September 11

tiamat63

I was at school, freshman year - got sick and went home early. Naturally there's nothing on TV so flipping through the channel's I see CNN and something about the plane.

Next thing I know my mother had pulled my brother out of school as I watched.

It's been 13 years, I'm still trying to understand what the hell happened.

gftChris

I got back from school and started watching fresh prince on TV. My brother came down and turned over to the news - I was not happy! Then I realised what was going on and was just like 'holy...fuck'.

Now I work on the 38th floor of a london office located about 2 miles from an airport, so there are planes flying within seemingliy a few hundred yards. And just for luck, I'm flying today

LondonBrown

@gftchris said:

I got back from school and started watching fresh prince on TV. My brother came down and turned over to the news - I was not happy! Then I realised what was going on and was just like 'holy...fuck'.

Now I work on the 38th floor of a london office located about 2 miles from an airport, so there are planes flying within seemingliy a few hundred yards. And just for luck, I'm flying today

That can only be the one building and my company move there in two weeks !

gftChris

@londonbrown said:

That can only be the one building and my company move there in two weeks !

There are a few round here. Canary Wharf is full of big buildings...

jrb12711

The "best" part of the whole tragedy even today is that the goal of those responsible. They were set to strike fear and divide us as a group of citizens. Instead, on that day and moving forward we showed the exact opposite. We united and, as a country and the world at large, grew.

LondonBrown

@gftchris said:
There are a few round here. Canary Wharf is full of big buildings...

haha yeah what was I thinking, I'm gonna be on the 36th floor

gftChris

@londonbrown said:

haha yeah what was I thinking, I'm gonna be on the 36th floor

Could be Citi, HSBC, or whoever has that floor in 1 Canada Square...

The Gipper

I was in a child support hearing in Summit County Domestic Relations Court. I remember all the people I was in there with as well. While we had business to conclude, we did cut it short. I remember driving back to my office and listening to Greg Brinda on the radio basically call a play by play of the building collapse.

The Cysko Kid

I was at home five days before being shipped off to Lackland afb for basic. Talk about a sinking feeling.

Tour2ma

Nice shut down of the politicization attempt, gents...

I was sitting stunned at my Mother's kitchen table in Parma waiting for her to get ready for a planned road trip to Chicago (had Cubs tickets for the 12th). I was watching ABC's coverage headed by Peter Jennings.

When the 1st tower collapsed upon itself, Peter started to talk about the eruption of smoke. Then he started speculating on the cause of the smoke and it was clear he did not see the top floors collapse.

I yelled at the TV, "It's gone, Peter! It's fucking gone!"

calfoxwc

The Gipper

I am not as impressed with the tower that replace the WTC as I wanted to be. It is tall, but not as distinctive as it should be. And it is a big cheat to have that spire on top just so they can say that it is 1776 feet tall. It is silly to me to count spires in the height of the building. The height should be measured to the highest occupiable floor.

nickers

I was at work.. I remember on work break.. I saw the plane fly by that left from Cleveland heading to Newark.,that eventually crashed into the pentagon...It was moving rather weirdly I thought for a commercial liner plane.. Then I got the news about the attack.. I think a lot of us just held our collective breaths that day,for sure...

DieHardBrownsFan

@nickers said:
I was at work.. I remember on work break.. I saw the plane fly by that left from Cleveland heading to Newark.,that eventually crashed into the pentagon...It was moving rather weirdly I thought for a commercial liner plane.. Then I got the news about the attack.. I think a lot of us just held our collective breaths that day,for sure...

The plane that crashed into the Pentagon left from Dulles in Virginia, not Cleveland to Newark.

Pumpkin Eater

Not many people give the passengers of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania the credit they deserve. To sacrifice your own lives and cause the plane to crash when there is no question you will die in order to save the lives of countless others is the ultimate act of bravery. The innocents on flight 81 are certainly wearing halos right now.

big red one

it was United flight 93

The Gipper

@diehardbrownsfan said:
The plane that crashed into the Pentagon left from Dulles in Virginia, not Cleveland to Newark.

It was that Flight 93 that made its turn right over NEOhio before crashing into the PA field. Its movements were discovered by the radar out of Hopkins. You can go to Shanksville PA to see the National Memorial.

And FYI, the "Memorial" in NYC is not a national memorial....but a private one for which you have to pay beaucoups bucks to see, as I understand.

The Gipper

@big-red-one said:
it was United flight 93

Right. Let's Roll.

nickers

@the-gipper said:

It was that Flight 93 that made its turn right over NEOhio before crashing into the PA field. Its movements were discovered by the radar out of Hopkins. You can go to Shanksville PA to see the National Memorial.

And FYI, the "Memorial" in NYC is not a national memorial....but a private one for which you have to pay beaucoups bucks to see, as I understand.

Thanks Gipper,I had it confused.. it's been that long Id forgotten it was a field...

slowburn

I was in quebec fishing and getting fuckered up. we could pick up wabc on the am dial.