9/11/2001 - Where were you when Bush knocked down the towers?

14 in 10th grade? Keg confirmed baby genius

First year calculus.

I was 23 and I was at college. I had just parked my car when there was talk of a fire at the World Trade Center. By the time my first class was over the whole world was different. When the other planes started hitting (there were four remember) it really felt like no one was safe anywhere. Two years later I was at Ft. Leonardwood having joined the Army. I was in processing the day Operation Iraqi Freedom launched. We got woken up in the middle of the night when the news came in.

was home passed out from playing everquest, i had Stern on the radio and in my sleep i started hearing other voices on the station. it woke me up and it was the newscast about the attack. i tried to put the tv on but i got no reception, i didnt have cable at that time and the antennae for the area was on top of the WTC so there was nothing. best i could get was channel 4 and it was kinda snowy. my dad was at work in manhattan and i tried calling him , but the phones in NYC were making this siren noise and i couldnt get through.

my mom worked in jersey near the lincoln tunnel into the city. it took me a few tries to get through to her work and i finally got her on the phone and she didnt even know it was happening. i told her to get out of work now, we are at war and NYC was being attacked. she couldnt believe it and said she was leaving now. i found out later that her work closed right after i got off the phone with her and sent everyone home anyway. it was a mob of people rushing for the bus to the path train. they were all full. finally a charter bus stopped at a light and the mob rushed it and demanded to be taken to the train station. the bus driver, a muslim guy said he couldnt do that because he was a charter and the people in the mob started cursing him out and saying we will fucking kill you if you dont take us. so he let everyone on. thats how my mom got to the train station. when she got there, no trains were going anywhere. all packed up fgrom people escaping NYC. she saw tons of people covered in dust from head to toe. she didnt finally get home until 7 o clock that evening.

i never heard from my dad that day. i was worrying like crazy because he had asthma and throat cancer at the time and he cant even stand it even if somebody had smoked in a room days before. from my attic window i could see there was a giant black cloud over the entire city. i thought that was it for him. phones were all down and i could hear fighter jets flying over the house. only time i ever heard and saw them. my mom and i watched the news that night and were just in utter shock at what happened. i dont think we ever got over that. i was on IRC with my guildies and i was spouting the most anti muslim shit i ever said. i didnt even have any feelings toward them before that day. now i hated them forever. i tried logging into EQ, but it was no good, i couldnt stop thinking about my dad and nobody was doing anything in game. the /ooc was all about the attacks. message boards was the same. finally around 3am my phone started ringing. it was my dad. he was ok. he worked as a programmer analyst for Sony Records and their building was in midtown not near the WTC so he wasnt engulfed in the deadly cloud. he told me he was watching the news and this was the first time the phones started working again. he said there was no fucking way he was leaving his office with all that shit flying around and massive chaos in the city. so he spent the night sleeping on top of his desk and the next day did his work like normal. he was finally able to make it home that night. the company actually supplied him with a company car and driver to get him out of there.

TLDR that day sucked all around.

I was also at home passed out from playing everquest all night.

I remember my mom called me and woke me up, it took her a few minutes, and told me to turn on the TV.

I was working at a pizza joint. Rolling that day, so just me, 100 lbs of dough, and a radio. At first I thought it was some movie ad or something, wasnt paying a lot of attention. Then a co-worker came back crying, and asked if id heard. Four of us just stood around listening to the radio for an hour. Then we heard about the plane hitting the Pentagon. And there might still be unaccounted for planes. We just wondered when it was going to end. Shock is a great word.

Sleeping late after working late. I got a wake up call from the Exxon refinery and they called in a staff to be on standby. I drove the 5 hours to get there listening to the radio about it. When I crossed the MS river bridge into Baton Rouge they had some humvees with luanchers on top whatever they were parked on both sides of the road. Security to get into the gate was more than usual. They had national guard humvees at the gate (they now have those auto pop up things to stop trucks etc...).

Stayed there off/on for the next week. Friend was in CA and had tickets to fly back to New Orleans that day. They had to rent a car and drive from Los Angeles back, luckily they got a car. Ex boss was in Phoenix and he had to rent a U-Haul and drove it to San Antonio to get home.

Was in History class when it happened, insane teacher was nearly crowing with excitement with the TV set on "SEE KIDS, HISTORY IS IN THE MAKING."

Gal got committed a few years after I graduated.


Tangential, the game I'd been playing since I was 9 or 10 finally croaked last year. The day they chose to announce the game's closure and IP sale? 9/11.

At home wondering why all the news channels were showing the same disaster movie instead of the news. It took me a good thirty minutes to register that it was real.

Came out of an accounting class in college, went to the student union to buy some candy and saw on TV some shit was going down in New York. Didn't quite realize the extent of the situation until I went to my buddy's dorm room and everyone was crowded around the TV. Spent the next 24 hours scouring FoH website for info and trying to reach out to people we knew in NY who lived near the blast zone. I remember seeing the second plane live on TV going into the WTC; I missed the first one by mere minutes over at the union. Shortly thereafter, we heard the news about the Pentagon and plane getting shot down over PA which wasn't far from where I was at college. Scary shit.

There must be someone else atleast on these forums that first heard the news on allakhazam's front page while I was doing my daily browsing for loot info? It's not something I'm proud of.

Saw the news before I went to school and it was showing the one plane hitting the tower and then at school we watched TV of the second plane hitting, I was in 10th grade just like Keg. The impact of what happened didn't hit me for a long while, to celebrate this anniversary I will be attending a bike race and getting drunk.

I was sleeping from a binge night of EQ as well, and my dad came busting into my room screaming that all of Manhattan was going up in smoke. I worked nights at some crappy warehouse job at the time, and I remember seeing the skies without a single plane in them and how creepy that seemed.