What were you doing one year ago ?

[cowboybooter]

Inspired by another thread,

What were you doing one year ago ?

How did you feel?

What did you do?


BTW it's now 9/11 in UK.


CBB

[geekgrl]

Well, exactly one year ago - I was living in a different city, engaged, but not married... was planning to be married in October. I was probably just hanging out, looking at wedding magazines, watching tv.... And I was very unsuspecting of what the next day would have in store for my nation....

[Brainchild]

I was sleeping when I heard of the attacks. I felt like most people I guess, this can't happen to America, but yet it did .

[jkrohn]

I was asleep when it happened.

Woke up to go to class and saw it on TV.

Stayed home that day

Jkrohn

[DutchMaster]

I was watching CNN after an hour of the first impact. I stayed home from school that day and was talking to somebody on MSN messenger, who heared it on the radio, I immidiately switched on the TV. There was already life coverage on 2 major Dutch channels and on CNN cable.
seeying the towers collapse was unreal for me, it just looked like a movie....I wish it was

[brandon184]

I still remember the day vividly.

My mom called me and woke me up to tell me to turn on the TV, this was minutes after the first tower was hit. I assumed that it was ("just") a small private plane or something, until I saw the second plane hit - and just before I left for work, I witnessed the first tower fall, as chills ran down my spine, and I'm sure my mouth was hanging wide open.

I watched 9/11 again today, so I guess it's been refreshed in my memory to a certain degree.

~ Brandon

[vass0922]

I was at my desk at work, when my boss came over to our group and said expect security to be tight here at our contractor location because a plane just hit the WTC. I tried to get to websites and everything was blocked solid. We didn't have a TV but we found a radio. I had some work to do before I could come over here to the location as I was supposed to spend the day here getting some things setup. So I kept working and then heard of the 2nd plane on the radio
So I talked to the guy that normally gives us a ride over here to set up a time for a ride, and he said nobody's going anywhere.. the pentagon was just hit ...
I have a lot of friends at the pentagon so I was very worried. I found out later they did all get out safe, but didn't find that out until the next day save for a few that called in. I tried calling my wife to tell her but trying to get out on a phone line was very difficult and cell phones were worthless. I wanted to let my family back in Michigan know I was ok but again cell's were worthless. After a couple of us showed concern, the company allowed us to make long distance calls home from the work phones
They still wouldnt' let us leave us until like 2pm so it was still pretty rough day
I know people that were back in there early the next morning ripping out servers from smoke/water filled rooms pouring water out of servers to take them into another location to see what they could salvage of their network.. scary times. Tomorrow is gonna suck.

[Toadman]

Well if they do try anything it will justify taking down Saddam, imho.

[Graham]

I was in hospital having some treadmill tests (chest pain), the nurse came in and said "a plane has just flown into one of the New York skyscrapers", later she went out and came back saying "a plane has just hit the other one" (it was at this point I realised which skyscrapers), the doctor, a German said "is this April the 1st".
After the tests I rushed home and got there in time to see the first tower fall, I was stunned, all I could say to my wife was "its fallen, its fallen"

My symapathies to all those affected, and I hope this day does not bring too much pain.

G

[Knothead]

Bizarre, really bizarre...awoke around 5 or so, couldn't sleep, tossed and turned...I forget when I got up, but for some reason I was very agitated, and I did something I never do...I turned on the TV.

The first tower had just been hit, and then the phone began ringing, and friends were screaming at me to turn on the TV!

And they way all of us were talking, nobody had any communication, nothing intelligent to say... just screaming obscenities...at each other, and at the TV.

I believe I could have killed that morning. It was really ugly.

Good thing I wasn't at TechIMO yet, because I tried to e-mail people, (I say "tried" because I later re-read what I'd been sending people, it was just a lot of shell-shocked gibberish.) as if I could DO SOMETHING with words; I can't remember ever feeling so feckless and impotent in my life.

I especially remember screaming obscenities at the TV, whenever they'd show that unbelievable film footage of the 2nd strike. Sad, and very surprising to me, as I'm not like that.