I'm going to play Dr. Bill...

Where were you when you heard the news?? What was your reaction when you heard about the first plane? What about when you heard about the 2nd plane and started watching what was actually happening??

I was at work in operations at Stevens Transport. A friend of mine called me and said a plane crashed into the world trade center. I said "well that was stupid" thinking it was some little plane where the pilot got off course (you know kind of like what happened to the baseball player a year or so ago?) -- then he called again and told me it was serious and to turn on the news. The TV's in operations were all on the weather channel and we had to get the guy to come in and fix the cable in there so we could all watch CNN. The 60 or so people that worked in operations were all away from their desks just staring at the TV in amazement as the first tower came crashing down. we had no idea exactly what was happening and how serious the situation really was. Once we learned, we all got to hopping and had to reroute trucks - which included sending trucks to the scene with relief supplies.

I went home that night and cried for all of the people who were trapped and who died and for those who jumped out of the towers to their deaths. Also for the family members who wouldn't have their loved ones come home that night.

I know that when abbie gets older and starts going to school they are going to have to ask people who were alive when it happened where they were and how they felt, and i know this is something that will always stay fresh in my memory. Ken accuses me of forgetting about it because I don't support the war in Iraq - but he couldn't be more wrong!

I was also at work in the Medical office. I walked in and the first thing I heard was from my boss saying, "A plane hit the World Trade Center." And, I also thought it was a little plane that just had an accident. Everyone stayed glued to the internet as the events unfolded. One lady was in a bit of a panic as her husband was in New York that day. There was a TV on upstairs in one of the counseling rooms. People took turns going up to watch the news to see exactly what happened. I remember wondering if it was the end of the world...

We were going to celebrate a co-worker's birthday. It was his 50th and we had his office decked out in black. Little did we know how appropriate that black decor would be for that day...

I was in downtown Dallas, and didn't think twice about reports of planes crashing into buildings.

It wasn't until the buildings collapsed that I said to myself in disbelief "holy shit were under attack".

This was generational deja vu.

My mother's dad and his fiance(her mom) were at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941.

On 9/11 I was thinking this is happening all over again.

He was an NCO who was acting in command(from what I heard) on the USS Medusa which was moored along the Seaplane carrier Curtiss and four tin cans. The Curtiss took a bomb hit, and a bomb missed the Medusa, also a Japanese Midget sub took a shot at one of the ships, but missed.

The half dozen American warships opened up on the sub and sent her to the bottom. A destroyer that had her boilers going issued a coup de grace on the sub with depth charges.

They also shot a few planes down I think.

Grandpappy also had a brother who was on the BB Arizona. His remains are still buried there.

I was actually at home and my mom called to tell me to rurn on the TV. The 1st thing I saw was the first, and only plane at that point, hit the building. I just rember telling her we were being attacked and talked about it and then hung up. Then watched FOX and MSNBC for the next two weeks.

I was actually at home on vacation that week. I always watch the news in the morning, and we had been planning a trip to Manahattan for my husband's birthday in late October, so when I heard about the first plane I sat and watched for a while. Then I saw the second plane hit. I can honestly say I have never felt like my country couldn't protect me until I heard that the Pentagon had been hit. Then I felt truly scared and vulnerable. I sat and watched everything unfold that day, and was pretty much glued to the TV for the rest of the week.

We ended up going to Manhattan anyway, and were really glad that we did. I will never forget seeing Ground Zero in person only a month after it happened.

I saw a thing on TV where they were asking random people what year 9/11 happened and I was really shocked that no one could remember (at least the people that they showed... why would htey show the people who got it right?) -- some of them were young (like 18) which would make them 12 at the time so I gave them a pass... but the other people... holy crap! how could you not remember???

We had come in early from an install and were sitting in the break room trying to relax. The TV burped and we saw an image of a building burning and were just too tired to recognize it. Once it was identified and they started talking about a commuter plane; we thought we were looking at a terrible accident. When the second plane hit, all of us knew someone was after us but we didn't know who.

The sales staff started coming in a few minutes later and headed right for the TV. Everybody canceled their appointments and just sat there trying to take it in. I remember when the first Tower collapsed and the man with Peter Jennings said, "Peter, I believe one of the Towers is in some distress." Jennings turned around and you could see the back of his head shake like he was having a chill.

It was reminiscent of the Kennedy Assassination; we all wanted to do something but there was nothing within our collective grasp that would have made an ounce of difference. The worst part of it was watching the scenes from St. Vincents hospital where the Surgeons were lined up to take in the injured. There weren't any injured to speak of and you could see the rage in the Doctor's faces as the hours went by; there was so little they could do.

I was too old to fight, but I would have traded the rest of my life to close with the enemy for ten minutes. I still feel that way.

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