Where were you on 9/11?

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I was at work in a large defense company west of a Philadelphia. I had just started in a new position. Most of the morning a large group of the employees were in the cafeteria watching the events in a large screen. It was eerily silent. When the second plane went in, many cried.
 
At work, closing down the company, the best job I ever had.
 
About to walk out of the high school where I taught to smoke a cigarette. (I’ve since quit smoking… 😃)
 
I was at work too, on a construction project for the television station Univision here in L.A. I remember that everyone who had a radio brought them out, and work pretty much stopped as we all listened in disbelief.
 
First I was in DC by Capitol Hill, then I was leaving DC in rather a melee as they shut down my office building. As I lived 40 miles outside the city and relied on public transportation (subways and trains) to get to and from work, and everything was disrupted/ shut down it was a bit of a headache getting home.
 
I was about to leave home (Gatineau, next to Ottawa) to get to a Biblical Hebrew test … Within an hour the whole city had shut down and had to reschedule the Hebrew test…
 
At work. I’d only been in the office for 15 minutes when the first plane hit.
 
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I heard about the first plane as I was arriving at work. I sat in the parking, listening to the news. For a while, no one seemed to realize it was a commercial airliner. Seemed likely that a small little plane had mechanical trouble. But then when the second plane hit, there was no question that this was an attack.
We got very little work done. About 3 p.m., the boss told us all to go home.
 
Yes, that’s what I thought also when a coworker said a plane had flown into one of the Twin Towers.

We didn’t get much work done either, which allowed me the time to change my plans for the weekend. I was supposed to get married in France on the 15th. Given that I was still in the US on the 11th, this event obviously changed all that.

I think I fielded one work-related call that day. We had to stay the entire day anyway, but at lunch one of my colleagues went home to bring back a TV so we could follow the news coverage. No one worked late, which was unusual.
 
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I was at home asleep. I live In the west so
it was early. A friend called me on the phone talking excitedly. Since I awoke from a sound sleep she wasn’t making any
sense. I kept asking “What? What?”
Finally, she screamed “Turn on the TV!”
When I turned on the TV they were showing one of the World Towers on fire with the
smoke rising and then I watched as the
second plane hit.

My house at the time was minutes from
the international airport so daily from my front yard as I looked north jet airliners were constantly taking off and landing.

When they ceased all planes from flying,
it was so eerie not to see the planes
Taking off or landing. Then when they did
resume, the vision of the big airliners
had a new meaning. I was so afraid one of the planes taking off would divert and
crash into a tall building in downtown
Phoenix.
 
I was very young, but I do remember seeing some of it on the news that day and asking my mom why people would do something so horrible.

I remember asking why they would destroy the world trade center. Shouldn’t it be for everybody?
 
I remember a little later in the day, my son called me from Albuquerque to make sure we were alright. We had recently moved into our current home in Schwenksville PA, and he heard about the forth plane that crashed near Shanksville PA, on the other side of the state.
 
I remember asking why they would destroy the world trade center. Shouldn’t it be for everybody?
Unfortunately that complex was a disaster waiting to happen. I remember it being bombed a few years before 2001 and after that happened I wondered why anyone would want to work there all day. It was pretty obvious that if the elevators went out it would be difficult for people on most of the floors to evacuate, also that it was a big target for people with a gripe.
 
Rollerblading. When I turned on the TV I thought it was another bad action movie. I drove to work and then realized that it wasn’t a bad movie. They gave us an option to go home or keep working. I choose to work since I couldn’t change anything, and didn’t want to have twice as much work. I was in the mutual fund business and figured that life from there would only get more crazy. I was right. Even though I was near the Rocky Mountains, I probably talked to many people in those towers daily. Very surreal. I believe a college buddy died there that day. May their souls Rest In Peace.
 
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I was at work. I spent much of the day trying to get the news on the web. The servers for US news outlets were overloaded and practically unresponsive. That’s the day I started getting online news from the BBC, which on that day was slow but still usable (and informative).
 
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Then when they did
resume, the vision of the big airliners
had a new meaning. I was so afraid one of the planes taking off would divert and
crash into a tall building in downtown
Phoenix.
One of my clearest memories of that whole time was the day they did resume. I was on my way to work (office isn’t far from the airport), sitting at the intersection, when the first commercial plane I’d seen since 9/11 flew overhead. And it seemed so huge, and so low, that my heart skipped. My only thought was “No! Not again!”
 
At times I was called to knock on doors to inform family members that their soldier was killed or wounded in action. We supported the families that were impacted so directly in the most honorable way we could, and still do.
Bless you. I can’t imagine having to do that.
 
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Then when they did
resume, the vision of the big airliners
had a new meaning. I was so afraid one of the planes taking off would divert and
crash into a tall building in downtown
Phoenix.
One of my clearest memories of that whole time was the day they did resume. I was on my way to work (office isn’t far from the airport), sitting at the intersection, when the first commercial plane I’d seen since 9/11 flew overhead. And it seemed so huge, and so low, that my heart skipped. My only thought was “No! Not again!”
Exactly. I saw an airliner almost as a weapon or missile. It took several months for me not to see a jet airliner and have a feeling of apprehension.
 
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