Where Were You 10 Years Ago On the Morning Of 9/11???

[Greene's Basin Girl]

I imagine that everyone remembers where they were on the morning of 9/11. I had recently won a radio contest on WHOM. The morning of 9/11 a friend and I were traveling to the base of Mt. Washington. We were suppose to meet Jared from the Subway commercials and ride with him to the summit. We were then scheduled to have lunch with Jared. Needless to say when we arrived we learned about the events that were unfolding in NYC. Everyone around us were in shock. We were told by the radio personnel that the meeting with Jared was off. We decided to go up to the summit by ourselves anyways. We reached the Tip-Top house and we found that the few people that were in the building were clued to the summit's TV. The situation was very surreal. We were so lucky to be in one of the most beautiful majestic NH landmarks, but we felt like we were in a dream. It was horrifying to watch the twin towers burn and fall. It made me realize that we need to appreciate each and every day that we have with our family and friends.

[Nagigator]

I had a dentists appointment that morning. Sitting on my bed, I was flossing, and watching the Today show's extended coverage, as it was past their 9am sign off. The second plane hit the tower, live, and Matt Lauer was stunned into silence. The strangest thing I noticed was in the following week. My house sits on the flight path of jets going to and from Logan. We always have the jets coming by, way up high. The entire week was silent.......just one small change that occured because of this unspeakable tragedy...

[VitaBene]

I was sitting at my desk listening to Howard Stern (who did an unbelievable job of covering the event). I stayed there for an hour or so, then went home to watch coverage. I remember feeling numb and angry.

I work as a security consultant. 9-11 had a profound impact on how I look at facilities and the threats they face.

[Nagigator]

I was listening to Howard, too.........that show provided a great service to the city of New York that morning.

[jkjoshuatree]

...I had picked up my jobs for the day and the first was on Channel St. in Southie.

I was listening to WAAF (Tool was on-Forty Six & 2-one of their best songs) and I remember Greg Hill stopping the song for the announcement.

I looked across the water and noticed immediately that there wasn't ANY activity at all happening at Logan.

No planes over head (like Nagigator said) and not a soul on the tarmac of the run ways. And of course no planes landing or taking off. It was surreal. Like everyone just disappeared.

My second job that day (how weird is this?) was at the World Trade Center. Granted, it's completely different than the one in NYC, but still eerie. A co worker called and told me not to go. So I didn't. No one had any idea what was going on yet.

I ended up in Charlestown eventually and it was so strange to actually notice the absence of planes in the sky.

At one point, I heard one overhead and people stopped their cars, go out, and looked up. We were freaked. It was a fighter jet and boy was it loud and scary.

Finally, around 2:30, I was in a woman's apartment taking her phone jack apart and she had the TV on (I hadn't SEEN anything yet...only listened on the radio).

I was mesmerized. I asked her if I could sit down and watch for a little while. She said of course. We watched the footage in stunned silence.

I couldn't think of a thing to say.

[robmac]

I was at work at a Chevrolet dealership in MA. when I was walking out of service toward my office when several employees called me to the waiting room to see tv coverage. I can remember that for the rest of the day the phones barely rang,normally customers especially comercial would blow up the phone lines all day. It was very quiet,nobody really even talking for the remainder of the day.

[martbri7]

I was listening to Howard Stern that morning heading to my parents house to do some laundry....I had the entire broadcast on a old school ipod....Howard was talking about being at a club with Pamela Anderson then breaking news...I stayed glued to the Howard/tv all day. Baba Booey Baba Booey

[Meredith lady]

i was home that fateful day. Glued to the TV and the phone. Our family lost Garnett (Ace) Bailey (of Boston Bruins fame). Such a tragic and sad day.

[Hshag]

I was in Brewster Massachusetts replacing windows listening to Howard Stern on my earbuds. I turned on the TV in the house when I heard the breaking news . I stood there watching the burning building on TV wondering how an airplane could hit the WTC…….......Then the 2nd plane hit.

[Hshag]

My wife had a friend Bobbi Arestegui. She was a flight attendant for American Airlines. She was on Flight 11 September 11th . She was the first to die. Bobbie was killed in rush to the cabin.
Still thinking of you Bobbie
http://www.flightattendants.org/Memo..._Arestegui.htm

[Mink Islander]

Since I had several bankers heading with me for client calls, I insisted we fly one of the el cheapo airlines rather than the much more expensive flights on AA to conserve our travel budget. We would normally have taken the morning flight on AA that was one of the two that flew into the WTC. I will never forget that. So much in life is simply chance.

SF was an eerie place that day. Completely shut down. After two days we rented a Ford Excursion and drove X-country non-stop back to Boston in two and a half days. Got home just as the airports were reopening.

[SAMIAM]

We were on vacation at Popham Beach, Maine.....spent a quiet day exploring and enjoying the day. We didn't find out until we returned in the late afternoon and a friend called and told us what happened. She told us first, that my daughter, who lived in NY city at the time, was all right....and then explained what happened. Couldn't believe it.....still can't.

[NoBozo]

TODAY SHOW: Watched the first building hit..watched the second building hit. Had a doctors appointment in Boston..Mass General. Hit the road from RI. It's an hour ride. On the car radio...Pentagon HIT. Made a U-Turn at the Rt 24 -128 junction and headed back to RI. Didn't want to get into Boston's TALL buildings... NB

[Bear Islander]

It was our 25th wedding anniversary and I was opening a card my wife had just given me when I saw the WTC burning on the TV.

Before that day September 11 was just my wedding day.

Now it's our 35th.

[Hermit Cover]

I was driving on Interstate 95 in Springfield, Virginia on my way to McLean, Va. to meet a truckload of furniture being delivered to my brother in law's home there....upon reaching the Capital Beltway I decided to take the Beltway Tyson's Corner route....I usually would take the 95 to GW Parkway route which...goes directly past the west side of the Pentagon....By the time I reached McLean the plane had hit the Pentagon.....

Mrs. Hermit Cover worked for many years in NYC at One Liberty Plaza...the former US Steel Building...across Liberty street from the South Tower of the WTC. Her 8th floor office faced the Mezzanine Floor of that South Tower. She had left that building and that employer a year before. The Brooks Brothers Store on the ground floor of One Liberty became a triage point for casualties....the west side of One Liberty was blown out by the blast and subsequent collapse. For a time , you'll remember, it was feared One Liberty would also collapse. Today it is Nasdaq Headquarters....

[Just Sold]

I was doing a volunteer home painting project in Plaistow, NH when my best friend called me and kept saying that "Donnie Ditullio, his brother-in-law, and his girlfriend Janis Lasden were on that plane" until I got him calmed down and he explained what he was talking about. That Donnie was on the 1st plane that had hit the World Trade Center. He had not known which flight Donnie was on he just knew that it was that plane that had hit the World Trade Center. We had the home owner turn on his TV and watched the 2nd plane hit. I spent the rest of that day and the week that followed with my friend and their family and took care of their elderly mother while they delt with the tragedy.
There were more things that happened after flight 11 crashed that were very erie. Like Janis' premonition the night before (told to her neighbor) that the plane would crash to her last will and testiment written the night before and sitting on her computer when my friend arrived at Donnie & Janis' home the night of the crash and there were others.

Donnie's mother and 2 sisters are in NYC for the 10th Anniversary of 9/11.

My nephew was in NYC that day and in order to get out of town with no public transportation running he walked north thru Manhattan to rent a Ford Escape and drive it back to Minneapolis, MN.

[upthesaukee]

One of my coworker's husband called and said a plane hit the WTC tower and wanted to know how a plane could be that far off course (I was an air traffic controller in my prior life.). I told him I couldn't fathom that happening. After the second plane hit the second tower, he came to the store to tell us all what happened and that it wasn't an accident. Not a good day.

[Janet]

I was an administrative assistant for one of our hospitals in the Dallas area. I was completing some paperwork for the director of the psychiatric unit. Walking back to my office I overheard one of the patients on the phone telling a friend a plane had crashed into the WTC. I immediately wondered what medication she was on. It wasn't until I got to my office and called my sister who confirmed what this patient had said. Having been born and raised in New Jersey we had been to the WTC and knew the area quite well. Of course hospitals can't stop work and at the time TVs were only in patient rooms so I kept informed with calls to my sister. I'll never forget her saying, "they're gone, those buildings are gone". A friend of mine in New Jersey said one of the saddest things was to drive by the train stations and see the same cars sitting in the parking lot of the Park and Rides day after day waiting for their drivers who never returned.

[VitaBene]

Originally Posted by Bear Islander

It was our 25th wedding anniversary and I was opening a card my wife had just given me when I saw the WTC burning on the TV.

Before that day September 11 was just my wedding day.

Now it's our 35th.

Happy anniversary!

[eillac@dow]

I was at a red light on Mass Ave near Boston City Hospital, listening to Matty in the Morning on Kiss 108. He broke into the song and told us that a plane had hit the World Trade. he is kind of a jokster on the radio and I remember him saying....something like...people, I like to joke around , but what I am saying here is real...it is true.

I called my husband at work, continued driving and another plane hit. Went to work in the Prudential Center...all of us glued to TVs and then left. Went to the school and grabbed my kids out school and just went home.

What a horrific day. I will remember it always.

God bless all those that lost their lives. God bless those who assisted in the rescue. God bless all of their families and God Bless us All.

[SteveA]

I was at a Sales Managers meeting at our corporate offices in Elyria, OH. We we're in a large conference room when one of the office staff burst into the meeting to say a plane had hit the WTC. At first we went on with the meeting until the word got out that a second plane hit. We had giant projection TV in the Conference room and they turned it on and we watched the story unfold. Horrible!

That night we were scheduled to have about 30 of our major customers coming into Cleveland for a training program that was planned for 9/12. We were supposed to have a reception for them that night at a Marriott Courtyard right near the Cleveland Airport. The only customer that made it was a local guy that drove to hotel.

We all ended up watching the events unfold in the lobby TV area at the Courtyard.
That night the crew from Delta 1989, that was for a period of time, thought to be a 5th plane. The entire crew sat with us and watched the TV and told us all about the confusion that had forced them to be ordered to land in Cleveland. They spent hours on the ground being interviewed by the FBI. They were one shook up bunch of people.

The whole story of Delta 1989 is told here.
http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Delta_1989

My brother worked for Raython in North Andover, (still does), two close friends he worked with died that day on one of the flights from Boston.

I ended up having to rent one of the last cars they had at Cleveland airport and drive back to NH. I carpooled with a guy that I dropped off in Springfield, Mass.

[WakeUp]

My sincere appology to the Forum for an off-color remark made earlier on this thread. Sometimes my honesty comes back to bite. Again, sorry about that.

[AC2717]

I woke up in my college dorm my junior year, to two of my roommates watching the TV, and I said that looks familiar what movie is this???
They both turned to me and said this is live and is happening right now, and I said what and just then the second plane hit right on CNN.

It was terrible...

[RLW]

I was up on Alton Mountain watching the artesian well drill just go past 723' and wondering when it was going to come to a stop. At the time I was extremely nervous and it was more important than what I was hearing on the radio as the drilling just continued to go down.

[Bear247]

I was on vacation down in Aruba. Wondering if we were going to be able to get home at some point...

[Rattlesnake Guy]

I was also in a dentist chair. When I got to the car and turned on Imus I called my wife and told her to turn on the TV as something huge has happened but I don't know what it is. My work family spent much of the day in the conference room trying to make sense of it all. Several of our coworkers were in DC and found their way home with an unreturned rental car.

[Gearhead]

I was in Buffalo on business. I was scheduled to fly out of Buffalo-Niagara at 2:00 and I was in a conference room finishing some last-minute details when people rushed into the room and turned on the TV. We watched the second plane fly into the building and I thought "we're getting invaded!" I drove my rental back home to NH, watching convoys of 20-plus state troopers F-L-Y-I-N-G down I-90. I still remember the large lighted sign over the highway saying that all traffic into the city was closed.

The next day I drove to Hanscom to pick up my car and there was a group of four strangers (three men, one woman) who were all driving to Texas and were waiting in the terminal for someone to bring in a rental car.

My company also had a trade show in Las Vegas (PMMI) and a large contingent of them were "stuck" at the Bellagio. One of the salesmen who drove there from Los Angeles BOUGHT a new Suburban, then loaned it to eight or so co-workers to drive back to South Carolina, then Massachusetts. Imagine the mileage writeoff!

[CrownRay]

I was working as a field service dispatcher for the company I worked for. I got a phone call from one of the engineers in NY. He told me a plane hit the WTC. He called me because we are both pilots. We were discussing how it was weird that on such a C.A.V.U. (Ceiling and Visiblity Unlimited) day that a plane could be so far off course. Then, suddenly he said he had to go, and hung up (when the second plane hit). Turns out he was stuck in traffic on one of the bridges the whole time. I remember I told the nearest co-worker to me. Nobody in the office knew yet...I was kind of the barer of bad news....