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Where were you on 9/11/01?

posted 5 years ago by csweetleaf2 (3537)
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Me I was in bed sleeping, Mom woke me up to tell me to turn on the TV, at first I thought a plane accidentally crashed into the towers, then when I saw the second plane hitting the towers I immediately realized we were being terrorized, I also remember almost every channel was nothing but 9/11 footage, I also remember returning a movie I rented that day, later that evening I had to work at a department store, I remember every one was so glum that night to where we didn't get a lot of work done.

I also remember watching the late night news and the newswoman claims it was hard to talk about the nice weather after the 9/11/01 attacks.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71676) 5 years ago

At work
We had a TV in the lounge/kitchen area and the room was packed...people were crying or ranting angrily
A few of us were just too stunned to believe it
No work got done that day

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Australia here, I was actually going home after an afternoon shift, had no idea it had happened. The next morning I woke up to the alarm clock and heard talk back radio, people talking about how terrible this incident was, mentioning a second plane. I thought what the fuck, got up and turned the TV on. Saw the footage and news reports was pretty stunned.

Knew it would be a fun day at work as I was in security then, sure enough they posted a dozen additional guards on the ground floor. Made me laugh, these attacks were done by air and all these guards were on the ground floor looking inward.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

At an airport ready to step on a 9am flight from California to Boston. Then all flights got cancelled and they asked everyone to leave the airport. Always wondered if there were any plots to target west coast flights.

[–] slimone (7996) 5 years ago

I was also in bed and when I woke up I heard the news on the radio.It was horrific to even imagine that this happened.

[–] AndyKing1967 (33815) 5 years ago

Being in financial services, the office had several TVs to keep track of the stock market (it’s +5 hours here in the UK). We heard the news about the first plane and work ground to a halt. We then watched in stunned silence as the second plane hit. Everything seemed to go into slow motion as those terrible events unfolded that day.

We lost some colleagues that worked Stateside, so....yeah.

[–] db20db (16206) 5 years ago

I'm watching this right now https://moviechat.org/tt1312203/102-Minutes-That-Changed-America. It's riveting !

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71676) 5 years ago

That is hard to watch db
I'll never look at it ever again

[–] db20db (16206) 5 years ago

Yeah! It's one of three documentaries during the past week I've never seen before.

One of the most disturbing scenes was the recognition of the falling bodies/jumpers within the first few minutes of the first tower having being hit, by witnesses in nearby buildings recording with their cell phones. They were obviously both incredulous and in denial :

" What are those things falling ? "
" Aw, no way! "
" Maybe it's a chair or something..."

I think " Never forget ! " is an apt slogan. I'm not the type to bury my head in the sand.

[–] Prelude (1443) 5 years ago

I was at home having breakfast and getting ready to go out to work. I always turned on the Today show with Katie Couric and Matt Lauer. That morning the first thing I saw on my TV was an aerial shot of thick smoke covering what I recognized to be Manhattan. And the first words I heard were about the "borders being closed."

I remember I just froze and I vividly remember that I literally said out loud to nobody "What's happened? What am I looking at??" On further watching it became clear.

When I drove to work shortly after, there was an eerie feeling when you just looked at the faces of other drivers. It felt like everyone was in shock even a thousand miles away from where it happened. There was a palpable sense of a kind of numb shock.

When I got back home from work later that day, I couldn't stop watching the coverage, but that first day and evening it was all re-airings and rehash of all the footage - including people jumping from the buildings. Very soon, they stopped showing THAT footage. But they showed it a lot the first maybe 12 hours and it so burned onto my mind that I had nightmares for days and burst into tears randomly in waking hours, even though I hadn't lost anyone personally.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

In Melbourne. We woke up to the news on the 12th of September and I remember everyone being in a state of shock and disbelief. I was working on the top floor of a high-rise in the city and it was eerie and bizarre looking out over the city that day, you couldn't help thinking about the terror those people in the Towers would have experienced.

But yeah, I remember the day vividly. It's like when Princess Diana died, I can remember everything about the day we heard that news too. Funny how tragic events burn into your memory like that.