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my uncle worked nearby the buildings somewhere in wall st at the time
I think he started off that morning getting really annoyed because his daughter had forgotten something for school, and he had to go and get it for her and it made him quite late for work
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
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I was in human anatomy and physiology playing drug wars on my TI-86 and talking to someone about how they stole my iceblink in vanilla Diablo 2, then someone came in and said "they just crashed a plane into the World Trade Center." Then we turned on the TV in class and saw the second plane hit.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I was with my ex, we were staying with my Mom temporarily and I woke up right after the first plane crashed and they still thought it was an accident.
I did data entry for Columbia House at the time and I listened to the radio all day at work and I remember it was almost a week before anyone was willing to stop talking about it and play music again.
I was in 3rd grade and they didn't tell us nothin or show any of it but we went home early and then talked about it in the auditorium the next day and my teacher thought her brother might have died but he didn't
because I was a tiny fuckin' nerdlinger living in Aus at the time, I snuck downstairs before school started in the morning to go look at my favorite webcomic Penny Arcade
they'd taken the site down and put links to news articles about the planes hitting so I ran back upstairs and found my mom and dad already watching it on the news
I was in human anatomy and physiology playing drug wars on my TI-86 and talking to someone about how they stole my iceblink in vanilla Diablo 2, then someone came in and said "they just crashed a plane into the World Trade Center." Then we turned on the TV in class and saw the second plane hit.
This was approximately my experience as well. I remember spending a ton of time at school that day in the library on message boards
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
We spently literally all day just watching news broadcasts. As the resident nerd, I spent half the classes fixing the TV's so that they would work. I used a paperclip jammed in the back of the cable outlet to get reception in Spanish class.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I was a junior in high school. I was waiting for the school bus and my mom was talking to one of our hay customers on the phone, and we were just watching what we thought was an accidental plane crash on the news. Then the second plane hit and after a moment my mom said "Yeah, I gotta go, too."
We didn't have any kind of TV at school, and we didn't have access to the computer lab until midafternoon. By the end of the day, we knew about the Pentagon and that some dude named "Bin Laden" was involved, but other than that it was just a normal school day.
For the next two years, my friends and I were positive that we were all going to be drafted as soon as we graduated. That might explain why we started doing stupid stuff like skateboarding down the Raton Pass highway, but probably it was mostly just being seventeen.
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Dark Raven XLaugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered Userregular
We heard about it at school over here in the UK but being a dumb babby I heard the words 'trade centre' and went on autopilot, assuming it was some boring economic news. Didn't realise what had happened til I got home. Even then, was probably too young to have it really impact me - was just some bad thing happening far away. Was several years later when I was watching that Renaud Brothers 911 documentary that it actually hit me for the first time how terrible that day was.
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BigPointyTeethrun away! run away!MinnesotaRegistered Userregular
The thing that'll always stick out in my mind is the time following where the airlines were pretty much shut down. I lived and worked about twenty minutes from O'Hare, so being able to look up at a clear sky was a little unnerving.
It was freshman year of highschool for me and there was some people whispering something about some kind of explosion at the bus stop, but no one knew anything concrete. At school there were more whispers but the teachers kept mum and all TVs were kept off. It was only when I got home when I was informed of what happened. Being told it all at once, after the fact, made it feel a little less real.
Mostly I just remember visiting NY in the 6th grade on a school trip and our bus passing by the towers and looking up and seeing their tops disappear into some fog and thinking how impossibly tall they were.
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We were given the week off because of the 3 weeks of beach assault went well
So I remember up until Wednesday night I just wanted to veg around I was talked into being their safety as they went bar hopping
So I remember coming back to the barracks at 4am and just laying down in the Tv room. I awoke to see a lot of people in the room and the plane hit the tower {I thought what kung fu movie is this? At the time one of the channels just showed a lot of Hong Kong movies} about x minutes later I hear the speaker horn outside say everyone to the courtyard in 10 minutes
The Base commander in a humv popped out the top of the turret with a bullhorn and said what you saw on tv was real we are going to war gentleman you have 30 minutes to pack your gear and meet back at this spot
I quickly pack up everything I am not taking with me into a box and write my info on it.
They got everything they could grab to take us to 29 palms school busses to old 8 trucks we would shoot at when doing check point stuff
So we flew to Guam where we were told we can now use the phone to call people and tell them we were ok or such
I was still kind of drunk when I got on the plane so it was something to be booking it like that not to see another plane in the sky expect us
When I got the phone it hit me hard that we were that deep and didn't know were we were going next
Went to school and kids were talking about the first plane crash. By the time the news of the second crash reached us there were tons of rumors, and no one knew what was going on. Some teachers broke with the school rules and showed the news to kids, but I wasn't in any of those classes. There was a nervous energy to everything, and you could tell that the teachers were distracted. Some students were removed from classes and didn't come back that day. A lot of classes got interrupted by students asking about what was going on.
For the next few weeks it was all anyone would talk about or could talk about, with the total co-opting of entertainment for more news.
Strange to think that a single day caused such a massive shift in American culture. Truly a nation shaking event.
I was thinking the other day that it must be very unusual for one of the definitive events of a century to occur it's first year. I can't really think of much happening for the rest of this one that pushes it out of the top five in terms of lasting global impact.
Strange to think that a single day caused such a massive shift in American culture. Truly a nation shaking event.
I was thinking the other day that it must be very unusual for one of the definitive events of a century to occur it's first year. I can't really think of much happening for the rest of this one that pushes it out of the top five in terms of lasting global impact.
I think most of the other biggest events of this century are happening along a longer timescale. Like you can't really attribute a specific year to the effects of global climate change but that will be a major defining part of the 2000's.
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SnicketysnickThe Greatest Hype Man inWesterosRegistered Userregular
Strange to think that a single day caused such a massive shift in American culture. Truly a nation shaking event.
I was thinking the other day that it must be very unusual for one of the definitive events of a century to occur it's first year. I can't really think of much happening for the rest of this one that pushes it out of the top five in terms of lasting global impact.
I think most of the other biggest events of this century are happening along a longer timescale. Like you can't really attribute a specific year to the effects of global climate change but that will be a major defining part of the 2000's.
Sure, but that's what I'm talking about. "Big" things that will likely happen this century are Manned Mars Landing, possibly Fusion towards the end, maybe another large scale Terrorist attack, possibly Bio or nuclear and maybe a large-scale war between a few countries (like an "official" one, not "war on terror" stuff). Beyond that there's not much I can come up with as a single incident that would have a wider cultural impact.
Anywho, I was a senior in high school and was getting ready for school, checking webcomics before I left for the bus. In the comments section on User Friendly (My friends were linux nerds and I sort of wound up reading it by osmosis. Eventually quit when I got tired of M$ jokes.) someone mentioned a plane crashed into the WTC. I figured it was a little plane, but nope. My mom turned on the news as I left for the bus, and everyone at my stop was already talking about it, and most of my classes were pretty much just us watching/reading news instead of doing classwork. Teachers didn't even bother trying to compete for attention.
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SnicketysnickThe Greatest Hype Man inWesterosRegistered Userregular
I was in an A-Level history class which quickly became an A-level current events watching the news because bloody hell class. Then spent the rest of the afternoon doing that when I got home, it was a strange day.
I was home "sick" as I often was in my school days.
Except I actually had a touch of bronchitis and strep that time so I wasn't faking.
I remember turning the TV on and seeing them saying that a plane hit the WTC, and trying to get my mom's attention with my sore throat while she was talking to a co worker on the phone. She finally came into the living room right as the second hit happened and instantly recognized it as a 747 before the newspeople did because she flew a lot as a travel agent
We spent the rest of the day just kinda shocked, watching as things happened not knowing what to expect or anything.
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FaranguI am a beardy manWith a beardy planRegistered Userregular
I was a freshman in high school, and started the day with Italian class.
15 minutes into class, one of the administrators pulled the teacher out of class for a few minutes, which prompted immediate muckery among us. Teacher comes back into the room in tears, and tells us what happened. I was so out of touch with general knowledge at that age that I didn't even know which buildings the WTC were; a few days before I had caught the re-run of that Simpsons episode where they go to New York and when Homer was running between the towers I just assumed they were some named skyscrapers.
The only class I had that day that tried to do any teaching was Geometry, but it wasn't until about halfway through the day before we got to a class that had the TV on, and I saw the footage and thought, "Oh, THAT'S the WTC. Oh." After school that day, I went home, and the family went to the local restaurant/bar we very often went to, and talked about it.
After we got home, my dad asked if I wanted my own drink.
MayabirdPecking at the keyboardRegistered Userregular
Yeah, I was in high school. It was one of the social studies classes taught by the coaches except that coach was out sick that day so there was a sub and nothing was happening in class. My classmates were being their usual vapid idiotic selves playing cards and gossiping and being petty at each other and I thought, "Don't these idiots know that there's a bigger world out there beyond their stupid little concerns where important things are happening?" (Yes I was thinking that, but I also thought that a minimum of twice a day, every school day, for the previous two or three years of my life; I really detested my classmates.) As I was in the middle of fuming at idiots, the school secretary threw open the door and screamed, "TURN ON THE TV! NEW YORK IS UNDER ATTACK!" before running to the next door.
We turned on the TV, saw the first tower on fire, and a few minutes later the second plane hit. I admit that one of the many thoughts that went through my head was, "I hate being right."
First year of high school, I was in second period english class when someone came in saying they were late because they saw a plane fly into a building. Which was terrible excuse for being late for class until someone noticed that the street we could see out the window was filled with sirens all the way up Manhattan. Then next period we got the teacher to turn on the TV for a bit and saw footage of the second plane hit, after a bit the teacher shut it off to try and get us to do some ... art? art appreciation? Anyway the TV didn't work when we turned it back on ten minutes later because the first tower had fallen, so we started getting news from one classmate who had a radio.
Pretty soon after that they pulled everyone into homeroom, and one by one having every class leave the building and head north. Later turned out they were kinda afraid the towers falling would destabilize the foundation of a huge chunk of lower manhattan and our school would collapse This whole time of course we're getting little snippets of news about the Pentagon and cars exploding near the white house and various and sundry rumors and hearsay that made us pretty sure the world was ending and that big cloud of smoke advancing towards us would not be the only one.
No way to get busses or anything because we were maybe five blocks north of the towers and every road was either closed or filled with emergency vehicles, so they pretty much just turned us loose and said "Go to a nearby friend's house or go home". Walked for about half an hour to a friend's place, finally managed to call home and tell my Mom I was okay (no cell phones were working and we hadn't seen a payphone), hung out there watching the news until the subways started back up so I could go home.
I was in 7th grade when 9/11 happened, and I remember that they brought all of us into the gymnasium to make an announcement about it and that they were only going to have us stay a half day that day.
At 12 years old, I think I was just a hair too young to have it really affect me? I recognize that 9/11 changed the world around me, and changed the lives of many people in drastic ways, but to me it's kind of just another event in a history book, you know? It sounds kind of harsh to say it like that, I realize, but I personally didn't know anyone that went off to war after 9/11, I didn't know anyone whose brother/sister/father/mother/etc went off either, or died in the 9/11 attacks.
If anything, it has made me feel really disconnected whenever an anniversary rolls around, because so many people were obviously affected by it in deeply personal ways.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
It was such a beautiful day out. That's something that has always stuck with me - the skies were blue, and clear, and gorgeous..
I was in my second year of college. I didn't care about anything at that point - I was at the edge of dropping below eligibility for work (as I worked at the college), and was listless. This particular day, I only had one class late in the afternoon. I had slept in.
I had my alarm clock set up to turn on the radio in the morning. At that time, there was a show simulcast in Springfield and Peoria, IL called "Lytle and Lamb"... or maybe that point, Lytle had left. I can't remember. It was your typical local crazy morning guys. They had a guy who was a bit slower who would do stupid stuff...
This morning, in the haze of my waking up, things were different. The slower guy was trying to do a bit, and the host was telling him to stop, that this was real. Everything about his tone seemed.. off, so I rolled over in bed and turned on the TV. My eyes were blurry, but I think I remember seeing just a single tower, covered in smoke. I started coming to my senses.. and saw the second tower go down live.
I was in a daze. I still went to my class, which was ironically a class on US Government. The teacher pointed out that this was fitting for the class, and left it on (but silent) in the background as he covered the lesson. I couldn't focus.
The skies.. having the skies empty, no con trails, nothing.. another thing that stook out to me. And the fear.. because Peoria is home to Caterpillar and an Air Force base, and so on.. there was a chance we could be a target. Other things that fall blur together. I dropped out of school completely, and just didn't care about anything. My life basically halted for a few years. I swear I remember talk of invading Iraq before the attacks, but man.. long time ago now. I started listening to Rush Limbaugh at some point around there too.. probably due to too much free time during the day.
I never ended up going to fight for my country. My youngest bro did, but he has always been a defender of people and sociable. I just.. I feel such sadness over all this now.
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TrippyJingMoses supposes his toeses are roses.But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered Userregular
First year of high school, I was in second period english class when someone came in saying they were late because they saw a plane fly into a building. Which was terrible excuse for being late for class until someone noticed that the street we could see out the window was filled with sirens all the way up Manhattan. Then next period we got the teacher to turn on the TV for a bit and saw footage of the second plane hit, after a bit the teacher shut it off to try and get us to do some ... art? art appreciation? Anyway the TV didn't work when we turned it back on ten minutes later because the first tower had fallen, so we started getting news from one classmate who had a radio.
Pretty soon after that they pulled everyone into homeroom, and one by one having every class leave the building and head north. Later turned out they were kinda afraid the towers falling would destabilize the foundation of a huge chunk of lower manhattan and our school would collapse This whole time of course we're getting little snippets of news about the Pentagon and cars exploding near the white house and various and sundry rumors and hearsay that made us pretty sure the world was ending and that big cloud of smoke advancing towards us would not be the only one.
No way to get busses or anything because we were maybe five blocks north of the towers and every road was either closed or filled with emergency vehicles, so they pretty much just turned us loose and said "Go to a nearby friend's house or go home". Walked for about half an hour to a friend's place, finally managed to call home and tell my Mom I was okay (no cell phones were working and we hadn't seen a payphone), hung out there watching the news until the subways started back up so I could go home.
My story is essentially the same, which is no surprise. Only real difference is that I started out in the school library for both planes before heading to my class and then homeroom.
Also spent the whole time thinking my mother was in one of the towers, and when I got back home I found out she'd had the day off.
OK, not that much older. I don't really have a story, though. I was doing work study, prepping some glassware fit a chemistry lab, and I heard about it. I don't think anybody at my school was personally affected, and we just kept on keeping on while occasionally getting updates.
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Oof. We had one girl in my homeroom whose sister just started working in the towers that week, had no idea if she was okay the whole time.
One of the funny things was that at least in my class that started the trend of parents giving their kids cell phones so they could reach them in case of any emergency - when on the actual day not a single cell phone worked because the towers were completely jammed.
WearingglassesOf the friendly neighborhood varietyRegistered Userregular
I was at home. It was evening in the Philippines. I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember being content about having had a good day, because September 11 is my birthday.
We just finished dinner when I saw our parents standing in front of the television. I found that weird at the time because there wasn't anything worth standing near the television about, and I could only see their backs, but by their stance, something serious just happened.
Oof. We had one girl in my homeroom whose sister just started working in the towers that week, had no idea if she was okay the whole time.
One of the funny things was that at least in my class that started the trend of parents giving their kids cell phones so they could reach them in case of any emergency - when on the actual day not a single cell phone worked because the towers were completely jammed.
That and the flight to Guam still stick in my mind as it was series of land lines and they had a couple of people polity telling people to keep it to less than 15 minutes
It was still really unreal to me even now to remember it
I was at home. It was evening in the Philippines. I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember being content about having had a good day, because September 11 is my birthday.
We just finished dinner when I saw our parents standing in front of the television. I found that weird at the time because there wasn't anything worth standing near the television about, and I could only see their backs, but by their stance, something serious just happened.
I was at a school sleep away camp. All I remembered were all the counselors and teachers crowding around the one radio in a car on site. I don't think I got home until four or five days later, and maybe by then news channels stopped showing footage? I don't know, but I didn't actually see footage of the impact until I think last year.
I watched it on tv after hearing about it in the college library. It sure was a day. My brother in law had 3 deployments as a result. The world changed a lot in that 15 years
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I think he started off that morning getting really annoyed because his daughter had forgotten something for school, and he had to go and get it for her and it made him quite late for work
which was quite good as it turns out
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I did data entry for Columbia House at the time and I listened to the radio all day at work and I remember it was almost a week before anyone was willing to stop talking about it and play music again.
they'd taken the site down and put links to news articles about the planes hitting so I ran back upstairs and found my mom and dad already watching it on the news
This was approximately my experience as well. I remember spending a ton of time at school that day in the library on message boards
We didn't have any kind of TV at school, and we didn't have access to the computer lab until midafternoon. By the end of the day, we knew about the Pentagon and that some dude named "Bin Laden" was involved, but other than that it was just a normal school day.
For the next two years, my friends and I were positive that we were all going to be drafted as soon as we graduated. That might explain why we started doing stupid stuff like skateboarding down the Raton Pass highway, but probably it was mostly just being seventeen.
Mostly I just remember visiting NY in the 6th grade on a school trip and our bus passing by the towers and looking up and seeing their tops disappear into some fog and thinking how impossibly tall they were.
We were given the week off because of the 3 weeks of beach assault went well
So I remember up until Wednesday night I just wanted to veg around I was talked into being their safety as they went bar hopping
So I remember coming back to the barracks at 4am and just laying down in the Tv room. I awoke to see a lot of people in the room and the plane hit the tower {I thought what kung fu movie is this? At the time one of the channels just showed a lot of Hong Kong movies} about x minutes later I hear the speaker horn outside say everyone to the courtyard in 10 minutes
The Base commander in a humv popped out the top of the turret with a bullhorn and said what you saw on tv was real we are going to war gentleman you have 30 minutes to pack your gear and meet back at this spot
I quickly pack up everything I am not taking with me into a box and write my info on it.
They got everything they could grab to take us to 29 palms school busses to old 8 trucks we would shoot at when doing check point stuff
So we flew to Guam where we were told we can now use the phone to call people and tell them we were ok or such
I was still kind of drunk when I got on the plane so it was something to be booking it like that not to see another plane in the sky expect us
When I got the phone it hit me hard that we were that deep and didn't know were we were going next
That was what I did on 9/11
For the next few weeks it was all anyone would talk about or could talk about, with the total co-opting of entertainment for more news.
I was thinking the other day that it must be very unusual for one of the definitive events of a century to occur it's first year. I can't really think of much happening for the rest of this one that pushes it out of the top five in terms of lasting global impact.
I think most of the other biggest events of this century are happening along a longer timescale. Like you can't really attribute a specific year to the effects of global climate change but that will be a major defining part of the 2000's.
Sure, but that's what I'm talking about. "Big" things that will likely happen this century are Manned Mars Landing, possibly Fusion towards the end, maybe another large scale Terrorist attack, possibly Bio or nuclear and maybe a large-scale war between a few countries (like an "official" one, not "war on terror" stuff). Beyond that there's not much I can come up with as a single incident that would have a wider cultural impact.
Well, I feel old now.
Anywho, I was a senior in high school and was getting ready for school, checking webcomics before I left for the bus. In the comments section on User Friendly (My friends were linux nerds and I sort of wound up reading it by osmosis. Eventually quit when I got tired of M$ jokes.) someone mentioned a plane crashed into the WTC. I figured it was a little plane, but nope. My mom turned on the news as I left for the bus, and everyone at my stop was already talking about it, and most of my classes were pretty much just us watching/reading news instead of doing classwork. Teachers didn't even bother trying to compete for attention.
Except I actually had a touch of bronchitis and strep that time so I wasn't faking.
I remember turning the TV on and seeing them saying that a plane hit the WTC, and trying to get my mom's attention with my sore throat while she was talking to a co worker on the phone. She finally came into the living room right as the second hit happened and instantly recognized it as a 747 before the newspeople did because she flew a lot as a travel agent
We spent the rest of the day just kinda shocked, watching as things happened not knowing what to expect or anything.
15 minutes into class, one of the administrators pulled the teacher out of class for a few minutes, which prompted immediate muckery among us. Teacher comes back into the room in tears, and tells us what happened. I was so out of touch with general knowledge at that age that I didn't even know which buildings the WTC were; a few days before I had caught the re-run of that Simpsons episode where they go to New York and when Homer was running between the towers I just assumed they were some named skyscrapers.
The only class I had that day that tried to do any teaching was Geometry, but it wasn't until about halfway through the day before we got to a class that had the TV on, and I saw the footage and thought, "Oh, THAT'S the WTC. Oh." After school that day, I went home, and the family went to the local restaurant/bar we very often went to, and talked about it.
After we got home, my dad asked if I wanted my own drink.
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We turned on the TV, saw the first tower on fire, and a few minutes later the second plane hit. I admit that one of the many thoughts that went through my head was, "I hate being right."
Pretty soon after that they pulled everyone into homeroom, and one by one having every class leave the building and head north. Later turned out they were kinda afraid the towers falling would destabilize the foundation of a huge chunk of lower manhattan and our school would collapse This whole time of course we're getting little snippets of news about the Pentagon and cars exploding near the white house and various and sundry rumors and hearsay that made us pretty sure the world was ending and that big cloud of smoke advancing towards us would not be the only one.
No way to get busses or anything because we were maybe five blocks north of the towers and every road was either closed or filled with emergency vehicles, so they pretty much just turned us loose and said "Go to a nearby friend's house or go home". Walked for about half an hour to a friend's place, finally managed to call home and tell my Mom I was okay (no cell phones were working and we hadn't seen a payphone), hung out there watching the news until the subways started back up so I could go home.
I was in 7th grade when 9/11 happened, and I remember that they brought all of us into the gymnasium to make an announcement about it and that they were only going to have us stay a half day that day.
At 12 years old, I think I was just a hair too young to have it really affect me? I recognize that 9/11 changed the world around me, and changed the lives of many people in drastic ways, but to me it's kind of just another event in a history book, you know? It sounds kind of harsh to say it like that, I realize, but I personally didn't know anyone that went off to war after 9/11, I didn't know anyone whose brother/sister/father/mother/etc went off either, or died in the 9/11 attacks.
If anything, it has made me feel really disconnected whenever an anniversary rolls around, because so many people were obviously affected by it in deeply personal ways.
I was in my second year of college. I didn't care about anything at that point - I was at the edge of dropping below eligibility for work (as I worked at the college), and was listless. This particular day, I only had one class late in the afternoon. I had slept in.
I had my alarm clock set up to turn on the radio in the morning. At that time, there was a show simulcast in Springfield and Peoria, IL called "Lytle and Lamb"... or maybe that point, Lytle had left. I can't remember. It was your typical local crazy morning guys. They had a guy who was a bit slower who would do stupid stuff...
This morning, in the haze of my waking up, things were different. The slower guy was trying to do a bit, and the host was telling him to stop, that this was real. Everything about his tone seemed.. off, so I rolled over in bed and turned on the TV. My eyes were blurry, but I think I remember seeing just a single tower, covered in smoke. I started coming to my senses.. and saw the second tower go down live.
I was in a daze. I still went to my class, which was ironically a class on US Government. The teacher pointed out that this was fitting for the class, and left it on (but silent) in the background as he covered the lesson. I couldn't focus.
The skies.. having the skies empty, no con trails, nothing.. another thing that stook out to me. And the fear.. because Peoria is home to Caterpillar and an Air Force base, and so on.. there was a chance we could be a target. Other things that fall blur together. I dropped out of school completely, and just didn't care about anything. My life basically halted for a few years. I swear I remember talk of invading Iraq before the attacks, but man.. long time ago now. I started listening to Rush Limbaugh at some point around there too.. probably due to too much free time during the day.
I never ended up going to fight for my country. My youngest bro did, but he has always been a defender of people and sociable. I just.. I feel such sadness over all this now.
My story is essentially the same, which is no surprise. Only real difference is that I started out in the school library for both planes before heading to my class and then homeroom.
Also spent the whole time thinking my mother was in one of the towers, and when I got back home I found out she'd had the day off.
OK, not that much older. I don't really have a story, though. I was doing work study, prepping some glassware fit a chemistry lab, and I heard about it. I don't think anybody at my school was personally affected, and we just kept on keeping on while occasionally getting updates.
One of the funny things was that at least in my class that started the trend of parents giving their kids cell phones so they could reach them in case of any emergency - when on the actual day not a single cell phone worked because the towers were completely jammed.
We just finished dinner when I saw our parents standing in front of the television. I found that weird at the time because there wasn't anything worth standing near the television about, and I could only see their backs, but by their stance, something serious just happened.
we all thought it was world war 3
I suppose it is
That and the flight to Guam still stick in my mind as it was series of land lines and they had a couple of people polity telling people to keep it to less than 15 minutes
It was still really unreal to me even now to remember it
...Happy birthday?
The whole world's changed.
Sadly, it's so much easier make things worse than to make things better.
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