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re: Where were you on 9/11/01?
Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:24 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:24 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
In the courtyard at my school. Overheard one of the girls in my class telling someone about the tower being hit.
Continued with school that day like nothing was wrong. 7th grade and above were called into the auditorium to watch the footage on a screen. I wasn't.
I remember riding home with my mom and seeing how distraught she was. My dad was very flustered that evening too. I remember only being able to watch Cartoon Network the next few nights, because every other station was showing footage of the attacks.
Continued with school that day like nothing was wrong. 7th grade and above were called into the auditorium to watch the footage on a screen. I wasn't.
I remember riding home with my mom and seeing how distraught she was. My dad was very flustered that evening too. I remember only being able to watch Cartoon Network the next few nights, because every other station was showing footage of the attacks.
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Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:27 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
The rifle range at MCBH K Bay
Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:40 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
I went to Ground Zero. I was on a Coast Guard special boat unit in Virginia. We took the boats by trailer to Staten Island and went straight to North Cove Marina, Manhatten. Spent 60 days - mostly vessel boardings, security zone work and shuttling first responder crew changes from Manhattan to a staging area at Sea Stadium. I will never forget that experience.
This post was edited on 9/11/15 at 10:44 am
Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:41 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Chemistry
Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:41 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
I was a senior in HS. Our principal instructed teachers to NOT turn on any TVs, not wanting to scare everyone, which of course only created more hysteria. To this day, I still feel we were robbed of watching history. 
quote:Very well written, last paragraph gave me goose bumps
IonaTiger
This post was edited on 9/11/15 at 10:46 am
Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:44 am to TigerTerp
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TigerTerp
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IN the Pentagon
Tell us more please
Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:47 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
On the way to work. Heard it on the radio and got to the office and watched the coverage of it online the rest of the day. Saw the 2nd plane hit on the live stream.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:51 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
I was in 3rd grade. I went to school early in the morning, and our principal said we wouldn't have school today. Not knowing anything going on, I thought it was great. Then I remember my mom angrily dragging me to the TV showing the Twin Towers falling down and she says, "See that? That's why you don't have school." I realized that it was one of the saddest days in America's history, and a day that will always go down in infamy. It was such a sad day for everyone, especially the families of the victims. God bless America!
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:08 am to ch536153
At work. Later that night assigned to SFO. Leaving my wife kids that night was one of the roughest things I've ever done. Doing a security sweep in the international terminal, it was so empty, so quiet because there were no people, the airport seemed virtually abandoned like a post apocalyptic scene from a movie. I remember the only sound was the clicking sound of the bomb dogs claws as they walked across the tile floors. Then all of a sudden everything lit up as the last plane in the sky, a KAL flight that had been past the point of no return landed with two F-15s escorting it. It was something I'll never forget.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:12 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Air Force Basic Training.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:15 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Getting off the bus in middle school
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:16 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
On 37th and 6th in NYC going to subway. Hard to witness
Obviously didn't get in the subway; went North..
Obviously didn't get in the subway; went North..
This post was edited on 9/11/15 at 11:21 am
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:17 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
I was in 6th grade and we were sitting in class when another teacher came in and announced that the World Trade Center had been bombed. He then came back and said the Pentagon had been bombed too. We didn't have TV's at my school so info was very fuzzy. We all knew something major was happening but at that age I didn't know what either of those buildings were. Our 6th grade teacher said a prayer and we had a moment of silence. She had a brother in DC and NYC at the time so she was pretty upset. The school told 6th graders and up (K-8) school. They cancelled recess and kept everyone inside and told the lower grades that there were too many fire ants to go outside. All after school activities were cancelled and I really realized how serious it was when my mom picked me up from school and looked really scared. Day we'll never forget for sure.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:20 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
I was in Mr. Harry Bodie's classroom in 8th grade when the principal made the announcement after the first tower fell. Next period, Ms. Jones had the TV turned on and we got to the class a couple minutes after the second tower fell. We watched the coverage the rest of the class. In 4th period, our math teacher Mrs. Cummins refused to let anybody turn on the tv and taught her lesson plan as if nothing had happened.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:22 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
High School Civics class I think.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:22 am to BamaChemE
I worked at a hospital in the Houston Medical Center. It was so weird to look up and see no planes in the sky, hear very little chatter and laughter in the halls, and seeing people just trying to get through the day and back home to their families.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:23 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
I was at Ft Knox KY in school for 19K armor crewman BNCOC. We were in the motor pool assembling and disassembling M2 50 cals and listening to a morning radio show. I think it was Rick Dees.
Anyway, once the shite hit the fan, they took us to the day room and locked us down. Since we were in school and away from our duty stations, there was a period of 2 weeks where no one knew what to do with us....do we continue with school or do they send us to our units (I was stationed at Ft Hood) to prepare to go to war.
Getting locked down and restricted to post on Ft Knox was about the longest 2 weeks of my life.
Anyway, once the shite hit the fan, they took us to the day room and locked us down. Since we were in school and away from our duty stations, there was a period of 2 weeks where no one knew what to do with us....do we continue with school or do they send us to our units (I was stationed at Ft Hood) to prepare to go to war.
Getting locked down and restricted to post on Ft Knox was about the longest 2 weeks of my life.
This post was edited on 9/11/15 at 11:26 am
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:26 am to vl100butch
in the labs of the Biological Engineering building (E.B. Doran) at LSU
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:28 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
2nd Grade at lunch/recess. I remember a bunch of kids getting taken home early that day.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:30 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Brother Ken's freshman religion class St. Pauls. I'll never forget it.
This post was edited on 9/11/15 at 11:31 am
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