What were you doing 23 years ago on the morning of 9/11?

[billeau2]

I remember waking up to a phone call from my college friend and business partner: "Turn on the TV right now!”

I sat and watched in horror when the second plane hit. Then I drove to a clinic. I had an appointment to do a fertility test, I had just had my vasectomy.

The clinic was small and didn’t even have a TV in the waiting room. One of the employees had brought in a little portable TV and set it up on the reception desk. Everyone, staff and patients both, were gathered around watching.

It made it really hard to give them a sample.

Got home from teaching high school, we were living in Frisco at the time, my wife was in flight to go to her dad,s funeral (she never made it), I put on the TV watching the towers crumble... My wife called me from a cornfield!

I had to take my infant son to the Greyhound station in San Francisco to pick up my squirrel (wife). I almost lost 4 family members, I was very lucky... I had been up to the restaurant "windows of the world" a year prior and almost took a job there...

Probably half the people I met there that day, died... Horrible.

[Biledriver]

Got home from teaching high school, we were living in Frisco at the time, my wife was in flight to go to her dad,s funeral (she never made it), I put on the TV watching the towers crumble... My wife called me from a cornfield!

I had to take my infant son to the Greyhound station in San Francisco to pick up my squirrel (wife). I almost lost 4 family members, I was very lucky... I had been up to the restaurant "windows of the world" a year prior and almost took a job there...

Probably half the people I met there that day, died... Horrible.

My Mom worked career DoD. Her office used to be in the Pentagon for decades, but a couple of years prior they moved her office to rented space on the other side of I-95 in Crystal City. She was still close enough to feel the explosion.

[billeau2]

My Mom worked career DoD. Her office used to be in the Pentagon for decades, but a couple of years prior they moved her office to rented space on the other side of I-95 in Rosylin. She was still close enough to feel the explosion.

It's a very surreal event. One of my two younger sisters was coming in to work from Maplewood New Jersey. She had her office in the building right next door. She literally looked out the window and saw the towers falling.

I can't even imagine how one processes that while it's happening. I still remember watching on television and hearing this particular music while it was being shown... It burns into my memory lol. Because I was watching it on television, psychologically speaking, there was room for denial, I had an out, a period of time where I could adjust and process...

But when you're on a train, coming in to the city, watching the towers and you see them fall... What do you tell yourself? How do you process? Obviously we're not even dealing with the people that lost their lives in the most horrendous way where upon the same principle applies.

Two of my cousins, and they are a little bit weak psychologically to be fair, but they had to go to therapy for years because they were down there. My heart has a New Yorker born and raised goes out to the people of the city. And I say that because the world trade center is a very interesting situation.

In and of itself it's a rather plain structure. But the way that it complimented the rest of the tip of Manhattan made for the most special and spectacular skyline views. Everybody had a connection to that building in some way who grew up in the city, at least grew up in Manhattan.

For me? If the head of human resources at the Marriott over there at Windows of the world have not pissed me off? I could have decided to stay in New York and been working that day. My sister? I believe she was running late, though she probably still would not have made it in until after the explosions.

To be honest I really don't even like the way the skyline looks now. It made me appreciate that Chicago, even though it is not the biggest, as much more beautiful skysc****rs from that period lol.

[Biledriver]

It's a very surreal event. One of my two younger sisters was coming in to work from Maplewood New Jersey. She had her office in the building right next door. She literally looked out the window and saw the towers falling.

I can't even imagine how one processes that while it's happening. I still remember watching on television and hearing this particular music while it was being shown... It burns into my memory lol. Because I was watching it on television, psychologically speaking, there was room for denial, I had an out, a period of time where I could adjust and process...

But when you're on a train, coming in to the city, watching the towers and you see them fall... What do you tell yourself? How do you process? Obviously we're not even dealing with the people that lost their lives in the most horrendous way where upon the same principle applies.

Two of my cousins, and they are a little bit weak psychologically to be fair, but they had to go to therapy for years because they were down there. My heart has a New Yorker born and raised goes out to the people of the city. And I say that because the world trade center is a very interesting situation.

In and of itself it's a rather plain structure. But the way that it complimented the rest of the tip of Manhattan made for the most special and spectacular skyline views. Everybody had a connection to that building in some way who grew up in the city, at least grew up in Manhattan.

For me? If the head of human resources at the Marriott over there at Windows of the world have not pissed me off? I could have decided to stay in New York and been working that day. My sister? I believe she was running late, though she probably still would not have made it in until after the explosions.

To be honest I really don't even like the way the skyline looks now. It made me appreciate that Chicago, even though it is not the biggest, as much more beautiful skysc****rs from that period lol.

One correction: My Mom's new office was in Crystal City, not Rosslyn. Crystal City is on the other side of I-95 from the Pentagon smack up next to Alexandria. Rosslyn is north of the Pentagon and Arlington Cemetary, just across the river from Georgetown. I haven't been in Virg inia in about 14 years, so my memory is starting to slip

[Biledriver]

It's a very surreal event. One of my two younger sisters was coming in to work from Maplewood New Jersey. She had her office in the building right next door. She literally looked out the window and saw the towers falling.

I can't even imagine how one processes that while it's happening. I still remember watching on television and hearing this particular music while it was being shown... It burns into my memory lol. Because I was watching it on television, psychologically speaking, there was room for denial, I had an out, a period of time where I could adjust and process...

But when you're on a train, coming in to the city, watching the towers and you see them fall... What do you tell yourself? How do you process? Obviously we're not even dealing with the people that lost their lives in the most horrendous way where upon the same principle applies.

Two of my cousins, and they are a little bit weak psychologically to be fair, but they had to go to therapy for years because they were down there. My heart has a New Yorker born and raised goes out to the people of the city. And I say that because the world trade center is a very interesting situation.

In and of itself it's a rather plain structure. But the way that it complimented the rest of the tip of Manhattan made for the most special and spectacular skyline views. Everybody had a connection to that building in some way who grew up in the city, at least grew up in Manhattan.

For me? If the head of human resources at the Marriott over there at Windows of the world have not pissed me off? I could have decided to stay in New York and been working that day. My sister? I believe she was running late, though she probably still would not have made it in until after the explosions.

To be honest I really don't even like the way the skyline looks now. It made me appreciate that Chicago, even though it is not the biggest, as much more beautiful skysc****rs from that period lol.

I can't believe they blocked out Virg inia

[billeau2]

One correction: My Mom's new office was in Crystal City, not Rosslyn. Crystal City is on the other side of I-95 from the Pentagon smack up next to Alexandria. Rosslyn is north of the Pentagon and Arlington Cemetary, just across the river from Georgetown. I haven't been in Virg inia in about 14 years, so my memory is starting to slip

I lived in Baltimore many years. My son is an Alexandria right now so I'm familiar with the area. Dulles is known as the spook airport lol.

[billeau2]

I can't believe they blocked out Virg inia

What's so funny about that area you have some of the most impoverished communities in DC and in Wes t Vir gi nia contrasted with Virg in ia which has a lot of money, old money. Vi rgin ia is kind of nuts though, they will throw you in jail for a speeding ticket lol.

[Biledriver]

I lived in Baltimore many years. My son is an Alexandria right now so I'm familiar with the area. Dulles is known as the spook airport lol.

Proximity. Dulles is the closest airport to Langley. National Airport in Alexandria is the one Congress uses. As a matter of fact, residents of Alexandria wanted National shutdown because of the noise in the late '90s, but Congress wasn't going to let their quick getaway hub taken away.

[Boro]

laughing, there is nothing special about the 9th of Nov

[Aztekkas]

I knew nothing about it till I got to school. I was in 6th grade. I remember kids talking about it before school started, and when they mentioned it to me, I acted like I knew what was going on(I didnt have a clue). It wasn't until I got to home room that they played it for us on TV that I realized the gravity of the situation. Extremely depressing day to think back on.