what do you remember about 9-11-01?

Question

what do you remember? i remember my grandma came to pick me up from 3rd grade and didn't tell me much.. and i was all "score! no school!" and then tv shows were cancelled to honor the victims... i feel bad now that i'm older that i didn't feel bad back then. and it's weird to form such big memories over something you don't know the signifigance of... what happened to you?

to all y'all who lost loved ones, im really, really sorry. my prayers are with y'all.

ya! why does it take a tradedy for us to put up our flags??

Answer 1

Over whelming fear and uncertainty

Answer 2

I was at work. One of my coworkers, always a joker, commented to the boss that a plane had hit the WTC, and I kept waiting for a punchline (I was imagining a small plane, not a jumbo jet). When it didn't come, I sneaked a peek at cnn.com...and couldn't get though. So I tried Netscape news...and couldn't get through. And then Yahoo news...and couldn't get through. That was the first sense that something really horrible had happened.

I remember when the first building came down one of my coworkers said somberly "We just went to war. We just don't know with who yet."

I remember watching one of the people scale down the outside of one of the towers for almost three stories before falling to his death on live TV.

I remember wondering how many landmarks were going to be demolished today after the third plane hit the Pentagon. I tried to envision the outlook of this country if the White House was destroyed. (It was announced at some point that a plane was heading for the White House. I'm not sure if that was Flight 93 or if it was a mistake. There was a lot of (understandable) confusion as the FAA tried figuring out how many planes had been compromised.)

Since we had the only TV, I considered putting up news updates outside the office since others kept poking in looking for news, but I thought it might get a little morbid if we started a tally of downed planes.

I remember calling a friend to make sure he was watching the TV, because he always joked that we could go to war and he wouldn't notice.

I wondered if the Michigan National Guard was going to be called out to keep order because of the large Arab population in my town. I later found out the plan was seriously considered but didn't happen because we all behaved.

I remember crying for days afterward whenever I watched the news. I couldn't tear myself away from the TV even though they were saying very little that was new. I'm glad they stopped showing clips of the falling people after the first day. It was just too gruesome.

I remember the city of New York purchasing 10,000 body bags in preparation of recovery.

Answer 3

I was sitting at home watching "Good Morning America" as I always did in the mornings between 7 and 9 a.m. central time,and I saw what looked like a tiny airplane appear in the sky. I thought to myself it was flying way too low. The newscasters then broke in with the news, and showed this same plane hitting the first tower more than 3/4 of the way up. I sat there with my mouth open and then started saying "Oh my God," over and over again. My mother was in her bathroom at the time and asked me what was going on. "A plane just hit the World Trade Center in New York," I said, By the time she got to the living room, I was crying, and said,"Good Lord, not another one!!" But, sure enough, a second plane had struck the second tower. My mom dropped her purse on the floor and sank into a chair and watched in horror with me as, just a few minutes later, both towers collapsed in on themselves. When we heard the Pentagon had also been struck, we really didn't know what to think. All I could do was cry all day long, and I cried at least once a day afterward as they cleaned up Ground Zero. I hadn't cried that hard since 1963, when I was sitting in a geometry class and heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, and then watching his funeral a few days later.
I got the movie of the events that day (9-11) for Christmas last year and I still have NOT watched it. When I heard that Osama bin Laden had issued a tape recently warning all of America to convert to Islam soon or die, I said, "When pigs fly!! It will be an ICY COLD day in hell when I do."

PS: My hometown is about 50 miles southeast of Omaha, Nebraska--home of the Strategic Air Command. We all held our collective breaths when we heard later that day that SAC had been mentioned as a possible target as well as the Pentagon.

Answer 4

What's crazy about that day was that I had a really bad feeling in the morning. I was in 8th grade. It was probably about 7:30. I didn't even hear about the attacks until about 9:30. I felt really strange on my way to school and in classes. I can't even explain it. I didn't feel like talking to anybody. I felt sick, but in the sense that I just saw something that disgusted me. It was so weird. Then after I heard the news, the feeling just stuck with me all day.

Answer 5

I really thought at the time that it just the beginning of even worse attacks and went off the deep end. Than I eventually remembered seeing this in a dream or vision when I was just a little kid around 30 years before.Just another so-called: Nut-job over 9/11.

Answer 6

I remember 9-11-01 so well, it feels like it was just yesterday. I had just turned nineteen years old a few days before and I had also moved into my first apartment around about that time. I remember waking up around 3:55pm ( eastern time ) five minutes before Jerry Springer was scheduled to come on. I turned my T.V. to the channel Jerry Springer was showing on, and I proceeded to my kitchen to make myself something to eat, when I noticed it was 4pm and no Jerry Springer. I went into my living room and noticed that there was a plane flying towards the famous World Trade Center in New York. I said to myself " This can't be real, this must be a reenactment or something." But to my horror it was real and I remember going into a state of shock. That day I felt so sorry for the people who lost family members on that horrible day. My heart still mourns for those who lost their lives on that day.
God Bless America and all the other countries who are fighting their war on terrorism.

Answer 7

It was weird I went home from my 3rd shift job and went to sleep. But I woke up shortly later with a bad feeling, kinda like when you know your kid did wrong or is hurt. I went looking for my wife and son next door and when I walked in the room everyone was just staring at the tv. I looked and saw the second plane hit

Answer 8

I was in the forth grade when the attacks happened. I knew though what was going on wasn't supposed to be happening though. I felt the need to show my American pride. I thought something was going to happen after that. I was really scared because all the people on the television were saying that we were going to die from a nuclear bomb. I still remember going to Hemeter's market and watching people through fruit at a Osama Bin Ladan picture. I thought it was pretty funny. I plan on writing a poem tomarrow in honor of all the people who died 6 years ago.

Answer 9

I live in NJ - the towers were DISTANTLY in sight on a clear day.

I was lying in bed half asleep with the TV on - my wife had gone to work, and I was playing hookey from work.

Being half asleep - I saw some image of smoke on the TV - but was still out of it. The phone rang and it was my friend - she asks "Where's Chris?" (meaning a friend of ours) - not knowing why she was asking, I said "why should I know, what do you mean?" etc. I thought it was an odd time to call, and an odd question. She told me, and it sank in. And our friend Chris was supposed to be on an airplane.

I got off the phone with her to call my wife, she was going to come home as soon as she could get away, then tried to call Chris. He had taken a 'red-eye' that night and was home safe asleep.

Called back my friend, and she and I watched in shock from our respective TV's.

A plane hit the pentagon - and we lost it. There was talk of more planes in the sky - and I sighed and said "This is gonna be a long day".

For the next day or two - it was frantic calles to friends and relatives who MIGHT for SOME reason be there - stranded people in NJ who couldn't get home to the city stopped by. Wife came home - ready to get back to work (animal rescue - figured many animals would need new homes, and recuse animals would need donations of food and supplies).

Later -all my people safe. Went to our friends to make sure their kids got home from school.

Called about donating blood. They didn't need it. many people died. Not NEARLY as many as they hoped lived to need the blood.

That week, hung up flags (where are they now? why does it take a tragedy?) wondered what the governent would do. Went to candlelight vigils. Saw a plane back in the sky. They sky had been so eerily quiet.

Week later - ran into fireman friends who were shot-out from exhaustion working on the site. Met up with an acquantence who barely escaped the tower with his life. He aged ten years since I last saw him.

Answer 10

i remember coming from my mothers home and she immediately called us to turn on the tv. we saw how the 2nd plane hit the tower and all i can remember thinking is this for real it felt like watching a movie. i grew up in ny city so every time i watch the skyline i get all sad and grieve over how many people lost their lives that day

Answer 11

I had just left New Mexico a day earlier and rode into Lubbock. Stopped at a diner to get something to eat, and was one hell of a commotion...asked what had happened and the first jet had hit the tower. looked-up to see the second one hit. I was just in AWE........It was like what the f... is going on? Its been sort of downhill since then as far as people fighting, us and them....us against each other.....heck of a mess!