re: Annual 9/11 Thread - 19 Years Later

I was in the 9th grade. It's a event that will forever be etched in my mind. As a new generation comes up behind us, it's our job to teach them what happened to the men, women and children of America that day. Let us never forget.

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make sure to stop by the 9/11 museum

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It is very well done

Will never forget that day as long as I live.

I was in my apartment at Auburn. Got up that morning and took a shower, but I didn't have class until around 11ish.

Got out of the shower and I had an IM on ICQ from a friend saying "Turn on the tv, a plane just hit one of the Twin Towers in NYC." I flipped on CNN and just a few minutes later saw the second plane hit. I couldn't believe it.

Rumors start flying, even on the major networks, about all of these other targets - AF1, Sears Tower in Chicago, places in Atlanta. I call my mom because she is in Atlanta, and while I'm on the phone with her, the first tower falls.

Auburn had a memorial service on the Samford Lawn later that week and I went, and then drove back to Atlanta that Friday afternoon. I stopped for gas somewhere on the southside of the city and there was a group of firefighters collecting donations for FDNY.

I later found out that an old friend of the family who worked for the Cantor Fitzgerald office in Dallas had been in NYC the week before (Cantor's corporate offices were floors 101 - 105 of 1 WTC [north tower]). That morning the Dallas office was on a conference call with some folks in NY and were on the phone with them when the tower was hit.

My cousin was in basic training at Benning. He ended up joining the 82nd Airborne and deployed to Afghanistan not too long after.

Let's not forget.

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As a new generation comes up behind us, it's our job to teach them what happened to the men, women and children of America that day. Let us never forget.

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Amen to that.

I'll never forget the sound of my wife's voice that morning when she called me. I picked up the phone and, through her tears, she said, "Terrorist planes are attacking New York City!" I was working nights at the time, but I never went to bed that day. Stayed glued to the TV.

I didn't see either plane hit live, but I remember them cutting to the Pentagon shortly after that plane hit...then to Shanksville when that plane went down...then all the rumors of other planes headed for the White House. One image that sticks with me is the cascade of papers and other small objects that were blown out of the lower windows of the towers as they collapsed.

Never, ever forget...

I was at work sitting at my desk listening to the radio heard what was going on we turned on the TV and we saw what was going on. My parents live just right down the street from my office so I went to the house, my dad was home my mom was at work and my father and I sat on the couch all day long and watched this whole thing unfold we didn’t know what was going on we couldn’t understand we didn’t even know if it was real or not. I don’t think we said a word to each other for several hours

Never forget

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As a new generation comes up behind us, it's our job to teach them what happened to the men, women and children of America that day. Let us never forget.

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My first ever "I feel old" moment was last year when I visited the 9/11 museum. As we were at one of the exhibits that shows a video of flight 175 hitting the south tower, these kids that couldn't have been more than 15 years old were borderline laughing when one said "woah it went in like butter!"

I was immediately jealous that they could watch that without remembering the fear and panic we all did on that day. It was as if my friends and I had watched the zapruder and joked about JFK's head exploding.

It's a much different sight when you didn't experience it in the moment, and I found myself wishing I was viewing it through that lense for just a moment. That museum is emotionally draining, but beautiful.

I am so glad I was 14 and not 18 when this happened. frickin
awful day, and I feel for all our boys as well that got wrapped into that god awful place Afghanistan because of it

I was a senior and there were so many rumors that we were all going to get drafted