Recalling 9/11

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I was at the airport the day it happened. We were working in a storm water pumping station way under ground. Our phones didnt work down there so we didnt know what was happeneing. Around 10 we went up for coffee and there was complete chaos going on. FBI, Police and state police were everywhere.
Our location was a high security one and they would not let us leave until we showed all of the proper identification and had our office confirm. It was a very stressful day.
It gave us a horrible feeling knowing that the terrorists could have been driving thru the tunnel at the same time we were that morning.

John R. Hall

Where were you when you heard the news?

I know it is a few days away but maybe we can have a good thread built up by Thursday in remembrance of 9/11. Does anyone remember where they were or what they were doing when they heard of the first plane going into Tower 1?

I was working at my desk at home when I saw an e-mail from one of my fellow editors, stating that she just heard that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I walked about ten feet into the basement family room, put on CNN on television and pretty much stayed affixed for the next 14-16 hours until I had to get some sleep, including watching as the second plane hit. I stayed home and waited for the kids and my wife to get home and watch as history unfolded before our eyes. I was upset, angry, and cried a lot.

JohnL

To think I used to work on the 97th floor of tower 2.

I remember getting off a downtown express bus when I looked up at tower 1 and noticed the top 10 or so floors fire, and what appeared to be millions and millions of little paper flying in the air.

Had no idea at the time it was a plane. When I got to my office I told my coworkers of what I saw and looked on CNN. Several Seconds later we heard a very deep and loud BOOM and all the lights at 1 NY plaza went out. The emergency generators went on and the lights came back on, A plane had gone into tower 2. That is when the choas began!

God bless all the people that lost their lives that day!

Derrick Ellefson

I was driving down Hwy Q near Hwy 31 in Kenosha County to do maintance at Snap-on. Could not work very hard that day.

Robert O'Brien

I was

watching CNBC when it happened,they initially reported a small plane had accidentally hit the tower.As soon as they showed the hole in the building you knew it wasn't a Piper!

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Heather_5

I was at school, 2nd period Spanish I...there was a guy in class who was known as a jokester, so when he announced that he'd heard the towers had been hit nobody really believed him..then our principal came on to do the morning announcements and confirmed that the first tower had been hit. My friend snuck out his PDA and began refreshing a news site over and over hoping for updates.

At lunch we had the TVs on in the cafeteria and it was the first time I'd seen more than 50 people stay on campus for lunch...We watched the second tower get hit, we heard about flight 93 and the one that hit the pentagon...

When I got home my stepmom and I went up to a local convenience store to pick up some drinks and chips while my dad stayed home glued to the TV. We walked in and saw the owner, who was middle eastern, huddled in a corner, staring at the TV crying. He looked over at us, we nodded and smiled towards him, and he said something I'll never forget:

"I'm so sorry. On behalf of my people...my religion, I am SO SORRY."...It was one of the few times I have ever been speechless....what do you say to that?

John Starcher_4

I was....

...in my office working on an estimate.

My dispatcher called my phone extension from his office. He had just heard about it on the radio, and told me to turn on my tv. I did, just in time to see the news coverage. Shortly after that, Tower 2 got hit. I spent the rest of the day staring at the television in disbelief, and shed a few tears throughout the day.

I remember trying to log onto the Wall, knowing that Danno was on Long Island, and being the geography imbecile that I am not knowing how close he was to the "action." The site was down, and my heart sank. It came up briefly after awhile, and I believe there was a post from Dan about the event, but can't remember that for sure. I was relieved to know he was ok, but my heart sank thinking of all the people who lost their lives that day.

Side note: I'm sure all the football fans on the Wall remember the NFL cancelling the first week's games. I'll never forget watching Sunday football the following weekend. The Browns were playing somebody (can't remember who), and when the team came out of the tunnel, their cornerback came running onto the field carrying a huge American flag. The crowd went absolutely NUTS screaming, yelling and cheering. I'm not ashamed to say that I sat there in my hardware store (I pulled Sunday duty that week) watching him running across the field; the American flag majestically flying as he carried it with him; the crowd cheering like Cleveland just won the Superbowl, and I cried like a freaking baby. You know what? I didn't care who walked in the door to see me doing it, either.

I just got chills typing this and remembering the whole experience!

Jeff Lawrence_25

Like Robert

I heard that a small plane had hit the first tower. I mentioned to a lady that was out walking her dog as I was getting some info out of the van for a customer.

They had a radio playing in the basement we were working in. As soon as the second plane hit, most of us started packing up.

I hurried outside to call my wife and tell her to go home. She was working in a tall building northwest of Atlanta and I didn't think it was safe.

I stopped by my daughter's elementary school that day to ask if there was anything I could do. They hadn't let any kids know but a few parents had gotten their children early. My son's middle school also didn't let the students know.

My second cousin was supposed to be on the second plane that hit the tower. She was sleeping on her Dad's couch in Ohio with her phone off. Her Mom fussed her out when Mom found out Kim traded and didn't Mom know.

The wife of a customer was supposed to be in a meeting in a conference room where the plane struck the Pentagon. A co-worker stopped her to ask questions and she was late.

Hug your kids.....

steveex

Sounds nuts however, i was installing a snowmelt system for one of the owners of the trade center that day. Weird called me today to do work in his manhattan apt, he asked me to come in on thursday, i said friday is better for me. No Bull.

John Barba_5

In class...

I was teaching a class at Apple Valley that day. We had about 50 contractors from Redlon-Johnson in Maine out to Minnesota. We got updates -- went out and bought a TV so everyone could see what was going on. Eventually asked the group what they wanted to do, call off the class and go back to the hotel or what. To a man, the group wanted to finish the class as best we could...otherwise, as one of the guys said, "the **** win."

With the flights grounded, we wound up chartering a bus to get the guys back to Maine. I loaned my video collection for the ride home. It warmed my heart to know that Slapshot, The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack and Animal House helped on the long bus ride home.

Never forget..

JMB

Paul Fredricks_3

In the car

I was driving around Stamford CT on appointments. I heard something about something on the radio, but wasn't sure what.

When I got back to the office I told them to turn on the radio and I headed for the internet. We spent most of the day listening.

I took a ride down to the beach to see if I could see anything. I saw the smoke rising.

One of our tech had to abandon his van down in Brooklyn because they closed the road he was on. The next day I had to bring him down to retrieve it. Got a better look at the smoke, very disturbing.

Darin Cook_5

9-11

I was working on a job at Union College in Schenectady, NY installing some Runtal baseboard when my friend called me to say that a plane had mistakenly flown into the World Trade Center. About 20 minutes later he called to say that another plane had flown into the World Trade Center. It was then that I realized we were under attack. My guard unit called within a few hours and asked if I would volunteer to deploy to NYC in support of rescue operations, Of course it was a HELL YES!!! I was on the first transport plane ( LC-130H ) to fly after air traffic was banned. It was very wierd that night to hear an F-15 scream overhead, one of the only things in the air. We were staged on day 1 after the attacks in Newburgh at Stewart ANGB then we convoyed into NYC on Day 2 to Randall's Island and then worked in shifts with Ground Zero operations in Manhattan. I have never seen that kind of devastation. Walking as far as a block from the glowing, burning hulk of the Twin Towers site the broken glass was inches thick on the street. The glass melted from the frames on nearby buildings. The memories of the exhausted NYC firemen all over the site who would not quit their rescue efforts, covered with dust and filth, still stay with me. There is alot to say with my story but it is too much for one post. The people who lined up on the streets, waving US flags, and breaking into deafening cheering when my guard unit drove through made me the proudest that I have ever felt wearing my uniform.

God Bless The USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







Darin

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Mad Dog_2

Took the whole Clan to NYC yesterday to........................

Honor Father Mychal Judge and all the FDNY & NYPD lost that day. We started out at Saint Francis Monastery on 31st Street, where The Good Father, called home. We walked the 30 or so blocks with family members and stopped at many fire & police stations for prayer - by FRanciscan Brothers in their plain brown vestments - and reflection. We had with us, Mothers, Fathers, children of the innocent MURDERED that day. Sadly, but to no surprise, we numbered no more than 100 or so, Steven Mc Donald, Hero NYPD detective who was paralysed from the neck down 20 years ago and FORGAVE his assailant lead the charge. What a man this is..and a wife who has been a ROCK. My anger is NO less, but the last seven years has taught me to be patient> Revenge is mine said the Lord. We had those huge bells leading the way and ringing out. They come from Delaware but have been all over the country. Most New Yorkers barely looked up from their Goat-Cheese Fritatas and Rhineland Reislings...one wacky-looking, but well-to-do elitist snarled to his significant other: " ohhhhhh....its SOME kind of CATHOLIC THING!!!!!!!" as we passed. Typical rude new yorkers cut through out POLICE ESCORTED cortege like it was any other day. I wondered how they woukld feel if someone did that at their mom's funerel? We ended at Saint Peter's, The Oldest Catholic Parish in NYC and 100 feet from Ground Zero. It is here where the famous and exalted steel I beam in the form of a cross was found in the aftermath stands tall!! Barbara and the Kids were very tired and rode on the Fire engine for thew final leg of the walk. As they pulled up, the tears flowed like the Waters of Watkins Glen. 7 years ago......but a unprecendented attack like that is NOT any less painful. Mad Dog

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Larry (from OSHA)

9/11 memory

I had just dropped off my kids at school and heard on the radio about a plane hitting the building. Like others I thought a private plane had done something stupid. By the time I got to the office the facts were clearer. When I saw the second tower fall and everything that followed, my overwhelming thought was that Everything had changed. I thought about what my kids' lives were going to be like, and then was consumed with wondering if my children that I had just left at school were safe. So much can go through your head in a flash. I now wonder what my dad thought when Pearl Harbor was attacked and if his thoughts were in the least bit similar.

The days following were so very wierd with NO planes in the sky. It was so quiet.

Several from my group and other OSHA folks from across the country went to NYC and helped out at the site to try to keep those dealing with the aftermath safe. I think the effort was good, but the results were mixed. There are apparently many who suffer the effects of what they breathed in.

Thanks John for starting this.

Larry

Chris S

Sept 11

I was on the way to meet with a client and heard the news on the radio. We watched CNN as the second plane hit. Of course I didn't get much done that day. Spent most of the afternoon & evening at our local fire station, we didn't get called, but our ambulances did.
Of course you then worry about who you know that might be there, and word slowly trickled in about those that we knew. In the following months we got to know one of our neighbors who became a widow that day, buying groceries & helping with projects around the house. It was am honor to stand shoulder to shoulder with firefighters from Long Island, Boston, various areas in Connecticut, Hackensack etc at that funeral. A paltry showing of only about 500 of us as there were about 15 other funerals that same day.

In October we started work on anothers' home, getting it ready for his arrival in late december. Widen the doorways, ADA bathroom etc. The PA paid for certain things, other things we just did because they had to be done ( the movie made it look much worse than it was) and there was tremendous community support & help offered & given. Great friendships came from this, we lost a lot of productive time, they lost way more than that. If what we did only helped a little itwas worth it, it's what we could do.

Oh, and since then my (volunteer)fire company attends an
annual Church Service in September with our families. Since it's a firehouse, of course a meal is involved, and cameraderie is always a plus. I have since moved several miles from that area, but that's one day I keep going back for and will continue to.

Chris

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Gordy

At work

Pouring a bridge abutment when one of the laborers wife called to tell him a small plane hit the world trade center. A little bit later she called him again, and said another plane hit tower 2. We were listening to it unfold from the truck radio. After the second plane hit we all knew it was a terrorist act.

I will never forget the erie feeling when all planes were grounded. We were use to seeing contrails all day as planes were stacked up landing, and taking off from O'hare airport. To see nothng was wierd to say the least.

I will never forget the next day when we put the American flag on the boom of the crane and raised it into the air. The whoops and war cries from vehicles passing us by. The rejuvination of the proudness we felt as an American, and the sorrow for those who perished. It must have felt similar to the news when Pearl Harbor was attacked. To be so complacint to be an American, and so dumb founded that someone could do such a thing on American soil.

I will never forget where I was who I was with or what I was doing on that day for sure.


Gordy

Ken Field

I will never forget

I was in my second year as an elected township supervisor and had an appointment with a contractor to get a proposal for installing a backup generator to power our municipal building and police station in the event of an unforseen emergency. I heard on the radio on the way to the appointment that a plane had hit the first tower and as I entered the municial building, they said the second one had hit. Most of the rest of the day felt like slow motion. Nobody seemed to know what to do to help. That day ranks right up there with the Challenger explosion as far as sick feelings in the gut are concerned.

Ken

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Mark Hunt_6

I was


in my office. Darin and crew had left for the job site and I was getting a cup of coffee. The first plane had already flown in and the reports were that a small, single engine plane had hit one of the towers. I saw the live feed and the smoke that was rolling from the building. No worries eh? Just "pilot error"....

Came back for a re-fill and watched the second plane, LIVE, slam into the second tower. No mistaking that as an accident.

Then,,,,the world stopped. I watched as the towers burned. I watched the fire companies scream into position to rescue the people trapped in those buildings. I watched as the police struggled to control the chaos that ensued.

And then I watched them die as the buildings came down on them.

I watched the search for survivors turn into a search for remains.

I watched and I will NEVER forget.

WV EGBERT_2

I remember both attacks

on 9-11 I was installing a lav faucet at a clients, they were watching TV , as I went out to the truck to get something we all watched. After a while I finished up and went home and did not leave for two days after, glued to the TV all the time.

The first attack ('93) I as going home when traffic came to a halt on the B.Q.E we watched the police choppers flying all around the towers. Two weeks later I was replacing sewer pipe on the lower level, my boss was one of many contractors to rebuild the lower levels within 90 days.
Seeing the towers from the inside and the vastness of the buildings I cant believe they were redeuced to dust.

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Glen

walking out of a Rotary meeting -

went home and was glued to CNN for the rest of the day. lots of tears - even here north of the 49th.

TJ_5

9-11

I was working in the very lower basement of a courthouse in Providence on a big sump pump. had no radio/cell or anything went out to truck at about 10:00, as I tried to get back in the front door, met by very armed police looking for positive ID, finished job and was glued to tv.

Tony_23

I can't forget the feeling

I was on a service call. Arrived after the 1st hit, when it was still a reported accident. The HO had the TV on and started yelling "Holy Sh!t" over and over. I ran into the LR to see what for and was dumbfounded.

I went to the new-build I was on and broke the news to the mason, an old Marine with a Marine son. He used my cellphone for 1/2 an hour. The next morning we hoisted a flag on the 3 story chimney.

The whole week was very surreal feeling.

Joannie_15

Me, Too

I was teaching a class that day, too. We went on our morning break, and one of the attendees got a message from his wife telling him. We were holding the class in a meeting room at a small inn, and the owner came by and told us we could just go into any of the rooms to watch TV.

And then I called my Mom and wished her a happy birthday.....Rough day.....

Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating

We Will Never Forget

I was working under a kitchen sink when when the next door neighbor came over and told us that a small plane had hit the Tower accidently. I reminded them that the blind sheik had tried to blow up the same tower before and I thought a small plane could steer away from such a big building and I suggested that maybe it could be terrorist. That got the homeowners nervous and they turned on the TV. We just stood in the living room and watched as the second tower got hit, speechless and crying. Our anxiety grew as more reports of attacks came in. I buttoned up what I was doing and went home, the homeowner went to pick up her kids from school. I would like to thank all the servicemen and servicewomen who serve in our military and everyone else who works so hard to keep us safe, the politicians, FBI, CIA, and everyone else all the way up to the President. They put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe and deserve our strongest thanks and our deepest respect.

Thank You, Bob Gagnon

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Tekkie

At work

I am a volunteer firefighter and was President at that time. I also participated in a New York news paging service. I don't what prompted me to look at the pager. Very soon the following pages started giving out the news that would come out later such as the Federal involvement, second plane, third plane and so on. I remember telling my boss & coworkers and we ran to the TV upstairs and watched. The news people were tongue tied and blowing smoke as usual and I was providing narrative from the pager.

Soon I was fielding calls from our people if they had permission to go and use the equipment. Eventually we got straightened out as to manpower response.

I was beyond sad... I often think this triggered my heart problems a few days after.

I WILL NEVER FORGET! Have we REALLY addressed the problem? NO! I'm not going there now but remember the victims.

MikeyB

9/11

I was on the roof of 41 Madison watching both towers burn, myself and about 15 other guys from my company were attending a lock out tag out class, when the attatcks occured. Hopefully we will never have to witness something like that again.

Steve Thompson (ST)

Two days I will NEVER forget where I was and what I was doing – JFK and 9/11.

9/11 had me in the middle of a training run in Southern Alberta. That morning I vividly remember the hotel lobby completely stopped with folks riveted on TV monitors – you could here a pin drop it was so quiet. I remember the hundreds of planes parked at Calgary airport later that day, wingtip to wingtip. The very first human I ran into was an “East Indian” looking chamber maid. Never met her before but for the first time in my life I felt an immediate hatred for this complete stranger.

I’ll never forget the first flight attendant I met on my return flight later that week either. Yes, I openly cried thinking about those folks that got murdered in such a cowardly manner.

Even our product development engineers in Germany had stories about 9/11 – the entire group was riveted on the computer screens (Internet TV), not in fascination but in sorrow.

Still am not comfortable looking at movies with the Twin Towers to this day.

jackchips_2

I was

at work and like most people watched in horror and will never forget.

My wife Linda had a more interesting experience as she was in a plane over the Atlantic and was re-routed to Ireland for four days. They had no idea what was going on until after landing and it was quite a while before I heard from her.

The Irish were extremely helpful and just as devasted as the American's who they took care of.

Bob Bona_4

was

installing a Viessmann oil in new construction and heard it on the job site radio.

Called the wife where she works in Stamford and she said she was talking to an associate on the Jersey side of the river. The woman she was talking to was watching the second plane hit and to wife she had to go.

My wifes office lost internet and fax due to trunks routed under the WTC.

Some of my FD buddies up here in Greenwich grabbed their gear and went in to help. They rode Metro North for free, both ways.

My town lost like three or four residents.

I have a real problem with anyone making a cent off media related to 9/11, a real problem profiting from this..

John@Reliable_14

911 never forget

That morning I was in a customers basement, just started a oil tank replacement. Customer came down and told us a plane had hit the tower. Later came down and said " we are at war", other tower was hit. He said he was ready, and moved a tarp to show us his ammo boxes in basement( their was 1000's of rounds). That was the fastest tank replacement ever done. Also remember the following days with no air traffic but could see and hear the fighter jets taking off from the Cape Cod air base. I also remember how nice people were for weeks after,( must have been 3 weeks before first finger, horn blower while driving, but that sadly didn't last long enough.

[Deleted User]

Just getting out of bed...

listening to a local radio station when the DJ said, "If you have access to a TV, turn it on immediately. There is something you need to see..."

I no sooner turned the TV on, only to witness the second jet slamming into the building. All I could think was O.M.G... We are being attacked and they are using OUR equipment to kill us.

I was glued to the boob toob for what seemed like hours, and I knew I had a business to run. I went in to the office, and as I was walking up to the office, I looked up and saw a jet liner do a 180 degree turn, right in mid air. Most bizarre contrail I've ever witnessed.

Shortly thereafter, the skies were empty, except for the scrambling war planes.

I just happened to be working with my partner on a job that day, which is pretty rare, and it was just he and me. I said, 'You know this is going to have a significant impact, probably neagative impact, on our business. How do you suggest we handle it?" We talked more and decided to use the F.I.L.O. order of release. Scary times to say the least. Interestingly enough, our business actually SURGED at that point, wiith HO's spending more money on their nest, making it comfy AND secure. It has been on a steady increase ever since.

A word of caution to ALL people. We were extremely complacent prior to the 9/11 attack. I think we have become complacent again, thinking they would not DARE attack us on our soil again... Think again. These people know no mercy, and they are STILL at war with us, and they DO have faction cells throughout the US and Canada and the world. Keep an eye and an ear out and report ANY suspicious activites you may see or hear.

God Bless the World, Christian and Muslim alike. One day, hopefully we will focus our attentions on the war against the worldy destruction of our precious resources...

Until then, remain alert, and pray for those soles lost in this conflict.

God Bless The World!

ME

Steve Ebels_3

Etched indelibly forever

My son Andy and a helper had left to start an oil furnace changeout. I was to follow them after making a few phone calls that morning and had the news page up on the computer. The customer had left the evening before to catch a flight for a Texas vacation out of Grand Rapids so they weren't home. I refreshed the page on the computer before I left and saw the headline and pics of the first tower burning. I flipped on the TV and called Andy to tell him but he had already heard on the radio and said he was on his way home. He had already come to the conclusion that a commercial jet doesn't just happen to hit a building like that by accident. We sat and watched in horror as the second plane flew into the Trade Center. Needless to say we were pretty much glued to the TV the rest of the day.
The customer called about 3 that afternoon to say they were stranded in Chicago because their connecting flight had been canceled.

What I will never forget is the absolute tumult of emotions running through my mind.

Sadness beyond description for the completely innocent victims in the planes and on the ground along with their families. Rescuers trying in vain to save the folks trapped in the towers.

Inexpressible rage and the feeling of wanting to lash out and turn all of the middle east into a glass parking lot. To use the same indiscriminate non selective style of war on them as they used on us. Along with that came the conflicted thought that such an action is not right.

The sense of the huge loss of national capital. Billions of dollars wasted because some fanatic could simply make it happen.

The awareness that life would probably never be the same, there would be a new "normal" in which there would always be a what if type question in everyone's mind.

JohnNY

Recall 9/11/01? No Thanks.



For me it started while I was on the phone at the corner of 7th Avenue and Watts St.
I heard something very loud and mechanical coming quickly until I couldn’t hear the other guy on the phone anymore. About a second after it was loudest there was a tremendous BOOM. When I looked up from my call, everyone on the street was hollering and pointing in one direction. I rounded the corner to see the giant airplane-shaped hole in the World Trade Center building, made by the plane that just seconds ago flew right over my head so low I couldn’t hear myself speaking.

People were screaming and crying and praying Our Father openly. Some actually joined hands with other strangers in the street and formed a prayer circle.

I ran to my van and grabbed the camera I always carry and started shooting pictures.
A few minutes later, another plane crashed into the other WTC building. A distraught man was asking out loud to anyone to borrow a phone. “MY WIFE IS IN THERE, SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!”
Someone handed him a phone but very few were working.

Oddly, all the while this is going on, sheets of paper with evenly flame-singed edges are falling all around me. The towers spewed millions of sheets of burning paper until they fell.

My wife arrived at work just before the second attack and entered her building just two streets away from the WTC towers.

Now with the two towers burning, the city is in panic.

We have to get out of the city. Everyone does and there is a mass exodus toward the bridges and tunnels near me. I’m less than a half mile from the site and my wife is much closer.

There is screaming and crying EVERYWHERE I look. A uniformed policeman is screaming repeatedly at a pedestrian: “CALL 911. TELL THEM ‘OFFICER NEEDS ASSISTANCE!” The frightened pedestrian didn’t move a muscle. Both were in shock.

People are now running in all directions and the police are closing streets and sidewalks. Now we have nowhere to go. Police and city officials offer no guidance whatsoever so I try desperately to get closer to my wife’s building to get her out.

Then the towers fall. I feel it under my feet and I hear screams from near and far.
I run into a friend’s home and watch what’s going on on TV. By the video, I see my wife’s building become engulfed in smoke and debris.
I call with the landline. She’s in there. She doesn’t quite know what’s happening.
I fill her in, tell her I’m trying to get to her, but if she can she has to get out and get to our first and second choice meeting locations.

At some point she tried to get out, but the air outside the building was blacker than night. And impossible to breathe.
The building shuts all HVAC systems.

At that point, U.S. Fighter jets swarmed the area just over our heads. They were fully armed with missiles under their wings and military vehicles took over everything in my neighborhood. Large guns were pointed at crowds and individuals alike. No one knew what was coming next.

Eventually, we both at different times were able to get to the Staten Island Ferry. The streets were now thick with grey dust and the smell was unfamiliar, except for some electrical wires burning.
The Ferry was full of people. Crying people, bleeding people, hurt people, people covered in that thick ash, people looking for other people. The concession stand was looted and all of the life jackets were pulled out from under the seats and people were putting them on their children or holding them on their laps.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

We didn’t ask for that day, but we got it. I replayed every moment of it for a good two years until I could let it go. I used to show that roll of film I took throughout that day, but I decided to put it away and haven’t looked at it in 5 or 6 years.
My wife and I found each other in good health and safe and we’ve never been closer.
To me, 9/11 had a significant effect on who I am today, and who my wife and I are as a couple…..but thinking about it doesn’t do anything good for me.


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hvacfreak

I called out sick that day. 9-11 is my wifes birthday , I slept in and was going to get a gift for her and I heard all of this crazy stuff happening up in NY. I was in my truck when I heard about the Pentagon...I figured I'd stay on the mountain at that point. I turned on the Nextel and spoke with my friends who were working ( DC Metro area ). They were all sitting in traffic...man I felt lucky.

Supply House Rick

9-11

Was the manager of plumbing outfit in Auburn, New York. We had a 13" TV on a filing cabinet with The Today Show on. My sister called me and asked if I was watching. I looked up and saw the first tower on fire and remember that the first reports were vague.

We pretty much stood up watching in horror the rest of the day. I'll never forget watching plane #2 smashing into tower two and it was like slow motion as they came down. Looked like a scene from Independence Day...

God Bless America

John R. Hall

Very riveting

I started this thread with the idea that people like myself, far removed from NYC, DC, and PA would contribute; and have read some very riveting eyewitness accounts. Today is the day and I will pause in silence to honor the victims and to to pledge that I WILL NEVER FORGET. And I will continue to pass this same sentiment on to my children, tempered as it is.

I would like to renew this thread every year and keep adding. Maybe eventually I can put these thoughts into a book. Thanks everyone -- keep the posts coming.

GOD BLESS AMERICA.