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9/11 - Where were you?; and what were you thinking?
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Mr Gray Sep 9 2011, 09:57 AM Post #1
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Not trying to trump the other 911 thread, but I thought it would be interesting to see how many people remember exactly where they were, what they were doing, and what they were feeling at the moment the twin towers were hit.

I was sitting in my home office making sales calls at my 1st b2b sales job, and my gf (now wife) called to tell me. I turned on CNN, which was Paula Zahn's 1st day with that network, to watch her reporting of it. That was the only time in my entire professional career (to date) that I turned my phone off and ignored all of the day's business.....I just kept thinking what it would be like if my family was in that building.
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crveech Sep 9 2011, 10:25 AM Post #2
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I'll never forget. I was in 8th grade and was taking my ISTEP in an auditorium when it all happened. I didn't know until someone came up to me in the hallway and said a plane crashed into the World Trade Center.

We watched the whole thing on TV the rest of the afternoon. I remember some dumbasses acting all excited and going "yeah, we're going to war." If I was a teacher, I would have grabbed a ruler and beat the shit out of those kids.

I didn't know what to think the rest of the day. It was hard to just believe all of this has happened. I remember walking home from school, and all I could do was just look up at the sky. It's like I was expecting planes to come crashing down all over the country. Just a very scary day.
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obatskii Sep 9 2011, 10:31 AM Post #3
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Fuck you and this thread, aaron. :)

My story is pretty much verbatim what veech just said except I was in the 10th grade.
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I was in 7th grade and on a field trip to a state park. We found out that our counselor (who was with us) had a son on a plane that left Newark. She hadn't heard from him, and was freaking out. We went to the lodge at the state park and watched the tv the rest of the time before we had to go. Oh, our counselor's son wasn't on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania btw.
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was working in d.c., living on capitol hill.

short story...went to work.

7th/8th grad experience for me, not that it is analogous by any means...would be the challenger explosion - everyone knows where they were.

cheers and do appreciate the thread.

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I was in 5th grade and I lived in Washington D.C. so my 9/11 story is more than I can write right now
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I was a sophomore in high school and we were taking I think the ISTEP. Some girl ran in and basically yelled that our country was under attack and then ran out. Our teacher went off to get the details at that point and explained what was going on. I didn't get to watch any of the coverage til that afternoon when I got home from school.
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I was in 8th grade, being bused from the high school back to my middle school because I took geometry first period there.

Someone said that a foreign country had bombed the Pentagon, which I kind of laughed off as craziness. Then we got back and saw the news coverage.
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In a hospital room with my wife. She was pregnant and they wanted to induce labor on her because of preeclampsia. We fianally had to come out and tell them, not only no on inducing labor, but hell no. It was a surreal moment as everything I knew was going haywire (I worked for an American Airlines at the time on their reservation system). My wife was given drugs, hooked to a fetal monitor and confined to bed rest for the duration of the pregnenacy. My daughter was born 7 long days later when the doctor decided he could wait no longer for her to come out on her own.
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I was in a staff meeting at work. When someone came into to interupt our meeting to tell us the news, my jaw dropped. Needless to say, we stopped our meeting and everyone went to their computers to see what exactly happened.
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Another thing I'll never forget was going to church the following Sunday. The closing song that day was America, The Beautiful. I saw men singing I had never seen sing, women were crying that I had never seen cry, and it was about as an emotional of a congregation as I had ever been around. I get chills just thinking about that...
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I was in 7th grade, and like many others taking our ISTEP (actually for that grade I think it was CTBS) testing for the year.

Finding out actually began before that. My middle school started later than most did. We typically began classes at about 9, but because of testing we started at 9:30. I remember seeing the first tower being hit on Good Morning America before I left for school (I was eating breakfast), but I wasn't really old enough to understand what was happening. I saw the images, but in the few seconds I had before the bus came I passed it off as some kind of new movie or something.

When I got on the bus, the typical morning talk show was replaced by a lady hysterically talking about a commuter plane crashing into the towers. I was the last stop for the bus, so it was a quick ride to school. While we were waiting for the buses to unload the lady began hysterically screaming (and I'll never, ever forget these words) "OH MY GOD, THE SECOND TOWER JUST GOT HIT! OH MY GOD!" I'm not really sure what happened after this, but I know that I made it into school and we tested for half of the day until about noon. I was still pretty young, didn't really know what was actually happening (I had never been to that part of the US at that time, so I had no geographical sense of what was going on either) but I would pay money to see video footage of the reactions from my teachers/bus drivers/other adults that day.

After testing was over, I remember my history teacher saying "America got attacked by terrorists that we think are from the middle east". I didn't really have any sense of real geography, and really didn't even know what countries made up the 'middle eat', but I do recall him saying that the "world would never be the same again" (boy was he right). Still unable to really process what was happening, the kids went on school as normal so far as I know (once again, I'd pay money to go back and see what the teachers were doing again) until late in the day they decided to cancel all after-school events. I thought it was the coolest thing ever because I got to go home early, and we didn't have to take the second part of the day's ISTEP testing. I continued thinking life was great until I got home and my brother told me "what are you talking about? this is one of the worst days ever." That's when he and my parents started to explain what was happening, and we were watching footage over, and over, and over on TV.

The parts that stick out most of all to me are the togetherness that EVERYONE felt after that day. In the light of something so terrible, it's remarkable how that united so many people. The other thing that sticks out is the amount of sheer terror that everyone felt following the attacks. I remember parents and kids talking about being scared to fly or go in buildings in downtown Indianapolis, or even go to organized sporting events. It was pure, hysterical fear in the months following, and most of it was pretty illogical.
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I was working at Kmart...and one of the bosses came over and told me to lock up the guns and ammunition. They said that someone hit one of the towers...I thought it was a bad joke...than I went over to the TV section and saw the second one hit...I was speachless....

2 weeks later I was in a recruiters office and 2 weeks later.... I was PV2 Maze, off to Ft. Benning GA...than a couple months later...I was in Kuwait/Iraq.

10 years later... I am now SFC Maze and ready to get some more...
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I was working at Kmart...and one of the bosses came over and told me to lock up the guns and ammunition. They said that someone hit one of the towers...I thought it was a bad joke...than I went over to the TV section and saw the second one hit...I was speachless....

2 weeks later I was in a recruiters office and 2 weeks later.... I was PV2 Maze, off to Ft. Benning GA...than a couple months later...I was in Kuwait/Iraq.

10 years later... I am now SFC Maze and ready to get some more...
I know you're not the only one on this board (and I'm not going to mention names because I don't want to forget someone) but thank you for your services Army. We all have our heroes in sports that we root for, but you're a real-life, American hero. Without people like you we wouldn't be able to do things like watch basketball and talk on this board. I salute you!
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Bobobinc Sep 9 2011, 07:31 PM Post #15
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I was building a couple houses at the time but for some reason that day was going to be slow. So I was at home just having some Fruit Loops and channel surfing. Saw it first on CNN. Actually saw the second plane hit live. Didn't leave the house all day.
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