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Post by T R W on Sept 13, 2017 12:52:52 GMT -5
I was getting ready to go to work for orientation for my first day at a new job. I was 26. A friend called me when the first plane hit and told me to turn on the news, and was watching when the second plane hit. The job I was going to evacuated as they were in a high rise (In Georgia) out of precaution. I wasn't able to reach anyone, and I sat there all day watching the news come in while wondering if I was going to get fired. Eventually I heard from a friend that worked there that I was fine but that work was closed for a few days. The world changed a LOT after that day in ways that a lot of people who weren't adults at the time may not fully grasp.
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Post by underjohngrohs on Sept 14, 2017 1:17:15 GMT -5
I was in 1st grade. I actually was living in lower Manhattan at the time. I used to see the twin towers from my apartment building as I lived on the 10th floor. I remember my teacher stopped class and said our parents are coming to get us. I remember my mom came and got me and we went outside and it just smelled like a big bonfire all of NYC. I remember she tried explaining to me what happened and I remember saying "is this what happened to Aaliyah?" As she died around that time in a plane crash I remember just being kinda confused and that being in my head. Would never forget going home and seeing smoke rise from where the towers would be seen from my room. Recently I just got the NYC skyline tattooed on my shoulder and it was the skyline I used to see as a child. Aaliyah's crash was an accident because the pilot may have had too much to drink or seeing what i just read when I came across your comment that there was a heated argument with the pilot and Aaliyah's crew. They said that the equipment would be in the way. So Aaliyah's plane crash was an accident. 9/11 not an accident. These idiots did it and they had the right to celebrate in their streets.
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Post by Denver Broncos Fan on Sept 14, 2017 3:51:03 GMT -5
In class literally cracking jokes with my friends about the whole thing before we knew the full details of the situation. At first, we all thought it was merely an accident.
That obviously turned out not to be the case.
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Post by underjohngrohs on Sept 14, 2017 4:47:19 GMT -5
In class literally cracking jokes with my friends about the whole thing before we knew the full details of the situation. At first, we all thought it was merely an accident. That obviously turned out not to be the case. Once you know that it's a joke. It ain't. It's a serious matter. No one didn't expect it.
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Post by Stuart? on Sept 14, 2017 5:13:43 GMT -5
I was pretty young (I had just turned 3) but I remember my parents and I had just moved to the UK from California on the Sunday evening and my mom had taken a couple of days off of work to try to get our new house furnished. I had been sitting on the living room floor playing with my figures and I turned on the TV so I could watch one of my WWF VHS tapes and BBC News was on and my mom turned around as she heard the reporter talking about what had happened and showing the footage. I didn't understand what it was at the time as I was so young and like a few others on here, I thought it was just a movie or something but later on, I grew to understand the severity of the attacks and how much they affected people in the long run.
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Post by Halloween King on Sept 14, 2017 6:48:07 GMT -5
I was in bed. I woke up to watch tv and the news were on. I didnt want to watch the news so I changed the channel. But every channel had the same thing on. At first I thought it was a fire in the World Trade Center because I could see the building and smoke but I wasnt paying attention. I was looking for a dvd to watch when I noticed people were jumping out of the fire to their certain death. This is when I paid attention. And shortly there after the second tower was struck.
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Post by @.@ Hempsterdance @.@ on Sept 15, 2017 0:42:28 GMT -5
In Manhattan skipping school, I caught the first ferry back to staten island I could and made it back to school with enough time to hear my parents were there to pick me up.
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Post by FBtagteamsrule on Sept 18, 2017 15:26:10 GMT -5
In the Army in Germany eating dinner.
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Post by FUSamBaker on Sept 18, 2017 16:02:00 GMT -5
I remember that day so well...
I was in the fourth grade. I remember waking up at about 11:00 am that day. My parents had not bothered to wake me up. I looked at the clock, went into my parent's room and said, "I'm super late for school!" My dad was in his police uniform and my mom was still in a bath robe and towel wrapped around her head. My mom said, "the world trade towers just went down. Two planes hit them." The news looked like a movie. I thought they were watching a movie. It was unbelievable. They kept me home from school that day.
I live in Dayton Ohio so many people were nervous. With Wright Patterson being so close, we were afraid a terrorist attack could happen on base. I remember the city heard a sonic boom from a plane that day. I heard screams. I really thought the world was going to end.
It chokes me up to write that. I don't think there are many Americans that didn't think our world was ending that day. I believed our country was over. The next day at school was crazy. That's all we talked about. There was, for awhile after, a HUGE sense of togetherness. Blacks, whites, gays, Christians, Jews...all Americans were together in solidarity. It's sad how so many have forgotten about that solidarity.
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Post by Evil Abed on Sept 18, 2017 17:14:47 GMT -5
7th grade, I remember kids getting called out of class because their mom or dad was being given their details for overseas assignments that day.
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Post by PJ on Sept 18, 2017 18:50:23 GMT -5
I had just gotten back home from dropping our daughter off for her first day of pre-school.
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Post by REAL REVY on Sept 18, 2017 19:55:11 GMT -5
I'll never forget it; I was at home
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Sept 21, 2017 0:00:31 GMT -5
If it wasn't for WWE RAW, I might have not known about the attacks on the day that they happened. I had gotten off an overnight shift, and returned to my apartment where I turned off the ringer to my phone shortly thereafter. I was preparing to go to bed when I remembered that I had taped RAW. I was tired, so I scanned through the show. As I turned off the power to the VCR, I saw an image on the news of the first tower on fire. I didn't initially process that I was seeing anything other than a report about a fire in NYC when the plane hit the second tower. This brought me out of my exhausted haze, and suddenly I was hearing the word "terrorism" used in the report. I called some family and friends before I went to sleep, including a buddy in the Navy, whom I thought might be quickly deployed.
The following summer, I visited Ground Zero. The sight of those massive craters and people still weeping for those whom they lost is something that's etched clearly in my memory. I saw the chilling work of fanatical hatred, and I couldn't help but be emotionally shaken.
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Post by Odafin Tutuola on Oct 15, 2017 23:29:01 GMT -5
I was in high school when it happen and I saw the black smoke from a window cause my school wasn't to far from the World Trade Center. I remember my mom and aunt came to pick me up from school and went to my aunt's house and see what happen on tv. It was a crazy time in NYC. It was tough getting around ground zero.
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Post by CampCornette on Oct 30, 2017 8:03:49 GMT -5
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Post by ~ Cymru ~ on Nov 3, 2017 17:30:06 GMT -5
In high school I remember getting home and it was all over the TV. Must have happened about and hour and a half before I got home it all happened.
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Post by BSR on Nov 3, 2017 23:41:25 GMT -5
I woke up to everyone in my house freaking out about it. I still wasn't sober from a party the night before. That sure sobered me up quick. I'll never forget that day.
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Post by Nivro™ on Nov 5, 2017 16:36:10 GMT -5
Saw this thread again and asked the girl Im dating where she was when it happened. She gave me a blank stare and after a pause said, " i was 3......"
Ah well at least she's legal.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Nov 6, 2017 11:05:21 GMT -5
Saw this thread again and asked the girl Im dating where she was when it happened. She gave me a blank stare and after a pause said, " i was 3......" Ah well at least she's legal. Lmao wow
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Post by BØRNS on Nov 16, 2017 3:29:10 GMT -5
I was being driven to 3rd grade.
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