Topic: Where were you (when the world stopped
turning) on that September day?
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"The Mole" Boring Machine Operator
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posted
11-23-2004 12:35 PM
Where were you on September 11, 2001?
Were you in the yard with your wife and your
children?
Were you working on some stage in LA?
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here. This song was sung by Alan Jackson. I
couldn't find a video for it (even though I
looked only on Launch) just yet, but I'll find
one of it. Although, I don't know whether or not
he has a video of this.
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11-23-2004 09:03 PM
i was asleep when it happened. When i woke up at
10AM and turned on the television, I couldn't
believe my eyes.
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posted
11-23-2004 09:47 PM
One of the only days I took off, I was on my way
to get fitted for my suit for my wedding.
Nice day (weather). Surreal, heard the news on
the radio on the way up, sat on the VERY
suburban porch at my parents' place and watched
the news and worked the phones trying to get in
touch with my (then) fiancee and friends in the
city.
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11-23-2004 09:53 PM
I was still going to school on LI.
I was mildly afraid for my dad, but he was in no
danger because 1. he goes in (and comes home,
for that matter) so damn late and 2. his
building is 2 stories tall.
It was my cousin's first day at Regis
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11-23-2004 09:58 PM
I was in school. I remember, that was when I was
in my old elementary school in 4th grade (P.S.
24 which is right across the street from
M.S./H.S. 141, my current school). I was 9 years
old, just a regular day of learning. Mom and her
boyfriend went to a beach on LI, then mom told
him to turn around after they'd just gotten off
the bridge. Mom actually saw the towers go down
from the old Dodge Caravan (her boyfriend has a
'03 VW Passat wagon now) when she looked out the
rear window. So they came and picked me up at
school in the middle of school and we left for
Somers Point in New Jersey (her boyfriend lives
there). We spent a few days there and then
returned.
When I was being picked up, it took me a hell of
a long time to piece everything together after
mom told me what happened. Damn.
Go to hell, photo ban! I'll still photograph
mass transit no matter what!
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West End Avenue
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posted
11-23-2004 10:00 PM
I was in school when it happened. It was around
9:30 when we got info from my spanish teacher
that a plane hit the towers. Then she said a
second one hit. My first thought was that a
Cessena or a similar turbo-prop hit the towers,
then she clarified that it was a jet. Then more
info started pouring in. During that time of day
Williamsburg is usually filled with people, but
that day it was deserted...
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11-23-2004 10:14 PM
I was on vacation in MA. I didn't believe it
happened. I thought it was just a run of the
mill action film in the early morning.
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11-23-2004 10:53 PM
I was a sophmore in high school, in math class.
The principal came around and told something to
our teacher. He didn't actually tell us
anything. My next class was gym, the teacher
announced what happended, but nobody heard him.
After that I had English, the teacher was out,so
we turned on the TV and finally found out what
had happended, once security found out we were
alone we were moved to the library were most of
us gathered around a radio hearing what
happended.
The rest of my classes we did pretty much
nothing. In history class, my teacher told us
about a student who had both parents working at
the WTC. As 9th period started there was a PA
announcemnet about what train service there was.
Finally, right after that, I was picked up
and was driven home. That's the only time I was
ever driven to or from school in my whole life.
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11-24-2004 12:07 AM
I was in my junior year of high school in Fresh
Meadows, Queens. During my third period (which
was around 9:30), there were rumors going around
that a plane had crashed into the Twin Towers.
My teacher for that period, who was also a
medical worker on the side, told us that he
heard something about it on the radio in the
teacher's lounge. He said one of the towers was
hit by a plane, but he wasn't sure of anything
else.
During my lunch period, the Principal came onto
the P/A and announced that there was an incident
involving the Twin Towers, all after school
activities were cancelled, and we were to go
straight home after school. She also announced
that she was permitting students to use their
cell phones if they needed to call home.
During my next class (period 5, around 1:00 or
so), my teacher had a radio on, and we were all
gathered around listening to it. That's when I
heard the full story for the first time, that
two planes crashes into the towers, and they
both collapsed. You shoulda heard the tone of
that radio announcer's voice.
After school, I caught a school tripper into
Flushing. Flushing was a mess of traffic, and
there didn't seem to be any buses coming. So I
walked home. It took about twenty-five minutes.
While I was crossing Northern Boulevard (which
high on a hill at that point), I could see some
smoke rising into the air from Manhattan.
Once I got home, I turned on the TV, and saw the
destruction for the first time. I couldn't
believe how many channels were all tuned into
the same thing.
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11-24-2004 12:10 AM
I was at home watching Good Day NY and getting
ready to eat breakfast when it happened.When it
happened,I lost my appetite and got pissed
off.Thank you terrorists!You are fully
responsible for country wide paranoia resulting
in transit buffs getting hassled about picture
taking when they shouldn't be.Hope you ****ers
are damn hell happy!
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Kosky Avenue
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11-24-2004 01:40 AM
I was at school. I had gone to the bathroom, and
when I came back, a classmate told me that the
AP came into the class and announced that both
towers had been hit. At the time they weren't
sure if it was a terror attack. After that
class, I had just enough time to look from the
school ledge and see the towers burning. It was
the last time I ever saw them again, for by the
end of the next period, they were gone.
My friend and I had to walk to her mother's job
at the hospital about an hour away. When my dad
came to take me home, he was still pretty dusty.
Watching it on TV, it was like watching that
Armaggedon movie. I had no idea that they used
jetliners. I too thought they used a small
plane. The whole thing still perplexes me. I
don't know that I'll ever be able to figure it
out.
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11-24-2004 02:15 AM
I was unemployed, went to bed late and had
planned on sleeping much of the day...it was my
birthday after all. The phone rang and woke me
up around 8:47, but it stopped ringing by the
time I got to it. I saw it had been my dad, but
I figured it wasn't important and got back in
bed. I always turn on the radio to help me get
to sleep, and it happened to be tuned to WFAN
and Imus. Just a few seconds later, Warner Wolf
(who was the show's sports reporter at the time)
interrupted whatever Don was saying to report
that a plane had struck one of the towers. I
immediately jumped up and ran to the phone to
call my dad back...he worked just a few blocks
away and had an unobstructed view of the towers
from his office. He didn't answer, so I turned
on the TV. There it was. Eyewitnesses calling in
who apparently had not actually seen anything
kept saying they had seen a small Cessna or
commuter plane hit the building.
I kept calling, he didn't answer. I called my
mom at work to let her know. And then.
This is exactly what I saw, watching channel 4.
A couple of seconds later, the sound of the
massive explosion made it to me 15 miles away in
the form of a muffled rumble. I was dumbfounded.
Had gas lines somehow been damaged by the first
crash and caused an explosion in the other
tower? Had one of the news choppers accidentally
smashed into the other tower while filming the
first crash? About 30 seconds after the second
blast, Janice Huff replayed the video and
pointed out another plane. It was an odd angle,
but sure enough there it was. I tried calling my
dad again, still nothing. I called my mom to
tell her we were under attack.
My mom stopped home briefly to see what was
going on on TV. Just before she was leaving to
go back to work, I glanced away for a second,
and looked back to see that Tower 2 had
disappeared. It was the most numbing thing I had
ever seen. Thinking that a 110 story building
falling down would take down everything and
everyone within the area, I figured that there
was a pretty good chance my dad was dead, either
from getting crushed or from the ensuing panic.
Thankfully, he called a short time later and he
was already in Queens. After the 2nd plane hit,
he and a co-worker decided not to stick around
and they got out. They were the last car over
the Williamsburg Bridge before Manhattan was
locked down.
When he got home, he was extremely shaken up,
mostly from the sight of so many people jumping
out the windows, he said. I had to sit with him
for awhile to calm him down. At first the people
in his building had no inclination that planes
were involved, they speculated that what they
saw had been the result of missiles or bombs.
While I was very emotional about what happened,
and couldn't sleep well for a couple of weeks, I
never cried about it until one day in November
2001. I had a job interview in the Wall Street
area, and afterwards, I decided to walk around
Ground Zero to see what progress had been made
since my last visit, on 9/15. As I walked past
City Hall, the smoke from the fires that were
still burning got so irritating that I could
barely keep my eyes open. I thought about how
the soot that was almost blinding me was
partially made up of the bodies of the dead, and
that's what finally made me break down a bit.
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11-24-2004 02:22 AM
I was aboard a Q train heading to work. At that
time the conductor just said something about
heavy congestions ahead. I finally found out the
grusome details by the time I got to work. I
still remember on the trip back home, some light
dust was falling from the sky as I got off at
Brighton Beach.
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11-24-2004 10:39 AM
I was home and my mother was quoted as saying a
plane crashed, which I said to myself, sounds to
me like something which happens by a freak of
nature, only to turn on the TV to see one of the
towers burning, and then watched as the other
one grashed into the next tower, then I went out
for breakfast and saw the South Tower collapse
in front of my eyes
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11-24-2004 10:54 AM
I was at work in midtown, about 1 1/2 miles from
the WTC. Somebody came down to tell us that a
plane had just crashed into the WTC, a group of
us went up to the roof just in time to see the
2nd plane hit. A day that will forever be etched
in my memory.
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11-24-2004 10:55 AM
I think this day will stick with many of us til
the day we all die
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11-24-2004 11:04 AM
Friends of mine worked in the Pan Am building
(yeah, I know, I know- I prefer Pan Am, I'm old
school) and they were getting their coffee in
their lobby- got to watch the planes hit.
Another friend of mine, who's in the USSS
(Secret Service, who were at 7 WTC), helped out
a lot; he has a hard time talking about it
though, he saw a number of the people that
jumped.
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11-24-2004 11:18 AM
Originally posted by Borat:
quote:
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Not really sure what to say, but wanted to thank
you for sharing such a detailed (and might I
add, well thought-out) and personal story. Too
many "I's" in this thread for me.
posted
11-24-2004 11:22 AM
In all fairness, BK, the thread's title does ask
where were YOU.
And IAWTP, thanks for sharing, Furio.
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and was driven home. That's the only time I was
ever driven to or from school in my whole life.
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