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re: Where were you on 9/11/01?
Posted on 9/11/23 at 12:47 pm to LSURussian
Posted on 9/11/23 at 12:47 pm to LSURussian
quote:College, a Tuesday pretty sure. It happened to be the day I had almost all fo my classes. I had did that on purpose to get it all done in 1 day and have a light schedule the rest of the week.
Where were you on 9/11/01?
Woke up early, no TV or nothing turned on. Got in my car, driving to school, it's no every radio station. 5 minute drive to school, so I had barely had enough time to figure out what happened. At this time, it was just the 1 plane that hit the tower.
Get into a 1.5 hour class, can't recall, think it was 8am CST, but not sure. Teacher said we can't let the terrorists win, so we're just gonna have regular class. That's when the 2nd tower was hit.
Went to another class right after. Then a 1 hour break for lunch, then a class from 2-5p and another class from 6p-9p.
Only the last teacher allowed us to watch the news, and that was only the last half of the class.
So I basically watched darn near zero coverage of it all day.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 12:50 pm to LSURussian
A genetics class at UF. Went and watched the news on tvs outside the journalism building.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 12:53 pm to LSURussian
Walking into 7th grade English class. Teacher had the TV on when we walked in. Ms Palermo at Slidell Junior High.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 12:57 pm to TheNolaClap
in my apartment on 6th and 23rd ... walked down 6th avenue toward the WTC and one of the towers collapsed when i hit around 14th street. Saw it go down, but could not hear anything. It was eerie.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 12:59 pm to LSURussian
quote:
Where were you on 9/11/01?
I literally have no idea
Posted on 9/11/23 at 12:59 pm to LSURussian
Got back from class to my house and was sitting around smoking a bowl the normal. Then it popped on the tv remember classes being canceled etc.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 1:00 pm to LSURussian
Wife and I were living in Aberdeen Scotland. Had left the house about 30 minutes earlier on the way to Northern Scotland to play golf at Royal Dornoch. I had a conference call with Houston and called in on my car phone. As soon as I called in I was speaking with one of the guys in Houston and he asked me if I had heard about a small plane or something that hit one of the towers? He said there was a small fire on one of the floors. Didn't think much of it and we started the meeting.
About 10-15 minutes into the meeting I heard a lot of commotion and someone had come into the meeting room and was talking. Could tell something was going on. My boss picked up and spoke to me direct. He said another plane has hit the other tower and apparently the U.S. was under some kind of attack. We got off the phone. I u-turned and headed straight home.
We got home and were flipping back and forth between BBC and CNN International Less than 10 minutes after we got home the smoke started gushing out with high force just below the roof and the camera panned out just as the first tower collapsed. Absolutely shocking.
MY normal route back to Houston was through Newark. Wife is from NY. Our first trip back to the states was about 30 days later. I had been connecting there for years and the towers were always there. Sometimes we would stay a few nights. For the trip back to the U.S. I looked at the weather and chose seats on left side of plane and when we came in to Newark it was from the North. The entire plane was looking out the left windows and there was this trail of gray smoke coming up where the towers used to be. It was completely silent, no announcements, no talking... no nothing, which was pretty unsettling. Funeral feel to it. Will never forget it.
About 10-15 minutes into the meeting I heard a lot of commotion and someone had come into the meeting room and was talking. Could tell something was going on. My boss picked up and spoke to me direct. He said another plane has hit the other tower and apparently the U.S. was under some kind of attack. We got off the phone. I u-turned and headed straight home.
We got home and were flipping back and forth between BBC and CNN International Less than 10 minutes after we got home the smoke started gushing out with high force just below the roof and the camera panned out just as the first tower collapsed. Absolutely shocking.
MY normal route back to Houston was through Newark. Wife is from NY. Our first trip back to the states was about 30 days later. I had been connecting there for years and the towers were always there. Sometimes we would stay a few nights. For the trip back to the U.S. I looked at the weather and chose seats on left side of plane and when we came in to Newark it was from the North. The entire plane was looking out the left windows and there was this trail of gray smoke coming up where the towers used to be. It was completely silent, no announcements, no talking... no nothing, which was pretty unsettling. Funeral feel to it. Will never forget it.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 1:01 pm to LSURussian
C-Port 1 slip 5, they rang the fire alarms under the building and called on the radio and told all of us to depart the slips. We pulled out of there and pushed the mud on the other side of the bayou. There were f-18's circling over town for hours.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 1:06 pm to LSURussian
At home. Missed the school bus that day. Watching cartoon network when it changed to CBS News. I will never forget it.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 1:31 pm to LSURussian
At a defense contractor's office building in Orlando. It was just a standard multi-story office building - no guards or anything. That changed with quickness.
Used the website "freerepublic" for information as the news sites were impossible to get on.
Long drive home that Friday.
Used the website "freerepublic" for information as the news sites were impossible to get on.
Long drive home that Friday.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 1:45 pm to LSURussian
Working at Wilson Lumber Co. in Huntsville, AL.
I was deployed October 6th, 2001 until August 20th, 2003.
I was deployed October 6th, 2001 until August 20th, 2003.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 1:47 pm to LSURussian
Sophomore at LSU. I had a morning class and heard about it/saw it at LSU student union.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 2:03 pm to LSURussian
I was on west coast time so on my way to PT formation when I heard about the first plane which everyone assumed was an accident. I heard about the second plane right after PT and it, of course, was obvious it was an attack at that point. I was eating breakfast in the chow hall when I saw the first tower collapse.
Spent the next 48 hours getting all our equipment ready for deployment, and the next few weeks pulling 6 hours on/6 hours off 24/7 guard duty on our motor pool in case that was the next target.
Part of my unit ended up deploying in October sometime, but I wouldn't actually go anywhere until Valentine's Day 2003, when I deployed for the Iraq invasion.
Spent the next 48 hours getting all our equipment ready for deployment, and the next few weeks pulling 6 hours on/6 hours off 24/7 guard duty on our motor pool in case that was the next target.
Part of my unit ended up deploying in October sometime, but I wouldn't actually go anywhere until Valentine's Day 2003, when I deployed for the Iraq invasion.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 2:07 pm to LSURussian
Had just moved and had no TV yet. Had to go to the gym to watch. I did about 40 miles on the treadmill that day. That night, our kids collected all of their piggy bank money and we drove to NOLA to donate it somewhere.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 2:07 pm to CocomoLSU
quote:
my 9:00 class and the professor came in and told us about it and sent us home.
Same here.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 2:28 pm to LSURussian
I was a senior in high school and our principal would not let the teachers turn the TVs on, even though every classroom had a television. I had a cell phone for emergency's only and I called my mom and she just said to come straight home after school. I'm ashamed to say, I didn't know what the WTC were, and she just said "Home Alone 2"...and then I knew. I always hated our principal not letting the teachers turn the tv's on, felt like I was robbed of history. I guess his reasoning was he didn't want kids freaking out, but I felt like it created more because no one really understood what was going on. I was a freshman when Columbine happened, so I had already learned that life can change in an instant, but this just shook me to my core...really felt innocence lost. Now that I'm thinking about it, my school is close to the Exxon plant in BR...strange we didn't get sent home.
ETA It makes me feel really old that some people on here were only in 2nd grade
ETA It makes me feel really old that some people on here were only in 2nd grade
This post was edited on 9/11/23 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 9/11/23 at 2:28 pm to LSURussian
New Jersey had to rent a u-haul to get home.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 2:31 pm to LSURussian
BASF in Geismar. Working electrical construction in the plant. They blew an airhorn called us all into the tent and then told us all to go home. Was home by noon.
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