8 Years Ago...

[ALTRNTV]

It was a good morning on September 11, 2001. My alarm clock radio woke me up at 6:30am and my radio station was on and they were talking about some plane that hit one of the World Trade Center towers. I turned on the TV and no later than 5 minutes later, the 2nd plane hit the other tower, like something straight out of a movie. I was in disbelief. Is this really happening? I get ready for school (I was a sophomore in HS) and when I get there, all the TV’s are tuned into the news. A couple minutes later, the first tower comes crashing down. Total and utter disbelief. 30 minutes later, the 2nd tower comes down. Wow. Is this real or am I still in my dream? I shed a couple tears, and I’m not even going to lie about that.

Most people, when they hear of 9/11/01, all they can think about is the WTC towers. what they fail to remember are the 2 other plane crashes, in Pennysylvania and one at The Pentagon. Let’s not forget the lives lost those as well.

I will never forget that day. It’s fresh in my mind as if it happened yesterday. I said a prayer to those people and their families who lost their life that day, to the rescue workers trying to save those people, and even the soldiers who lost their lives in the war that came about after this cowardly act.

September 11, 2001: I Will Never Forget

[I LUV MY S13]

yea man i was 12 in 7th grade..dad wakes me up to get ready for school, i walk in the living room and my mom had tha news on and theres was a building burning, next thing u kno a plane hits tha building next to it..i was trippin out..got ready as fast as i could for school so i can keep watching..news said it was an attack..next thing u kno towers come dwn.. i get to school and 2nd came dwn..i had no idea wat was goin on or wat to expect..i had a friend who lost an uncle there..shit really sucked

[xpertsnowcarver]

Dang... Can't believe its already been 8 years. Still seems too recent. Wonder what community volunteering services they have going on in my town. Turns out they're making 9/11 an official "Community Service" day.

[zenki.life]

fuck i was 11 back then. remember watching the news and having to wake my parents up.... my mother started to cry and i was just generally confused. after what happened was better explained to me i felt sorry for the people.

8 years later i think top my self, sure Bush fucked up on alot of things, but people need to realize why we started the war in the first place and not judge him on that

[Manuelitoohno]

i was 10 back then and me being in the west coast i had no idea what had happened. no one in our elementary school new. it was like nothing happened. i do remember that this chute chubby white girl which was my age at the time her bday was september 11. lol


but yea i got home and saw the news but i was young so i turned on my ps1 and played away

[fliprayzin240sx]

I was in the Air Force when it happened. Was in close to a year, in NJ and was actually working as an Air Traffic Controller in the air space just south of NYC.

Today, I was a part of Kadena Air Base's 9/11 Memorial Ceremony. Shit will always get to you when you see the flag at half staff, taps playing and remembering why you are there.

[deolio]

<3 to all those that suffer. never forget.

[shmiddy]

as a life long new yorker, this hit me hard. i would visit the towers often to skate a spot right in the loby of the towers. it was a 9 step set i think (its been so long). we would get kicked out most of the time, but being so close to something that big was beautiful. looking up at the towers from ground level really was a sight to see.

god bless the lives that were lost and the men and women who risked everything

[enkei2k]

being in NY about it rough, especially today's weather here. gloomy, rainy, cold. i was in highschool seeing students crying, but i didn't know why. i had an english teacher, that made us draw how we felt, again i had no idea why, but shit it was a free period so i just went with it. i remember my school was like that for the next few days, we didn't learn anything, just talked about how we felt and such.

[aziankingz]

it was my first year in college when it happened.. i was taking a bus with my bro that connects to the train that comes from the city and people were just silent..crying and in disbelief..

enkei: yeah its been raining in nyc.. i think last year it was raining too.. do you remember the smell throughout the city after the attacks?

[WanganRunner]

I was on Semester at Sea, and it was the middle of the night (we were eastbound in the Pacific about 14 hours from Japan). The administrators/crew woke us all up and said "The Pentagon and WTC have been destroyed and the US is under attack. We have no other information."

We had no other details for like 4 hours, so we thought that some other nation (i.e. Russia or China) had actually attacked the United States.

I'm from DC and my family all lives there, so for several hours I thought that the city had been leveled, so I was pretty flipped out.

[shmiddy]

Originally Posted by aziankingz

it was my first year in college when it happened.. i was taking a bus with my bro that connects to the train that comes from the city and people were just silent..crying and in disbelief..

enkei: yeah its been raining in nyc.. i think last year it was raining too.. do you remember the smell throughout the city after the attacks?

i remember walking around the city weeks after and everything still covered in ash still.... it smelled sooo weird.... everything had a grey tint to it cuz of the ash everywhere... it was so sad....

[LeftNutOfGowd]

Damn I was 14 a freshman in high school. I was getting dropped off when I heard what happened on the radio I was listening to big boy in the morning that day and once I arrived at school that all everyone talked about I still remember sitting in my 1st period class watch the footage of the crashes. I was just like no way is this shit really happening

[cserrano86]

I remember it exactly as the OP described it... Same year in HS and everything.

[DALAZ_68]

Sophmore in HS, all i remember about that day was, there was no breakfast break, no lunch brake, no one outside playing, every single class just gauking at the T.V. with all the info that was coming.

I remember this specifically because around 3rd period, something in my head snapped, Rose...she's my cuzin from my fathers aunts side...the second that clicked in i rememeber running to the main office, got tackled by security for not stoping and me yelling my cuzin migh be dead, i need to call home...

thankfully, when i called, my father informed me that she was transfered to another airline...

to think you almost lost family was beyond words, but knowing u lost someone after...when they didnt have anything to do with it...that...i dont know how they could feel...

fucking horrible day

[ILoveMyRHS13]

I was in 5th grade. We were sent home early from school. Of course rumors were going around the school, but they never told anyone what had happened except for the teachers.

RIP

[Flicktitty]

this is one day i will never forget. rip to all the lost ones.

[240cracker]

i remember hearing the new in class back in like 7th grade.

8 years already!

i wish i would have went to ny before it happened not after =/

RIP

[ThatGuy]

I was on leave, staying at my in-laws in Pa.

My wife and I slept in that morning, no kids yet. I remember her rolling over that morning and giving me hug, squeezing really hard.
"Tell me everything's okay."
"Of course it's okay honey. What are you talking about?"
"I just got this really weird feeling, like something bad happened. Just tell me it's okay. Tell me you're not gonna deploy somewhere or something."
"Babe, what are you talking about? We're not even at war. The spots where we do have people, I won't be going to anyway. Relax."

About 10 mins later, I dropped to my knees in the livingroom, as I had turned on the news just in time to watch the second plane collide into the towers.

I was on the phone with my command off and on for the rest of the day, trying to figure out if I needed to haul tail back to North Carolina and get my gear packed.


Let's just say, I don't just "shrug it off" anymore when my wife tells me she has a bad feeling about things.

[cserrano86]

Wow Barry... That's some crazy shit.

[Brian]

Such a crazy event in our history.
I didn't know what to think when I was watching it on the news before school. It freaked me out.

I got to visit NYC after that and see the pit that remained. All the surrounding buildings were still burned. It was unreal.

[2_slow_40]

man, its so crazy. i honestly didnt realize it was 9/11, until i seen this thread, (im sorry).( i honestly think that it was a conspiracy, by our government, but im not going to get into that, but i think its so stupid that they would just kill all of theses inocent people, either way).
i remember, i was in 6th grade, and seen it on the news before school, and my friends mom made him stay home from school, alone, cause she thought that something would happen, at our elementary school, in buena park, of all places.
anyways, im so sorry to all of you that lost someone to '9/11,' i couldnt imagine the feeling of knowing that one of my loved ones was killed, that way, being completely inoccent, it's so disgusting, and im so sorry if any of you had to go through that.
very sad day.

[DrftSLowHomIe!!]

RIP to those lost in this tragic moment in our lives. We will never forget 9/11

[nismo 240sx]

Crazy i was in 8th grade...it feels like it was not that long ago..

[ZX88]

my dad actually was flying on an american airlines flight that day. luckly his flight left early and he was safe. My mother was on the the GW bridge when the second plan hit. such a scary day.

[JVD]

Originally Posted by zenki.life

8 years later i think top my self, sure Bush fucked up on alot of things, but people need to realize why we started the war in the first place and not judge him on that

Uhhh... he started two "wars"...

Two separate incidents. People always seem to somehow link 9/11 to Iraq.

But ya, I remember missing class in junior high to watch the towers fall. Sad day.

I will never forget.

[K_style]

I was in highschool...
I think it happened like.. 10 pm local time in Korea..

shocking... my uncle worked near there... so I was worried...
he said he never seen chaos like that...

do you guys remember that DVD? some guy who tried to find truth of 9/11 ???
wonder what really happened

[drift freaq]

I remember that morning well because I was listening to KCRW and they were talking about a plane hitting the World trade center and I was like huh what. I turned on the news and saw it. I walked around in somewhat of a daze for the next couple of days. Thinking seriously about the fact that the innocence was officially gone. The U.S. had been attacked on its own soil. Everything I had grown up accustomed to and just taken for granted disappeared that morning.

Terrorist actions like that happened in other countries not here. Ya most Americans felt that way. You can't blame us, we had the most advanced defense system in the world and basically we saw no reason for anyone to attack us like this.

It gets me everytime I look at pics of New York and the World Trade is there in the pic, its gets me when I see new pics and the its not. Its hard to watch the video of the towers going done.

[Sleepy240]

It was truely a sad day, and frankly it still is just thinking about. To be honest I feel bad for the people who were too young to actually go to NYC and visit the towers. They were an amazing peice of architecture, and stood tall in the skyline. I mean sure there are pictures of the skyline and of the towers but actually seeing them in real life is something to be in awe of. Its absolutely a day I will never forget. And the thing is it doesn't matter who was where, on that day we were all together as one.

[drift freaq]

Originally Posted by 2_slow_40

man, its so crazy. i honestly didnt realize it was 9/11, until i seen this thread, (im sorry).( i honestly think that it was a conspiracy, by our government, but im not going to get into that, but i think its so stupid that they would just kill all of theses inocent people, either way).
i remember, i was in 6th grade, and seen it on the news before school, and my friends mom made him stay home from school, alone, cause she thought that something would happen, at our elementary school, in buena park, of all places.
anyways, im so sorry to all of you that lost someone to '9/11,' i couldnt imagine the feeling of knowing that one of my loved ones was killed, that way, being completely inoccent, it's so disgusting, and im so sorry if any of you had to go through that.
very sad day.

Dude that conspiracy bullshit is just bullshit. All this conspiracy bullshit on the internet is pure conjecture by non scientists and non civil engineers. The man that ran one of the Construction companies that built those towers lived in the same luxury complex my dad lives in. The way those towers came down is because of being hit by a plane full of fuel. Which ignited Super heating the Metal frame and making it go molten. Seriously every fucking idiot that believes the conspiracy theories that I have talked to has no real education in Sciences, Metallurgy, construction, etc... Plus(conspiracy fans) most of them have been stoners or not very bright to begin with.

Oh and your comments and beliefs do a disservice to the memories of the people who died and the real reasons as to why it happened. I suggest you go back to school and get a real lesson in World Politics and the Middle East before allowing yourself to get so misguided by internet bullshit.

Our Government would not sacrifice the lives of 2-3 thousand civilians just to get us into a War in Afghanistan. Yes War in Afghanistan. We were attacked by a group that was based there and supported by their Government.

Your very comment about conspiracy really shows that you know nothing about all the previous signs that this was going to happen that the Clinton administration ignored.

Bush was and is a idiot and Cheney and Rumsfeld are fucked up people, though the did not set this kinda of thing up. If you truly believe that you are even more of a moron than George Bush was.