What were you doing the morning of September 11??

[ArcticWildMan]

9/11 will be to our generation what the Kennedy assasination was to our parents or what Pearl Harbor was to our grandparents.


What was everybody doing when we were attacked? I was sound asleep in bed (it was 5:30 AM Alaska time) when my Mother called and told me to turn on the TV. I can still remember the looks on peoples faces when I went to the store later that day. Everybody was in shock and had a dazed look.


When my daughter came home from Kindergarten later that day and asked why the people did that, I was at a loss for words and could only shake my head and say I didn't know.



I'll never forget that day as long as I live.

[shelby]

i was at the laundromat watching it on TV...totally stunned. i lived five minutes from the Hartford/Springfield airport...the eeriest thing was the total silence...no airplanes flying overhead.
i highly doubt anyone will ever forget that day.

[The_Philster]

I was at work driving on my forklift when the supervisor came on the radio to let us know about it.

[Bufftp]

Iwas at work. I recieved a phone call from my Sister.
i closed the office, and let everybody go home to be with their familys.

[Romes]

I was at lake tahoe with some friends. I woke up right before the second plane hit. My friend was watching TV and told me that we were being attacked. I was half asleep so I don't even remember what I said to him. I started preparing a bowl of cereal, when I started listening to the TV. I don't think I left my seat that whole day.

[Dozerdog]

6 days before the event, I drove underneath the towers while working in New York.

One day before the event, I watched my wife leave on an airplane as she went on a buisness trip.

The day of, I heard the news while driving to the post office in the morning. I was scheduled to work from my office at home for a week. I spent the day trying to reach my 12 guys working under me in New York and to tell them to get home quick. The worst was being in an empty house by yourself watching this stuff over and over.

2 of my Reps had wives/family working in lower Manhattan, and another of my Reps was a volunteer EMT and he was helicoptered into Ground Zero before plane #2 hit. His Wife is a NYC cop who worked in Precinct #1 at ground Zero, but thankfully was not on duty that morning. Both came out unhurt, but we didn't hear from them for 3 days.

My wife also knew Capt John Oganowski, pilot of flight #11. He was a part time farmer and she spent a Saturday on his farm about 2-3 weeks prior. (She works for UMASS teaching people how to properly use pesticides)

Well, It took my wife an entire week and a drive of 1,200 miles to get home.

The Following week, I returned to New York City to work again. Every five blocks was another funeral or a firehouse turned into a shrine for 5-10 dead comrades.

[HenryRules]

I was in my car on my way to school just outside Toronto. I had just left NYC about a week prior to that. If I hadn't decided to quit working and go back to school, I would have been in one of the path trains underneath the WTC.

[Gunzlingr]

I was buying a Dr. Pepper on my way to work when the first plane hit, and they still thought it was an accident. By the time I got across the street to work, the second plane hit. Everyone was pissed, and I was convinced we should turn the mid east into a glass parking lot.

[casdhf]

I was getting ready to celebrate my friends 21st birthday....boy, what a day she had

[SoCalBillsFan]

On Sept 10th I flew back to los angeles from buffalo (with CalBillsFan) after our trip to the bills-saints game. The next morning my roommates mother called about 6:30 AM pacific time. I remember being upset that I had been woken up and tried to fall back asleep. After he hung up the phone, he told me what happened, and switched on the tv. I didn't care about being awake anymore. It was a little nerve racking because I had just flown cross country the day before.

[northernbillfan]

We were getting ready for a days work in the shop at 7 am MDT. One guy came in late and said he heard the news that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Towers. The first thing I remember saying to him was "And that affected you getting to work on time"

As I was driving to my first watering location, I heard that the second plane crashed into the Towers. We all stopped working, went to a restaurant for breakfast to watch the news and saaw it all.

This is a moment in time that is indelibly stamped in our memories.

[northernbillfan]

Great tribute page here.

9-11 tribute (http://www.sendingfun.com/lightshineson/)

[venis2k1]

i was at school in study hall, drawing a picture of chewbacca when the first plane hit.

[TigerJ]

At home, late for work. Watched it on CNBC. They were speculating it was an accident when the second one hit. I told my 18 year old son, "It's no accident now."

[JayWood]

I was sitting out side one of the buildings on the campus of Rhode Island College when i heard what had taken place. This September 11, 2002 i will be in my history class teaching my students about not what happend that dark day, but more importantly, where the country has gone since. It should be a very intresting day

[BillsMan80]

I was at school down with one of my academic advisors, when we heard about it, located in Central Jersey.

[timfromjersey]

I was sleeping until after the first tower went down when my brother woke me up to tell me the news. I then got dressed and went to the opposite side of my block where I have a clear view of the towers about 20 miles away and watched the second tower come down.

I have one cousin who worked in the towers but luckily called in sick that day.

[The_Philster]

Originally posted by JayWood
I was sitting out side one of the buildings on the campus of Rhode Island College when i heard what had taken place. This September 11, 2002 i will be in my history class teaching my students about not what happend that dark day, but more importantly, where the country has gone since. It should be a very intresting day

Let us know how it goes...and how your students react that day. It sounds like you should have an attentive class that day.

[JayWood]

I will let you guys know how it goes. Funny thing is that alot of people from different sides in the education field have been arguing as to how exactly teach the events of September 11.

[kgun12]

I am an Air Traffic Controller at Rochester N.Y. I was working the 11:00 to 7:00 am shift, my wife woke me up crying about 11:30 am and said we are being attacked. She turned the tv on in the bedroom. The first thing I remembered seeing was the first tower being hit. After I got my bearings and realized that the aircraft were being hijacked I call work to see if I could help. They told me that all traffic was stop and that all aircraft in the air were put on the ground. I got to tell you how proud of my fellow Controllers, when I got to work that night my manager was there and he told me that there was almost 6000 aircraft in the air and ONE phone call was made and within 2 hours every airplane in the sky in the United States was on the ground. We did not get alot of press for this, but Air Traffic Controllers don't work for that anyway. That night at work was a little nerve racking because we weren't sure what they were going to do next. You see when something like this happens because of our radar we become part of the National Defense. That night was one of the hardest mid shifts I ever worked. I watched that seen for any and all targets that might have popped up. Itwas also tough because Control Facilties become targets during something like this. I had to leave my wife a kid home alone and I also had a kid up at Clarkson U. Away from home for the first time, he was scared as were we cause we weren't together and we couldn't do anything for him. A little side note he almost quit school a couple of weeks later and jioned the milatary so he could do something for his country. We talked him out of it. We told him to get his education first and that if he felt the same way in 4 years he could go in as an officer.

[SABURZFAN]

i was listening to the howard stern show.he said that the WTC had been under attack while going off the air.i turned off the radio and turned on my TV and was horrified when i saw the planes hit the WTC.it's something that i'll never forget.

[Tatonka]

I managed an OfficeMax retail store at the time. I was working from 7am to 7pm shift. One of the girls who was working had a relative who worked in the trade center. she was histerical as they announced it over the radio that was playing in the store. I am sure we had plenty of items stolen that day, because i was not about to tell my people that they could not watch what was happening in the break room in the back.

One thing i will never forget is how cold my GM was. he called and i asked if i could send people home to be with their families. I had already sent the one girl with the relative there home. He said he was watching it on tv and it wasnt that big a deal. My wife works for the federal reserve in Richmond, VA. she was evacuated at 10am.

I pretty much hated him after that and he never mentioned it again. but i stayed at work all day. they never closed the building, although you could count the number of customers we had on one had for the remainder of the day.

I remember wanting to be with my family so bad that day.

[ArcticWildMan]

The next day I had to leave my house for my 7 day work stint out of town. I work totally alone and usually don't even see a person my entire week at work due to my remote location. That was a LONGGGG hard week!!!

[PA Season Ticket Holder]

I learned about it on the Bills boards. I had to be at work by 11 am, so I got up around 9am. The first thing I did(of course) was read the Bills news when I read that a tower got hit. That's when I turned on the T.V. just in time to to see the 2nd tower go down.

I had to go work for the next 10 hours. It was very tough with how angry I was, along with talking to hundreds of customers who were also pissed off. I just wanted to get home.

The most difficult part of the day was having to to "try" and be nice to the camelfunkers that I saw that day at work. I wanted to put them in the hospital.

[clumping platelets]

I was sleeping (I had just gotten off work a couple of hours before it happened). Ebby called me from work after the second tower was hit and I was talkin' to him when the first tower collapsed.

:patriot:

[Stewie]

I drove into DC at 5 in the morning to drop a co-worker/roomate off at the train station. It was his turn to shoot up to the NYC area for a week, all the guys at work had that rotation sooner or later.. I drove right past the pentagon on the way back into VA about 50 minutes before the plane hit it. I went back to sleep (I worked from 12 - 9 most days because I was working with people on the west coast).

About 10:30 I get a phone call that wakes me up, it was my buddy who I dropped off. His train made it to Philadelphia before all Amtraks were stopped. He told me airplanes were crashing into buildings, no one knew what was going on, and that I had to please pick him up. Sweeeeet. Luckily my third roommate worked nights, so he was home too. I woke him up and appraised him of the situation, we hopped into the M and took off to Philly.

Northern VA to Philly should take about 3.5 hours ,but it took us 5 each way. I had never been to the city before and all I had was an address to pick up my buddy, who had been relocated to a school gym. I found some cops who couldn't have been nicer, basically giving me an escort to the area I needed to be in. We got my buddy, relaxed for a bit, and headed back...

Helluva day...

[JefftheBillsfan]

i will never forget. i was sitting in 2nd block bio/high school. we finished our work early...we had about 5 minutes left before the block was over....so we were talking. then our teacher tells us the news. of course sitting in a room with other 16 year olds nobody really understood the significance of it. i did. i was shocked. didn't talk. i then went to home room. my home room teacher's husband was scheduled to work there that day. she tried calling him several times...couldn't get a hold of him untill about 5 minutes before homeroom ended. she was going through hell and there wasn't a damn thing any of us could do about it. i remember some moron laughed when he heard the news. he was immediatley kicked out of class. well...my teacher's husband was ok as he wasn't due into work for another couple of hours. its not untill you see the pain first hand that you can fully appreciate the bravery by all the heros that emerged that tragic day.

[Mad Bomber]

I was driving to work across the Tappan Zee bridge. It was an unbelievably clear day because a big front had passed through on Monday night. It looked like you could reach out and touch the towers. That was less than 5 minutes before the first plane hit. That plane must have flown right over my head.

Just as I pulled into work the first message came over the radio that a plane had hit the WTC. Since it was such a clear day, I figured it was some idiot trying to fly a small plane between the towers or something. I called my wife and told her to turn on the TV; she watched the second plane hit.

At work, everyone went down to the customer training centers, where there were TVs. We watched in disbelief as the towers went down.

They sent everyone home at around 11:30 am.

The beautiful view of Manhattan I had at 8:45 am turned into a nightmare at 11:30 on my way back across the TZ Bridge. Manhattan was engulfed in smoke and dust - it looked like a volcano had erupted.

I still have problems looking at that skyline without the towers - it's a constant reminder of what happened that day.

[MissBuffalo]

I was getting ready to go to work at around 7 west coast time. My roomate comes running into my room yelling "Oh my god Sonya called from Buffalo and said a bomb went off at the World Trade Center." So that's all I thought it was until I got to work and heard what really happened.

I shut down the store and went back home shortly after that.

[StillLurkin]

i was on my way home from a morning of goose hunting when i heard. i heard that a plane crashed into one of the towers on the radio, as i pulled in my driveway, and when i went into the house, it was just being shown on the TV.

[iceblizzard69]

I was at school in Spanish class when it happened. I live in Manhattan, which is the same borough that the WTC is on. They let us leave, so I left. While walking home I could see the smoke, the streets were packed at 11:30 AM on Central Park West on a weekday, it was the only day I remembered that happening. Around 3 PM that day, I could see at least 20 army planes. The supermarkets were nearly out of everything by 5 PM. What a day that was.

[LtBillsFan66]

I was at work. About 1 mile from WTC.

I got off my subway to see about 4 or 5 people looking up at the towers. I looked and saw fire. I nonchalantly said to myself, "oh a fire I hope everyone is ok", and proceeded to work. I went up to my office where there was already radios on and chatter about a plane hitting the tower. I didn't believe it. A bunch of us went back downstairs to look. By that time both were on fire. At that time it was confirmed that one plane hit. Everyone was saying a second plane hit. I didn't believe that either. I thought maybe a piece of the plane that hit the first tower flew into the second. From a mile away, the fires didn't look that bad. We went back upstairs to my office where they set up a TV in the conference room. There I heard that the pentagon was hit. I was scared that the city would be raining planes. There were reports on TV saying that up to something like 10 planes were hijacked. I didn't know what to do.

A little while later, we all heard screaming outside - one tower fell. Some more screaming a little later - second one down.

The most memorable part is my walk to grand central station (about 25 blocks). People were still scattering in every different direction. Everyone had the same blank zombie expression on their face (even me I'm sure). National guard troops with M16s.

I got to a packed like sardenes train. Dead silence the whole way home...

[Novacane]

Originally posted by Tatonka


One thing i will never forget is how cold my GM was. he called and i asked if i could send people home to be with their families. I had already sent the one girl with the relative there home. He said he was watching it on tv and it wasnt that big a deal.

.


What a jerk! I too had someone like that. My friends dad made the comment to me " BIg deal. It does not affect me any"

Selfish jerk!

[Novacane]

I was working on my dozer from 6 to 11. I stopped for lunch and flipped on the radio to WGR to hear what they were saying about the Bills Saints game from the previous Sunday. I could not believe what I was hearing. I rushed home because my sister is a flight attendant for United Airlines. Thank God she was not working that day. I am not ashamed to admit I cried that day.

I pray Americans never forget that horrible day and stop taking our freedom for granted!

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by BledsoeTOreedfor6
I pray Americans never forget that horrible day and stop taking our freedom for granted!

Amen!

Right after 9-11, there was a surge of patriotism; everyone was flying flags from their houses and cars here in the NYC area. That has slowly faded - I'm one of the only cars on the road now still flying a flag.

Now that the anniversary is coming, I too pray that people will again reflect on the fact that our freedom is bought with a price, and is a wonderful privilege.

[Ebenezer]

I was in a meeting when a secretary came in to tell us...

eerie things was the next day when we looked up to the sky and there were no vapor trails (we live 5 minutes from the Buffalo Airport). I layed on the picnic bench just starring at the blue sky. No clouds, no vapor trails, nothing. I had Mrs. Eb join me and asked her to look up and asked her to look up. I asked her what she saw...I she said "Nothing." I said, "Yeah, that hasn't happened in our lifetime and may never again". Then she got what I meant and actually got a shiver. I was thankful that my son was not old enough to really get it and that my daughter was way to you to even know what was going on.

To this day I feel sorry for the families and a piece of me feels violated. But what really pi$$es me off is that a piece of my son's innocence was taken away. I am extremely upset about that and cannot type what I would do the people responsible for fear of my own future. My son's life was forever changed and he was only 6 at the time. That is a harshest reality of my involvement in 9/11.

[JefftheBillsfan]

yeah...there was some girl in my homeroom a couple days later who BTW was crying the day of...said that she doesn't care about it because it doesn't effect her. people are so ignorant. hmm...an american that doesn't care that america got attacked. people just piss the hell out of me sometimes.

[Pride]

I was at work in South Central PA.

I work in computers, and once we heard the news, we went out and bought an antenna (sp?) at Radio shack because we did not have cable in the large factory. We hooked up a TV and got a pretty good angle on the antenna, then we broadcast the live broadcast to everyone's computer so they could watch the news at their desk while they "worked".

It was an interesting day to say the least... I don't remember being upset, I think I was moreso in a state of disbelief and confusion.

[Valerie]

I was just pulling into the parking garage at work when the first tower was hit. I heard them say something about it on the radio, but because I was late (as usual) I really didn't pay much attention to it. I came upstairs and turned on my space heater and my radio. They were still talking, doing the news or something so I just tuned them out, as I often do. I honestly thought it was some small plane that got too close to one of the towers and had hit it. Just a few weeks before I remember seeing some parasailer hanging off the Statue of Liberty and I just figured it was something innocent like that.

After about 30 minutes a co-worker came back and told me both towers had been hit with planes. I followed her to the kitchen and watched the coverage on CNN. I went back to my desk to call my Dad to see if he had heard from my one brother who took the Path train out of WTC #1. My Dad hadn't even turned on the TV. My Mom had her third spinal fusion the day before and he was busy getting himself ready to go back down to the hospital to see her. We hung up the phone and I started to do some work. A few minutes later a co-worker came back and told me one of the Towers fell. Collapsed down to the ground! I was stunned. I went back to the kitchen to watch the news and I was horrified! I saw the second one come down live on the news.

I ran back to my desk and called my Dad again. He was in shock too. Then I started frantically calling my friends and family in the NYC area. I couldn't get through to anyone which was frustrating and scary. I sent emails to everyone and prayed I'd hear from them.

They let us leave work about noon that day since we're in the DC metropolitan area and no one was able to concentrate and/or work that day. I remember driving home, still trying everyone I know up there on my cell. I finally got a hold of my uncle and found out that that side of the family was okay. We talked for about 10 minutes and I told him I loved him. He died less than a month later and I was the last person from my side of the family to talk to him.

When I got home I was out walking the dog, which helps calm me down and like Eb, I remember looking up at the sky and seeing nothing! Not a cloud or a plane. I’m in the direct path for Dulles airport and it was eerie not hearing or seeing planes overhead. I just remember doing laundry and having every TV in the house on so I could watch what was going on no matter where I was. I couldn’t sit down. I was in shock and didn’t cry until my brother, who takes the Path train, called me. I totally lost it then.

I still tear up when I think of that horrible day. And, like Mad Bomber, every time I go back up to NY, I can’t look at the skyline and not be sad. I don’t think it’s something America will ever get over. In my car I have an American flag sticker and an “I Love NY” sticker. My body may be out of NY but my heart never left. NY will always be my home no matter where I am.

[BillsNYC]

on the train...saw mushroom cloud from second plane hit. long day.

[Jack In Syracuse]

One of the contracts my company has is with the County Goverment here in Syracuse. We are located down the hall from the Emergency Ops Center. That morning, the Ops Supervisor came in to tell us a plane had hit the Trade Center, and if we wanted to see it on CNN. (He has to have at least one of the TV's going whenever he's there) By time he had come to get us, and we got over there, the 2nd plane was just going in. We at first thought it was a replay, then realized what had happened. The rest of the day was a mob scene with everyone coming to the Ops Center, reporters, and security everywhere. No work was done by me that day. And it's the first time I really did need to have my ID badge in plain site wherever I went.
Home was interesting, since down the street were the Military Reserve Centers, and behind me was the Airport. The roar of military jets taking off every few hours, plus seeing military in full gear guarding the buildings was something I had never seen there before.

[TigerJ]

My brother-in-law is a high ranking official in NY City's budget and finance office. He got off the subway and looked up I think one tower had been hit. I'm not sure if he was watching when the second one hit. I know when he went to work, he was sent home because the city office building got damaged in the blast. He knew a number of people who died.

[vabillsfan]

My wife and I were on our way to the ob/gyn for her 7 mos checkup. We were stuck in traffic so I turned on the radio to see if there was an accident. We heard about the first plane and I said "That's terrorism". My wife didn't agree. Then plane 2 hit. My wife works in downtown DC. She called in after our appointment and they told her not to go down there. Rumors were flying after the Pentagon got hit. I was working for United Way of America so we drove there to check in and then we went home to let family know we were ok. Most folks had no idea how close to the Pentagon we were and were worried. We too had flown the day before - kind of freaky to think about.

[Earthquake Enyart]

I was at work at the power house. Someone came in and said that one of the WTC towers was hit, and I just figured it was some idiot in a Cessna. Then he came back later and said that the other tower and the Pentagon was hit. We have a TV in the control room that we watched as the towers came down.

Went on the roof where we have an awesome view of downtown Chicago. There were no commercial planes, but many AF jets as they thought Chicago might be a target as well.

My brother is a civilian that works for the AF. He said he was in the part of the Pentagon that was hit. He said that that part was just rebuilt, and reinforced with tons of steel. If they hit somewhere else, the damage would have been much worse.

[TigerJ]

My wife's cousin works for CIBC Oppenheimer, a brokerage house and mutual fund company. The building their offices were in was too badly damaged by the WTC explosions and collapse to be salvaged and had to be demolished. At the moment of the first hit on tower one he was on a train in the sub basement station of the same tower. The train pulled out of the station as scheduled. He learned of the hit when he got off the train in New Jersey.

[Michael82]

I will always remember that day forever. It was a day that changed the way we all think and do things. I was sitting in my car, listening to WGR55 on the radio. Baurle and the Bulldog were *****ing about the Bills and talking about how much they suck, after the loss to New Orleans. The listeners were talking about how its the end of the world and it sucks being a Bills fan. Then all of a sudden, Bulldog interrupted and said that the World Trade Center had been hit by a small plane. They were saying how it was an accident and wasn't anything major to worry about. Once I got to my school, I ran to the library because I had an hour until my first class. As I walked in the building, everyone was huddling up by the TVs and watching images. It showed the footage of the the building burning and the people were all thinking it was just an accident. Baurle came on and said that they are cutting off to go to CBS News radio live. I walked up to the library to check out the latest Bills news on BBI and someone posted that a 2nd plane hit the other building. I couldn't believe it and was in total shock. I went to MSNBC.com and heard other things and saw footage and just was in total disbelief. I couldn't believe my eyes. I closed down BBI and didn't care about the Bills anymore, I just wanted to see and hear what was happening. The computers were slow and busy, so I figured I should go downstairs to the big campus TV. I did and everyone was standing there and watching it. We were all scared and upset. The buildings went down one by one and it was just nuts. I could not believe what I saw. Then around 10:30am or 11am, there was a message on the loudspeaker...."Attention all Students and Staff, we will be closing the school down immediately. Please evacuate the building slowly and in an orderly fashion. This is coming directly from the Governor. Thank You." We all left the building. It took over an hour to get out of the parking lot. I was just very happy to get home. This is definitely a day that...I WILL NEVER FORGET!

God Bless America! :patriot:

[Michael82]

Any more stories? :patriot:

[Captain gameboy]

Originally posted by Mike32282
Any more stories? :patriot:


Yes Mike, and I've got one that I've told before. But I'm not going to tell it here. I just hope we realize, twelve months later, that we are at war with those who hate us for irrational reasons, and we have the resolve to fight that war.

[lordofgun]

A lot of people have short memories and that ticks me off. :mad:

[JefftheBillsfan]

i know what you mean log....its ridiculous. and everyone is so certain that it was a once in a lifetime thing. if we aren't careful it could happen again.

[Phins054]

I was laid off at the time and my wife called me to say that a plane ran into the WTC and to turn on the news. I turned it on and we were talking about it when i notice a plane in the background making a looping turn...I remember watching this on the Today show and watched the second plane hit...it took like 15 seconds to even register...I watched the plane hit and I am thinking "This must be a replay" even though the one tower is already in flames in front of me...Then a guy in the studio says Oh My God another one has hit...it was just so surreal...Then the news about the pentagon...Bush was in FL at a school and they showed him talking to the kids when he was told about the second plane. You could just see the look on his face was Holy $*&^...

It was the first time i have ever been glued to the TV for 3 days straight. They printed a special edition of the paper that afternoon and I picked up a few copies...

[SabreEleven]

I'm in the Air Force and worked a swing shift the night before and had to work a mid shift that night. I sat there the whole day just watching the TV. I live on Peterson AFB, so they shut the whole base down. They searched ever vehicle coming on the base. It took up to an hour sometimes to come on base, when it usually takes about ten seconds. The bad thing was that my son goes to off base so we couldn't get to him.
When I went to work that night( there is no calling in sick when you are in the military) we were a quiet crew, usually we are a rowdy bunch. We just watched the news all night. It made all the problems we have so little insignificant

[OpIv37]

I was in a government building on Constitution Ave in DC- we were forced to evacuate and the subway line I take goes right under the Pentagon. I ended up being stuck on a bus on Constitution right between the White House and the Washington Monument. We knew about the planes hitting the towers and the Pentagon but our cell phones were blocked so no one knew what was really going on.... When we finally crossed the river into VA, I got a clear view of the Pentagon billowing smoke, surrounded by rescue crews and the media. A little more intense than the typical 9/11 story I guess....

I hope the remembrance ceremonies are toned down. This was a horrific tragedy, but the more we dwell on it the better it is for the enemy. Never forget and honor the heroes, but at the same time we need to remember that the world did not end on that day.

[vmark11]

MVDabomb here - just to get that out of the way...

I didn't have classes on Tuesdays that semester until 1:45, so I typically slept in till around noon. For whatever reason, I got up ridiculously early (by college standards anyway) at around 9.
Saw something on TV briefly, but didn't think anything of it - "Oh great, another bomb threat" - kind of embarassing to admit now. Turned on the radio for my morning sports talk show....if anybody's heard Brad Davey in Rochester, you know he's a big goofball, so when he started talking seriously, I knew there was something wrong. Turned the tube back on and EVERY channel had coverage, including MTV....wow. Had my eyes glued to that 32-inch screen for the next 48 hours straight in much more intense fashion than watching any football game.

I think I got about as much sleep as Peter Jennings for those first couple days, and I wasn't even affected personally by any family/friends; can't even begin to imagine if I was.
Not to turn this thread into a negative tone, but people were so much nicer for those first couple weeks....how quickly some people forget less than a year later. I guess it's good to move on if you were affected by the tragedy personally, but I think it's good thing that the other people remember it - I know I still think about it every day - thanks for bringing it up AWM.

[NoCtUrNaL]

I was on the crapper in my bomb shelter reading a book about Pearl Harbor.

[Michael82]

Originally posted by vmark11
I think I got about as much sleep as Peter Jennings for those first couple days, and I wasn't even affected personally by any family/friends; can't even begin to imagine if I was.
Not to turn this thread into a negative tone, but people were so much nicer for those first couple weeks....how quickly some people forget less than a year later. I guess it's good to move on if you were affected by the tragedy personally, but I think it's good thing that the other people remember it - I know I still think about it every day - thanks for bringing it up AWM.

A couple things...

I totally agree with you on the sleep, except mine was worse. I missed classes because i went to my school library and needed to check out the latest news. I was glued to my TV set 24/7...whenever I wasn't working or at school. I hardly had any sleep and just felt miserable for a while. I never understood why...because I didn't know anyone personally involved or had an involvement, but it really affected me. Also, I know you don't mean that negatively, and I totally agree. Everyone was so nice and patriotic for the first month. But, now everyone is back to normal again and doesn't care about anyone but themselves. It's pretty amazing how quickly everyone's patriotism and kindness changes as time goes by. Oh well!

God Bless America! :patriot:

[lordofgun]

Originally posted by vmark11
MVDabomb here - just to get that out of the way...

I didn't have classes on Tuesdays that semester until 1:45, so I typically slept in till around noon. For whatever reason, I got up ridiculously early (by college standards anyway) at around 9.
Saw something on TV briefly, but didn't think anything of it - "Oh great, another bomb threat" - kind of embarassing to admit now. Turned on the radio for my morning sports talk show....if anybody's heard Brad Davey in Rochester, you know he's a big goofball, so when he started talking seriously, I knew there was something wrong. Turned the tube back on and EVERY channel had coverage, including MTV....wow. Had my eyes glued to that 32-inch screen for the next 48 hours straight in much more intense fashion than watching any football game.

I think I got about as much sleep as Peter Jennings for those first couple days, and I wasn't even affected personally by any family/friends; can't even begin to imagine if I was.
Not to turn this thread into a negative tone, but people were so much nicer for those first couple weeks....how quickly some people forget less than a year later. I guess it's good to move on if you were affected by the tragedy personally, but I think it's good thing that the other people remember it - I know I still think about it every day - thanks for bringing it up AWM.

Welcome bud! Good to see you again!