Anyone remember when first you heard that the WTC got attacked?

Thoughts?

 

yeah i was in like 6th or 7th grade. i heard it on the radio on the bus to school and nobody really thought anything of it because i dont think none of us knew what the world trade center even was. then when we got to school the tteacher made us watch the news, and it wasnt until then that i realized that like thousands of people had died & all that. i was pissed.

 

omg...you actually had an intelligent post...

 

I was a truck driver at the time, and I was in Roswell NM of all places on that day. I woke up when I heard banging on my door - it was some old guy with a big black beard and his eyes were darting everywhere. I opened the door with a "what?"

"The World Trade Center fell!"

"Yeah. Sure. Ok."

So I'm already awake so I walk into the truck stop grumbling and grab a wake-me-up soda and go to the counter and notice that every single person in the room had their eyes fixated on the tv. I looked up and the second tower fell.

Ok.

"Who do I know in New York?" Well, there was Mike, but wait, he lived in New Jersey. He wouldn't be there.

He was. He survived.

The next load I had to pick up was out of Corsicana Texas, and it was medical supplies to be dropped off at the shore in New Jersey across from the WTC. After I picked up the supplies, I drove nonstop to NYC thanks to the fact that over-the-counter ephedrine was still legal. When I was coming up to weigh stations and checkpoints, I radioed ahead on my CB what I was carrying and they told me to keep moving.

That was the very first time I ever even drove into the east coast, and when I got there the smoke was still billowing.

Strange, but true.

 

i was coming back from my shower in the school dorms and my neighbor told me. i turned on the news and after a few minutes watched the second plane hit. i can remember so many people getting angry...."fuckin arabs, fuckin terrorists, fuck man we gotta kill somebody, we gotta get revenge, somebodys gonna pay for this." etc, etc.

that shit was irritating. all these people quick to point fingers and talking about revenge and not even knowing the whole story. then i remember people wanting to get out of town because we were in san francisco. freakin out thinking they were gonna hit us next. and some were too scared to get on the bridge to leave town. fuck all the terror alert levels and bullshit, i've never felt afraid to go anywhere for fear of an attack. doesn't sound like FREEDOM to me. but thats what they want. who are they? the answer might suprise you.

here's the 9/11 truth for anyone that can spare an hour and a half out of their lives.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=LOOSE+CHANGE&hl=en

 

I believe 5th grade and I was home faking sick. Didden't really know what was going on but I remember seeing the second tower fall.

 

has it been THAT long already?

my first thought was that our own government had to be behind allowing it to happen, i mean those planes wheren't on radar and couldn't have been somehow diverted, and was it really that big of a surprise what was going on and those guys were on board and having taken over?

you know all those so called terrorist organizations were created by our own intelligence community some twenty to thirty years ago for reasons of vested forign policy interests then, and many under the very direction of donald rumsfield himself.

well the thing is, not too long (days or weeks, not months or years) BEFORE it happend, i'd been watching two things that stood out in my mind when it did. one was about this thing hitler had done, blowing up some powerstation in his own country with people disguised as polish citizens so he could blame the incident on poland and use it as an excuse for invading there. this was some kind of an old movie or something, or it had been done in black and white to make it look like one, i'm not sure , but i think it actualy was. the other thing was this thing on pbs about future tec and parents having their kids surgicly implanted with transponders so they could keep track of where they were and what they were doing at all times. parents, employers, what have you.

so when i saw those planes plowing into those towers and seing them come down, remembering these two things is what seeing that was making me think of.

the second as a reason someone otherwise sane might want to, and the first as a seemingly most likely scenario for why we were witnessing it being allowed to happen.

actualy all the hatred and wanting to strike back, that didn't come, hearing about it, untill after the government came on the media and started trying to sound important and like it could somehow protect anybody and prevent this from happining by going over somewhere else and hurting someone else and using this as an excuse for doing so.

what i remember before that was the year 2000 new years on telivision and how hopefull that was for a milinium of peace, love and universal prosperity.

i think it was that positive spirit that pseudo-conservatism felt so adamantly like it had to defeat that it had to come up with something that traumatic to do so.

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i was in 8th grade, 3rd period.. and our gym teacher came in and told us that the world trade centers have been attacked and that it could even be worse than pearl harbor. we didn't really know what the hell was going on, so we went to our next period class, and just watched the news. by that time, one of the airplanes had crashed in somerset (about 30 minutes from where i am). After I heard that, I kept watching the skies for airplanes because i was really scared. about half of my school left school early that day, and all the extra cirricular activities for that day were cancelled.

 

i was in 8th grade. it was early on the west coast so i was still asleep. I heard my mom scream and she came into my room and told me the the WTC had been hit by a plane. I said "oh, OK" and went back to sleep. She later woke me up completely and made me watch the news. My dad was in DC at the time so it was a bit scary. My sister and i stayed home from school and my mom invited some friends over casue they didnt have work. my mom and her friends smoked pot on the balcony and discussed what america would do next. And i went to a friends house a did the same.

 

I had my own apartment with my (now-ex) bf away from my family and we had to take my vehicle in to get fixed. We walked into the lobby and the TV was on...the first plane had hit already and no one really knew what was going on. I figured it was just an accident or something. But once the second plane hit, I started to get really scared...I didn't know what was going on and all there was was speculation and more questions.

I sat and watched the coverage in that room with about ten other people. I will never forget it.

I cried for two weeks straight...rarely slept...was extremely paranoid. I didn't know anyone that died but I felt for all the people that lost loved ones...

I felt like there really were no answers...and the answers that I was getting didn't sit right with me.

I guess I was just really scared and sad...Sometimes now if I think about it...it makes me feel the same way.

 

I was walking down The King's Road in London;it was lunchtime when I happened to notice a small crowd of people huddled around a television in an electrical hardware store.
It looked like an ad for the latest hollywood disaster movie but when 'live' kept flashing up It dawned upon me all that this was really hapenning & I stood utterly shocked by the images unfolding.

 

yea i went to a college in a town with an AFB and class was closed for "high alert"

 

I used to hang in NYC. I'd go to the basement of the WTC to the bars down there and have vodka martinis. Got to know the bartenders and barmaids pretty well. You could take the train from the basement over to Jersey and I used to do it all drunk!

On 9/11 I happened to be at Kennedy airport hangin out havin coffee. The subway goes from Kennedy airport to the WTC. All of a sudden the news comes over the monitor and it was havoc! I couldn't believe my ears and every body's thinking it's the start of a war! Outside on the horizon you could see the smoke in the air coming from the WTC. It was a sad day.

Sadder still is the fact that I have never seen the bartenders or barmaids ever again. I hope and pray they got out alive,those girls were cute!-heck I could have been there that day. I used to sleep off a drunk in the courtyard of the WTC.

Bus tramp

 

to many damn busses how do I delete them?

 

Do I remember? Absolutely. I don't see how I could ever forget that day.

 

I was awaken at around 6:15 am by a phone call as I was in California at the time. It was a friend telling em what happened.....I didn't quite comprehend it. I called another mearby friend and while I was on the phone he said "the building is half gone" and I still did not understand, then he said "Oh my god it just fell down."

I was working for this middle eastern delivery service at the time and had a package in my room that was due to be delivered by 9 am on one of the top floors of the tallest building in downtown LA, the one thats always in movies etc. Needless to say I made no deliveries that day.

Since I had no TV, I walked to my friends apartment and watched tv almost all day in disbelief. For once there absolutely no horns blowing in LA, everyone was polite for one week, and there were many rallies on street corners, many middle easterners showing support for the US by holding flags and candles.

On 9/12 i resumed working and was kind of touched by this maybe 8 year old middle eastern girl wearing a traditional outfit rollerskating down the street smiling at every one. It was as if she took it upon herself to show that she was not a threat, I will never forget the image

 

Heard it on the radio, driving the company truck. Stopped at home, told wifey to turn on the tv. I said, it's nothing bad. She said the first tower fell right after she turned it on. I came home for lunch and found out then. I cried. How the fuck can you not tear up watching thousands of people die instantly? Over and over and over again. Then that night they showed wtc 7, shanksville, and the pentagon. Rednecks drove around with violent slogans painted on their trucks for weeks afterwards.

I said that day it would be five years and the movie would come out...

 

I was in 6th grade. I got to school and the TVs were on in all the classrooms, which never happened. I didn't understand what was going on, the teachers were crying, and I remember this one kid taking his string cheese and making them fall down like the WTC. I thought he was an asshole. It was really sad to watch them collapse and imagine how many people died and how it affected their loved ones.

 

String cheese? What a sicko.

 

have you given any thought to the several hundred thousand lives of innocent civilians that have been lost in the destroying of the infrastructures of three countries that the incident in question was used as an excuse for?

i was in high-school the year j.f.k. got killed. the spectical was much the same. the way the normal course of the days affairs was totaly superceeded, the feelings and emotions of staff, teachers and students alike. (and probably their parents at home and at work, though at work, at least in some occupations, such as those involving infrastructure, like my dad who worked for the railroad, the job had to go on).

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