9/11, where were you?

[headsnap]

I was right here, reading the planet. I saw a thread about it, then a friend called and I went to the TV


where were you?

[Archie Bunker]

I was in my apartment in Springfield when my mom called and told me to turn on the TV. I turned it on and ran to wake up my buddy. We spent the rest of the day and night staring at the TV.

[StcChief]

Sitting in traffic on the way to work when 1st tower hit.
At work when 2nd tower hit.

[Aries Walker]

I was at work. I left early so I could find my mother, who on that very day was booked on a plane to London, leaving out of Dulles. Needless to say, when I heard that a Dulles plane crashed into the Pentagon, I was concerned. It turns out she never even got near the plane, but we didn't know for a while because of the chaos.

A really close friend of mine was one of the people running down the street, covered in white dust, that you see on the news. I'm super glad she made it out okay.

[kepp]

I was on the couch in my apartment in Malibu, CA watching it unfold live...speechless. I wouldn't let my wife go into work that day because she worked at Cedars-Sinai hospital at the time. Its a totally Jewish-run place and I was convinced L.A. would be a target too.

[Dartgod]

Quite a few of us were right here:

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=19782

What's interesting re-reading that thread is some of the misinformation that came out early. Someone *coughphobiacough* even reported that Mall of America had been hit by a hijacked plane.

[jspchief]

You know, it's funny. When I was younger I'd hear people talk about remembering where they were/what they were doing during things like the Kennedy assasination. I always thought it was odd that peopl had such vivid recollections.

But I remember every detail of that morning. I remember them interrupting the morning sports radio program to talk about it and i remember what stretch of road I was on at the time, within a mile or so. I remember the jobsite i went to and what I did that morning. And I remember that when they said the first building collapsed, I packed up me gear and went home and watched it on TV the rest of the day.

I also remember my wife coming home from work that day and having a lack of interest that I found appalling.

[jidar]

I was the Network Administrator for a small ISP/Radio Shack in Parsons KS. I was in the basement dicking around on a messageboard when the first plane hit.

When it happened for some reason I couldn't get my mind around the fact that someone would do that on purpose, and I posted to the board that some air traffic controller somewhere must have really ****ed up.

I went upstairs into the store and tuned the TV display into the news report. People coming by the store would stop in to watch, sometimes we would have a small crowd. They mostly just stood and watched in stunned silence. I watched the people. I wish I could remember what I was thinking.

[HemiEd]

Setting right here, in my office. Wife called and told me a plane hit the WTC. Then she called back and said another one hit it. My first thoughts were, the Air Traffic Controllers need new equipment, they work with antique stuff. I know, I am and idiot.
Anybody else watching that 2 part thing on ABC? Pretty good, seems odd to have no commercials on Network TV.

[DaFace]

It is really weird how you remember those things. I was on the way back from class, driving on 15th street here in Emporia, near Rural street. I heard it on the radio. I went home, told the roommates, and watched the whole thing on TV for the next couple hours. I remember just about every detail.

[TrickyNicky]

I was in my Senior year, sitting in Civics class trying to catch a nap. A teacher comes in and whispers something to the Civics teacher and then he announces that the U.S. is under attack. The WTC buildings, and the Pentagon have been hit and the White House is next. Then he told us to stay there while he figured out what the f*** was happening. Spent the rest of the day watching TV in every class.

[Megbert]

I took the day off to get DirecTV installed - for Sunday Ticket. Then the installer had the nerve to show up late because of the 9/11 attacks.

Man I was pissed! /end sarcasm

So it has been 5 years since I made the switch to DirecTV!!

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Dartgod

Quite a few of us were right here:

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=19782

What's interesting re-reading that thread is some of the misinformation that came out early. Someone *coughphobiacough* even reported that Mall of America had been hit by a hijacked plane.

I remember all the misinformation. At first, they said it was a little plane, like a Piper Cub, that hit the Towers, and that a helicopter hit the Pentagon. Then, there were reports of a car bomb at the State Department, and that the Gannett Building in (just over the river) Rosslyn, Virginia, was on fire; neither were true.

That thread is gripping, but very unnerving. It's bringing me back, which might not be such a good thing, but I can't stop reading.

[2bikemike]

I remember I was laying in bed waiting for the knock on my bedroom door from my daughter telling me it was time to take her to school. Only she knocked and told us to turn on the tv a plane hit the WTC, We watched the 2nd hit. She didn't go to school that day we sat and watched the tv in complete shock.

[DMAC]

I remember the lines for gasoline. It was very strange and "end of days" ish.