Anyone remember when first you heard that the WTC got attacked?

[Spuff]

Thoughts?

[Balloonatic]

yeah i was in like 6th or 7th grade. i heard it on the radio on the bus to school and nobody really thought anything of it because i dont think none of us knew what the world trade center even was. then when we got to school the tteacher made us watch the news, and it wasnt until then that i realized that like thousands of people had died & all that. i was pissed.

[AshtonsMom]

yeah i was in like 6th or 7th grade. i heard it on the radio on the bus to school and nobody really thought anything of it because i dont think none of us knew what the world trade center even was. then when we got to school the tteacher made us watch the news, and it wasnt until then that i realized that like thousands of people had died & all that. i was pissed.omg...you actually had an intelligent post...:eek:

[Sedna]

I was a truck driver at the time, and I was in Roswell NM of all places on that day. I woke up when I heard banging on my door - it was some old guy with a big black beard and his eyes were darting everywhere. I opened the door with a "what?"

"The World Trade Center fell!"

"Yeah. Sure. Ok."

So I'm already awake so I walk into the truck stop grumbling and grab a wake-me-up soda and go to the counter and notice that every single person in the room had their eyes fixated on the tv. I looked up and the second tower fell.

Ok.

"Who do I know in New York?" Well, there was Mike, but wait, he lived in New Jersey. He wouldn't be there.

He was. He survived.

The next load I had to pick up was out of Corsicana Texas, and it was medical supplies to be dropped off at the shore in New Jersey across from the WTC. After I picked up the supplies, I drove nonstop to NYC thanks to the fact that over-the-counter ephedrine was still legal. When I was coming up to weigh stations and checkpoints, I radioed ahead on my CB what I was carrying and they told me to keep moving.

That was the very first time I ever even drove into the east coast, and when I got there the smoke was still billowing.

Strange, but true.

[The Deer Hunter]

i was coming back from my shower in the school dorms and my neighbor told me. i turned on the news and after a few minutes watched the second plane hit. i can remember so many people getting angry...."fuckin arabs, fuckin terrorists, fuck man we gotta kill somebody, we gotta get revenge, somebodys gonna pay for this." etc, etc.

that shit was irritating. all these people quick to point fingers and talking about revenge and not even knowing the whole story. then i remember people wanting to get out of town because we were in san francisco. freakin out thinking they were gonna hit us next. and some were too scared to get on the bridge to leave town. fuck all the terror alert levels and bullshit, i've never felt afraid to go anywhere for fear of an attack. doesn't sound like FREEDOM to me. but thats what they want. who are they? the answer might suprise you.

here's the 9/11 truth for anyone that can spare an hour and a half out of their lives.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=LOOSE+CHANGE&hl=en

[EnjoyTheAbuse]

I believe 5th grade and I was home faking sick. Didden't really know what was going on but I remember seeing the second tower fall.

[themnax]

has it been THAT long already?

my first thought was that our own government had to be behind allowing it to happen, i mean those planes wheren't on radar and couldn't have been somehow diverted, and was it really that big of a surprise what was going on and those guys were on board and having taken over?

you know all those so called terrorist organizations were created by our own intelligence community some twenty to thirty years ago for reasons of vested forign policy interests then, and many under the very direction of donald rumsfield himself.

well the thing is, not too long (days or weeks, not months or years) BEFORE it happend, i'd been watching two things that stood out in my mind when it did. one was about this thing hitler had done, blowing up some powerstation in his own country with people disguised as polish citizens so he could blame the incident on poland and use it as an excuse for invading there. this was some kind of an old movie or something, or it had been done in black and white to make it look like one, i'm not sure , but i think it actualy was. the other thing was this thing on pbs about future tec and parents having their kids surgicly implanted with transponders so they could keep track of where they were and what they were doing at all times. parents, employers, what have you.

so when i saw those planes plowing into those towers and seing them come down, remembering these two things is what seeing that was making me think of.

the second as a reason someone otherwise sane might want to, and the first as a seemingly most likely scenario for why we were witnessing it being allowed to happen.

actualy all the hatred and wanting to strike back, that didn't come, hearing about it, untill after the government came on the media and started trying to sound important and like it could somehow protect anybody and prevent this from happining by going over somewhere else and hurting someone else and using this as an excuse for doing so.

what i remember before that was the year 2000 new years on telivision and how hopefull that was for a milinium of peace, love and universal prosperity.

i think it was that positive spirit that pseudo-conservatism felt so adamantly like it had to defeat that it had to come up with something that traumatic to do so.

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[hippieatheart]

i was in 8th grade, 3rd period.. and our gym teacher came in and told us that the world trade centers have been attacked and that it could even be worse than pearl harbor. we didn't really know what the hell was going on, so we went to our next period class, and just watched the news. by that time, one of the airplanes had crashed in somerset (about 30 minutes from where i am). After I heard that, I kept watching the skies for airplanes because i was really scared. about half of my school left school early that day, and all the extra cirricular activities for that day were cancelled.

[06thenewsummeroflove]

i was in 8th grade. it was early on the west coast so i was still asleep. I heard my mom scream and she came into my room and told me the the WTC had been hit by a plane. I said "oh, OK" and went back to sleep. She later woke me up completely and made me watch the news. My dad was in DC at the time so it was a bit scary. My sister and i stayed home from school and my mom invited some friends over casue they didnt have work. my mom and her friends smoked pot on the balcony and discussed what america would do next. And i went to a friends house a did the same.

[DancerAnnie]

I had my own apartment with my (now-ex) bf away from my family and we had to take my vehicle in to get fixed. We walked into the lobby and the TV was on...the first plane had hit already and no one really knew what was going on. I figured it was just an accident or something. But once the second plane hit, I started to get really scared...I didn't know what was going on and all there was was speculation and more questions.

I sat and watched the coverage in that room with about ten other people. I will never forget it.

I cried for two weeks straight...rarely slept...was extremely paranoid. I didn't know anyone that died but I felt for all the people that lost loved ones...

I felt like there really were no answers...and the answers that I was getting didn't sit right with me.

I guess I was just really scared and sad...Sometimes now if I think about it...it makes me feel the same way.

[Flight From Ashiya]

I was walking down The King's Road in London;it was lunchtime when I happened to notice a small crowd of people huddled around a television in an electrical hardware store.
It looked like an ad for the latest hollywood disaster movie but when 'live' kept flashing up It dawned upon me all that this was really hapenning & I stood utterly shocked by the images unfolding.

[MIIDAJ]

yea i went to a college in a town with an AFB and class was closed for "high alert"

[bustramp]

I used to hang in NYC. I'd go to the basement of the WTC to the bars down there and have vodka martinis. Got to know the bartenders and barmaids pretty well. You could take the train from the basement over to Jersey and I used to do it all drunk!

On 9/11 I happened to be at Kennedy airport hangin out havin coffee. The subway goes from Kennedy airport to the WTC. All of a sudden the news comes over the monitor and it was havoc! I couldn't believe my ears and every body's thinking it's the start of a war! Outside on the horizon you could see the smoke in the air coming from the WTC. It was a sad day.

Sadder still is the fact that I have never seen the bartenders or barmaids ever again. I hope and pray they got out alive,those girls were cute!-heck I could have been there that day. I used to sleep off a drunk in the courtyard of the WTC.

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[bustramp]

to many damn busses how do I delete them?

[hippychickmommy]

Do I remember? Absolutely. I don't see how I could ever forget that day. http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/sad.gif

[seamonster66]

I was awaken at around 6:15 am by a phone call as I was in California at the time. It was a friend telling em what happened.....I didn't quite comprehend it. I called another mearby friend and while I was on the phone he said "the building is half gone" and I still did not understand, then he said "Oh my god it just fell down."

I was working for this middle eastern delivery service at the time and had a package in my room that was due to be delivered by 9 am on one of the top floors of the tallest building in downtown LA, the one thats always in movies etc. Needless to say I made no deliveries that day.

Since I had no TV, I walked to my friends apartment and watched tv almost all day in disbelief. For once there absolutely no horns blowing in LA, everyone was polite for one week, and there were many rallies on street corners, many middle easterners showing support for the US by holding flags and candles.

On 9/12 i resumed working and was kind of touched by this maybe 8 year old middle eastern girl wearing a traditional outfit rollerskating down the street smiling at every one. It was as if she took it upon herself to show that she was not a threat, I will never forget the image

[ConRev]

Heard it on the radio, driving the company truck. Stopped at home, told wifey to turn on the tv. I said, it's nothing bad. She said the first tower fell right after she turned it on. I came home for lunch and found out then. I cried. How the fuck can you not tear up watching thousands of people die instantly? Over and over and over again. Then that night they showed wtc 7, shanksville, and the pentagon. Rednecks drove around with violent slogans painted on their trucks for weeks afterwards.

I said that day it would be five years and the movie would come out...

[bbbeccaaa]

I was in 6th grade. I got to school and the TVs were on in all the classrooms, which never happened. I didn't understand what was going on, the teachers were crying, and I remember this one kid taking his string cheese and making them fall down like the WTC. I thought he was an asshole. It was really sad to watch them collapse and imagine how many people died and how it affected their loved ones.

[06thenewsummeroflove]

String cheese? What a sicko.

[themnax]

I was in 6th grade. I got to school and the TVs were on in all the classrooms, which never happened. I didn't understand what was going on, the teachers were crying, and I remember this one kid taking his string cheese and making them fall down like the WTC. I thought he was an asshole. It was really sad to watch them collapse and imagine how many people died and how it affected their loved ones.

have you given any thought to the several hundred thousand lives of innocent civilians that have been lost in the destroying of the infrastructures of three countries that the incident in question was used as an excuse for?

i was in high-school the year j.f.k. got killed. the spectical was much the same. the way the normal course of the days affairs was totaly superceeded, the feelings and emotions of staff, teachers and students alike. (and probably their parents at home and at work, though at work, at least in some occupations, such as those involving infrastructure, like my dad who worked for the railroad, the job had to go on).

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[bbbeccaaa]

have you given any thought to the several hundred thousand lives of innocent civilians that have been lost in the destroying of the infrastructures of three countries that the incident in question was used as an excuse for?

Of course I have. The question was about the WTC though, not the war. And so you know, I don't support the war. There's never an excuse to kill ANYONE. I feel especially horrible that the innocent are dying. I was also only commenting on what I felt at the time. I've since seen half of the Loose Change videos which surely opened my eyes. I'm waiting to see the other one until I take my stance though. I'm not making any quick judgements. I feel sad and angry about the deaths going on all around the world, that doesn't make the deaths in my country any less important.

[Carlfloydfan]

I think I was in 11th grade. I was in study hall in the cafe at 9 I believe and this kid with glasses came in and reported the news. and than the principal. it did not really hit and I had no reaction for some time

I remember my history teacher took the whole entire class to just talk about what had happened. I can't remember if he was all patriotic like everyone else seemed to be at that time. But I think a lot of my classes went on with the lesson plan. could be wrong.

I remember lots of anti-Iraq sentiments after this though, kids saying "we should bomb iraq and make iraq into a parking lot" and shit like that

[kaonashi]

I remember being at home recovering from surgery and being woken up by a call from my Mom who told me to turn on the TV. I couldn't believe it at first so I ran over to my neighbors and told them to turn on the TV.

[DQ Veg]

My ex-wife and I were at home, and I turned on the NBC channel, ch.2, so that I could see what the temperature was, since they usually had the current temperature flashed on the screen. When I did, there was this live news footage from New York that looked like the city was in dust and rubble. After I had basically firgured out what was going on, I called my ex over and told her somebody had attacked the US. She started to cry, and asked if I thought that it was the Russians that had done it. I told her no, the Russians wouldn't be that stupid, that it was probably Muslim terrorists.

Shortly after we looked outside and the entire block was full of the cars of parents that were picking their kids up at the school down the street, as the school had cancelled classes and called the parents to come pick their kids up.

The area of Houston that we lived in usually has a lot of airline traffic that can be heard in the sky overhead. Everything was eerily quiet for the next couple of days, except for the occasional roar of F-16 fighter jets overhead from Ellington Air Force Base.

I kept my eyes glued to the TV (didn't have a computer yet) to find out the latest news about the whole 9/11 affair. Not too long after that, however, I found out the hard way who the real terrorists are: our own government, which proceeded to fuck my life and my family up in ways I never conceived possible. I know who the real terrorists are now. Al-Qaeda is just a minor annoyance, in comparison to the real enemy.

[Metallideth]

Heard about it on a school bus. grade 9 or so..

Didn't really think much of it.. just went on with my day.

[subgoin]

Thoughts?

Who did it ? :toetap:

[J0hn]

Jammed fork in radio, slave to kitchen and some waiter came in and told us to tune into CapitalRadio. News unfolded but was brief. Got home, every channel about World trade Centres collapsing became very real and frightening. 9/11, a day we will never forget.

[sun_heart_girl]

Only about nine (nine years and four days, if you must know) at the time - when I came out of school and my mum told me, I was just like 'Oh that's interesting'. I didn't realise how big it was. But the next day at school it turned out someone in my class's dad was on the flight after that one to New York and they didn't know if he was OK for quite a few days because he got diverted to Canada or something, and that made it so much more real.

Anyone remember where they were on 7/7? (I guess this one's for Brits only) There was a girl at school crying because she heard there was a train crash and it was on her dad's train, and then somehow someone found out it was a bomb and the news spread roud the school in about three seconds, eveyone was shouting and stuff. It was break so we called everyone we knew and loads of peoples families didn't pick up for hours. It was really horrible because there weren't actually that many people that the bombs killed but pretty much everyone was affected in some way, like they knew someone on another train that day or the same time on another train or w/e and everyone was thinking it might happen again. I guess it was the same in America on 9/11 but I was too young and it was too far away for me to understand properly.

[Piney]

When the World Trade Center was bombed in 1993, I was on a job interview in NYC.
I was unable to use the PATH train station in the basement of The Twin Towers to get back home to New Jersey.
Working in NYC I had the occaison to visit The Towers on business.
My Cousin, who also liven in Jersey worked there for a Japaneese bank.
Had a friend in a Taiwaneese bank there.

The View from the towers was breathtaking, being so tall, one could take in the entire view of New York Harbor with the boats & ships, Statue of Liberty and the immense Palisades Cliffs in Jersey which rise 500 ft above The Hudson River.
You could see all of the beautiful buildings in NYC.
The majestic bridges. Brooklyn. Govenors Island with its 18th century fort.

PATH trains came under The Hudson River from Jersey to The WTC.
Thousands came through each day. there was an exciting buzz to be commuting through, people would then walk to their buildings for work.
Down inside The Towers where the trains were was a shopping mall, windows brimming with glittery consumer goods.

Some commuters had an Hour and 45 minute train ride in.
It was pleasant and civilized on the train, going in with coffee, bagel and newspaper or catching some shut-eye. Going home it was beer and hot dog perhaps a card game.
Commuters in the outer burbs were friendly and familar, spending so much time with each other. Some guys would bang an entire 6-pac for the ride home. Smokers would all gather together in the last car even tho smoking had been banned years ago.

in 2001 I was working at the top of the Palisades Cliffs in Jersey. While driving in, the Tower could be seen with smoke pouring out, everybody has seen the images. The car radio was babbling on about the story.

Traffic on The NJ Turnpike came to a complete stop, people got out of the cars to look. It was a beautiful warm September Day. The Buildings could be seen clearly, being up on top of The Cliffs across the river from The City.
We watched the second plane hit, and eventually, in a great cloud of dust each Tower colapsed.

[CrazybutLazy]

I was in third grade and the school office called my classroom and said my mom was waiting for me in the office. I wasn't expecting that, and it was a pleasant surprise. She seemed upset and we went out into the parking lot and got in the car. I asked what had happened over and over again for about a minute, and then she said that a plane had crashed into a building. I said "Great. But why are you taking me home?" When we got home we watched the news and I saw why it was so important. My mom was being paranoid and slightly moronic, saying we couldn't go outside because of gas attacks and that we had to keep the windows closed and such. I spent the rest of the day with a bag of Cheese Nips and lots of Nickolodean.

[shaggie]

I heard about it from a friend that called me. I saw the second tower collapse live on TV. I was puzzled because I knew American commercial pilots would never do such a thing, even if they had a gun to their head. What I feared the most was rash precipitous action by the U.S. government, such as bombing other countries, which turned out to be true. I also figured the government would probably capitalize off of it by using fear tactics on the public, and they did.

It was bizarre not seeing any aircraft in the sky for a whole week. It was also unusual that the U.S. TV 'news' networks actually reported some real news for the first few weeks after 911. Then it quickly deteriorated into an arrogant pro-American mass propaganda exercise which has continued to this day.

Before 911, I used to visit an airport where a friend worked. I would watch jumbo jets taking off and landing and see their enormous power. I remember thinking to myself one time, 'I'm sure glad there are sane people flying those things.'

I think that this event will become a sort of Biblical myth a couple thousand years from now. It has a David vs. Goliath theme to it. Many people won't even believe it actually happened far in the future.

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[dances in pajamas]

I was sitting in my eighth grade social studies class when our teacher wheeled in a TV and turned on the news. The entire class was silent and we had no idea what was going on, until we watched the second plane hit the WTC.

I'll just remember one of my friends being terrified because her dad was a pilot for United. They let him call home to make sure his dad wasn't on the plane.