Sept 11

[skra75]

I remember being on this board when it all went down, and on the Buddyhead board. There were people posting photographs taken from brooklyn and jersey. It was pretty effing scary. I was relaying all sorts of shit to people in the office via info I found on the board, which was more current than the news. I still remember that awful fear.

Also, I think I made a post almost the same as this last year.

[abcdefz]

I found out on an AICN talkback. At first, I thought it was a sick joke.

[icy manipulator]

i was on grade 11 camp when it happened. a couple of guys from our school nearly got expelled for starting a fire which nearly turned into a bush fire in a heritage listed national park. the bombings prolly saved them from being expelled. i thought it was a joke when i first heard of it because we were in isolation when our teacher told us of it. we didn't hear of it til september 14. i was surprised to not see any memorial things on tv today

[Kid Presentable]

Working in a bottleshop, some pisshead said a Cessna hit the Singapore trade-centre. "Poor pilot" I joked.

I knocked off work in time to see the second plane hit live (it was about this time, I realise). I was having drinks with some girl I was shagging at the time. I completely ignored her, I was utterly transfixed by what I was seeing.

I think I made that post last year, too.

Icy, I noticed a distinct lack of acknowledgment too. I wonder if it is now more appropriate to commemorate the events when they happened U.S time? Disappointing too that the same shit-house radio stations that get callers to make Irish jokes on St Pats day had a phone-in about people whose plans were ruined by 9/11. S . M. H.

[jabumbo]

i remember that i was walking down the hall to my english class and one of my friends said something all in a rush that i couldnt understand. and then we watched stuff on the news pretty much every period.

everyone was all pissed off at the principal because he kept telling the teachers to not put on the tv and such, but nobody really listened. every period you would go over to whereever your class was, and then end up in another room that had a tv or just sitting around talking to people in class, so nobody actually did anything

[faz]

I only noticed the date about an hour ago :\

I was playing a mega drive at school when it happened (y)

[abcdefz]

One of the weirdest things was living in the SF bay area and walking outside and suddenly no planes in the sky. That was creepy.

[jabumbo]

my dad always used to tell me about how everyone remembers what they were doing when the heard about jfk being shot. do you think this is going to have that same lasting impact on people? it seems like everyone remembers now, but what about 20 years from now when we are all telling kids and grandkids about it?

[Kid Presentable]

my dad always used to tell me about how everyone remembers what they were doing when the heard about jfk being shot. do you think this is going to have that same lasting impact on people? it seems like everyone remembers now, but what about 20 years from now when we are all telling kids and grandkids about it?

Yeah fully, man. How could you forget?

[kaiser soze]

I was in the woods with my dad....my mom was yelling to us from the house

How can we forget when our own government talks about 9/11 more than the terrorists who committed the crime

[hpdrifter]

A friend called and woke me up to tell me to turn on the news. I was utterly transfixed and spent the whole day at work just clicking refresh at cnn.com.

I will always remember the way it felt. It was like one thing happened after another, a plane hit the building, a plane hit the second building, one is headed for the white house, the second building fell, there's a FOURTH plane, etc etc. It felt like New York was under attack.

[Kid Presentable]

A friend called and woke me up to tell me to turn on the news. I was utterly transfixed and spent the whole day at work just clicking refresh at cnn.com.

I will always remember the way it felt. It was like one thing happened after another, a plane hit the building, a plane hit the second building, one is headed for the white house, the second building fell, there's a FOURTH plane, etc etc. It felt like New York was under attack.

Among all of that, were there any Civil Defense mechanisms put into play? Everybody pretty much just stood around, right?

[hpdrifter]

I'm not sure, it was all really confusing. There were reports of other planes even outside of the New York area, and it all happened so fast that by the time you wrapped your brain around one thing, something else was happening. I'm not sure about how fast they mobilized.

[abcdefz]

The way I understand it, there was basically a big communications SNAFU. Military planes were already scrambled out at sea doing some drill;
people couldn't get ahold of President Bush for a decision about what to do, and the people they could get ahold of (Cheney, some
military brass) weren't sure if they could legally order fire on domestic civilian planes, etc. etc. Like drifter said, by the time the scrambling
was getting sorted out, the immediate threat was over.

[TOY]

I remember having stayed up all night (because I had truancy court that day and was really nervous), and my friend Bun got on IM and said "OMG, LOOK AT THE AOL WELCOME BOARD!" Then I told my mom and she went into a panic (my uncle worked in one of the towers, or around it- something). We couldn't get through to him for hours (phones were busy-busy), but thankfully he was all right.


What really freaked me out was watching the coverage, and hearing about people getting killed by other people jumping from the buildings. I think there was, like, a well-known priest who moments before was there to give a blessing or whatever before he was killed same way.




BTW- I know this may seem kinda morbid, maybe even sick, but does anyone have a link to the transcripts? (Calls to dispatch, etc.?)

[Kid Presentable]

Here's one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE9TLgCVLBM)

Transcripts (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/08/28/911.transcripts/index.html)

more (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3188421.stm)

[MC Moot]

No matter what country or city I've been in,on every anniversary,the sky has been this crisp,bright blue canvas above....just like that day......very errie,like mother natures own yearly memorial.......:(

[TOY]

No matter what country or city I've been in,on every anniversary,the sky has been this crisp,bright blue canvas above....just like that day......very errie,like mother natures own yearly memorial.......:(

It's pouring rain in Pennsylvania. :"\

[cookiepuss]

I was on my way to work in SF and I turned on the radio in my car and it sounded like war of the worlds..."5 planes are still missing and unaccounted for"...(switch stations) "we are under attack"...

for a second I though aliens had landed. I was only getting peices of info and didn't know what actually happened. I had to call my mom and ask her to turn on the TV...that's when i actually found out about the world trade center.

I was already half way to work so I went in. and then they wouldn't let us go home...even though we were just a few blocks from the civic center and they were evacutating that area because it was a possible target. man, my boss was a frigid bitch. if I remember correctly, I think she finally let us go home a few hours early.:rolleyes:

[MC Moot]

Flashback: Having been served with divorce papers at the crack of dawn,I decided to go for a very long run and then get very drunk....I went out to Iona Island in Vancouver,right beside the International airport,where there is a jetty that runs 5km out into the sea.....on my jog back I see 2 R.C.M.P motorcycles rolling towards me,they stopped me and said I needed to go back to my car and get off the jetty....they were deadly serious.....I continued my run back,and I'll never forget the sight of about 40 jets from all different destinations/airlines all over the tarmac/airport....when i got to my car and began to drive back towards the airport a CF-18 appeared over the Lower Mainland.....then I tuned the CBC on the radio and the world had changed.....the defining moment of "our" times......I remember thinking is this how people felt when Pearl Harbor happened???

[QueenAdrock]

About to go to class that day, it was my first year in college. My friend called me and told me to put on the TV and I remember thinking he was joking, and then seeing the towers and not believing it was real, like it was something out of a movie.

I had friends in Georgetown who stood atop their dorms and watched the Pentagon burn and collapse. It was really unreal seeing the Pentagon partially destroyed a few days later...it was also pretty surreal visiting Dulles Airport 3 days later, since one of the planes was hijacked from there. Everyone in the District seemed to be on the same team those few weeks after, everyone was a little more courteous and a little bit nicer to one another.

And then long story short, all our goodwill towards one another was destroyed, and all the countries in the world went back to hating us due to our commander in chief making some really douchebag decisions in the years to come. Hurrah.

[Yeti]

I was working for Richmond's local NBC affiliate as the special projects photographer/producer. I had an early shoot for one of my segments. I saw the 1st plane hit the tower on TV in a lady's house. I went back to the station and just as I walked in the building I saw the 2nd plane hit the other tower. Then when another plane hit the Pentagon. I was sent to Wasington DC to begin a long stint of news coverage. Later I went to NYC for some feature shoots on the aftermath. I could not believe the devastation.

[Teh]

This doesn't justify it's own thread so i'll post it here, yo.


I saw somebody wearing this (http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/data//508/257_5760_klein.jpg) the other day.


I was watching the whole thing unfold in art class when the 2nd plane hit, live. I was only 13 at the time so i didn't really comprehend it for what it was. The most frustrating thing is that nobody else had seen it (art was at the end of the day) so when i came out nobody believed what i was telling them.

[Yeti]

I saw somebody wearing this (http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/data//508/257_5760_klein.jpg) the other day.

The person wearing that t-shirt would be skinned if he walked around Manhattan. The graphic is perfect for American haters but that is about all I can say.

[abcdefz]

This doesn't justify it's own thread so i'll post it here, yo.


I saw somebody wearing this (http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/data//508/257_5760_klein.jpg) the other day.




Whoa.

Awful sentiment, but it's pretty well done.

[beastieangel01]

I remember that it was my first semester in college and I was on my way to class and I kept switching the stations around and they were talking about us being attacked or a possible bombing and I felt so confused but I continued on to class.

In class all we could talk about was what we've heard about whatever was going on. I heard mostly about bombs but then someone said something about a plane.

A friend of mine lived down the street from campus so I went over after class and asked her if she knew what was going on. She turned on the TV and then we saw the footage of the planes. Are jaws dropped and we had no idea what to say, other than how surreal it all was.

[skinnybutphat]

A girl at my work was all excited over all the commotion. Made me want to puke.

I went home early and was enjoying some tacos when a F15 flew past my window patrolling Lake Shore Drive.

My wife was up late partying the night before & slept through the whole thing.

[YoungRemy]

this seems like yesterday...

this year is the first year the anniversary falls on a tuesday, I believe, so that makes it a bit more surreal ... its also the first time on 9/11 I havent been in NYC since it all went down

i was uptown in East Harlem and stayed uptown for about three days. by thursday, the air smelled like burnt plastic, very toxic, and I remember the hoodlums taking advantage of the lack of police presence by shooting parked cars with bee-bee guns...

it was very strange indeed... then everyone did their coming together in solidarity thing, and a small nod to a stranger on the subway became so much more and meant something...

[Rock]

I was at work when it happened. Someone said "Holy shit, a plane just crashed into one of the WTC buildings. Where is Rock!?" all jokingly since i'm brown. We all thought it was just a random plane crash and I replied with "Mission accomplished!". Then the second one hit and I thought "oh fuck!" for it happening and for what I said. Not cool. Not cool at all.

[b i o n i c]

I've posted this before but here it goes again...

I was driving into Chelsea that morning. It was so nice out. I had the top down - - it was a beatutiful day (just look at the pic... there were no clouds in the sky. I was flying down the highway listening to a tape of the Beastie Boys in Philly, it was on loud enough on my speakers that I could hear it in the wind. As I'm getting on the elevated part of the 95South Bruckner Expressway I remember looking and seeing the smoke. I had gotten into the habit of traveling with a disposable camera, so with one hand on the wheel scrambled to find it. At first I thought that maybe it was just a fire at the WTC (http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a99/BionicOne/e7446d7b_edited.jpghttp://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a99/BionicOne/e7446d7b_edited.jpg). I don't think anyone from my vantage point could imagine what that day was becoming. The first plane had just hit.

I snapped a couple of pics then popped the tape out of the deck to hear Howard Stern on the radio. I didn't think of putting the news on, I was in disbelief. Howard was talking about a plane crashing into the tower. Of course I thought it was a joke and was waiting for a hint as to the punchline. Howards joking started becoming more and more serious. As I drove on, over the Willis Avenue Bridge traffic started to back up. The sirens started - the faces I saw in the traffic around me started to take on a look a panic.

As I got to the FDR Drive somewhere in between 125th and 70th Street traffic had come to a standstill. Everyone was trying to move to the right side of the rode... making room for the ENDLESSSSSSSS stream of emergency vehicles caravaning downtown in the left lane. I could not believe police car after police car after firetruck after police motorcycle. seemingly out of nowhere. I couldn't believe we had this many forces that could respond so quickly. In my rearview mirror the stream of police and fire response was endless.

Eventually after sitting there for what must've been 15-20 minutes, a few police on motorcycles started waving people off the highway. We were in between exits, but i remember a cop waving me to go over the median/sidewalk... probably the second or third time I'd used the four-wheel-drive. He waved us to go up a street that usually went in the opposite direction and to ignore all the signs. A New York City cop telling you to break the rules. My heart really started racing.

It took me about 5-10 minutes to get to work from the Upper East Side to Chelsea. I had stopped listening to the radio so by the time I switched to 1010WINS the second plane had hit. By this time I was on Fifth Avenue right looking downtown with the FlatIron building on the left and the Towers in the distance on the right. I snapped some more pics. People were leaving their buildings. Smoke filled the cavern of Fifth Avenue in the distance. The towers were still there. The sadness on the faces of all those strangers matched my incredulousness... all of a sudden I felt like I knew them all.

I finally got to work. I parked half on the sidewalk right in front of the building where I worked. When I got upstairs it was just the kids, me my supervisor who's about two years older than me and most of the interns. I worked at a film production company so there were lots of them. One of them was a girl who I was dating. She had recently finished a documentary for school about discrimination faced by muslims in the US. It was an excellent piece of work that had taken her a very long time to complete. She was on the couch against the wall in a near fetal position crying. I just wanted to hug her.

Most of us lived outside of Manhattan but by that time there was no way out. The radio said that bridges and tunnels had been shut down. The trains and subways were a no go. We didn't have a TV antennae and the phones were jammed so a group of us went down to the street to get some coffee and see if we could find a television somewhere. There was a bagel shop on 21st and 5th Ave where people were crowded around televisions, eyes wide open in disbelief. That was the first time we'd seen what had happened. The stations kept playing the images of impacts over and over. People cried out. I walked outside and there were people in the streets, all looking downtown. There were people praying. There were people on sitting on the curbs with their heads in hand, staring at the ground in hypnotic silence. There were groups crowded around cars with the news blaring. All types of people, many of which would never interact with eachother in everyday life, we were all together.

I turned to go back into the shop when the people started screaming. I looked up and one of the buildings was starting to fall... I turned right back around and ran to the middle of Fifth Avenue to see it with my own eyes. I will never forget the sight of that monstrosity collapsing and the screams of people behind me. In silence I could not believe what I was seeing. I was witnessing a nightmare right there in the broad daylight. In my disbelief I felt a surreal calm. I had just seen something that I had never in my wildest dreams thought I'd see. At that point, what more could happen?

People cried and screamed. Some people ran. For the most part people stayed where they were. I went back and got my mates from the bagel shop and we went back to the office to figure out what we were going to do. Somehow someone got the internet working and put the internet radio on. The second tower was coming down. The girls in my office cried in huddles, the guys just looked at eachother trying to remain level or at least act it. The radio said that there were ferries taking people out of Manhattan. We shut everything down, grabbed our stuff, shut off the lights and locked the door behind us. A bunch of us jumped into my Jeep. I dropped some people off near the Brooklyn Bridge... we hugged eachother then the rest of us drove off. I drove the rest of my friends to the Ferry off the West Side highway. They all got off, scared with an aire of relief that home was just a few minutes away. I gave my girl a kiss and a hug. I'll never forget the look on her face. And off we were.

As I drove away, up North on the West Side Highway, the streets were completely clear with the exception of some groups of emergency vehicles coming down the opposite way in groups - I had the road to myself. It was like something out of a movie. Imagine driving in New York City on a bright sunny day... with the roads to yourself. Even the toll booths were vacant.

As I drove up, there was a guy with his thumb in the air, hoping to hitch a ride to where ever he was going. He looked old and kind of creepy so I kind of slowed down to get a better look at him when he ran to my car and just hopped right in. "Thanks dude!" he called out as he got in and put on his seat belt. Ooooo-k... I asked him where he was going and it turned out he lived three blocks away from my house. He told me that he had just gotten out of rehearsal and that he played the Pharoah in Aida. At first I kind of rolled my eyes but the more I looked at him and the more I heard the timbre of his voice (and later his house) the more I believed him. What was usually a 45 minute ride to the Westchester suburbs this time of day was only about 10 minutes with no other cars on the road, no tolls and no speed limit. I dropped off the Pharoah and got home to my mom's screams of joy and my dad staring at the tv.

That night a big group of my friends got together and went to the park to regroup.... as we passed around a blunt and drank some 40s we all stared at the dark silent sky and off into NYC in the distance. We all joked about what this day would become. What would they call it? What would the calendars say? Twin Towers Down Day? Impact America Memorial? We talked about how our generation had it too good for too long. Ones past had Pearl Harbor, The Asassination of JFK, Vietnam, but we had lived without a defining moment our whole lives. We all knew that nothing would ever be the same again. It took something like that to make me realize that I love my country more than I'd ever imagined. The silence in the air would last for days but the memory will last forever.

[Teh]

Jesus.Fucking.Christ. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/stopthief/911.jpg)

[Whatitis]

I saw somebody wearing this (http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/data//508/257_5760_klein.jpg) the other day.


Didn't someone on here have that as an avatar?

Ace42X comes to mind.

[QueenAdrock]

Jesus.Fucking.Christ. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/stopthief/911.jpg)

HAHAHAHAHA

[mikizee]

I was at a mates house getting high and drove home at about 11pm and was fumbling with my keys in the door when the door swung wide open and my bro in law was all wide eyed and said 'its fucking world war 3!!!!'

I was like 'whaaaaa??...'

so i sat down and me and him flicked thru all the news channels and didnt leave the couch until well into the next day. I remember my bro saying just as we sat down to see the second plane hit 'i think its bin laden. its gotta be bin laden!'

Both he and I had been following the bin laden/american aggressive foreign policy developments for a few years prior.

I remember we both looked at each other and shrugged and said 'well they DID have it coming.' (US government not civilians).

I'm surprised it hadn't happened earlier.

[Lyman Zerga]

i was up at night and watched tv, i heard in the news that a plane hit some building, i didnt really pay much attention and watched some video tape instead.. after the movie was over i switched back to TV and those news were on each channel! i went online and everyone was being all crazy about this, some people i talked to online said they want to leave the usa as soon as possible and never want to come back

i watched 9/11 documentaries/news countless times, still do and it still gives me weird thrilling feelings and shivers

just last night i had a nightmare about people trying to climb down the wtc building but they were too slow and it fell down and i could see in slow motion how some of those people got their heads or other body parts cut off

i had a lot 'planes crashing into buildings' nightmares since and im getting the shits when just a helicopter flies near the building i live in (didnt notice that before)

weird how such things can fuck you up even when you live on the other side of the world

[abcdefz]

I was at work when it happened. Someone said "Holy shit, a plane just crashed into one of the WTC buildings. Where is Rock!?" all jokingly since i'm brown. We all thought it was just a random plane crash and I replied with "Mission accomplished!". Then the second one hit and I thought "oh fuck!" for it happening and for what I said. Not cool. Not cool at all.



Holy crap.

One of those times when you really do wish you could unsay something.

It'd be pretty unforgiving to not be able to at least ruefully chuckle about this later, though.

[MC Moot]

I was at work when it happened. Someone said "Holy shit, a plane just crashed into one of the WTC buildings. Where is Rock!?" all jokingly since i'm brown. We all thought it was just a random plane crash and I replied with "Mission accomplished!". Then the second one hit and I thought "oh fuck!" for it happening and for what I said. Not cool. Not cool at all.

ouch....yeah....actually the day before I was at the pub with an Israeli friend of mine and we often got into rabid debates with regards to world affairs...particularly with regards to Zionism and Islamic fundamentalism…and I went off on this diatribe on how I "felt" the attack on the USS Cole was fair game as it was a hardened military target but the embassy bombings were "pure terrorism"…..take the next day and I was really arguing credibility for the same minds behind the same horror,really…..(n)