Where Were You

[gonfishn]

On September 11 2001 when the towers were hit.
We were coming across the peace river bridge. We were allowed over but border was closed behind us.
It was the longest 300 miles i have ever drove. Folks were stopped on the side of the road and in the rest stops praying

May we never forget that day

 

[boatman37]

i was working 4-12 and my wife was getting ready for work. i was watching TV and saw the reports of the first plane hit and like everyone else i thought it was accidental. when the 2nd hit i yelled to my wife that something was going on. i went to the school and got my kids and brought them home.

the day before i took my mother-in-law to look at new cars. they let her bring one home and the next morning my sister-in-law took her down to sign the papers so they were sitting at the dealership when it happened. she still has that car and it only has about 35,000 miles on it.

i will never forget this day

 

[MTboatguy]

My last active duty post was in the Pentagon, it ended 11 days before 9/11. I went inactive adviser at that point in time and I left for Casper, WY to meet my wife, then on to our home in Montana. I spent 2 days in Casper teaching Bear Education Safety for the state of WY to young children.

After that my wife and I went through Yellowstone, spent a couple of days, then on to another couple of visitors sights that I had never seen. We arrived at home, my first time back for 10 months at 4:00 am and I was asleep when my wife came in to the bedroom in tears, the phone was ringing, it was my mother who knew I was suppose to leave the Pentagon on the 1st checking on me.

I was drinking a cup of coffee watching the news and the smoke coming out of the first tower when the 2nd plane hit and the first reports of the Pentagon hit came in, I received quite a few phone calls that morning from friends I worked with and families I knew of those friends asking if I had heard from them.

I lost quite a few people I knew that day that I worked with.

It was a day, I will never forget and still have vivid nightmares about.

 

[bruceb58]

My cousin was a major in the army at the pentagon. He was awarded the Soldier's medal for pulling people out of the Pentagon after the plane hit. He was in the exact room the plane crashed into moments before.

 

[poconojoe]

I was working in tower 1 on the 110 th floor. What saved my life was we had to work nights that week. So, when it happened, I was already home in bed. We lost 17 union brothers (IBEW Local 3). I was working there for 5 years so I know a lot of people who died that day.

 

[aspeck]

Wife was past her due date and she was scheduled for a stress test that day. I didn't go to the office that morning and we were lounging at home watching TV when we watched it unfold. I was sick hearing the PASS (Personal Alert Safety System) systems going off ... that eerie buzzing or chirping ... and knew there were lots of fire fighters down. Lost a lot of brothers that day. It is something that is always in the back of your mind every time the fire house siren goes off.

 

[southkogs]

I worked 2nd shift at the time, and was in the process of moving the family back to Tennessee from Michigan - they were up there, and I was down here with some friends. Friends woke me up just as the news hit the TV to let me know what was going on. I made it out to the TV just in time to watch the second plane hit the towers.

Oddly, the job I had just left was as a facility manager for a building that was designed by the same architect and was built the same way as the towers were. I knew instantly that they were going to come down. Most helpless I've really felt in a long time.

Mounted up and headed in to work (not knowing anything else to do) and had the surreal experience of watching a air patrol fly over by an F-16 element here in the Nashville area.

 

[boatman37]

Flight 93 likely flew right over my house (45 miles north of Pittsburgh). Eerie feeling thinking I could have saw that plane had I been outside.

Anyone watch 9/11 15 years later last night on the History channel? It was pretty emotional

 

[sphelps]

At work like most people ... Down town framing a 2 story bld here in Fl . Heard lots of sirens and some I guess F16,s
Job Superintendent heard it on the radio and came out and told us ... Someone had a radio in the field so they turned it on .. The whole job-sight stopped working and hovered around to listen for a good while ... A few very choice words were said about the perpetrators by many including me ..
Slowly everyone went back to work not really talking much ... That was a terrible day for America ...

 

[Gyrene]

Coulda sworn I posted here earlier.... - Oldtimers?
Anyway, I was in an office building in Jersey City - directly across the Hudson - I was on 31st floor and had a front-row seat. When first plane hit, I thought it was a horrific accident, but when the second one hit there was no doubt.
I was sick and felt so helpless -- wracking my brain for what I could do to help, and could think of nothing.
When the towers went down, I could hear the low rumble - the cloud of dust/smoke was immense.
I really thought at the time that the death toll would be higher than it ended up being.

 

[bruceb58]

Coulda sworn I posted here earlier.... - Oldtimers?

You did...was removed for some reason.

 

[jbcurt00]

Coulda sworn I posted here earlier.... - Oldtimers?.

Yes, you did and it

....was removed....

To everybody replying: Please keep this on topic and keep your political, social and gun beliefs to yourself, there are other sites online for that. Iboats isnt one of them.

 

[StarTed]

I was still working at that time. I was upstairs at North Seattle Community College at the time. We were putting on the Northwest Electric Meter School. I was on the steering committee so I was monitoring the progress. I went to a TV in the lounge and watched in disbelief. When the second plane hit we all knew it was no accident. The school continued but I don't believe our minds were as focused on the subjects as they should have been. It joined the assassination of JFK in my brain. What a sad day for all of us and my Muslim friends as well.

 

[four winns 214]

I was at home and watched it unfold on TV. Later that day, I taught recurrent training in a 757 simulator. Even though our entire fleet was grounded, we still kept the training schedule because the pilots were there and had already done ground school. It was the only thing we could do. Everybody had a hard time keeping their mind on the task at hand. A 757 was used in the Pentagon attack.

A few weeks later, I was maneuvering a 767 to a ramp parking position and following a marshaller's direction. When doing so, your attention is primarily on the marshaller. When we were parked, I set the brake and looked up. Across the ramp was a sight that absolutely sent chills down my spine- I was looking straight-on at another 767 at eye level. I thought, "Man some folks in the twin towers saw this very same sight moments before they died."

 

[Harritwo]

Was pierside at NAVSTA Ingleside, watched it on TV for about 30 minutes. Base went to lockdown, nobody on or off. All ships were scrambled for an emergency sortie, emergency underway. We were turning screw down the channel less than an hour after the first plane hit. Stayed at sea for 7 days before we could pull in, take on food, fuel and water. Then back underway patrolling the coast.

When we sortied, we didnt even have time to call home, Wife found out from the Ombudsman we were gone. Daughter was 6, I had been home since she was born and she heard about it at day care. Her best friends parents were Coasties and i was Navy. We were the only parents that didnt come get their kids. Took her Mom several hours to calm her down. She didnt understand anything except her daddy wasnt home cause bad things had happened.

Lost two shipmates that i had served with in the Pentagon.

 

[tazrig]

I was tending to my coffee business and my UPS driver, Rodger came to make his delivery of coffee beans and told me what happened. Funny... how some things are just etched into your brain so vividly. Can't believe its been 15 years...

 

[MRS]

I was on my way to work heard on the radio when the second plane hit was so upset knew was not right. The work I do is to protect all the war fighters and still do I will never watch or have watches any thing that shows the planes hitting the towers I will not give them Bas^*%#! anything God bless the USA all the WAY!!

 

[thumpar]

I was driving to work when I first heard. It sounded like some kind of skit and I didn't take it seriously at first. When I got to work one of my coworkers brought in a TV so we could watch. At the time I had access to local TV stations from any major city so spent my lunch at home watching the NY coverage. It still doesn't seem like it was that long ago.

 

[ehenry]

I was on my way to work. I was sitting at a red light at Lamar and Pascagoula streets in Jackson, MS. I picked the phone up and call my sister to see where her son was. He had moved his office out of the twin towers to another area of the city the week before.

 

[StingrayMike]

I was underway on a submarine on patrol off the east coast. We started getting message traffic during the entire thing, not knowing exactly what was happening. Our CO had a brother working in the pentagon at the time.
We were out for 2 months not getting any kind of real news, or updates. When we finally pulled in, we were shown the recorded video of it happening.
luckily no one lost any loved ones.

still very hard to think about