Where were you on 9/11?

Woke up to a phone call from my mom to turn on the tv. watched the 2nd plane hit, then got a call from my dad that he was headed home and ok. He was a pentagon Army guy, and I didnt know what the big deal was, till I returned to the TV to see the pentagon with a smoking hole in it. Class was canceled that night, and for two weeks there were armed(m-16 style) guards on campus. I remember it like it was yesterday.
 
I was in high school just ending the first class of the day when another teacher came into the classroom and told us to turn on the tv and that a plane just hit the world trade center. The news didn't really hit me until one of my classmates said that this would change the history books. School just didn't seem important the rest of the day.
 
I was in High School at the time and we were in between classes. I forgot my pen from the first class and went back to get it, and I noticed everyone was just staring at the tv. The only thing I knew at the time, was that it had something to do with the World Trade Center. Went to the next class and was informed that an airplane had hit the World Trade center. I deffinately remember that one class because there was a girl who was in the class and was scared to death because her father was in New York on buisiness, but luckily he was at least a few blocks from the towers. Then my next class we watched the 2nd tower fall live. It was a day that no one will forget.
 
Waiting for the DE to come in and start my PP checkride. An instructor popped their head in and told me.
 
In High School, junior year, AP statistics class. The Computer Science teacher comes in and tell us 2 planes had hit the towers, and we went back with her into that room. My dad was a 756 FO out of EWR at the time, and I knew he was starting a trip that morning EWR-BOS-EWR-LAS. Once they were talking about them being comercial planes I was freaking out. My next class was computer science in that same room. Most of the people in school kept asking if he was alright, so about an hour later I was called down to the office, so I really thought it was his plane that was targeted. But they said that my dad had called the house and was ok in BOS.

Durring his flight he was one of the crews that was asked if they say any of the errant aircraft. UA 93 was just behind him in line to take off, and he saw on of the 767s that hit the tower. When he got to BOS they said he would not be going anywhere for a while cause a plane had hit the WTC. His first thought was that a COex ATR took a wrong turn in the hudson river departure corridor. They then told him it was 2 767s. The airline was great, they got the crews out of the airport quickly and got him a room in Peabody. A couple of days later he was the second ferry flight to leave BOS and headed to BWI, flying overhead of NYC. Then commuted home BWI-CLE-PWM.
 
I was at home watching TV and had been flipping channels. I remember seeing the 2nd plane hit the tower and honestly thought what movie is this. I hadnt paid much attention to the channel. Then the reporters came on and told what was happening. I was glued the rest of the day. I couldnt really grasp what I was seeing and all the it entailed
 
i had my alarm set for 545am to get up and ready for school. every morning i would turn on cnn or msnbc to hear the latest news in the world when i noticed that the wtc was on fire and that they said a plane hit. i went downstairs to see my parents both glued to the television saying can you believe this. then i watched the second plane hit and thought o god this is some scary sh** what are all those people going to do. then i had to go get ready since i had school well when i got out of the shower i recieved a phone call from my friend telling me we had the day off and that we would probably have the next day off. i went to high school in downtown los angeles and i think we were the only school in america to have two days off that wasnt in either nyc or washington dc. either way we didnt have football that week and then we slowly went back to "normal". very sad day i pray we dont have to witness something to that magnitude again.
 
On the ramp in PDX loading all the Ameriflight planes full of brown boxes. I worked graveyard and then morning shifts, so my graveyard shift was just winding down when someone said there was a plane crash in New York. We finished loading the last of the Beechs and every one headed home except me and a few others who emptied the FOD buckets while waiting for morning shift. A sup came out and motioned us to come over to the trailer, where the little TV was tuned to the local news and we saw what had happened. A few minutes later a UPS sup came over and told us all aircraft were returning. We unloaded all the Ameriflight aircraft and the DC-8 (must have been delayed for something, it usualy went out before the 757) with a skeleton crew. Went home for a long strange day in front of the TV.
 
I was stuck in traffic on the 101 heading into work listening to Howard Stern. I thought he was doing a bit until I read the news on the internet. Very surreal.
 
MarkE said:
I was stuck in traffic on the 101 heading into work listening to Howard Stern. I thought he was doing a bit until I read the news on the internet. Very surreal.
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Me too.

I had just arrived at my the jobsite for the day and was getting a few more minutes of Howard Stern in before I shut off the truck and got to work. Needless to say I listened till noon then found a TV and didn't get much work done.
 
In my home office. Just logged on to our monthly conference call. Had CNBC tuned in but on "mute" so I could hear the call. The pleasantries had just finished when there was a "boom" and somebody said "...what the hell was th....." Line went dead. A few minutes later, viewing CNBC, I found out.

Funny, though I had been doing business with these people for a couple of years I had only met one of them face to face, yet it I felt I knew them all. It still hurts.
 
In my apartment in Okinawa in the middle of Typhoon Nari waiting for a buddy to wander over for some typhoon partying, which turned into rechecking that my deployment bag was packed and sitting alert.
 
In grad school at Northwestern Univ. Med school....downtown Chicago. Taking a final exam in Anatomy. Didn't know anything about what was going on until I was finished w/ the exam.....they didn't interupt the testing since getting the exam finished was more important than our safety...:sarcasm: We were only blocks from the John Hancock building. Once everyone was finished, we all gathered around a TV in the break room until they closed the school for the day. Sat around the TV w/ a couple buds of mine and watched the news for the remainder of the day.

I'll never forget it.....how could you.
 
I had just cleared a D.O.A(Dead on arrival) call when I turned on the radio and heard the first reports about the fire at the Trade center. I remember initially they said that it was a fire, and unconfirmed reports that a plane had hit the building.. Got to a television just before the second tower fell...What a horrible day. All leave/days off cancelled, 16 hour shifts for the following 3 weeks...God Bless those who lost their lives.
 
I was in 7th grade in my social studies class, my teacher was called out of the classroom for a second like most teachers do sometimes,I then saw my teacher come in with a shocked face and saw something was wrong , he said that two airplanes had hit the twin towers, this was toward the end of the period and the next period the whole school was sent to the gym and I remember how worried I was about my dad because he wasn't a cop , but he was a pneumatic technician for the NYPD ( but still cleaned up that whole week). On this very day still , my heart goes out to those brave firefighters and police as well as EMT that saved many lives that day, although many lives were lost including those emt workers,police and firemen still are in ourhearts as well as the thousands of innocent lives that were taken , and the poor families of those victims. My heart goes out to all of you on this day and to all of those who were affected, as well as a big thanks to our heroes on that day.GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
 
San Diego. I went jogging along the ocean on La Jolla Shore Drive. I had no clue what was going on. I went to take a shower, and turned on the TV, and thought it was a promo for the Schwarzenegger movie Collateral Damage. Then I got out of the shower and when they were still showing the WTC, that's when I knew it wasn't a promo and it was the real deal.

It was surreal. I drove to the San Diego Convention Center from La Jolla and was like, this is so not happening.
 
I was driving from my home to work in Fairfax, VA. I usually always listened to news while driving but on that day, I was listening to a CD. When I walked in, someone mentioned a passenger plane flying into a building. It was a small company (which I left shortly later) so we ran out and bought rabbit ears for the TV.

The thing that sucked was that we had a training session set up which they couldn't cancel so I was in class till 5 PM. I remember the drive home on the Dulles Toll road. It was bizzare. It was totally deserted and I saw gunships flying up and down the above the road.

I remember all my relatives trying to call me but the phone network was overloaded in the DC area.
 
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