Where were you??? 09/11/01

Lou Zehnder

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I had just finished a 30 min bobcat job for a builder....Driving back from that job site I noticed I had a voicemail from my mom. In a nutshell....my grandma had passed that morning at 630. In a daze I didn't even realize what was being said on the truck radio............trade towers ......plane crash......Honestly it was a blur for a few mins as I pulled off to the side of the street to reflex on her passing and what the radio was broadcasting. It was a bad day 10 years ago as it is today 10 later on reflecting on it.

To this day I have real problem driving down Teal Ln. in Winchester Ky....
 
I was driving to work listening to bubba the love sponge on the radio. It was a sad day we left work early and where glued to the tv. For the next 2 days waiting to see what would happen. My grandmother cried all day not for the lost but for the fear there would be a draft and that I would have to go to war.
 
I was in my boat on Medard Reservoir in Valrico fishing. My wife called all frantic telling me to get home that America was getting bombed and it was not safe to be out. She explained that two planes had flown into a building and that they were terrorists targeting buildings with lots of people. I kind of laughed and said well this Lake is the safest place for me to be because there is no on here but me. Eventually went home and was glued to TV for days. I had NO IDEA the impact and how bad of an attack it was till I got home.
 
I was cleaning a deck by myself at a home with nobody there. A neighbor (also a customer) that heard me working knew that I did not know, wanted to tell somebody so she came over to share. I went inside just in time to see the second plane go into the other tower. We could not understand "the replay" because "it looks like a second plane hit the other tower" Then we turned the volume up to discover that this was terrorism.

Man there was a lot of jets flying up and down the beach that day.
 
I was in a doctor's office getting a stress test. The second plane hit before I got into the reception area where there was a tv set.
 
I had just finished a 30 min bobcat job for a builder....Driving back from that job site I noticed I had a voicemail from my mom. In a nutshell....my grandma had passed that morning at 630. In a daze I didn't even realize what was being said on the truck radio............trade towers ......plane crash......Honestly it was a blur for a few mins as I pulled off to the side of the street to reflex on her passing and what the radio was broadcasting. It was a bad day 10 years ago as it is today 10 later on reflecting on it.

To this day I have real problem driving down Teal Ln. in Winchester Ky....

I was in Winchester that day as well. Asleep. someone woke me up and told me.
 
You guys are old. lol :eek:uttahere:

I was in my sophomore year of high school. I had no idea until I was on my way to geometry and heard someone say the WTC had been bombed. I thought they were talking about the first time in '93. When we got to class, the teacher had it on, and I realized it was happening again. As a firefighter now, it hits even harder that we lost 343 brothers.
 
Finished morning classes at University and was in a pub in Glasgow, Scotland having a 'liquid lunch' with a bunch of friends (lunch time there with the time difference). The bar had a wall of tv screens... it was surreal watching it all unfold. We were all in a daze, the rest of the day was strange... atmosphere in the city was different.
 
I was up in the Boise Foothills Framing a house. We where trying to listen to the job site radio over all the racket that we where creating. Nobody even had a "Clue" as to what was really happening, as the radio didn't paint much of of a picture. It was an eerie feeling that we where up high, overlooking the airport below and noticing no aircraft traffic above or below. It was kinda surreal, like the calm before the storm, for lack of better words.

I stopped at the local C-Store for a thirstbuster on the way to work earlier in the morning, and overheard something about the Pentagon, but i thought nothing of it.

It wasn't until i got home a walked past the TV, that i realized the magnitude of the days events. I'll never forget stopping in my tracks, dropping to my knees, and being draw into the television at that moment in time!
 
I was just waking up when a school teacher my wife baby sat for hit the door and told us to turn on the TV. My wife yelled at me to come down stairs and watch, just as the second tower got hit. I was glued to the TV the rest of the day, until I had to go wash some trucks.
 
I think I was in physics class junior year of high school. didn't know what the world trade center was so it took the images for me to grasp this was big. I remember thinking, dang those airplanes look small compared to the buildings, then I was in disbelief seeing people jumping and then the buildings collapsing.
 
I was at the refinery loading chemical railcars. We were told to shut down and put everything away. It was a pita to disconnect the loading arms as I only loaded 1 railcar and just finished connecting the loading arms on the other 3.

We were told to just stand by so we went and found a tv after hearing what had happened and then we saw the replay. Wow.

I still remember like if it was yesterday. I was so mad at what happened. This is America! Nobody does that to us, bunch of Cowards!

I am glad that Americans stopped the plane from hitting it's target in DC.

It was very sad watching the Towers fall, all those innocent people dying, lots of children without parents, kids in daycare that will not go home. Very sad.
 
I was a Sophmore in high school in Westchester, NY right outside the city. There were a lot of kids in my class whose parents worked in the World Trade Center. The school made the mistake of turning on the TVs for us to watch...absolute hysteria. We were close enough to be breathing smoke from the fallen towers.
 
We were living in a condo. It was right before we moved into our new storefront and we were doing dryclean delivery out of out garage till our new space was ready.

As usual we had somebody living with us "just for a while, till I get on my feet" (welcome to Las Vegas). He was an old friend from high school and was drugged up most of the time, (but always going to quit tomorrow)

We were scampering around trying to get the clothes loaded up in the vans and on one of our trips in the house my friend said, "Hey man, look at this, the twin towers got blown up". He didn't even bother to get up off the sofa to come tell us so I just thought he was out of his mind again.

We kept on working and once all the vans were loaded we stopped to take a break just about the time the first tower fell.

We watched as much of it as we could then listened to the radio the rest of the day. Offices were quiet that day. People were all sitting around TV's at every stop.

Some of our supplies came out of Manhattan and it was a full 4 months before the businesses we dealt with were able to send product again.

It was surreal.
 
Working at home with a deadline for the newspaper I published. Mike called and told me to turn on the TV, that they were attacking New York and the Pentagon. I tuned in just prior to seeing the buildings collapse. I was glued to the TV the rest of the day. Mike called back to say he didn't know when he'd be able to come home. (He works full time for the National Guard.)

As a sidenote, my next door neighbor's son -- who was around 20 at the time -- was in one of the Towers that day for training for his Arkansas-based job. He made it out safely.
 
I was doing the morning commute from the Northshore to New Orleans on my way to my job as a mortgage loan officer, listening to Walton and Johnson, when they said that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. At first they thought it was a small private plane. When it was confirmed that it was a commercial airliner the reaction was shock, disbelief, and dismay. How could that be an accident?
I got into the office and while I was there the second plane hit. We were all in shock. People were crying.
We were in a high rise next to the Treasury building and since we had no idea how widespread the attacks would be our home office sent us all home for the day.
 
I was in 7th grade health class in New Jersey and remember the teacher getting a phone call on the room phone as we were waiting for class to start. They came on the intercomm shortly after to announce what was hapening. We didn't have tv or computer in the classroom so I think at that age it was just kinda weird not sure if it was big deal or not. But being so close to NYC parents started pulling kids out of school all day while the rest of us took the bus home. I vaguely remember being able to see smoke at some point after it had drifted for several hours over the river. Got home and watched tv for a long time by myself and had to self process and had to see it several times to really "get it" how serious it was.

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