I was in the student lounge at the community college in my hometown. We all stood around watching the one 25" TV mounted on the wall in awe. What was so amazing is how there were so many of us, black, white, Asian, Latino... all of us watching as the buildings came tumbling down. I remember talking to classmates and telling them that I was afraid that Americans would start giving up their freedoms for a sense of security and that there was more hell to come than we knew. They hemmed and hawed me. I wonder what they think now when they are forced to take off their shoes and turn in their lighter at the security gate in the airport.
I don't truly know what or why it happened. You can't believe everything the media feeds you. All I know is that I hope such a tragedy never happens again. When I imagine the number of people that perished while going about their daily routine, it really scares me. My heart still goes out to the families that lost loved ones during 911. May the memory of those who died on that day live forever.
2007-08-31 08:07:30
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answered by kriskabob 3
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I was at school, i didn't really find out till i got home and watched the news and found that they slamed two planes into the buildings, that's all i knew at the time. Only until the next day when i read a newspaper on the bus that both where destroyed and like nearly 3000 people were dead.
I was sad all week.
At the time i never watched the news, i would only read the newspaper, thats where i basically got all the info from and i read about it everyday till they stoped printing about it.
2007-08-31 15:15:21
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answered by Anonymous
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I was working that day as an accountant for an insurance company near Seattle, and living on Whidbey Island.
I had heard nothing about the WTC until after I got on the boat to go to the mainland. I heard some talk among the boat workers, but could not comprehend what they were saying. Something about a plane flying into a building, so I was assuming there must be a crash at Payne Field (Boeing). I jumped in my brand new truck to drive from Mukilteo to Seattle with Howard Stern on the air. Howard and crew were looking at the plane in the first WTC tower and commentating on it when a second plane hit. They did not know what to make of the first plane when the second plane hit the other tower.
I honestly did not know what to make of it. It seemed inconceivable! I could tell something was happening during the long drive. When I finally got to work, I went to CNN.com and actually saw video. Later I was told the Pentagon just had a plane crash into it, and by then, even the slowest of us could see this was a direct attack on the nation. And then all planes were grounded and all flights canceled.
Many senior execs were worried because we had contacts with Empire Blue Cross located in the WTC, but all office occupants, as well as 97% of the workers (about 100,000 people worked in those towers) were able to get out. Also, our CEO and CFO and VP of Finance were in Washington, DC at the time and were stuck at the airport. Since the company is a huge hirer of woman, the top brass was absolutely hysterical over the safety of Gubby, Kent, and Sherilyn and many tears were shed, and the women managers bawled their eyes out, even though it was clear and obvious to me they were fine.
But what really ripped the heart out of me was the Wall Street Journal over the course of the next several months described who died in the attacks and what their last words were to their wives and families over the telephone before the WTC collapsed. There was an Orthodox Jewish family who were not allowed to grieve by their church or synagogue until the husband's remains were found. It was about a month later that the synagogue consented for the wife and children to officially grieve and announce that the wife could continue her life and seek to remarry. The husband's remains were never found or identified in the rubble. Others who died died as heroes, staying in the stairwells and helping evacuate people who were too frightened to help themselves. Each story was a real wrench in the gut and you just wept inside to read each personal story.
That vampire Ward Churchill was dead wrong. These folks in the buildings were human beings who were loved, had families who cared and loved them, and many were heroes. All died in tragedy. These people were not Eichmanns. They were real people who did not deserve this tragedy.
But Al Qaeda did hear from us very soon and they continue to hear from us today.
2007-08-31 17:02:56
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answered by Anonymous
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I was getting impregnated. Only I didn't know it until 2 months later, when I passed out at work, and ended up in the hospital for 3 days with an ectopic pregancy miscarriage.
2007-08-31 16:58:07
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answered by Anonymous
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I had recently broken my foot so I was out of work. I went to the D&D to get a coffee (starbucks is too yuppie for me). I got home sat down and turned on the tv only to watch the second plane hit the second tower. I then called and told my spouse to get it home because I had no idea what was going to happen next.
2007-08-31 18:10:16
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answered by Oracle 2
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Senior yr in HS a few blocks from the towers and my friends and i saw one of the burning building just crumble and it was the strangest thing cus i've seen only one building brought down like that but that was done on purpose and it was on tv so this was just indescribable. we petitioned to go back to our school to and the air downtown was just horrible. and they had to do air tests in our school becus of the ventilation system brought the air from outside into our building. we also watched in anger as people purchased disposable cameras at the rite aid next to the school and taking picutres of the burning towers. and it was crowded outside and we only parted like the red sea when ambulances drove slowly by without the sirens. the end of my block was the cut off where "lower manhattan" is and getting in and out with arm guards guarding the street you needed ID proof that you lived in the area.
2007-08-31 17:32:53
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answered by magelet78 2
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I was on board a U.S. Navy destroyer in Norfolk, Virginia in the early stages of getting ready to turn it over to the Turkish Navy. The U.S. sailors in the office above where I was working called down to me to come see the TV. One of the guys from another company we work with made a joke about it. I grabbed him and slammed him against a bulk head and screamed at him "A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST DIED YOU #$%^&." I almost punched him. My co-worker had to pull me away from him. I DARED him to report me.
2007-09-01 02:29:15
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answered by AmericanPatriot 6
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I got woke up by my church member and after she realized I was asleep and unaware, she told me to turn on the TV and invited me to a prayer meeting at the church. I stayed home and watched the 2nd plane crash live.
2007-08-31 15:51:42
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answered by Anonymous
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I was at work and a customer called and told me what was going on. He lived in Manhattan and saw the whole thing from his living room window.
Then all of us in the office ran to the lobby to watch it on TV.
2007-08-31 15:09:55
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answered by BAnne 7
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I was still in high school, in my math class. Our principal announced that two planes had struck the WTC. Most didn't understand that it was a terrorist attack until we watched the news.
2007-08-31 15:08:24
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answered by Surf Forever 5
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