Where were you 911?

[cd12]

I don't know if this has ever been brought up but after the travels of Ga's father I started thinking about it .

I was grounded in New Orleans for a few days. My brother wound up driving down and getting me. We did enjoy ourselves considering the circimstances. About the only time I haven't caught hell over an expense report!

 

[therealUT]

I was 45 minutes north of NYC, on the Hudson River. On September 9, I was at the WTC.

 

[vader]

Wow. Close call realUT.

I was working for Panasonic in Knoxville when that happened. We were watching coverage in the break room when the newscaster said that this was the most cowardly act of violence on American soil since Pearl Harbor. I was in a room full of Japanese people.

Uncomfortable...

 

[GAVol]

On September 9, I was at the WTC.

I had just been there too.

 

[cd12]

I was 45 minutes north of NYC, on the Hudson River. On September 9, I was at the WTC.

I have always heard timing is everything. Hey did you get to go into the city after that?

 

[orange+white=heaven]

On vacation in Florida. Spent almost all of that week in front of the TV rather than on the beach. Almost every room that was occupied in my high rise hung an American flag from their balcony rail. It was a very stirring sight from the beach.

 

[therealUT]

I have always heard timing is everything. Hey did you get to go into the city after that?

I was in NYC again in early October. Was staying just off Columbus Circle and the furthest south I made it was Times Square.

 

[therealUT]

Wow. Close call realUT.

I was working for Panasonic in Knoxville when that happened. We were watching coverage in the break room when the newscaster said that this was the most cowardly act of violence on American soil since Pearl Harbor. I was in a room full of Japanese people.

Uncomfortable...

It was a close call. Also, I had entered the Army on July 2, 2001.

 

[hohenfelsvol]

I was working at Ft. Polk (JRTC), LA in the main building which tracks and monitors training battle manuevers. Was in a large room full of soldiers watching the second plane hit on a big screen projector normally reserved for monitoring maneuvers but had been switched over to CNN to watch unfolding events.

 

[tidwell]

Sitting in Mr. Smith's Algebra 1 Honor's classroom in my Freshman year of high school. One of mr. Smith's aides came into the room and apparently told him about it and he left the room for a few minutes. We really had no idea whatw as going on, we were just glad the teacher was out of the room and started milling around. He eventually came back in and said there was some sort of a plane crash in DC and NYC. Didn't do anything in any other class that day, just sat around and listened to radio reports over the school PA system.

Funny how you remember everything about those kinds of days. I remember exactly what I was wearing, what I eventually had for lunch, and my Dad picking me up from school.

 

[therealUT]

I was working at Ft. Polk (JRTC), LA in the main building which tracks and monitors training battle manuevers. Was in a large room full of soldiers watching the second plane hit on a big screen projector normally reserved for monitoring maneuvers but had been switched over to CNN to watch unfolding events.

Polk...I am sorry. Were you on rotation at the time or were you assigned there as OPFOR?

 

[orange+white=heaven]

Sitting in Mr. Smith's Algebra 1 Honor's classroom in my Freshman year of high school.

It's the occasional line like this that reminds me of something I frequently forget.
Some of y'all are soooooo young!!!!

 

[hohenfelsvol]

Polk...I am sorry. Were you on rotation at the time or were you assigned there as OPFOR?

Neither. Am a defense contractor. Relocated there becuase my dad had GS job on base. Worked there for two years before moving here to Orlando area. Still with same company.

 

[allvol123]

In class at UT, I was in grad school at the time.

 

[VolFirebirds]

I had an EARLY (8am, I think) education lab at TN Tech. At the time, I was in the habit of just getting up, jumping in the shower, dressing, and out the door without turning on the Computer or TV (the roommate slept in on Tuesdays). So, I never knew anything had happened until I got back to my room at 10:15.

Turn on the Computer first (roomie still asleep) and get LIT UP with IMs--all from different people, all saying the same thing--"TURN ON YOUR TV!!!"

do that, and then wake up my roomate--"dude. you've got to see this".

 

[rwemyss]

I had an 8 am Chemistry lab, freshman year at UT. I was on my way back to the dorm when a friend from home stopped me on the sidewalk and told me that a plane had crashed into one of the WTC towers. I got back in my room and fired up the TV... minutes later the second plane hit.

 

[OWB]

I was living in Boulder Colorado.

 

[BLEEDS ORANGE]

I was sitting in Driver's Ed class my senior year of high school.

 

[volinbham]

I was here in F'ing Alabama!

 

[milohimself]

In my 8th grade advanced biology class in Vancouver, Washington.

EDIT: Well, it happened at like 5AM for me, but I was asleep... I woke up between the two strikes on the WTC.

 

[USAF_Vol]

I was TDY at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (Already my second TDY to that AOR. I went in 1999)

9-11 was my night off and I was getting ready to board an AWACS and reenlist over Iraq.

Didn't happen, got recalled, armed up and went out to increase security. I ended up reenlisting back at Robins when I got back in October but it was back dated to 9-11-01 since that is when the paperwork was generated.

My DOS is 11 Sep 2007.

 

[utvolpj]

Remember it was VERY early in Phoenix that day. I was driving back from getting a Mtn Dew at the gas station and heard a report on the radio. The DJ said a plane crached into the WTC and the first thought in my mind was a Cessna or something like that. I got to work and told one of the guys on our sales counter to turn the news on. Just after he did the 2nd plane hit and it was silent in there.

About 5 seconds later, one of the customers got very pale and ran out of the bldg. His wife was supposed to be in a mtg in the WTC that day. Thank goodness the mtg was in the late morning and she never went.