What memory sticks in your mind the most on 9/11??

Question

Mine was when i was in freshman algebra in highschool the principle said a terrorist attack happened and most of us just thought it wasnt that serious. But as i went to the library for a class research project i was the only student that stood infront of the TV with a couple teachers. I saw people hanging out of the buildings and correct me if im wrong but i think i saw people on the very top of the buildings. Than my teacher told me to stop watching tv and get back to work.

Answer 1

Victims jumping out of windows to a certain death, to avoid burning to death.

Answer 2

I remember thinking when the second plane crashed into the Twin Towers, well it finally happened, terrorist have figured out a way to hit us hard.

My next thought was, I wonder if it was the same group that hit the WTC at the start of Clinton's administration, the Embassy Bombings, and the USS Cole.

I remembered Clinton saying,"We will find those resonsible. AND we will bring them to justice". This was said three times and so far only a blind cleric and a few henchmen had been brought to justice. You can't play pattycake with people who want to kill you and expect in the end we'll all sit around the campfire and sing songs and toast marshmellows in the Age of Aquarius.

I remember thinnking Clinton didn't do the job, will Bush?

Answer 3

I was asleep after work when I got a call from my mother saying that a plane had hit a building. I was thinking "What in the hell is a plane doing smashing into a building. I turned on the TV, still groggy just in time to see one tower smoking and the second plane hit. Then it was "Holy S---! WTF just happened?" I was glued to the TV for the next hour as the towers fell. Then I heard that the Pentagon had been hit by a plane. I just remember being in a fog. It seemed surreal.

Answer 4

i was late for work, stuck in traffic when i heard about the first plane hitting the tower. i remember thinking it must have been some horrible mistake, but then why would a pilot not try to navigate the plane away from the city? when the radio host mentioned that the second plane had hit, i was stunned. it felt like a hand had reached in my abdomen and had begun twisting my guts. of all the horrible things to follow, that memory of the initial slap to the psyche is what i remember most.

Answer 5

I remember watching the events unfold on television. I am a transplanted New Yorker. I was worried about many members of my family who were there at the site. Phones service was erratic, so info was a long time in waiting. I think I finally heard about the last family member at 8 o'clock that night. I was fortunate, all my family members were safe. I was not that fortunate with 5 friends.

Answer 6

Frankly, as the child of people who survived the London blitz my memory is being amazed at the way everybody overreacted to an isolated incidence of terrorism. I had been camping, and when I came out of the woods it was as though every person on the planet had been reprogrammed into a vengeance machine.

Even as it was happening, it was being overrated as a tragedy and an outrage. Without ever intending to minimize the loss for those involved and their families, fewer people were killed and less damage done than what we did to the Chileans on the same date in 1973, and comparing the event to Pearl Harbour was ludicrously inapt, since that was the action of a sovereign nation and 9/11 was a small conspiracy of religious nuts.

Maybe it was because I was spared the immediate shock, but I have spent the ensuing years waiting for the rest of you guys to get over it and move on. Instead we seem to be wrapped up in our victimhood to the point where the terrorists have succeeded.

Answer 7

The buildings collapsing... they reminded me of peeling a banana, the way the structure descended as it did.

Oh, and the people leaping from the towers because of the fire. That was pretty horrible.

And later, the president reading to the school-children as America was under attack. "Why the crap aren't they rushing him out of here?... Shouldn't he be taken to a bunker somewhere?" is what I kept thinking.

I also found Bush's comment about the first plane crashing rather curious considering it was only caught on film by one source (a tourist) that didn't reveal his footage until days later.

That's when I started to realize that Bush and his administration is either truly incompetent or just "playing" stupid...

Answer 8

My first thought was "G*ddamed Clinton, he let this happen"
I KNEW after the 1993 WTC attack they would try again. And Slick WIlly did NOTHING to stop them

ADDED: Also, I have heard many people say they realized we were being attacked only after the 2nd plane hit. This was not the case for me. I saw the first building burning and knew right away because I thought immediately of the 1993 attack.

Answer 9

Watching after the towers went down, people searching for family members. Pleading for anyone to help them find there loved ones. Watching as the reporter covering the story “lost it” while trying to help someone get their relative’s picture on TV so they might be found.

That still brings tears to my eyes.

Answer 10

Huddling around the radio with my coworkers when the news reached us, and our shock and disbelief and tears. Also, calling home and hearing my 3-year-old son in the background talking about planes hitting the buildings.

Answer 11

Three things do:

Watching that second plane hit the tower and the reality hitting that we were under attack.

Seeing people jump off of those towers, knowing they were destined to perish, to avoid the pain and agony of burning alive.

When the buildings collapsed.