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re: Where were you and what were you doing.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 10:58 am to Smokeyone
Posted on 9/11/20 at 10:58 am to Smokeyone
I was eating supper in my apartment in Almaty, Kazakhstan where I was working. Almaty had a 12 hour time difference to New York time.
I had the TV (satellite tv) on Fox News morning show when they interrupted the program to show the smoke coming out of the first tower.
After the second plane hit the south tower, the U.S. embassy called me to tell me not to go to work the next morning and to stay locked in my apartment until the embassy could determine if there was some kind of international Muslim uprising against Americans everywhere. (Kazakhstan is predominantly Muslim.)
About 3 pm the next day I walked the 7 or 8 blocks to the U.S. embassy only to get a block away and see about 10 Kazakh army tanks surrounding the embassy with their guns pointing out away from the embassy. I could see about 3 dozen Kazakh military men carrying AK-47s interspersed among the tanks.
I turned around and went back to my apartment.
On Friday the American ambassador held a "town meeting" for all Americans in Almaty at the largest concert theater in the city. One of the things he told us was the President of Kazakhstan had called him Tuesday night after it was determined the attacks were by Muslim fanatics. President Nazarbayev told the ambassador that he had just ordered his army to protect the American embassy against any threats at all costs.
The tanks were removed on Thursday.
I went back to work on Thursday and the Kazakhs I worked with were embarrassed what their fellow Muslims had done. Their sincere well wishes and apologies were very moving.
I was scheduled to return to the USA that Saturday but had to delay my trip home for about a week because of the US's grounding of all international flights into the U.S.
I had the TV (satellite tv) on Fox News morning show when they interrupted the program to show the smoke coming out of the first tower.
After the second plane hit the south tower, the U.S. embassy called me to tell me not to go to work the next morning and to stay locked in my apartment until the embassy could determine if there was some kind of international Muslim uprising against Americans everywhere. (Kazakhstan is predominantly Muslim.)
About 3 pm the next day I walked the 7 or 8 blocks to the U.S. embassy only to get a block away and see about 10 Kazakh army tanks surrounding the embassy with their guns pointing out away from the embassy. I could see about 3 dozen Kazakh military men carrying AK-47s interspersed among the tanks.
I turned around and went back to my apartment.
On Friday the American ambassador held a "town meeting" for all Americans in Almaty at the largest concert theater in the city. One of the things he told us was the President of Kazakhstan had called him Tuesday night after it was determined the attacks were by Muslim fanatics. President Nazarbayev told the ambassador that he had just ordered his army to protect the American embassy against any threats at all costs.
The tanks were removed on Thursday.
I went back to work on Thursday and the Kazakhs I worked with were embarrassed what their fellow Muslims had done. Their sincere well wishes and apologies were very moving.
I was scheduled to return to the USA that Saturday but had to delay my trip home for about a week because of the US's grounding of all international flights into the U.S.
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Posted on 9/11/20 at 10:59 am to McLemore
in my high school chemistry class (junior year) when the principal came on and announced the attack
I didn't have class the next period... so I went up by our Navy JROTC offices and watched the developments in 1 of those classes and relayed the info to the other JROTC class b/c a Brother was sitting in on that class that day so they couldn't just watch TV
I didn't have class the next period... so I went up by our Navy JROTC offices and watched the developments in 1 of those classes and relayed the info to the other JROTC class b/c a Brother was sitting in on that class that day so they couldn't just watch TV
Posted on 9/11/20 at 10:59 am to Smokeyone
Woke up between the first and second WTC plane strikes. I was in Athens in an awesomely shitty college apartment with an equally awesomely trashy skank. Was in a haze of emotions the rest of the day and got absolutely shitcanned at Boar's Head that night.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:01 am to Smokeyone
In my first apartment. 19 years old, only 2 weeks out of my parents home over a hundred miles away. My roommate started pounding on the door to get me up because we had been out late. Got in front of the TV minutes before the first tower fell. We watched the news all day, not a whole lot was said. It was a lot to process at that age and time of my life. Somehow I realized right there that life really wasn't going to be a non-stop party now that I was out on my own.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:02 am to McLemore
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I know everyone says they saw this and that plane crash live but unless I'm just totally off, I turned it on to see one of them live.
Yeah, my dad saw the second one hit. He said he was watching the news while on the phone telling my mom about the first plane and was stunned when he saw the second one fly in and hit the second building.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:02 am to C-Bear
I was driving into Lafayette, going into work. I was listening to the old Bob and Tom show on the way in and they broke from their regular show to report that a plane had hit the WTC. At the time no one on the show knew it was a airliner and everyone assumed it was a small prop plane or something that got lost in early morning fog and had crashed into the tower.
A few seconds later they went to commercial break and ABC World Wide news came on reporting that an unknown plane had struck the WTC and no further details were available at the time.
15 to 20 minutes later I got to the office on Robley Drive and started my normal routine. Turned on the TV in the tech area and the news was on and they had just revealed it was an airliner that struck the tower. Not long after that the second plane struck the other tower and then it was obvious to everyone what was going on.
We didn't get much work done that day, we all watched the carnage unfold live and just stood in disbelief this was happening. I remember at the end of the day driving back home and people were already line up at the gas pumps. I remember being pissed at those people for how stupid it was to get gas at that moment as most of them were really penny pinching, not really looking past the next hour or so. I was also really pissed that terrorists had just attacked us and hundreds of people had just died.
At that point I just wanted to know that we knew who was responsible and we were going to level them very soon.
Still angry that piece of shite OBL got to walk the earth longer than he should of after that, but he got was coming to him, just wish he would have suffered more before the SEALS sent him packing to Hell.
A few seconds later they went to commercial break and ABC World Wide news came on reporting that an unknown plane had struck the WTC and no further details were available at the time.
15 to 20 minutes later I got to the office on Robley Drive and started my normal routine. Turned on the TV in the tech area and the news was on and they had just revealed it was an airliner that struck the tower. Not long after that the second plane struck the other tower and then it was obvious to everyone what was going on.
We didn't get much work done that day, we all watched the carnage unfold live and just stood in disbelief this was happening. I remember at the end of the day driving back home and people were already line up at the gas pumps. I remember being pissed at those people for how stupid it was to get gas at that moment as most of them were really penny pinching, not really looking past the next hour or so. I was also really pissed that terrorists had just attacked us and hundreds of people had just died.
At that point I just wanted to know that we knew who was responsible and we were going to level them very soon.
Still angry that piece of shite OBL got to walk the earth longer than he should of after that, but he got was coming to him, just wish he would have suffered more before the SEALS sent him packing to Hell.
This post was edited on 9/11/20 at 11:10 am
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:03 am to Smokeyone
In class in middle school. A different teacher barged in and told the teacher that the world trade centers had been attacked by airplanes. We were old enough to know this was a big deal but young enough to not really understand.
A kid in our class got detention because he raised his hand and said “I bet it was someone from the Middle East”
I do remember there was a girl bawling her eyes out in the office because her dad was in NY on business and I think he worked at or close to World Trade and she didn’t know if he was ok. That is when it hit me that it was real. Went home and watched the news the rest of the day in silence
A kid in our class got detention because he raised his hand and said “I bet it was someone from the Middle East”
I do remember there was a girl bawling her eyes out in the office because her dad was in NY on business and I think he worked at or close to World Trade and she didn’t know if he was ok. That is when it hit me that it was real. Went home and watched the news the rest of the day in silence
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:05 am to Smokeyone
Working for a small-town daily newspaper that normally published an afternoon edition.
The chief editor was making his final fixes on the last pages of the paper as we were wrapping up that day’s publication, which was already being plated up on the press. That’s when I saw the TV in the newsroom showing live footage of black smoke coming from the WTC. I yelled to the editor that we were going to have to hold the front page. As the morning progressed, we ultimately had to get the paper finished, as the news on the wire continued to roll in, still not sure if the attack was even over.
I never looked into it, but I suspect we had one of the first newspapers in the country published with coverage of the attacks that day.
The chief editor was making his final fixes on the last pages of the paper as we were wrapping up that day’s publication, which was already being plated up on the press. That’s when I saw the TV in the newsroom showing live footage of black smoke coming from the WTC. I yelled to the editor that we were going to have to hold the front page. As the morning progressed, we ultimately had to get the paper finished, as the news on the wire continued to roll in, still not sure if the attack was even over.
I never looked into it, but I suspect we had one of the first newspapers in the country published with coverage of the attacks that day.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:07 am to Smokeyone
I was fresh out of college and had crashed at a friend's house in Fayetteville. I was asleep on a pullout bed and didn't see either plane hit. The family I was with were watching tv in the next room. As soon as the second plane hit, their screams woke me up.
I jumped out of bed and said "what's going on?" The friend answered: "World War 3!".
I sat in the floor watching the TV non-stop for the next 12 hours. I remember someone going to get KFC at some point.
I jumped out of bed and said "what's going on?" The friend answered: "World War 3!".
I sat in the floor watching the TV non-stop for the next 12 hours. I remember someone going to get KFC at some point.
This post was edited on 9/11/20 at 11:11 am
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:10 am to Smokeyone
10th grade Central high school. They rolled the TV into class and we watched the news for about 30 minutes and then the students were sent home.
The impact didnt really hit until later in the day.
The impact didnt really hit until later in the day.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:12 am to Smokeyone
I was on a construction site in Raceland, La. roughing in the electrical to a bank vault. My dad called and asked me if I had heard what was going on. I replied that I did not and he asked me to go turn on the radio. I went to the truck and turned it on and we sat there for a couple hours listening to the radio together while not really saying anything to each other. When we did talk it was about what was going to take place as we knew we were going to be going to war with somebody and my younger brother was about 4 weeks or so into basic training.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:22 am to Smokeyone
On vacation in the Loire Valley in France with my wife. Was out for a long bike ride around the little town and the hotel owner told us about it when we got back.
Visited Normandy the next day, the big flag flying out front was half mast. One of the saddest moments of my life, looking out over all the graves of our fallen thinking about what just happened at home.
Paris was crazy when we got back there, soldiers everywhere.
We were on one of the first flights out of De Gaulle the following week, flights were jammed. The lady next to us paid someone in line $9,000 for their ticket so she could get back home and be with members of her family who lost people in NYC.
Visited Normandy the next day, the big flag flying out front was half mast. One of the saddest moments of my life, looking out over all the graves of our fallen thinking about what just happened at home.
Paris was crazy when we got back there, soldiers everywhere.
We were on one of the first flights out of De Gaulle the following week, flights were jammed. The lady next to us paid someone in line $9,000 for their ticket so she could get back home and be with members of her family who lost people in NYC.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:36 am to Smokeyone
Okinawa. Watching Monday Night Football on a Tuesday (thank you AFRTS). May have been the Broncos vs Raiders. Gf gets in from work around 2230, wakes me up as I had fallen asleep. I look at the TV and the game is not on, instead I watch as the 2nd plane hits. I was on 1 week leave. My Major calls me up and says, Sergeant, your leave has been rescinded, report to work tomorrow. I said sir, I'm from Alabama, what the hell does rescinded mean?
Entire world had changed in just a few hours. Suddenly driving into the base and you have some 18 year old pfc schmuckatelli mounted in the gun turret of a Hummer pointing a 50 Cal at you.
Entire world had changed in just a few hours. Suddenly driving into the base and you have some 18 year old pfc schmuckatelli mounted in the gun turret of a Hummer pointing a 50 Cal at you.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:45 am to Smokeyone
Flying myself to a customer in Greenville.
Flight plan canceled and forced to land in North Georgia.
Once I understood what was happening, I rented a car and drove home.
Strangest few days I can remember.
Flight plan canceled and forced to land in North Georgia.
Once I understood what was happening, I rented a car and drove home.
Strangest few days I can remember.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:49 am to Smokeyone
I was standing in the ATC Stategic Command Center in Herndon, VA, waiting to be cleared to the floor for a meeting. The Duty Director came out and said, “Everything is cancelled. You have to get out, we’re locked down.” I worked for Delta Ops Control Center and my boss was at an Air Transport Association Meeting on K street in DC. Not many know that every VP of Ops for every major airline was in DC or Toronto for an IATA meeting that day. Luckily he gtfo when he did because the Capitol area went on lockdown. Drove the backroads all the way back to Atlanta. Got to the Delta OCC about midnight. Dead silent. Our guys had used the Y2K plan to track all the planes, crews and passengers to the ground. Definitely the longest day for me.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:51 am to Smokeyone
On the flight line making sure all the Aim-9s and HEI rounds were uploaded and all the F-16s were cocked on. Two setting on the runway with pilots strapped in. Soon after they launched to fly with Air Force one coming out of Barksdale.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:52 am to Smokeyone
In my 5th grade class. They pulled up news footage on one of those big box tvs they had in the classroom
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:53 am to Smokeyone
In my office, wondering why the internet was so fricking slow and why I couldn't get onto FoxNews' website.
Friend called about the first plane hitting WTC. I went to a conference room where we had a TV (like an old high school AV rig) and turned it on (antenna, not cable) and a few minutes in, the second plane hit the tower.
A little after that, my wife called panicked because she had heard the Pentagon had been hit and our son was in day car and wanted to know if she needed to go get him. I told her he was safe, but if she wanted to get him and go home to do so.
She asked if we were at war. I told her it sure looked like it.
Everything pretty much shut down at that point, so I headed home and watched the world change on live TV.
It's a pretty good thing I didn't run across any Muslims that day, or the immediate weeks after.
Friend called about the first plane hitting WTC. I went to a conference room where we had a TV (like an old high school AV rig) and turned it on (antenna, not cable) and a few minutes in, the second plane hit the tower.
A little after that, my wife called panicked because she had heard the Pentagon had been hit and our son was in day car and wanted to know if she needed to go get him. I told her he was safe, but if she wanted to get him and go home to do so.
She asked if we were at war. I told her it sure looked like it.
Everything pretty much shut down at that point, so I headed home and watched the world change on live TV.
It's a pretty good thing I didn't run across any Muslims that day, or the immediate weeks after.
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:53 am to Smokeyone
I was at work, I thought WW3 was about to break out
Posted on 9/11/20 at 11:54 am to Smokeyone
I was on Staff Duty in Korea. At about 10pm local, I went to take a quick break and turned the TV on...wondering "what movie is this?" We thought Kim Jong Il was going to take the opportunity to invade.
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