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didnt even realize what day it was until the little date ticker popped up september 11th i remember what i was doing at that exact time. do you?

I was flying an airplane, we made a stop and the ramp guy told us someone flew into the trade center, we just thought it was a little airplane in bad weather. We took off and the controller told us wherever we land is where we're gonna be for a while. We started feeling a little weird and started listening to a local station on the am radio and got that sick feeling. I remember thinking this was gonna be the start of a war.

I don't think I'll ever forget that feeling.

Sean

i was on the beach in mykonos greece...the whole beach came to the bar and we watched the second plane hit...we were all gutted...left greece the next day back to saudi arabia...what a bummer...

I was sitting on the couch, watching TV while my then-Girlfriend was getting ready to go to work. I was watching the Today Show and they announced that there was a plane crash and they cut away to a film crew on the scene. I told my GF to come look at what was going on. Like everyone else we thought it was some errant pilot who screwed up and hit the building.

A little while later, as my GF was walking out to her car to leave for work I watched the second plane crash into the other tower, and the confusion really set in. I remember running to the railing and yelling down to her about what had happened, she said "Oh my God, what is going on???????"

I started work at about 11 that day, and by the time I got to work there was a fog over every person there and me too. My emotions were a combination of confusion, anger, fear, and patriotism. By now the whole ugly scene was unfolding, including the other plane, and I remember saying "I hope we drop the big one on whoever did this and turn their country into a parking lot." We went to the electronics department and were all glued to a TV the whole day, and unable to fully comprehend what was happening.

Thanks for reminding me that today was 9/11, I had forgotten. I'll think back to that day often today and say a little prayer for the ones who lost their lives and their families and friends. If anything good came out of that it was that for a little while we all felt closer to our fellow Americans and were a little kinder to one another.

Don

I was working on the new federal court house here in town, and heard it on the radio. The whole job stopped working to listen to the various radio`s around the site. Being a federal job they shut us down for the day, and as we were rolling up our tools all the mexicans and bosnians were standing around joking and laughing like it was funny. I lost it and started threatening them to shut up or i was gonna throw everyone of there a$$es off the building! we were on the tenth floor at the time. They got the message!

The bad part is its my wifes birthday today also, so now she`s always sad on this day.

I was in math class...it was senior year in HS. For the most part the teachers were trying to carry on as normal until I got to my afternoon computer class where my teacher allowed us to just sit and watch the TV which is what we all really wanted to do. Later that day I had to go to an SAT prep class and i was hearing about towers collapsing. I wish I had the opportunity at the time to spend more time watching the news...math and SAT's mean nothing to me now. I know I am young to a lot of you, but that was a quick 7 years thinking about how I was in high school then and what i've done/not done since then...

I was working in Toronto at the time. Came out of a Board of Director's meeting. I called my secretary to tell her I was running late. She informed me what happened. While we were talking she said another plane had just hit the WTC. I was in shock. Immediately reacted and started driving to Buffalo (1-1/2 hours) so I could cross over to the USA. I was 20 minutes away and they closed the bridge to all traffic. Turned around to drive to the Kingston, Ontario bridge. I made it! I was actually the 20th car in line waiting to cross the bridge. They closed that too. What an eerie feeling not knowing if or when I would ever be able to get back to my family. Finally after 3 days, I was able to drive back to the US. I cried like a baby for a week!!!!

Screw those bastards!!!! God Bless The USA!

Pat

Crap, now tv will be full of the remembering all day. I wish someone would play the film backwards and we could watch the towers rise up out of the rubble.

I was in the recovery room in a hospital after a minor procedure and remember coming out of my drugged fog with the nurse saying that one of the Twin Towers had been hit by a plane and they thought something happened at the Pentagon as well. I was released, came home and spent the day on the couch watching the horror happen. We got home just in time to see the second tower come down. Then the eerie silence with no planes passing overhead. Little traffic. Being so close, many people from my area went to help. Not a day I'll ever forget.

I was wondering if this is how everyone thought when they struck pearl harbor. Maybe some of the guys here remember.

I was working a design contract at Pilkington glass in Collingwood, Ontario. My friend Gerhardt and I went up to the cafeteria for coffee break. We just walked in as they were showing the plane hit the second tower.

I really regret the fact that i did not join the military the next day! I thought it would be a quick assault on afganistan like desert storm was. Now seven years later with a wife and two kids and right at the cut off age ill never have the chance to go to war, and i feel real crappy that i did not participate in my generations time to defend this country like so many of you did in our time of need.

I remember that my wife was in hospital in Kingston, Ontario that day and we watched the news on TV. The horror of it all is still with me today. I saw the live coverage of the second plane hitting the tower and remember my complete disbelief when the towers collapsed.
Since that hospital is an alternative emergency hospital for disaster relief, my wife was sent home to make room for a possible overflow of injured patients since her condition was not considered critical then. At that time they were estimating upwards of 30,000 people might have been in the towers. Thank God that was not true although the actual death toll was devastating enough.

This is the day my son wished he had been 18 when we heard what had happened. Death will only erase this date, what happened & where I was at that moment in time from my mind.....joe

I was driving to work at my new job (started the week before) and heard it on the radio... was listening when both the second tower and pentagon were hit. By the time I got to work nobody there knew that anything was going on and the couple people I told thought I was full of it. Went to the gym and put on the TV and we all watched in silence as the towers fell.

-Chris