Hate this day....

[Nilsen]

I was playing AH1 at the time and the text buffer went banans with people talking about it. I thought people were telling a bad joke until i turned on CNN just in time for the second plane. The next few hours on AH with the tv in the background was really wierd as the stories and peoples ideas about what had happened went across the text buffer. I think we watched CNN and other news channels for about 24 hours straight after that.

[KgB]

Every time I wake up on 9/11 I remember that morning...walking downstairs and seeing my parents speachless as I got to the tv they told me to go to school, I was so confused and had no idea what happened...every time i see a video of the planes hitting the towers...chills go from head to toe in my body...

All lost this day R.I.P...

-BigBOBCH

Same here, imagine having birthday on September 11Th.

[Reschke]

I was coming down the stairs and my wife was upstairs getting ready for work. I was out of school that day and getting our 5 year old...now 13 ready for kindergarten. She yelled downstairs for me to change the channel on the downstairs TV to the Today show as they were reporting live about a "small plane" that had just hit the first tower. You could see this massive fire building up and I immediately dismissed the small plane idea.

About that time one of the news cameras picked up this other jet liner streaking in and then it hit the second building. My son said..."Daddy bad people just killed a bunch of people." The thought from me was oh my god terrorist attacks...then shortly after they reported a third plane was missing and then they reported the one hitting the Pentagon...I went to work and we were expecting our owner from Germany to arrive that morning but instead we got a call from him that they had grounded his aircraft in Montreal or Toronto and he didn't know if/when he would be arriving. 2 days later they flew him back to Germany. Anyway we all sat around in the office and the phone never rang and we didn't work. My boss sent us all home around lunch time and said go be with your families...my wife's employer did the same thing.

[Penguin]

I was only in second grade at the time, but I will never forget that day as long as I live.

I spent the first 11 years of my life in Gaithersburg Maryland, about 2 hours drive north-west of Washington D.C. It started off just like any other day. It was in second period that the announcement came over the PA that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. The only thing I knew was that a plane crashed, which I didn't think was unusual, as I thought that planes crash every day. I remember the look of shock on my teacher's face when she heard the announcement. They immediately closed school and sent everyone home.

I remember standing outside the school and seeing a girl in 7th or 8th grade crying. At the time I had no idea why. I was just happy to be going home, but at the same time, I felt confused and scared at the same time. I knew that something big had happened, because all the adults were practically panicking.

My mom picked me up at my friend's house and she remembers an F-15 flying back and forth over I-95.

Marine-1 would always fly over my house on its way to Camp David. My dad remembers hearing a helicopter flying towards our house. He ran outside just in time to see this massive, grey CH-53 fly over our house. He could feel the downdraft of the rotors and the helicopter almost ripped the shingles off our house. The F-16s were not much higher. He remembers the scream of the F-16's engines and thought, "Oh my God, this is for real."

I remember staying inside for the next week watching the same images on the television over and over again.

I will always remember that day. I will never forget. I hope that everyone else in my generation never forgets what happened on that awful, awful day.

  to everyone who still bears the scars from the day the towers fell.

Wait, how were you in second grade at age 11 but talked to 7th and 8th graders?  Maybe sixth grade?  But anyway, I was in Kindergarten and when it happened, I had no idea, and didn't until a few days later.

-Penguin

[OSU]

If you read my post I said that I saw a 7th or 8th grader crying. I never said I talked to her. Also I said that I spent the first 11 years of my life in Maryland. I never said that I was 11 in the second grade.

[Twister2]

I was fighting a house fire near Omaha Nebraska. We heard a plane flying over and looked up to to see air force one fly over with fighter escorts. It was flying the President into Offut. This of course was after the towers had come down sounds strange but it was a welcome break from watching the news took my mind off of what was happening for a short time.

[oneway]

If only everyone had this opinion <<S>>

You got that right Strokes...

On this day each calendar year...and like our patriarchs who never forgot December 7, we likewise should never forget what happened that fateful day..in New York at 8:46:40 EST Tuesday 11 September, 2001

....As Atta drove flight 11 in to tower #1...

I will go to my grave hating him and what he stands for...

And I swear upon the air I breath...that If i have a clear and confirmed shot on a scumbag like him I would take it without reservation...splitting his head open like a canoe would give me pleasure beyond belief...

The hatred in my heart for men like him knows no bounds....

If your not Angry beyond belief..your not paying attention...(Strokes excluded..he gets it)...

Out

[greens]

I will always remember this wicked day in history. i woke up that morning checking the news as usual <which i shudnt>, OMG! this cant be happenening, kept watching then saw the 2nd plane hit, cried man knowing innocent people are in there. <S> to all the families who lost loved ones.

[LCCajun]

I was a senior in H.S. I was going to the only class I had  my senior year. When I walked in the tv was on and I seen what was happening. I turned right around, left school, and went to my national guard unit to see what I could do.

[Shuffler]

We were at the shop. We announced over the intercom what had happened and we let anyone that felt the need..... to go home. We shut the shop down and let our employees watch the news as it happened.

I had my wife get my daughter out of school. At the time they did not know who or what would be hit next. It was a strange feeling.

[321BAR]

I deliver the daily newspaper. i have 6 different papers to deliver. guess how many stories were honoring or even REMEMBERING September 11th? One... one story out of all 6 papers had a story about the attack and it was on the front page of the Boston Globe. The NYT, the Boston Herald, the Barron, the Metrowest Daily News, and the Wall Street Journal all had no stories that i have seen to remember Sept. 11th. This made me sick...

[tassos]

I was Working in the Factory at 3:30 PM
 a woman came in shocked and told me that Palestinians with Planes Attacking New York over 40 000 people dead.
I said Palestinians even don't have money for the fuel for planes that must be a Joke.
People Leaving Mashines and went to the only 1 TV in Plant.
I folowed them than I saw that the second Tower explode,I was thinking on Billy (Spirithoula) she worked 24 floor south tower and Nico my best friend he was FMB manager in Marriott Hotel.
10 minutes later German Police came and escort American workers to they Homes.
it took till 7 am that we had a massage from Billy from Nico I knew that he dint work Tuesdays and Stayed in Brooklin
I was one only in Neighborhood who had internet and I waited with Billy's Brother and Father the Hole night in front of Yahoomessenger.
I contact i guy out of NY he Drove to 1 in NY who had a Motorbike,he drove to New jersey and gave a masage to her from her Father he drove back told the 1 guy he went to the next working internet shop and told us that she is OK.
on DEC 12 2001 Billy died By a car accident in Germany on her namesday,cause front driving car puled cellphone and Braked without reason.

[Penguin]

If you read my post I said that I saw a 7th or 8th grader crying. I never said I talked to her. Also I said that I spent the first 11 years of my life in Maryland. I never said that I was 11 in the second grade.

Oh, so that is seperate from this, ok, now I get it.  It was just that you saying that you were in second grade came right before you spent the first 11 years of your life in Maryland.  Just a bit confusing is all.

-Penguin

[OSU]

It's cool. I can understand the part about it being confusing.

[Dragon]

I was at work at an apartment complex.  Driving from one unit to another I heard of the attack on the radio.  I thought it was a joke because that is how morning shows are.  I got a call on the radio to come to the office where we all spent the next several hours glued to the TV.  Nothing got done that day!  Management even bought lunch and invited us back with our families for dinner along with all of the residence of the complex. 

200 plus people gathered around the pool area and mourned the loss of those who didn't make it.  It was a special day in it's own way despite the pain.