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

About to go to class in college

Driving into the office in Charlotte…back when it was a clean safe city and you didn’t have to worry about getting stabbed on a train.

Driving to an early class at LSU. I generally left my radio on a sports talk station, so I was surprised to hear news talk about a plane crash into a building in NYC. The discussion at that time didn't seem to be overly serious, seemingly suggesting the crash was just an accident. I remember thinking, "Dammit! They canceled the ONE sports-talk radio station in BR. What the hell am I going to listen to now?"

I parked and went to class like a normal day. It was only when I was walking in the Quad leaving class hearing people talk that I realized something serious had apparently happened and that the plane crash may not have been an accident. I got back into my car and heard on the radio, for the first time, that two planes had crashed into the WTC and it clearly wasn't by accident. I then drove to work and everyone was watching TV showing one of the burning buildings. I think the 1st tower had already collapsed by that point.

Just a surreal day as everything in the world seemed to stop

Law school. Second year. No class that AM. Had planned to work a few hours in my law clerk position before afternoon classes, but ended up oversleeping. Awoke and turned on TV to see pandemonium. Don’t exactly recall where it was in the sequence of events, but I got dressed and headed into the office. Once there, everyone was assembled outside my office watching the only TV. Eventually got word that classes were cancelled, so I went back home and just huddled up with my new wife.

We had just started visiting Parkview Baptist a few weeks earlier. We would sit in the back. Unrelated, we usually sat behind Vernon Roger. Anyway, attendance for the early service was usually sparse. I remember going back the following Sunday, and it was packed.

Sending a fax at the exact moment the second plane hit the second tower. I still have the fax confirmation sheet with the macabre date stamp.

In downtown houston, working for one of the big public accounting firms. The only TV was in a bank lobby of a neighboring building, there were hundreds of people gathered around by the time the second building was hit. Then we all started to notice the first tower starting to move a bit. When it fell, everyone gasped. I took off and went home to watch the same video of the towers falling on a 24 hour loop trying to wrap my head around what just happened.

Work in Lexington

7th grade math class. Teacher came in crying and saying some planes flew into the skyscrapers. I had no idea what a skyscraper even was at that time because I had never heard anybody call a really tall building a skyscraper. so I was scratching my head until she turned on the tv and I seen it was the twin towers in NY.

at work in my state office.

I left to go give blood I was a second person in line Then I bought every small flag at the Hobby Lobby and handed it out at a major intersection
A photographer of the Houston Chronicle snapped a picture of me and appeared in the paper

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a picture of me

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fabulous hair