Remembering 9-11 where were you?

I just walked my daughter to school when I came home I had heard about it. Was stationed at MCAS Miramar. Went into work. Had to help prepare and launch our jets to fly a protective mission along the pacific coastline.
 
I was working at an aircraft factory. The team were first responders for crash investigation I was working with.The risk assessment for refuelling and testing inside the hanger just stopped. We watched the tv text service that was the news source before Twitter and online news service. Then the phones just started ringing and people collected in the meeting room. My work that day was done I returned home thinking of those who did not.
 
Watched it all on a small TV I had in my office at the time. Never forget the horror of watching the 2nd plane hit. Even worse, watching the brave folks jumping from the towers instead of being burned alive. Those images will forever be burned into my brain.

I have never confirmed it but my daughter and I think we saw Flight 93 go directly overhead of us that morning. It was so far off of any flight path to and from Pittsburgh airport that it wasn't any of the normal flights coming or going there. We think it was right after it was hijacked and diverted past Cleveland. I drive past that Flight 93 Memorial once or twice a month but haven't been able to get myself to stop there. Still get extremely emotional over this even after 15 years.....
 
I was working in a furniture shop just before I started the Police Academy. I almost dropped to join the service. Part of me wishes I did, the other part is glad I still have all my body parts.

Anyone else not like watching any of the footage from this day. I don't want to see it. It just pisses me off to much.
 
was in 8th grade typing class when i heard, at first i didn't believe it because it seemed unreal, but when I saw it man did things change. Being from New York a lot of people ive know over the years either knew people or were in NYC themselves when it happened. I don't like watching the footage for obvious reasons but cant thank the service members enough for what they did that day. true heroes
 
Senior year in a new high school. Social studies, or Econ I think, It was some relevant class. We turned on the TV and watched. The bell sent us to the next class, then we all got sent home.

I remember telling the bus driver to drop us off at the end of our rural road, it was only a mile to the house from there.

I got deep and looked into the sky saying how interesting it is that there's not a plane in the sky. My ditzy classmate neighbor said, "sweet no school".
 
I was watching the news on tv after the first jet hit one of the towers....while I was watching it live, I saw the 2nd jet hit the other tower...it was a surreal moment for me, and instantly reminded me of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion a few years earlier as I watched Hawaii born Mission Specialist Lt Col Ellison Onizuka perish along with 6 other crew members on live tv.

I called my friend in NYC who was the head of the NYC PD Scuba Team to make sure he was ok...he called me a few days later...he was on a boat deployed just after the 1st plane struck, and watched from his boat as the 2nd plane struck...he lost a couple friends in both the PD & FD that day.
 
I was sitting in a Bosun chair cleaning high rise windows, 20 stories in the air. The security guard was on the ground, tugging on my ropes and kept signaling me to get down. After rappelling down, he was just pacing back and forth. It freaked me out because he just kept repeating " get down and stay down and your done for the day".

I called the owner of the company and he told me what was going on, so me and my crew headed to a Starbucks and was watched the aftermath. The video just kept replaying over and over. All I could think was "no fucking way this is happening". What a day. RIP to all that were lost that day and prayers go out to the families and communities that were impacted.

Never forget.
 
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