Where were you on 9/11?

[livebearerfreak]

thanks, yeah it is a big building, and alot of people work there/alot of buildings inside. glad there building another one, but i am just affraid they may get hit yet again ( since the terreist new thats our biggest work place and alot of workers there ) but i hope the building to never gets hit again! RIP to all that had died!! and goood luck to the future building!

 

[Juice]

15 yrs old in my living room with my pops

 

[amazonadam]

I was 2!

 

[CanFor Holm]

i was walking in the hallways of my highschool in grd 9 or 10. didnt really hear it til I got home at night and saw it on the news then it sunk in.

 

[Lupin]

Home studying until I asked everyone else why they were staring too long at the TV. Shocked to see WTC already destroyed. Was 11 then.

 

[stephcps]

I had just gotten home from work. Made some breakfast and started watching the" today show". Like Lookit, It was shortly after the first plane hit. Everyone was still thinking it was a freak accident. No other info had been released yet. Then the second plane hit. You knew it was no accident.
I was scheduled to go to a conference the middle of October. Wasn't sure wether I wanted to or not. Finally decided to go. It was utterly mind numbing to walk through any of the parks and see the "memorials" people had set up for loved ones lost. There were hundreds. So many people still hoping they were lost and not really gone. There was one park I can't remember the name it was down close to the site. It had the most of these type of memorials. There must have been hundreds of them. There was such a hushed silence and reverence from everyone there. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life.
There were a few of us that thought we wanted to ride the Staten Island ferry and see the NYC skyline without the towers. Once we were in the area...it was like a literal war zone. There were Gap stores closed up tight...you could see 2 inches of dust lying across everything in the store. Cars parked in garages covered in 6-8 inches of dust. The smell was impossible to describe. Military vehicles patrolled the streets. I made it to Battery park....it had become a military installation. You couldn't even recognize it. In the end I couldn't bring myself to ride the ferry.
I don't believe "if you build it they will come". I believe we have to build it. We have to say...you may have knocked us down, but here we are again....that's not only the American spirit, it's the Human spirit as well. You can't let hate knock you down. Unfortunately I think the real lessons that we could have learned from this have been obscured by the very thing that caused this to happen...HATE.

 

[abcdefghi]

there building another one, said they may be done by 2013, i dont know why they would build another one... wouldnt the same thing happen AGAIN? and then there goes another few billions down the drain...

Um.... it kinda is. Whenever you build something big like that you're basically saying "aim for me, I'm easy to hit". Granted, it's not going to make it definit, but it's still risky to do something like that. Not that I blame them, of course, it's a good idea.

Are we all supposed only put up single story buildings? or better yet, lets all build underground bunkers.

Just has it's risks...

So does crossing the street, or driving to work.

It's a statement that you won't push us around. The US will pick itself up, dust itself off and get on with things without being intimidated. All with the memory of those lost that day.

Thank you. Terrorists want us all to live in fear, doing things like this takes that power away from them.

As for where I was, at work, it was around 3pm in the UK. I remember hearing about the 1st tower on the radio and how they thought it was some kind of accident. I had no real knowledge of the WTC buildings, but immediately knew there was no way it was an accident.

 

[Fozzybear]

I was on a boat in Alaska doing side scan sonar sweeps of the bays on Kodiak Island, we were assessing Pollock populations and whale feeding patterns. My sister called us on the sat phone, i thought she was messing with us. Anyways i wound up flying home to Anchorage about 4 days later with a 8" hunting knife in my backpack that i'd forgotten about. It had a gut-hook and was razor sharp lol.

 

[dixienut]

was at home, just got kids off to school, and called my mom and she was so terrified,. we live 5 miles from nuclear power plant and there was a plane circling it and the men in black showed up,.. a whole line of them,.. all with dark glasses, and sedans. i have to drive right next to it to get to my moms house,.. seen them there,.. she was so scared something was going to happen and was afraid for my kids she didn't make it long after,.. died October 5th brain hemorrhage the scare wasn't good for her,.. so I'll never forget, that time,.. she wasn't sick just ghost white pale

 

[toddhgr]

I was working in a Honda garage at the time. I remember being halfway through a service on a silver Prelude when a salesman came out into the shop and said a plane had hit the first tower. At the time I thought it must be a small plane and kinda shrugged it off. Then he came back into the shop looking pretty shaken and said that a plane had hit the other tower and that they were big planes, commercial jets. Immediatly I thought of my brother who was flying up from Luisianna at that exact time. From the window of his plane they could see the smoke from the towers when they turned around were re routed. For the next week or so I still went to work every day but there were no customers so I just sat on my workbench and listened to the radio.