09/11/2001

[zach_24_90]

I was living in Italy at the time. My family was stationed over there. I was in the 6th grade and i had jsut gotten out of school. My mom was a teacher and i was sitting in her classroom when it happened. Being in a foreign country on a military base it was beyond a big deal. Most people in the states were still able to continue living "normally".. we were under lockdown. 24/7 lockdown. my family lived off base in an american apartment complex. we werent allowed to leave we werent able to do anything. Marines with M16' s stationed outside every building, nobody coming or going, no going to school, no sports practices, no seeing friends, no nothing but sitting inside for almost 2 weeks. Needless to say this has been something that has greatly affected me.. Growing up in a military family i bleed red white and blue. Ever since i knew i wanted a tattoo i knew this was something i wanted to pay tribute to. so this is what i ended up with. God Bless America and thank you to all who sacrificed anything that day.

[JulieInNJ]

I was living in Italy at the time. My family was stationed over there. I was in the 6th grade and i had jsut gotten out of school. My mom was a teacher and i was sitting in her classroom when it happened. Being in a foreign country on a military base it was beyond a big deal. Most people in the states were still able to continue living "normally".. we were under lockdown. 24/7 lockdown. my family lived off base in an american apartment complex. we werent allowed to leave we werent able to do anything. Marines with M16' s stationed outside every building, nobody coming or going, no going to school, no sports practices, no seeing friends, no nothing but sitting inside for almost 2 weeks. Needless to say this has been something that has greatly affected me.. Growing up in a military family i bleed red white and blue. Ever since i knew i wanted a tattoo i knew this was something i wanted to pay tribute to. so this is what i ended up with. God Bless America and thank you to all who sacrificed anything that day.

Beautiful art!

[zach_24_90]

Beautiful art!

Thanks. I have added to it also I have a Virginia tech (my hometown) tribute on the Inside.

[JulieInNJ]

Thanks. I have added to it also I have a Virginia tech (my hometown) tribute on the Inside.

Very nice! I love work that means something.

[MasonC2K]

Ir was my last year of college. I was laying on the couch waking up watching the Today Show. That was my morning ritual back then. I remember they got a report about a plane crashing in to one of the towers but weren't sure how big it was. Apparenly some thought it was a private plane. They continued to talk about other things for a couple of minutes then they started to get a report that it was a larger plane and that they had live footage coming in. The screen was on the tower with smoke coming out. Al Roker and Matt Lauer were talking about whether it was an accident or on purpose. Then right there, live, the second plane hit. Then one of them said that's on purpose. We're under attack. That got me up off the couch.

I remember the realization of what happened hitting me. This was just another bad news report. This was big! I was called the campus minister at the student center and asked him if he'd been watching the news. He hadn't so I told him to go to turn on the TV in the main area and that I'd be right up there. By the time I got there everyone was in the room in silence watching. I remember that we had at least 3 prayer sessions that day.

[TomC]

I remember it well, it was about 2 weeks after I had seperated from my now Ex wife so I was staying in my brothers guest room at the time. I work night so I normally did not get up till around noon. I was sleeping when my brother threw the door open and said you have to come see this. I actually remember being a little annoyed until I got in the living room and saw what was happening. I think it actually took a couple days for it to start to seem real to me. I don't think I will ever forget watching the footage and talking about the possibilities of "who would do a thing like that", but at the same time it feeling so surreal and detached from reality. I don't think the full scope of it truly hit me till much later when I started seeing interview with family and survivors and started putting human faces on this tragety.

[Aztec4mia]

Me and my brother were at home sleeping in enjoying our last week of freedom because our bootcamp date got pushed back to the following week, when my mom came in screaming and crying waking us up to show us the attacks on the TV. Needless to say she wasn't too excited about us joing the Marines after that happened.