Where were YOU 2 years ago?

[Cypher Blade]

I was sleeping. Then woke up. Whatched TV. Was mildly surprised. Whatched a bit of the news about it. Went back to sleep. Forgot about it.

I don't remember anything about it, as a result.

[Elric2056]

I had flipped on the TV to catch the weather and was sitting on the end of my bed in North Carolina brushing my teeth when I watched the second plane crash into the towers during the live broadcast. And I was thankful that I hadn't previously taken the job I'd been offered in New York for that term.

[gravity]

(Typed in first person)

When the first plane hit, I was still asleep in bed, dreams of far off things dancing through my head. But, that year, I had set my alarm clock to turn on the radio instead of an annoying shrill wail. I thought that, at first, the radio station was playing a stupid prank. (I was very young the first time WTC was bombed, and hadn't remembered it until a few days later)

Then, a woman called in from NYC, she lived near the WTC (she was originally from Seattle, and calling the radio because she knew her friends would hear it, and know to inform everyone that she was all right.)

I threw on my clothes, which was rare, as I usually lie in bed for another 20 minutes, waking up. My father was brewing espresso, and the tv was not on. I told him that there were planes flying into the WTC, and turne on the tv.

The first thing that was shown was live footage... of the second plane. I was shocked, and horrified, I knew friends who lived in NYC, though I didn't know where for sure. They were too young to work, so I knew they were all right.

I ate breakfast, I can't remember what. I don't remember what I was wearing, or what was in my lunch. Or even what color my eyes were that day. (My eye color changes, it's a rare genetic fluke.)

BUt, I do remember that, as I left for school, another plane flew into the pentagon. It scared me, because the bus driver's husband was a cop, and all she could tell us was that they were grounding all planes. But there were so many in the air. And I lived so close to an airport.

It wasn't until two days later that I recieved an e-mail. A friend of mine had been traveling, and had been in NYC for the week. He was staying with a friend. He left that morning, before the friend woke up, and had put a note on his desk. He was going sightseeing, and had taken his camera.

He was never heard from again.

My writer's group online allso suffered losses. One of the best writers I have ever been privy to know died. A week later her finace, also a goof writer and friend, commited suicide.

OUt of my two friends in NYC (one of whom was the one putting up my other good friend), one lost her father. She and her father were very close, and it nearly drove her insane. My other friend was driven nearly insane while watching her mind drift further and further away. He's recovered, but he's still very distant, especially when anyone brings up the subject.


I may not know what I was wearing that day, what I had been dreaming before I woke up, or even what I did all throught school. But I still know my reaction. It hurts, and brings tears to my eyes. There is a lump in my throat that I cannot swallow, and stone in my stomach that seems it can never go away.

Today, for me, is 9/11. And though I shall not attend church, or light candles, I remember those who I lost, and honor the others, in my own special way.

[Teranfirbt]

Since I was in bed at the time of the WTC attack, I dont really remember a whole lot about that... what I do remember though is later, when people were protesting the war, seeing on the news people burning the american flag... that got me really really pissed off, and i dont get pissed easily... I had the feeling of just wanting to meet that skrawny ass punk kid who thinks hes showing the world something by burning the icon that makes our country, give him a sharp kick in the gonads, rip his throat out, and to hell with what happens... i was brought up to respect our flag, respect out country and everything it stands for... all this talk to 9/11 made me think of that, thanx everyone for letting me vent..

[gravity]

Burning the flag is actually the traditional way of dissposing of it. The military does it quite oftent ehmselves. ;

BUt, though lith is against the war, it's also because we're just bombing their countries to crap, but not doing anythign to help afterwards.

The major cash crop in Afghanistan is now poppies. AKA: crack.

The US government isn't helping the economy much, and Bush is putting big oil guys in teh head of everything.

Yes, stopping terrorism is good, but not when we are worse than the terrorists ourselves.

[Quan-Time]

ahrhar, get this, i was @ army base.. came home, found this out.. it was a tuesday, and on friday i left to other state for more training..

but thats life.. and im a blood donour aswell was before this stuff happened, but still. its good to give back.

[turkey]

On the train, on my way into the city to visit the country's tallest building.

It was year 9, we had a week in the city to do tasks, and this just happened to be the task of that day (although it was september 12th here on s11 in NYC)

[Dj Nautinto]

Haven't got a clue where I was, but my brother was at the American embassy (he was a security officer there). He said that the going got quite rough that day (and the following month), and it was like his second day at work.

[Fixer]

I was at work. I was walking from my supervisor's office after asking a question. I hear from a coworker "Hey? Did you hear? Some nut flew a plane into a building?"

My first thought was (due to the politics at the time) someone had run a plane into the state capitol. Jeb Bush wasn't real politically popular then. Then I get to my desk and my phone rings. It's my fiance at the time who had just moved from Canada.

She proceeds to tell me that someone just crashed a plane into the World Trade Center and she wants to go back to Canada. NOW.

I talk to her on the phone for a bit, trying to calm her down. Agree to take off the rest of the day and go home. It is easy to assure someone they are safe when they live in the middle of nowhere. After all, if a terrorist wanted to make a statement, they wouldn't crash a plane into a cow pasture (unless they were militant fundamentalist vegetarians or something). I take off the rest of the day and go home and pick up my son from daycare.

I spent the rest of the day with my family. I also went back to work the next day.

[Mavolent]

I was sleeping when my mom woke me up, she said something, I couldn't quite make out what she said. something about airplanes crashing into buildings. I said "ok mom" and went back to sleep. not even 10 minutes later I sat bolt-upright an odd feeling of something that was not quite right sank into the pit of my stomach. I walked upstairs to the living room and stared at the TV for several minutes. the news was on, showing replays of the plane flying into the 2nd tower.
my first reaction was of outrage and shock. I felt like I couln't move. my next feeling was anger and hatred to the unknown people (at the time) who orchistrated the attacks. I spent the rest of the day in a daze nothing seemed real at the time. I went to my college classes like normal but...

[Teranfirbt]

[quote="Lithium Flower";p="155346"]Burning the flag is actually the traditional way of dissposing of it. The military does it quite oftent ehmselves. ;

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Lith, I know that is how they get rid of a flag that has been well used.. i have been to more than one of these ceremonies... If done properly, burning a flag is a very somber and ceremonious event.. but to just stand there with a torch in the middle of the street, yelling obsenitities about your country and burning an american flag is what pissed me off..

[Blackjack]

i was having an arguement with someone on a train.

[Martin Blank]

Let's leave the arguments out of this one, guys. It's about memories, not political viewpoints.

[Garr_The_Sane]

I had just woken up and switched on the TV a few mins after the first plane hit,. and then spent the next few hours thinking "what the F**k!?!?,. well that's been a long time comming,.... time to hide in cave for afew years, cos the whole civilized world is about to take a donkey ride to hell",....... a little while later I found out one of cousins was possibly killed in the attack,.. but he turned up only lightly injured a few days later,........

[Accer]

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The big thing I remember is after all was done and we sat back down to watch CNN again, the question going through our minds wasn't 'why', but more like 'how the hell did they pull it off?'[/quote]

That was me and my household too. I've had the luck(?) of having very cynical history and humanities professors for years, so I sort of had a “something like this was bound to happen sooner or later” attitude prior to 9/11. I’m still surprised/disgusted they got something so organized to work, though.

I also remember the next day, when nearly all the planes were grounded and no one wanted to go out even in their car. It was so, so quiet outside. It would have been kind of nice to not have noise pollution for a day, if the circumstances were different.