9-11 ... what were you doing

[Mikey]

Me and Blue Meanie (our beloved Roberto) was doing a Mego Fantastic Four deal

Was in the PO mailing him his package

Was wondering why the TV behind the counter was showing a steaming chimney

Turned out to be one of the WTC's

I just went there with my neph like a few months ago

We did it all including walking on the roof scaffold thingie

I can close my eyes and remember EVERTHING about the TWC

Girls behind the counters were incredibly nice

This was a place I REALLY liked

RIP, everyone who went down with the ships

You will NEVER be forgotten

[libby 1957dog]

i remember it like it was yesterday ,id just installed a new digital tv aerial for a customer in a town 6 miles over from where i lived ,it was a new technology and one of the first ones id installed at the time , id got off the roof and was tuning in the digital tv channels, and checking them out for signal and quality and every channel was showing the same program ,a impossibly blue sky with a smoking building ,which turned out to be the live feed from the twin towers

,at first i was in despair thinking i had somehow messed up the alignment of the aerial ,but that soon turned to real despair when the enormity of what we were seeing was and how it would change the world forever and couldn't be fixed by the turn of a aerial

rest in peace to all that lost their lives on that day and those who will be forever change by the events of that terrible day

you will live on forever in our hearts

[Nostalgiabuff]

i was on standby for a deposition at one of the buildings next to the trade center so was driving to my office in Westchester so i would be closer if they call me to come down. i remember so vividly the horror and fear of that day. most of us will never forget what was done to our country that day

[EMCE Hammer]

To the person who thought it was cool/funny/whatever to post their little anti-Muslim rant - pull something like that again and you are DONE. You know the rules yet you habitually skirt them and then say "Aw shucks" and ask for forgiveness. I'm not playing.

[enyawd72]

I was working for a fence company and was out on the job. We heard them talking about the first plane hitting the WTC, and we all looked at each other like, how in the hell can you hit a building? The pilot must be an idiot.
It never even occurred to us in the moment that it could be deliberate.

[Brown Bear]

I recall when over 20 american planes were stranded at our Halifax Airport and how our community opened their doors and invited these strangers into their homes. Nova Scotians let stranded passengers stay in their homes and feed them and in many cases made friends for life. People coming together in a moment of tragedy, showing support is where my mind goes. So many heroes; so much kindness in the aftermath.

[Mikey]

I recall when over 20 american planes were stranded at our Halifax Airport and how our community opened their doors and invited these strangers into their homes. Nova Scotians let stranded passengers stay in their homes and feed them and in many cases made friends for life. People coming together in a moment of tragedy, showing support is where my mind goes. So many heroes; so much kindness in the aftermath.

Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Isle

Have so many good memories of fishing there with my older bro

People were just --- so dang nice

Was so cool back in the days when you didn't need special federal papers to go from Maine into New Brunswick and beyond.

[drquest]

I was almost to my office when I heard on the radio about a plane hitting one of the towers. I got in and told everyone about it and we all switched on our televisions. Called my wife who was home with our at that time 2 year old daughter and she starting watching as well. I was in my office with a few co-workers watching this terrible accident unfold on the news when we all saw the second plane hit the other tower. It was a terrible realization at that moment that it wasn't an accident.

[monitor_ep]

2 weeks before 9/11 I was in New York visiting my first boyfriend from High School. He worked at the Towers and even gave me a tour. When 9/11 come I was out camping in "Bigfoot" country for a few weeks. When I went to town I was shocked at the news. I keep calling my B/F and nothing. I was finally went home and his parents told me he did not make it. To this day I always get together and talk of old times instead of watching TV about what happened.

One of my regrets was not taken pics of us on that day. It was like any normal day and we stood there loking out at the view of New York up in the clouds. I am NOT going to tell you what we did in a window office. He introduced me to several people and they all keep saying thing like "its about time we meet you" and "Hope to see you again soon". After what happened I have never been back to NY.

[Jorge Galvan]

I woke up a little after 9am (CENTRAL TIME) and was getting ready for work, (here in Chicago) when I got a phone call about the towers from me Mum; and I turned on the tv and saw what was going on. I didn't know what to do in regards to work, so I got ready and went in, I took the METRA( commuter train) in and got off and already I could see loads of trains loading people up to go home, but I still went to the office, at the time I worked at an IP (Intellectual Propery) law firm and as I got in everyone was in their coats on their way out, I didn't know what to do, so I stayed, it was me and two of the firms partners left and I went about my business. By 2-3pm one of my bosses asked me if anything was open as he wanted a sandwich and I told him the building is shut down, only security was here and once you leave you CAN'T GET BACK IN. so he nixed that, but he did ask me to take an express mail to the post office to file with the PTO (patents, trademarks office) I told him that the local post offices were shut down and I COULD take it to my local PO in Blue Island. So he asked if I would do so. So I left, got on the Metra going home and there were about maybe 12-13 people in my car, including about 3-4 kids/teens. One kid was scared that they would "BOMB the Train". Jezuzz!

Got home drove to the PO and they took it, but told me it might not get there tomorrow due to the attack. Didn't matter as we only need the Proof of acceptance receipt to prove we sent it out. We did open up the office on the next day and things were solemn and quiet. So much history between then and now and so many people dead in all those years.

It's times when you think of when will man be at a place in history where none of these geopolitical conflicts do not occur and man can go on and live in peace.


Rest in peace to those innocents who have lost their lives over this.

[Mikey]

I used to love going to Ontario's Horseshoe Falls (see Superman 2)

Today, I have to pay 100+ bucks and six weeks to prove i'm actually REALLY just an American fat guy that wants to view the Falls --- and maybe hit the casino and Roadway hotel while up there

I seriously miss doing Canada fun stuff --- just because I refuse to buy into the modern fat guy oppression stuff … YOU CAN NOT ENTER CANADA UNTIL YOU PAY MONEY PROVING YOU'RE JUST AN AMERICAN FAT GUY

Canada used to loved American Fat Guys ?

Why did 911 change that

[Hector]

I remember being asleep, as I used to work graveyards back then…so I was sound asleep. But my dad (who was battling cancer at the time) quickly woke me up…he had this look on his face. I though at the moment that something had happened to my mom or something…but no…it was that shocking scene that we all are talking about here.

Horrific event…poor people…

[Nostalgiabuff]

my father worked in the trade center. he had retired in 2000 because of a heart issue. i rememeber calling him that morning almost in tears to tell him to put on the news. almost everyone that he had worked with died that day. he would have too had he not retired for health issues. ironic that a bad heart condition actually saved his life

[PNGwynne]

^I recall hearing of it at work--initial confusion and then the terrible realization. Many residents at the nursing home remembered Pearl Harbor, that panicked feeling and fear of what might come next.

I have a friend from college who had just moved to NYC that summer to teach and I didn't know of his new address yet, I was so worried. I visited him the following April, it was sobering.

[Nostalgiabuff]

i also found out a bit later, that a friend from High School that i had lost touch with had been killed at the Pentagon. he was one of the contractors working in that wing. he was a guy that had overcome some tremendous hardships in life, gotten his life together, married and had 2 young children.