9/11/2001

[mikie1011]

i was in school i was only 9 years old i remember them saying no recess that day i was a kid i was like why they told us it was too violent too talk about its when i got home i found out what happened i cried my eyes out i wanted too help those people yes i was 9 years old but i get along with everyone and death scares me and makes me sad i feel so bad that those good people lost there lifes i will always remember 9/11 as the worst day ever i had nightmares that night and i cried and cried lots my mom helped comfort me because i felt bad that people had too die my mom told me they were safe with god and i felt a little better where were you at on 9/11

 

[Rayner]

I don't remember 911 very well I was 3 years old. What I do remember is watching the planes hit the World Trade Center with my mom. My sister who was only 5 months old was asleep in her crib. I remember being worried and scarred. My mother was horrified when she saw the plane hit the world World Trade Center.

 

[mikie1011]

i cried because i felt bad for those people who lost there lifes

 

[mikie1011]

thats means the patients too right

 

[Nitro]

911 hit me like Pearl Harbor hit the country in WWII.


I was doing banking business in a nearby town listening to the radio in my truck when the first airplane struck the tower. I bee lined to my business and snatched up a small television set to see the news story about it about the came time the second plane crashed. I did not know what was going on yet and thought an invasion had begun. As the day wore on,the next two went down pretty quick and the entire world was changed in just a few hours. I remember sitting in our local restaurant that resembled a recruiting station and an arsenal after we got notice that it was possibly a terrorist attack.Shanksville is about 80 miles from my hometown,so it was really scary that it was so close to us.There were no further attack notices and everyone stayed home for the night,tense but sort of relieved that it was apparently over.

I slept with an assault rifle that night and still have ammo boxes with paint on them that matched the colors we sprayed on the barrels with the type of ammunition needed for each weapon.

I was prepared to defend my own country and would have given my life to make a difference if necessary.

 

[FreeDiver]

What happen to me on 9/11 was more embarrassing, then horrifying. I didn't have a job to do until later in the day. So I slept in, and when I got up. I just got dressed up, cleaned up and went to my car without ever turning on the radio to hear what was going on. So I was completely unaware that anything had even happened. When I was going down the road. I notice that it was deserted like it is on Christmas day. On my 14 mile drive to the work site. I only pass 2 cars along the way. By the time I got to the job site. I was confronted by security at the main entrance and they told me that the building was on lock-down. I asked them what was going on, and they looked at me funny and said "You didn't see what happen on the news?". And I replied "NO!". So they let me in to the main lobby and I saw what had happened on the TV. MAN! Talk about a surreal felling that was. I thought I was still asleep and having a nightmare. It took a while for this to sink-in.

 

[StephF]

The news was on but the sound was muted, when I saw the clip of the plane impacting the tower I turn the sound on and watched it. Scarey !

 

[Nitro]

 

[vangelis]

I was sat on the loo at home when my o/h shouted it through the door. That certainly got things moving and I was out and glued to the TV very soon after. I remember wishing I could do something to help - can't imagine what it must have been like for those caught up in it.

 

[oregano]

I had set my alarm for 9 am Pacific Daylight Time. The radio came on and instead of rap music some guy was talking about a plane crash. I thought that was weird so I turned on the TV to learn more.

Later that day they let all the state workers out early and suddenly 16th Street (Sacramento, CA) was jammed by people trying desperately to get out of downtown, I think many of them felt like Nitro and thought that America was being invaded or that World War 3 had begun and they wanted to get out of town before the bombs fell. I didn't have a car at the time and didn't think I could go very far in case Sacramento was attacked, so I went to the Old Safeway on Alhambra to stock up on canned goods in case I needed to hunker down. Safeway, strangely, was nearly deserted.

Later that day I was talking with a few of the neighbors and one guy said, man, if the Commies are coming I'm gonna kill myself. I snapped and started climbing the railing and almost jumped and a couple guys had to pull me down. (I lived in a rundown old motel that had been converted into a rooming house, and it had outdoor breezeways to access the rooms.)

The next day the manager is at my door swearing the air blue, vowing that he's gonna kick me out. He finally calls my mom and says come get your little twerp because he's not welcome here anymore. So my mom drove into town and picked me up, and I stayed at her house until the manager's boss convinced him not to evict me. That building was replaced with an upscale apartment block called Powerhouse 16 ages ago.

 

[Nitro]

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Watching Bloomberg I remember the panic headlines.
Xxx hundred of planes not accounted for was one.

The other was North Korean fighter jets spotted...

One of the first memes or viral things was doctored photo of the guy on top of the twin towers with the plane behind him...

 

[Nitro]

Watching Bloomberg I remember the panic headlines.
Xxx hundred of planes not accounted for was one.

The other was North Korean fighter jets spotted...

One of the first memes or viral things was doctored photo of the guy on top of the twin towers with the plane behind him...

That sounds like a case of poor journalism with an added twist of idiocracy...