Man it's gonna be 5yrs since 9/11

i was in my civics class 16 yrs old and the teacher always had cnn on. i went to my next hour and watched the second plane hit, then the coverage of the plane that hit the pentagon, was on my way to my other school during lunch and heard that another plane crashed in pennsylvania. i pretty much had it figured out then that i was headed somewhere with a gun someway or another.
 
i felt so horrible just after that stuff happened but in the following weeks i felt so proud to be an american! people flying flags(i still need one) and even republicans and democrats banding together lol
 
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i felt so horrible just after that stuff happened but in the following weeks i felt so proud to be an american! people flying flags(i still need one) and even republicans and democrats banding together lol

Has been on my computer since 9-12-01

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I was down at Historic Fort Wayne with my crew, about to do PM's on the Detroit DGPS site. I was all set to turn it off, when I heard it on Howard Stern. I ran inside the Army Corp of Engineers Building, and had them turn a TV on. About 30 of us sat there, watched the 2nd plane hit. I packed up my guys, and headed back down to the base.

For the next 12 hours, we managed to lock down the Coast Guard base tighter than it ever had been.

Before that day, anyone could come to the base and walk around. No more. You can only be on the base if your name is on a guest list, or have a military ID card.

One thing that made me happy, is the number of young men and women that were so willing to give some of their time, and some thier lives, to protect the freedoms that most take for granted.
 
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First I just want to say may all the victims RIP, and their families the best of luck. Second, I want to say thank you to all of the people over there fighting the war, and people here that are fighting it. I want to say thanks to everyone that still will fly an American Flag proudly. It was such a tragic event, and I will NEVER forget it.

I had just gotten out of morning swim practice, and was headed to my second class of the day (junior year of hs). As I got into my second class, I saw the look on peoples faces, and turned towards the tv. A few short moments later, I saw the second plane hit, and instantly new what was going on. My eyes watered up really bad, and I went and sat by my girlfriend of the time, and just held on to her. We didn't do any schoolwork that day. We sat, watched the news programs, and talked to each other. Nobody argued, and everyone sat as one group....Americans.
 
I just got into work, the phone rang and it was a lender from JP Morgan. Yes she was in the towers at the time. We were talking about the deal we had going on at the time and then she said I have to go there is a New York Emerg... click the phone went dead. I thought wow that really sucks. I sat down and turned on Drew and Mike they were saying the first tower had been hit. I went into the conference room turned on the TV and sat there staring at the screen in shock as the second plane crashed into the other tower.
The rest of the office came in to see why I was watching TV; we sat for about an hour in silence watching the news footage. At that time I asked my boss if I could leave so I could go hug my children.

I had several business friendships with ppl in the towers at the time, luckily all were able to escape without harm (however we did lose the 33 million dollars deal we had going with JP Morgan)

I spent the next several days trying to contact my friends that were in the NYFD and NYPD, all of those also got out with no physical harm.

No one will ever be the same...
 
I lived in Pennsylvania at the time, it is a day that I will never forget. It is so weird, I can remember being a kid and not having to worry about anything like terrorism, we were America and we were safe. And in an instant, that changed forever.
The thing I remember most is being woke up by the phone, it was my girlfriend at the time. She told me to turn on the TV and I asked her what channel, she said any channel, and I remember it being on EVERY single channel. I turned it on, saw the trade center on fire, and just figured it out that a plane hit it. Then within a minute of me turning it on the second plane hit, I was in total disbelief, a horrible feeling.
I sat there and listened and watched in horror as the buildings burned and I heard about the pentagon and reports of car bombs. I thought the towers would just sit and burn for a long time maybe leaving an empty burned out building, I never imagined they would fall, then the first one did.... Total shock. I sat there thinking that the other one wouldn't fall, but it did also, it was a gut wrenching feeling. Then I hear about the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. I did not feel safe at all, I didn't know if it would end.

To sum it up, I guess you could say, 5 years later and I am still pissed.
 
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I was home sick which was rare for me. My sister called and said to flip on the tube because a plane just hit the WTC.

I thought how the fuck can you hit the WTC but when I saw the second plane I figured we were in a world of shit.

I threw a gun in my Bullitt and went and took my son out of school.

I too was proud of how we reacted and the world reaction.
 
Hard to believe its been so long.

I was a bartender at the time and staying up until all hours of the night, and my sister called and left me a message to turn on the tv because of the planes hitting, she was at work and didnt have a tv to watch. SHe kept calling until I woke up. I never deleted the message she left and never threw the phone away. Its been in the basement, and has been for a few years now.
I had her on the phone giving her play by play of the tv coverage when the towers came down. I cried when it happened.
 
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