In memory......9/11

MQAAord said:
:yeahthat: I was 26 at the time. :insane:
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OK, that's more like it...now I feel better. :cool:

I was on the 29th floor of my office building on 46th, looking downtown at WTC in disbelief. Then I watched the tops of the buildings, one by one, weaken and topple, taking the rest of the structure with it. The silence around the city for the rest of the day was uncanny, surreal.

God bless the families! And God bless the USA!

-A.S.
 
I was on a layover in Columbia, SC. After a long night at a bar called The Cockpit I was sleeping in because our show time was not until five pm. My buddy called and woke me up about nine-ish telling me to turn on the news.

I thought he was telling me that there was a story about the IPO going on at our airline as that was the only thing our pilots had been talking about. When I saw that it was a plane crash we both thought that it was one of our ATRs going up the Hudson.

I ended up staying in CAE for five days. My crew and a Delta crew didn't get back to the hotel each night before sun-up. I remember that Delta captain telling us, "Your careers just went up in flames." Interesting side note, that same captain ended up being my 767 instructor when I was a new-hire at Delta.

As far as "never forget" goes, I don't think a day goes by at work that an airline pilot or FA doesn't encounter something that makes them remember. The whole industry is a constant reminder. All you got to do is look at the cockpit door.
 
I was working my way through college as a landscaper and was fertilizing a large church compound when this happened. I was living in Chicago and listening to a guy named Mancow on the radio. He was known for being a bit of a shock jock and pulling large-scale pranks in the Chicagoland area.

When I heard it on his show, I was EXTREMELY UPSET at him,I remember thinking, "you b-stard, you DO NOT joke about things like that!". I subsequently turned to AM radio and shortly thereafter confirmed it was not a joke. After maybe 10 minutes a bunch of cars started pulling up to the church, it was parents taking thier children out of the school that was there. Very surreal to me when it happened, and a horrible day which I will never forget.

Rest in peace to all the men and women who lost their lives.
 
I was sitting in the University Center at Univ. of Texas.....eating a bowl of cereal......the University speakers/alarms went off and I was like, "oh damn, whats going on?" Went over to the Central Library and saw TONS of folks staring at the TV......"what the hell, I thought"......Then I saw.......I was sick to my stomach......damn, what a horrible day. By the time I was able to ride my bike back to the main entrance of the Univ. the flags were already at half staff. :beer:Here's to the brave one's!
 
I was in SUNY Buffalo (UB) Baldry room 206 when it the whole thing happened. When I came back home around 10:15 to turn on the tV that's when I first found out. A very sad day.


(Before this tragedy occured. THe big news that was occuring at the time was Chandra Levy's disappearance, a Ukrainian immigrant Nikolay Soltys who killed his family members with a knife and was on the run and Aaliyah death:()
 
I was in 7th grade, in a reading class, when the principal pulled us all out to the main grade area, to tell us what was going on. For the next 3 days, none of the teachers taught, all we did was watch TV.

I still vividly remember one of the 7th grade teachers crying, because her daughter was working in one of the buildings right next door to the WTC. I think for everyone in my grade at that school, it brought it all a little closer to home.
 
Never thought compared to those whom have posted I feel old.... All the Junior high and Primary school kids! :) A day to remember!

RIP......
 
I remember my mom was driving me to school in 8th grade when we heard it on the radio, the details were vague, we assumed a small cessna or something. I will always remember being at football practice after school and the whole team stopping mid play and looking up into the sky and seeing airforce1 fly over.

RIP
 
I was a sophomore in HS, I remember that I was in second period during geometry class when the announcement was made but we didn't see it on TV until third period (french class), where we watched it on TV the entire class.
 
Freshman year at ERAU, a guy from another dorm room knocked on my door and told us to come watch TV - an airplane had crashed into the WTC. Well, we get to the TV and the news is talking about the "accident" and all of a sudden people gasped on TV and we stared in disbelief as the second jet hit tower 2. I felt a strange chill down my spine..... :(

September 11th, 2001. Never forget.
 
I was in college, had gotten in late the night before and fallen asleep with the TV on, Peter Jennings woke me up. Called mom first thing, and we watched it unfold together...such a horrible day. RIP to all the victims, prayers of comfort for all of the families today.
 
I was in fourth grade.

My mom is an FA and she was taxing out in D.C. when the plane hit the pentagon.

We were outside having a book read to us whent he principal came out and got me. We went into her office and she told me my mom was on the phone. I picked it up to hear my mom tell me that she loved me and to tell my brother she loved him, and that he may never see me again but she would be watching me from heaven.

RIP to those lost.
 
Senior in high school.... In the following months I can remember being on a night cross country for my ppl, and when I landed getting a call from my mom telling me we started bombing Afghanistan. Fast forward a couple more years, and I cam remember sitting in a college lecture on evening, watching President Bush announce the war with Iraq...

At this point the powerful symbology we could have showed by re-building is long gone, and it truely saddens me to see construction equipment in place of what was, 8 years later...
 
cencal83406 said:
Freshman year at ERAU, a guy from another dorm room knocked on my door and told us to come watch TV - an airplane had crashed into the WTC. Well, we get to the TV and the news is talking about the "accident" and all of a sudden people gasped on TV and we stared in disbelief as the second jet hit tower 2. I felt a strange chill down my spine..... :(

September 11th, 2001. Never forget.
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Which campus? I was at DB in the cafeteria talking to one of the Army instructors about how I was dropping out of the ROTC program. Someone walked up and told us, we assumed an accident, we walked into a side room and soon after teh second plane hit. Then we realized it was no accident.
Wish I had stayed in the ROTC as I ended up going into the military anyway, as a lowly enlisted man. :insane:
To this day I get chills whenever I see footage or hear witness stories.
 
I was a freshman in high school and probably the day I remember most from that year....it's hard to believe it's been 8 years since that day...the memories are still quite vivid. RIP to those who lost their lives unnecessarily that day...9/11 Never Forget
 
I was a sophomore in high school and was in the library when it was announced. I remember it like it just happened yesterday. I just wish that the patriotism that was shown after that terrible day, was still shown today. I bleed Red, White, and Blue and I am proud to be an American. May God continue to bless the victims and their families 8 years later.
 
7th grade for me, woke up for school and my parents had it on the TV.

Even at that age, it had a huge effect of me.
 
Junior year of high school, walking to my Statistics class I overheard someone talk about a plane crash, didn't think too much of it. 10-15 minutes into class my Computer Science teacher down the hall came in and told us briefly what happened and we all went to her room to watch tv and such. I ended up staying there for a couple of hours, then went to the rest of my classes and everyone of them had a tv going, except for my last class of the day where there was a sub for english, and she actually went through with the lesson plan that the teacher had left.

Dad was a 756 FO and had flown EWR-BOS that morning, he ended up being asked to look for one of the hijacked airplanes in the air. got to BOS and was told he wasn't going anywhere, as a plane had crashed into the WTC, his first thought was that an ATR screwed up a hudson departure real bad, but of course that wasn't the case. I found out about an hour into the whole thing that he was ok. He took a bus home the next morning, and went back to BOS a couple of days later where he was the second ferry flight to leave there, headed to BWI.
 
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