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September 11, 2001 What do you remember

Damn, every year this thread gets my allergies flared up. I'm still as pissed 23yrs later. Might be more even, since people seem to be forgetting.


I was heading to a jobsite and I was right by 32nd st. Chris Cantory on 91x came on and said a plane hit the wtc. I thought that was odd. Switched to am 600. Listened till 6 pacific time then switched to 101.5kgb. I'll never forget that day. We played our stereos loud all day at the school we were working at. At the end of the day a teacher walked up and thanked us cause all the classes within earshot were just listening to our radios.


Those kids are either 40 or damn near there...wow.
 
Grnd93 said:
Watching the second plane hit while shaving. I could see our bedroom tv reflected in the bathroom mirror.

A very short while later I was in the middle of the Indian Ocean refueling bombers.
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I find it funny that you were there the same time that I was. It was a good feeling watching all those B52s line up on the runway for takeoff before the sun came up. :usa:
 
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I was down in Tucson rebuilding the kitchen in my house that the renters had torn up. My girlfriend in WY called and told me to turn the radio on.

I can still feel the absolute rage I felt knowing some pieces of shit had and were attacking us. I had a buddy of mine helping in the kitchen. We set stuff down and went straight to the Navy recruiting office to see if we could get back in. We were the first ones there followed by a lot of other older guys all wanting back in.

My buddy and I were unable to get back in so I've tried to do my best to support those that were in or went in.















absent companions...
 
Just finished up a brake job on a car. I was test driving and headed it on the radio. The shop died that day. So, I watched it on T.V.

I will say it again. I know those men looked at each other knowing they would not make it out alive. :beret: To those men.

It saddens me, that as a nation we are forgetting it and how fall we have separated since.

I fear the next one will be worse and closer to home for many.
 
At work watching it unfold on a tiny ass TV mounted to the wall with my coworkers. The old guy I worked alongside was furious not only that all those people had died but also how proud he was that his dad had helped wire them up when they were built and they were now gone.
I never really got choked up about it on the anniversary until about ten years later. I was watching the documentary of the memorial and how they had found a way to put the names on the bronze panels on where the people were in the towers when they died. That’s not what got me, it’s that they keep the memorial warm to the touch during the winter.
 
I listen to it play out live via Howard Stern. He did a great job going from funny guy to covering news. Not the same guy that he is today
I miss the One Nation that 9-12 brought us, but unfortunately we are here and I am afraid that it will take something of this magnitude to make it happen again.


But I get to still take my shoes off 23 years later to get on a plane to make it safer
 
I was also listening to Stern while I got ready for work. Listened all the way to work, no one at their desk when I got there. Everyone was in the break room in front of the TV. Management let us leave if we felt we had to. Most of us did. It was super slow for about a month.

It was a nice sunny morning, kind of like today was. I remember I drove my TJ with the top down that day.

I had a deck off my bedroom. I'd sit out there and have a couple beers before I went to bed. I'll always remember not seeing any airplane lights overhead while I sat out there.
 
bigun said:
Mom and I where just sitting down for breakfast, when my middle neice and nephew came in on their way to school. She stormed in yelling don't you people ever turn on the TV in the morning? She turned it on just as the second plane came into view and crashed, dumfounded I asked is this a movie, no she said tears running down her face it is really happening! She and her brother went on to school while mom and I sat there, I had a kitchen remodel I was supposed to be wiring, it didn't. Other than trips to the bathroom we sat there stunned watching as the suave looking Peter Jenning kept getting more rumpled, and horse. We watched people supporting each other trying just get away, black white red brown it didn't matter. First responders rushing in, people jumping out of the building as loose paper floated in the breeze, then the second building that had been hit lower collapsed it started slow then woosh it was gone, soon the first hit went down. More people rushed in, I remember a group of young union iron workers two pushing oxy acetylene tanks two with what looked like a 100 feet of hose figure 8ed around their shoulders when asked they said our dad's built it we will take it down,
G.W. Bush leaning sideways as an aid told him a plane had crashed in NY , with out frightning the kids he got up and walked out, something he was beat up for in the media for not jumping up commandeering a fighter and flying to NY .

Post 9/11 we came togather as a country, but the elites couldn't have that so they kept chipping away till we have what we have today
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1. Remember waking up and turning on TV not realizing that I’m watching video of the planes cracking into the buildings
2. I’ve never told anyone this. I was warned by a friend at that time do not under any circumstance fly any time between August and December. Granted I was too poor to fly at the time so I paid it no mind and honestly didn’t connect or realize what I had been informed of until years later.
3. Driving past the airport and seeing hundreds of planes just parked for days.
 
Another memory. I didn't see an image till late that evening when I got home. I remember Peter Jennings still going and how tired he looked. He might have been a douche canoe but he was leaps and bounds better than what's on the air now I'm sure. I don't know who it is now so I'm only speculating.


Traffic was nice that evening too I remember. I remember passing a cop doing about 20 over the limit (in ca with a trailer, which is just normal everywhere else) and figured I'd get pulled over but I didn't.
 
Captain Call said:
Another memory. I didn't see an image till late that evening when I got home. I remember Peter Jennings still going and how tired he looked. He might have been a douche canoe but he was leaps and bounds better than what's on the air now I'm sure. I don't know who it is now so I'm only speculating.


Traffic was nice that evening too I remember. I remember passing a cop doing about 20 over the limit (in ca with a trailer, which is just normal everywhere else) and figured I'd get pulled over but I didn't.
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Brokjaw was stuck over seas fuming because Jenning was in the hot seat
 
Just got back from a black bear hunt in Alaska the day before. One of the guys in our hunting party was supposed to fly back on 9-11. We didn't see him again for a month.
 
My fiance and I were in between an apartment that our lease had run out on, and we were waiting for closing on the house we had bought. We were staying with my mom and dad for maybe a week. I remember seeing my Dad at the breakfast table, watching TV, white as a ghost. I sat there with him and watched a while and realized that I may very well be drafted that day.

I didn't get drafted, and not enlisting that day because I had a soon to be wife is one of my biggest regrets.
 
Johnny Longrifle said:
My fiance and I were in between an apartment that our lease had run out on, and we were waiting for closing on the house we had bought. We were staying with my mom and dad for maybe a week. I remember seeing my Dad at the breakfast table, watching TV, white as a ghost. I sat there with him and watched a while and realized that I may very well be drafted that day.

I didn't get drafted, and not enlisting that day because I had a soon to be wife is one of my biggest regrets.
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Please don’t regret your decision. I’ve met a lot of people who have made that same statement, “I wish I had… “.

It’s not a lifestyle everyone can deal with, especially when you get into the more “combat arms” jobs. You spend a lot of time “In the field” training. I served nine years in the Infantry (before 9/11). I don’t regret one minute of it. But… it ended my first marriage, and caused a huge rift with several family members (combination of first wife & military issues).
 
I was on a barge in the gulf of mexico. I was working noon to midnight so I was sound asleep. Somebody opened my door and started rambling on about a plane just hitting the WTC. I remember telling him that if I got up it was going to be to punch him in the face and I went back to sleep. Few hours later I got to see the reruns. We had shut down all work due to no helicopters being allowed to fly. Something about no way to get a injured person off the barge.
 
Worked 3rd shift then got home grabbed something to eat and turned t.v. on to chill , why the fuck is every channel and soap opera! Literally what was running through my mind .
Called my dad which had been awake long enough and coherent. To ask wtf is going on

Bc every channel on TV was building on fire smoke everywhere ppl running around and emergency vehicles.
 
Freshman in college in surveying class out on the soccer field. Teachers Aid comes bombing in driving his janky Subaru, starts yelling "WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!" and explained what is happening. We all sat down and reflected about how our lives will be different moving forward. Our professor said "if any of you are Military, go home now." Some of those kids I never saw again. My CAD professor was an Air Force pilot, he disappeared for a month doing "things" he couldn't speak of.

I met my friend Joe last night for dinner, who was FDNY during 9/11. He was off that day, but got called in and arrived at the WTC at dusk. He spent the next 6 months recovering bodies. His stories of that time are wild. He's still screwed up having lived it.

I miss the America we had on 9/12. :usa:
 
Aisin said:
I find it funny that you were there the same time that I was. It was a good feeling watching all those B52s line up on the runway for takeoff before the sun came up. :usa:
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The BONEs were my favorite takeoff to watch, especially early morning or around dusk. Nothing like the sound of 4 GE F101s at full afterburner :smokin:
 
Grnd93 said:
The BONEs were my favorite takeoff to watch, especially early morning or around dusk. Nothing like the sound of 4 GE F101s at full afterburner :smokin:
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Were you there when they had one on the flight line with a collapsed nose landing gear?:laughing:
 
Aisin said:
Were you there when they had one on the flight line with a collapsed nose landing gear?:laughing:
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The story is familiar, but I can’t recall if I was there or not.

I was there Sept-November 2001, came home to see my wife give birth to our son, then went back in January 2002, and later for. 3rd rotation.
 
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