Where were you when 9|11 happened?

[Peatree]

Me? Just walking into work, sat down at PC and was booting up, wife (xwife now) called and said "are you watching the news?". I responded, "Nope, just walked in and booting up". She replied, "Some idiot flew their plane into the world trade tower in NYC." Then I noticed no one was around me. Co-worker walked by me and let me know everyone was in the breakroom, watching things unfold. Went in, watched in amazement, everyone chatting about it, some amazed, some worried, lots of chatter...until we all watched in horror as the second plane hit. Saw it happen live, still errie to this day.

What's weird too is the place I worked was on the north end of DFW Airport. Right by the flight path where the planes come down to land. Later on that morning we watched as plane after plane were forced to land. Usually they come in 5 to 10 minutes apart. This day - they were less than 60 seconds. One after the other landed and moved over. Surreal.

Not to mention the F16 that was following one of the planes that took off right before the grounding. It couldn't land since it was still heavy with fuel. Had to taxi over DFW with an armed F16 tailing it.

We should never forget what transpired this day. IMO we are getting to soft once again and are taking things for granted.

So - where were you all and your thoughts on this day?

[Shannacore]

I was 11. I had gotten ready for school and walked out to the living room. I asked what was wrong, she briefly explained to me what happened, and my response was, "Oh. Well come on Mom, I'm going to be late for school."

Lots of kids were absent that day, I don't think I fully understood how big of a deal this actually was.

[Knuckle]

health class freshmen year of highschool

[nilbog]

Starbucks, meeting with professor at campus for sophomore English class.

[Scribbles]

in 6th grade in my schools cafeteria lolo

[Barkingturtle]

I was twenty-one at the time and woke up late because I didn't have to work. My mom had already called and left me a message to turn on the tv because a plane had flown into the WTC. I followed her advice and turned on the tube right as the second plane hit, and then I sat there and watched all day long.

One of my most vivid 9/11 memories is of going to the tunnel in East Commons that night or the next and seeing the corpses of NYPD and NYFD curled up at the entrance.

[azeth]

10th grade science class, not a whole lot went on. no one was dismissed, no one talked about it.

[Mardur]

home ec. like 8th or 9th grade?

[Prahadigm24]

I was actually playing EQ, and I can still remember that I was fighting on the Ridge in Dreadlands. Someone in OOC talked about a plane crash in NYC, so I switched on TV news and witnessed how both towers went down.

[guineapig]

I was at work (living in Buffalo at the time).
Spent most of the day checking out the news on my computer.

Was a day like any other besides the fact that I didn't get anything accomplished at my job.

[Ihealyou]

I was at lunch in middle school. My friend told me that the US was invading Iraq. I didn't know what was going on, so I thought that was cool. A couple of hours later my mom took me out of school, and I watched the news for the rest of the day.

[Dantes]

I was living in a beach house with no TV and no internet, but we had scheduled for a tech to install internet at our place that day. The installer asked if we had "heard the news" - and of course we had no clue and once the internet was up we started watching videos on news sites + calling relatives to ask what they were currently hearing on live TV.

[Spud]

Sophomore year biology class.

Had the whole week off from school after it happened.

[Chubbler]

Was right before I was walking to school sophomore year. My buddy told me we had been "attacked", at first I didn't believe him so I turned on the TV and boom. Spent the whole school day watching TV and listening to the radio.

[Diggles]

Just woke up, it was 6 in the morning in AK at the time, heard my mom and dad saying "oh my god" in the living room, walked out and saw and the first thing my dad said was "You're not going to school"

[OngorDrakan]

I had first hour in an economics class. We were just doing our thing when all of a sudden some teacher ran in and told us to turn on the news. This was my sr. yr. in HS. We watched for most of the entire class. Saw the 2nd plane hit. It was really weird to watch. People were saying maybe it's just a movie. But obviously it wasn't, it was just too much to take in. The news got reports of the one that hit the Pentagon too and the one still flying. What a fucked up day that was. It's sort of surreal to think about now and how we just sat in that class watching the TV in amazement and horror. A few of my classmates instantly started enrolling themselves into various departments of the armed forces.

[deneauth]

I was in AP english class and one of my friends walked in and told the teacher to turn on the TV because the World Trade Center is on fire.

[Dirt McGirt]

I was getting ready for school in 6th grade. My mom was livid about sending me to school but my dad gave some patriotic speech about not staying at home like cowards so I joined the rest of the kids waiting for the dazed teachers to send us home.

[xshayla701]

5th grade class. Got home and my mom was in front of the tv crying

[vinx]

At home : hungover
me and the ex worked swing in las vegas casinos (went out the night before like we usually did after work)
*phone ringing non-stop in the morning* so i finally crawl out of bed to see wtf the emergency was and get the news

Turn on the TV to see events and watch the 2nd plane crash, all in awe and all amazed,
Plus a little worried that if the east coast has been hit, maybe something iconic on the other side of the country could be targeted next (cali-LV)
______
*fast forward to new years eve*
So i got in a street fight on the strip LOL
(im not a bad person! this dude and his friend were just drunk and would NOT quit!)
anyway.. me and my friend start runnin thru the back areas to mandalay bay, since street cops were coming and didnt wanna get hauled away heh

And run straight into the national guard (i think it was the guard) hiding back in the dark ;)
buncha vehicles and people standing around in the dark, in an area nobody would pay any attention to.
was kinda cool! just thought id throw that in sorry for shaere

[Knuckle]

5th grade class. Got home and my mom was in front of the tv crying

5th grade lol

[nalkin]

5th grade lol

^ to funny.

As for myself, I was in 7th grade in english class. When it happened all the teachers had a big discussion on whether they would show us the news or not, and some decided for themselves. My teacher was a prude, though she eventually let us watch the news after the second plane hit. Afterwards we were let out of school.

[SearyxTZ]

A lot of people here are younger than I would expect.


I was a senior in high school, in my art class at the time. Teacher pulled in a TV to the classroom and we watched the craziness unfold.

I don't think I'd be stretching by saying that the painting I was working on was inspired by that event (it served as a bit of a wake-up call for me). It was just a Bob Ross bit of natural landscape, but everyone seemed to love it more than anything else I did at the time.



I wasn't sure how to react to the event when it happened. I didn't view it as a monumental Pearl Harbor "America is under attack" overreaction because I don't think the two are even comparable. Seeing the footage of people jumping out of the skyscrapers to their deaths made me want to throw up though. The entire event made me sad for humanity, especially after knowing the motive behind it and knowing that the people who did it were so religion-brainwashed that they were willing to throw their own lives away in the process.

[username17]

I was at the Fire dept picking up 56k modems to install to the satellite volunteer fire stations.
The chief (really cool guy) called me into his office and pointed to the TV.

I thought it was an accident at first. But then we watched the 2nd tower get hit.
I sat in the office with the chief and a few others while the news covered the whole event.

I never really had a reaction. It was unbelievable. I was without words.
I still can't describe how I felt when I saw that happen.

[Pico]

twinkle in my dad's eye

[Marmo]

12th Grade: AP Comp Sci class, I was on my EQ (Fennin Ro) guild's forum (T'Kagi Ro) when our cleric posted a thread telling us all to turn on the news. I informed the class, we turned on the news, and the break between classes afterwards was just a High School panic.

[Slathar]

i think that september 11 should be remembered as the day when president bush decided to attack the united states and knock down the towers.

in retrospect, it was a great success and worked to further the new world order's agenda to enslave everyone in the name of security. arm the homeless.

[Dirt McGirt]

I wasn't sure how to react to the event when it happened. I didn't view it as a monumental Pearl Harbor "America is under attack" overreaction because I don't think the two are even comparable.

Have you been to the US recently?

The events 9/11 precipitated are comparable in scope and arguably more horrific than US involvement in ww2 at this point. This country is in a nightmare that's only getting worse.

[Slathar]

Have you been to the US recently?

The events 9/11 precipitated are comparable in scope and arguably more horrific than US involvement in ww2 at this point. This country is in a nightmare that's only getting worse.

hahahahahahahah

[SearyxTZ]

Have you been to the US recently?

The events 9/11 precipitated are comparable in scope and arguably more horrific than US involvement in ww2 at this point. This country is in a nightmare that's only getting worse.

I'm not going to waste my time explaining why World War II was more horrific than 9/11 to you (good god I hope this is just a troll)

[deathgirl]

I was a kid and it was my brother's birthday, we sat down to watch some cheez TV and saw the news, then we ran into mother's bedroom screaming "IT'S WW3!" and she was right in the middle of morning glory with her bf.

[Mardur]

That explains a lot.

[Mardur]

^ to funny.

As for myself, I was in 7th grade in english class. When it happened all the teachers had a big discussion on whether they would show us the news or not, and some decided for themselves. My teacher was a prude, though she eventually let us watch the news after the second plane hit. Afterwards we were let out of school.

The class after the announcement was Social Studies, so we just watched the news all period. My mom came and picked me up from school, which I thought was completely unwarranted but I wasn't about to argue getting out of school free.

[Doors]

10th grade 2nd period Chem class in high school. During 3rd period I watched the second plane fly into the second tower. Some fucked up shit right there.

Also the plane that went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania was only about an hour and a half from where I used to live.

[azeth]

and she was right in the middle of morning glory with her bf.

you know this because she ran in naked? or?

[eastadam55]

I'm not going to waste my time explaining why World War II was more horrific than 9/11 to you (good god I hope this is just a troll)

50 million dead(including the mass jewish genocide) compared to about 3k dead? I see what you mean. But really, 9/11 is just like Pearl Harbor 70 years ago, people acted the same way, scared.

[Dirt McGirt]

50 million dead(including the mass jewish genocide) compared to about 3k dead? I see what you mean. But really, 9/11 is just like Pearl Harbor 70 years ago, people acted the same way, scared.

You're comparing the entirety of WW2 to the day September 11.

I'm comparing the indirect effects - still ongoing - of September 11 on American politics (contributing significantly to our turning into a third-world shithole, and having already killed hundreds of thousands) to the American involvement in WW2.

[Slathar]

You're comparing the entirety of WW2 to the day September 11.

I'm comparing the indirect effects - still ongoing - of September 11 on American politics (contributing significantly to our turning into a third-world shithole, and having already killed hundreds of thousands) to the American involvement in WW2.

hahahahahahahahahahah

[JenJen]

You're comparing the entirety of WW2 to the day September 11.

I'm comparing the indirect effects - still ongoing - of September 11 on American politics (contributing significantly to our turning into a third-world shithole, and having already killed hundreds of thousands) to the American involvement in WW2.

when did america become a third world country? maybe i should look into holidaying there next year!

i was at college in my first year and i had a call to say watch the news, flicked on the BBC in our classroom and saw the second plane hit, and towers fall yadda yadda. even as a brit i remember thinking it was horrible, but at the time i was addicted to EQ and im p sure within a few hours i was pulling frogs in lguk and had forgotten all about it. such is the young mind of an EQ addict.

[Cujoy]

I was working for AT&T Broadband at the time. It was a surprise meeting because Comcast had decided to buy our region from AT&T. The first good news was that all our benefits were being cut and also we were going to be paying more for all our benefits, they started charging more for copays and contributing less to 401k. So after 2 hours of basically getting bent over the rails and the cheerleader managers saying we weren't losing "that much" we walked out into the break room just in time to see the first tower in flames there we sat watching it and it couldn't have been 3 minutes later that the towers collapsed. But don't worry they sent us out into the field anyways, people have to have their cable TV!

[xshayla701]

5th grade lol

^ to funny.

http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Curvepics/Parabola/Parabola1.gif

You got one bros?

[Knuckle]

http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Curvepics/Parabola/Parabola1.gif

You got one bros?

what a vagina? so confused right now

[Anger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ_E7Vce8vU

side note - i was in my 10th grade programming class.

[deneauth]

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6990/neverforgetr.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/689/neverforgetr.jpg/)

Never forget........

[Ennoia]

I was playing pool in a graphics class listening to a bunch of idiots talk about how they were going to join the military because of it. A very close friend of mine is now dead and 3 others are seriously injured because some jackass with a diaper on his head couldn't get it through his thick skull that fighting a centuries old religious war was totally futile.

I'm quite honestly sick of hearing about 9/11. Political higher powers are so damned corrupt as of the past 20 years that you have no idea what you can and can't believe. Yea, it sucks, a lot of innocent people died, and a lot of selfless heroes risked their own lives to try to save them. World disasters are becoming more obnoxious and standard as far as how things work than Goddam teenage-party horror movies.

People get so wrapped up in the media bullshit with everything that they lose track of their own common sense and free thinking. Look at the recent hurricane. I can't speak for the rest of the country but New England was put into panic mode over what amounted to a heavy rain and the lights being out for a couple days. Big fucking deal, we've had worse, but all of a sudden because some moron on the TV tells you bad things are going to happen (because people are, nowadays, too damn stupid to look out a window) that they feel the need to buy 100 flashlights for a rain storm. I'm sure people down south had it much worse, but these were local news stations here in CT making people crazy with fear.

[Pico]

didn't read that but u appear to be gay

[Droxx]

I was probably playing EQ.


JK

But seriously, I was in 6th grade class. When I got home, I got on EQ though.

[jerok88]

I was in 7th grade, but I went to the dentist to get my teeth checked out (4 cavities). The dentist was saying 'oh my God' and I had no idea what he was talking about, I thought it was my teeth.

My dad fought in Vietnam, he saw the first plane and told Mom nobody would ever attack on American soil, it had to be an accident, and then he saw the second plane. He was very somber and watched it almost all day.

[Iondera]

Was passed out in a chair at a friends house due to heavy drinking the night before. He smacked me and said "I thought you'd like to know we're being attacked." and walked off. That got my attention and I went to see what was going on in time to see plane two hit. For some reason he woke up early that day and decided to watch the Today show and saw the first plane hit live.

After a couple hours of watching the news we went and ate lunch, across the street was a gas station with cars stretched out for a mile in line for gas. Everyone was panicking that gas prices were going to sky rocket. They did too only because everyone panicked and bought it all, so the few places that had gas left raised their prices to insane amounts (at the time $5 was insane).

[Waffen]

I was in 8th grade at the time. The bell had just rang and i was shuffling across the hall to my 2nd period. After some bullshitting in the hallway, i walk in to my history class and notice the tv is on. i announced "sweet, movie day?" and, upon closer inspection(and a few words frm my teacher), i was told a plane had hit the world trade center in what appeared to be a terrorist attack. I found out later that day that our president at the time, George Bush Jr., was in my town when the attacks happened, reading a fucking book to kindergarten students! Apparently, upon notification of the first plane hitting, he continued reading..it took the second plane to hit for him to get his ass in gear and high tail out of Florida. inb4 9/11 wuzaninsidejob

[Foxx]

was in canada, those pals are so peaceful

[JayDee]

I ran frantically to find harrison because I know he is always cowering in the safest spot when the shit goes down

[Ennoia]

I was in 8th grade at the time. The bell had just rang and i was shuffling across the hall to my 2nd period. After some bullshitting in the hallway, i walk in to my history class and notice the tv is on. i announced "sweet, movie day?" and, upon closer inspection(and a few words frm my teacher), i was told a plane had hit the world trade center in what appeared to be a terrorist attack. I found out later that day that our president at the time, George Bush Jr., was in my town when the attacks happened, reading a fucking book to kindergarten students! Apparently, upon notification of the first plane hitting, he continued reading..it took the second plane to hit for him to get his ass in gear and high tail out of Florida. inb4 9/11 wuzaninsidejob

Teacher:Mr President, a plane just hit the World Trade Center

GW: T-t-t-t-the C-c-c-c-at in t-t-t-t-the H-a-a-a-at, by Dee-arr Soo-ess.

Teacher: Mr President, another plane hit the World Trade Center

GW: Fuck, that was today? *Damn those towelheads being 12 hours ahead of us!* Well kids I gotta get to Air Force One...hey, Cheney, you think they got them little pretzels on the air-o-plane?

[mitic]

i was at home watching a documentary about slant drilling in iraq at the border of kuwait

[Jenithia]

Wow you all are super young. I was 21 yrs old at the time. I like falling asleep with the tv on when I fall asleep, that night I forgot to turn the sleep timer on. I remember hearing lots of breaking news chit chat on the TV and opened my eyes a few times, was too tired to think much of it, next thing I know my little brother was calling me. He said to turn on Channel 7, that America was under attack but noone knew by who. He said planes were flying into buildings, 2 into WTC in NY and another that just few into the Pentagon. I had no idea what the WTC towers were but when he said the Pentagon I started crying. I mean I thought that if someone did that to the Pentagon, we were in deep shit. At the time I didn't even know about the plane in Pennsylvania. I threw on some clothes and drove to my Mom and Dads and chilled there, fixated on the news all day and night. I just wanted to be close to my family. 2 weeks later I flew to New Mexico to help my sister move home. I won't ever forget but I've learned not to dwell on it.

[Yinaltin]

was 18 and came just from school that noon. met an friend on the staris telling me " a plane hit the wt center " i told him that he should not fool me . went up and turned on tv . later on the whole employees in our house were around me watching as the 2nd plane hit the tower . crazy how clearly one can remeber those things but not where u were 2 weeks before today.

[Swishahouse]

was 18 and came just from school that noon. met an friend on the staris telling me " a plane hit the wt center " i told him that he should not fool me . went up and turned on tv . later on the whole employees in our house were around me watching as the 2nd plane hit the tower . crazy how clearly one can remeber those things but not where u were 2 weeks before today.

you got employees in your house??

damn I gotta quit ballin on a budget meng