Also remember the intense panic that spread as people were lines up like crazy to get gasoline, groceries, etc.

I Was teaching my 6th grade science class when a fellow teacher called my room for me to turn the TV on. At that time we were not sure was happening but soon figured it out. I have never seen MS students be as quiet as they were that day.

I flew into Boston on Monday. I did, indeed, think about 9.11 since Boston is where it started.

 

 

I think about it every time I fly. For a second I start to get "bothered" by the fact that I have to take off my shoes and belt. I then verbally smack myself.

 

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Any idea what the name is? I saw the Naudet brothers' documentary several years ago. Gut-wrenching.

 

The loud sound of the "thumps" when the bodies were hitting the rooftop of the plaza level was haunting. Its hard to imagine the hell those people were in that their best choice was to jump 100+ floors. Horrible.

Something else I vividly remember about the day... It was the first time in my life I was actually afraid of War. Whichever news outlet we were watching, once the second plane flew into the tower, the male correspondent said something along the lines of "It's now apparent that we are at war with someone." When I heard that word, my stomach dropped. I'll never forget that. Seems like every since then, we are always on the brink of going to war with someone, and it's "everyday life" now. Pretty sad.

The thing I'll never forget...it was the clearest blue sky that day and the following days and I'll always remember how odd it was to see no planes and no jet trails in the sky. All planes were grounded.

Sophomore in high school. Sitting in Geometry.

 

Same, in HS sitting in a math class.

I was in a car with my girlfriend on the way to 9:10 a.m. classes at Morehead State. The news broke in on the local radio station. We actually thought it was a joke because it was so rare to hear the local guy reporting this type of news. Things got real in a hurry though.

You're not human if you can watch this with dry eyes...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0tzBVOEBto

Freshman in HS, sitting in health class. The teacher turned off the TV when the bell rang, because "it's not important, we have material to cover".

 

Didn't do a lick of work the rest of the day, or the next if I recall correctly.

 

The thing I remember the most vividedly was how eeriely quiet the lunchroom was that day. You could've heard a pin drop.

Fear and Hope.

 

I have one that was born on Sept. 24th, 2011.

 

I remember being full of fear and dread on that awful day. And concern about what kind of world the baby would face. That we would ALL face.

 

I also remember feeling hope. New life does that. Being an American does that.

If you like the real, unedited news cast that many of us watched that morning:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT9jkBGFlr0

I was at work, and my wife called me to ask if I knew what was going on. Turned on the tv in the breakroom in time to see the second plane hit the tower. I remember there was a lot of uncertainty and fear. We ended up closing the store at 2 or 3:00 and going home. It was later, I found out I knew the pilot of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.....He played football at my college, and was best friends with a guy from my high school, who helped show me around my first few weeks on campus.

I'll have to watch that video later UKMF as I'm sitting at my desk and I don't think I'd keep dry eyes.

 

I was in 7th grade on 9/11. Everyone in the halls between 1st and 2nd block was talking about the World Trade Center being hit but nobody really knew the extent. It wasn't until everyone got to their second block class that all TVs in the school were turned to a news station. I have never in my life heard such an eerie silence from a school building. It stayed that way until the end of 4th block when the principal instructed all teachers to turn off their TVs. Nothing got done through the last class or so as everyone was just in shock.

 

After school I remember going home and sitting in front of the TV until 10 or 11 at night. I still to this day get angry and emotional thinking about it.

 

I never had flown on a plane before 9/11 so today's security is all that I know. Couldn't possibly compare it to the old days.

 

9/11 was one of the reasons I decided to join the military back in 2009.

I remember being at work in downtown Cincinnati and all of us huddled around a TV. At some point after the second tower went down, we were told to go home because there were rumors that multiple other cities were going to be attacked. We were actually running to our cars looking back to see if a plane was about to hit the Carew Tower. Fear of the unknown can cause extraordinary reactions in ordinary people.