Where And What On 9/11?

[Landblast]

<p>Hope this isn't a repeat thread, I did a search. Where were you and what were you doin?<br /> </p><p>I got up late, 10am, called a furniture store and was about to bitch em out for being a month late on delivery,</p><p>the store was near Arlington, the guy says sorry but theres been an explosion and he'll call back. The store is about 4 miles from the Pentagon.<br /> </p><p>Got in my car, was going to the gym and I heard Don of Don &amp; Mike say,...and the World Trade Center, both towers,..are no longer part of the NY skyline, were gonna take a break and be right back..<br /> </p><p>and for a second I looked at the radio and thought for about 30 seconds, and thought why the fuck would he say that? Turned to a news channel and found out, I sped to the gym and bam. I was fuckin devastated.</p>

[Don Stugots]

i was running for my life across the brooklyn bridge.&nbsp; women in front of my fell and hurt her ankle, i picked her up and dragged her across to the police on the other side.&nbsp; i had then walk/run a few miles to a friends house on east 3rd and caton ave.&nbsp; i stayed there for a day or two, since getting to my moms in staten island with no car wasnt possible.

[BoondockSaint]

Why is this in &quot;Games and Sports&quot;?

[cupcakelove]

I was asleep, waiting for my classes to begin at GMU.&nbsp; My mom woke me up when the first plane hit, then I spent the rest of the day sitting on the couch with her watching everything unfold.

[Gvac]

EDIT - Apparently the thread was moved to another forum.

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Gvac on 2-18-07 @ 10:00 PM</span>

[Gvac]

<font size="6"><strong>This thread has been moved to the &quot;That's Life&quot; Forum.&nbsp; DON'T respond here. </strong></font>

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[keithy_19]

I was in Mrs. Andersons english class. She was listiening to the radio and he told us what happened. Then we went tot he gym, and peoples parents were calling them out left and right. My brother came into the gym and told me we were going home and that my mom had talked to my dad, who works about 5 blocks from the trade centers. We went home and watched it all on tv, and my dad came home, walking down the hill on my street. it was really like a movie. I'll never forget that day.

[Gvac]

<span class="postbody"><p>Wow.&nbsp; Awful day, awful memories.&nbsp; </p><p>I was working and had a representative from a paint company riding with me.&nbsp; We were going to be selling his brand and he wanted to meet the customers.&nbsp; I had never met him before, and haven't seen him since.&nbsp; We were on Route 80 when I heard the report that a plane had hit one of the towers and thought it was a prop job or something that had lost its way.&nbsp; A little while later we heard a second plane hit and that we were under attack. &nbsp;</p><p>When we arrived at a customer in Spring Valley, NY the news reported the towers had collapsed. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>I sat in the truck in disbelief for awhile and then just broke down.&nbsp; This rep didn't know what to do or say to me.&nbsp; He asked if I wanted him to drive, and I told him no, I'd be fine but that the day was over.</p><p>I drove back to the company and went home. </p><p>Jeez, I really didn't want to think about that day ever again. &nbsp; </p></span>

[Fallon]

I stayed up all night and was listening to Stern in the morning and Robin mentioned that a plane hit one of the towers, I turned on Fox News and pretty much watched that for days.

[keithy_19]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br />Uh...where did the original post that I responded to go? <p>this is some twlight zone shit. </p>

[keithy_19]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br />EDIT - Apparently the thread was moved to another forum. <span class="post_edited">This message was edited by Gvac on 2-18-07 @ 10:00 PM</span> <p>hmm. i see. </p>

[lleeder]

<p><font size="3">wrong spot somehow?</font></p>

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[lleeder]

<span class="postbody"><!-- includes/messagecopy2.cfm --><!-- Script Hacks --><!-- Script Hacks --><!-- Links --><!-- Links --->&nbsp; <p><font size="3">I was working driving around listening to Howard Stern. It was really hard to take in. It seemed strange and not real like a dream.Everyone left early couldnt fathom what had happened. I sat on the phone with some girl I was seeing that was around the area til I passed out. I woke up to the dial tone.</font></p><p><font size="3">The day after was really weird for me too. I didnt go to work and hung around with my boss. We went out on his boat and people said there were boats stationed outside of the Long Island Sound. The bay obviously was empty. It was like everything was over. In alot of ways it was I guess</font></p></span>

[burrben]

mr. brooks' tenth grade social studies class. it was right before lunch

[BoondockSaint]

<p>I was working in Darien, CT.&nbsp; A guy I worked with came into my office and asked me if I had heard about one of the towers being hit by a plane.&nbsp; He said it wasn't serious so I shugged it off.&nbsp; Then we started to watch it on tv in the conference room and saw the second plane hit.&nbsp; My brother worked in the towers when they were attacked in 93, in 01 he worked across the street.&nbsp; After finding out he was OK I left my office.&nbsp; I tried to call my friend who was working in the area but cell phones were down.&nbsp; At the end of the day everyone I knew who was working in the area were safe.&nbsp; And then the names of the FDNY members who I knew started to roll in.&nbsp; I started to think that it couldn't be true.&nbsp; How could one person know so many of them?&nbsp; I soon found out that I wasn't alone.&nbsp; I kept crisscrossing with different people at different wakes and funerals.</p><p>What's funny now is that this is the first time I haven't cried or gotten angry or anything.&nbsp; It felt good.</p>

[sr71blackbird]

I was a meter reader and headed up to Great Neck to read meters after dropping off a guy in Manhasset.<br />I had Howard Stern on and just as I was about to get out of the car, the report came on and I listed fior a few minutes, imagining it was a Cessna or something.&nbsp; Then I started going house to house, and I asked someone if it was true and they had the TV on and I am watching it.&nbsp; Then, we see the second plane and I am like...uh oh...<br />After that, it started getting crazy, since the part of Great Neck I was in kind of had a few areas you could see into Manhattan from (like 20 miles away).&nbsp; Lots of people I was meeting had loved ones in the building and they couldnt get through.<br />I realized the cells were down and people were going nuts.&nbsp; There was a traffic jam on Northerm Blvd, all the fire departments were blaring their horns and trucks were trying to get into Manhattan.&nbsp; Cars were zooming down these side streets trying to get away from the traffic.<br />I had to find a way to get over to Manhasset to find the guy I dropped off.&nbsp; I eventually found him and we headed back to the office.&nbsp; It took like an hour.&nbsp; Reading meters for the next couple of weeks was a nightmare. <br />My apartment overlooked the city and after 2 days, we started smelling the smoke, it was eerie.

[Drunky McBetidont]

<p>i was running a residence hall in brockport and we always had staff meeting on tuesday mornings from 9-noon.&nbsp; 8/28 (tuesday morning) at about 9:25am my bosses pager goes off, he leaves the room, comes back and telle me &quot;its time!&quot;.&nbsp; my wife was in labor with my daughter.&nbsp; i run out, run cross campus, grab wife and son and head to hospital. one of best days of my life.</p><p>two weeks later i went to the tuesday staff meeting for first time since baby came and again my bosses pager goes off.&nbsp; i crack a joke and say &quot;not my fault, no more babies coming out of my camp.&quot;&nbsp; everyone laughs and we have pleasant chatter till boss walks in and tells us to follow him to room with tv.&nbsp; the look on his face let us know it was serious and we all followed silently.&nbsp; we watched in confusion until we saw the second plane hit live.&nbsp; most everyone working there or going to school there come from NYC area.&nbsp; Everyone was worried about loved ones in manhattan and phones were down in NYC.&nbsp;&nbsp;i really wanted to pack up wife and kids and head to buffalo, get my camping stuff, shot gun and othere shit outta storage, and head to the hills.&nbsp; i didn't for obvious reasons.&nbsp; all staff had to go back to their halls and wait for greif counselors and the students to return to their rooms.&nbsp; we stayed up till 4 sm watching cnn and painting patriotic murals on the windows in the main lounge (my family and about 80 students).</p><p>i watched cnn for about 5 days strait (rarely sleeping) i kept waiting to see something.&nbsp; not exactly what i was waiting to see (other than bin laden on a stick.) but i kept watching.</p><p>So many lives taken that day, so many families torn apart because of it.&nbsp; how is it that the people behind this autrocity (other than the suicide bombers themselves) are still at large</p>

[Drunky McBetidont]

<p>i was running a residence hall in brockport and we always had staff meeting on tuesday mornings from 9-noon.&nbsp; 8/28 (tuesday morning) at about 9:25am my bosses pager goes off, he leaves the room, comes back and telle me &quot;its time!&quot;.&nbsp; my wife was in labor with my daughter.&nbsp; i run out, run cross campus, grab wife and son and head to hospital. one of best days of my life.</p><p>two weeks later i went to the tuesday staff meeting for first time since baby came and again my bosses pager goes off.&nbsp; i crack a joke and say &quot;not my fault, no more babies coming out of my camp.&quot;&nbsp; everyone laughs and we have pleasant chatter till boss walks in and tells us to follow him to room with tv.&nbsp; the look on his face let us know it was serious and we all followed silently.&nbsp; we watched in confusion until we saw the second plane hit live.&nbsp; most everyone working there or going to school there come from NYC area.&nbsp; Everyone was worried about loved ones in manhattan and phones were down in NYC.&nbsp;&nbsp;i really wanted to pack up wife and kids and head to buffalo, get my camping stuff, shot gun and othere shit outta storage, and head to the hills.&nbsp; i didn't for obvious reasons.&nbsp; all staff had to go back to their halls and wait for greif counselors and the students to return to their rooms.&nbsp; we stayed up till 4 sm watching cnn and painting patriotic murals on the windows in the main lounge (my family and about 80 students).</p><p>i watched cnn for about 5 days strait (rarely sleeping) i kept waiting to see something.&nbsp; not exactly what i was waiting to see (other than bin laden on a stick.) but i kept watching.</p><p>So many lives taken that day, so many families torn apart because of it.&nbsp; how is it that the people behind this autrocity (other than the suicide bombers themselves) are still at large</p>

[Sarge]

I was sleeping when my mother in law called, told me what was going on&nbsp;and asked if I talked to my wife.&nbsp; She worked in the world financial center at the time.&nbsp; Once I new she was o.k. I went into work, geared up, and was&nbsp;at&nbsp;the Trade Center by noon, and watched building 7 come down later that afternnon.&nbsp; The one thing that sticks with me is the eerie sound of the firemen's p.a.s.s. devices going off.&nbsp; Everywhere you went you heard them sounding.

[furie]

I was at JFK Airport, Terminal 1, working for INS at the time.
3 days later, i was transfered to the FAA.

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by furie on 2-18-07 @ 11:51 PM</span>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>sleeping. i worked overtime on the midnight shift and my clock radio went off around noon. the first words i heard were &quot;hijacked planes take down world trade centers&quot;. I was still sleepy and couldn't believe what I was hearing at first. It was too eerily familiar with an idea i had shortly after the 93 bombing.</p><p>I've told this story before but a week after the 93' truck bombing of the WTC I had an idea for a book and movie which i told to many friends and co-workers. My idea was hijacked planes being flown into new york. Not the WTC's but a busy shopping ave. i remember thinking about terrorists and how some of them could be pilots from the army and how easy it could be to take over a cockpit. My idea involved two planes coming in from Europe. the first crashes and the second is still over the atlantic and the president has to make a decision to shoot down the plane with crew and 300 passengers.&nbsp; It just wasn't far-fetched to me</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Team_Ramrod]

<p>I went to work and when I walked into the shop someone had told me about it. I said &quot;yeah right, fuck off that's not even funny&quot;. I wnet out to the field to fix a bunch of irrigation turn outs our dozer operator knocked over, I finally believed it when I heard it on the radio.The weather turned shitty so I ended up going home at 11:30am. My wife was pregnant with the twins at the time and when I walked in she was sitting on the floor wearing corderoy overalls with a god aweful sweater from the GAP. I sat down beside her and watched the coverage on CNN for hours. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[patsopinion]

<p>i woke up at like 6 am to my mom crying.</p><p>I sat infront of the tv for a few hours and went to school</p><p>we went class to class like dumbasses and my fucking rube bitch math teacher turned off the tv and had the balls to give us a test.</p><p>I have never started or been more successful in a rebellion in my life.</p><p>I remember to go fuck herself but i dont know if it acutally came out of my mouth or not&nbsp;</p>

[flavopop]

<font size="2">I was up aound 730am just in time to kiss the wifey good bye as she headed to work.&nbsp; Then I sat at my computer checking my fantasy football crap, when Wendy called me and said a plane crashed into the WTC, we both kinda chuckled&nbsp;(now Im sick that I ever even thought this could be funny) about how some tool could have been that far off course in his little plane.&nbsp; Then I turned on channel 5 news and sat there in amazement as another plane crashed into the 2nd tower.&nbsp; At this point I was just terrified for my wifes safety and the fact that I knew she would be scared gave me&nbsp;a helpless feeling that I never want to know again.&nbsp; She works in Jersey but who knew what was instore for us next.&nbsp; I went to work at the Post Office and no joke intended here, nothing was done all day.&nbsp; I was on the phone with my wife most of the afternoon and left work and picked her up from her work about 3pm.&nbsp; We sat in our living room together, crying sometimes at the tragic stories of life loss&nbsp;but feeling safer knowing that at least we were together.&nbsp; I stayed up all night and watched the accounts.&nbsp; Damn, Im getting emotional ...&nbsp; Never felt that helpless in my life!&nbsp; Big strong guy couldnt have been more terrified...</font>

[spoon]

<p>Wow Funk that's a little freaky.</p><p>As for me, I was working with my boss presenting information to members of the P &amp; T committee at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, NJ.&nbsp; For those of you who don't know the hospital well, it's on a slight elevation in northern NJ and the conf room we were in had a clear view of the city including the towers.&nbsp; I and a few others noticed a small fire burst that looked like it came from behind the towers which ended up being the first plane.&nbsp; Like so many others we expected it to be an accident as did the tv reports that came in early, but it was such a clear day so we were really confused.&nbsp; As we were watching the reports, with the city in clear view from the windows, both showed the second hit.&nbsp; All possible accident scenarios were thrown out then and we ended the meeting and decided to head home immediately.&nbsp; Driving down the northern Jersey Turnpike my boss started to cry as we listened to the radio and watched the first tower fall from the skyline.&nbsp; The second I saw crash from my place on Boulevard East in Weehawken on the NJ coast.&nbsp; </p><p>I like so many others had some friends in the building, including my roommate.&nbsp; With cell phones being all but useless, I was the only link to the area for his whole family with our house line so I stayed close hoping to hear from him.&nbsp; Finallly around 6pm or so I got a call from him down at the Ferry and I went down and picked him up.&nbsp; He was pretty dirty and exhausted being that he ran down 30+ flights and walked all the way up town to the ferry.</p><p>After that we stared at the tv for hours and he had some major PTSD based on the things he saw and had no power to help.&nbsp; I couldn't do it the next day again so I actually filled my car with the supplies the authorities said they needed and drove into the city to help any way I could.&nbsp; I ended up at the Javitz Center, which ended up being a major supply station and I just parked there and started to work with the Salvation Army and the Red Cross.&nbsp;&nbsp; As it turned out, I worked there the next full week, and some of the human nature run ins I had truly made me sad.&nbsp; The area was a major drop/pick up point for supplies and later workers.&nbsp; And some people with no skills needed down at the site would actually fight to get on the trucks to help out.&nbsp; We later termed it the &quot;hero complex&quot; and we actually had to pull people off the trucks with many getting arrested.&nbsp; The worst night (I think it was that of 9/13) was when it got pretty chilly and it rained on us all night long.&nbsp; Not only did everyone freeze their asses off, two of us had a cop pull his gun on us as we helped put up a tarp over the supplies using a railing on top of a building at the end of the Javitz Center.&nbsp; I climbed up a light pole and jumped up on the building after noticing we could tie the tarp off up there.&nbsp; As I was up there, a cop got nervous and actually drew his weapon on me and started screeming.&nbsp; Obviously all the others let him know and the guy broke down and took a needed break.&nbsp; He was a cool guy in the end, just very edgy.&nbsp; The thing that still pisses me off to this day though is that my company made me take those days as vacation, while those at corporate that loaded a truck of supplies got the week off as charity work.&nbsp; It's not a big deal but it did bug me that my boss was told I shouldn't have got involved.&nbsp; Fuck them.&nbsp; Ever since my dedication to corporate America has been a wreck.&nbsp; They only do what's right when people get to see it.&nbsp; So I guess it has been a big deal for me still.</p>

[spoon]

There is not one part of 9/11 that wasn't tough as hell on the soul, but the flyers all over NYC and Hoboken were fucking awful.&nbsp; I think it was the bar &quot;Hobson's&quot; or something that lost a bunch of workers, including the owner, all&nbsp;who were doing it for extra money as they worked in the towers as their main jobs (a lot at Cantor Fitzgerald I believe and some first responders).&nbsp; Hoboken simply got crushed by this, and I know many other areas did too, but this is where a ton of my friends lived and it was such a tough thing to see how many people were simply gone.&nbsp; A very vibrant town was devastated&nbsp;as so many people there lost family and friends.&nbsp; It just felt a little closer to home and small town america there bc it was my backyard at the time.&nbsp; I'm sure there are very similar stories from all over the NY Metro area.

[Snacks]

<strong>spoon</strong> wrote:<br />There is not one part of 9/11 that wasn't tough as hell on the soul, but the flyers all over NYC and Hoboken were fucking awful.&nbsp; I think it was the bar &quot;Hobson's&quot; or something that lost a bunch of workers, including the owner, all&nbsp;who were doing it for extra money as they worked in the towers as their main jobs (a lot at Cantor Fitzgerald I believe and some first responders).&nbsp; <font style="background-color: #ffff00">Hoboken simply got crushed by this</font>, and I know many other areas did too, but this is where a ton of my friends lived and it was such a tough thing to see how many people were simply gone.&nbsp; A very vibrant town was devastated&nbsp;as so many people there lost family and friends.&nbsp; It just felt a little closer to home and small town america there bc it was my backyard at the time.&nbsp; I'm sure there are very similar stories from all over the NY Metro area. <p>I read somewhere (cant remember) that NJ lost more people in the WTC and plane hijackings then any other state even more then NY. It was a very bad day for America even though we felt it more in the northeast, I think everyone has an experience on 9/11 they will never forget.</p><p>I was sleeping and my soon to be sister in law called and woke me up telling me the WTC was hit by hijacked planes wake up. I woke, put on one of the news stations and watched all day and night. Talking on the phone to make sure the people I knew were safe. 2 or 3 days later me and a friend went downtown and it was bad. To see a place in America that looked like a war zone, being guarded by military men with full gear and military suv's was unreal. You would never expect to see that in an American city. We got as close to the WTC as you could about a block or so and all the dust was eveywhere. The big glass store front windows were covered with an inch of dust and people wrote with their fingersdifferent positive messages. At some church downtown there were pictures of missing people eveywhere, it was so sad. I couldnt help it, I just broke down crying like a baby.</p><p>I remember as a child my mother told me she will never forget where and what she was doing the day JFK was shot. I guess this is our generations bad american memory.</p>

[spoon]

<p>The pub crawl event and the great uplifting radio the boys did ultimately got me to join this very site.&nbsp; In fact, talking about this awful event here and listening to the show helped more then they could ever realize.&nbsp; I have to add Stern and O and A as well, but Ron and Fez just seemed so genuine and really were there for the listeners and I'm sure we helped them too.&nbsp; My old roommate never listened until then and he said it grounded him as they were just &quot;there&quot; for us all.&nbsp; It's hard to describe, but our boys are so loved because they really do have a love for their fans unlike most radio jocks/stars.&nbsp; Thanks again boys.</p>

[A.J.]

<p>I was on my way to my office in the Pentagon.&nbsp; If I hadn't stopped to watch the TV in my other office (I thought my brother was in his office at the WTC at the time), I would have been at or near the point of impact at the Pentagon when the plane hit there.</p><p>I will never, ever, forget the sound of my mother's voice when I got through to her after she thought my brother and me were both dead.</p>

[cougarjake13]

<p>just got of the 1 train going to class at NYIT, got stuck&nbsp;at my cousins&nbsp;in the city for a few days</p><p>my uncle is now a retired nyc fireman, he used to drive the rescue 5 truck based out of staten island at the time of 9 11, anyway he also used to do scuba diving training for water rescue with the fire dept</p><p>he was supposed to drive the truck that day but his commander told him to go to randall's island for the scuba training, anyway most if not all of his rescue co. was killed that day</p><p>luckily thats the closest i came to losing someone due to 9-11</p>

[jetdog]

On Sept. 11, 2001 I was leaving my parents house in New Paltz, NY, to drive to Davis, California.&nbsp; I hadn't lived with my parents for a couple years, but I had always been within the same town or at least on the same coast.&nbsp; I was leaving all of my friends behind also.&nbsp; All I had was my guitar and stereo and a bike strapped onto the back of my car.&nbsp; I always listen to the news in the car, at least since I didn't have XM.&nbsp; As I was pulling out of the driveay after, I was searching stations and I found some dumb jocks joking about how a plane had hit one of the towers. They didn't know it was jet yet so they were goofing on it.&nbsp; I stayed tuned to the radio all the way across the country and I can't really describe the feelings I had, I'm just not eloquent enough at typing.&nbsp; I saw the smoke from the wreckage of flight 93 in the distance as I was passing through PA.<br />

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>I was working at my bakery in Brooklyn. I heard what happened on the radio around 15 minutes after it happened. I could see the two burning buildings a few feet from my front door. A small crowd had gathered there, some of the nieghbors and locals. I kept thinking &quot;they'll put the fires out, and anyone not dirctly in the blast will be fine&quot; not knowing what was really going on inside those buildings. The city was locked down, the bridges were all closed. So I went for a drive to see what was happening (No TV at work), and everywhere I went along the BKLYN waterfront there were crowds of people watching. Some on rooftops, some in the street. Some crying, most dumbfounded like me.&nbsp;<br /> </p><p>Another thing I remember, the sounds of Fire engines. All day, all night, for the next three or four days straight. From all over the tri state area. And the burning smell for the next month everywhere you went. &nbsp;</p>

[Don Stugots]

<strong>Bulldogcakes</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I was working at my bakery in Brooklyn. I heard what happened on the radio around 15 minutes after it happened. I could see the two burning buildings a few feet from my front door. A small crowd had gathered there, some of the nieghbors and locals. I kept thinking &quot;they'll put the fires out, and anyone not dirctly in the blast will be fine&quot; not knowing what was really going on inside those buildings. The city was locked down, the bridges were all closed. So I went for a drive to see what was happening (No TV at work), and everywhere I went along the BKLYN waterfront there were crowds of people watching. Some on rooftops, some in the street. Some crying, most dumbfounded like me. <br /> </p><p>Another thing I remember, the sounds of Fire engines. All day, all night, for the next three or four days straight. From all over the tri state area. And the burning smell for the next month everywhere you went. </p><p>&nbsp;you were driving over there and i was walking/running for my life.&nbsp; weird.&nbsp; going back there during the clean up was tough, harder than that day was.&nbsp; I posted about that once, for some reason tonight, i can re tell it.&nbsp; sorry. &nbsp; </p>

[nate1000]

<p>I was in a pub/ restaurant in Dublin ordering lunch &amp; a Guiness&nbsp;with my wife and eight month old daughter when the planes hit. </p><p>We had tickets to fly home on the 12th (into NYC). The flight was cancelled and I ended up getting stuck in Ireland for another eight days waiting for the international flights to start back up. Nearly drank the Country out of Guiness. If you're gonna get stranded, though, Ireland ain't a bad place for it to happen- we just hopped back into the car and headed south to&nbsp;Waterford and Cork.</p><p>We flew into JFK a week or&nbsp;so&nbsp;later and got a pretty good view of the smoke still rising. We had tickets to fly home, but I had no interest in flying out of JFK- there were still rumors of missing pilot uniforms and splintered cells trying to complete their mission. So, we took a shuttle to the Port Authority and enjoyed an eleven&nbsp;hour bus ride back to Buffalo. Thankfully, my daughter was an angel for the whole ride. Otherwise- it could have been a&nbsp;nightmare. </p>

[Jughead]

<font size="4">WOW.....................Thanks...</font>

[Judge Smails]

<p>I was attending a corporate conference in Philadelphia when the receptionist knocked on the door and timidly said: &quot;I thought you might like to know that a plane crashed into the WTC.&quot;&nbsp; The guy running the meeting looked pissed at her.&nbsp; We couldn't understand why she would interupt us.&nbsp; We figured it must have been a single engine plane or something.</p><p>About 15 minutes later we took a break and went out to the reception area where the receptionist was listening to the news on the radio.&nbsp; It was then that we realized that something major was happening.&nbsp; I remembered passing a window on the way to the building, where the conference was, where they had all kinds of stock tickers and t.v.'s running various news feeds.&nbsp;&nbsp;I decided to go downstairs and see what was going on.</p><p>When I got there all I could see was one tower.&nbsp; I couldn't understand how they were shooting this and only getting one tower in the shot.&nbsp; But no matter what angle they showed there was still only one tower.&nbsp; I asked someone standing there what happened and he non-chalantly said that one of the towers collapsed.</p><p>Myself, being from the NY area, I realized the immensity of the WTC and realized it wasn't like some dinky&nbsp;Philly &quot;skyscraper&quot; coming down.&nbsp;&nbsp;I decided then to&nbsp;go straight to my hotel and check-out and go home.&nbsp; Soon there were reports of a plane going down in Pennsylvania coming across.&nbsp; So now there was panic starting to spread in Philly.&nbsp; It had taken me a half&nbsp;hour to&nbsp;get to Philly the night before.&nbsp; It took me four hours to get home.&nbsp; The streets were so clogged with people trying to get out of Philly.&nbsp; I can&nbsp;only imagine what it must have been like in Manhattan that day.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[King Hippos Bandaid]

<p>I was the only one in my Family with a Dull Story. I &nbsp;just quit my Job , so i was&nbsp; Home. For some odd reason iwioke up at 7 am,&nbsp; (was partying toill 4am everynight doing go knows what)&nbsp; .&nbsp; So everything happen Live.</p><p>My Twin Bro, work&nbsp; in the Building next to the UN, so they were in Fear, He walked from Manhattan Deep into Brooklyn,&nbsp; took a Bus from Brooklyn to Staten Island.</p><p>My Pops was in Harlem Teaching, he got a ride early&nbsp; into Jersey and&nbsp; stayed at a Co-Workers House in Jersey.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Only scary thing for me is that&nbsp; My 2nd Cousion , who&nbsp; I rarely saw Scott Jeffrey Weingard&nbsp; worked for Cantor Fitzgerald and did not make it/</p><p>Im Jeffrey Scott Weingard, we got calls for&nbsp; weeks worried about me&nbsp; from friends and Family.&nbsp; It kinda Sucks when I google my name, it all 9/11 related </p>

[AgnosticJihad]

I had woken up and watched T.V. while I ate breakfast, and everything was fine. took a shower, and when I got out, everything had gone to shit. Watched the news for the next hour or so, until I had to go to college classes. On the way to class, I remembered that Slayer was releasing an album that day, and couldn't help but chuckle at the appropriateness of a bunch of religious nuts murdering thousands off innocent people. My first class of the day was a Comparative Religions class, and I learned a bit about Fundamentalist Islam. After classes, I went home and did a little investigating, for I suspected Bin Laden may have some association with the US in the past, likely through the CIA (and it turned out I was right, sort of anyway). I then proceeded to drink myself to sleep, as I do everyday.

[Heather 8]

<p>I was living in PA,&nbsp;newly unemployed and sending out resumes online when I decided to go over to the old OpieAnthony.com board.&nbsp; About five minutes after I got there, Tequila posted a thread asking if anyone had heard about a &quot;small plane&quot; hitting one of the Towers.&nbsp; I quickly went to CNN.com, where they had a breaking news banner saying there was an unconfirmed report of a plane crash, and then replied with that info on OA.com.&nbsp; Spent the rest of the day going between posting on the board, watching ABC (the only channel I got at the time), listening to Stern's show, and keeping the WNEW live feed going.</p><p>&nbsp;I also remember getting an IM from one of my friends in NYC, who was freaking out because she had heard a plane had crashed in PA, and she thought it was near me.&nbsp; All that horror going on around her, and she was worried about <em>me</em>.&nbsp; I never forgot that.</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Peachy on 2-28-07 @ 4:04 PM</span>

[feralBoy]

I decided to take the physical to join the reserves on september 10th.&nbsp; so, I was in my underwear, with a bunch of guys in their underwear, waiting to get my blood taken and&nbsp;pee in a cup&nbsp;at fort hamilton.&nbsp;

[Captain Rooster]

Standing directly in front of Tower II--was on my way to work on West St.