19 years ago today.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I was in Atlanta that morning when it happened. Heading to a breakfast meeting looked up at a lobby TV and saw the first plane hit. The whole lobby gasped and cried out. Only thought about a plane malfunction. Then the second hit and immediately thought terrorists. The next few days were numb and driving co-workers across country back to San Francisco was surreal to say the least.

For years the solemnity on this day was palpable. I feel it today as everyone in this country does. It grips you.

Post-9/11 was a brilliant time for our country. I get allergies every time I think about it. I miss it. What will it take to bring us together again?

[onewhippedpuppy]

19 years right?

It chokes me up when I think about it. I had been at the eye doctor and they had to dilate my pupils, so I went back to my apartment for a few hours before heading to work. Walked in and my roommate had it on the news just after the first plane hit, I thought it was a movie. Definitely days that I will never forget. Funny that my kids only know of it from watching the videos, it doesn’t have the same impact on them.

[crustychief]

I had just taken over as Combat Systems Officer of the Watch on USS Princeton CG-59. We were one day out of Singapore and headed to the Gulf. We got diverted to an Op Area off the coast of Pakistan, groundhog day from there on out until we launched. My wife sent pictures of my 10 year old son in his boy scout uniform walking the neighborhood with an American Flag.

[Sooner or later]

I was a sad day. It was my dad's birthday. He never wanted another birthday party or birthday present afterward.

[javadog]

My thanks to the Tunnels to Towers organization for making sure the annual remembrance is taking place in NYC as I type this, after the reprehensible Democrats that run that city canceled it for political reasons. Covid, my ass.

We should never forget.

[NY65912]

Stood on the roof of my shop. Saw the 2nd plane hit and the towers fall.

My company had 3 contracts in the WTC complex, plumbing, fire protection and HVAC.

Lost quite a few friends, neighbors, work acquaintances and a cousin who was a Lt on FDNY Ladder 3 truck.

My heart still pains me. Sitting here in my office looking at the city with teary eyes.

[SamC.]

I was on a few days of leave from my staff assignment at Headquarters, Marine Corps. Backpacking with my son, got the news from another hiker. Finished the trek, returned to HQMC, frothing at the mouth to get reassigned to a combat unit. That took a year or so, but succeeded in getting to the war - thrice. Civilian now, still protecting our Nation.

[MBAtarga]

I bought my Targa on Cinco de Mayo 2001. Before I starting driving it daily to work, I did a suspension and brake refresh over the summer. I took Sep 11 2001 off for vacation to pick up my calipers and other brake hardware from my buddy's painting shop. He had powder coated the parts for me for free. While I was driving down I-85 to his shop (outskirts of Atlanta) I heard on the radio about the first plane.

[Seahawk]

I was at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Millington, TN.

I was a "geobach" and flew back and forth to Maryland three time a month on Northwest.

Watched it on TV. Since I could work in Pax River, I got in my truck and sped home soon after the second building went down.

[Embraer]

Went out to the airport at 0730 to preflight my airplane, for a cross country trip to Michigan. Around 0900 I called flight service to file my flight plan....FSS person yelled I wouldn't be going anyway due to national emergency. I immediately turned on the TV and saw what was going on. I was the only guy at the flight school, so I spent the rest of the morning taxiing about 20 airplanes and putting them back in the hangars. Went back to my apartment and spent the rest of the day getting more and more sad, upset and angry.

[masraum]

I work in banking, and many/most of the folks that I work with work out of NY and NJ. I just found out that one of the guys on the team that I'm on was in Tower 1 when it was hit on the 40th floor. He said that when he left, he was walking against the flow because so many folks were trying to get in.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by Sooner or later

I was a sad day. It was my dad's birthday. He never wanted another birthday party or birthday present afterward.

That was a stupid thing for him to do.. to let some fking nimrods spoil your day..

After Pearl we went and kicked their azzes back t Tokyo and dropped 2 Big Ones on them to teach them a lesson to never fk with the USA again...

so what the fk do we do now...ohhh please forgive us for being so insensitive...Mr fanatical religious terrorist..

So who should I be pissed at the enabler for letting this shyte get outa hand or the transgressor...

[tabs]

Originally Posted by MBAtarga

I bought my Targa on Cinco de Mayo 2001. Before I starting driving it daily to work, I did a suspension and brake refresh over the summer. I took Sep 11 2001 off for vacation to pick up my calipers and other brake hardware from my buddy's painting shop. He had powder coated the parts for me for free. While I was driving down I-85 to his shop (outskirts of Atlanta) I heard on the radio about the first plane.

So what is this Post about getting FREE Service and how much you luv your P car or about a terrible day?

[stealthn]

Sad day, I will never forget watching the news that morning and seeing the second plane hit.

God Bless all those souls lost

[tabs]

Went to a gun shop that day...

I talked to a very good friend that day and asked him, "If your son was in a city where you had captured a Terrorist who had planted a WMD that would kill your son and a whole bunch of other people where time of the essence. Would you torture him to get the location of that bomb?"

He stopped and thought a moment and said, "NO he wouldn't." I thought that was the wrong answer, because until you are crossing that bridge you don't know what you will do or won't do.

My own proclivity would be to screw the guy to the wall with a screw gun because he blatantly and without regard is going to take something very near and dear to my heart away from me...so fk him and his...he is my enemy. That is the Old Testament in me talking...

[craigster59]

I had taken the morning off to take my German Shepard pup to Ojai to get her spayed. I heard about the first plane on the radio and like others thought it was a terrible accident.

The television in the Vet's lobby was tuned to the news when the second plane hit, heard about the Pentagon on the drive home. Called my boss and everyone had been sent home so I spent the time at home watching it all unfold.

With everything going on now, Covid, election year, 911 tributes cut short or canceled, I was wondering what Google would do for 9/11.

They always have some animated doodle to commemorate the 106th Birthday of the person who invented the board game "Scrabble" or somesuch thing. I thought maybe a tribute to the first responders who perished on that day.

But nothing but a teeny flag with a black ribbon. We truly are living in different times today.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by craigster59

I had taken the morning off to take my German Shepard pup to Ojai to get her spayed. I heard about the first plane on the radio and like others thought it was a terrible accident.

The television in the Vet's lobby was tuned to the news when the second plane hit, heard about the Pentagon on the drive home. Called my boss and everyone had been sent home so I spent the time at home watching it all unfold.

With everything going on now, Covid, election year, 911 tributes cut short or canceled, I was wondering what Google would do for 9/11.

They always have some animated doodle to commemorate the 106th Birthday of the person who invented the board game "Scrabble" or somesuch thing. I thought maybe a tribute to the first responders who perished on that day.

But nothing but a teeny flag with a black ribbon. We truly are living in different times today.

The flag and loop could be bigger. Or maybe it would have been better to use one of these so it was more obvious what the reason for the flag is. And they don't have the flag linked to anything which is unusual.

[70SATMan]

Originally Posted by tabs

So what is this Post about getting FREE Service and how much you luv your P car or about a terrible day?

It’s the way memories stick. Instead of being a dick, maybe tell us what you were doing on that day when you first heard.

I had spent a month working in Slovakia and was flying home that day. Made it as far as Zurich and had boarded my connector from Frankfort to JFK. About a half hour after everyone had boarded we had to disembark. Saw the reason why in the terminal. Spent the next week in Basel trying to get home. I had mixed feelings on those last two flights.

The Swiss were wonderful and constantly reminded me that they felt our anguish. I had brief thoughts about re-enlisting. Tabby is nostalgic for an era he never knew except in stories.

[Baz]

This morning on my way to HD to pick up building materials......

[Scott Douglas]

It was kind of sereal for me. I was at work already and on the phone with a guy I've known for a long time, kind of like a brother. We were talking and I noticed a lot of activity happening in the corner conference room. I stood up and looked over the cubicle wall. I could see they had the TV on in the conf rm and as I was watching, the second plane went in, but the announcers just kept on talking like they hadn't even seen it. I told my friend to turn on the TV. We watched together but half a country apart as he was in KC Mo.
Very difficult to put into words how it effected me. Learned a few years later that my younger sister's first boyfriend was in finance and was in the tower but got out just in time.