9/11

[MVI]

Hard to imagine it has been 25 years ago already.

 

[xrocket21]

Live in Maine, dad worked in NYC, I was in college. Thought he died as one of the planes took off from Maine. I was assure he didn't and that his plane got re routed, then the plane crashed in PA, thought he died again, he didn't, they re routed him back to Maine. Crazy morning. Everyone thinks of the towers, but I was more scared the Pentagon got hit.

 

[Avslash]

Kennedy assassination moment for GenX. Terrible day, and the start of the "endless wars" saga. Lots of good Ags from that era that never made it home from Iraq and Afghanistan. I'll drink to them tonight.

 

[The Evil Twin]

This is the flag that was hanging outside my first home as I left that day. I had no idea what was in store as I drove to work in Rosslyn (across the river from the Pentagon). I don’t remember what I did the day before, or even the weekend before, but I remember coming home that afternoon and seeing it in the bright sunshine.
I used to put it up every year on 9/11 but it has become more fragile over the years. I guess it’s time to get a display box for it.

 

[Potato Wilson]

I distinctly remember the weeks and months that followed. Suddenly it was "United We Stand". People were respectful to each other, holding doors open, allowing lane changes on the highway, being polite and recognizing common ground. How quickly that faded away.

 

[Avslash]

I distinctly remember the weeks and months that followed. Suddenly it was "United We Stand". People were respectful to each other, holding doors open, allowing lane changes on the highway, being polite and recognizing common ground. How quickly that faded away.

I remember that as well. It was like the whole demeanor of the nation changed overnight. As you said, didn't last long though.

 

[McE]

Saw it on the news on the living room TV. Watched the second plane hit live. I was in middle school. The patriotism and unity that followed is what I wish we still felt every day.

It’s difficult to look at where we are 25 years later and not be concerned about ideologies fundamentally at odds with American values gaining a foothold in places like Dearborn and elsewhere. To those of us who are fathers of young children: raise them strong.

Never forget.

 

[KR3]

I live on the other side of the country, but I can remember everything about that day. Even the little radio I bought at Radio Shack to listen to the news at work. Not seeing or hearing a plane in the sky over the next few days was very odd. My family visited the 9/11 memorial a few years back, and it refreshed the memories for me and my wife. I miss how our country was.

 

[bugeyedmonster1]

I was in college when the attack happened 25 years ago. My professor for my first class did not show up, they were in a department breakroom watching it live. Some students were walking out of classrooms crying in rooms that had TVs. I walked to the cafeteria area that I knew had a TV. A friend of mine, who had at that time recently finished phase 1 at BUDs borrowed money from me for some work on his car that his fiancé was driving. He came by later that day to pay me back. I'll never forget, he stood at my work and told me "someone decided to attack us on our soil, I'm hoping they send me so I want to make sure we are good before I leave."

He never made it back, like many others. Never forget.

 

[4wheels and a hitch]

9/11 is the reason I do work for the military. Never forget.

 

[RedZilla]

I was at work when it happened, a radio tower manufacturing plant. I was helping to organize the warehouse for an upcoming inventory audit. The place was like chaos that whole day.

We have pictures in an album somewhere of me opening presents in the living room that evening, with the tv in the background playing the looping videos of continuous news coverage of the event. It was my 40th birthday. Birthdays have never been the same since.

 

[71stang99]

I was working for a military contractor at the time (and in the air guard) and we used to get bussed from Las Vegas to Tolicha Peak. We would stop in Beatty for a bathroom and beverage break and heard that somethjng happened. By the time we loaded up and got to the access gate the guards said the site was closed and that we were to turn around and go to Beatty and check into our hotel rooms that were reserved each week for us. We got to the hotel(s) and the staff wheeled in big screen tvs so we could watch the news until our rooms were ready. Needless to say we went back the Vegas the next day and that was it for work that week. I'll never forget cruising down the strip on my CBR900 with the airport closed on 9/12 and then again when the strip shut down most of its lighting on 9/14. Many years later when I made my final pay grade in the Air Guard, I had to attend an orientation course in DC and the group of us got a tour of the Pentagon and the rebuilt hallway that American Airlines 77 hit. There is now a chapel there and the hallway is lined with quilts.

 

[ramv]

Thank-you for posting. I have only been to NYC a few times for work well after 9/11 but my respect for the fire department and ER teams is as high as it can be. They are true heros.

This is one of two events I remember everything about in my life. Oddly enough Princess Diana’s death was the other (English culture is very engrained in Commonwealth countries)

I recall flying the weekend before with my big Swiss Army knife in my carry-on thinking why would anyone worry about flying inland, it’s not like we have enough fuel to go anywhere…

A lot of tears on CNBC today and I respect their feelings. I really enjoyed Lloyd Blankenfien and David Solomon. Working through it on the ground is crazy to me.