What Were You Doing on 9/11/2001?

I had that day off from work and was watching Sportscenter when they said one of the towers had been hit. I then switched to one of the news channels and watched everything unfold.

I was in the car on my way to the courthouse when the first plain hit the tower.
In the courthouse we all stood in the hallways watching things unfold on the tv’s until they evacuated the courthouse for fear that it would be hit as well.
With such a horrific event as 9/11 you just can’t forget what you were doing the day our country changed forever……

I was living in the UK at the time, my husband was stationed at Navy Headquarters Europe. It felt like a dream, and I was hoping that I would wake up and it would be. Unfortunately it wasn’t. We lost a lot of friends at the Pentagon as well as the towers.

We will never forget 09-11-01

I was driving my son to school, and immediately turned around and went home. I knew instantly that we were being attacked. Was glued to the tv for days, cried for the thousands. Like all New Yorkers, forever changed by it.

I had just left for work, I dropped my son off at daycare, decided to turn on the radio and stop in my tracks on the side of the road listening in disbelief. You see I live in NY only an hour away from NYC. I called the daycare which by now was on lock down, all the schools were on lock down, so I knew my children were safe, at least I prayed so. I immediately called my Mother to find out the whereabouts of my father, who had ust retired and decided to go into the city that day to take a computer class at the Empire State Building, I am so sure which was one of there intended targets.
Of course no one could get in touch with anyone at that point. ‘ALL CIRCUITS WERE BUSY’.
I worked for a TV station so as a producer we were just glued to the monitors. We are in the area of 3 major airports and our station was put on ‘lock down as well’, just in case they decided they needed a place to hold hostages.
Needless to say this day is forever etched deeply in my mind, our mayor at the time lost her husband down there as well as classmates of my daughter lost family members.

No I will never, ever forget! I pray we never as a nation ever experience anything like that again and God will protect all of us daily.

I was in a clients office. Because we had no TV, instantly when someone called we thought is was a hollywood stunt.

2 minutes later when we checked cnn.com

All of a sudden everything got real quiet when we saw what had happened…

It sure got us thinking about the safety of our families in a real hurry…

I was trading stocks and watching CNBC. I called my wife in to see the news. As we watched, we witnessed the second plane hit. We new it wasn’t an accident. My wife began to cry and we held each other as the commentators started to address the situation. Over the next week, we came together as a country as we haven’t for many generations. We were all Americans-not Republicans or Democrats. I had been in a dispute with my neighbor, but suddenly all was forgotten. Flags started appearing on cars, yards, etc. We were united.

Unfortunately, since that time, we have become jaded. Some idiots even think 9/11 is a conspiracy. 9/11 matters. We shouldn’t forget it, we need to defend against a similar event in the future.

I was working in the Wal-Mart shoe department. I remember being very angry about it, because I knew we were being told mis-truths about the events, alhtough I did’t know what they were at the time. I just kept saying to myself “It’s WRONG”. Now I know many of the lies we were told that day – but of course, there is nothing anybody can do about it.

I remember the morning at my office where I worked in Becker, Minnesota as the I.T. Manager for a large furniture retailer. Our company server room was next to my office and I had a TV monitor on a shelf in the server room that I could see from my desk. In those days that TV was usually turned off. Early that morning a lady in the accounting office near my office rushed in saying that someone had just phoned her to tell her about an airplane that had just flown into one of the World Trade Center Twin Towers.

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Saludos,

I was in my beautiful beach front apartment in Puerto Rico sleeping when they called me from work. “Jose, turn on the TV on channel ? Get ready, report to work ASAP!”

Yes, I was Active Duty with the Air Force so days after that I was deployed to the USA, Bahrain, S/Arabia and Irak.

One of the worst days of my life Reed, I was beta testing some new code when i got the cnn news flash of the first tower right after it got hit. At that time i flipped on the big screen and about 30 minutes later i witnessed the second tower get hit. I almost fainted right then and there. I like everyone else mourned the lives lost on that day. It will be a day that will never be forgotten. Many lives were lost and many heros were made on that day. May God Bless each and every one.

Tacs

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Astonishment is where I was on the day of 9/11/2001, for I was seeing what I had previously envisioned when I had seen my premonition of the planes hitting the twin towers when I was on University Ave. in 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Now, I recall that it was just like Pearl Harbour: a planned event.
As long as (we) the mindless masses continue to allow ourselves to be satisfied with mere ‘thinking’, we’ll continue on our ever-increasing grand scales of killing, maiming, raping and pillaging one another for who-knows-how-long. Glimmers of hope are that more people will read Eckhart Tolle’s book: “The Power of Now”. Our ONLY HOPE as a species is to Grow Up into: AWARENESS !!!
……… Luv You all, …….
…. but, I’m Detached With Love,over here, harmonizing with Divine Universe, and happier than I’ve ever been in all my years. How’s THAT for Awareness. Try it. You’ll like It!
Most of all, I’m in Joyful Gratitude for Your listening to me, and So Much More. It is a Wonderful Place to BE. Life Is Wonderful and Today Is the First Day of The Rest of Life, and I Am Truly Enjoying It.
I Know This: Benevolence Is Existence and Existence Is Benevolence.

Thanks,

Norm Abbott
infopower@inbox.com

I was having some friends over for dinner and when they arrived at 7:00PM,(Malaysia time) they quickly told me to turn on the TV saying some building in N.Y. was burning for they only caught the news from their car radio on the way to my house. When I turned on my TV set and discovered that it was the World Trade Center in flame, I was too shocked for words. My thoughts immediately went back to seven years ago when I was working in the World Financial Center where Dow Jones was and every morning I took the RR train to work and the train would stopped at World Trade Center where I got off and walked inside the World Trade Center to my office. I just could not help thinking what if I were still there then. My sympathies went to the victims’ families and I called up some of my friends who were still working there to see if they were alright.

+By the date mentioned, I was working as usual strolling on the Street of Bandar Seri Begawan, as U.S.Embassy Surveillance Detection Unit. I was a great surprise to us all including our Regional
Surveillance Officer, who he himself is an American. A few hours ago, he gave us an order to
always alert (color red). The tragedy seemed as if he got a signal from his Superior. Now I am no more working with U.S.Embassy. I like this Government, good compensation plan, fair law and
so on.etc.

I was on my way to work when my life partner called and told me what had happened. I continued in to work and someone had pulled out a small television set, around which we all gathered and watched – with a sense of disbelief of which I have never experienced.

I remember thinking it as being surealistic – NOT in our America! I felt as though everything for which I believe we stand had been violated.

In the days following, however, I remember being very proud to be an American because we all rallied round in support of those who had suffered, and in some ways, I think we became a stronger nation, more unified somehow through this tragedy… through the loss.

Here we are, seven years later, and through the actions of the truly courageous – life continues, as enriched as we will allow.

*lol* I also cannot spell….

I was at work when I heard the news on the radio. I thought the whole country was possibly under attack. My nephew joined the army a short time after 911 and was sent to Iraq. He is gone forever on account of that fateful day. God bless you Jamie, I miss you so much!

I was up early as I was headed to Austin, TX for a dot com bankruptcy auction that I was supposed to preview. Needless to say, my flight was grounded and I stayed glued to the TV (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, etc..) all day long.
I never went to bed and ended up driving the six hours to Austin and bidding on much of the equipment in the blind (without the benefit of having inspected it).
I had attended several of that auction companies sales in Austin (and across the country) and there were usually a couple of thousand people in attendance. The auction on 9/12 probably had fewer than two hundred people because everyone was still in shock over what had happened.
It was kind of strange making the drive down. There was no morning rush hour traffic as I passed through Dallas at 8am. Interstate 35 between Dallas and Austin was nearly deserted. Very surreal…

I was in Vegas and knew we were under attack by terrorists (even knew who the group was) and knew this will be a long, long war. I’m thankful for President Bush for keeping us safe the last 7 years. He has and I wish I could tell you how I know that but I can’t…Now I am a retired federal security specialist and Thank God to OUR MILITARY for doing their job!

I lived in New York City at the time of the attack on the World Trade Center. I lived in a high rise apartment building not far from the WTC. I stood on my balcony in terror as I watched the tragic and devastating events unfold. I could not believe what my eyes were seeing as I saw the WTC crumbling to the ground. To this day, I have not gotten over all the feelings and emotions that are etched so vividly in my mind. I also lost a very dear friend of mine who was trapped in one of the towers. I’ve been through many tough ordeals in my life but I must say that 9/11/2001 was the most horrific day of my life. My prayers go out to all those people who were affected by the events of that day.

I was in the middle of an Economics class in college. Our instructor walked in, and started crying. I actually thought she just got fired. She said the United States was under attack. We laughed.

She didn’t say much else, but told us to go to the lunch room and watch it on TV. When I got there, there was about 20 other people there. Five minutes later, the second plane hit.

Of course, most classes were immediately cancelled so we could watch. No one spoke, just watched in horror.

After a while the first tower began to fall. We saw a couple of people fall from the tower. It was so hard to watch. It could not have been real….but it was.

Then the second tower fell.

I don’t really remember too much after that, because I was virtually numb. Our lives would never be the same.

They say “Life goes on”…I sure wish I knew how life will be like in the future, if I live to see it.

Joe

I was asleep at the time, hving been working on an all-nighter.

The news came as a waking nightmare. Suddenly we were all too aware how easily fanatics can destroy our peaceful co-existence.

I have yet to find any faith that encourages violent action against the innocent, but sadly there are those (from all beliefs) who will distort those beliefs for their own ends.

We must all do our bit to encourage co-existence of all non violent neliefs, but remain ever watchful for the fanatic fringe.

I had just been to a Nursing Conference at the hospital where I was working at the time, and at 9 am, was waiting in line for a cup of coffee.

A gentleman in line ahead of me told all of us the news–that 2 planes had just hit the Twin Towers in NY.

From there we had to see patients all day, and for some odd reason, the clinic was packed. Not one person missed an appointment that day.

When the one plane was reported missing, a rumor spread very quickly that the plane was headed for the Three Mile Nuclear Power Plant very near where we were seeing patients.

I remember wanting to be at home with my husband and my dogs if I was going to die.

I felt very alienated having to conduct business as usual.

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I was just heading to the travel agent to pick up airline tickets for a business trip- to NYC- when my mother called. She was sobbing.
I’ll never forget her words ‘We’ve been attacked and I just can’t bring myself to tell you what they’ve used as weapons…’
After she sobbed out the words ‘airplanes loaded with innocent people..’ I became faint and nauseous and sank down on the bed holding the phone– trying to comprehend.
That day was a horrible fog for me, though I recall watching it on the news all day and trying to make sense of it.

I finally made myself go to the grocery store- and I remember how eerie it was. The streets of my town were empty-and the handful of people in them were all dazed and rather zombie-like.

To this day I cry for the victims and their families… and for our great country.

May we NEVER forget- and may we be forever vigilant in making sure this country stands safe and strong and proud…never again to endure such an awful thing.
God Bless all the victims of 9-11 -and God Bless America.

I was waiting in Emergency at our local hospital. My wife and I saw the first plan crash and assumed the pilot of a small aircraft had lost control. When we saw the second one the reality began to set in.

As a Canadian I can best describe the feeling like seeing your big brother being beaten up. Sure you may have your arguements with him, but when it comes down to it, you feel his pain very deeply.

I was in middle school, I think 8th grade. I could see the smoke from my school in Long island new york. All day I was wondering if my dad who worked at a hospital in the city was anywhere near the incident. I have a few fiends who lost their parents unfortunately.

As I remember – I was at work when it happend and did’nt heard the news before I went home at 4 Pm (Danish time)

Well, the first I think of was – WAUGH what a movie they had make – cut’n belive it was true, but after seeing it over and over again – finally I get it – it was real! Horrible.

Sept. 11, 2001, began as one of the most perfectly lovely days I have ever seen. The air was crisp and clear, the weather was gorgeous, and life felt good.

I was on the phone coaching a client when I heard NPR in the background interrupt their regular programming for the announcement that a plane had just hit the WTC and that they would try to get more information.

I asked my client if he had a radio on. He didn’t, so we continued. By 9 am we had finished and the news began broadcasting the reports.

Another client was booked at 9 and I was late to the call because I wanted to get more information. When I finally did call her, she was in tears and told me she just couldn’t be on the phone with me because of what was unfolding.

My partner was working in Manhattan that day and I tried to call her but the cell phone towers at that time were all on top of the WTC, and of course the phone lines were all jammed.

It wssn’t until late in the afternoon that I first got the news that she was OK and trying to leave the area. Transportation was impossible, but she finally managed to get a bus to one of the northernmost train stations, and then out.

I was never so happy to see someone safe and unharmed as on that day. So many didn’t make it out of the building, let alone out of town.

The tears that were shed on that day — and since — were endless.

Today, it’s a perfectly lovely day. The air is crisp and clear. The weather is gorgeous.

More tears will not help what has changed with the world since this time 7 years ago.

Our thoughtful and wise actions will.

Beware those who would instill fear in you; they seek to gain power over you.

Beware of those who claim to hold the only answer; life is more complex than that.

The Powers-That-Be would have us behave like sheep. Resist the urge. We humans are smarter and stronger than that — and we simply must arise and reconnect with our hearts, even in the broken places, to heal what has been lost, and to invite what will make us all whole again.

That is a challenge we who remain must accept!

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I’m a sales executive at a South African IT Distributor. On that day I was still an assistant in the Marketing Department when I received an email from my brother that lives in Brazil with a clip of the first plane hitting the towers.
My view of the world we live in, changed that day.
My heart goes out to all Americans whose lives changed that day.

Joao Maia

On this day 7 years ago, I went
running for my computer as the
second plane plowed into the
World Trade Center.

I knew I had online friends who
had been affected by the tragedy,
and was determined to do what I
could to help.

On the other side of the Atlantic,
my then fiancee, now husband was
doing the same. We estimate that
between us, we hypnotized more than
100 on that day, and lost track of
the count on the following day, giving
what grief and stress relief we could.
Now seeing the, remembrances being observed nationwide, it all comes back, bringing a
full heart, and anger to know that people
still exist who would and could at a moment’s notice inflict this type of pain and terror
on the innocent.

God bless not only America, but all nations
who hold dear the ideals of personal and cultural Freedom. May such Freedom continue
for all who cherish it until the end of days!

I WAS SITTING IN MY LIVING ROOM IN ALASKA, WAITING TO GO TO WORK & TURNED THE TV ON TO WATCH 5 MINUTES OF NEWS & POW! SAW THE PLANE HIT THE BUILDING & I PUT A CASSETTE IN MY VIDEO PLAYER & LET IT PLAY FOR 8 HOURS…………I STILL HAVE IT……..I WATCHED IT ALL ABOUT A MONTH AGO.STILL HAS THE SAME CHILLING EFFECT ON ME.I SAID TO MY ROOMATE ON THAT DAY, THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN & IT HASN’T BEEN……..WE HAVE LOST MORE RIGHTS THAN POW’S…….MICHAEL N.

I remember 9/11/2001 as one cool summer day here in Bulgaria. It was around 4PM when I decided to switch my TV on. All channels wer rebroadcasting CNN and 5 minutes after I started watching, the first tower collapsed. Then I thought: “Oh God, what’s going on in this world today!”. I couldn’t believe that a terrorists had attacked NYC and especially WTC. My prayers goes to those victims died in the aftermath of this accident. I hope that the world will never ever experience such tragedy again.

I was on my way to an appointment with a recruiting agency, having been downsized from a major corporation a few months earlier. I was amazed at the utter simplicity of the act- cried for the victims, and watching the buildings (and one of my favorite restaurants, Windows on the World) fall down with ‘blood in eye’ and revenge in my heart.
Watched George Bush fly and hide, as obviously our ‘security’ forces knew nothing of what was going on.
Couldn’t wait for the war on terror…Afghanistan was great, routing them filthy Taliban guys (who we created, btw, in the USSR/Afghan war). Then all of a sudden we’re in IRAQ??? Well, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Dubya really screwed up there by never being able to admit any of the numerous mistakes made there that accumulated very rapidly to what we had last year, before the surge…4300 dead, bad trade for 2700, some of whom were far less than innocent, all of whom received reparations for their loss from the outpouring of donations, some to the tune of millions of dollars…wonder how much death pay the families of the 4300 received?
Have come to wonder who the terrorists really are- having occupied and destroyed an unfriendly but relatively innocent country- and our own economy.
Were there any Iraqis on the 911 planes? Nope.
Were Iraqi weapons used? Nope. 13 of the 17 hijacker/suicideers were Saudis- yet to this day Saudis have free entry and exit to the US…
And then Homeland Security was created, phones illegally tapped, torture made common practice, the Patriot Act (yeah, right) passed. And of course Dubya and his Signing Statements to put him and his cronies above the law.
And much, much more- and more to come.
IMHO on the day the Patriot Act was signed into law was the day AlQueda won. And our own Triumvirate and Congress aided and abetted our enemies in limiting our freedoms and privacy and created a black box (Homeland Security) whose performance can only be gauged by what DOESN’T happen…what a sweet review process that is.

I was on my way to an important meeting when the planes went through the buildings. I was in complete shock. All I could think about was the people that were killed, their families and my own. Real gut check!

We were at home watching our typical morning shows when the first shots of the tower being hit were shown. It was surreal and at first we thought it was some kind of hoax…just couldn’t even imagine that this was actually happened.

I have 2 brother-in-laws that worked in the tower and a sister-in-law that worked in the Marriott on the bottom level of one of the towers. We spent the better part of 2 days trying to get through on the phone to family members while watching the terror unfold on TV. It was awful not knowing if our family members were in the towers or not.

On the morning after we finally received a phone call that by the grace of god those family members were not in the towers when the plans hit…however we did lose other friends and family.

I’m having a hard time kicking it into gear today because that whole day still plays out so vividly in my memory and I can’t get past the emotions of that day.

Our heartfelt blessings and prayers go out to everyone affected by this day we’ll always remember.

I was a teacher and just signing in. I heard the news and followed the crowd into the principal’s office to watch the news.

We watched in horror as the 2nd plane hit at the same time that the realization hit that it was an attack. We all went into fast gear to see what had to be done to protect the school and the kids. It was a day I will never forget as some kids realized that their parents were in the city, during the attack.

It was THE WORST DAY that I ever remember as a teacher. I worried about my own kids at school and realized that I also had to worry about my students. We just kept going to help do what we could to keep everyone calm, when WE certainly weren’t calm!!

Dorothea

This may come as a shock to a few of you… I am a Retired FDNY Paramedic. I was at ground zero on that fateful day and for the 30 days straight that followed. I lost 6 close friends including my partner David P. Lemagne in the collapse.

I left the department after 9/11 and I moved to Florida where I began my career in sales. Every year on this day I put on the old uniform and remember my fallen brothers and sisters.

Today I attended a remembrance ceremony where we dedicated a plaque to our local fire dept here in Palm Bay Florida. I remain an active member of the FDNY Retirees of Brevard County FL. Our website is currently down. But you can learn more at my blog.

Many have forgotten. Many oppose the current war on terror. Many do not recall the way we all felt on Sept 12th 2001 (The day after)…. many fail to realize that our country has been spared from many attacks over the past seven years because of our diligent military efforts… If I’m talking about you well, I can only say that if you would have seen what I’ve seen with my own 2 eyes you would feel differently.

I for one WILL NEVER FORGET.

Omar Martin
http://www.omar-martin.com

I don’t remember, but if you really want to know the truth about 9/11 go to http://www.blindguru.com and then go to free videos. Click on the picture of the kid with a ring of something around his head. Enjoy the movie. It is about time that people in this country stop being duped. There are like three parts. The 9/11 stuff is in part two.

Enjoy,

Daniel
http://www.bedohaveyourdreams.com

I was at work as a PC support specialist. I heard people talking about it and went over to the common TV. I wanted so much to not believe what was happening that I ran back to my repair lab and buried myself in work the entire day! I refused to listen to any of it. It was quite a shock!

I was nursing my in-home patients when a phone call came, from a relative in Long Island to alert us to the tragedy of the Towers, which he could see from his second story balcony. I turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane fly purposefully into the second Tower.
My anguished remark was immediate-“This is an act of war!” One of my patients replied “What makes you say THAT!” If you saw it -you just knew that this was our second terrible day of
infamy in America.

When the 9/11 tragedy unfolded I just happened to have the television on and was horrified at the telecast!

This fateful day shall be burnt in to all our memories!

God Bless the survivors, God Bless America, and God Bless us All!

Kind Regards,
David I. Braybrooke. ‘Fatherspirit’.

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On the night of Sept 11 (Indian time) when it happened, I was travelling in train from Coimbatore to New Delhi, reading “RUNNING FROM SAFETY” by Richard Bach. I stopped at the passages “…and the TV News Anchor was talking about the tragedy the world is going through, the attacks, the bombings, the epidemics…” Next morning, when I picked up a copy of the local newspaper en route to Delhi, I froze at the headlines screaming “America Under Attack”.

And the irony of it all was, my life was completely changed because I had wound up my advertising career in New Delhi for a better opportunity in Dubai and was to leave for Dubai on 14th Sept ’01. I knew somewhere, I was intuitively getting prepared to “Run from safety”. It did change my life as the Dubai based ad agency asked me to postpone my trip and ultimately I had to find a job in India itself a month later!

To think that an incident that happened in exactly other corner of the world could affect my life so much, made me strongly believe each and every one of us are interlinked somehow.

Reed, I sat at my desk in work so frightened. My daughter goes into the city at times she was a programer for a company providing service To Wall Street. I saw pictures live on the tv and heard the chaos so scared for everyone.

It took hours before a phone call could get thru and I was blessed, my daughter in PA go thru to my youngest..

We had an annual event planned to go to Radio city on thanksgiving, we went but it was erie and basically we haven’t gone again.

I pray for those who were lost and those we lost their loved ones. Nan

ON 9/11/01 I heard the news about the first plane hitting a tower, while I was commuting to work by city bus. I followed the news on the radio throughout the day as I was working. The whole scenario was shocking. I did not personally know anyone who was invol;ed in the tragedy but I knew some that were woring or livimg im the area.

Hi Reed and all visitors of Reeds Blog…

I was working on the air guard base here in my hometown, building an addition to the maintenance area – attached to the flight plan room (this is where the tv’s are that show the flight plans for the day of the airmen).

I was listening to Fred Baker on KISR 93.7, and I thought I heard him say a plane had hit one of the twin towers. Turning to my partner (only 4 peep on the job – us and two duct guys) and told him what I heard, so we started to listen in…

Sure enough that was what had happened. One of the guard guys was walking through and I asked if their tv’s inside got CNN and he said yes so we went in and started watching. We got to see the second plane hit…

Well, you know the rest of the story of what happened…

So we went back to work, and it was not ten minutes later, 3 guys in dress uniform jumped out of a jeep and came over to us (tow holding M-15A’s) and said we had 5 minutes to get what we needed in our vehicles and lock everything else up…4 minutes 55 sec…4 minutes 50 sec…

That was how it went -s o we got escorted off base and could not go back on for about 3 weeks, After we got clearance to go back on.

Needless to say, we have done other work out there and it is the same to this day.

But, that was how my day went on the horrible day.

Hello ALL!

I was at work (30 miles north of NYC in scenic Rockland County). When the radio we were listening to reported what was happening, we & the DJ thought it was some kind of Hollywood publicity stunt until the DJ who was in NYC reported many were coming in, to to tell him everything was real – not staged. One of my co-workers then indicated his girl friend was at work rather close to the Twin Towers & he was beyond concern.

Remembering this, brings tears…

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On 9/11 I was watching the News on TV….I was horrified with the Breaking News…Really …I was shocked…to see the towers going down…I still cannot beliew that the twin towers are no more…India

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As I former Flight Attendant with American Airlines, I had flown that widebody route many times from Boston Logan to San Francisco. Watching the first broadcast of the news I disbelief and shock….first, because that could have been me, and secondly, I felt it personally as though I had lost dear friends in such a tragic moment. I have never been able to watch the replays from year to year….the original emotions return as fresh.

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I WAS THERE!! I was in NYC, working just 5 blocks north of the WTC. I worked construction, owning a Masonry – Stone company. We were building a new 22 story condo/retail center just 5 blocks north just starting the day, when we heard the first plane fly over and strike the WTC. Many of the supervisors and foreman went up to the roof to see the whole thing unfold before our eyes. A few minutes later, a second plane flew directly over us and we watched helplessly as it struck the second tower. You never saw 15 big, burly construction workers fall totally silent, in absolute awe and dismay!! At that moment I said, this was no co-incidence…we are under atttack!! Some (myself included) went down to the WTC site. I personally knew about 25 people who worked in the WTC complex and my mind couldn’t stop worrying for them. I also knew many of NYC’s Finest & Bravest Police an Firemen.
Watching in total amazement and disgust, it wasn’t long that warnings of colapse circulated. Not heeding the warnings, we were caught in the mad rush of onlookers, litterally running for our lives as she came down, debris, clouds of dirt/dust over took us. I ran back to the construction site where we were working for safety. From there, we watched the rest unfold on a TV in the site trailer. Manhatten was on total shut down! I spent the night in my construction trailer, not sleeping a wink. Others stayed also.
Some time in the middle of the night, we loaded my truck with some equipment, cut-off saws, oxy-accetaline torches, bars, etc…what ever we thought we coul take and worked our way to ground zero. We joined the rescue efforts, doing what we felt we needed to do. 10 hours later we were avised to leave, but we left all the equipment behind for the firefighters and rescue crews to use.
Manhatten was still on lockdown, no vehicles leaving the city, so I walked home, over the Manhatten bridge, 14 miles in brooklyn.
To see this all unfold…with my own eyes…to be a part of the rescue efforts is something I will never forget!! I still get pissed off about it, on how easily they just walked in on us was able to do this to America! The only relief I get is from seeing how the City of NY an the rest of the nation reacted and came together as one….now that was truly amazing!!
I have since moved from NYC, (2004) to Tucson, AZ…where we started our internet marketing efforts.

I was recovering from appendix surgery on that day. I spoke with my Dad who called shortly after I woke to tell me that our family in New York were safe. As we spoke the second plane hit. It was very surreal experience and one I will never forget.

It turned out to be one of the last conversations I had with my Dad as he passed the following year at 89 Years old.

I can still remember it like it was yesterday.

I was at work, just another day at the office, when the village idiot walked by and said: “a plane just crashed into the twin towers”.

I didn’t believe it at first, because this fool was good for saying crazy stuff like that…

But then a few people went whizzing by and crying, so I went along with them to check out the news in the waiting room and…

I couldn’t believe it. It’s still unbelievable.
Many of my close friends barely escaped with their lives.

My wife was in shock.

It was just a really horrible day.

Nando

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i was playing playstation (thrasher skate and destroy) and i heard the tv in the lounge saying “attacks on the twin towers”, so i went to go have a look. as i got there, the second plane hit the other tower. i thought it was like a replay or something. absolutely insane

I was in college just waking up to go to class and every station had something about a plane hitting so I thought it was an accident.
Then I saw the second plane hit live and I thought we were at war.
I woke up all my room mates and told them we were going to war lol. what a crazy time it was.

My first visit here, found the blog accidentally really, and I just wanted to say I’ve enjoyed my visit and had some good reads while here 🙂
Juan

I was watching local news on my TV, it was at morning.

I was chaeting