World Trade Center and Pentagon in memoriam

[Kidlicious]

I was on my way to work that day. I was a high school teacher. I was listening to the radio, a comedy talk show. The people on the radio didn't seem to be sure what was happening at first. They reported and explosion at the world trade center. Then after the second explosion happened they reported that there was a terrorist attack.

When I got to school I turned on the TV and started watching the news. I left the television on all day and let the students watch it. I told them they were watching history, but they were very disinterested.

I remember being scared for myself and my family. And I was very pissed off.

[SpencerH]

I was working at home on something or other and saw a blurb on the online news about a plane hitting the WTC. I thought some idiot in a cessna had screwed up. I turned on the TV maybe 15 min after the first plane hit then never went to work.

Does anyone remember anything about the small plane that crashed into a building in Germany (I think) before 9/11? I cant find anything with the (now) useless Google.

[BeBMan]

I was at home. It was a year before my uni studies started, and I had that job in the photo lab where work began in the evening. So I did the usual things to get through the time until I had to leave, eating, reading - and then at some point I turned on tv. While switching through the channels, I saw some had the a news bar right in their regular program saying that a plane crashed into the WTC. This was unusual, except those outspoken news channels the others stations rarely use(d) news bars at this time.

At this point, I didn't realize it would be a big airliner, but thought about some little private plane doing little damage and wondered why something like this makes so much news. Then I switched to CNN International and saw one of the towers in flames. I couldn't stop watching tv for the entire time I had left before going to work, and saw how everything developed, how the towers finally came down.

[Fake Boris]

i was masturbating to the hot news presentator, but only came when i saw the fiery NY cityscape

[DanS]

I just arrived at work and my secretary said that one tower was on fire. I logged on to Poly and learned that the other tower was hit and then the Pentagon. CNN's website was under strain, as some popular web sites always were at that time.

There were lots of rumors here in DC about other planes in the air. Ready to hit the Capitol, the White House, etc. At about 10:30, most in the firm were glued to the TV.

The firm soon sent everybody home. It was a surreal scene, the streets of DC were packed with people walking home -- trying to get out of the city. All the bridges south were closed. Strangely, everybody was calm in the midst of this. Hardly a honking horn in the gridlocked downtown.

For several weeks, the national guard was in the streets. Lots of concrete security barriers were put in place. Trucks were kept out of downtown. Then the anthrax attacks started. Thank God, things have settled down and we are getting the hang of unobtrusive security.

[KrazyHorse]

Woke up, walked downstairs. Was on Poly when the first plane hit. Somebody starts a "holy ****" type thread. I turn on CNN in time to watch the second plane hit on live TV.

Surreal.

Within a few hours the skies are clear of planes for the first time I can ever remember.

Normalcy started to return when I saw the first passenger jet in 5 days passing overhead.

[SpencerH]

I think that's what clued me into looking at the news too.

[Ben Kenobi]

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[LordShiva]

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[Jon Miller]

I followed Poly.. could bear to watch the news (and see those images over and over again).


JM

[DRoseDARs]

... For the victims of that day.
... For the hijackers whose deep hatred of life and all that is good has cost them their immortal souls.
... For the lost opportunity the US had to use the goodwill from the rest of the world (re: "We are all Americans...") to begin a golden age of global peace and prosperity.

... For the future as this darkness will not subside for a long time yet.

[Ninot]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
... For the victims of that day.
... For the hijackers whose deep hatred of life and all that is good has cost them their immortal souls.
... For the lost opportunity the US had to use the goodwill from the rest of the world (re: "We are all Americans...") to begin a golden age of global peace and prosperity.

... For the future as this darkness will not subside for a long time yet.

Wow, you seem cheery today.

[DRoseDARs]

9/11 gave the neocons an excuse to play their twisted games as if the world were a giant RISK board.

Saddened for the victims, angered for the outcome.

[lord of the mark]

Eloks thread addresses politics, strategies, etc.

I would hope this one could focus on remembrance, on personal stories, and generally avoid politics.

[DRoseDARs]

Indeed, and I just don't have the energy to discuss this anyway.