9/11 Remembrance and Thoughts

[HellOnEarth]

We've done this once or twice, and since the anniversary of 9-11 is coming up, let's try this one more time out of respect for all those hard working Americans who died there...

Where were you on 9-11? Where did you first hear about it? How was your initial reaction?

Did you think it was a movie?

 

[Addendum]

I had the day off from work. I didn't wake up until 12 noon, and then drove to the record store to pick up a copy of Slayer's latest album "God Hates Us All". However the store was closed. So I went back home and played some games. It wasn't until I was eating dinner, watching the 5 o'clock news that I found out what had happened in New York, DC and a field in Pennsylvania.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I heard about it on the radio show "The Doghouse" here in the Bay Area the morning I woke up. I immediately turned on the news and there they were. I think the second tower had just hit by the time I turned it on. Probably around 6-7 am in the morning, here in California.

 

[Clerk]

In bed then my dad came and turned on the TV that showed both of the trade towers on fire then walked out without saying a damn word. I was so tired I just sat and tried to make out what I was seeing. To me it looked as if a boat was tipped over and sinking while emitting smoke... I was like "eh they raising the Titanic or something?"

 

[Drakon]

Coming home from the delivery of my firstborn child just five hours prior.

 

[Pirateking]

Cleaning the kitchen in my old pub in London when somebody came in saying that something was happening in New York. I put the news on the radio and heard about it that way. We were directly under Heathrow's flightpath and it was weird seeing the planes come in from a different direction. I stayed with my friend that night cos her (now) husband was away and she was freaked out. It wasn't until 1am that I saw coverage on the TV.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

I was asleep because I had the day off. My mother called me and said "You are missing it!" So I turned on the tv and was just in shock. I came here where Cyclops was giving a running update on events, and we waited for New York posters to start coming online so we could make sure they were ok. Later I went out to the bank and the streets were deserted, because rumors were that they were going to hit the LA area and take out media centers. I went to bed at like 4 am, and the next morning had to work on the Warner Bros Lot but all shoots were cancelled for the rest of the week.

 

[Tangled Web]

I heard the phone ring and I couldn't get to sleep so I woke to go to the bathroom and my mom had the TV on and I saw the two towers with smoke coming out and it was just insane. And going to school that day was full of rumors and chaos and I remember the news reports non stop on TV.

 

[Hades]

I was sleeping untill nnoon and i yturned on the tv and noything was on but the news ansd i kept clicking and cluickng to find something eklse but there was noythng so i decided to watch and it was during this part where there was this reporteer with tons of huge clouds of smoke overhead. I thought ti was doomsday or something. I was freaked out for a while untill i learned what happened.

 

[SWAT]

at some hotel in prague.

 

[LEX]

I was in bed in Sydney. As usual, my mom woke me up for school, I showered, dressed up and ate my breakfast as I turned on the TV only to find practically ALL channels with giant, bolded BREAKING NEWS and footages of the burning World Trade Towers. I was awestruck at the chaos.

 

[arachnid-guy]

At a lobby in a gym. TV was on....thought it was a movie.

I was seriously wrong.

 

[Fried Gold]

What year?

 

[black_dust]

out of respect for all those hard working Americans who died there...

And the British and Australian and Muslem and every other person who died that day, not just Americans

 

[Jerry]

Well to be honest and fair, some of the people that died were probably true scumbags. Doesn't make what happened right at all, but its true nonetheless.

 

[_BB_]

I was at school that day so I didnt know what was happening until I got home and walked through my kitchen door at around 3:40 pm. I walked in and the tv was on, i didnt really look at the screen until my nan said to me "Look at the TV" and I just stood there stunned looking at the images on the screen...I was glued to the news for the rest of the night. Looking back on it now, it was that one day which shaped the years to come and look where we are now, its scary and just makes me sick to my stomach sometimes.

Hard to believe its been 5 years already.

 

[Topdawg]

Came home from school, and saw my mom watching it on the news.

 

[taskmaster]

I didn't want to go to school, so I pretended to be sick. I was asleep until 9:00, then got up to watch cartoons. The news was on all the channels but I didn't really pay attention to it, thought it was an anniversery of some big event. I remember being mad because I couldn't watch whatever show was suppose to be on, then feeling really bad after my mom explained what really happened.

 

[Future Prez]

I know I was at school, and had just come in from gym class. I walked into my social studies class, and that's when I found out. My teacher started by explaining to us that a terrorist attack had occurred, and being eleven years-old, I had a hard time understanding it exactly. Shortly after, he turned on his TV and talked us through what we were seeing.

I was a talker so I was seated in front of a large wall, covered with a huge map of the U.S. I looked to see where New York was (we didn't learn the states until the end of that year), and wondered if I was safe, considering how close my town in southern Massachusetts was.
BB, you're right. It is hard to think five years as passed since 9/11.

 

[Axid]

I was in school mass that morning, then found out in class during English

 

[Iceman]

I was at work but it was showing on all the big screens and everything stopped when the news came out.

 

[Golgo-13]

Hooked to a dialysis machine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in DC. Watched the entire thing unfold on the news from the beginning. Then got the word that the Pentagon was hit, so we had to evacuate the hospital. Took hours to get home (usually takes me 30 minutes) because of all the grind lock traffic and whatnot......

 

[Warhammer]

Schools in VA Beach closed and sent everybody home.
My friend picked me up. I went to my house and saw it on the news.

 

[Gonking]

I was in class, in High School. I was really schocked.

 

[X-Ray]

At a Arco gas station in Tustin at the corner of Newport & Mitchell. I remember how the inside was packed with ppl with their eyes glued to the tv. I drove there to fill up but was listening to cd. So I missed any/all of the breaking news the radio station were playing.