9/11 - 22 Years Later

[SIM-ple Jack 17,445]

If you were around then, share your memories of the event.

I was on a re-model when a co-worker came in and told me about the first plane crash. I thought he was joking, so I drove home and watched the second tower get hit. Then news started coming in about planes hitting the Pentagon and elsewhere. I, and a lot of others thought it was the start of WW3. In a way, looking back, it was.

[matias93 7,535]

I was 6 then, so not a lot of clear memories of it. I remember being watching cartoons or something and then all channels went to breaking news, but not much else. Here we have our own 9/11 and for me then that meant not going to school because it was dangerous to be outside at night (yup, then we ended schooldays at night).

Here in Chile, putting too much attention into the 2001 events always feels a bit like trying to distract from the 1973 ones.

[Haljackey 17,354]

I watched this 'new' compilation yesterday. 2 hours of real time coverage where the world changed forever.

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,445]

On 9/12/2021 at 10:31 AM, Haljackey said:

I watched this 'new' compilation yesterday.

Yea, I've been re-watching some of the old news footage. What makes me shake my head the most, was how many people were in close proximity to the buildings before they fell. As if they had no grasp of the concept of gravity. A lot of them are paying the price now, from all the toxic material they breathed in. Estimated post-911 deaths may climb to over 20000 before long.

[Christian_Knight78 44]

I was a US Army Military Policeman stationed in Germany. We had been training up for our upcoming NATO Kosovo Peacekeeping tour for 2002. We had been in a field training exercise near Weiden, Germany (our final one before our month long Mission Readiness Exercise in Hohenfels, Germany). Remember, Germany is 6 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. So when the attacks happened, it was already in the afternoon for me. Plus, we really did not believe it. We initially thought it was part of our training scenario. My Battalion Commander had personally come out to deliver the bad news to us, and told us that the US had indeed been attacked - The WTC and the Pentagon and flight 93 in Pennsylvania. He told us the 7th US Army commander with the US Army Europe Commander had ordered all units to return to their home stations, all training to cease, all DOD schools closed, and all DOD employees ordered to remain in their home areas. By the next morning, we saw the evidence in the German Newspapers and on CNN world - the attacks. It was rather tense the next few months. I had the opportunity to partner with the German Police in our patrols around Schweinfurt, as well as the Deutshcer Feljaegers (German Military Police). The German Customs had intercepted at the southern border a semi from Iraq that was filled with questionable items for attacks. 

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,445]

Never forget-

[Terring 6,476]

I was 16 years old and I was watching a TV series when the news happened and I just couldn't believe what happened. In a way, I still can't believe it actually happened. Never forget. Never again.

[catty-cb 4,411]

For us in New Zealand it happened during the night and we woke up the next morning to the news, I don't think I can ever remember a radio reporter sounding quite so upset as they were than morning, but horrifying as it was I got to work in time to take a phone call as one of my work colleagues had been at a conference in Europe and was flying back via the USA and his family were in a panic as no-one knew where he was just that he was meant to be on a plane somewhere in the USA ... all attempts at tracking him down via the airline failed they wouldn't even tell us what flight he had been booked on ... for security reasons they said .... and it wasn't till lunchtime before he was finally able to reach us to say he was ok, but his flight had been grounded in some out-of-the-way place no one had ever heard of before ...

He now leaves incredibly detailed travel plans when he goes overseas so we pretty much know where he is at every minute of the day