10 years ago, I was...

... planning to take a helicopter trip around NY around the 15th.
Just moved into an apartment I bought.
was visiting my dying grandmother in the hospital

Where was your head, right before "it" happened?

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10 years ago today I was standing in the middle of the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Haror on my honeymoon. I looked up at the wall of names on the memorial and said allowed, "I am glad I will never know what it feels like to be this violated". My ex and I had return tickets on American Airlines dated 9/11

I was at work. The end of an overnight shift. I remember walking to the car with a fellow employee, and hearing on the radio that they had grounded every plane in the air. I looked at the co worker, and stated, "If they did that, this is really bad."

Jim

worried about amanda and her back surgury that very morning she went under the knife at 8 am. she was still in surgury when both planes hit.

steve

Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I was in highschool. My senior year. I was between 1st and 2nd periods when I heard that "a plane flew into a building in NYC", I get to 2nd period to find out that it was a passenger liner and it had hit the WTC. The teacher turned on the TV just in time to catch the second plane hit the second tower. It was in that moment I made the decision to join the Army. I had been contemplating the Army for a few months and that moment, that very second froze in time and my decision was made.

i was in gym class in highschool....i think my sophmore year. i actually remember saying when i heard about it "some moron crashed a plane into a skyscraper how did they not see that standing there was the fog that bad?" thinking at the time that it was a small prop plane or something. then after class the whole school got to watch the tv and see what was going on. several months later i remember most of our rights being taken away by the partiot act, the road to hell is paved by good intentions.

I was buried at work with a new position as a network analyst. I was trying to do my new job but unable to break away from my old job at the help desk.
Pretty much on auto pilot just trying to make it another day at work and settle into my new job.

That was the normal day until 9/11

I can pretty much describe the entire day, right down to the CEO yelling at us because he couldn't get into CNN.com and the ride up the elevator and getting a call when I stepped off. My wife called me to tell me a plane had crashed into a building. I was under too much stress at the moment and shrugged it off.
Later I was at a clients desk trying to fix an issue and listening to the news, when I was done I went back to my building and heard about the second plane. I was numb at that point and in shock.
I went to the help desk to eat lunch and couldn't, I got real mad and wanted blood. I left and went back to my building, the CEO had a TV with rabbit ears and we stood around and watched the TV until it was time to go home.
Then I logged into PFF and stayed on until time to go to bed.

https://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...020315-6-003326.html

I still feel that same shock and sickness in my stomach.
My eyes still get damp and I still get mad.

RIP

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I was taking my mom in for a surgery that resultant infection from said surgery led to her death. I closed my business down to spend time with her while she was, unknowingly to me, dying. I had no business for over a month. None. Nada. Zip. I closed it permanently on October 15th, 2001.

As appalling as it was to witness on TV, "It" just was not as tragic, to me, as what was happening in my personal family life, sorry to say. I had little time to mourn those I did not know as I was mourning those that I did.

"It" to me from that time, was something quite different than most.

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In a classroom surrounded by second graders. We were watching as the second plane crashed. The next day was the appointment my wife and I had with the fertility clinic in Birmingham. On the interstate, we were the only car for most of the 90 mile trip. I saw my son's heartbeat on the sonogram screen that day and I wondered what kind of world my son would be born into

I was in school, would have been fourth grade. We didn't hear about it in school at all, but I remember walking in and seeing some of the recap on the T.V. and my parents asking if I had heard. I was 9 at the time, and I can remember almost nothing else from that time in my life, but the scene of walking in and seeing that is still in my mind.

I was in a delivery truck hauling cardboard boxes. I dropped off one shipment and heard the news, thinking it was an accident. On my way to the next site, 60 miles away, the radio station I was listening to interrupted with the news. When I dropped off the shipment, I saw a bit of new coverage. I knew life and work must continue so I drove back to base. On the way, I drove past Detroit Metro Airport and it was eerily quiet. The digital board overhanging the freeway said all flights canceled.

9/6/2001 - just another random Thursday at work. Totally unmemorable.
On Tues. morning 9/11/2001 I was at our Cottonwood Building, third floor, working on one of our VP's computers when we heard the news on the radio. I thought it was just a plane crash, thinking it must have been a small private plane. When the 2nd one hit, the VP and I stopped, looked at each other and he said, "We're at war."

In a Kansas City meeting at Black & Veach (engineering firm). I waited a few days but still had no available flights to Atlanta and ended up renting a car to drive back.

Nelson

I was still working and remember seeing some TV sets showing the pictures of the towers smoking.

I was wondering more of what you were doing BEFORE that day.

Has your 'day to day' life changed much from the way you were before the event?

Day to day? Not too much, but everytime I turn on the news or open a news page for the first time each day, I expect to see a report of some new attack--which I of course never did before that day.

i was in collage class talking to a teacher who son worked the building next to the trade center ! he made it out alive but he didnt know for allmost 4 days

was another good summer
the Fiero was finally coming together after many years sitting in the garage
the mighty Clinton economy - AKA inflating the housing bubble - was really making the Land Surveyor I was working for flush with work
things were looking good. work was bountiful. hard to believe this is the same nation......

Before that day, it was pretty normal. I had just gotten through the "music festival season" and was spending a few days chilling out and reconnecting with relatives & friends.

On the 11th, my ex and I were in Boston visiting my then mother-in-law, getting ready to leave for Logan Intn Airport for a flight to Chicago.

Needless to say, we didn't make the flight and ended up driving the rental car home.

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Heading to work.. heard the first crash "man that really sucks".. then the 2nd while at work.. "oh *** we are in trouble, wtf is going on " and our building was promptly locked down.

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quote Originally posted by Jake_Dragon: https://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...020315-6-003326.html

Still eery looking at the time that thread was started.

I was in my freshman year of college living in an apartment with my then girlfriend, now wife. I always listened to The Bob and Tom Show on the way to school but for some reason only switched to that station just before getting to school. All I caught was that they were being VERY serious which was odd for that show. I had to get to class and everybody was talking about it but nobody really had any facts. The teacher was a bit late but arrived wheeling in a TV and that's what we did in every class that day IIRC. Right when the TV was turned to CNN was when the first tower fell...it was very surreal and you could have heard a pin drop in that room.

The rest of the day was spend talking about how they were gonna pay and how we were gonna get them back...and filling up every spare gas can I could find. I don't know what the rumors were in your area but around here it was that gas was going to skyrocket up to $4.00 a gallon (kinda funny now I guess). Gas stations were run dry and the lines went on for miles.

Still gives me the chills when I watch stuff about 9/11 and brings back feelings of anger, sadness, pride, and helplessness.

quote Originally posted by fastblack: Still eery looking at the time that thread was started. I was in my freshman year of college living in an apartment with my then girlfriend, now wife. I always listened to The Bob and Tom Show on the way to school but for some reason only switched to that station just before getting to school. All I caught was that they were being VERY serious which was odd for that show. I had to get to class and everybody was talking about it but nobody really had any facts. The teacher was a bit late but arrived wheeling in a TV and that's what we did in every class that day IIRC. Right when the TV was turned to CNN was when the first tower fell...it was very surreal and you could have heard a pin drop in that room. The rest of the day was spend talking about how they were gonna pay and how we were gonna get them back...and filling up every spare gas can I could find. I don't know what the rumors were in your area but around here it was that gas was going to skyrocket up to $4.00 a gallon (kinda funny now I guess). Gas stations were run dry and the lines went on for miles. Still gives me the chills when I watch stuff about 9/11 and brings back feelings of anger, sadness, pride, and helplessness.

I had forgot about the gas stations being empty and all the fist fights taking place at them. We weren't allowed to leave early due to who we worked for, but seemed like everyone else got to, and hit the stations right afterward.

Some stations that still had gas were charging $10 a gallon.

quote Originally posted by maryjane: Day to day? Not too much, but everytime I turn on the news or open a news page for the first time each day, I expect to see a report of some new attack--which I of course never did before that day.

This.

10 years ago today I was working in a high-security area of Toronto airport, the kind of place the pope, the queen of england, royalty from all over the world, actors and singers, not to mention guys in all sorts of NEAT fighter-type things CHOOSE to come to, because the staff could handle everything thrown our way. Getting stick time in a lear or DHC-8 or 7 was a "hey, dude" away and its not like nobody ever got laid in the back of a Gulfstream or 727 with a stew or went helicopter golfing...I had friends in Customs and RCMP, both agancies were asking me to put in a resume, and I still held a licence to fly multi-motor airplanes. I even got asked to back then in late August to go fly DHC-7's in Africa. 9/11 changed all that.

What changed is I havent touched a plane in 10 years....I no longer have the friends I did, and now have developed a complete hatred for fascism and authoritarianism....I can tell you the day it changed, is when we got a memo at work that we had to leave our cars unlocked around Sept 15 or 16, and were now subject to arbitrary search even though we were staff......I think that memo was a turning point in life. I regognized fascism from having both sides of the family come fro Europe, and I wasnt going to put up with it here....I can remember thinking frack YOU if you are going to touch my car without a warrant or tell ME what kind of book I can read...I joined the army and learned to fly to fight that attitude in governments, not submit to it.

Yeh, well I guess I lost............

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Right before? Sitting in a conference room, waiting for a co-worker to arrive from another building. We called to see why he was late, he was in his car, on the way.

"Did you guys hear? A plane crashed into the World Trade Center!"

We hadn't heard. You have by now.

Things went downhill from there......

quote Originally posted by MidEngineManiac: I can remember thinking frack YOU if you are going to touch my car without a warrant or tell ME what kind of book I can read...

Ditto on the car, but who's telling ya' what kind of book you can read..? Canada?
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10 years ago:

(my building circled)


Tonight:

(I took this as I left work)

Didn't know they were doin' the lights this year.

I was a dumb little freshman in high school oblivious to what had happened and the shear scale of how it would change the world. I remember they sent us home earlier and my dad was there freaking out getting his guns and every thing ready and checking them. Man what a terrible sight it was, even as a young'n to see those planes hit on TV.

I was working in Michigan and my wife was home in Illinois. Was on the phone with her practically all day, watching the news coverage non-stop. Flew home Friday the 14th with 2 other passengers. The crew just sat around and we all looked at each other in a "what the hell do we do now" sort of way. Wife picked me up at the airport and we never got more than a few feet away from each other all weekend. It just felt safer to have each other close. Watched the news coverage non-stop. Had to fly back to Michigan that Sunday night, again on an almost empty plane. Very strange experiences.

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I have a dog customer who works for the T.S.A. I will never get on another airplane (I like to fly). Or any other public transportation. When my parents paid for Disney in for Amanda and I in 2002 they were upset because I drove and would not take a plane. Other than that not much change.
My head that day was my daughters back surgery. I was told it would take 8 to 12 hours (scoliosis) She went in at 6am. I watched it all on the news in the waiting room.
Melanie