I had taken off from school to go to an eye appointment - I watched the entire thing unfold with no contacts in so I couldnt see shit. I guess that was a good thing though.

 

I was in class watching the news, and then the 2nd plane hit the tower. The mood that day was something I've never experienced before.

 

I was sitting in my high school history class, and they let us watch t.v. instead of lecturing. when i got home i turned on the tv and was flipping to other news channels, when i got a hold of a spanish new station. They filmed stuff that normal news wouldnt have, like the people jumping and hitting the ground from the tower. It was pretty devastating

 

I was a senior in High School at the time. I remember I was about to go out to lunch and my friend came up to my locker and told me that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I looked at him like he was crazy because I had no idea what he was talking about. The next period we streamed CNN on our class computer and saw what had happened for the first time.

 

i was in math class when this happened in 9th grade. its the only moment i remember so clearly from so long ago. School continued that day but everyone just sat there and watched tv on CNN. no one could even believe it. the teachers were just sort of mumbling to the classes when we would switch periods.

 

Ain't it the truth...

Where was I... I had been working nights so I was still in bed when the phone rang. It was my roommate telling me to put the news on because a plane just crashed into the WTC. I remember saying, "Get the fu... out of here.". I thought he was joking. After realizing that he wasn't BS'ing me, I figured it was a Cessna or something. After turning the TV on and seeing the amount of damage, I knew it wasn't something small. I'm in the flying "biz" and at the time I was a flight instructor at one of the country's largest aviation schools. I grew up being able to see the NYC skyline from my house, so this hit home pretty hard. I watched the second 767 hit the south tower and then their collapse live. I remember just standing there with my mouth open for about an hour. After finding out about the Pentagon being hit, I remembered that my mom was in Washington DC for a few days attending a business conference. I tried calling her for hours, but all the cell phone lines were busy and I couldn't get through. I finally got through hours later and found out she was OK.

Here's a pic I took in early '99 at Newark Liberty International Airport.

 

Woke up on what I thought would be a lazy day in Colorado. I was off from work that day so I couldn't figure out why I was up so early, but since I couldn't get back to sleep I went downstairs to have a smoke. As I got back into the house I sat on the couch to watch some morning news/talk shows. When I turned on the TV I thought what I was seeing was some sort of "made for TV" movie. As I continued to watch...all I could do was blankly mutter out a few choice words.

Finding the ability to speak after a few moments I shouted upstairs to my roommate for him to turn on the TV in his room. It was at that point that I grabbed my cell and phoned home to Hawaii, telling my parents to stop cooking breakfast and turn on the news as something terrible had just happened.

All day long my thoughts were with my friend's living in New York...some to work and some to study. I really will never forget...I hope no one else does either.

 

I remember goin up to the roof once with my Boy Scout troop after visiting the NYSE. Anyone else been up there?

 

I personally have not. How does that area look now? The area where the towers once stood.

 

i'm not even american.....

but i've been watching (as most have) all the various news, recounts and movies/docs over the past couple of days and when they show the planning of that day, it just makes my fvcking blood boil.

that a faction would deliberately and surprisingly attack another country's defenseless citizens just makes you want to fly over to the middle east and start shooting these people.

fvcking fanatical muslims....i hope they all die a painful death