god bless america

just thought something should be added on here about 9/11 since it is 3yrs after the attack. most of us will never forget where we were at or what we were thinking when we first learned of the attacks. it was the beginning of my freshman yr in highschool. i was in health, when another teacher came in, then exited. my teacher then turned on the T.V and i saw smoke coming from the towers. i thought it was a movie. it wasnt until 3 hours later, my history class, that i realized it was really happening. it was a horrific day, and one of the saddest days in america.


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begining of 6th grade

i was in gym class

i heard about it from a kid, but didnt believe him


they took us inside and talked to us, and showed us, and the teachers were crying


i wont forget

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Thanks, rex. Until I saw this post today, I had forgotten that today is 9-11. But you can give me a bit of a break, I've only been awake for 15 minutes. There are other things I was thinking about (there is a reptile show, two of my friends have birthdays today), but you just reminded me what was really important about today.

It's wierd though, I think my subconsious remembered it was 9-11, because right before I woke up (15 minutes ago) I was having a nightmare that there were huge explosions going off in LA and I was driving on the freeway trying to get away, but the freeway was collapsing. It was a horrible dream. But it was just a dream. I also had a dream earlier in the night that I was going to take a vacation to New York. Weird.

I don't think any of us will forget that horrible day in history. It's like one of those "Where were you when Kennedy was shot" things but way worse. It changed our country and changed our lives, especially for those who lost loved ones in the attacks. Today my thoughts will be with those people, the victims who were lost, and our soldiers who are now at war.

I remember 9-11 as it was yesterday.
I was in my senior year in Stuyvesant High School.
I don't know if you guys realize how close the school actually is to the towers.
I remember being evacuated, I think the worst part of my entire day was seeing people actually jumping from the building.
I'll never forget that day.
I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it :(

i just remembered...its my doggies b-day

he was born on sept. 11, 2001

pretty strange

I had just pulled into the parking lot at work when the news came on the radio. I sat there and listened long enough to hear about the second plane, then rushed into my office to boot up my computer and listen to streaming news online and told my co-workers what was happening. It was surreal. It was difficult getting news all day long because I had no radio and all the news sites were swamped.

For my generation, the previous "remember where you were" event was when the space shuttle Challenger blew up -- it was a teacher's workday, so my sister and I were at home watching the launch and seeing it go wrong. I am sure there are others who remember where they were when the Reagan assassination attempt took place.

I remember Sept 11; I was online at a goldfish-keeper message board I always went to, and someone had posted a message about what was happening. As I read it, my boyfriend called me on the phone from work (truck driving) to tell me he heard from the radio that a plane had hit into the trade center. I thought it might have been accidental, like a small aircraft, but when I turned on the TV news I found out what was happening, and I called my mom at work and then called my best friend to talk about it.
I remember when the Challenger blew up; I was only 7 years old, but I remember it well, watching it all on TV with my mom and gramma.
When anything like this happens I just want to be by my family and friends.

has anyone seen the episode of OCC for today? they made an awesome bike for 9/11. its a firefighter theme. the carborator is shaped like a fire hydrant. they did an awesome job on this bike.

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I was at work, Mark called all excited saying 'where have you been, couldn't get a hold of you' blah blah blah, at that point I asked my co-worker to turn on the radio and around the same time everyone else was finding out somehow....we set up the TV in one of the conference rooms and turned it on just in time to see the second plane. We all thought it was an accident until the second hit. Most of us left work early that day.

I too remember when the Challenger explosion happened. I was in school and they turned the TVs on. I think I was in seventh grade at the time. The Reagan Assassination memory is a little foggy, but I do remember it, mostly the news stories after the fact.

I was on the phone w/ my girlfriend who was sitting out at my house for me because I had a delivery coming, my new tv. I live about 10 mins from downtown DC and 7 mins from the Pentagon. She was watching tv and said Oh my God a plane just crashed into the WTC. I was at work way out in Loudoun Cty, Va. Then I had a delivery driver tell me a plane had just crashed into the Pentagon and another was heading for DC ( the one that crashed in Pa.) I took off home and when I got close to home you could smell the burning in the air from the Pentagon.
I remember a few nights later driving on I-95 right pass the Pentagon and it was at night and they had the crash spot all light up and to see that giant hole in the side was just to much. All of us in the car were teary eyed.

My sister in NJ, her neighbor was to be on one of those flights and that morning one of his kids was sick and his wife begged him to stay home w/ their kid and after fighting for a few he choose to stay home.That man had an angel on his shoulder.

I was on Charleston Air Force Base, in Charleston, SC, (in between the runways and tarmacs) pulling insulation out from the ceiling our field office. When a guy I was working with received the message over his beeper about it. We then turned the radio on and listened. About that time our field supervisor came out to us, and told us we had to leave the base, or risk being locked in on base and would not be able to leave. About that time I looked up toward Charleston Airport and all I could see was plane after plane landing. That was when it really hit me to what had happened.

The Challenger explosion, I think I was around 5 - 7 and I was at my Great-Grandmothers watching the lift off on TV LIVE when it blew up. Those are 2 days that I will never forget.

I was at home watching MSNBC when that fatal day occured. Was also at home watching the Challenger live when it exploded. Though both were horrible tradgedy's, the Challenger kind of hit home. My Dad worked for NASA for 21 years at the V.A.B. in the data processing center that collected all the data from the missions, so it just kind of hit home hard.

Now to really make most of you people here feel young, or make some of us feel old, I can remember a day in 1963 very vividly. Though I did not understand what was going on until years later, I can remember my Mother just crying histerically for hours on end, that was the day when J.F.K. was asassinated.

i hooked school in 7th grade..went to my nana's house..where i watched the challenger explode. stuck w/ me.

woke up 9/11 to msnbc...imus in the morning was showing eveything...sobered up quick from my hangover. went into work soon after the pentagon was hit. longest day at work ever.

my brother will be home from the navy next week after 4 years. thank god he made it...he was on the uss lincoln for the war on terror.