Where Were You?

[she_wolf 0]

 

My husband ( who was in the Australian Army at the time) had already left for work and i was getting our baby up for our usual day.

I put the tv on to the ABC which is a childrens channel and Taylah (who was nearly one year old then ) liked to watch it,so i put her in her high chair and started to get breakfast.I glanced up at the tv a couple of times and thought there had been a terrible accident,only moments latter to see another plane plow into the other building.I couldent believe what i was seeing, my heart was racing and i had trouble catching my breath,then my husband came home and told me that they had put up security check points all over the Army base where we were living,and that all Artillery and Armoury units where on a stand by to leave,( i was amazed at how fast that was organized )

I dident do much for the rest of the day,Taylah was young enough to be easily amuzed and i sat and watched a lot of news,and i cried alot.

 

People jumping out of windows,People running for there lives.Oh God what a horrible thing to happen. :(

 

Then just as you think life might be getting back to normal, the Bali bombings happend.this time they were a lot closer to home.The news again was horific and graffic.People burning and dying in the streets.

 

All this horrible human suffering. and for what ?!!! :)

 

'' Enterprise, this is the away team..three to beam up"

[Julie 0]

I was helping another Corpsman treat an ingrown toenail aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65) when the word broke. I think everyone knows the rest, the Enterprise Battlegroup was on it's way home, and when the word broke, we turned about and headed back.

 

I've been reading the posts, and noticing alot of different flags. we Americans have a habit of thinking of ourselves as the only ones who were outraged by this, but the attacks of September 11, 2001 were really an outrage to the whole world. One American destroyer, USS Winston Churchill, had finished making a Port O' Call visit in england, and had entered the North Sea when they got the news. later that day, a German Destroyer pulled along side, and they sent messages back and forth. a Bridge Lookout on the Churchill noticed that the Frigate was flying the American Flag at half Mast from her mainmast. An FDNY Firefighter, who is also a Lt. Commander in the USNR, was activated and flew many missions in the war on terror, took with him an FDNY flag, went to the ship's mainmast, and raised the FDNY flag. when he did that, every Sailor and Marine on the flight deck stopped, faced the flag, and rendered a salute. Sailors and Marines do not normally salute the flag of a fire department, so this is a great show of respect.

Edited March 9, 2004 by Julie

[Jeanway 0]

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Oh, Julie, that was touhing, sincerely

[stoned_vulcan 0]

I was in school in french class actually and one of the teachers came in and whispered something to my teacher, we didn't hear what was happing. The teacher then turned on the radio in his room after the other teacher had left and told us what had happened, i was shocked.

[Jim Phaserman 0]

I was shocked, and I didn't get to see a picture of it for a few weeks. but when we returned to port, there was a definate change in the public's perception of us in uniform. alot more "Thank you" and alot less "Uggg"

[VaBeachGuy 12]

It's hard to belive it's been 3 years, a lot of things have taken place both in the world and in my life.

[Valeris 2]

I was in sixth grade PE, and since we then had to be escorted from PE to our next class, history, the class was waiting for our teacher. When she came down, she was crying, which is really rare for a teacher at school, so immediately, everyone in the class assumed the worst. When we got to the history classroom, there she told us what had happened. There was a TV turned to the news in the cafeteria and no more classes the whole day. I was only ten, so I did not really understand the import, but everyone was shocked and horrified the same.

[Odie 0]

I was on aboard USS Harry S. Truman at time. The ship just got in Norfolk Naval Yards for maintenance. My department was doing the normal route for the morning. Clean all the spaces. I remember that the weather for the day was just beautiful. Everyone in my department was hoping to get out of work early that day. Strange normally the TV off during working hours, but it was on during that time. When planes hit the builds my command didn't know what to do. The only thing that was that was known at time that the ship was not leaving the ship yard. There was no amno and low on fuel, because of regulations that none of that stuff can be in the ship yards. It would have taken to much time load up the carrier to be effective. My department was glued to the TV. With in a few hours, while it felt like that because important information was not coming in fast enough to do anything. The ship was informed the duty section would be four. When that happen I had duty that day and tomorrow.

 

My department head asked me to pull the charts for Portsmouth and make sure that they where updated. They where update for the month September. I was very busy helping watches on the bridge which took almost all day. I got a few hours of sleep before I stood DDO, Departmental Duty Officer, for the tomorrow duty section. There was still confession on the second day. It was impossible to on or off the shipyard. It was very true any base around the world. I still had prove assistance to the watches on the bridge and take care of the normal route of the department. On top of all that I had to stand watch on the Quarterdeck. It was a very long two days for me.

[Eris_IV 0]

I was working at a small Target, five am shift...

We were out stocking the housewares, and it was around seven am...

Our friend Allan, sort of a skinhead, came over to us and told us that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center...We didn't believe him at first since he was always saying unusual fictitious things...

Then he comes back later telling us that another plane had crashed into the pentagon, then another in Pennsylvania...

So finally, it was break time around 8am and we go into the lunch room where all the other Target employees were just standing very still in awe, staring at the tv...

That's when my friend and I were also just staring in awe at the horrific scenes of the one building when suddenly we all saw the second plane crash into the other tower...

Chills ran up our spines and gasps could be heard as others were on their phones, talking to loved ones...

The rest of the day went on as guests kept asking if we had flags which we only sold at 4th of July...

The next week we got a few cases of them in of different sizes and sold them to the weary guests....

[Star Ship Delta 0]

We were actually getting ready to go out to the pool for a few hours, we hadn't even put on the news or anything, cause we usually don't. In fact we had even tried to call a company in New York that morning, not knowing what was going on...they must have thought us terrible...

 

Then my dad called from work to tell my mom something was going on, she turned on the TV, and I came in to see smoking stuff, and heard that a building had been blown up, then she changed the channel and it told about the plane crash in Pennsylvnia...I thought it was 2 different things at first. When I realized it was all part of one thing I was totally shocked, I just stared at those images, trying not to cry as I thought about what was happening over there...we kept the TV on all day, until like midnight...it was just so awful and shocking...

[enigmatic_mystery 0]

I was in the locker room getting changed trying to make the bell to art....it came over the P.A. system when my friends and I where all talking loudly. When it came over I was stunned. The principal broke down right in the middle of the anoucement about the two plains hitting the towers....I was putting on my shirt quickly and I sprinted out of the locker room and to the nearest classroom with a tv, which was upstairs. I looked in and I felt my blood run cold because my mom was supposed to be in New York that day and I didn't know where she was going to be. I had no shoes on, was still in my gym shorts and my shirt was on backward and tears ran down my face for about two hours. I couldn't move, it was like I was rooted to the spot...the bell rung over my head and at that exact moment the towers collapsed. When I got home I ran to the church and I prayed and I asked why would god allow this to happen? I asked and prayed and was numb. I was shaking and pale and just a wreck. I hoped to get an answer but I didn't.....I lost my faith because I thought god abandoned us..... I got home and saw my mom's car in the drive and I screamed and rushed up to my mom and hugged her and didn't let go because for the day I thought the worst. I just...can't beileave it has been 3 years....I'm still numb from it.....still damaged....beyond repair....I hate those responsable for it. I HATE THEM!!! The pain they caused the death the suffering! The worry EVERYTHING!!!!

[Matt 0]

I was walking in my college hall to my next class when a friend of mine said that he overheard something in the staff room about the Two Towers, we were informed at my next class.

[sea trooper 0]

I was in my 9th grade english class, just less than a month in high school. I had just walked in and the news was on and we just watched it all day long. My jaw was on the floor. Later the school was evacuated into the gym. Yes, they put the entire school in one big group....

[hangon 3]

I was living in another town and also living with another girl 3 years ago on 9/11,i had just got home from work and was zapping when i came across cnn and the first plane had just hit,at first i thought it was a plane crash but when the other plane came in i new at that moment it was a terrorist attack,i stayed awake for 3 days watching cnn hoping,praying and crying,i will never forget that day ever.

[Angela 1]

I was at hospital. I had been attemptedly mugged the night before and had to have an emergency eye test to see how dire the damage was.

 

Me and my mother walked out and called my dad and he told her, she thought he was watching a mvie. I somehow knew otherwise, I could hear a narration from a documentary on the WTC bombings saying that the WTC was always going to be a target. And Low and behold her it was. Mass murder on the worst scale imaginable. They had put chemicals in my eyes to see what was wrong they told me I would have blurred sight for 6 - 8 hours I cried so hard that day I cried the stuff out in two hours. I always cry for those I saw pushed to jumping from a buning building to the certain deaths. I feel for the children who died in planes, unaware of the beuty life can hold, and those children remaining who no longer have the opportunity to know their fathers. My remaining memory of the day was of my wondering what was going on in the victims minds. Not out of curiosity, but out of wonderment of how they faced their deaths so bravely. I hope wen my timecomes I can face it as bravely as those of the pentagon and WTC.

[Rivendells_king 0]

I don't know exactly I did not find out till 11:30. I saw them fall down and I was thinking this can not be real.....this can not be real. Why would somebody do something like that to the U.S. we are a nice country, we try to help people out. Well I was wrong it happened, and I must have been the only person that day that did not cry, I just prayed for time to reverse so this would not have happened.