Where were you?

POSTED BY: Starrbaby
UPDATED: Monday, September 19, 2005 22:50
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STARRBABY

Sunday, September 11, 2005 7:10 PM

So where were you, and how did you learn of the attacks 4 years ago?
I was a university student, and I had just drug my lazy butt out of bed to go to my on-campus job. I was taking the elevator down to the main floor of our dorm when a gal friend of mine told me.

At lunch, I jokingly asked my then boyfriend (He's now my husband and the father of my twin sons . . .who are overdue and driving me nuts) if he wanted to get married incase he get drafted. He looked at me like I was on drugs. I then realized that he probably hadn't even seen the news, and this was the first time he'd been on campus all day.

The part of that day that I remember the most is that the powers that be on campus locked up all the dorms so that no one could get in without their key. This wasn't to ward of any terrorist, as we lived in rural mid-Amreica. This was to protect our middle eastern studnets from the ignorant community.

Okay, your turn!

BLUEBOMBER

Monday, September 12, 2005 12:04 PM

I was still in college, on my way to theatre class that morning. When I got to the room all the other students were standing around outside, chattering. I asked what was going on and a guy told me that a plane had just crashed into the Pentagon.

My initial reaction: I laughed. Yeah, I know that makes me sound like an ass, but I really thought he was joking (the guy had a reputation for being a bit of a clown). Besides, I figured, that's not something that would happen here. Just goes to show you how vulnerable we all are...Then the professor arrived and told us classes had been cancelled. I walked around campus a bit, and all I heard was people talking. A few were crying. Some were angry; more were scared. All were glued to the TV. The student union was overcrowded with people watching the news.

I went back to my room and watched for a bit. Then I turned it off. Later that day, my friend and I got together and went swimming at the lake. Not because we didn't care what was happening - we both donated money and blood for relief - but because we were grateful to be alive, and wanted to celebrate that.

All politics aside, my prayers go out to families who lost loved ones on that tragic day, as well as to the victims of Katrina. For this one day at least, let us all put the finger-pointing and name-calling to rest, and take a moment to remember the fallen.

GEEZER

Monday, September 12, 2005 1:04 PM

I was at work. It was a slow morning so I checked into a car-related site I frequent. One of the topics was "!!!A Plane Just Hit The WTC!!!" which someone started when they heard the news on radio. Pretty soon there were eye-wtness descriptions of both WTC hits and the Pentagon attack. That thread went to over 30 pages by the end of the day.

About the time of the second WTC hit, our building's internal TV system, with a wall-mounted set in each elevator lobby, came on tuned to CNN.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

FIVVER

Monday, September 12, 2005 1:25 PM

I was at my desk in the largest office tower in Atlanta. My mom called and told me a plane had hit the WTC. I turned on my radio and listened for a while and then went into a conference room to watch on TV just as the second plane struck. A few minutes later we were given the order to evacuate the building.

I have to give MARTA (Atlanta's mass transit authority) a lot of credit. They had already initiated their emergency evacuation plan and there were rifle toting SWAT Team members in the Peachtree Center Station to keep order and provide security. The station attendants had propped open the large wheelchair fare gates and were just waving people right on through. There was no muss, no fuss and no hysteria - just calmly getting people out.

Fivver

ODDNESS2HER

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:23 PM

At home, just starting what I thought was going to be another average Tuesday. I turned on the bedroom TV while getting dressed for work. At first I thought I was seeing a clip from some upcoming movie; slowly caught on that I was watching something real. Not a good feeling.

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:33 PM

I was at work in a convenience store on Long Island (26 miles from Ground Zero) putting in my last 3 days as my family had just moved to Massachusetts, and I was to join them that weekend. We were listening to Howard Stern on the radio, when suddenly someone in his group said that a WTC tower was on fire, and they had a good view of it from their window in Manhattan. Minutes later they described the second plane hitting. His normally crazy/dirty show turned into the most lucid coverage of an event I'd ever heard on radio. And customers in the store suddenly lost the speed in their stride, and hung around to listen with others as the terror unfolded on the East Coast.
I was able to join my family the next week, after they opened the bridges coming off the Island.

Chrisisall

SIGNYM

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:48 PM

On the West Coast, I was up getting coffee and making b'fast and lunches. I heard on the radio that a twin-engine plane had crashed into the WTC, but I thought it was just a little private plane flown by a drunk or sick pilot. Then I went to work. I didn't realize the magnitude of the situation until I got in and saw the crowd of people in the lunchroom watching TV.

Please don't think they give a shit.

XENOCIDE

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:21 PM

Also in college, my penultimate semester. Geting up in my apartment, my girlfriend (now wife) called me and told me to turn on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit. Spent the rest of the day first waiting to give blood, then with my mother, a New Yorker.

-Eli

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R1Z

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:45 PM

I was on the road with my boss, midway through a five-hour drive to go pitch a potential new client. Suddenly, both our cell phones started ringing. We turned the car radio to NPR and followed the coverage. Decided since we were more than halfway there, we might as well keep going. Got to the potential client and the smoking towers were on the tv in the lobby/waiting area.

Took the tour and made the pitch with one eye on the tv coverage (both us and the client.) Not ideal marketing conditions, but we landed the client.

To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. --Robt. Heinlein

GUNRUNNER

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:27 PM

Senor year of High School at the time. We heard over the schools PA. My buddies and me got to talking (we were sort of the military experts of the class, half of us are now enlisted), I concluded it was a private plane or chartered corporate jet loaded with explosives used by terrorists. I guess I was half right.

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