Where were you when the world stopped turning?


I was getting ready for work. I walked through the living room and caught the news station out of the corner of my eye. I thought I was seeing a burning building from another country. Then the newscaster said where it was and what building and I thought it was some sort of sick joke. Then I watched the plane hit the second tower and I called my mom and just sat down on the floor right in front of the television. I never made it to work.

 

I am in the military. was living in germany at the time. Me and a coworker were out in the field digging underground command posts for a field excercise.
Obviously with the time change it was much later in the day. We had zero clue it happened. We got back in from work around 3 or so in the afternoon. Got to the shop and all our friends were carring m16s. We thought it was part of the excercise but they all had ammo. We went in just as the second tower fell. We had no clue what was going on, but from the looks on everyones faces, we figured it out.
Then there were the terrorists caught in germany the following days. Things got real interesting.

I will never forget that day, or the 6 years since. My career and experiences have changed drastically because of it.

 

my dad was across the street from those towers.. boy i was a mess for 2 days untill i got ahold of him and found out he was ok.. it was still depressing seeing all that happen, i skipped school that day becuase of a bad feeling..

 

I was in school,spanish class had just started.
Saw the second plane hit then went home.
Later that afternoon I feel off a 4-wheeler...so its kinda blurry

 

I was in my office at work (I work in a hospital). A few of us went down the hall to a department with a TV and watched the events unfold for as long as we reasonably could. I spent the rest of the day trying to read as much as I could on the over-loaded news web sites.

 

i was in my 7th grade science class. kids were getting pulled out of school and the faculty refused to tell us what was going on, despite the vice principal coming into classrooms every few minutes to whisper into teachers ears. it was pretty crazy

 

I was at home sick from high school (in Vienna, Austria). I saw CNN for a couple seconds and just saw a tower burning then i changed channels. I gave it no second thought.

Then my father called and he immediatly said "this is an attack not an accident cos planes can't fly above NY city" for a sec I didn't know what he was talking about then i switched back to CNN and realized what happened was real.

I called my friend in NY she was ok.

 

I was in circuit city buying a cd during my 2 hour break at school. Nobody was at the registers and everyone was at the wall of tv's. I was getting upset until I walked over and saw the 2nd plane hit. Pretty ____ed up if you ask me. Strangely enough, I still have the cd in the plastic. Never had the heart to take it out. It's weird how you keep ish like that.

 

I drove to work to find everyone in a weird state where they all just were watching the news. i had no idea until i got to the coffee pot where the tv was. . . then everyone ran to get gas . . . i won't lie, i went too, but when all the gas stations had lines like 10 cars long, i went back to work and decided it wasn't worth that and i would awlk if it came to the end of the world anyway, lol

 

i was in my high school weight training class when one of the other gym teachers rushed into the room and turned on the tv. from accross the room i saw the building on fire on the tv, and made out "world trade center on fire" and thought to myself "where is the other tower?" so i put down the dumb bells and wanted to see what was going on.

after that i had NJROTC, and instead of class, we just watched the news, they were mostely talking about the pentagon attack this time.

 

and ofcourse, there are video's like this

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...29448192753501

 

^ is there something wrong with videos like that?

 

nope, nothing wrong at all, remember, no matter what happens, we must always question our government, and they must be held accountible.

while some of the facts in loose change are debatible, some of what they show really frightens me about the bush administration.

but thats not what this thread is about.

 

i hear ya...didn't mean to get this off track.
i agree though...what bothers me is that a lot of stuff that has come about after 911 (policies, laws, etc.) were already written up and planned before 911...
okay, now back on track...

 

i was a freshman in highschool 6 years ago when it all went down.

I was walking and talking, laughing with my friends on our way to homeroom when an announcement came on for every student to stop what they were doing and hurry to their homeroom area. While in homeroom, we watched the 2nd plane hit the tower, and even stayed in school thru the pentagon attack, downed plane, and the collapse of the other buildings.

You have to understand that where i live is a high number of military families. And my private school i attended was a fairly wealthy one. Two kids lost a parent that day in my small school and other kids were crying and screaming because their parent(s) wer ein NY on business.

Then came the frantic phone calls from my friends to their parents whom serve at either the pentagon, white house, FBI, CIA, Andrews AFB, etc. No one had a clue wtf was going on. It was pandamonium. I decided to walk home that day, which is normally a 5 minute walk. It felt like it took me an hour to get home. Not to mention i live about 5-10 minutes from Baltimore-Washington International and theres normally a ton of air traffic....but since it was all suspended, the skies were silent and empty for the first time in my life.

It was crazy, because i can remember black armored security vehicles coming to my school to pick up the kids of "important people" in washington and in the business world.

And not to feed conspiracy (which i believe in btw), but a few of the kids parents who have high level government positions received phone calls the night of 9/10 warning them to not fly or to cancel all travel plans for 9/11-9/12. And all these calls came from white house staff. The reason was because of a possible security threat. Its weird stuff like that that boggles my mind that the govt can claim it was totally oblivious to 9/11.

Oh well, it was a pretty tragic day. I can still picture the kids in the hallways crying and others screaming they couldnt reach their parents. Fairly terrifying. i will never forget.