9/11 stories

[RC Mechanic]

Ok well as we all know today is 9/11. THe day the twin towers were hit by the hijacked planes. I am interested in eveyone stories on 9/11 if anyone is willing to share. I was in 5th grade and our teacher turned the news on but turned it off 5 minutes later. I think she had 2nd thoughts about telling 5th graders this and just wanted us to go home and figure it out. I just thought this would be a nice thread to start and i am sure that many people on here are interested

[savagenomore]

i don't really have a story but more of a comment: I think we should build the towers back just as they where, by not doing this i feel that we are telling the terrorist "OK, you won" yes there should be a monument for the lost lives but build the towers back as they where.................

this is my opinion and i stand by it................

[EbayEmaxx]

heres the monument:

http://www.buildthememorial.org/site...name=homepage2

I was in 3rd grade at the time....

[metalhobo]

I was in 4th grade...

[joewolverine18]

i was in 5th grade, anyone besides me actually ever gone in the towers b4 9/11?

[mudridin']

I was painting outside trim on a house when it all went down. I'll never forget that shocking day. My best friends parents were workig in the pentagon wneh it got hit. Their offices were on either side of the impact. It took about 2 hours for them to find each other and another 4 hours for them to actually call my buddy. It was a very gut-wrenching time for us. Thankfully, they were ok.

[RIPLER]

I was at work listening to Howard Stern and actually found out about the attacks and what was happening from his show. Told my co-workers and we found a TV set and watched the news.

[Mirage]

I was in my first year of college. My uncle however is an Air Traffic Controller. One of his planes hit the Pentagon. He said all they could do was watch it on radar until it dissapeared.....

[revo_buddy]

i was in 2nd grade when it happened

[dragster]

i don't really have a story but more of a comment: I think we should build the towers back just as they where, by not doing this i feel that we are telling the terrorist "OK, you won" yes there should be a monument for the lost lives but build the towers back as they where.................

this is my opinion and i stand by it................

Im sure that was considered but you have to look at it from an economical stand point. By rebuilding it, we are asking for it again. It would also be hard to see all that office space if people fear it again. rebuilding them again would just provoke them.

[savagenomore]

Im sure that was considered but you have to look at it from an economical stand point. By rebuilding it, we are asking for it again. It would also be hard to see all that office space if people fear it again. rebuilding them again would just provoke them.

i respect your opinion but if we rebuilt the towers and got certain people too do their job it wouldn't happen again, i will never understand how we as the United States of America let that happen........i'll stop here.......

[Hertz]

i dont understand how you can expect us to stop something like that. now its hard to do because you cant even take a bottle of water onto a plane but i think if i were a member of whatever homeland security organizations there were before 9/11 it would be one of the last things i would expect.


well any way i was in 6th grade or so.. seems like yesterday.

and yeah i was actually in one of the towers before the attacks. we were thinking about going up to the upper observation floor. we couldnt find the elevator so we just said well we will do it next time we come to new york. welp..

[thingsbreak2ez]

i was in 6th grade...the Capt who teaches the ROTC classes in my HS was working in the pentagon at the time but b/c they were going to start renovating the side that was hit his office was moved. (in a piture of the damage he showed us the window of the office he would have been in if they werent renovating)

[RC Mechanic]

wow. I knew a girl who was actually planning on going to the towers and touring them in New York that day around that time. Fortuanatly her dad who she was going with got sick or something and there were not able to go.

[Mirage]

wow. I knew a girl who was actually planning on going to the towers and touring them in New York that day around that time. Fortuanatly her dad who she was going with got sick or something and there were not able to go.

I just found out that where I work, a couple people were in the second tower when the first was hit. They figured they would leave and go out for breakfast until things calmed down. Boy are they glad they left when they did, because shortly after they left, the second plan hit the building where they were supposed to be....

The building I work in was then evacuated. I work in New Jersey, and from my building you can look out the window and see the Empire State building, they say you used to be able to see the towers as well. Im just glad that I don't know anyone, or know of anyone that lost someone that day.

[I know pi!]

I was in 5th grade, our teacher spent all day talking about it with the class, a poor kid in my class thought his uncle was in the plane but he wasn't, I had a substitute teacher tell us that her brother and husband were supposed to be there that day but couldn't because of a meeting change and a dentist appointment, wow. I'm glad they could bring doun the fourth plane, the passengers beat up the hijackers and took over, the plane crashed into the ground, but that one could have been headed to the statue of liberty. I think the pilot area should be un-acessable to flight passengers, like a steel door that's locked from the inside. I'm surprised they are so open to get into.

[Mirage]

I think the pilot area should be un-acessable to flight passengers, like a steel door that's locked from the inside. I'm surprised they are so open to get into.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14588206/

[bjoehandley]

I'm suprised this one hasn't gotten the boot yet!

I've worked near the Dupage Co. Airport for almost 10 years now and have lived almost my entire life 40 or so min. from O'Hare (kinda between the two if you want to get picky about it) and was working at a Toy's "R" Us about a mile or so west of the Dupage Airport at the time. I turned on the TV as I was getting ready for work when I first heard about it, hoping it wasn't an attack but just an accident like what happened to The Empire State Building around the time of WW2 untill I saw the second plane hit and well that thought went out the window. My Mom ans Sister were working at the same store at that time and on that day Mom and I both were scheduled to open. As we drove down the street it was announced that the Pentagon was hit and that all air traffic was to be grounded. As Mom and I drove by the Dupage Airport is was just kinda spooky to see all the aircraft that was just sitting there all at once and then not to hear any aircraft at all for those days was even stranger. After the restriction was lifted it was kinda nice, but a little eirie (sp?) to see and hear aircraft flying again.

[Buzzforbrains]

i respect your opinion but if we rebuilt the towers and got certain people too do their job it wouldn't happen again, i will never understand how we as the United States of America let that happen........i'll stop here.......

I agree and with not going into any more, it seems strange how 19 people 'living in a cave' could infiltrate the US and do that much damage.

[bjoehandley]

I agree and with not going into any more, it seems strange how 19 people 'living in a cave' could infiltrate the US and do that much damage.

More disconcerting to me is that there was a network here in the States that was willing to help them do the job.

[Revo_Ratt_]

When I hear things like a mother was in a car accident and the daugter at the same time from the other side of the country got a strange feeling and called her to find out what happended and things like that, I shrug them off as just coincedances.

Something happended to me that morning that I have never experienced before or since in my life. I live in San Diego California. I had a dream that morning that woke me from my sleep at around 6am PT, 9am ET. I was dreaming that I was running down stairs as fast as possible, so fast in fact, my feet were not even hitting the individual stairs, my heels were just hitting the tops of them, it was like I was skiing down them. There were tons of people around me doing the same. The stairwell was the cold, cement walls and stairs with the big metal tube railing. All I felt was panic, I was just going round and round, down and down, seem to be never ending. The farther down I got, the more people there were and the more panic'd I felt! I saw people falling down and others helping them, I even saw a couple people carrying someone in a wheelchair at which point the panic and fear was so great I woke up!

I looked at the clock and it was about 6am, so I turned on my radio to an LA talk radio station I listen in the mornings and heard them say "A second plane has just hit the other world trade center tower and I think it's safe to say this is no accident, we are under attack!" I didn't believe it, I though it was one of those "What-If" scenarios, but there was something different in their voices, so I jumped out of bed and turned on Fox News. Right before my eyes I watch a replay of the planes hitting the twin towers... That moment, between my dream, which at that point, I'm still feeling panic'd from, and what I was watching, I truly felt scared about the future of mankind, unbelievable.

[superUEmaxx]

wayyy more info than any of us will ever know.

flight 93 didn't happen exactly like it's portrayed in movies/tv

[REVO Jake]

Im sure that was considered but you have to look at it from an economical stand point. By rebuilding it, we are asking for it again. It would also be hard to see all that office space if people fear it again. rebuilding them again would just provoke them.

The chances of it happening exactly the same again are slim to none. First of all, the pilot doors are bullet proof, and airport security is 4x's what it used to be. On top of that, if the passangers had known now, what they did when they were in the plains, do you think they would've been calm and stood around in the back of the plains? Not a chance, I'd risk my life to try to take down the terrorist before I did a suicide bombing.

It took a 747 with thousands of pounds of fuel to take down a building...yet it still took more than a couple hours to bring it down! You have to ask yourself, will a terrorist ever be able to duplicate those intense circumstances, with that many people surrounding them? It would take quite an explosion to bring a building of that proportion down. Plus, an explosion won't have nearly the heat that burning fuel would for hours and hours. By the time that they built the building, they would probably improvise. Parachutes in every room, on every floor, and the technology. It would take 7-8 years to build something that large. They could use technology to keep the building out of harms way.

On the other hand, a building of that size is really only for bragging rights. New York is known for buildings, they needed a monument, something to say, 'Mines bigger'

I was in 5th grade, getting ready to go to school, and then my mom saw the news, she didn't let me go to class. I'm in California, she was worried something would happen in SF.

[superUEmaxx]

where was the debris at the Pentagon? fuel doesn't burn hot enough to vaporise a jet engine