9/11 - Page 2

HunterICX · 09-11-10, 10:46 AM

I got home from school and went into the living when my mom told me a airliner hit the WTC...

stared at the TV for a moment, could happen no? a aircraft that hits a building, wouldn't be the first time

so went up to do my homework and turned on the radio which happened to broadcast the WTC event....was just in the middle of writing down the solution of a question when I heard a 2nd airliner hit the other tower....that's when I realised this wasn't just a accident, I raced down to the Television where I just catched a replay of the 2nd airliner that hitted the other tower...a horrifying sight.

Still I can't watch the 2 aircraft hit the tower without thinking what the people in the airliners and towers whent throught.

many lives where lost, that of the victims and service men trying to do everything they could to save lives from those burning towers.

HunterICX

mookiemookie · 09-11-10, 11:05 AM

I was in Connecticut at school. It was a Tuesday morning, and I had English class to get to. I had just woken up in my apartment and I was cooking eggs. I flipped on the news to hear the latest in the Gary Condit/Chandra Levy media circus, and I saw that they were reporting on a plane that had crashed into one of the WTC buildings.

My parents were on their way to the WTC that morning. They were visiting NYC and one of my mom's friends was friends with the chef in the Windows on the World restaurant at the top of the North tower. They were going to go eat there that day.

So when I saw the second plane hit live on TV, I knew it was no accident. I tried calling my parents nonstop. Of course all the phone lines were jammed, so I couldn't get ahold of them. I spent a panicked two hours trying to reach them. Finally around 11:30 my aunt called me to say that my parents had gotten ahold of them and were fine. They were turned back at one of the bridges into the city after the planes hit. I'm very very grateful that things worked out the way they did that day.

JU_88 · 09-11-10, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I was in Connecticut at school. It was a Tuesday morning, and I had English class to get to. I had just woken up in my apartment and I was cooking eggs. I flipped on the news to hear the latest in the Gary Condit/Chandra Levy media circus, and I saw that they were reporting on a plane that had crashed into one of the WTC buildings.

My parents were on their way to the WTC that morning. They were visiting NYC and one of my mom's friends was friends with the chef in the Windows on the World restaurant at the top of the North tower. They were going to go eat there that day.

So when I saw the second plane hit live on TV, I knew it was no accident. I tried calling my parents nonstop. Of course all the phone lines were jammed, so I couldn't get ahold of them. I spent a panicked two hours trying to reach them. Finally around 11:30 my aunt called me to say that my parents had gotten ahold of them and were fine. They were turned back at one of the bridges into the city after the planes hit. I'm very very grateful that things worked out the way they did that day.

Crikey, mookie that must have been terrifying.
Especially since nobody in Windows on world made it out alive, all four stair wells were cut off by the point of impact in the North tower.

Weiss Pinguin · 09-11-10, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TFatseas

Can't imagine their mindset knowingly charging up those stairs. True heroes.

America's best and bravest

Oberon · 09-11-10, 01:33 PM

When I first heard about 9/11, I saw it on the BBC website at school, it was very early on in the incident and only the first tower had been hit. I thought it was a small light aircraft, and really paid it no heed. I was on the bus on the way home from school and myself and my friend were listening to the radio when they mentioned "jetliners" and I looked at my friend and asked him "Did they just say 'jetliners'?!" and he nodded...it was about that point the enormity of what was happening hit me. By this point news was just coming in about the Pittsburgh crash. When I got home I instantly got the television on...and really could not believe what I was seeing.

CCIP · 09-11-10, 01:46 PM

Mine starts off inappropriately funny-sounding, but I won't lie...

I was at home by myself for my lunch (I lived less than a block away from my school, so I had a whole hour and a half every day to go home and slack), it was around 10:30 and I'd heard nothing about it. Had my lunch and went to the lavatory to um, relieve myself. Just after I got on the toilet, my dad returned home, and upon learning that I was occupying the washroom, began ranting and raving about the whole of New York being covered in smoke and an airplane crashing there. He'd only read about it on the internet and was out most of the day, but he was really almost panicked, so I really got a bad feeling. At the time, my mental image was only of an airplane crashing somewhere on the street - which was still about the scariest sight I could imagine before I saw what really happened. Confused as I was, I got out of the 'loo and turned on the TV, and my jaw just pretty much dropped to the floor when I saw replays of that plane hitting the building. I then saw the second tower come down on live TV, and honestly I spent most day also in a state of shock and ranting about what I had seen to others. It was honestly pretty unbelievable, and the overwhelming feeling was that nobody was safe. After I got home again from school at the end of the day, I just instinctively put a tape into the VCR and started recording the news - got about 7 or 8 hours of it. I've never watched the tape since, but it was really that sense that one of the most important and terrible events of our time had just happened, and it had to stay with me. But of course I didn't ever need that tape - it's one of those things that you never forget, even if you were nowhere near the actual sites of the events.

AngusJS · 09-11-10, 02:02 PM

I was in college, waiting for my first class of the day to begin, when the professor came in and said that a plane had hit the WTC. We all assumed that it was a small plane and an accident. It wasn't until my next class, where everyone else was really agitated for some reason, that I learnt what had happened.

antikristuseke · 09-11-10, 02:05 PM

I was home, hung over and got a call from a friend telling me to turn the tv on. I watched for a while, sighed, and went on with business as usual. Horrible thing, but i have come to expect such from fellow humans.

Bubblehead1980 · 09-11-10, 02:18 PM

We drank pints of guiness last night in a pub wide cheer to the victims of 9/11 once the clock struck midnight.Never forget and never forgive the trash that caused so much pain nor their inspiration.Hopefully, one day the scourge of Islam will disappear from earth.

JU_88 · 09-11-10, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

.Hopefully, one day the scourge of Islam will disappear from earth.

You forgot to add 'Heil Hitler'

sharkbit · 09-11-10, 03:45 PM

My wife and I played hooky from work-we went to see the Broncos and Giants play at Invesco field the night before on Monday Night Football. I was still in bed when my wife got up with our 5 month old daughter. She starts yelling my name and runs in saying airplanes had hit the WTC and Pentagon and the WTC had collapsed.

We pretty much stayed glued to the tv all day watching and rewatching the video. It was so hard to turn the tv off that night and go to bed.

I freaked a little bit after I heard at least one of the planes had come from Boston. My sister was supposed to fly home with her husband and friends out of Boston that morning. I called my mom right away and said she was fine. They were lucky-they hadn't returned their rental car yet (they had stopped at a museum that morning) and were able to keep it and the rental company allowed them to use it to drive home to Denver.

I work for an aircraft charter company, so of course we had all of our aircraft parked for a couple of days. However, one of our airplanes was allowed to fly blood, FEMA members, and some supplies to New York before any civilian airplanes were released to fly. I talked to the flight crew after they got back. They said it was pretty uncanny flying along with no other radio traffic on the radios and being the only civilian aircraft flying. They also said they could see the smoke from NYC from about 200 miles out.

Sad day for all.

Platapus · 09-11-10, 03:53 PM

Since we are sharing our 911 experiences...

That Tuesday, I was a contractor at a TLA facility. I was supporting the wargaming and simulation division. Tuesday mornings I was on my way to the team staff meeting. I passed one of the monitors in the hallway and saw one of the towers on fire.

"Man, that must suck, I hope they can get the fire out" I thought to myself as I hurried to my meeting.

Shortly after the meeting started, we heard the "rumour" that an airplane had crashed in the first tower. Shortly after that, we got word that a second had crashed so this was no accident.

Now the weirdness started.

On 11 Sep 2001, the TLA facility was having an exercise. During such exercises, selected people are given scripts to use. For example at 10:05, a participant needs to call into the exercise desk that they "smell smoke in stairwell 14". That type of stuff. It helps the people running and evaluating the exercise.

It is only natural to involve the people who work exercises such as the exercise and simulations division. One such person was in our staff meeting. After the second plane hit he got real quiet. In his hand was an index card with his script. At 0945 he was supposed to report "seeing an airplane crash into one of the towers" of the TLA facility.

Needless to say, the staff meeting and the exercise was canceled.

Creepy to say the least. I think he still keeps that index card script.

tater · 09-11-10, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by JU_88

You forgot to add 'Heil Hitler'

To be fair, he did not say the scourge of muslims. That would clearly be analogous to eliminationalist antisemitism. One factor in that that dates back to the time of the Spanish Inquisition is the indelibility of "jewishness." Meaning that it was not about the religion, but about "blood."

Islam, OTOH, is nothing more than a set of beliefs. Wishing a set of beliefs to go away is not a bad thing in the least. I'm fine with the scourge of nazi beliefs being wiped from the earth. Or communism. Islam is no different, and wiping it out means wiping out the IDEAS.

Since you cannot take ideas from people against their will, the only possible way to wipe out a set of ideas is to CONVINCE THEM NOT TO BELIEVE THEM.

Convincing people to change their minds is hardly analogous to nazi Germany.

JU_88 · 09-11-10, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by tater

To be fair, he did not say the scourge of muslims. .

True Tater, If his intent was as you suggest , then I take that back.

DarkFish · 09-11-10, 04:36 PM

I guess I'll add a story from the European viewpoint for a change

I was 10 at the time, so I can't really remember all of it.
I came home from school at something like 17:00. After a while my mum arrived from work. She had just heared of it on the car radio on her way home, so she yells at my dad to quickly turn the tv on. At that point the second tower was either just hit, or just about to be hit. I can't really remember, but I do know I have seen live footage of both towers collapsing.
From that moment up until I was sent to bed at around 23:00 I didn't move an inch from the tv.

09-11-10, 10:46 AM	#16
HunterICX Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malaga, España Posts: 10,750 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	I got home from school and went into the living when my mom told me a airliner hit the WTC... stared at the TV for a moment, could happen no? a aircraft that hits a building, wouldn't be the first time so went up to do my homework and turned on the radio which happened to broadcast the WTC event....was just in the middle of writing down the solution of a question when I heard a 2nd airliner hit the other tower....that's when I realised this wasn't just a accident, I raced down to the Television where I just catched a replay of the 2nd airliner that hitted the other tower...a horrifying sight. Still I can't watch the 2 aircraft hit the tower without thinking what the people in the airliners and towers whent throught. many lives where lost, that of the victims and service men trying to do everything they could to save lives from those burning towers. HunterICX __________________

09-11-10, 11:05 AM	#17
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	I was in Connecticut at school. It was a Tuesday morning, and I had English class to get to. I had just woken up in my apartment and I was cooking eggs. I flipped on the news to hear the latest in the Gary Condit/Chandra Levy media circus, and I saw that they were reporting on a plane that had crashed into one of the WTC buildings. My parents were on their way to the WTC that morning. They were visiting NYC and one of my mom's friends was friends with the chef in the Windows on the World restaurant at the top of the North tower. They were going to go eat there that day. So when I saw the second plane hit live on TV, I knew it was no accident. I tried calling my parents nonstop. Of course all the phone lines were jammed, so I couldn't get ahold of them. I spent a panicked two hours trying to reach them. Finally around 11:30 my aunt called me to say that my parents had gotten ahold of them and were fine. They were turned back at one of the bridges into the city after the planes hit. I'm very very grateful that things worked out the way they did that day. __________________ They don’t think it be like it is, but it do. Want more U-boat Kaleun portraits for your SH3 Commander Profiles? Download the SH3 Commander Portrait Pack here.

09-11-10, 01:46 PM	#21
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Mine starts off inappropriately funny-sounding, but I won't lie... I was at home by myself for my lunch (I lived less than a block away from my school, so I had a whole hour and a half every day to go home and slack), it was around 10:30 and I'd heard nothing about it. Had my lunch and went to the lavatory to um, relieve myself. Just after I got on the toilet, my dad returned home, and upon learning that I was occupying the washroom, began ranting and raving about the whole of New York being covered in smoke and an airplane crashing there. He'd only read about it on the internet and was out most of the day, but he was really almost panicked, so I really got a bad feeling. At the time, my mental image was only of an airplane crashing somewhere on the street - which was still about the scariest sight I could imagine before I saw what really happened. Confused as I was, I got out of the 'loo and turned on the TV, and my jaw just pretty much dropped to the floor when I saw replays of that plane hitting the building. I then saw the second tower come down on live TV, and honestly I spent most day also in a state of shock and ranting about what I had seen to others. It was honestly pretty unbelievable, and the overwhelming feeling was that nobody was safe. After I got home again from school at the end of the day, I just instinctively put a tape into the VCR and started recording the news - got about 7 or 8 hours of it. I've never watched the tape since, but it was really that sense that one of the most important and terrible events of our time had just happened, and it had to stay with me. But of course I didn't ever need that tape - it's one of those things that you never forget, even if you were nowhere near the actual sites of the events. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

09-11-10, 02:18 PM	#24
Bubblehead1980 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Florida USA Posts: 7,104 Downloads: 605 Uploads: 44	re We drank pints of guiness last night in a pub wide cheer to the victims of 9/11 once the clock struck midnight.Never forget and never forgive the trash that caused so much pain nor their inspiration.Hopefully, one day the scourge of Islam will disappear from earth.

09-11-10, 03:45 PM	#26
sharkbit The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 1,529 Downloads: 334 Uploads: 0	My wife and I played hooky from work-we went to see the Broncos and Giants play at Invesco field the night before on Monday Night Football. I was still in bed when my wife got up with our 5 month old daughter. She starts yelling my name and runs in saying airplanes had hit the WTC and Pentagon and the WTC had collapsed. We pretty much stayed glued to the tv all day watching and rewatching the video. It was so hard to turn the tv off that night and go to bed. I freaked a little bit after I heard at least one of the planes had come from Boston. My sister was supposed to fly home with her husband and friends out of Boston that morning. I called my mom right away and said she was fine. They were lucky-they hadn't returned their rental car yet (they had stopped at a museum that morning) and were able to keep it and the rental company allowed them to use it to drive home to Denver. I work for an aircraft charter company, so of course we had all of our aircraft parked for a couple of days. However, one of our airplanes was allowed to fly blood, FEMA members, and some supplies to New York before any civilian airplanes were released to fly. I talked to the flight crew after they got back. They said it was pretty uncanny flying along with no other radio traffic on the radios and being the only civilian aircraft flying. They also said they could see the smoke from NYC from about 200 miles out. Sad day for all. __________________ “Prejudice is blind. There will always be someone who says you aren’t welcome at the table. Stop apologizing for who you are and using all your energy trying to change their minds. Yes, you will lose friends, maybe even family. But you will gain your self-respect. You will know your worth. Once you have that, nothing can stop you.”

09-11-10, 01:33 PM	#20
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	When I first heard about 9/11, I saw it on the BBC website at school, it was very early on in the incident and only the first tower had been hit. I thought it was a small light aircraft, and really paid it no heed. I was on the bus on the way home from school and myself and my friend were listening to the radio when they mentioned "jetliners" and I looked at my friend and asked him "Did they just say 'jetliners'?!" and he nodded...it was about that point the enormity of what was happening hit me. By this point news was just coming in about the Pittsburgh crash. When I got home I instantly got the television on...and really could not believe what I was seeing.

09-11-10, 02:02 PM	#22
AngusJS Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 746 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	I was in college, waiting for my first class of the day to begin, when the professor came in and said that a plane had hit the WTC. We all assumed that it was a small plane and an accident. It wasn't until my next class, where everyone else was really agitated for some reason, that I learnt what had happened.

09-11-10, 02:05 PM	#23
antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	I was home, hung over and got a call from a friend telling me to turn the tv on. I watched for a while, sighed, and went on with business as usual. Horrible thing, but i have come to expect such from fellow humans.

09-11-10, 03:53 PM	#27
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,365 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Since we are sharing our 911 experiences... That Tuesday, I was a contractor at a TLA facility. I was supporting the wargaming and simulation division. Tuesday mornings I was on my way to the team staff meeting. I passed one of the monitors in the hallway and saw one of the towers on fire. "Man, that must suck, I hope they can get the fire out" I thought to myself as I hurried to my meeting. Shortly after the meeting started, we heard the "rumour" that an airplane had crashed in the first tower. Shortly after that, we got word that a second had crashed so this was no accident. Now the weirdness started. On 11 Sep 2001, the TLA facility was having an exercise. During such exercises, selected people are given scripts to use. For example at 10:05, a participant needs to call into the exercise desk that they "smell smoke in stairwell 14". That type of stuff. It helps the people running and evaluating the exercise. It is only natural to involve the people who work exercises such as the exercise and simulations division. One such person was in our staff meeting. After the second plane hit he got real quiet. In his hand was an index card with his script. At 0945 he was supposed to report "seeing an airplane crash into one of the towers" of the TLA facility. Needless to say, the staff meeting and the exercise was canceled. Creepy to say the least. I think he still keeps that index card script. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

09-11-10, 04:36 PM	#30
DarkFish Sea Lord Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Stinking drunk in Eindhoven, the Netherlands Posts: 1,844 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	I guess I'll add a story from the European viewpoint for a change I was 10 at the time, so I can't really remember all of it. I came home from school at something like 17:00. After a while my mum arrived from work. She had just heared of it on the car radio on her way home, so she yells at my dad to quickly turn the tv on. At that point the second tower was either just hit, or just about to be hit. I can't really remember, but I do know I have seen live footage of both towers collapsing. From that moment up until I was sent to bed at around 23:00 I didn't move an inch from the tv. __________________