Where were you, what were you doing on 9/11?

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I was working at Corning in Midland, NC. I was in a training class learning how to operate the cherry pickers. We all had pagers that would give us news updates about every hour. The pagers started giving us news updates about every 5 minutes after the attack. Our instructor kept going to another room with a TV and giving us the latest info. Nobody could believe what was happening. Folks that had family in NY were trying to contact them. My brother-in-law was stuck in traffic on one of the bridges.

To anyone who is military, police, firefighter, first responder, medical staff, or any other hero I left out, I truly thank you.
 
believe it or not I was picking my boss up from RDU airport. It was a nightmare to find him. I eneded up roaming around outside for 5 hrs untill I bumped into him.

FWIW I had two cousins die in the towers. Both were Port Authority police, one was the only female municiple worker to die in tis tragedy. RIP
 
sitting at my Coast Guard Station. getting morning orders.
 
Working under a huge cross saw at a flooring plant in Garner. they called off production and we all watched on TV. We were sent home to be with our family after lunch.
 
i was a senior in high school. didn't find out about it until my second class when a kid came in and said a plane hit the wtc. we saw on cbs.com and then found out the second one hit. finally in my last class, the teacher let us turn on a tv with like 20 minutes left of the school day. i don't think they ever even made an announcement at school.
 
I was in class at University of Delaware and the teacher kept us the whole time... ended up apologizing the next day.


After class, I went to work (ambulance company) and we packed up 2 ambulances with supplies and personal and sent them to NYC, and I went to AI DuPont Children's Hospital with an ambulance to help them get ready for possible evacuation of NYC patients.

Luckily we did not need to evacuate people from NYC, we just went to a hospital in Lewes, DE as a routine transport. It was kinda early at night, maybe 10pm, but there was no one on the road, no one in the sky, eerily quiet. I will never forget that feeling.



Funny/sad/interesting story from the nurses:

On the morning of 9/12, when everything in the air was still grounded, they went with the Delaware State Police (DSP) in their helicopter to pick up a sick kid at Atlantic City hospital. To get there, you had to get permission from Atlantic City Airport (AC) to enter AC air space. DSP always got these codes every 12 hours and everything was set...

As they were approaching AC airspace they had this little altercation:

AC: What is the code for the entering AC?

DSP : (what they thought was the code)

AC: That code is incorrect. What is the code to enter AC?

DSP: (what they thought was the code again)

AC: That is incorrect. Land your helicopter NOW.

DSP: This is the Delaware State Police on a critical medical transport to Atlantic City Hospital. The codes were confirmed before we took off. We need to continue to the Atlantic City hospital to pick up a sick child.

AC: No, you need to land your helicopter right now. Look over your left shoulder.

DSP: (looks over to see 2 fully loaded F-16's pacing them) 10-4 AC. We will be landing in the first safe LZ we can find.



I went out to pick up the nurses, and DSP sent a truck and trailer to get the helicopter.

AC started changing the codes every 6 hours and did not tell DSP.

Luckily the kid was fine, and the fight crew was fine after a quick underwear change.
 
I was at Cargill/Nutrena in Wilson, NC fabricating a hopper in the basement tunnel. Plant employees came and got us after the first one hit and we stood there watching, then watched the second one hit live. That day was terrible. I couldn't believe it. I thought for sure it was a new-age TV version of the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast program back in the mid 1900s that was fake and a lot of people thought it was real. I hoped it was fake. Unfortunately it wasn't. RIP everyone that was lost that tragic day.
 
I was at work on a Helpdesk and was watching it live on cnn, until 30,000 other employees tried to watch also and crashed the internet.. so we dragged in an old tv with rabbit ears and watched..

I am from NY/CT and it was just shocking to watch, especially when we saw the 2nd plane in LIVE tv hit the other tower..
 
I was at a truss plant in Liberty pulling a forklift trans. We heard the news of the first one from a girl in office and drug out a small TV that the shop guys had. It was so unreal watching as things unfolded that day.
 
8th grade social studies class. Sitting front and center and the assistant principal came around and told the classes one by one. They never once made an announcement over the intercom. They even came around to tell us all to turn it off one class at a time.
 
I was setting in math class at my high school. We had TVs in our room hooked up to the library and they had the cable on believe it or not. A teacher from a near by room came in and told our teacher, we turned on the tv and not 5 min later we actually watched the 2nd plane hit.
 
Walking into Coach Gordan's freshmen econ thingy that I can't remeber the name too. He rigged up the tv with a coat hanger and I was the only one in the class to watch the 2nd plane hit on tv :(
 
I was @ the shop near my G'ma's building a couple of control panels......walked up & watched after the first one & then saw the 2nd one slam through the building.

Terrible, terrible day for Americans as a whole.

God bless the families that lost loved ones.....
 
Man you kids are young. I was sitting in the same building I'm in right now, in a cube maybe 50ft away from where I was 7 years ago, doing a similar job, surfing the same internet.
 
Driving to the shop that I work at, and heard it on the radio....got to the shop and watched the second plane hit. A very gutless feeling to say the least.
 
I remember it as clear as day, same as other big events, like when the first space shuttle (challenger) blew up (when i was in 6th grade)..

I was at work, drink cup#3 of coffee, coworker came by with this eery look on his face, asked if we had seen the news. CNN/news sites were all but useless due to the overload, so we all listened to a radio station. Then someone found a tv in a closet to hook up and get a local station... That was about all we did... I felt a bit lost and I remember I was angry just watching it.. Being from NY, even upstate, I have been to or on most of those places/bridges, so seeing them flooded with people walking home and such... Really pissed me off...

I even hung my flag out today...
 
I was working at the "future site" of Rooms To Go Distribution/Clearance outlet in Charlotte Laying the electrical underground. For those that have been through this is the one right on the side of I85 about 3 miles from the airport.

This was still a red slab, no radios no TVs.
Planes began circling over head, so much so that it was creepy. I am guessing looking straight up we could see 12 or more planes that could not land at Charlotte Douglas.

Walked back up to my office/job trailer about 11:15....everything was pretty much over at that point. I called the whole crew in and cut them loose. At that point we didnt know if more planes were in the air, and there was mass paranoia about Charlotte being a banking hub etc.

I lost 3 friends in the WTC and we were supposed to be there with them.
I remember being pissed, raging, wanting revenge. Went to my grandmother's to pick up my son whom she was keeping at the time, and holding him (10 months at the time) and wondering what had just happened to the world he would grow up in.

The next morning we left out headed to NYC to help, but never got to ground zero. Boss called us off as he had contacts in NYC that said people were pouring in to help find survivors and there were too many, we turned around mid way through Maryland.

RIP to all Lost that day, and I hope the souls of all responsible never rest.
 
Sitting at my desk, REALLY pissed off and annoyed that a coworker threw a fit, so I had to cancel going to see my buddy for his birthday.
4 of us were driving up the weekend before, and PLANNING to stay till Wednesday. His birthday was Tuesday. 9-11.
At the time he was working in tower 2.

Anyway, spent the morning freaking out for my buddy, the weird feeling that I should be there, and just general not having a clue. Around 3 pm, he got through to me on the phone, (he'd been trying to call anyone since that morning) to let people know they were ok. He gave me a list of names and numbers of people to call to let others know they were ok.
Hangover had kept him from going into work that morning.
I called his parents who were terrified, then just sat and watched tv. Called some other people for him.

Tried figuring out something to do, helped load up trucks and ham equipment from Ericsson in Va, and then realized "cube sitter" is not really a skill needed in an emergency.

So sat there and watched tv. Then spent some time with my parents that evening.
 
i was in seventh grade. we were in social studies class in the cafeteria doing a project on the stage, Mr. Bone was our teacher. He told the class that a plane had hit the world trade centers in NYC, he was under the impression that it was a small single engine plane at the time having received the news 2nd hand. it wasnt until later that day, the next class, that we we're informed that it had in fact been a commercial airliner and that another had hit the other building, the pentagon and one had mysteriously crashed in a field in PA. its a day ill never forget as long as i live.
 
I was driving to work in Kansas City when I heard it on the radio. I thought it was some kind of mean prank at first, like "war of the worlds".

Got to work and they had a little TV in the corner (walls had windows that wrapped around the corner) with everyone watching. That's when it hit that it was real. Heart sinking feeling!! One of the guys watching from the front row was about 250-300 lbs. over 6 ft. tall, ex Army...and out of the corner of his eye he caught something flying towards our building. He yelled "incoming" or something of the sort & hit the floor. Came to find out a few seconds later it was just a bird. Lots of tension in the air!

Couple days later, my roommate and I decided to take some frustration out at the shooting range and were carrying our weapons & ammo out to the truck when our apartment complex neighbors from somewhere middle east were walking in. Guess they thought we were taking matters into our own hands... their eyes got HUGE, and they changed course and went the other way in a hurry.
 
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