8 Years, it may as well be 800, we will never forget.

[Armchair General]

Today take a moment to remember the 3,000 so deaths of innocent American civilians who were taken long before their time. I walked into school this morning and was greeted with a sign that said: 9/11: Never Forget. Next to it was a blown-up picture of the three firefighters raising the flag from the ruins.


What were you doing when the world was turned upside down? I was in the 3rd Grade, playing an Oregon Trail Simulator Game.

[Little Powell]

I was a sophomore at The Berklee School of Music in Boston. I was in the middle of class and a professor came in completely freaked out, screaming "the WTC was bombed.. we are under attack". I went back to my apartment, turned on the news. Since the terrorists originated out of Boston Logan Airport, the police had surrounded one of the two hotels where the terrorists spent their last hours... The hotel was down the street from my apartment, and I could see it from my window. My parents started calling telling me to stay away from tall buildings, and to stay off of the subway.. I spent the rest of the day watching the news in complete disbelief..

[norb]

Working at Breakaway Games, can't remember exactly what game I was working on. Listened to the radio and someone called in saying they saw a plane fly right over the highway. Breakaway is in MD, so that was the Pentagon plane. The owner sent everyone home early that day. I remember never seeing a bluer sky, with no planes putting their white exhaust trails up there.

[Kerflumoxed]

Armchair General wrote:

Today take a moment to remember the 3,000 so deaths of innocent American civilians who were taken long before their time. I walked into school this morning and was greeted with a sign that said: 9/11: Never Forget. Next to it was a blown-up picture of the three firefighters raising the flag from the ruins.


What were you doing when the world was turned upside down? I was in the 3rd Grade, playing an Oregon Trail Simulator Game.

I had entered my classroom about 20 minutes before 0800 in preparation for my first government class of the day on 9/11. For some reason, I turned on the TV, which I normally would not do. Needless to say, I suspended my regular class activities and we all watched the developments on the east coast as they unfolded on that tragic day.

Interestingly, my AP Am. History students in this morning's class, most of whom are seniors, noted they were in the 4th grade 8 years ago; only two are juniors and they, like you, were in 3rd grade.

[Vonviper]

I was working for ODU college

driving my work van

indeed that was a day i'll never forget..

[Joshua l.Chamberlain]

Not to seem like a a$$ but I was asleep in my chair when the whole thing was going on, had my phone off the hook didn't want to talk to anybody. The next day I turned on the news and they kept chowing these buildings getting hit by airplanes, I was going what the hell is with this then I saw the caption World Trade Center. I sat and listened for awhile then oddly I printed out a blue print of the buildings drafted them then began to figure out how they could have fallen, my explenation was close to what they came up with.
Sad day for those who like to dwell on such things.

[Chamberlain]

I was at work that morning thinking about how we could spend our kids birthday (17 yrs old on 9/11) that night when all of a sudden all Hell broke loose.

My family and I will ever forget that day & I hope all Americans don't either!!!

I just wish we could have caught Bin Laden back in the Bora Bora days & publicly executed him !!!

My Dad's boss, when he was working before he retired long ago, one of his son's was on Flight 93.

Unbelievable, we have to make sure this never, ever happens again !!!

Chamberlain

[norb]

I think the price we have paid is too high for security. I cannot stand the airport waits, the metal detectors and searches everywhere. It's crazy. I wish that we would just secure our borders and track our illegals and visas so that we didn't have to treat everyone in the country as a potential terrorist. The attacks hurt us bad, but it's the aftermath that we suffer everyday. The cost for this heightened security and the fear. The talking about terrorist attacks on any venue where a lot of people are gathered. It must have cost us trillions of dollars for this security, so that we can feel safe. I don't really feel we are safe, but I guess they have to do something. Those attacks changed America in so many ways and not for the better. We will never again be able to greet a loved one coming off an airplane, or go to the Statue of Liberty with long lines through security, nor football games, nor amusement parks, ....

[13thnct]

I was a freshman in my highschool spanish 2 class. I remember we tuned a little bit late, shortly before the first tower collapsed. To be honest I think in general the class was being sort of rowdy at the time as we were trying to convince the spanish teacher to not give us a quiz and let us watch the news. I turned around right as the first tower started to collapse and I remember briefly thinking that they must have had a helicopter pour water on top of the building (sort of like how they do with forest fires) and then the shock of realizing the whole building was splitting apart from the top down. I got home early from school and remember watching the news waiting for my parents to get home. Sitting there flipping through every channel on the TV (even non-news stations) and seeing the same images made me somehow feel very small and pretty insignificant. In retrospect I was glad when my parents finally came home and made me stop watching the news.

[Kerflumoxed]

norb wrote:

I think the price we have paid is too high for security. I cannot stand the airport waits, the metal detectors and searches everywhere. It's crazy. I wish that we would just secure our borders and track our illegals and visas so that we didn't have to treat everyone in the country as a potential terrorist. The attacks hurt us bad, but it's the aftermath that we suffer everyday. The cost for this heightened security and the fear. The talking about terrorist attacks on any venue where a lot of people are gathered. It must have cost us trillions of dollars for this security, so that we can feel safe. I don't really feel we are safe, but I guess they have to do something. Those attacks changed America in so many ways and not for the better. We will never again be able to greet a loved one coming off an airplane, or go to the Statue of Liberty with long lines through security, nor football games, nor amusement parks, ....

To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, "When we sacrifice freedom for security, we deserve neither!"