re: Where were you on 9/11/01?

Running around in diapers

Talking to an IBM employee who was in New York city at the time. She asked me if I was sitting down and proceeded to tell me that an airplane had hit one of the towers. That was before anyone knew what was going on.

On the roof of the World Trade Mart in New Orleans. They evacuated the building because it was sometimes referred to as the World Trade Center so they scooted us out pretty quick.

Wife was in Glendive, Montana. Caught a ride to Miles City-rented a car and drove back by herself.

Jr High.

2nd period was when the first strike, between 2nd and 3rd was the second. 3rd was gym, so outside running and didn’t hear a thing, come into lunch and the teachers are trying to get the projectors running for the news, by the time of 4th period, they’d collapsed and it was nothing but aftermath.

I had no idea it was called the World Trade Center so didn’t realize what happened until I got home

Got up that morning to drive to class at LSU. I always listened to sports radio in the morning, so when I started my car and heard the news on the radio I thought "WTF, who changed the channel?" Then when I confirmed it was the sports radio channel I thought "WTF? Did the station just suddenly change its format from sports radio over night with no warning?"

I listened for a few moments before reaching the parking lot (that when breaking news was still "breaking news!") and heard there was an accident in NYC and a small plane had apparently hit the WTC. I didn't think much of it other than it being an accident so I just went to class as usual. There was nothing particularly unusual about the class. After it ended, I walked back to my truck to drive to work for the day. I didn't talk to anyone on my walk back and this was the era before smart phones and really text messages. I had gotten a cell phone for the first time in my life not too long before so it's not like it ws glued to my hand. In fact, I think I probably left it in the car.

When I started the truck the radio was still on the same station, but this time the tone was much more serious. The reporter was talking about a second plane hitting the buildings and I knew it was no longer an accident. There was a lot of confusion and unknown in the early aftermath. Once I got to work the TV was already on with my co-workers all gathered around, watching. It took a few hours it seemed for the severity and realization to set in that this was an attack on the country.

I was at a prep school in Connecticut (My one and only year). First day of classes, and the entire school took an all school photo on the football field. Right after we finished taking the picture was when I heard the first whispers of it getting passed around. We went back to the dorm and huddled in one of the faculty apartments and watched the second plane hit the building. It was awful to sit there and listen to a couple of kids hammer dialing parents/relatives that they had in the buildings. If I remember correctly, everyone but maybe a godparent or something made it out of the buildings that these guys were related to.

Months later, we went back and looked at the flight path of the two planes out of Boston. The first plane that hit the tower turned off course towards new york right over our campus at about the same time we were taking the all school picture mentioned above. Its creepy to look at on this day and think that still has that connection to that event.

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"I had did that"

Jeez

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It's not an English paper, Sparky.

Quad on a bench by Middleton

Barksdale AFB. Wild arse day