September 11th. Where were you?

[Guest DarthMaulUK]

It's a few days early but I thought it would be good to make a start - a year on.

 

I was having my cable modem/ cable tv installed and as the TV was installed, we were watching Sky News seconds after the first tower was hit and both myself and the engineer were stunned when we saw the second plane fly into the south tower.

 

My cable modem didnt work due to the sheer volume of internet traffic that day and I was left watching the tv in complete amazement.

 

A truly awful day in the history of the planet and I hope all the members of this forum would join me in remembrance of those who lost their lives and those who have worked so hard...especially the emergency services.

 

DMUK

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[Darth Homer]

I was in my dorm room. Asleep. My roommate woke me telling me a plane had hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center. I looked up at the tv just in time to see the second plane crash into the other tower. I was shocked to say the least. I had classes that day...I went, but hardly anyone else did...ended up just sitting in front of the tv in my room watching the news all day. Words fail...

 

 

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[Sherack Nhar]

Not to sound rude or disrepectful, but what is the reason for making that thread sticky? Sure it's an important event, but I fail to see the relation between the subject and the forum; thus it should not be stuck.

 

With that said, I was in class when it happened. My teacher burst into the classroom and just said that something terrible happened that she saw on TV in the teacher's room. She's not very bright and tends to overreact most of the time, so she wanted to cancel the class. The students were (surprinsingly) against it, so we talked about the event until the bell rang.

[Eets]

Yeah, I was wondering that too..

 

Anyways.

 

My last period of school in the morning was over, so I went down to the Library to get on the forums. Suddenly, the library attendant asks me if I heard what happened. I say no, and she goes on to say that a plane hit one of the twin towers, and she turned on the radio. Later on, I got home and watched TV as the first building collapsed. I knew in my gut that the other one would too.

[Boba Rhett]

I had just gotten up about twenty minutes earlier and was walking around the house when I passed a TV and a news bulletin flashed on saying that the WTC had been bombed. (That was the first report given)

 

I then ran and told my mother and then posted threads here and at jkii. Then the second plane hit and it seemed to dawn on everyone what really was happening.

 

I then glued myself to the TV, only taking brief pauses to run outside and tell my father what was happening. Then we heard about the Pentagon being hit as well and about the other downed plane. Any other day, a downed plane would have been HUGE news but compared to what had happened, it paled in comparison and was almost brushed aside for a while.

 

Then I remembered to wake my brother up. I woke him up with the words, "Chase, we're under attack!" It was really powerful and emotional when the towers fell. It was beyond belief. I was in complete shock.

 

I remember getting into a big chat with some friends on the net and discussing who could have done it later that day. It was a dark and scary day. It's also the day I got this computer.

 

The day will be burned into my mind for the rest of my life, as I'm sure it will be for many of you. It's the next, "when Kennedy was shot" deal.

 

 

This thread is this forums rememberance of the 11th. I think it deserves to be stuck.

[Tie Guy]

I was in second block at my school, history class ironically. Another teacher burst in the room and told us we'd been hit by a plane and to the on the TV. We did, just in time to see the second plane hit. My entire class and the teacher was in total schock, no one saying anything but the occasional "oh my gosh" for the next hour or so. We did nothing the rest of the day in any of my other two classes. We were simply glued to the TV all day. I saw the buildings fall on TV too, i'm not sure when it was but i remember watching it in a scary combination of bewilderment, awe, and horror. I was dumbfounded. I came home and immediately turned on CNN at my house and watched that all night. I simply couldn't believe it, it just didn't feel like it could be real, but it was.

[Jatt13]

i was at school. me and artoo and our other classmates were just finishing marching band practice down at our school's football feild. we were starting to head back to the main school building when another band member came down and told us the WTC had been hit by a plane. none of us really got the full impact, and we were just discussing what kind of plane it was and how any pilate could be that stupid. then we got back to the building and someone turned on the radio to a news station, and the only thing they were talking a/b was the two planes hitting the towers. we were sorta stunned, and sat around listening to the radio. noone on the news said anything a/b terrorists, but the entire school was talking a/b us being attacked. in the rest of our classes, most of our idiot teachers wouldn't turn on the news (the morons), but one teacher let me go to the library were some people were gathered watching the news. i got on the internet and got the full scope fron the cnn website and printed it out, and that got passed around the rest of the day. it was a world shaking event and eserves to be remembered for the rest of our lives. well, not the act, but the people who died and what tha attack signified.

[Redwing]

I was on the way to school when my mom and I heard the first tower was hit, on the radio. I was barely awake and didn't comprehend it, althout my mom was astonished...then I got pollen in my eye and forgot about it. I was really tired...so none of what was going on got through to me.

 

I went to first period, which was Spanish class. Our teacher, Sra. Turner, had the radio on (for lack of a TV receiving any channels). We got the news that the second tower hit. Then it set in. Exactly what had happened.

 

By third period, English, our teachers pretty much ditched teaching for the day when one of them got a TV set up in the hallway. Almost all the classes in the building were there, watching. There was talk of evacuating our school and neighboring schools in the district because we were so close to LAX, where the planes were headed. We never did evacuate, though. They explained it on the news, and it was immensely strange (at least for me) to know that they were talking about us. They figured parents would want to know where their children were rather than have them running everywhere around the city. Of course, some kids went home anyway, out of fear.

 

My classes for that day and the next didn't bother to teach. Instead we had class discussion about what had just happened...my history teacher pointed out that almost all of us would remember exactly where we were that day. She, obviously, was right.

 

Later in the day, the forums were in an uproar. On RS.Net, Lujayne created a "report in" thread to see if any of the members had been...well...killed. There was worry particularly about a certain member, Grand Admiral Ice, whom we knew lived in New York. He turned out to be fine; but he had seen the second tower fall from his Spanish class window. *shudder*

 

If I hadn't known so concretely that it was real I wouldn't have believed it. It sounded like a scene from a bad movie. Or something like you would read from a history book, and think things like that don't happen anymore...it's "history book stuff". It was completely surreal.

[Crazy_dog no.3]

I just came from school and Mum and Dad were watching TV

[Boba Rhett]

This'll be restuck again in a few days. Let's keep this going guys.

[TheMadDoofer]

I was just getting to school when it really happened, but I didn't know about it until lunch, when one of the teachers announced it. I tohught for a second that she was just kidding, nut then it hit me. . .its real. When I got back home that day, all I did was watch T.V for five hours straight.

[Admiral Odin]

I was in school when the attacked happened. I learned during my 4th period study hall. I left the room, before I knew anything concrete. I knew we were attacked, but I didn't want to know how bad since I had to concentrate on school work.

 

When I got home, I turned on the tv to fox news and watched it until I had to go to work. When I got there, I tried to think about work but that was to no avial.

 

For the most part, I tried to calm others down who were scared.

[duder]

...on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago. We had just reached the beautiful city of Burgos where we intended to spend our first day off. I was sitting in the plaza mayor drinking ****tails when I went back into the bar to order my next drink to see the grim images on the TV screen. It was intensely surreal experience as I couldn't speak a word of Spanish, all I could think was that it was a movie, but I couldn't fathom why everyone was engrossed with the TV. It wasn't until an hour or so later that my sister explained to me exactly what had happened.

 

It is still a very sad vivid memory that I doubt I will ever forget.

[Zygomaticus]

I was haleluja, in the shower, bathing the dirt off and soothing these muscles god gave me after a hectic water polo practive the previous evening...and then i come down to sink my teeth into something scrumptious and peoplesa watchintha teevee!!!

 

nobody watches teeveesa in the morningsa!! nobody in my house atleast

 

well there it was, ugly and horrific and the thought that i was in that very same floor 5 years ago...phewy

 

One of the biggest things to happen in the short but illustrious history of the 20th century. And will forever remain big, and for future generations to read about....

 

amen to that..

[idiot00001]

I was in my first period class when the school principal came on the intercom and told the entire school what had happened. I wasn't able to here anything else about what had happened until I got home that evening and I turned on FOX. At first I didn't understand what had happened and how serious it was until I heard about the towers collapsing.

 

... should I delete that now or later?

 

You should delete it now, like krkode said.

[Artoo]

I'll say a little bi more but it's basically what Jatt said.

 

We were down on the football field practicing our drill for the upcoming game when a girl came down and said that the World Trade Center had been struck by an airplane. But our band director sort of hurried through it and we thought nothing of it really.

 

We thought it was just a Cesna since our band director didn't make a large deal about it, and we were discussing how it could have happened and what was going to happen.

 

I thought it would just eb a little high-stell work and it would be good as new, cuase I believed it was jsut a little 4 seater Cesna that had hit. And I specifically remember saying, "Nothing short of a 747 could bring those buildings down."

 

Our next period was Bible (Me and Jatt usually get all the same classes together) which was done by the Chorus teacher in the Chorus room. We walked up there from the football field and when we sat down and were waiting for the teacher to come to class. Everyone was talking like normal, nothing really seemed out of place. When our teacher came in he told us that it had just been reported that another 747 had crashed into the second tower, and that people were speculating it to be terrorism.

 

Unfortunately we couldn't watch this on the T.V. since the chorus room had none, but we discussed it. And basically the entire rest of the day was spent in front of T.V.'s in other teachers classrooms.

 

Delete that above thing now.

[obi]

sorry abuot my humor earlier, I see the post was deleted. I thought I would just try to lighten things up.

 

 

 

Here's where I was-

 

I was in Spainish class, taking a test(( ihate that class, because the teacher talks like a friggin parrot). I believe I was around problem number 23 or somethin, and I was struggling very hard. Then, the assistant Principal ca,e on the inter-com and told everyone to turn on CNN. We did, and they where talking about it.

 

 

get this-

 

A student with a pic of an eagle eating osama bin-laden on his locker got in trouble for it. I was like WTF?!

[Zygomaticus]

ok, there'll be 2 parts to this post.

 

1*******

 

I see my plan on upping my post count by 1 was foiled by Rhett...oh well...

 

2*******

 

Something similar to Obi-Wan happened at my school, when 3 hour after the attacks i was in school, there was a large slab of stone which had this written on it, "Go the f*** home, palestinians"

 

*no offense meant whatsoever to any palestinian. I was just saying what i saw at school.*

 

The slab was removed immediately, but not before the some pictures were taken and in the next couple of days there was an article written about it and about jumping-to-conclusion kids.

 

The offender was not caught, but i hope he's changed his extremely biased opinion.

[Fishflesh]

i was having driving lessons nextst day thats all i can remember

[Billy Shears]

I was in Algebra class. We were doing seatwork, and our science teacher came in and walked over to the math teacher. The talked for a little while, she left and then he turned on the TV in the room. That's when the class looked up to see one of the buildings on fire. My mouth dropped open. Some other students were making jokes. One of them, our class Vice-President said, "Let's bomb Iraq!" and got laughs from one of his friends in the class. The teacher didn't hear him though.

 

Then the second plane slammed into the WTC. I was shocked. We went to English and kids were still joking about it. I was thinking, "How can you laugh at a time like this???!!!" I wanted to strangle them. My English teacher was crying, her son was in the White House, and she didn't know how he was. Later that day, we heard about the Pentagon and the downed flight in Pennsylvania.

 

My mom picked me up (our bus takes forever to go to my house, it's one of the last stops). She had told me that she and my father had been on pins and needles. She told me that my uncle, who piloted airplanes, was going to pilot one of the craft that crashed into the WTC, but he was transferred to a New Orleans flight instead. Makes you think how lucky you can be. He really dodged a bullet.

 

The next morning, the students were complaining about how they didn't get out of school, and if the importation of clothes would be affected by this. I was disgusted.

 

I'll never forget that Algebra class.

[Surfnshannon]

I was at work all night on graveyard. Always by myself at night until people start coming in about 6:30 am. Well of course I didn't start hearing really bizzaro things till the people started arriving. A plane crashed somewhere. A plane hit a building. Something is happening! So I went on the CNN site and only got a glimpse. It hit the trade center!! So we all went into the conference room to watch the events unfold in this fuzzy old tv. One by one the employees came in and filed into the conference room. We all 30 of us were crammed in this little room watching the tv with our eyes glued on it. Bosses - etc. We all were there to watch the centers fall! It was awful. Then it was time for me to go home and I was glued to my satalite all day. I had the East Coast channels so I saw a lot of stuff before it went on the west channels. It was hard to sleep that day and I was really scared we would have a major war on our hands.

[observer_20000]

I was in school, it was recess time. I remember a teacher walking around the hall talking about something big going on on the news. I only realized what it actually was later that day when I went to visit some old teachers at another school, who happened to have their T.V. in the lounge turned to CNN.

[Wraith 8]

Well i know that the 11th of September was a rough time.. and im not from the states or even the continent... but i remember it very clearly.

 

when it happened it was around 3 PM in my country and i just gotten home from school. i just set one foot inside my house and my mom comes yelling my name to come quickly. I ran toward the TV and just saw the second plane hit the building. I was realy chocked.

At first it just looked like a movie or something. it was just not real to me. But it realy was real.... and that realy freaked me out.

 

My thoughts go out to the survivors of the disaster and the relatives who stayed behind. you have my deepest sympathies.

[Havoc Stryphe]

It was a real whirlwind for me...

 

I was at work, which some of you know is an Air Force Base, So CNN is usually on somewher on bas at all times, so as soon as CNN started reporting it, we were all aware of what was going on.

 

At first, in my naivete, I just thought it was some kind of pilot error, a tragic accident, but as the second plane hit, I knew that the world was never going to be the same. That thought was reinforced when I heard the call go out: "Go to Threatcon: BRAVO!"

 

Then suddenly, there was more tragedy, as that third plane hit the Pentagon. I was in my office, fighting back the tears that flowed for those victims and their families. At that moment, all hell broke loose. There were armed guards everywhere, I was being told to stay in my building we were in Threatcon: DELTA. Which for those who don't know about the Threatcon levels, means we are not only at war, but in the War Theatre. Normally, when we are at war, those bases stateside remain in Threatcon: CHARLIE, only those bases in and near to the battlefields are in Threatcon: DELTA. So you can imagine my fear and suprise, when there were machine guns everywhere, sandbags being deployed, and barriers being built.

 

When the towers fell, I was a wreck, so many lives lost, women, children, iinnocent lives that were just like me and you. I could only cry in my office, praying that the nightmare would end.

 

Not only was I fearing for those who were in those planes and towers but my own life seemed so perilous. It was a day, I'll never forget, as I realized how fragile our "happiness" and "security" really is. I'll never take for granted my freedom and security ever again.

[Darth Homer]

My brother went through much the same. He's in the Air National Gaurd now, was USAF (United States Air Force) for four years. He was at work on the planes (F-16s) at the air field near Houston (the name eludes me right now). Part of the fighter wing we was a mechanic on flew cover for Air Force 1 later that same day. He was on heightened alert for many weeks after and there was the possibility of him being reactivated. Fortuneatly, that didn't happen.