Eight Years Ago Today, 9-11

[Demon 8]

Doing an irrigation dig on #7 at The Groves. Spent the rest of the day at the pro shop with the owner of the course. Wishing all the families that lost loved ones comfort. We will never forget

 

[Hatedonmostly]

At home just got off work few hours before, Was on the computer surfing the web and watching tv. I'll never forget

 

[THEWELSHM]

Negotiating change oders with a customer, I was in the lobby just leaving when I saw the second plane hit, I was driving to Orlando when the reports regarding the Petagon came on the car radio. Never will I forget god bless the families of the survivors and the lost.

thewelshm

 

[WizzySRT10]

I was sleeping while it happened 'cause I had a late night before partying I woke up and turned on the tv and I see the planes crashing so I turned the channel thinking it was some movie and kept getting the same news feed. So I started watching it and I was shocked. What a sad day in American history.

 

[viperhauler]

i was late for work and didn't really believe what i was seeing ... then i watched the second plane hit live and then i realized...

i will never forget.....just finished the history channel's 102 mins. special on 9/11...

god bless....

 

[jelms]

Wonder what everyone was doing on that day?

I was a CEO of an organization. My role on that day was to control the panic, focus the employees on our mission. It was helpful to let my people know that if this act changed the way we led our lives, conducted our business and interacted with others in the world...then the terrorists would have accomplished their goals.

I was up very late 9/10 working on my companies network. I got up late, and saw the news and decided to stay at home, usually I would have gone downtown to my client site. If I had not seen the news I would have been sitting in traffic next to the pentagon when the plane came crashing in.

I spent the next two days on the phone trying to determine the fate of people I knew in the WTC. One got out and he is still not the same and one was never found

Bless all of those that did not come home that day... And bless all those that lived through that horror.

-jeff

 

[KRAZYSRT10]

I was sleeping because I worked the Night Check (Which stays until the work is done.). My wife called me and told me that the World Trade Center had been hit by an airplane. I got mad at her for waking me up because I had to be back to work in a few hours....so we hung up. Then she called me back a little bit later and said another airplane had hit the World Trade Center, now I was wide awake!!! She was shaken so I kept her on the phone while I went to turn on the TV and a few minutes later the Pentagon was hit. I told her I had to go....and called work.

They told me to pack my sea bag as if we are going on Deployment (US Navy) and said "Standby for further instructions". Well....I did what any other Sailor would do with a day off, I opened a beer and stared at the TV. My wife came straight home and helped me pack my sea bag. Later that day I recieved a call from the Duty Office explaining to me that I needed to be at work the next morning at 0300.

I arrived at work just in time to launch the Helicopters, jump on a plane to Virginia, from there I was loaded onto an H-53 and flown to the USS George Washington in New York Harbor. I saw the World Trade Center up close that day and discovered how fast the US Military could move!!!

I was an E-4 in the Navy back then....young and new.

Last year on September 11th, as I was flying over Basra, Iraq...I watched a Terrorist vaporized from this Earth after taking a potshot at about 50 British Marines. My Dad has the Flag that I flew that day encased with my story.

I am STILL proud to be an American...and I STILL remember.

 

[Riff62]

I was at work doing some paperwork, and overseeing a construction project we were doing at the plant.. We heard a story on the news that a small plane had hit one of the towers..Alittle later, I was heading back to the main office and was listening to reports of the second plane, the Pentagon, and finally the Shenksville crash..My oldest brother worked on Wall St..He walked to Grand Central, and got on a train home..It took 2 days..
The owner of the company I worked for at the time had a brother who was working in one of the towers that morning..Somehow he made it to Jersey City and spent the next week drunk at a bar there..
I used to work in Brooklyn at Chase Manhattan..The towers were not that far away, and the crew I worked with knew people who were building engineers there..We were all in the same union local..Most of them died that day trying to get people out..

Mikey, Billy, Will, and I made it to Ground Zero a couple years ago..We saw the hole in the ground where the towers were, and some still damaged buildings around the site..Across the street from the site is a small church which was undamaged when the towers fell. It was amazing it was still standing....Inside there are pictures and artifacts of that day..Pictures of missing people, ribbons, stuffed animals, etc..It was very moving to say the least..
I remember the mixed emotions I had that day..I remember confusion, anger, sadness, outrage, resolve, and finally hope.
There are some who think images of that day shouldnt be shown on tv..I think thats wrong..We should be reminded, lest we fall into complacency.
RIP to those that died that day and to all those that have passed trying to defend the freedom of all of us..