You should join in on the comments, Karno. Or do you?

I sometimes reply to comments, but commenting on my own post seems redundant. I should have said everything I need to in the post itself.

I mean at Stilton's Place. :)

Amen

A harsh reminder. That one should never underestimate what terrorists can do.

May those in the towers that day rest easy.

If you've never seen the documentary, look up "9/11" by two French brothers, only footage inside the building.

It was my first week of high school, right in Queens NYC. My Dad used to go to meetings at the towers all the time. Thankfully he was far away from it that day. Thinking about that day still twists a knot in my stomach.

Recently I saw a post on facebook where someone complained about Afghanistan saying we should be blaming the president, or the previous president, but instead they posted a picture of GW Bush... When I responded with a picture of Osama as the real culprit some one responded "That’s wild. I didn’t know Osama was the dude who was President of the United States who lied about Afghanistan having WMDs. "

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise."^{--Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1742)}

Amen.

Many thanks to the firemen and heroes who lost their own lives for saving others in the attack. RIP </3

I wonder if our new alien overlords Administration understands what happened that day, and how they have greased the skids for the next attack.

I was sleeping in late after staying up half the night from going out to for dinner and movie and drinking to celebrate my Birthday. I got a call from my boss at the movie theater that we weren't opening that day due to the crisis. I find out I had missed out on most of as it happened because I hadn't turned the TV on most of the day.

I had a supervisor at my old job tell me that on 9/11, he had overslept at a NYC hotel, thereby missing the tour bus. A bus that sent folks to the twin towers.
It just goes to show that a good night's sleep can be VERY good for your health.

The worst aspects, besides the death of innocents and the destruction was the willingness of various groups all climbing their soapboxes and yammering about things they knew nothing about. "Trust me I'm not a structural engineer, I know what loads fire weakened steel can handle."

Government to the rescue! just give up some more of your rights, after all we're here to help (ourselves) to your communications.

It became a free for all of the uneducated and governmental overreach.

But 3000 some odd people died, they were our American family whether we knew them or not. I try to venerate those people and weigh the loss, and turn off the political recriminations.

I did that to one "The US set off explosives in WTC" nutcase cause you "Could see the charges going off during the collapse."

He had a orange juice box in his hand he just opened, I took it from him, re-closed the lid, set it down and immediately jumped on it, spraying the contents from all four sides. He looked at me with a WTF you doing? look and I pointed to the spray pattern. I said "Yeah, I used explosives to do that! Its called air compression idiot, and the glass sides were the weakest point of each floor as the weight above came down compressing the air out."

Nope, didn't convince him, still insisted that a missile was shot into the WTC despite the video footage of both airliners in action.

I hate utter dumbasses like that, sadly the internet is full of them.

I still remember watch the feed from my middle school library as they played the news feed from a small tv, the towers falling.

AMEN brother, lets never forget

I was at Norfolk Naval Base for training.

I came into the building for class, and the quarterdeck was unmanned, which is *not* supposed to happen. I went looking for them, and they're all watching the TV. Once I figured out what was happening, I immediately tried to call home, but the network was a shambles.

WTC was a major switching center, and with it gone, most of the East Coast was down.

However, I knew that the international trunks were on a separate system, so I tried calling my boyfriend in the UK. I got through! He was in quite a state, but when I called, he felt much better. Reasoning that the same systems should be able to reach home, I asked him to call my parents and let them know I was okay.

They let us out of class, and I could see that the whole base was like a nest of fire ants, so I ran over to the Exchange and stocked up on groceries. The dining hall was going to be closed, so I knew I had to get food for the next few days while the base was locked down.

As I sat in my room, on my laptop, and watching the news, I noticed that the television was getting squarble lines every 10 seconds, along with a "zeeep!" noise. I had the door open so I could watch what was going on in the harbor, and I looked over towards the piers.

The AN/SPS-48 Air-Search Radar on the USS Eisenhower was rotating.

It's *never* supposed to do that in port. That thing can sizzle birds out of the sky, and it was not only rotating, my TV was squarbling every time it panned in my direction!

I looked out towards Hampton Roads, and saw the USS Bainbridge heading out to sea? But she was doing at least 20 knots. In port.

The next three days were spent in a kind of limbo as they figured out what to do and finally got us back into class. They were *not* happy days.

Amen.

I was on air doing a community radio show here in Australia when it began. At the end of the show I switched over to the BBC news at midnight (our time) as I started to pack up and then just sat there stunned as I listened to everything as it was happening (or in some cases not happening but rumoured).
Listened for about ten minutes before heading to a friends house and sat with her and listened more as we contacted a mutual friend in the US to check on her. During that time more news had come in of the other flights, and concerns for all aircraft currently in the air.
My parents were at that stage on a flight from Singapore to Sydney.
I headed home and watched the TV all night trying to hold back the tears for all those lost, especially the first responders once the towers fell, as I waited the many hours until the folks arrived home. We then watched together until I could hold off sleep no longer.
Then followed the days of numbness as information, good but often bad trickled in on the search and recovery operations.

People say about things being 'the new normal' when responding to events. This was the day that the world changed for this century and I don't think we'll ever be really 'normal' in the lifetime of those that remember times before this terrible event.

Be safe and be well everyone and try not to let hate fester in your hearts.

I had a night job at the time and was at home watching TV before I had to go to work. I saw the second plane crash and collapse of both towers live on TV. The whole thing. One of the very few experiences from my 20's I can remember with absolute clarity.

My parents have told me that the most important moment they ever saw live on TV was the first moon landing. My generation got September 11th and "Mission Accomplished."

I wish I could remember something more admirable. 8(

I was just outside the administration office of Keyano College in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. I was going to class, and I saw the TVs outside the office. I wondered why the office would be playing some action movie, and why people were watching it and crying.


Only later did I learn it was the news.