Your Sept 11

[Spiffor]

Well, I wanted to o this thread for a long time, but I am completely drunk + completely exhausted today, so please have mercy for my English and my general furuming skills

What are your own memories of Sept. 11 2001 ? What did you experience yourself this very day ?
I have very precise memories of hat happened to me during this historical day, and I think I'm not the only one. Please share your intimate memories !

[Dinner]

I was in the UCSB Geology department's computer lab when one of the student's turned into NPR. That's when we heard the news.

[VetLegion]

News is the only thing I remember from the whole day. I just watched CNN and couldn't believe it. Not one but two towers.. who did it? Why? That sort of thing.


If this is just a clever way not to get your drunkenpost thread closed then well done

[GePap]

I woke up, heard a terse message from my mom on the answering machine asking me to call, but the lines were busy. I just went on my business, when I got a call from a family friend asking if I was alright (I was in NYC that day), i said I was fine, wanted to know why he called, and he told me to turn on the TV. I went and most channels were offline (did not have cable at that time) which told me something was wrong, and then I turned to the last working free broadcast in time to see the second tower fall.

[Skanky Burns]

I was asleep at the time. My sister heard about it first, called my parents who got me up. I watched it on tv and went onto Apolyton to find out more.

[Menlas]

It was my first day in my engineering high school...not a common day, trust me (I had intensively worked 2 years in the french "classes préparatoires" for that ).

So, I'd say my mind was rather busy with other things than that. I only realized how huge it was at the evening...couldn't believe it

[notyoueither]

I was at work when the first tower fell. We were watching it on CNN and other sites. Several of the people I work with knew people working in IT in the towers.

We closed early. I told those with family to go home and hug their kids. Sounds pretty stupid maybe, but we were all a little numb.

[Spiffor]

Even if it misht hurt some people here, I must admit my Sept. 11 wasa great day, on a strictly personal basis. I was on vacation at that time, and I had a really great day.

I woke up late, and begun to browse the internet, when my father called my to say there was a plane which crased on the WTC. I've quickly watched the news (before the towers collapsed), and I went back to my daily life.

I had a movie planned this day: I was to watch the French remake of [i]Absolutely Fabulous[i] at the theater with a friend. I went there and enjoyed the movie. When we came back from Paris to our suburbian hometown, we noticed the worried faces in the subway. There was a rumor our quarter of Paris (our theater was in the businees quarter, La Défense) would be evacuated, but it didn't happen. My frend also informed me everyone was passing the news with his cell phone. He himself got several calls telling him what happened.

I've spent some time at my friend's house where we could see some of the footage of the collapse. I was sickened by the fact this footage was airing repeatedly, so my friend and I went to discuss more cheerful things.

He had just acquired many books of the Nausicaa comics, and he lent me his complete collection.

In the meantime, another frined of mine, who just loves doomsday theories, explained why Bush would start the nuclear apocalypse (through internet). The repeating pictures of the collapse on all channels, aloong with his doomsday predictions, really gave a feeling of "end of the world" that very day. I strangely thought Spet 11 was the first step of a fast process leading to a global destruction, but in the meantime, I couldn't believe it.

My friend lent me his whle Nausicaa collection. I went to another friend's as planned that evening, and we discussed + watched some anime, and I must say I very much enjoyed my doomsday evening. Sure, the attacks on WTC were part of our discussions, but not the main part (despite the media's insistance to make us aware of the catastrophe). We discussed on general things, like we ar used to.

When I got home I hardly watched TV, because I was sick of the same pictures over and over. I was also sicked by the pundits'assumptions it was all Al Qaeda's fault, despite the utter lack of evidence.

I went to bed with all these Nausicaa comics, which depict a major catastrophe for mankind, in an already post-apocalytiptic world. I read them all, and I went to bed very late. At then end of my reading, I confused reality and fiction, and wondered which was worse : the catastrophe depicted in Nausicaa or the attack on the WTC. Both things seemed so irreal to me...

[SlowwHand]

I was online at ACS most of the day, with a small televison on the side.

That night my dad cat died, leaving behind a wife and young son.

Overall, a suck day.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Menlas
It was my first day in my engineering high school...not a common day, trust me (I had intensively worked 2 years in the french "classes préparatoires" for that ).

So, I'd say my mind was rather busy with other things than that. I only realized how huge it was at the evening...couldn't believe it

Wow, first day in École d'Ingé ? Which one are you intending ?

[gsmoove23]

I was on the BQE(Brooklyn Queens Expressway), which was backed up for some reason, right across the river from downtown Manhattan. On the radio I heard some goofy thing about an airplane flying into the WTC(I couldn't see it, on a portion of the BQE thats just changing from below ground level to elevated highway). I start to change the station to confirm that its just a big joke, at the same time bits of white are falling from the sky. Looking more closely the bits are pieces of paper, some with writing on them.

I'm trying to understand why this is happening as I'm stuck on the BQE which is at a dead stop, while I'm finding that station after station is reporting that the WTC has been hit. I don't know how long it took for me to make the connections, but it seems like quite a long time in my memory.

I got off at the next exit and drove through downtown Brooklyn trying to find a spot on the water where I could get a good view. People were standing out in the street all over, I stopped the car and watched it burn. While I was driving I remember the second one hit, some witness had sworn it was a military plain that hit the building. Weird, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, I was listening to WBAI.

[Menlas]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Wow, first day in École d'Ingé ? Which one are you intending ?

See my location


Ok, it's Centrale Lyon... yeah, for me too, this day was a great day (personnally of course).

Though I remember having discussed a bit with other frends if it was the beginning of WWIII... seems absurd now, but two planes crashing in WTC didn't really seem less absurd at the moment...

[Spiffor]

Well, some other memories :

My friend (the one who lent me Nausicaa) had a call from a family's French friend who was very near of the WTC at that time. This witness alone made me know it was not some elaborate prank.

A fe months later, I have worked for an insurance company specialized in Air transport in Paris. A usual partenr of this company was a WTC based company named AON. My colleagues explained to me how they have lost many individual partners, and how they had to cope with their death. AON took many months to do business orderly again, and or dealing swith them have never been the same

[Zero]

I woke up and my roomate told me plane struck WTC (at that time it wasnt clear if it was terrorism.) after I got ready to goto class and as I was leaving, Second plane struck so I stayed around and watched it. During Medieval History class, one of my friend just yelled all of sudden What the ****? because he wasnt paying attention to class and was listening to news on walkman. Thats when the first building collapsed.

When class was over, All my friends came wit me to my dorm, watched the news and cracked open the beer (I guess we subconciously knew school would be cancelled ) Then we got drunk and watched News half of the day. Most of us were in a joking mood about how world is gonna end, we aint getting no job, and we'll get shot by terrorist as soon as we get conscripted as we played cards and drank, but this one kid was really depresed about it. So rest of the day went to lifting that friend's mood by letting him win couple of hands and trying to hook him up with free ass.

[Inverse Icarus]

I was in my AP Physics Class, and it was mostly just rumors at the time. people telling people that a plane hit the WTC. everybody assumed it was a Cessna or something, some moron kid in his plane having an accident.

as an ironic twist of fate, it was school spirit week, where we have all those stupid theme days, like "hat day", "weird hair day", or on that day, "twin day". everyone was encouraged to dress up like one of their friends and pretend to be twins for the day. a guy a knew and his fried dressed up as the twin towers, and were asked to remove their costumes.

to quote my friend, "those damn towelheads ruined my idea". much more than that, my friend.

then there was an announcement, about both planes, how they were real planes, etc, etc. my physics teacher said, flat out, "what the f*ck?", and then the he started to explain how the towers were build to handle a hit like that.

he didn't see the images then. he didnt account for the jet fuel. he was wrong.

the day went on. i was in social studies. the teacher got a call, and i was called down to the office. my dad wasn't answering his cellphone, or pager. he was unaccoutned for. i was to leave school early and go home to my family.

my mom is completely destroyed, a f*cking wreck. i told her dad would be fine. that he got out. that nothing would change. i was wrong. everybody was wrong. the world is hell. lifes a *****.

i loathed religion before 9/11. now i wouldn't mind seeing the genocide of their entire people.