Thread: How well do you remember that DAY?

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I was helping a friend in Auckland catch up with his workload for the week,and remember getting a phone call from Lynda,my wife,who had heard about it on the news,so we turned on the tv,just in time to watch the second plane plow into the second tower...I was absolutely horrified,,and I thought then of all the innocent people who died for some bunch of twisted bloody terrorists idea of glory...It has indeed changed the way a lot of us think about Muslims,,even down here,as that day has had repercussions all over the world..and will continue to for a very long time..

I was overseeing a pipeline river crossing in KC MO. The company had told me that I would be out of the job after the project was finished, so I wasn't all that inclined to go to work early. I was watching the news when the report about the first tower came in. I saw the second plane hit the tower on live TV. I had no doubt about what was happening.

9/11 was one of the reasons I went to work for the DoD after my company so unceremoniously ushered me out the door.

I'm working for the DoD/Navy in Naples currently. Here's the American flag flying from my balcony.

Great Pic, Henry !

She also flies, "Deep in the Heart of Texas"

Proudly flown everyday in the Northwest...

God Bless America.

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Thanks Mello.

When I had the shop I'd usually get there around 5:30 in the morning, nice time to get things done without interuption. My shop manager usually got there around 6:00. Shortly after he got in his wife called and said something like "a plane hit a WTC building in NY." First though was "oh, why would someone be flying that low in the city to have run into a building?". Punched up the internet and started reading and it took awhile for the story to sort out. Then the second hit and speculation ran wild.

I wish blown31 were right about the never forget thing, but sadly there are too many who have.

As for flag flying, I've had one up everyday since, and it will be that way until.............I wish I knew.

i was watching the morning news. it was right after the first tower was hit. i could not believe my eyes when i saw the second plane. i woke up my husband who was at the time working the night shift. he got up and watched it with me until time for him to go to work. because some of the attacks occured here in virginia we went into immediate state of emergency. our local bases jets were all in the air and the national guard 1/2 mile right up the road block the main road with barbed wire and armed guards. I went to school and got both of my children out and brought them home. we were terrrified. it was not until late that afternoon that we could take a breath. by then the jets had returned to base. the silence was deafning. I went outside and sat on my steps to just comtinplate what had occured. Then the elementary school age kids in the neighborhood got a small baseball game going in my neighbors yard. As i sat watching them i realized that even though i knew that nothing would be the same after what had happened I also knew that we would be fine and come out of this. You can do what you want to us but it will not change us. That is america to me.

I was taking my son to school & was listening to the radio.
He asked me what was going on & I thought they were talking about the 1st time they tried to bomb the towers. Then I went home & turned the TV on, my jaw hit the floor.
When I picked Joe up he told me wished he was 18 so he could join up & go over & kill the SOB's that did that to all those people.
Well as many of you know Joe is now 5yrs into the Marines, is a Sergent & is now training in Force Recon.
That day replays & lives w/in not only his heart & mind everyday but mine also....joe

11SEP01 was a Tuesday. I was taking the wife to work on Wednesday (I believe), and, as we were exiting the Overland Parkway onto 95th street, the traffic was stopped, and a column of tanks, HUMVEES, Jeeps and APCs rumbled by with flags flying. People got out of their cars and cheered, horns were honking, and everyone was waving.

Unfortunately, we have lost the momentum.

On the other side of the coin, we're still here and most of "them" are living in caves with dirt floors, not knowing when a Hellfire might drop in their teacup.

well said jack. well said

Ken just sent this to me, seems to fit the day:

I'll tell you what, Bob, if that don't wet yer peepers and lump up your swallower then something is definitely "wrong" !

Fox News Channel has been showing lots of footage from that Day and some of it is hard to watch.

I remember welding on a customer's car and having the tv on in the shop..............disbelief of what was happening would be an understatement!!.
I remember that night looking at the sky and not seeing any air traffic flying over,that was really eerie, because at large amount of Europe-US traffic travel's over us.

I had just delievered a load of fuel down in Seabring Florida.
I got in my truck and when I started it up the news was on.
I am thinking it was on the weekend because there was no
traffic on the road, so it must have been Saturday.
I started listening as I drove up the road. Anyway the
anouncer then stated that a second plane just hit the
other tower,Right away I knew we were under attack.
I called my dispatcher and asked if they were listening
to the news. They said yes that they were watching it on TV.
They rest of the day was like a bad dream after that.
I spent the next week trying to get in touch with my
little brother who was a hospital administrator in Los Alamos,
New Mexico. He got pulled in to big some meetings with the
government and millitary in case of more attacks.
I am sure we all know what was invented there.
E nuff said.
Kurt

Hey Bob, thanks for posting. Teared me up! Believe it or not. I have never seen that commercial. Don't watch much T.V.

Keith

I got the call from my wife as I was over in Malaysia working. What a heart felt moment after hearing the devastating news. Old GLORY flies at my place 24-7. What a beautiful sight it is under the lights at night.