What was your experience on the morning of 9-11-2001 ?

I was at home waiting for the mailman to deliver an online purchase.

I was supposed to be getting on a plane to go to California that day. I woke up and as always go to the computer to finish waking up, and saw the news of the first tower explosion. It was horrifying to think about all of those people trapped in the building. Other sites I went to all had stories that morning....before long the second tower was hit and that visual was caught on camera. I felt limp. Soon it came out that it was hit by a plane and then I knew I wouldn't be traveling by plane that day. I didn't even call to cancel. That plane ticket never got redeemed...money lost, but from what I was seeing that was nothing compared to what these people were going through. My day was full of shock and disgust at what was happening and sadness.

I was online pointing out that was just an implosion and how you could not have carried out a better controlled demolition. I knew then on the spot there was no way the original story held water.

I was in my bodyshop getting ready to paint a 66 Nova SS. My buddy and i sat and watched it live almost all afternoon. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to see it was a controlled demolition, we seen it right away.

That is when we seen NBC or CBS (cant remember which) air the missile hitting the pentagon. We both seen it and about shit because i swear it wasnt a minute later and they kept looping a new vid with a plane, and the missile clip never to be seen again.

We thought we were crazy at first but then we both got phone calls asking if we seen the missile.



Last Edited by Mist Walker on 09/11/2020 10:59 AM

I was 25. Woke up in the morning, and was the only time I ever decided for some reason to turn on the TV before going to work.

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Last Edited by Mist Walker on 09/11/2020 10:56 AM

Mine was simple but proved to be rather profound later in life.

My (ex) GF was up drinking coffee (I cant recall what time - morning, obviously, though). She came woke me up and told me an aircraft had crashed into the WTC tower.

I came to the living room w/ a fresh cup of coffee just in time to see the 2md jet hit. Funny, because a LOT of people tunes in just in time to see that happen.

Anyway, my buddy showed up to drink coffee w/ us before heading to work. I remember telling them that this was a big fucking deal, and that shit would be drastically different going fwd.

Its not like they didnt re-play those crash scenes about 300x that day.

By bedtime on 09/11/2001, most of us who were alive and old enough to comprehend had seen those goddamned plane crash clips so many times it was like a mental film loop for many of us.

Last Edited by Cactus31 on 09/11/2020 11:00 AM

I was in elementary school.

Some of the teachers showed their students, some did not. By recess, the only information gained was that a terrorist attack had happened in New York and that thousands were dead.

I live in the outskirts of Detroit, there is a high arab population here. One of the kids I knew, who was from Iraq, made some statements on the bus that day about the terror attacks coming from his "family" and "fuck america." He got in some serious shit.

They sent home a letter and basically old our parents to discuss the events with us.

I can remember being so filled with rage on my way home from the bus stop, that anyone could kill so many people who were just at their day jobs, blew my little mind.

I was working at casino on 9/11.
I was on my way into work and needed to stop for gas. As I pulled up to the gas station. I noticed people were walking around with a deer in the headlight look on their faces. As I pulled up to the pump and began pumping my gas..I got the feeling that something horrible had just happened. I asked the man in front of me what was going on? I thought maybe the place had just been robbed or something! He looked at me with the most incredulous look on his face and said to me, “you mean you don’t know?? You haven’t heard?!! America is under attack!! They just hit the Pentagon!!”
All I remember is yanking the nozzle out of my gas tank, and jumping in my car. All I knew was that I needed to get home to my family!! As I raced out of that gas station..it didn’t even dawn on me until I pulled into the driveway that I had just stollen gas!! By the time I got home..the kids had already left for school. Only my then husband was at home. I quickly woke him up and turned on the TV. What I saw on the screen felt like a punch to the stomach. The carnage was surreal!! The towers on fire with frequent cut always to the Pentagon on Fire!
Remembering I’d just committed a crime, I quickly looked up the number for the gas station (this was before smart phones had to use an actual phone book..it was so hard to concentrate) And told the lady that picked up the phone what I had just did. She said to me, “you did?? I didn’t even notice you were getting gas..I’ve been glued to the TV..can you believe what’s going on?!! Come on down when you can and pay for the gas..not a big deal.”
I didn’t want to go to work that day. But I did. The casino of course had all of the big screen TV’s playing it all day. I was surprised at how many of the customers seemed to not even care what was happening. A few would stop at a TV that day and watch for a few seconds..and then go back to what they were doing, but for the most part..it was like nothing had happened. I was thinking to myself..what is wrong with you people??!! America is under attack!! Don’t you even care?! I felt like I was trying to work during a waking nightmare that day. I will never forget that day or the weeks that followed.

I was a college student working in a call center, MCI WorldCom. I can't exactly remember the exact moment I was told about it but they actually closed our offices which never happens. I remember going to my apt and waking my wife (girlfriend at the time) and we were just so shook up. Watched the news that entire day.

boring ?
hell no
and it remains a fact THAT theeee islam0s were jubilant-witnessed in my arab ghetto NYC and the same told me for in Jersey City.
did WE confront them ? YOU BETTER believe IT--then the cops came to protect them and their fffkkin mosques.
so THAT along w/THEM tossing SIM cards,tracfones,loading cars up & leaving in all the commotion-again NYC.
our esteemed mediyuuh never reported on THIS.

Was running late for work. Friend of mine called and said a plane hit the trade center. Put on TV and was on phone with him watching as second plane hit. Then we knew it wasn't an accident. Lots of misinformation on the news. At one point they thought as many as 8 planes were hijacked. From where I was living there was sand pit half a mile away, Walked over there later in the day and could see the smoke coming off the towers. We really were concerned what was going to happen next. Everything came to a standstill. Another friend of ours died in when towers collapsed which we also saw live on TV. Another one of my friends had to go into work at Bank of NY building to do clean up. Was on the phone with him for awhile while he was saying tower 7 is going to fall next. He could see chunks of it falling off. Then he said here it goes. He saw tower fall and I got play by play. There was nothing suspicious about Tower 7.

I was on the other side of the world at university. It was midnight. I was writing an essay. Watched the big show until the sun came up.

job interview, it is also my birthday.

great TV! in fact i got rid of my TV not long after

I knew I was going to get a divorce.
My ex husband was with his buddies and didn't even call me

Hes a district attorney too. What a pos.
Looking back I'm thinking he was celebrating

He now runs CPS which needs investigated

On October 2000, the Palestinians started a second intifada (uprising).
Suicide bombers exploded inside buses, restaurants etc'.
Israel tried to explain the world that Islamic terror is a global problem, but to no avail.
The day the planes hit the towers I thought:
This is like Pearl Harbor: They finally woke up the bear...

Last Edited by Starly on 09/11/2020 01:03 PM

I was a fourth grader, my younger brother was in second grade. My parents woke us up before school at 6:45 pacific time (Oregon). My parents seemed nervous and said "something really bad happened guys." The TV was on in their room which was rare for a school morning and they were glued to it. My brother and I came in to watch for a few minutes. My dad was angry and pacing the room. My mom was saying things like "Those poor people on those planes." The first tower collapsed around 7 am while we were watching. I remember it vividly. I was young enough that I didn't understand the seriousness of what I was seeing but I was in awe. My parents turned off the tv and we prayed in a circle. We always prayed nightly as a family, never in the morning except for September 11, 2001. Our prayer was from the heart that morning I'll tell you that. We then went about our day. At school, they had all the students wait outside their classrooms in the hallway before class and the school secretary went around and explained to us that we wouldn't be having normal class that day, we would be taking a day to talk about what was going on and have fun. A few hours into school they called an all-school assembly and reassured us that we were not in danger. A lot of us were under the impression that there were still hijacked planes in the air all over the country. I still have the journal entry I wrote that day and in it I said that there were still hijacked planes in the air all over the country. Just goes to show how chaotic the day was. I remember watching the news that night and realizing how many people must have died. My innocent view of the world was never the same after that day.

there is no such thing as a Palestinian, except in Israel. you manufacture them by having a secular government.

Didn't have TV on that morning to avoid waking baby, got in the car on way to work and turned on radio and it immediately felt like I was in War of the Worlds. I drove to work a couple of miles away the whole way wondering WTF was happening. I remember being in shock at what I was hearing because I wasn't seeing it and only hearing horrific descriptions on the radio, and barely paying attention to driving. Got to my job at a small bank and the ones there early had moved the large TV from the break room to the lobby and everyone was just staring at it, barely saying anything with a few saying this is war. The whole day was surreal. I will never forget it!

If these stories are so boring,,,why are you reading them?

I had just told my wife of 14yrs that I wanted a divorce the night before. I left that morning to drop my sons off at school at 7:45 and came back home to her having a complete mental breakdown, literally screaming at the top of her lungs, breaking everything in sight and shaking like nothing I'd ever seen. I ended up having to take her to the hospital because it got so bad I thought she was at risk of a serious health issue, it was so terrible looking back.

We were on the way to the ER when the first plane hit, within minutes traffic was backed up everywhere, people were stopping in the middle of the road and getting out of their cars looking at the sky. We were still stuck in traffic when the second plane hit, I swung around and drove the other way, and immediately picked my sons up from school and took everyone home.

We ended up staying together for another year after that day.

I binged on Ice Cream and called everyone to decide if I would go to N.Y and help.

It the day(s) I gave myself type II diabetes.

It's been hell ever since.

9/11 cased a lot of damage to people outside of N.Y.

I enjoy reading other people's stories about it. If you don't then don't read them. It's something we all share in common and was one of the worst things we ever witnessed.

uuuuuuuh HELLO ?
do yew know HOW to follow a thread ?
you replied to MY retort NOT the one claiming these are boring.
YEW need to either copy and paste the line on IT being boring or return to the original.

Was in the middle of computer analysis class for A.S. The visualbasic instructor from down hall and told us.

I was 21 working in a small factory and they stopped production. Rolled out TV's and let us watch. I had been out of the US Army 30 days. The next few weeks there was a lot of staring at the ceiling at night.

It was a beautiful September morning. Blue sky and no humidity. The 1st plane got everyone's attention. By the time that the 2nd one hit, we all got to see it live and in slow-motion while Katie Couric gave the blow-by-blow commentary.

USA IS STILL THE BEST NO ONE CAN EVER TAKE THAT AWAY FROM US.

Sounds like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

Na. 20-somethings have Mass Induced Psychopathy