WHAT WHERE YOU DOING ON 9-11

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LETS SEE IF EVERYBODY REMEBERS WHAT THEY WERE DOING DURING THIS TIME OF THE MOST TRAGIC THING TO HAPPEN IN AMERICA....

ILL START FIRST......

i was working at the Virginia ABC warehouse whan it happen and we all stop working to see it on tv and thats when the second plane hit the towers

[The Chancellor]

I was at the Continental Airlines Inflight training center doing Flight Attendant recurrent training when they interrupted our class with the news.

[David68]

I had just finished a round of golf, here in N. Ireland. As I came into the club house a couple of my playing partners were looking at the television. As I walked in they said look at this! Initially, after looking at a smoldering building, I thought it was the film "Towering Inferno". I was informed that it was "real time" and as I looked again and saw the second plane hit the tower my heart nearly stopped. The whole thing was a very sobering reality.

May God bless all those from around the world, and those brave fire fighters, police and emergency services, that died that day never be forgotten.

Accept our sincere condolences, all concerned.

[Freegift]

I was getting ready for class, every class that day watched.

[cajunrescuemedic]

At that time I was working as a firefighter/paramedic. I was in bed sleeping as I had been working the night shift. My wife called me and woke me up soon after the second plane hit. I have no doubt that if I had been working in New York, I would have responded to that. So because of that, I take 9-11 personal. I'm still sad at the loss of life, and still angry because of it.

[Fearless Four]

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[TRERUMPH]

At that time I was working as a firefighter/paramedic. I was in bed sleeping as I had been working the night shift. My wife called me and woke me up soon after the second plane hit. I have no doubt that if I had been working in New York, I would have responded to that. So because of that, I take 9-11 personal. I'm still sad at the loss of life, and still angry because of it.

IM WITH YOU ON THAT BRO AND THESE PEOPLE OVER HERE IN AFGHANISTAN LET A KNOWN TERRORIST COME TO THEIR COUNTRY AND LIVE AND HIDE AND THEY WONDER WHY WE ARE STILL HERE , THEY DONT WANT TO DEFEND THEMSELVES THEN SO BE IT AND THE TALLIBAN JUST KEEP ON KILLING AND THAT PISSES ME OFF CAUSE THEY WONT FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES, ITS ALWAYS SAID THAT IF YOU CAN KEEP PPL IGNORANT YOU CAN CONTROL THEM AND THEY LET BIN LAUDEN DO THIS TO THEM.......

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EVERY BODY GETS A +1 FOR RESPONDING AND I KNOW IT TEARS US UP BUT ONE THING ABOUT AMERICA IS WE CAN BOUNCE BACK FOM ANY ATROCITY

[wishwell11]

Received a call to come in ASAP...(airlines) I would not see my family for days after that call. Upon arrival to work, I was briefed on what we had never done before...EVER. Every aircraft, many flown by co-worker

friends, everywhere... must divert and find the closest places to land...that is if there was any room left at the closest airport.. Some even later, were faced with fuel challenges. Fear for those aircrafts who had

questionable tracking.

The horror of the mornings events were compounded by consoling so many people who either had family at WTC-Pentagon or on flights that were diverted to who knows where.

There were no reprotection flights to accommodate passengers who were missing their own weddings..the childs weddings, missing opportunites to say goodbye to terminal parents..missing funerals, family

reunions and unable to reach medical centers in time for their life dependent surgeries.

The amounts of calls and people involved were massive.

The celebration and yelps at the announcement, that all our planes that were ordered to immediately divert, along with the crew and passengers had

eventually found a place to land safely, will be etched in my mind forever. That still was only the beginning..

This has never happened before where every flight was grounded. Pictures say it all...pictures of airport tarmacs packed full. Planes parked every which-way and carriers coming in that I and many others had never

known existed. From tears of celebrations to tears of sorrow for the USA and again trying to help 911 victims family members who were begging me for help to get to NYC.. but there were no flights from anywhere

to anywhere. Questions like...Where is my 13 yr old, they were on your flight? Planes didn't land where they were scheduled and once tracked, information came slowly how then the question could we..no how

would we handle outside carriers and the masses of our passengers and others who had no representation. FOR DAYS due to airport closings, Many people were stranded in unknown places, no money, missing

important events..missing loved ones...and fighting off the urges to fall into the pulls of being frantic. I recall immediate massive updates on security protocol.

I recall the stories of desperation and People renting UHauls where they packed as many people into the cabs and traveled with standing room only in the cargo areas. ......BUT!!!!!...................

Out of all the calls, thousands of people I spoke with....The Thing that Impacted me as well was the AMERICAN WAY. Pressed up against so many challenges, only 1...1 person complained about not being

immediately accommodated and demanding compensation out of our control. All the others,...in the midst of my and their turmoil, we kicked into gear as a united group.quickly began.creating options, exercising

control...tolerance and always recognizing we all were linked for the fight, and support for one another.

That was my day

(with many affected days fwd)

Wishwell11

[eddiemac]

Driving to a muti million dollar house to install a high end hardwood floor, will never forget how the owners and Decorator's acted like it was nothing at all.

It took everything I had to stay there and work, needless to say I didn't get much done, my heart was in New York, The Pentagon, and in Pennsylania..........

Most Rich people suck, this is just my personal observation.....................

[leanonme]

I got a phone call right after I got out of the shower. It was my mother in law. As I came to the phone, the TV was on and I saw the first tower on fire. She called me to wish me a HAPPY BIRTHDAY. While we were talking, wandering what was going on the second plane hit and we knew what was going on. So now all my freinds can always remember my birthday. Its now 9 - 11. It was just another day. That changed for ever and now with all the memorials for the 10 year anniversery going on I reflect back before and I wish I could say its a better world now. Its not. But I deal with it because all the thousands of people like me that are not here. They don't have the chance to take the peices that are left and try to make the world a better place. When the RV happens I challenge each of you to do your part, one by one the power of numbers can make it a better place to live.

[design interrupted]

I got a phone call right after I got out of the shower. It was my mother in law. As I came to the phone, the TV was on and I saw the first tower on fire. She called me to wish me a HAPPY BIRTHDAY. While we were talking, wandering what was going on the second plane hit and we knew what was going on. So now all my freinds can always remember my birthday. Its now 9 - 11. It was just another day. That changed for ever and now with all the memorials for the 10 year anniversery going on I reflect back before and I wish I could say its a better world now. Its not. But I deal with it because all the thousands of people like me that are not here. They don't have the chance to take the peices that are left and try to make the world a better place. When the RV happens I challenge each of you to do your part, one by one the power of numbers can make it a better place to live.

Nicely said! It's my birthday as well. It will never be the same.

[DAME1]

Taxiing down the runway on a delta flight from Florida headed to Atlanta, needless to say, air traffic shut it down, Thank God....

I remember being so frightened and I'm sure that's instinctive as a parent. I had to drive 12 hours to get back to my children and I kept thinking that every tractor trailer I passed on the interstate was loaded with explosives headed for their next target. After seeing so much devastation I figured we were all targets. There is still so much evil in the world...I look forward to the time when it no longer exists....I ask that our Heavenly Father bless you and keep you from harms way......

Dame

[design interrupted]

Driving to a muti million dollar house to install a high end hardwood floor, will never forget how the owners and Decorator's acted like it was nothing at all.

It took everything I had to stay there and work, needless to say I didn't get much done, my heart was in New York, The Pentagon, and in Pennsylania..........

Most Rich people suck, this is just my personal observation.....................

I normally would have been driving to a multi-million dollar house as well. That day I was celebrating my birthday. The celebration didn't last long.

I concur, eddiemac,most rich people suck, and I can say that because I deal with them daily. I refuse to be like that!

[desimo]

I remember wondering where the men were on that flight. Were they too afraid to do anything? Were they not trained to do anything? Or were they too politically correct to want to offend anyone by doing anything? Maybe the same question needs to be asked today. WHERE ARE THE MEN?

[Cosmo]

I was sent to the Detroit area from Washington DC for training that same week. Held in a hotel meeting room, I was able to see the news from an adjacent bar area during a morning break. Saw the second plane hit live and knew the world was changed from that moment on. During this time I was working on a project within the Pentagon before the event and a few weeks after. If not for the training I would have likely been present in the building during the third attack.

I had a terrifying premonition (vision) in a dream the night before I left which showed a large city's skyline and a scene of destruction.

[Bank Guy]

I woke up to Howard Stern on the radio talking about the attack and thought..."This does not sound like a joke" Turned on the TV to see tower 1 in flames. I owned a bar at that time and we were packed all day since many people were sent home from work. We all just sat in horror and watched the whole event unfold.

[RicknSaudi]

I was installing a trunion fitting on an MD-80 at the St. Louis hangar while working for the now defunct TWA. The crew chief called us all into the office to watch the TV. Needless to say, it was during this that the realization hit many of us there in the hangar that day that our days as airline employees were numbered. This tragedy will never be forgotten and the needless loss of life will always be remembered. My wife, a flight attendant with TWA, had just returned from a London trip on the 10th. She was truly scared when she had to make the same run on the 13th (after the airspace re-opened). She said that she remembers be escorted out of U.S. airspace by two F-15s. Wow!

GOD BLESS THE USA, OUR TROOPS WHO SACRIFICE SO MUCH FOR OUR FREEDOMS, AND MAY THOSE WHO LOST THIER LIVES THAT DAY IN NYC REST IN PEACE BESIDE OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.

[bamagirl]

I was home with my 2 young boys that day. My mom called and told me to turn on the news, a minute or so after I turned it on the second plane hit. I remember sitting in a chair in front of the TV crying and not even realizing it was terrorists at first. It was so awful sitting there helpless knowing so many people were losing their lives. I woke up that day to alot of things in this world that I was ignorant to before. Between my husband and parents I led a very sheltered life. I was 23, a wife and a mother already but I think that was the day I finally grew up.

[bamagirl]

I have read all of your stories and my heart bleeds for the grief you all felt. I love each and everyone of you, may God bless and be with you all.

I have read all of your stories and my heart bleeds for the grief you all felt. I love each and everyone of you, may God bless and be with you all.

[Tiffany23]

I was 14 then. My family was on vacation and we were way up in the Austrian Alps, when my father, a AF officer got a call that said America was under attack. We ran down the mountain, jumped in the car and sped off to our base, which was on lock down. I remember on the way back looking up at the sky and it was filled with miltary jets, I think F-16s that had all been scrambled. My father was briefed on who and how the attack was done but he wasn't allowed to tell us other than it wasn't a country that had attacked us but a terror group. I just remember walking around the base and everyone was very quiet and very angry. I knew we were going to kick the living $h1t out of someone, just didn't know who.

[kmagina]

My husband & I ran to town to buy a wedding gift for our son' godparents while shopping when heard on the stores radio system that the WTC 1 tower was hit by a plane we went next door to the local tavern and watch with disbeilf and tears as our country was attacked by terrorists. I wrote down everything on a piece of paper and the time it happened to make sure my children would always remember. For days following the attack I documented as much as I could a collected and saved the news papers. My family has a long military history and my brother was overseas at this time. My son who was 6 on 9-11 see the time 9:11 on the clock and says I will never forget that day as long as I live!! This morning my family watch the 102 minutes of 9/11 on the history channel and it was like it was live....... As long as I live I will always be thankful for the men and woman in this country that leave there families to keep our great nation free!!!!! For all the soilders keeping us safe may the good lord keep you and your safe!!! God bless you!!!

[ramacow2545]

I just finished work in Hungary and watched the second plane hit the Twin Towers on TV at home. I could not believe my eyes that some one would do this.

[magawatt]

As I left my Long Island home that morning a crew had just arrived to plant a half dozen pear trees along our driveway. An hour later I was in Queens transferring from the Long Island Rail Road to the #7 subway to Grand Central. It was a crisp, clear day and from there I could see down to the Battery but it was a long way off. It looked hazy but couldn't tell anything was amiss. Got to my second floor office which was on 42nd Street kitty corner from the southwest entrance of Grand Central.

Our company's book keeper was in the reception area very distressed saying she couldn't contact her husband- I still didn't know anything was wrong. In my office I turned on the radio and heard that a plane had hit the WTC. Tragic, I thought but didn't think it was anything more- and was thankful that my wife's Aunt had retired the year before as she had worked in the WTC. I got a call from my wife that the second tower had been hit.

Things start to get blurry now. I went back the reception area. Our bookkeeper wasn't there but people were gathering. Someone mentioned that her husband worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. I got a call that my client's weren't coming in that day. The word was that planes were hitting buildings in the city. One of our producers came in- she had seen the first plane strike from her apartment in Brooklyn.

The radio said something about all medical personal should report to work. I decided to find somewhere to give blood figuring that there could be thousands of injured. I was surprised that it was difficult to find a blood center in the yellow pages- I found a listing for one uptown- a hike but I wanted to do this. I called my wife to tell here I was leaving the office and would have my cellphone- I guess it was a little after 10 by now.

I crossed 42nd Street walking along the west side of Grand Central. It was pretty quiet. A cop burst through a door yelling that there was a bomb in the terminal. People started pouring out of the station, everyone was running. I was running. I took a cross street to Madison and people were running there but slowing down. I saw someone I knew and told him I was going to give blood- he said he heard that those places were swamped. Seeing the confusion on the street and that our building was so close to Grand Central I thought I should get back there.

When I got back to our reception area, most of the staff and the few clients that were there were lined up by the big glass windows looking at the scene at Grand Central. I told them that the cops had said there was a bomb in there and to get the hell away from the windows. Just then we got our first evacuation order. We left. The streets were packed and everybody was trying to use cellphones and nobody could get a connection. I can't remember if an all clear was given or people just got tired of standing and started going back to their offices but the crowd dispersed and we went back to ours. Maybe it was then we heard that the first tower fell.

Lots of confusing news on the radio: Subways were running. Subways were not running. Trains service was on/off. All planes were grounded- everywhere. Just starting to get the picture of the terrorist aspect. Another evacuation. Started to notice the smell and the dust. Smelled like burning upholstery. People were now thinking of how to get home. Radio reports of hundreds walking over the bridges to Brooklyn/Queens. Was there a risk of staying in the city? Again we dispersed.

The second tower fell. The offices started to close down. I don't know what happened to the time, I don't remember anyone eating lunch. I talked to my clients and agreed to meet tomorrow if the city was open. I didn't want to leave for Long Island without a plan. If I walked over a bridge I still didn't know if the trains were running and it would be a 40 mile hike back home- but now the urge to get home was very strong- everyone just wanted to get home.. OK radio now saying limited service. Any commuter can tell you what that can mean- hours of waiting on crowded platforms- or packed standing in a traincar and knowing the AC is going to crap out soon. So now it's about 4 PM. Grand Central was open. The #7 to Hunter's Point LIRR in Queens was crowded but running. I can't remember if they were still running the old diesel trains or had replaced them with the new ones. Not many people at the station. We all had taken the chance that the subway was running and a train would eventually come to take us East. Right on time the train showed up. Amazing. The train only had about a quarter of the passengers as usual. In that case it would be normal for passengers to disperse as widely as possible but now- strangers all, we gathered in the middle of the car.

The ride started quiet. Someone started telling her story- she had a cousin "down there" she couldn't get ahold of on the phone. Everyone seemed to know someone. Most took comfort that the cell phone system was so overloaded that maybe contact will be better later on. So many people gone, the cops and firemen- we were sure there must be "pockets" where they would find survivors- rumors of cellphone contact with them.

One guy with us, a high steel worker, had been working construction east of the North tower. He was rigging a new mast on top of one of the taller buildings in the area. They had just gotten the crane installed, which added another 100 feet to the height of the building. He said that as the first plane came in it had jink up to avoid hitting the crane. He was convinced the terrorists had planned the route not knowing about the construction. He said it was very close.

The train ride home was over, got in my car and drove home. The trees were planted. They are beautiful trees and as I look at them I think of the sorrow of that day and courage those who raced into those towers to save lives.