Where were you and what doing on 9/11

[snide]

Originally Posted by snide

I had just flown to Minneapolis the day before, out of Boston's Logan airport (!!!!). Everyone in the hotel lobby was glued to the TV, as they could not believe what had just happened. I didn't know what had happened until I watched the other jet hit the 2nd tower. Went to the client site as per normal. The client set up TVs everywhere, but no one was using them. No one got any work done, as the network was choked by basically everyone trying to watch online, or get updates.

Will never forget that day.

This.

[Barn Babe]

I read every one of those and am sitting here with goosebumps.

I was a stay-at-home mom in San Diego. I had just seen my husband off to work and turned on the news. New York was so far away and I had never been there, and nothing like this had ever happened in my lifetime, so I didn't process it right away. I kept the news on all day, but it didn't really "sink in" until I heard there was smoke coming from the Pentagon.

Oddly, that night we ate dinner out on the patio. Off in the distance, where there was just hills and shrubs, there was what looked like a mushroom cloud. It was just a lone cloud, but we looked at it extra close that night to be sure.

When I would go to sleep at night I could watch the planes make their approach to Lindbergh Field. I never did it consciously, I guess it was just what I did to fall asleep. For the next 3 days, there were no lights from the planes to lull me to sleep.

[Aerovette]

It was probably 20 years before it happened, that my dad told me the story of the pilot that flew in to the Empire State Building. When I was told by an employee that a plane hit the Word Trade Center, that was my immediate response. I told her, " A long time ago a plane hit the Empire State Building" and she told me it was a passenger plane. We went to our break area and turned on the TV and watched the horror unfold. I was unable to really grasp that we were under attack. The first thoughts were "Where do I go for safety?". I realized that in my life, I have no escape plan. I could not think of any place to go to. It was a bit unnerving.

[VITE1]

I was working in my home office when a business associate called and told me to turn on the TV. I watch the second plane hit and call my wife and told her to go to the schools and take the kids home NOW.

Islam has been at war with the USA since our inception and Islam has been at war with th world since their inception.

Wake up people. 1400 years of history shows this to be true.

[NEED-A-VETTE]

I lived in Arizona at the time. I had just gotten up and was getting ready for work. My BIL called and told me to turn on the news. I was watching as the second plane hit.