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To commemorate 9/11, what better way to remember the day by actually remembering what we were doing that morning...Post up your stories...

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simmode1

The same thing I'm doing right now and the same thing I'll be doing tomorrow on the anniversary: Taking damn calls at work. I need a career change... =\

I was working in a Citi-Bank Credit Cards call center back then. I remember coworkers coming back from their breaks, saying a plane crashed into the first tower and customers just kept right on calling with their stupid customer service questions. We all thought it was a prank or a movie filming or something.

By the time the 2nd plane hit, customers stopped calling and the whole call center was quiet. When a call center that big is quiet and no calls are coming in, you know there is a big fucking problem. Everybody was glued to the nearest TV at that point.

240o'clock

I was a kid and stayed home from school that day, i remember turning on the news and the one twin tower was only struck...i saw the other plane crash and then collapse it was pretty crazy to watch im sure in NY the scene was indescribable.

Brian

Was getting ready for school.
I remember thinking this was a game changer. We were now at war.

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I was roughly 10 months into the military when it happened and was actually training up to be an Air Traffic Controller at McGuire AFB, NJ. We actually saw the 2nd plane go thru our airspace that morning.

I was in the training room that morning, running some scenarios on a radar scope. One of our trainer comes in and says we all need to go to the break room because they've had 2 planes crash into the WTC. In my head, that didn't make sense. So I asked him if he meant 2 planes crashed OVER the WTC. He said No, they crashed into it. It still didn't make sense to me till I started watching the TV.

At that point, nobody knew what the hell is going on still. Then the Pentagon got hit. Thats when everything changed. Our phones started going crazy, that's when the NORAD took over and FAA started shutting down the airways. We were told to tell anything and everything flying to land immediately. Within 15 mins, we went from seeing 30-40 blips on the scope to seeing 4-5 planes squawking emergency codes in their transponder or were military coded.

And that was the thing when the 2nd plane came thru our air space. We had no clue what the hell it was. The plane turned off their transponder/squawk box so all you can see was a primary target on the scope. NY Center had no clue who it was. The 2nd plane actually got lost from what it looked like. They got to central NJ and found the turnpike. They followed it up back to NYC.

We launched all our available KC-10 air tankers that morning to NYC and DC. Langley AFB sent out their F-15s on full afterburners, and they were basically out of gas by the time they got to NYC.

The base went on lock down and we were sent back to the dorms. I remember sitting in the hall way and the day room watching TV. Everything on base as shut down so I remember not eating that day till after 7 that night because they weren't letting anybody go on or off the base. The whole day, there were all kinds of crazy rumors going around...about how people were trying to infiltrate the base and Fort Dix next door.

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Otto347

lol I was a lot porter at a saturn dealership and was in a customers car listening to Bubba. They were talking about some plane that crashed into a building in NYC.

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sr20sean

i was sitting in 5th grade classroom writing an essay that my teacher assigned just so we wouldnt find out what had happened.

my dad saw all the smoke and everything from his work. which is about a 20 min drive north of the city in yonkers. i remember it was really clear so usually you could see the outline of the city from there since its on a hill.

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I was getting ready for my fifth day of high school.. I was listening to my moms radio in the kitchen about the first plane striking. Flipped on the TV and saw the second plane crash. I got to school and then the pentagon was already attacked.. Pretty much the whole day of school meant staying in first period glued to the coverage. It just didn't feel like reality.

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Phlip

I was back in school for aviation maintenance, about 3 weeks into the first class, we were doing electronics first… We were in class and the head of the department busts in the room and says to our instructor and yells “holy shit, someone just flew a plane into the twin towers!”
Instructor turns on the television in the class, JUST in time for the second plane to hit. Then came the news of the pentagon and Pennsylvania right behind that. Our normal “lunch” time was 12-1, but at 10:30 when the north tower collapsed, he looked sick to his stomach and just said “go to lunch, come back at one.”
I went to Target to buy Jay-Z’s album, then to my job a mile down from target to gauge how people in the building reacted. In an AT&T Business Customer Service call center, despite the fact that everyone was LOGGED IN to their phones, no calls were coming in.
Stopped by my moms job and then back to class, where we were dismissed for the day.
Went home, tied the dog out for about 30 minutes, then to work for my overtime shift starting at 2:30. Immediately upon logging in, floorwide email comes out explaining that the building will close at 3, and that in the situation, all scheduled time – overtime included – will be paid.
3 coworkers and I met back up at 6pm for $2 draft night at this little bar called Wild Magnolia.

That was the day for me

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my friend called me in the morning and told me turn on the TV. by then both towers had been hit. all planes were grounded, so that meant none of the ups stuff being sent over from the east coast was gonna make it-so i didn't work for 2-3 days.

Farzam

6th grade in newspaper class. as soon as i got in to next period (science) the teacher gave us an honestly mildly overdramatic speech (yes I feel like a douchebag for thinking that you can overdramatize telling kids about a national tragedy) and then she turned on the tv. It was a really depressing, grounding experience, even for a kid. Then later that day I got called Osama Bin Laden and a terrorist because i'm middle eastern and my family is muslim...and it never really stopped...now less people give me shit for it, but it's still an every day thing.

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BustedS13

high school junior, biology class, somebody got a text and we started watching tv, saw the second plane hit live. that'll fuck with your day.

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EvoVIII808

I had just entered my senior math call, when the first plane hit. I immediately called my uncles house, since he lives directly across the street from the towers. Glad he was in Cali that day. Sucks his place was totally destroyed

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DenkiMan!

i was in dc in 5th grade. after roll call for everyone in my homeroom, and then all of the sudden the whole middle school was immediately told to go straight to our drama studio. i had absolutely no idea what was going on, because we never had instructions like that - to just drop everything and await further instruction....kind of unsettling.

so the principal gets to the front of the studio and gets real quiet with this crazy sickened look in his face. you could see how painful it was for him to utter the words. he starts out saying "we all love you very much, and we want to keep you safe"...at this point we were like, oooookaayyy lol. then he says "about 10 minutes ago, a 747 hit the wtc in new york..." there was dead silence for like 10 seconds. he then went on to say that school is immediately dismissed and we all should go home.

my mom was actually working at congress during this time and when the plane hit the pentagon, she told me that police officers and like fbi agents came through each office in the building and were screaming at all the employees to drop literally everything and evacuate, because they thought that congress was the next target, considering how close the pentagon is. my mom got me from school and we went home. dc traffic was unbelievable, but when we finally got home i watched the news for a bit, then watched the honeymooners for the rest of the night. i didnt even know about the pentagon until i got home.

i actually moved back to maryland from nyc 6 months prior to this event. and i was depressed because my birthday was the next day lol

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Fractur3

I was walking into 5th grade english class. We all sat around a radio and listened to what was going on, 10 minutes later my parents picked me up and I came home and watched everything happening all day on TV. Crazy, I can remember it like it was yesterday...

kenS14

woke up to get ready for my 5th grade class then saw it on the news as i was eating cereal....

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simmode1

Know that you shoulda told them?

sil80owner

I was in 5th grade woke up and my brother was watching the news which was weird to me because we always watched cartoons before we went to school I saw live footage of the second plane crashing into the twin towers I didn't think much about it because I thought it was a movie. My parents were talking about it but I was busy trying to get my things together as soon as I got to school my teacher broke down in the middle of class she was weeping on the floor we didn't know what to do or why this was happening... We all watched the news in class all day other kids began to cry because other teachers were crying... I had a sick gut feeling and it was a sad moment for everyone

jesse_s13

I was in summer camp still or something like that. I was like a 4th grader or something. That fucked up everyones day.

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Gizmo_S13

I was in 7th grade in my Art class... My teachers phone kept blowing up until she finally decided to answer. Her face was full of concern, in an instant that face turned to horror. She turned to us and started telling us what happened, tears falling down her face (I think one of her family members might have died) sobbing, gasping for air between words. I sat there wondering what was going through her mind. Me, being 13 and not having a care in the world, trying to grasp what was happening. Throughout the day classes would be emptier and emptier, kids getting picked up because parents feared that WW3 was about to happen. Heh... I didn't really care about it, I was too young and careless about shit.

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tqstarburst

I'm real sure that most or i should say ALL americans will always remember this day like it was yesterday.

XxHybridx

getting ready for school. i was in the 6th grade. mom woke me up to that. didn't really pay too much attention to it since i was running hella late. once i got to school i was like oh shit =/.

japslapsilvia

Dam alot of yall are young....

i was in college...taking an Art apprecion class...taking a test actually and the professor steped out, for a few moments. when she came back she told us to stop taking the test that a plane just flew into the WTC. most of us were like WFT?? thinking it was a small plane or somthing....we all left the class and i stopped n saw one of the TV monitors in the hall and saw the plane fly into the building and was like HOLY SHIT!!!! did that just really happen?

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azndoc

I was on duty, thought it was a bad commercial. That morning 50 cal. sitting on AAV facing the front gate. Shrimp, Lobster, Steak, and ice cream for dinner that day and I knew shit was going down.

KiLLeR2001

8th grade home room. The teacher turned on the TV for like 10 minutes then decided that we all needed to get back to work... (At that time only the 1st plane had hit) ...I didn't know anything until I got home from school.

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Phlip

Now Farz... I know we have met in person once, perhaps 3 times between 9/11/01, and I know I am the most racist person you know (don't question it, just accept it)...
Now GET ME THE FUCKING STICKER I ASKED YOU ABOUT 3 WEEKS AGO, asshole.

... two of them

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JohnnyDrfiter22

10 years ago I was in College getting ready for a pych class when a chick came running thru the halls and the teacher dismissed us all to the Student union where we watched it on TV.

10 years later im stationed over seas as a C17 Crew Chief. Tonight I hung over 100 flags to fly in the AOR. Later ill be doing a Folding of the flag ceremony to be shipped over to NYC....

fliprayzin240sx

Good shit...post some pictures from the Sandbox in here afterwards...

Do some of my guys out in Balad a favor...if you guys drop off out there from the deid, bring em some food. They're sucking on nothing but MREs...

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ericcastro

Meh, not really into this whole 9/11, give fox news and the right a reload of their BS....



I was waking up from partien in WA in my apartment. Mom called and said we were being attacked and to turn the tv on.
I instantly thought "Red Dawn", especially being in WA. (That anarchist cookbook may come in handy)
Then i saw the first tower and all that, then the second tower get hit, and yadda yadda from there.

Still have the newspaper with the picture and headline on it in a box

In 20 years are they gonna start making 9/11 and desert storm part 2 movies??

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niscur29

I was in college dropping off a movie at blockbuster when the first one hit...I booked it home and saw the second plane hit the WTC and called my wife (fiance at the time) out and remember her face to this day. Kinda just in AWE at what was happening. Then watched everything all day/night about it. Still to this day I remember that feeling I had when I saw what happened and the videos of those people jumping from the top knowing they could do nothing. Was just in NYC this past weekend and saw the new tower being built and I still cannot fathom what went through those people minds in those last few seconds. I have never been so "tearful" in my life besides the death of family members for what happened.

My school was shut down ASAP after someone found/thought one of the pilots was a student at our school and found a car outside daytona beach airport that had a shit ton of Osama shit in it. FBI was all over the place for a few days. I went to Embry Riddle which is a huge pilot training school so you can imagine what was going on on campus.

And GOD DAMN I feel old some of you fuckers were in friggin elementary school!!!