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I was getting a tattoo in Manhattan, KS. A good friend of mine (I didn't know him in 2001) was watching the birth of his first child. preparing to sent my child to school before heading to work. I was trying to sign online, but no website was working, so I got on the phone with my girlfriend when one of my housemates started running around the hallway screaming, "we're under attack, we're under attack."
I had a friend who was going to NYU at the time, and he saw the planes go in from his apartment, and he took pictures of it. i was in puerto rico, on my way back to NY, so i can go back to school
i was held in PR for about 2 more weeks I was at work watching it all unfold on CNN. Thank goodness for internet access at work. I would hate to not have access to what was going on around me on that day. Its way too scary to think about. God bless everyone affected by that day, whether they perished, lost a loved one, or are suffering the trauma of such a horrific event. I was`in s.korea pulling guard duty. I was on my way to work and when I got there and saw the television all I wanted to do was to go to my daughters' school and scoop them up into my arms. However, we were not permitted as the school was under a lockdown. My daughters were scared beyond belief as we reside in an area where schools rarely if ever go into lockdown.
My thoughts and prayers continue to go out everyone who lost a family member, coworker, spouse etc. My heartfelt thanks go out to the families of the many volunteers who gave their lives in rescue attempts.
The heroes in all of this are the passengers of Flight 93. May God bring peace to each of their families.
God Bless the United States of America! I was asleep as well when I got the call and I walked into the living room to watch the TV.
God Bless them and God Bless America! going to school i had no idea it was as big of a deal that it is. god bless all of the victims family and friends. I was at the blackjack tables. I was playing for like 6hours str8. First attack on US soil. Makes you think, in the states it's all safe and cozy. When in reality this nation is not that loved and looked up to. Makes you think. Did we have it coming? Were we do? Many countries do not sympathies with our loss. Just putting it into perspective. GOD bless America! Still Strong and Proud! I was on my way home from work that morning. We had a meeting at the end of my shift so I left Bensalem later than usual. While I was stuck in the usual AM traffic on I-95 near the Port Richmond section of Philly I heard a lot of chatter over my CB about a plane crash in New York and something about a building. There was so much talking over the air that details were few and confusion was rampant. Yet I still had no real idea of what was going on.
I shut the radio off to call my Father at his house to see if he was watching the news as is his custom. He said he will and I told him what I could surmise. I said I'll stop by to see if he needed anything as I usually do and let it go.
The weird thing is although I had no idea that the WTC had been the building involved, I remember thinking to myself that it would be strange if a jetliner would crash into a large building like the ones in Center City.
Anyway, I got home and I was immediately aware that something big was going on because my Father and I are big men and don't show our fear. But Dad was visibly affected by what he had just seen. You see, since I had ended my phone call to him, the 2nd plane had been flown into the WTC and he was watching the news when it happened.
It was at that moment that it went from a perceived accident to a deliberate act and he was understandably shocked. All I can recall was sitting there in front of Dad's TV being incrementally stunned by the sequence of events that followed. The Pentagon, all air traffic ordered to land, Shenksville, the tower collapse, the 2nd tower collapse. I was stunned. I tried to go to sleep around noon since I was a third shift employee, but it was impossible.
I no longer can watch documentaries about it. I become infuriated and want to take action against the very people that flew themselves into oblivion. I will always honor and pray for the victims of that entire tragedy, and hope that we become a stronger and more secure country for it. I'm not sure that I will ever be able to get where I was or what I was doing that morning out of mind. On the morning of September 11th I was just a regular high school senior, already counting down the days until graduation.
I was sitting in Allied Health,bored as can be when I first about the first plane. We all thought that it was just a horrible accident, and were trying to figure out how in the world a plane could accidently be flying that low. By the time the towers fell I was still in the same seat but was in a different class. I was in AP psych still bored out of my mind(hey it was senior year). I remember seeing the guys from Auto running back and forth between the floor and the sports rehab gym(which is where the tv was), and when my teacher asked what was going on the other teacher said that one of the World Trade Center towers just fell. I sat at my desk shocked while my classmates scurried to try and catch it on Tv. I also remember one of the guys in my class just before the tower fell saying "lets go to NY and see the plane sticking out of the building"(this of course was before we actually knew what was going on). By the time Psych was over we had heard reports about the pentagon and someone had said that a forth plane was headed to the white house. It wasn't until English that I learned about Flight 93.
Once the reality of what had happened that day finally sank in I was in a fog the rest of the day(so was everyone else at school), it was like we were in shock and were just going through the motions like it was a normal day.
May God bless the familes of those who lost their lives on 9/11/01! FOOTBALL Man i was in front of my class that i was teaching and the director of the program came in and informed us, so we finished the class and then went into the college cafeteria and watched it all on TV,,, what a very very sad day
plus this was my fathers first birthday after he passed away 9 months prior, so definately a day to remember,,,, very sad for those that lost loved ones, my heart still goes out for them as do my prayers Even though this has nothing to do with football...
I was working for American Airlines that day. I was supposed to fly to London that night after work. We used to get these bulletins called STARS on our computers and that morning we got one that said, "There is an issue with FLT. 11 to LAX. Check back for updates." This was shortly before it hit the first tower. Our OPS(operations) office had their door closed and window shut and everyone was looking at a TV. We didn't know what was going on. Later we found out that a flight attendant on Flt. 11 has called our reservations office in Cary, NC. The rest is history.
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