Where were you 15 years ago on 9-11?

[Omega Man]

I remember waking up late and going into the living room to find my brother sitting on the floor in front of the TV. All he said was "they flew a plane into the WTC," I turned to look and saw the second plane hit the other tower. We lived under the flight path of almost all air traffic into and out of Las Vegas and it felt like the whole world had just stopped, the silence was deafening.

For weeks after the attack every time I saw a plane at a odd angle in the sky my heart would skip a beat.

~O~

 

[dan filipi]

Crazy that's 15 years ago already!

 

[slabghost]

Seemed odd but nice too. To look up and see only birds for a few days.

 

[zman]

I didn't know a thing till I hopped in my van that morning and it was on the radio, I thought at first it was a small plane like others and the news was overblowing the situation then when the second plane hit I knew it was something serious, the fire at the pentagon was just a fire or explosion, didn't think it was a plane just a coincidence . I cant really remember the chronology of the events that morning just that it was a gradual sense of shock. Later I remember looking in the sky and not a plane in sight except for the roar of an occasional F16 or F18, I`m watching the memorial now, really brings back the sadness of that day and following weeks.

 

[AApple]

I was at werk. Heard news of the 1st plane hit on the radio...just thought accident. Then the second....that's when werk stopped and I started watching the tv. The rest of the day was just weird...

 

[rob.lafady]

I was getting ready for work, don't normally watch news beforehand, but I did that day for some reason. I sat there watching for at least an hour.

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[joedrum]

i was making cabinets......and watching the news in the office like room ....could tell then something wasnt right in how it happen and what they were saying ...

 

[Steve83]

I was in Savannah, GA, running a computer lab at the art college. A student came in and asked me if I'd heard the news. I was watching online when the second plane hit, and everyone was in a daze. A very shocking, then sad and emotional day.

 

[detdrbuzzard]

i was working afternoon shift when a friend called and woke me up with the news. with no call to stay home I along with about everyone else went to henry's, the supervisors not knowing what to do made us stay though day shift had been sent home

 

[Tom_Charlton]

I was on a temporary assignment to PACAF, so my wife & I were stuck in Waikiki for a week until the planes started running again. It was a tough job, but someone had to do it.

 

[brianinpa]

I was stationed at VX-23 as NAS Patuxent River, MD. It is a test and evaluation squardron so loading and live ammo/misses on the aircraft wasn't something that was done unless it was for a test. 15 years ago, it wasn't done for a test.

I remember sitting out on the alert pad late that night and looking up in amazement that I didn't see anything moving in the sky.

 

[D-50Dave]

I was driving a truck in the Phillie to Boston corridor then. I was down in Philadelphia and listened on the radio. Had to loop way out of the way to get back home to CT that night. My next day's load was going out to Long Island but I had to sit home for a day or 2 until they opened a bridge back up. i will always remember going over the Whitestone Br. that morning at dawn and seeing 2 columns of smoke rising in the still morning air and being sheared off at a couple thousand feet where the towers used to be. Its hard to cry and drive at the same time.

 

[mcgovern61]

We had a ferry operation from Camden, NJ to Philadelphia, PA and we called the boats back in per United States Coast Guard. As the events unfolded, there was a huge amount of work going on behind the scenes related to all major public transportation and ferry operations on alert. Any service that carried large amounts of people were contacted to setup due diligence. Our colleagues in New York were performing the largest boatlift in history moving people from Manhattan to New Jersey.

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[skiri251]

I was on the way to work in CA. Heard the news on a car radio. Didn't watch the TV footage until I came home that day.

A few years back I was in one of the WTC towers for a job interview. I didn't take that job.
A few weeks later I was in the building in NJ across lower Manhattan from which I had a nice view of WTC. They didn't take me on that job..

 

[Omega Man]

I visited the Oklahoma Federal Building in OKC once.

~O~

 

[brianinpa]

I've been to the WTC memorial twice and one of those time (this past March) I was able to go up to the top of the new WTC. The ride up in the elevator is like a short movie of a voyage through time in NYC. For a short time, you see the twin towers being built and then the two towers standing there, and then just like that... they are gone.

A very sobering moment.

 

[nwhittemore07885]

I was in 7th grade in Coach Burtons History class at Curry Middle School in Jasper Alabama. Im only 27 lol

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