Where were you when you heard the news on 9/11 ?

[capitalist pig]

In my office watching CNBC, I remember calling the job foreman and telling him to send everyone home to be with their families. Just seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

later

[pavyracer]

I was taking a dump when I heard it on my ipod.

[louisvillekid]

i was delivering for a plumbing company, and i was at a supply house picking up stuff. i normally don't listen to talk radio, so i had my local rock station on, the dj came on between songs and said something like "a plane has hit the world trade center, i'll have more info after the song" i remeber first thinking "damn, that pilot must be drunk" , i also thought it was probably a small private aircraft or maybe like a traffic and news plane. then the dj came back on later while i was driving and said another plane had hit the world trade centers other tower and then he just went back to playing more music. then i was like "WTF?", i remembered thinking "is this guy messing with the listeners?" So then i switched to the AM news channel and found out what was going on, when i got to job i was delivering to, someone had already set up a tv and people were watching it, i got to watch the towers fall, then i had to leave and finish my deliveries.

[JoshW]

In Canada. I got a phone call from a good friend, that just said turn on the TV.

[Kingctb27]

8th grade college algebra. Was shocked, thought the first had to be an accident...

[gm2022]

Frosh Year Of High School

[RogueJuror]

I was in Paris, France. It was afternoon local time and I was in a lady bar in the infamous Rue de Clichy. If you been outside the tourist areas of Paris you know what I'm talking about. Most of these bars are run by immigrants and most immigrants in France are of Arabic descent.

These bar I use to frequent was run by a Lebanese and always was full, mostly of arabs, Algerians, Morroccans, Egyptians. That day it was packed, with a couple of Scandinavians, an Asian, and me, the rest were arabs.

After the first plane hit, the bar tender upped the volume for us folks that were in the bar. At this time French news started to specualte of a possible terrorist attack and slowly all the people started to gather around the tv. The music was cut off. And bang the second one. Even before anybody in the club or news mention anything, everybody knew simultaniously what had happen.

And then an uproar, people started yelling in tongues, some were screaming, others shocked, all in celebration tone. Everybody started cheering, giving high fives, akin to a touchdown in a Superbowl party. It was a page out of Sodom and Gomorrah, that's the picture that came to my mind. I knew people that lived in the nyc area, queens, jersey, including some that worked in the finacial district. I started thinking of them.

I asked for a bottle of Buchanan and the bar tender told me to get whatever I want, that it was on him, he was my pal. I just went to a room where the whores did their business and just started drinking. Around 18:30 hours, some 4 and 1/2 hours after the hit, I got out and the party was on. Worked my way out and got asked why I was leaving, I just left. I use to live in a rugged neighborhood mostly of immigrants, and the ambiance, something was in the air, people were happy. I had mix feelings, I was not good. I was drunk by that time and just went to sleep early. 9/11/01.

[flyingillini]

Finishing up my thesis.

[SBR_John]

Dam RJ! What a world.

Lot of good posts. I'm happy every year that goes by and there is not another attack. One would think there would be. Give the free world leaders some credit for getting these guys on the run and worrying about their own skin.

[Bluehorseshoe]

I was in Paris, France. It was afternoon local time and I was in a lady bar in the infamous Rue de Clichy. If you been outside the tourist areas of Paris you know what I'm talking about. Most of these bars are run by immigrants and most immigrants in France are of Arabic descent.

These bar I use to frequent was run by a Lebanese and always was full, mostly of arabs, Algerians, Morroccans, Egyptians. That day it was packed, with a couple of Scandinavians, an Asian, and me, the rest were arabs.

After the first plane hit, the bar tender upped the volume for us folks that were in the bar. At this time French news started to specualte of a possible terrorist attack and slowly all the people started to gather around the tv. The music was cut off. And bang the second one. Even before anybody in the club or news mention anything, everybody knew simultaniously what had happen.

And then an uproar, people started yelling in tongues, some were screaming, others shocked, all in celebration tone. Everybody started cheering, giving high fives, akin to a touchdown in a Superbowl party. It was a page out of Sodom and Gomorrah, that's the picture that came to my mind. I knew people that lived in the nyc area, queens, jersey, including some that worked in the finacial district. I started thinking of them.

I asked for a bottle of Buchanan and the bar tender told me to get whatever I want, that it was on him, he was my pal. I just went to a room where the whores did their business and just started drinking. Around 18:30 hours, some 4 and 1/2 hours after the hit, I got out and the party was on. Worked my way out and got asked why I was leaving, I just left. I use to live in a rugged neighborhood mostly of immigrants, and the ambiance, something was in the air, people were happy. I had mix feelings, I was not good. I was drunk by that time and just went to sleep early. 9/11/01.

Could you please post the name of the bar?

[RogueJuror]

good thread

[robmpink]

I was driving to work. I had AM radio from the night before listening to a Phillies game.

I didn't know what to think because only the first plane hit and no one mentioned terrorism.

[goldengoat]

I was in bed just flippin channels and my first thought was wtf is going on

my second thought was i didn't think those towers were gonna fall just because some planes crashed into them. in no way did i think it was an inside job at the time but it did seem very unusual. i even remembered the early reports of multiple witnesses giving interviews stating they heard bombs going off in the building. those reports were later squelched on the evening news.

wasn't until a year or so later that i learned it was an inside job and starting evaluating both sides of the coin and sadly it was obvious that it was an inside job. very disappointing to say the least. money and power are very corrupting.

[pat venditto]

Was in 8th grade social studies class. My father was ordered to ground zero once it happened. He worked there indentifying bodies for months.

[R3Sports]

School...

[flyingillini]

Working with my Clients... Sad day indeed.

[ATB515]

in 6th grade. Damn its been that long

[adamcm]

I'm in Canada.

I remember being woken up on a Tuesday morning by my roommate telling me I had to get up. I complained and lamented, but after persuasion I finally got out of bed and went to the TV. The first plane had already hit the World Trade Center, and we were watching CNN. I can't remember who was speaking on TV but I will never forget seeing the 2nd plane coming from the side of the TV and my roommate and I staring in disbelief as it happened live. We sat around the rest of the morning just trying to understand what had happened. As I went to class at around 11:30, people were randomly stopping me as they were walking home and asking about what was going on.

I'll never forget that day, and feel terrible for those more affected by the situation.

[daggerkobe]

Anyone watching "102 min that changed America" on the History channel right now?

Tons of raw footage that NYers shot.

Unfrigginbelievable.

[mmike032]

I was framing a house, at first we thought it was just an accident like everyone else I assume.
After the 2nd plane hit it seemed surreal. Started raining about lunch time so we got the tools up and went home.
Watched the news channels the rest of the day.
My brother was visiting D.C. that week on vacation. They were at one of the monuments when the plane hit the pentagon.

[bombCanada]

499 Thornall St, Piscataway, NJ (in Metropark), 10th floor. Clearest day of the whole summer, could see the towers perfectly, usually the towers were just a smudge in the distance. Saw the smoke, then a cloud of dust, then more smoke, then another cloud of dust, and then they were gone... just like on FoxNews. And so were thousands of people.

About a year ago this time, was at The Brothers restaurant in Red Bank with old friends having a beer, next to us was a table of maybe 8 women with a dozen kids all between about 7 and 12. My friend asked them what was up? and they said "we're all 9-11 widows." The pain was incredible. None of them had younger kids, none of them had remarried. Just surviving, just trying to move on, every day stepping around the empty hole where their husbands used to be, without falling in. Absolutely brutal.

Blaming Bush for this is like blaming FDR for Pearl Harbor. Pointless, thoughtless, purely emotional. Blame the worthless less-than-human beings who planned, conspired, and acted to fly those planes into those buildings. Find them and crush them. Then put them in the hole. Then set them on fire. Then let God do his job.

Never Forget.

[G's pks]

day trading market had been open less than half an hour... I had cnbc on and I remember they at first thought it was an accident... but then the second plane hit...and all the craziness began... The market turned a sea of red...

[Reload]

I was at my job and someone sent an e-mail out to the whole company with news of when the first tower was hit. That, in itself, seemed tragic enough but didn't cause us all to stop everything just yet. Then when the second tower got hit, you knew something was really up and at that point we were all huddling in rooms listening to radios for news. I remember how jammed some websites were - how they had to do without pictures/graphics just to make it easier for their pages to load.

We all left work early that day - around lunchtime. No sense in staying - no one's mind was on the job obviously. And with Boston being another major city, we had to be on alert and such. I remember calling anyone I knew in New York that afternoon. Found out my friend Joe's father just started a job that week in one of the towers and ran down some obscene number of stairs to survive.

It'll be a day none of us will ever forget, as much as we'd like to. At least it got the touts to stop selling picks for a few days with all the football getting cancelled that weekend. Looking back, all those cancellations were the right call - no one was ready to get back in the swing. And the stock market having to close the rest of the week was huge also - another good call and still amazing there was not a big crash when it opened up again.

[frostno98]

Worked Graveyard, Dead asleep in the morning. Sis from out of state called my cell and home phone like a thousand times. So I figure it must be important, and decided to get up before seeing this horror unfolding.

[Hotdiggity11]

I was at school and saw it on the news after the first plane. The 2nd was just shocking to watch.

[Dark Horse]

I was in bed, waking up next to my wife, ready to go on a holiday. We listened to it on the radio.

That evening on a beach at a lake, I was sitting around a smoldering campfire, and suddenly a jeep comes slipping around the sandy hill, stops right in front of me, and with headlights on me, a sheriff walks towards me to ask what I was doing. Like I was a terrorist. I knew then that it was bad.

It took about a year to figure out that the official story was a hoax. Initially I had thought that idea too absurd to even consider. Now I wonder how anyone in their right mind could possibly believe such a fairytale.

There are millions of people in this country who realize that 9/11 was an inside job. But where once Scripture was used to control the masses, that role now falls to the mass media. Where once non-believers were branded heretics, the modern term is 'conspiracy theorist'. (both terms - heretics and conspiracy theorists- can be translated as 'those unwilling to believe what we want them to believe').

Remember WTC 7, remember Larry Silverstein, declaring on tape that the building was pulled, remember the dancing Israelis, who were identified as Mossad agents and after several months quietly sent back to Israel, and remember Netanyahu's initial reaction that the attack was, quote, "very good". And the media, which are supposed to ask the hard questions, on each of these fascinating points? Ignore-ignore-ignore-ignore. The habit to ignore, aka ignorance.

[Matt Rain]

Flew back home from Paris on the 10th, the 11th was my first day back at work after a 2-week vacation. Took the elevator up with my boss who'd heard the news about the first plane on the radio. I saw the second plane hit live (or was it?) on the break room's TV and the whole company spent the rest of the day in front of the TV, completely speechless.

[tacomax]

An interesting, but lengthy, read.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-seven-years--U-S-Britain-covering-continue-war-terror.html

[Crayzee]

right working in a building on 9w along the hudson in englewood cliffs nj
went out by the river at lunch time to see if i could see anything and traffic was in such bedlam i couldnt get back to work
since i lived west of there i had to go north into ny state and then west and south to get home

[Killer_Demo]

it was first week of freshman year in HS...a family friend came by and 7am and was like watch the tv...i ended up going to school and man was everybody in a gloomy/sad mood. I will never forget it

[BobHarvey]

I was on the air at KFWB in Los Angeles. I remember the day like it was yesterday. I was doing sports and as soon we realized the severity of what had happened, we went wall-to-wall coverage.

I did sports at the time and the only time I went on the air after the attacks was to announce that MLB had suspended its schedule.

[DeeWizzle]

Getting ready for work. It was my first day at a new job and on my way out the door I saw the tv. I stayed and watched it for a few minutes and was about to leave when saw the second plane crash. I was glued to the tv for about another 30 minutes when I realized how late I was for work. I drove to work as fast as I could expecting to hear it when I got there. I was an hour late and waited in the parking lot listening to the AM Radio News for about a hour before anyone arrived.

[roasthawg]

In state prison... they locked the yard down for the day, no work!!

[rm18]

sleep in college bed heard it on the tv

[CS-Cedrick]

P.E. class