Where were you during the events of Sept. 11, 2001?

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

I showed up at work and had a co-worker tell me that they had knocked down one of the towers. I assumed he was messing with me. I've been in those buildings and they were frickin' HUGE. I couldn't imagine somebody managing to knock one down entirely.

However, various people had video up from the internet, so I quickly knew it was real. I watched intermittently throughout the day, but generally just kept working. Even though I knew it was real, it still didn't FEEL real. It just seemed so implausible. Denial, I guess.

My mom worked in NYC at the time, I think, though nowhere near the towers. I called her later that day, apparently she hadn't gone in to the city that day, or she went at a different time, or something, I just remember she wasn't even in the city when it happened.

[Azrael21 Sinestro's Sparring Partner Find all posts View Profile Close Azrael21]

I was asleep after working late, when the first plane hit. My mother called from her job to have me watch the news to see what was going on. I tuned in just in time to see the second plane hit. I pulled my dad out of the attic (he was lying plywood to make a floor) to watch. I felt, at that time, that this was an attack and that all hell was about to break loose.

I went to work the next day (I was a clerk as a gas station on GA 85 south) and saw no-one except national guardsmen and re-activated military personnel heading into Atlanta for muster. All of the other clerks had called out, not that I blamed them, and I manned the store alone until corporate told me to shut down for the day.

Personally, I think I was in shock for most of that month. It didn’t really affect me emotionally until I read Amazing Spider-man #36. I know that issue receives a lot of crap, but it is what finally snapped me out of my shock and release my emotions.

[CaptainFrxz Green Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close CaptainFrxz]

I was in the 5th grade i belive at the time so its kind of blurry, but i remember being in the living room when i saw the footage of the planes hitting the buildings, this was after school and this was when i first heard of it.
When they hit the building i was at school but i cant remember anything from that.
I remember the next day the whole school went outside to have 1 min of silence for the victims, then later that day our teacher wanted us to draw pictures of how felt regarding the whole thing.
Rest is blurry.

[W.West Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close W.West]

I was in class when we were told that New York was being attacked. Some girl entered the room crying and screaming saying they "Blew up New York". Me and friend were joking about it, knowing that there was no way that the entire state of NY was gone. We didn't have any televisions in the entire building so we all just talked while the teachers huddled around a radio. Eventually parents started to pick up their kids early. At the end of the school day, my grandpa picked me up and he had the radio on. Usually we'd go to McDonald's before baseball practice but that day he just told me to listen to the radio.

[Bolerathon Avant Guardian Find all posts View Profile Close Bolerathon]

I was in art class in high school. A pupil from another year leaned in the door and told us.

[Orion Pax Iolande's Bodyguard Find all posts View Profile Close Orion Pax]

I was at a friend´s place.

[Superlantern mmmm Beer! Find all posts View Profile Close Superlantern]

I was working for a furniture company in manufacturing, they didn't say one Fucking word. I went to lunch and over heard Howard Stern was still on the air and someone told me the world was going to hell. I finished the day and watched replays at home

[Superlantern mmmm Beer! Find all posts View Profile Close Superlantern]

another thing i remember is we had one arabic student that basicly laughed at the situation and the whole school beat the shit out of him

I am just Going assume you made this hate crime up and move on still having some faith in humanity.

[Orion Pax Iolande's Bodyguard Find all posts View Profile Close Orion Pax]

I am just Going assume you made this hate crime up and move on still having some faith in humanity.

Well I heard of a similar story that happen a few months after on a military base used by both our military and the USA. One soldier made a joke, the americans started beating him up and then several other portugese soldiers arrived and well..long story short, a lot of people spent their night on the jail.

Stupid people can say stupid things at a time.

[TazzMission Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close TazzMission]

I am just Going assume you made this hate crime up and move on still having some faith in humanity.

actually no its not made up. i went to a behavior school with each class having around 10 studnets per class.

it wasnt huge like a regular highschool and honestly there was only one arabic kid in the school.


thats how small it was.


i dont know if where you live has behavior schools but i have no reason to lie sl.

the correct way to say it is "" special ed""


hell we even had a token economy.

[Parallax2814 Green Lantern Initiate Find all posts View Profile Close Parallax2814]

Was going from first period English in eighth grade to second period math. They called us back into the English class and had the tv on for a bit. Then they moved us into the math class and had us sit there all day.

[stoat2337 Corps Honor Guard Find all posts View Profile Close stoat2337]

I remember I had just sat down in Economics class. I was in my second tour of duty as a student going to a college in downtown Buffalo. Both towers had been hit while I was in my previous class (can't rememeber what class was b4 Economics). As we were sitting down, some students had heard that one of the towers had been hit. I assumed it was some fool in a Cessna, but someone said it was a passenger jet. Immediately, my heart sank as my brother-in-law was a pilot for American Airlines. (Thankfully, he was not involved.) The professor tried to start the class, but the other students kept speculating wildly about what had happened. Within the next ten minutes, the professor finally told us to go home.

As I was leaving, someone said that the first tower collapesed. I couldn't comprehend how that was possible. I assumed that merely the top of the tower had some how broken off. So, I headed down the stairs to leave, and when I reached the lobby, the other students were huddled around the TVs there. I watched for a moment, but the TVs were not showing the towers. They just happened to be showing the reaction in the Middle East. I didn't want to waste time at the school, so I headed out to catch a bus home. Unbeknownst to me, the second tower came down right after I left.

The City of Buffalo shut down all the bus and train stations after the airports closed. So, I had to walk a few miles out of downtown to find a busstop that was actually in use. I finally got home just before Noon only to find that my wife had driven downtown with the baby to find me...and I was locked out of the house.

Needless to say, I was not prepared for what I saw on the TV after I broke in. My wife came home to find me standing in front of the TV screaming "Holy shit!!" over and over and over....

[Robinson Guardian Of The Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Robinson]

I was woken up by a friend calling me and telling me to turn on the tv. I sat there for hours just watching it all.


Now for me at least I have reason to celebrate as my wife and daughter both share it as a birthday.

For my family at least its a way to not focus on the tragedy of it all.

[TazzMission Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close TazzMission]

i dont know if anyone else has been caught up in the news within the last 48 hours but there are reports of 3 suspects plotting terrorist acts in nyc and other major cities.




two of them are said to be american citizens.

so be safe everyone

[CYLON (13) Alpha-Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close CYLON (13)]

I was sleeping, it was about 5 in the a.m. or so. My ex-roommate (razi bastid) came into my bedroom to wake me up. The thing that pisses me off, he came to wake me with a smile on his fuckin' face...scum.

So, he wakes me up; I turn on the telly. And I see the first tower had already been attacked. I stayed glued to the screen and then the rest happened. I was working at a interweb cafe at the time, I guess foolishly, I headed to work. The place was locked up tight! So, I went home to wait and see how bad it was going to get.

It was a major life-moment for me, that day. I was never particularly patriotic, until that day. Fuckers...