September 11, 2001. do you remember where/what you doing when you learned of the events?
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I was there...\n\nI was riding the A-train (one of many train lines heading into the NYC) on my way to school ( I was in college at the time). \n\nBut things were running very slow due to massive delays in the underground. People grew impatient and starting coming out of the trains, when suddenly rumors started spreading that two "small" planes hit the towers. Details were still hazy as information was being gathered at that point.\n\nThe train conductor had told people either to go home or take the F-train right across the platform. I was one of those people and took the F-train to Chambers street, three blocks from where the towers were hit.\n\nWhen I came up from the subway stairs, it was total grid-lock. Hundreds of thousands of people were crammed around the subway, on the streets. Traffic was non-existant, which was a fete in itself in this city. It seemed like everyone and their mother was on their cell phones, telling their loved ones what they were seeing.  They were all looking up at the same thing: The Burning towers.\n\nI couldn't believe it was that bad. Then I rushed over to the front my school, which is right across from City Hall NYC, and I bumped into a couple of friends. They told me they saw people jumping from the buildings where they stood and that they were totally horrified by what they were seeing. \n\nI worked in my school Library at the time and after finding out bits and pieces of what happened from my buddies outside, I went to inside the library. I rushed in to see my supervisor, but she left because her kids go to school a couple of blocks from the towers. Apparently she panicked and left to find her children right away.\n\nI went to speak to my co-workers and they told me at the time that the Pentagon got hit and some other plane that crashed (which was later found out to be United 93). And I was so freakin' shocked, it was unbelievable.... This was a plot. An actual terrorist plot.\n\nThen that's when it hit me: my aunt works in one of the towers and from there I was in FULL panic mode. \n\nI left the library to catch my breath and from there I wanted to call my dad to tell him what was going on and wanted ask him if heard anything from Auntie Rose(his sister), but couldn't get any service. \n\nThere was a huge-@ss line for use of the public phones for that very reason: Apparently, the lines were so busy that service got cut off.\n\nThen came the most horrible sounds and shaking I won't ever forget. I was like a Richter 10 earthquake the way the building shook. And all of a sudden you heard blood curdling screams and a huge bum rush of people scrambling for their lives. \n\nI was nearly frantic. I didn't know what was going on, so I ran down the other side of the lobby where there were glass windows which allowed you see exactly what was going on outside:  A massive smoke came from all directions of the streets, engulfing everything and everyone around it. It was quite the most horrifying scene I've ever witnessed. \n\nPeople were rushing down the streets in droves, but they couldn't outrun whatever the hell that was engulfing them.\n\nAll I could remember saying at the time, frozen at that very spot, was "Oh....My ...God. Oh, my f**kin' god."  For fear that something was going to crash through the windows, I ran like I never did in my life down the lobby (almost breaking my ankle) and raced down the stairs to the basement area.\n\nFrom there, things became a lot clearer: One of the towers had collapsed...and when I heard that, I couldn't believe it. No one could....  \n\nThe area was packed with students, professors and the security guards tried calming shocked and scared people, telling them  either to head to the basketball courts, which would serve as a make shift bomb-shelter in the Sub-level or for those who wanted to take a chance and run for it acroos the Brooklyn Bridge, were on their own.\n\nIt was one of the hardest decisions
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I had a flood of memories watching. Good and bad.\nThank you
1042088
Still a little in shock and such over the event. I was at my school (high school at the time) waiting for a class to start. The class clown of our grade, Sean, walked in saying his dad just called and said something about [I don't remember what he said exactly]. We all told him stop kidding. We then got the announcement over the PA of what had happened. I think at that time both towers were hit. We got to go home early. My dad worked in NYC but nowhere near there. As for people who passed on, a co-worker of my dad's wife was in one of the tower's on one of the floors that was directly hit. Her name is Laura Longing.
1001255
Yes...6 years ago.....where have YOU been?
172001
Well i think you have to specify which World trade center you are asking about. So many of them were taken out, so be a little clearer.
145171
I think 2001, because of 9-11, will go down in history as our worst because we lost our naivete`. We got a one day crash course in the frailty of human life,a rude awakening to just how much most of the world loathes us, and a new vocabulary of terrorist-speak.
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Some people think 9/11 was a purposeful choice when choosing when to attact the World Trade Center because across America we use 9-1-1 when there is an emergency.  My own opinion is that it was a coincidence.  I guess no one will ever know for sure.
556301
What denial am I, as an American that was standing in front of the World Trade Center as the first jet crashed into the building in?  Please elaborate &  I'll tell you if my eyewitness account jibes with your story.
607464
If you don't know . . .\n\nIt happened on Sept. 11, 2001. Three hijacked planes struck the two World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. A fourth was taken down in a field. Thousands died.
1000363
I was born on Sept 11.  The towers were struck on my 28th birthday.  I walked around saying I was 27 for two years, because I forgot I had gotten older.  I spent that whole day glued to CNN like the rest of the world.  The first couple of years I didn't want to celebrate publicly, because I felt that it would be disrespectful of those who had lost.  Now I feel like I should celbrate that day, despite the tragedy, loss, and remembering (which should always be honored); it should be about life, hope, rebuilding, and a future.  Everyday is a gift.  Don't take it for granted.  You can remember and still celebrate that you and many others can move ahead.
1074108
To Shug and Ben, you obviously DON'T remember 9/11. Osama bin Laden, a Saudi, attacked the United States on that day. However, instead of going after the person who attacked us, Georgie went after Iraq. Where is Osama? In Tora Bora, protected by the Conserviweenies who're scared of protecting us just because Pakistan is harboring a terrorist. As for Iraq, this is for oil. Where were you?
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Thank you.  I lost family members on 9/11.\n\nOn the whole, I agree with your sentiment and much of what you say.  I believe that people in our government were complicit with the attack on 9/11.  Israel kept their people out of the WTC on 9/9, 9/10, and 9/11.  The Egyptian president made 3 separate phone calls to Bush concerning the impending attack.\n\nIt is my feeling that most of the world knew about it except us here in NY (and the rest of the Amercan populaton).  If you remember the news broadcasts the previous summer, most of it had to do with shark bites and a boy who was too old for little league baseball.  No real news.  i was wondering why there was no actual news the whole summer.  I understood the morning of 9/11.\n\nThe Bush family does multi-million dollar business with the Bin Laden family.  why would they hunt down and kill a business partner? Not in their interest.\n\nI also am convinced that there was no passenger plane hitting the pentagon. If you see the actual pictures after the explosion you will undertand that the hole it made was much too small for such a larged winged missile to have hit.  Plus, the area of the pentagon that was damaged was closed for repair.  If I were a terrorist, I would aim for the area that held most of the high-ranking individuals.  if I were the in the White House, I would aim for the portion of the Pentagon that would do the least damage.\n\nAdditionally, I believe no one (including the attackers) had any idea the attack on the WTC would be so successful.\n\nI was told by someone whom I trust that he read that Bush had plans to go to war with Iraq before he even usurped the presidency.  I haven't checked it out, but it does make sense to me.  The fact that he went ahead with his plans despite world-wide protest indicates that he and the rest of the crew are single-mindedy carrying out their own agenda for world domination.\n\nAs I'm writing this I realize how radical it sounds, but it seems to be true anyway.
87593
No, I dont know anyone in the 9/11 tragedy...but when I heard aobut it, I was freaked out, but I was still a naive kid, but I wasnt screaming 'Mommy! Mommy!' I was in school when it happened (I think) and I had no idea until I got home when my mom told me. I wasnt too concerned...until now after I watched Farenheit 9/11 (really cool movie) and saw Bush's reaction to it, which got me against him. I mean, he's our leader and when some dude next to him says 'The nation's under attack', he does nothing except read to the little 1st graders. My point being: I HATE BUSH! and that I was freaked out about 9/11 :P
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9-11.  I remember I slept in that morning.  I got up and went to the auto store to purchase some parts for my car.  The radio was turned up and the pentagon just got hit.  I listened farther and heard about the planes crashing.  Then I heard the cashier going off saying that President Bush better take serious action.\nAt that moment I remembered my brother was on one of the flights that was crashed.  I don't even know how to express the horror and fear that went through my entire body.\nA couple days later I found out my brother was sick on that day and someone took his place.  I am so glad my brother is still alive.  But my heart grieves for everyone on the planes.  And I grieve for this country.  I know how I felt when I thought my brother died and I am sadden that anyone had to experience 9-11.\nI want to thank everyone who has help anyone effected by 9-11.
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I was sitting in my classroom. I got home from school, and a lot of people were at my house. And they were crying. I went over to my mom, and asked her why everyone was here and crying. She told me very quiely that my Uncle Adam and cousin Adam had died. They both worked in the twin towers, when...\nWell, you know.\nIt was just horrifying to me to hear that, you know...\nEverytime I watch the replay of that horrible scene, it just stays in my mind...
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It will always stay in my mind...I was in a class at my company's HQ in Baltimore.  During our 10 AM coffee break one of the guys came in and said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center...we thought he meant the WTC in downtown Baltimore...we all went outside to look...nothing wrong there.  We all went next door to see the TV and realized it was in NYC...by then the 2nd tower had been hit.  Class was out for the day...we were all glued to the TV...everyone in the company was sent home early because Gov. Glendening was going to close the I-95 tunnel under Balto. Harbor.\nBy the mid-afternoon there were F-16s flying combat air patrol over Baltimore.\nOur class got out that Friday; all of us had to drive home - no flights available; another guy and I had a rental car from the week before.  I live in Oregon; he lives in Arizona.  We started driving - dropped him off with his brother-in-law in Detroit, then I drove all the way to Portland.  One guy had to rent a U-Haul to drive home; rental cars couldn't be had for love or money.\nOne of my cousins is a lawyer in NYC...we like her in spite of it:)...she had an early morning meeting in the WTC, and got out of the north tower 1/2 hr. before the first plane hit...
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Um....One July 4th, all of my dad's side of the family was in Chicago, including my family, and we had a lot of food. I have no idea what the food was, but it was good, and I saw my grandpa smoking a cigar. That my first memory, and it just seems so familiar and family-promoting. My second one is we watched fireworks and I got on my dad's shoulders. I can't do that anymore, so I love the memories.