18 Years Ago...

Will never forget that Tuesday morning. It was such a beautiful morning in Killeen. So peaceful. The world changed forever that day.

Where were you?

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Driving back over the Sanibel causeway..............it was amazing watching the jet traffic headed into the airport and then the skies were quiet. Immediately I knew the religion of pieces had struck again.

not to be picky but only 18 years :

Running a System Test Floor for world wide Technology a spin off company for Cisco. Some of my guys were taking a break and came and got me to watch what was going on. Needless to say nothing else got done that day. People were asking me "Are we at war" , I did not have the answers for them at that time. A few people just left to be or go collect there family's. Probably one of the worst and scary days ever. Then the Anger set in at who ever had done this & its still somewhat there even to this day.

I was in flight school/college at the time in Killeen and was about to go for my commercial checkride. I remember being glued to a TV in the hangar. The airspace was shutdown indefinitely. Nobody knew what was going to happen next. We had planes that were forced down scattered across central Texas.

Then, later that day I went to class on the main campus other side of town. It was surreal. Fort Hood was an open base and super friendly to civilians. It went on lock down and became this imposing unfriendly giant. Armed humvees appeared at every gate, armed guards everywhere, Bradleys were at the major gates, they couldn't find enough Jersey barriers, Highway 190 was shut down; I think the traffic backup extended almost all the way from the Main Gate through Harker Heights. Everytime a Blackhawk or Apache flew over we flinched for the next week.

My brother was a freshman in college in Manhattan, NY. We couldn't get in touch with him because phones were jammed up. Finally in the afternoon he sent an email. He saw the second plane hit from the rooftop of their school.

Thanks Captain Obviouses. I fixed it; evidently my morning caffeine bump was ineffective or just hadn't made it to my extremities yet.

Actually just told my son this story before he went to school. Sitting in my living room in Richmond,VA watching the morning news while eating breakfast. I watched the whole day unfold. Got really nervous when the Pentagon was hit as that was only an hour up the road. There were a lot of F-16's and not much else in the sky the rest of the week.

First period English class sophomore year.

I was talking with the kids about it this morning and got all choked up. My dad worked at TI for 29 years and one of their high ups, and a real nice guy, was on the second plane to hit the towers. May they all RIP! NEVER Forget! Let’s Roll

Wasn't here yet.

I can't imagine what seeing something like that unfold live felt like.
And pray nothing like it ever happens again.

It was the last day of a Texas Outdoor Writers Association dove hunt in Hamilton, TX. I was eating breakfast, about to get on the road. Bill Mills and I looked up at the tv and saw the first tower smoking. At the time everyone thought it was an accident. We finished breakfast and I got on the road back home. All hell broke loose. People were running off the road in to the ditch, the radio news people were going crazy with all kinds of mis-information. It sounded like WW3 had started. I kept watching the sky as I drove home, glad that I had a few guns in the truck.

I had just been promoted at TDCJ 08/01/2001 and was working at one of the prisons in Tennessee Colony when the planes hit the towers.

That day at lunch I went to Regions Bank to finalize some banking stuff. I walked into the lobby and they had a big screen TV on with the events unfolding.

Never Forget.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

Coach Sheltons class junior year of high school.

Watched the whole thing happen on a TV, from the first tower on fire to the second plane hitting the tower.

My brother & I were fishing a private lake near Zapata, TX. We came back to our cabin for breakfast when the ranch foreman drove up & said "Have seen what's happening on TV?"

I'm still very pizzed-off!

I was pouring concrete on the side of a mountain in Jefferson Colorado. Didn't find out until a couple hours later when the truck driver told us. The pilot I was working for had left for the airport earlier that day. He was waiting to get on a jump seat when the airport closed. He had returned his rental car and by the time he made it to the rental desk they had all been rented. He ended up catching a shuttle bus to Breckenridge. We had no cell coverage at the job and a neighbor let me know where he was at. I picked him up at a bar that night. He was crying when I walked in having found out his brother didn't make it out of one of the towers.

Was driving to work heading south on Hillcrest Rd. just passed the La Manga road light listening to 1080 am when they announced what was happening.

I am listening to President Trump on OAN now

I was in my office at work. I didn't have access to a TV so I kept up with what was happening on my computer. Sad day in America!

Was in the middle of my usual routine of getting ready for work and watching the news. My son was 4 1/2 and sitting with me on the couch while I was putting on my shoes. I knew immediately this was a terrorist attack and I stood him there and said no matter what happens never forget what you are seeing right now. We are being attacked and I don’t know what else is going to happen today but you have nothing to fear. Believe in God and believe in our family. You will be safe.

He still remembers that.

Out in our shop ripping apart romex wire and fixin to load up lawn equipment, as I was unemployed at the time. Phone rang and it was my hubby and he told me to turn on the TV.

Was truly scared and very angry. Such a sad day for our country. Never forget. God Bless America.

I was in my shop working when someone from the company next door rushed in and told us what was happening. I had a big screen tv in my break room so we gathered there and spent most of the day watching the news. It was a very somber day to say the least.

I was just getting ready to go to work and checked the news in time to see the second plane hit live on TV. I felt sick to my stomach!

I was getting ready for a job interview to sell life insurance when a friend called and said to turn the TV on, then saw the 2nd plane hit. Me and a roommate sat there for 30 minutes and barely spoke or moved. The insurance company still had the interview but I was barely there. My job at the time was in advertising in downtown Dallas. I got there about 10:30 and everyone was glued to the TV in the conference room. We went home around 1 or so.

God's Peace to you sir.

Had no clue what was going on. I was on a Mountain in Gunnison CO on a black powder Elk hunt. Didn’t find out till the evening and someone decided to turn on a radio. No cell service back then in that area.

We will Never Forget

I worked in sales for a cabling contractor and we were in our weekly Tuesday sales meeting. Someone wheeled the only TV we had out of the conference room to set it up in the main office area. About 30 of us were huddled around it for hours. We watched it all unfold. They sent us home about mid day. My brother also was sent home. He and I decided to go to the gun range that afternoon at Elm Fork. We talked to another guy there shooting, and he was shooting a full size Bin Laden target with his AR. He said this M F'er was behind it and knew it would start a war. How correct he was. What's strange, is most 9/11 dates I have been on the gun range shooting and working. I'm not today, but I feel strange not shooting on today's date.

Working. I had met crew in Arlington. Some guy hollered the towers are being attacked. He was one those guys, so we all assumed he was call wolf. We all went to tv and saw smoke starting to escape. I remember thinking, I hoped the fire suppression system works.

I left that location. I heard on 1080 AM, it was an attack. I was headed north on Walton Walker when the first tower collasped.

I was sick, mad,numb and on high alert.

I was driving to work when I got a call about it from my best friend. We talked until I got to work and I got in the building intime to join a mass of people around the only TV in the office to watch the second plane hit the second tower.

Needless to say uch work got done. I was working in a 16 floor building in Richardson and there were some freeking out when a Emergency helicopter came by about 1/4 mile away thinking they were going to fly into that building.

Still pray for the kids that were left parent less or lost family members that day and all those that have lost parents in the fight against our enemies that want to destory u, and for those that serve to protect us.

I don’t as driving down Forest Ln in Garland to work when I heard about the first plane hitting the building. At that time they didn’t know what was going on if it was as an accident or not. Once I got to my office I went down to the cafe and they had a TV on and I saw the second plane hit. At that time I knew we were under attack. I went back to my office and little was done and they let us go about mid day. One of my bosses was out of state giving a seminar he had to drive back from where he was and it took a couple days.

At the bank trying to get funding for a house I sold to a guy. Monday was a holiday so the banks were closed. Fading heat from my customer who wanted the keys to his new home. We were in the lobby watching the TV when the second plane hit the tower. There was an older gentleman in there who started screaming and crying, "we're under, we're under attack". He was mumbling about Pearl harbor. We were all visibly upset and in shock. Bank funding went through. My customer and I walked out of the bank stunned. I'm sure he'll never forget. I know I won't.

Bidding a job in the hospital district Fort Worth with my Protégé..

I was sitting at work, working away, when a friend of mine instant messaged me on AOL IM who's husband was an air traffic controller. she said go find a TV, one of the WTC towers was hit by an aircraft (ATC initially thought it was a smaller private plane) ... so I went to a conference room with a TV and turned it on to see the smoke coming from 1 tower. I left the TV on and went back to my office to find another message from her that another plane had hit the other tower, both commercial. I went back to the CR and was pretty much glued to the TV for a while as others had gathered in there by that time. I was pretty much in disbelief and stunned ... a little later reports of another hitting the Pentagon and another in PA ... my friend said her husband had called her to tell her he wasn't sure when he would be home and he had already pulled a 12+ hour shift. A bit later she told me that all ATC across the USA had put out word for all planes to get grounded as soon as possible, to closest airport immediately. the ATC were in contact with all aircraft within their pattern and putting planes on the ground much faster than was really safe. AF jets were immediately scrambled and were guiding/escorting commercial aircraft into closest patterns. It was surreal and very somber that day and the next few days that followed. Our company lost 3 employees that were traveling, 2 on the plane that hit the Pentagon and 1 on the one in PA.

we had a bunch of people on business travel all across the country that finally found rental cars and drove back home since there were several days where no airlines were allowed to fly.

by noon I had called my wife and parents to check on them and let them know I was safe ... although I wasn't traveling, everyone was concerned about their loved ones.

we had a Patriot's day ceremony out front of the main building this morning, lowering the flag to half staff ... I know I will never forget that day or the group of people behind it ...

New guy on the FD, 21 years old. Woke up at home planning to study for Paramedic school all day. Couldn't do anything but watch the news.

I was working a project at IBM in Fishkill, NY.

Sunday 9/9/01 - Took a NYC tour with a group from work. Empire State Bldg, Chelsea Pier, WTC Bldgs, etc...
Monday 9/10/01 - Dropped my wife off at JFK so she could head back to DFW
Tuesday 9/11/01 - The buildings that I was just in on 9/9/01 were gone.

I heard it on the radio as I was on Hiway 70 heading south out of Sweetwater to Ft. Chadbourne. It sits on the ranch a friend of mine owns and grew up on. He had been restoring the original buildings and I had been helping out. The commander's quarters and the main barracks buildings were the first ones completed. When I got there, Garland, the others working there and I talked about how the world had just changed forever. We lowered the flag to half staff. Here we were lowering the Stars and Stripes right in the middle of the parade grounds of a U.S. military installation dating back to the late 1850's. It struck me as very profound, I will never forget it.

I was working in OKC. Watched the second plane hit on a TV in a machine shop break room.