re: What were you doing on 9/11?

In HS, we watched on a tv in the room. One of the teachers ran down the hall screaming "were going to war!"

4th year of college...not senior year! Woke up, saw it on TV, called my then gf and went to class. I had criminal justice that morning. Left and went to watch on TV...I'll leave out details but it was with a group of friends, one of whom's father was in one of the towers. He was a mess, crying, flipping out. They never found anything from his dad, not a bone, tooth, ID, nothing.

Was living in NOLA with my wife and 1 y.o. son. We were young and broke so only had one car. I was bringing my wife to work at Touro and Rod Ryan on 106.7 came on the radio and said, essentially; look, I know we joke around a lot, but what I'm about to tell you is not a joke. One of the twin towers has been struck by a commercial plane.

I turned around and went back home in time to see the 2nd plane hit. My then FIL talked me out of joining the Marines.

I was working for a air carrier. It was a bad day for all.

Sitting in the fuel shop at Little Rock AFB

I assumed we would retaliate... Didn't think we'd still be dealing with this shite 17 years later

I deployed shortly after

History class. Cue the cliche, but my teacher said one day I'll be teaching about this.

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Being treated like a POW at SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) Training at Fairchild AFB, WA. They didn't stop training so we didn't find out until late that evening. When they broke the news we thought the instructors were just fricking with us with another "training scenario" and we were going to go back to the camps. I knew it was real when they had the Chaplain come in to pray with us for the victims and families. Very surreal moment when we got to go to the dorms and see all the replays on FoxNews/CNN.

Was at the office. Drove home that evening, sun was about to set, and some boys were tossing around a football-as we did as kids-thought to myself, your world has changed forever and you don't even realize it, God bless each of you

I was 23. I can never unsee those people spinning in the air that decided to jump rather than burn to death

Was in my office, sweating my bar results.

Couldn't figure out why FoxNews website was stalling out/slow.

Friend called and said a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers.

Found a TV just in time to hear the report of the second plane hitting.

Wife called panicked because she had heard the Pentagon had been hit asking if we were at war and if she should pick up our son from daycare. Told her to get him and head to her parents.

Spent the rest of the day watching TV, first at work, then when I got home.

If the Armed Forces of the United States had been at my disposal, Afghanistan would have been a sheet of glass and the rest of the Muslim world would be on notice that if an American stubbed their toe, Mecca would be levelled.