NF - 9/11 10th Anniversary...

[Rizzo]

on kahshe lake fishing with a buddy, who was supposed to leave for New York City the next day to become a chef at a high end restaurant. That ended up being delayed for obvious reasons, and he eventually took a job in Boston instead

[Rich Clemens]

I was sitting in a meeting at work. The whole thing was going on for a couple hours when someone stepped in and asked ... "You guys have no idea on what's going on ... do you ?" We had no clue. Needless to say, that ended the meeting.

 

Sure was a wierd feeling making the 2 1/2 hour drive back home. Interstate highways were almost devoid of vehicles and not a plane in the sky.

[asdve23rveavwa]

I was at work, as well. Heard the news from one of the guys working the windshield line at PPG in Kitchener. I was a shift supervisor, and, the guys had the radio playing...which is where they heard it.

Think his words were "Frank, they took out the twin towers"...needless to say, we all spent alot of time listening to the events as they unfolded.

[woodenboater]

was in a plane heading south and judging by the timing of it, we were probably close to subject airspace and am fortunate out pilot was able to communicate as fighter jets had the green light to down any unresponsive craft. when I landed, I had to turn around and head back north

Edited September 8, 2011 by woodenboater

[bubbles]

I was fishing, all day as a matter of fact. We were on the water long before anything happend and when we came in around dinner time the owners of the lodge we were at told us they may have to leave because they were with the red cross. We asked why and they told us what had happened, spent the night listening to the radio. Never saw footage of what happened until the following week.

 

I often wonder of we were the last people in north america to find out

[johnnyb]

Was working for a lawn-care outfit, listening to the radio as I went from house to house. Heard the first report when they thought it was an accident.....then the confusion as it became apparent what was really happening.

Spent the day working fast and driving slow so I could listen to the radio....the 2 things I remember most: Seeing no planes in th sky, and wanting to simply get home and be with my family.

[Guest ThisPlaceSucks]

i was busy at work in a food basics grocery store. i worked any hours i could before and after classes while i was going to college. a few times that morning i heard people talking about a plane crash or something but i just shrugged it off and stocked shelves.

 

i got off work at noon as i had class at 1. i got in my front door, turned on the tube before i hopped in the shower and i was bombarded. i remember being so overwhelmed at what i saw that i skipped class and spent the afternoon choking back tears and trying to make sense of it all.

 

still to this day, i get goosebumps just thinking about it.

Edited September 8, 2011 by Dr. Salvelinus

[aplumma]

I was on a job 6 miles from the pentagon. Their was people crying in the street as they looked over at the smoke coming from that direction. I headed home glued to the radio as the fighter jets scrambled and helicopters covered the air. The roads were jammed as people tried to get home. The world was changed that day and every time the date 9/11 comes up bow your head for a moment for the lives lost that tragic day.

 

 

Art

[bucktail]

Hey Terry

 

I was listening to Howard as welll and thought the same thing.

My best friends wife is the night editor for the Wall Street Journal and had just left work.

Her office on the adjacent building was destroyed.

Tried calling her but all the cell towers were on the roof of the building.

She was one of the lucky ones that "just made it out"

 

 

 

Darren

[blarg]

I was working at an airport tower that day, we only had one diverted aircraft come in, we heard all kinds of rumors about other aircraft coming in with fighter escorts and what not so it was nice to see it on the ground. Needless to say the place was swarming with cops and what not, we had tons of calls from people pissed that they couldn't fly, one guy even called cursing about it, at that time we didn't know the death toll but it was obviously high and I thought a few days inconvenience wasn't worth griping over. Shortly there after most of the companies resumed normal ops even with the airspace closed by tagging all of their flights as humanitarian or some such thing, it was just a way to keep the profits flowing, a little pathetic i thought. It was a long day.

[mercman]

I was at work, and had just got off the phone with my Brother. Sept 11 is his birthday.I went into the shipping and a Puro driver was all excited and had tears in his eyes.He told me a small plane had crashed into a building in NYC.

Never thought about it again, till i turned on the news at home, just in time to see footage of the planes hitting the towers.

My knees literally buckled under me, and i had to sit down.It was the most tragic and traumatic site i have ever seen and probably ever will.Even today, tears well up, and the fear creeps back in as i watch anything that examins or recalls that day.

[irishfield]

I was out flying with my good buddy Dom....

 

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Seriously, I was out flying and a radio call from the airport manager had me back home and watching TV pretty quick that morning.

[bigcreekdad]

I was fishing a bay off the Little French River, staying at Casa Blanca Lodge on the upper French. Brian and Liz, proprietors, approached us with the news that America was under attack. They took the time and trouble to try to notify everyone on the water. We, along with most everyone else on the water, immediately headed back to the lodge and were glued to the satellite TV.

 

I'll never forget that day. Dinner at the lodge that night was a pretty pissed off and surly crowd. But yet, often subdued for periods.

 

I'll never forget how appreciative we all were at Brian and Liz's efforts to notify all of us.

 

I won't forget my drive home thru Michigan. Wile I was southbound on US 23 north of Ann Arbor, a motorcyclist going north had an American flag waving behind him that must have been 4' x 6'......goddamned choked me up. Where is that spirit today?

[mercman]

Where is that spirit today?

 

Its still there BCD, in the hearts and minds of every free human being living in every Democratic country in the world.

Hats off to all the rescue workers from around the world also.In the words of Winston Churchill,"Never in the field of human conflict, has so much been owed by so many, to so few."

[pics]

No worries Cliff.

 

For me I was driving crane at work, Howard Stern on the radio and like Terry at first I thought it was bunk. I won't ever forget that day!

I was also in that day...working on 6 vessel with a bunch of us crowded around the radio....

[Grimace]

What affected me the most, was people jumping. I remember it stirring enough emotions in me that I wept while watching them go bunches after bunches.

Edited September 9, 2011 by Grimace

[GBW]

I was a work and one of the other sales guys was listening to Howard too. I heard Greg yell "what the hell!!!" and then he told us what he was hearing on the radio. I was on the phone with my sister wishing her a happy 31st b-day when it all started. I told her to turn on the tv as this was a b-day she will never forget.

we (the folks at work) then found an old tv and started watching too as everything unfolded live right before our eyes. every time I went out for a smoke all I would do is look to the sky and notice just how quite it was. our office was close to a small airport just North of Toronto (Buttonville) so we would see and hear planes all day long, not that day though...

[Keenan]

[Beans]

I was at home watching the TV and thought a movie had come on the channel I was watching...It took a few moments for it to sink in that this was no movie...couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing...stayed glued to the TV the rest of that day...

[Lunker777]

High school..... between first and second period. A buddy of mine comes up to my locker... not the brightest guy out there.... " hye you hear like the pentagon blew up or something ??? " .. I said... " what are you talking about ???" in a confused tone..... I had spare, SO I was getting picked up to go home for lunch. I got in the car and thats when my Grandma told me the real story.

 

Once I got home... I watched Tv from about 10:30 till 1 ( when I had to be back at school ) then we watched it in class room for the rest of the day !

 

It was unreal to me at the time. It didn't sink in till later on.

[blaque]

Was working at the office in Downtown Buffalo. A guy next to me always had ear buds in and listened to the radio while working. He leaned over to me and said, "i guess a plane crashed into the WTC". It was just moments into the event and i asked "what kind of plane".......he replied "I dont know, they arent saying" and i thought it had to be a little cesna or something and he agreed. Back to work.........

 

It didnt take long before the whole building was in the cafeteria area, discovering that this was no small cesna accidentally running into the tower. We all stood there until the buildings came down. I dont remember how much time had lapsed from the first word from my co-worker next to me until the horrific collapse. I still really dont know how long it all took. Not much was said after they fell..... Everyone just took it upon themselves to go back to their offices, get their belongings, and go home. No-one had to approve a dismissal, nobody asked their bosses if they could leave. All work was just forgotten about, and the building just emptied quietly.

[Miracon]

A taxi driver had just carried me onto my couch after being released from a week in hospital because of a soccer injury. My sister called and said turn the TV on. Only the first tower had been struck at that point. I was couch ridden anyway for a few days, so watched it all unfold. Very sad!

[ehg]

Was head chef for corporate catering place located in downtown Toronto. Radio was always on Stern so it unfolded that way. Couldn't believe how it went from small plane crashing to how it ended. It just got worse and worse.

Needless to say all orders for lunch were cancelled that day and everyone was stunned.

The food catering industry downtown never recovered from this and to this day is half of what it was before this event.

 

I watched it later that day at home but now cannot even think of how completely tragic this was.

It seems like a unique and strange event. Hopefully to never occur again.

[sconceptor]

Just finished college and working my first job, in an lab without windows in Waterloo. My supervisor, listening to a radio, mentioned it to me and I realized it was a huge deal, when learning it was a jumbo jet flying into the building in NYC. Coworkers didn't seem too concerned, but getting updates on the other planes, made me feel uneasy. I went out for lunch and noticed the blank, sense of shock look on everyone's face well driving, and in the mall. I listened to radio reports on the drive. That night I stayed awake and only got 2hours sleep, watching the footage on the TV. It was so shocking. What's next? How many didn't make it? The world will not be the same is how I felt and that's not a feeling you experience too often.

[oxcowboy]

I was teaching a class of jr. high students, and we had went outside for a class project and were returning back to my classroom when one of the cooks was in the cafeteria watching the t.v., she told me that a plane had crashed into the trade center and it was on fire. I first thought wow that is crazy, and expected it to be a small plane. When i got to my room, i flipped on the t.v. and we all watched, most of the kids were still talking and cutting up until the 2nd plane crashed, and then we were all shocked. the room was silent and we just sat there. The bell rang for classes to change and we still just sat, the hallways were empty. We all stayed glued to the news several parents came and picked their children up, I stayed up until 4 o'clock that night just stunned at what had happend that day knowing the world would never be the same. I seriously considered joining the military after that day, just wanting to help defend my country and get some type of revenge on those that were responsible for such a cowardly act.

 

Today nearly 10 years later, we had a moment of silence at our school. Many of my students today were in kindergarten or first grade and really dont remember much of that day and what went on. I showed a tribute video to every class today and each student was stone silent while watching, which made me proud of the kids i am currently teaching. God Bless America

 

jason