what do you remember about 911

[reinhard1]

We are comming up to a date i will always remember. i was at work at the time. when the first airliner hit the trade tower i thought it was a private plane. no way a airliner could do that unless it was completly without control.

when a customer told me a second airliner struck the towers i knew then it was an attack by people who did not value human life but a agenda of destrution. Fox had a program this weekend on to remind us of the hero's and the victims of that day. honestly i could not watch it. i heard it for my mother-inlaw watched it while i was doing stuff in the kitchen.

i took a glance at the TV while i was bringing a cup of coffee to my wife upstairs. what i didn't want to see they showed. pictures of people jumping to their death's from the towers. tears formed, which i try'd to avoid. i knew they were going to show those scenes along with the hero's who's lives were lost to save their fellow man.

i will never forget that day. good luck.

[DTro]

I'm going to be completely honest. I was pretty shook up and the first thing I thought of was not knowing when or where another attack might happen and the safety of my immediate family (in the first couple hours at least).

Also the one thing that really sticks in my head was how safe I felt hearing the fighter jets patrolling the skies in the following nights.

[Stick in Mud]

I got to it a little late because I was in the middle of a class...and then a nap...while in college. Ended up waking up well after the second tower had fallen, and then having to figure out what everyone was talking about.

[chad austin]

I was working 3rd shift at Federal Cartridge and like carmike, I was sleeping and when I woke up I had to try to sort out what was going on. The guys working 1st shift at federal didn't know until 2nd shift came in as management decided it was better to not let anybody know (people tend to get a little skittish when working around large amounts of explosives). Later that night when returning to work they had all the entrance gates that delivery trucks used blocked off with heavy equipment and only foot traffic was allowed inside.

[leechlake]

I remember watching the whole terrible morning on television and finally I had had enough and went outside. It was amazing. Both dogs were peacefully laying on the driveway, it was a beautiful day here in Minnesota, birds where chirping happily. It was surreal comparing the two environments. That and eventually when there was no air traffic for days.

[CANOPY SAM]

I watched it from a hospital bed. When the second plane hit I turned to the guy next to me and said, "This is the beginning of world war three!" Turns out, sadly, I was pretty much right.

I too, remember what a beautiful day it was here in Minnesota, and the eerily quiet skies for so many days afterward. I thought it was a little unnerving with nothing but fighter jets circling the major cities. It was like we were waiting for something even bigger to happen, and no one knew what to expect. It was scary.

It was a profoundly sad time. I was never terribly upset. I was more angry, and badly wanted to get to the people who had taken so many innocent lives for such a senseless, misguided cause.

[Getanet]

The company I worked for had their office on the top floor of one of the tallest buildings in Minneapolis. We were all watching it in the conference room, and at the time there were still commercial planes flying around Mpls. When the GM said we could work from home that day if we wanted, that conference room was empty before she finished her sentence.

On the drive home I called my buddy and woke him up and told him to turn on the TV. He asked "what channel?" My reply was "any channel."

[Hoey]

I was sitting in traffic listening to the radio.

[Mid-Lake Rock]

I was working for a friend's painting company and we were working on a big house in the burbs. I had arrived at 7:00am and climbed a ladder to start working on some windows. I was listening to the KQ morning show with my headphones. Once the second plane hit I knew it was an attack. The nanny who was taking care of the homeowner's children asked me to come inside and look at the TV. She was pretty shaken and called the children's parents to come home. Our entire crew left the home, but I stayed. I remember it was a beautiful day and I thought there is nothing I can do but work and listen to the day's events on the radio.

I went home that evening and couldn't stop watching TV. I remember there was talk about gas shortages and gas stations gouging customers. My roommate and I drove to the nearest gas station and there was a line down the street. It was depressing and sad.

Over the next several days it was really strange not seeing or hearing commercial or private planes. I remember seeing and hearing the fighter jets from Duluth. I had a friend that was in Baltimore for work and was supposed to fly back to Minnesota on the day of the attacks. He needed to get back and had a hard time finding a rental car. He eventually met a complete stranger who needed to get back to Ohio and they worked together to get a rental and they shared it to Ohio and my buddy then drove on to Minnesota.

It changed our lives forever. I often wonder how things may have been different if the White House or Capitol were destroyed.

[atvlaska]

was up early ...going moose hunting latter that day...5am in these parts and the news was saying a plane hit...it sucked after that as we all know...off we went moose hunting up the river(20' jet boat) that is only "floatable from the top down" ( read: up and in to the moutains!)well we had the place to ourselfs hours later no planes!!!...... after the river turned to "chute climbing"..here comes this one lone wet guy in a raft a gun a stick and a water logged sleeping bag... we set camp up down from him..het floated to us in about a hour..skinny dude-did i say wet?..... we dryed him in our heated tent fed him and told him what happen early that day...let him sit in my boat a listen to the raido...unreal....latter fellows that i know were out for 2 weeks hunting/no raido to be picked up...what a schock them boys got...i think its better to go out in the sticks and have a good time and not hear what the rest of the mad world is doing....