I woke up to the clock radio and heard the local DJ's debating if their kids should go to school or not. When the "CBS news break" cut them off to report the carnage, I flew out of bed to the TV. I'm on the West Coast, so I was up kind of early for class. I'll never forget picking up the phone and calling my mom. My side of the conversation went like this:

"Turn on the TV."

"ANY channel."

 

NEVER FORGET

BECAUSE THESE COLORS DON'T RUN

 

I just got back from the city last night, like bkw said, business as usual. No one really spoke about that day though. But very true and eerie, my girl says the day today is just like it was on 9/11....

 

I had just gotten off a lifecycle at the gym when I saw the plane crash into the second tower. That was the instant everyone knew it was terrorists.

 

It's kinda' interesting really. I don't watch the news, I get my news from this forum, and anything that doesn't show up here isn't usually worth my time.

The morning of September 11 was no different, someone posted a thread about the event, I turned on the news, and there it was. I don't remember the thread, but it was way before the 2nd plane hit. Leave it to the peeps at S2Ki.

In all honesty, I'm not much of a people-person, but there is no way for me to express here the saddness I felt in my heart on that day.

 

I had just gotten off 3rd shift and was eating breakfast in front of the TV at home. It was crazy at first seeing it happen. When the next plane hit the other tower, I called my wife immediately saying that we were under attack!

 

I was in work. My wife called me in a panic letting me know what had happened.

 

On the Air Force Base when they changed the threat level to Delta and I couldn't get off base to get to work

 

Weird, same thing for me. Any time I see completely cloudless sky it reminds me of it now.

 

I was at home, getting ready to go to work when my roommate called me to tell me. Needless to say, i never made it into work that day. i don't think i watch so much cable news in my entire life.

Watching it "live" again on MSMBC was so surreal...

The way people thought it was an accident, false reports of car bombs, multiple planes, bomb scares..etc...

How all the newscasters stated how someone should pay, that we need to attack...

yet 5 years later, people forget, think war is stupid... my how sort of an attention span we have... do we need to have another building fall for us to realize that someone, somewhere out there, is plotting to drive a car/plane/boat.. anything, into something in the US???