Favorite 9/11 moments

I drove my car to a bus stop by the mall to take public transit the morning of 9/11/01, I had class in the city and this way I didn't have to find parking. The bus was quiet and not very full. Everything was normal. When I got to my art college's small campus I saw my professor outside looking grim. She explained to me that a plane crashed into the WTC a couple hundred miles north in NYC and classes were cancelled. I walked with some friends over to the dorm apartments and went in to watch the news coverage. In a full room of other students, I exclaimed "This is awesome, it's just like the ending of Fight Club."
 
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Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
Where were you when the world stopped turnin'
That September day?
Were you in the yard with your wife and children
Or workin' on some stage in L.A.?
Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke
Risin' against that blue sky?
Did you shout out in anger, in fear for your neighbor
Or did you just sit down and cry?

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My alcoholic boyfriend dumped me at a bar that night & immediately got super pissed off at me because I just nodded while watching the news on the television behind him instead of having any visceral reaction to the breakup.

I was heartbroken, though. I loved him.

He joined the military the next day. Did 3 TDYs in Iraq.

About 10y later he got a hold of me through mutual friends & apologized for everything. We've been cool again ever since & even find time to hang out every now & then. :feels:
 
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Sometime around 03ish I went to a party at the behest of my then wife. She had 8 friends and their significant others there and we walked in and I realized there were 9 ladies there so I said

"Someone must have just rammed an airliner in to some towers, because I see nine elevens in here!"

The collective groan added years on my life
 
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Dysnomia said:
I actually got all my coverage from Howard Stern. I had just moved into a new house a few days prior. I had a bunch of boxes stacked up by my closet and that morning I decided to tackle unpacking them while listening to Stern.

I think it started with Gary coming in and saying that there was a fire off in the distance. And little by little the details emerged. Stern actually stayed for an extra hour. My idiot brother had busted the video button on my TV and it was stuck on the mode you use for DVDs and vidya. I didn't have a portable radio handy and the other TV was downstairs so I mainly listened to the whole thing via radio because I didn't want to miss any of Stern's broadcast.
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Haramburger said:
9/11 was a great episode of Howard Stern's radio show. Someone went home early scared, I can't remember who. Jackie or Gary, it's been so long.
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My dad worked the airport during and after 9/11 and said a bunch of FBI guys were there. The AiC would walk around in his socks. My dad said he walked into a conference room where the guy was sitting with his legs propped up on the table. Pops asked him if he got any updates from Washington, the agent said "I'm getting some right now" and pointed to a CNN broadcast on TV.
 
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As interesting as it is to hear everyone's stories of where they were and what they were doing that day every year, it's a bit hard to hold a conversation when I was too young to recall a single second of it.
That being said, going to the 9/11 memorial museum not too long ago was quite a powerful experience. There's this one exhibit that really stood out to me -- a wall of painted blue squares, all in different shades and hues. I didn't realize what it was at first, but it was a memory experiment: people who were there in Manhattan on that day were asked to paint the colour of the sky as they remembered it. It doesn't sound like much, but it was unexpectedly emotional to see.
 
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There are a lot of Twin Towers photos going up on this Facebook group called: NYC 1950 to Present
 
I'll never forget 9-11 because I woke up that morning at 430 EST, went to PT, came back to my condo and heard my roommate's girlfriend yelling "What the hell!?" at the TV and then asked her if there was a new Die Hard coming out as i watched the footage of the WTC burning. Then I realized it was real, called my section and asked what I was supposed to do. He had no fucking clue, but said to shower and get to the squadron ASAP. I knew we weren't going to be able to do shit, since we were training NFOs in the T-2, an unarmed jet trainer from the 50s. But I just spent the next few hours in a ready room watching the CNN and Fox feeds before we got orders to not fly for a few days, and then one student made a comment about how hard it would be to hit a tower like the 2nd jet did, so we all called him a retard, loaded up MS Flight sim on some laptops and showed him how simple it was

Then it kind of devolved a stunt show between the IPs on who could ram in to a major landmark in the most impressive way with a plethora of different aircraft
 
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