I was sitting right where I am sitting now ...at work. My co-worker (who had just recently started) came in & said a plane had struck one of the towers we all though it was some 2 seater prop plane... until we turned on the TV & saw the 2nd one hit. Driving my car later that day to go get lunch was surreal at best. Total silence.

 

I was chatting on IRC while at work. A friend of mine in Norway told me a plane had just hit one of the Twin Towers and I didn't believe him. For the next hour or so, half the people at work watched TV and saw it all unfold. Crazy!

 

I was in my car driving to my Fluid dynamics engineering class when I heard it on the radio. I thought it was a joke the radio station was playing and didn't believe them until I got to class and the teacher canceled it.

 

army, i didn't bite off more than i can chew, i had a few good times, but i also seen a few of my buddies blown up, shot, killed, plus a bum leg that'll never heal because of a quack army doctor

 

I was sitting in an auditorium on an Air Force base as part of a crowd participating in a PR video with the base commander. Needless to say, the general was called away part way through the event. I went back to the office, noting all the machine guns around all of a sudden, then watched CNN while waiting to hear back from my brother who worked in Manhattan. Scary day.

 

I was there.

 

I was asleep (west coast) and got a call from my sister. It still to this day seems surreal, like a movie to me. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around it. I can't even imagine what people went through who were there.

 

so there i was balls deep in this chick right...

lets put it in perspective people.

oh shit. :flamesuit:

 

Army here as well. Sequence of events after 911 strategically did not make since to me but that is another thread. And the threat (Osama) is still at large but hey we got Saddam right?

Lost comrades is hard to get over and you feel guilty when you come back stateside and know that some of your buddies are still in the sand trap.

 

in newport beach.

roommates woke me up.. i called my friends in nyc to see if they were ok, and amazingly got through (they were surprised my call got to them too. they said it was hard to get any calls through)

i remember just sitting in my apt watching the tv, and going to school later but nobody was teaching.