Where were you on 9/11?

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I was at a SAFE class in the Ingalls Shipyards across from the Pascagoula, MS Navy base for some required training my command was doing. Saw it on the new, both the shipyard and base locked down, and within a few hours I was roving the O2 level of my frigate with a locked and loaded M14 and full tactical gear on.

becksbear

My sister died there. I was there for a couple months after that. Thank goodness , I work for someone who gave me plenty leave time. It was terrible, and unbelieveable. What was showed on TV , nothing compared to being there and seeing first hand. May her soul rest in peace.

`STaTiC-

Camp Darby Ft. Benning Georgia - Ranger School - Benning Phase

It's what got me and my buddies through RANGER School. We had an unbelievable 3 dropouts. It motivted us. It made us train harder than the instructors were pushing us.

It reminded us why we volunteered.

Milmom

ROFL @ lavadog

Seriously tho. I woke up excited about my job interview with United Airlines. I live 2 hours from new york. My best friend of 30 years worked in World trade center one until 2 weeks before their move to Newark NJ.
I got dressed and my phone went nuts. It then went dead. I tried to call my hubby at work to see if it was him. I couldn't get a line.
Finally the phone rang again, it was my girlfriend, she was seeing smoke and told me turn on CNN. Line goes dead.
I saw plane two hit the trade center. I called my buddy on Wall Street. Line is dead. It wasn't until later I realized he was alive,
Nevertheless, my interview with United Airlines was cancelled.

LAVADOG

I WAS PASSED OUT FROM A NIGHT OF BATTLING MY GOOD FRIEND JACK DANIELS

Dj_Ez

For those of us who were in the military and who currently serve, thank you.

On the USS Paul F. Foster, Everett Wa. Waiting for morning Quarters we had CNN on TV and watched what the networks were showing from the beginning. Nothing will screw with your emotions like being on a ship loaded with Tomahawks and knowing your going to war.

GOPneedsarealconservative

watching it in my living room

~Papiâ„¢Chulo E8Â© izza lucky dawg~

For the first part of it I was in bed. I never listened to morning radio until that day. When I first realized we were under attack, my redneck buddy told me about it. I still dismissed it until I went to my work station and heard about the first tower falling. All day I was glued to the radio and was in disbelief. That was the first time I cried for my country and her people.

usafbrat64

I had just gotten home from picking up my girls after school. My next door neighbor came running over to tell me. I called another friend, who then came over. We sat watching the tv in the bedroom, while the kids were watching cartoons. The 3 of us wondering if our hubbies were coming home that night and what it meant for us.
Hubbies went on alert and finally came home about midnight. The base went on Delta for 3 days. No one leaving, no one entering, no school. All in all, a pretty terrifying time, although we were actually more concerned about the safety of our families back in the states than we were our own.

dumdum

It was very early where I was, so I was at home and not at school yet. There on the news was the WTC building covered in smoke--already hit by the second plane. At that point, they were still saying that it would be some kind of "accident."

sun_diva2001

It's hard to believe that they ever happen and i remember that I was sitting in class. I do personally feel like America is the only country that tolerates so much from people who aren't even from here. Do you think that i could ever go to IRAQ and Stand on the corners screaming "praise Jesus"? Here in America we let anyone in, let them do what ever they want to and help them do it by providing them with welfare or in 9/11 teach them how to fly our planes in our classes. America has become careless

autumn

I was in 6th grade...In homeroom...My teacher came in crying and said that the world trade centers were attacked and we watched the news the rest of the day.

ll_jenny_ll here

I was in my loungeroom.. It was approximately 10:45 pm ( australian time, sept 11th) ... I had been on the internet and had just logged off to go to bed ( had to be up at 5:30 am to go to work)...

As I was about to get into bed , by husband called from the lounge room and said "A plane has just crashed into the World trading Building in New York"

thinking it was an accident .. I continued getting ready to go to sleep when he called out again.. " It's a BIG bloody plane and our local (melbourne au ) news is cutting to CNN to show us.......

As we watched the first tower burning and listened to the reporters talking about it ... my husband pointed to the TV and almost yelled " LOOK THERE'S ANOTHER PLANE"

It was surreal . .we watched LIVE as the second plane crashed.....
without speaking we both stood up and returned to our computers and re-logged,
I went into the chat room I used to hang out in at the time and posted about what was taking place... many americans were logging on.. without being aware what was taking place ...

they's come it and write " HI HOW IS EVERYBODY?? with big smiley faces ... all i could say was GO TURN ON YOUR TV ..... one by one as they returned to the chat room ... all everybody could say was OH MY GOD......
I sat up till three in the morning talking to my state-side friends and exchanging emails with a friend who was in New York .. I was getting more news than what she was.

Now while I wasn't an american .. I still viewed it as an attack on the West, I knew it would be a catalyst to something bigger and more horrible....

the next day .. was even more weird .. our lives continued as if nothing had happened .. but .. yet everything was changed .. so hard to put into words ..

It was something That I never want to live to see again. or feel the strangeness , the emotional stress.. It was A nightmare.

It wasn't about America to me .. it was about PEOPLE.
so many people died... so many nations around the world were affected by it and more by the ripple effect.

Resident Heretic

I was at work. Someone called one of my co-workers and she turned on the little black-and-white teevee we have in our break-room. There are only 8 people working for this company and we stood and watched as the second plane hit the second tower and a little while later watched as each tower fell. In the meantime, I kept trying to get online to one of the news sites, but you could NOT get on -- everything was overloaded.

zina

I had gotten in a car wreck a few weeks before and was at the physical therapy office. The nurse had the radio on and when we heard the first tower fell we just looked at each other and our mouths fell open. I hurried home and got my kids and filled up my gas tank like everyone else. Then stayed glued to the TV for the next week.

coragryph

I was in Mass visiting my parents -- and waiting to hear from by brother who is an airline pilot.

The next day, I drove down to New Jersey (within sight of where the towers had been) to start a new job.

richfraga

had about 3 hours of sleep. i just sent my son off for school. went to my room. turn on the t.v to relax. that's when i saw the second tower get hit. i didn't think it was real. flipped over to another channel. i was in shock.

ckamk1995

I was at home. I had just dropped my hubby off about 6 hours beforehand as he was on his way to do a Egypt rotation. I was up when the second plane hit.

God bless America

redonhead90

I was at home, recovering from major surgery, and 1 week in the hospital. My brother was stationed at Fort Bragg, and I tried to call him...the lines were jammed for ever. I finally heard from him about 2 days later. He is now on his 3rd tour in Iraq. I will NEVER forget 9/11. Ever.

LC.

i was in 3rd grade lol in school so nobody told me. but when i got home the news was on and everything and i found out.

Dana L

I was in fourth grade, i was in the hall way when i saw my teacher crying!

â€ Absintheâ€

In school watching it replay on the TV with the rest of my class and wishing I was old enough to join the Army and serve my country by going over there with the troops I figured we'd send over to our enemy countries...

erehwon

I was on vacation in Las Vegas. It was the first time I have ever seen that city all but shut down. Everything was closed, except the casinos. And that was only because they had no where to send the people. I had people asking me to drive them back to San Diego, because the airport was closed. It is a day I will never forget.

Brian

i was in middle school, today joined the USAF ..it was a long time ago

Mona Lisa

Sitting in a 10th grade Algebra class. And when I walked outside for lunch, everyone was standing there staring up at the sky- there were ashes everywhere (I was only about an hour from NYC at the time). It was really freaky...I'll never forget that moment. I'll never forget 9/11.

Michael W

my 3rd grade class reading. the intercom came on and told the teachers to turn the news on. at first i thought it was a movie.

british gurly

i was buying stuff for my flat here in england and saw people surronding the tv in the department store.. I was so shocked at what i saw i will never forget that day. I am now marrying a US soldier who has done 2 deployments to Iraq

Half-pint

I was in 3rd grade the teacher spoke in very vague terms about it so i asked i could go to the bathroom and asked a 6th grader i knew since i figured they told them what happened he gave me the details. Shortly thereafter the principal came to talk to us and try to explain what had happened and right after she started talking i got pulled from school(mom was paranoid as usual). I went home and watched the news for the rest of the day and saw the towers collapse.

LMAO lavadog i figured you would say something like that though i have to ask why you were out drinking on a monday night.

bytchy_princess

i was in my car driving home from an errand and had no idea what was going on.. i think i had a cd playing and didnt find out until i got home and turned on the news

Amy S

I was in line at Starbucks, headed for a work-related training in Sacramento. The drive-up guy told me what was going on and the only radio station I could get that was covering it well at all was Howard Stern... the one thing he did that I really respected was his coverage of what was going on that day, on the ground.

I'll never forget it... and remember how quiet it was afterward? No planes flying overhead for a week, everybody was waving flags, everyone was driving the speed limit... It made me realize what we could do, as a country, if we truly came together for any one cause.

Willowjac

I was about to hang up on my friend because it was too early to be playing stupid games. Then I turned on the news and the world as I knew it was changed for ever in life and in my head. I couldn't process it in my brain.

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