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Remembering Sept. 11, 2001. What were you doing.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:24 am
by audit
What were you doing when you heard the news?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:57 am
by RaiD
In college, just got back from my 8am Visual Basic programming class...turned on the TV to catch some news and I remember dropping the bookbag from my hand in astonishment. At that point the first tower had been hit, but as I soon found out, the other one would be hit and both would come down.

I'll never forget the towers coming down, but I will sure as hell remember fellow Americans putting aside any petty differences to help each other in that time of tragedy.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 7:27 am
by beakmyn
Attending my wife's grandmother's funeral.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:10 am
by G8tK33per
Being a news freak, I was watching it happen live on Fox News.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:39 am
by King_Ice_Flash
In my high school Psychology class.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:21 pm
by maverick929
junior-high english class

i can remember everything about that day with total clarity

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:37 pm
by wrzwaldo
Tying my shoes waiting for the morning traffic report before I headed to work.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:54 pm
by minibubba
sleeping quite well ...until someone ran in my room and shouted "a plane just ran into the world trade center!"

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:15 pm
by sparafina
Watching it happen from Crystal City and thinking I was supposed to have a meeting in the Pentagon this morning. It was one of the suckier days in my life and I've had a lot of them.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:03 pm
by RuSM
Sitting in high school computer lab, watching the TV in staff room through the window.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:23 pm
by GovCon
In school too, only found out when collected afterwards, my mother said that world war 3 had just broken out in America. I thought it was overly dramatic at the time even after getting home and watching constant replays on CNN, tis scary how right she turned out to be
(<sarcasm> yay war on terror </sarcasm>) :(

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:56 pm
by Barry
Stuck in line trying to get on base. They closed it down tight and wouldn't let anyone in, nevermind the fact that my unit has the highest priority mission on the base.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:11 pm
by Madhadder
Watching it live on CNN, before going to work...

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:26 pm
by seinman
I was at school (I was a senior at the time) and they came on the intercom and told us about it. From that point on that day, every TV in the building was tuned to CNN.

A friend of mine, who went to a different high school, said that they tried to hide it from the students. They told the teachers to not say anything, and they wouldn't allow anyone to turn on a TV or radio. A few people called their parents/friends during lunch and found out what was happening. I understand not telling, say, grade school-aged children about something like this, because it's a job better left to parents. But high schoolers? That was extremely irresponsible on the school's part, in my opinion.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:31 pm
by fregniacciaro
I was west coast at the time, so I was sleeping. I always turn on the news first thing, so I woke up to pictures of smoking buildings and other images I'll never forget...