw the footage. I couldn't believe it, I started crying when I saw it and ended up leaving school early, around lunchtime. My dad came over to walk me home (we lived right next to the school) and helped him install our new screen door.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
The 500 Club, playing a round of golf. We broke off when one of our wives called with the news of the first hit & headed into the clubhouse to stare in utter disbelief as the second plane hit and the towers fell. One of the three most somber days of my entire life, the other two being the day my father died, when I was 21, and the day my mother died, when I was 37.

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Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Where were you on 9-11?

By: greywar
Posted: Friday, October 29, 2004 on The Word from the Geekside
Message Board: Politics
Personally I was in Honduras on the assignment of a lifetime (from a selfish perspective), and on 9-11 my Honduran friend and co-worker said "I Hope they didn't have people in there!" andf then when the death toll became apparent, "I hope the US kills everyone person who made this happen. Fuck those people."


At work.
Reply #6 from PolMach Forums Top
Getting ready for school. When I saw the 1st tower burning on a morning show (around 7:something in my time zone), I thought it was an accident (I was thinking about when a plane accidentaly hit the Empire State Building). But when I saw the 2nd tower burning, I realized that it couldn't be an accident. I heard about the other planes in school (my English teacher had a radio on in class), but it didn't hit me how serious it was and the damage it caused to people and families for a while. But I realized later that this was my generation's big, horrible event, that would shape the next few years like JFK and Pearl Harbor before it.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

there has already been an article exactly like this. more than once

And I give shit about this why? If you hadn't noticed this is my blog. Have a trolling.

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

An interesting cross section of the young and not-as-young:)

Thanks to the 5 folks (so far) who actually replied to the content of the entry here It came up again as the recent terror tapes were released and I thought about it for a long time the other night. Of course some folks hate to have this brought up as they would rather pretend that 9-11 never happened as that would fit inside their fairyland worldview better:)

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
I was in my second period study hall, freshman year. When someone said that a plane had crashed into the WTC, I was shocked and really upset. But when another plane crashed into the second tower, a lost all semblance of emotional control.

It's good to remember these things, even if some don't wish it to be brought up.

Peace,

Beebes
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top


Reply #7 By: greywar - 10/30/2004 3:09:42 PM
there has already been an article exactly like this. more than once

And I give shit about this why? If you hadn't noticed this is my blog. Have a trolling.
I baked up some trollhouse cookies for Sandy too.


I had returned from a trip the day before.  I was having my morning coffee, watching the news.  My hubby was in the shower and when I saw the footage of the first crash I screamed to him about it.  He though I was joking.  When the second crash happened, I was shaking and sobbing.  Just couldn't believe what was happening. 


Our kids weren't school age yet but some of our neighbors were so worried that they dashed to the school to retrieve their kids.  I think we were all thinking, what is going to come next if this was able to happen?  It certainly changed my sense of safety. 

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Having a bowl of cereal before going to work....i was watching Good Morning america the whole time as well...i didnt know what was going on at first..the 2nd plane hit during this time .....I was stunned.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just missed the first one when I turned on the tv for the weather before heading up to DLI, saw the second one hit before formation in the day room at the company. We were taking a Korean test when the towers fell. Then they wondered why so many of us failed that one...........go figure.

There was a whole lot of holy shit, I'm in the army and we're going to war syndrome going around that day. On the plus side, nobody gave us any crap about having recently closed the gates to through traffic after that, or complained about all the soldiers hanging around downtown.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
At My Orthopedic surgeons office in Annapolis MD. Then the power went out and I wondered if they hit the Nuke plant on the eastern shore.
Then I drove home, made my roommate turn on the tube. Then i got to drive the beltway to work at Ft Belvoir. The lack of traffic was stunning
and the sight of the pillar of smoke rising from the Pentagon for the next three days made me want to scream with rage. And that was before work. Work was a story I cannot tell here.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
And I thought I was out of trollings for cookies tonight.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
I was sitting in Companion, having a Jack and Coke, Chong Mi was washing glasses. The phone rang and one of our customers asked me if I was watching the tv. I was reading a book, but I changed the channel to AFKN. He had told me a small plane had accidentally hit the first tower. I watched, thinking the pilot was a dumbass not to see the huge tower from such a small plane..... as I watched a second plane hit the second tower and I knew it was no mistake. When the plane hit the pentagon I told Chong Mi "Oh, shit! We are at war!" I had to close the bar and find more Americans to drink with and watch this sad event unfold. I don't think I slept for the next 6 days or so, AFN pretty much stopped their regular programming and had feeds from all of the major US channels.

As a side note, this nearly caused us to close the bar permanently... everyone was locked on post for so long I didn't think we would be able to pay our rent. It also caused me to find a "real job".
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
I was in Hawaii. I got up early because I was scheduled to give a PT test. I missed the alert phone call by mere minutes as I drove out to Area X (rifle ranges and our PT course). I lived on base, so I had no idea about the traffic jams already mounting outside the closed gates. My cell was on buzz in the glove box and I was listening to my MP3 player. My batteries died on the MP3 player shortly after I got to the meeting place, so I popped out the tape adapter and turned on the radio. I swear, my first thought was that there was a 'War of the Worlds' type thing going on and at any moment, an Orson Welles type voice would come over and tell me that it was a piece of fiction. It took only a minute or so for me to realize the absurdity of that notion, so I grabbed my cell and saw that I had missed calls. I called the unit and got the 1SG (he lived on base, too, so was able to get in to the unit right away). He told me to stay put and take accountability of anyone that showed up for the APFT and call in when I got a headcount. He told me that we'd received orders to conduct only a telephonic recall for the time being, so he said to go ahead and administer the test to anyone that showed up. Not surprisingly, only about 1/3 of the people scheduled to take the test actually showed. I administered the test and sent everyone to the unit to be weighed and headed in to the office myself. I ended up spending the day there tracking down all our personnel and making sure everyone was accounted for. We released most of the company to go home and be with their families but told them to stay by the phones just in case we needed to get them in.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Silly double post...
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
I was at work. The boss came in from wherever he'd been and asked us if we were ready to go to war.
We asked him what he meant, and he told us he'd heard on the radio about the planes.

From there, we rolled from one rumor to the next.....Pittsburgh, PA was being evacuated.....planes were falling on all the major cities....the death toll in the Towers was expected to hit 50,000 or more....lots of weird stuff.

The manager sent me home to get a radio and bring it back (I lived about three blocks from work). I stopped off at the doctor's office down the street from my apt. to watch the news reports. When I returned with the radio, it was tuned to the AM talk and news stations, and stayed on for four days.

At my other job, at the local hospital, the departmental director had a TV brought into the shop, and it was left on for about a week, too.

That was a terrible, strange, and wonderful time. Patriotism had become fashionable again, and it was great. People paid attention to each other and cared about more than just themselves, at least for a while. We came together as a nation in a way that I'd never witnessed in my entire life.

Someone came into the hospital and dropped off about 200 American flags. I took 2 home and stuck them in the ground at the top of my steps. I lit candles, which I set under them, illuminating them from beneath, and kept the candles burning for a week. The flags stayed in the ground there until I moved.

Goddamn Osama bin-Laden for what he did, but God bless him, too.....for reminding us that we were, and could be, one nation.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply #18 By: Rightwinger - 10/31/2004 1:54:15 AM
Goddamn Osama bin-Laden for what he did


Your right, Goddamn his ass to hell. After he eats a pork chop and wears a bra!
Reply #20 from PolMach Forums Top
I was at work. I work in a seperate building with all the servers. Someone I don't get along with very well in my company called me and told me to get over to the cafeteria in the other building and hung up on me. I was kind of pissed about his abruptness. I remember thinking how I didn't have time for this crap, I had work to do, as I walked over to their build . . . oblivious. The Cafe has glass walls and I was walking down this corridor looking through the glass wondering why everyone was gathered in there. Everyone was standing then one guy sat down and all at once I could see the TV. I watched the second plane hit and began running down the hall.

Before I kew what was going on my Fiance called on my cell to say her building was being evacuated. I remember seeing somone jump out of the tower at some point and that's when I had to step outside I didn't want anyone to see me cry. When the Towers collapsed all I could think about was all those people, at work just like I was, doing their thing, getting coffee, checking their Email, and the next thing they know the world is on fire, their friends are dead or dying, they don't know if they will make it to the next minute. Over what? Religion? No god is worth that.
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
I was at work, and it was really busy. My husband called me on the phone and asked, "Did you hear about the airplane that hit the building?" I mean, it sounded like a joke and I didn't have time for jokes. I said, "OK, what does this have to do with me?" He replied, "If you are an American it has everything to do with you!" That's when I realized he was serious. While on the phone he says, "Crap, another one!" Or something like that. That's when our office went nuts. We turned on the radios and checked the internet, then finally closed and I went home. It was a beautiful day, weather-wise. The sky was clear and blue and it was warm, for September in Minnesota.
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
I was in jail. I work there, not confined there, although I wonder about that sometimes...
What I noticed that day was the TOTAL lack of interest by all but one inmate. They could of cared less while the staff was glued to the TV every chance they got. Interesting...
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
I had been out late the night before with some friends. I slept in the next day, because I had a 4pm to 2am shift at the restaurant I managed at the time. I woke up noon, and my answering machine had 10 messages or so on it. I went to work that night in a daze, then afterward I went over to my friend Hussam's house and me and him stayed up for the rest of the night, trying to get a hold of his family in New York and Amman, Jordan; drinking whiskey and crying about what had happened. Hussam just kept saying, "My blood is on those towers," because his family is Egyptian -- I remember him saying "I wish they had never found that goddam oil, because it has made my people crazy."

there has already been an article exactly like this. more than once


I haven't seen another blog on this; although I'm sure they exist. But I don't think it's so bad to remember where we were -- especially in light of how divided we have become.

Thanks for everyone who posted where they were, and thanks for posting this thread, greywar.
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
I was asleep at my auntie's house in New Caledonia. At 5.00 am she came waking me up for me to come and watch the news flash with her. It was terrible, we were all in shock that the greatest nation on earth was the target to such vicious attacks.
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
I woke up early to get some school work done before I went to school. Flipped on the TV... Needless to day I didn't get any school work done. The worst part of the day for me was when I went to work. I used to work at an after school program. Everyone was in shock, but they hadn't told the kids at the school (a private, catholic school). Anyway, the worst part was when little Carmen Fumagalli came up to me and said, "Guess what? Today is my birthday!" I felt so bad for her. To have this remembered on your birthday.