Where were you 5 years ago tommorrow

[pmayjr]

I was a Ju-co student at the time, and I had been sleeping because I didn't have classes til later in the morning. My mom comes in to my bedroom when the first plane hit the tower, to tell me that... I was thinking "oh damn, that sucks, but I'll see it on the news later" and went back to sleep. But then 10-15 minutes later my mom wakes me up again and says a 2nd plane just hit the WTC. I was kinda half asleep, and half-joking, but I asked my mom "is school cancelled?". It sounded dumb and a lil insensitive, but when she said the 2nd plane hit, I knew there was some serious **** going on.

Me and my friends are pretty much all night owls. We had been up really late the night before, and so I called my friend to tell him to turn on a TV. He was really pissed because he hates waking up, and he just started yelling at me "WHAT ABOUT THE PENTAGON!? WHAT ABOUT THE PENTAGON!?" And that's how I found out about the Pentagon crash. I explained to him what happened, and he calmed down. I went to my one class that day, and spent the rest of the day in front of the TV, because I didn't have to work.

One extra side note- My favorite band back then, and still now, is the group Jamiroquai. They were in NYC that day, to play a gig at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Well of course the show got cancelled, along with the rest of the tour, appearances on Letterman and Leno, and they weren't allowed to leave the U.S. for 2 weeks because of all the flights being grounded. They came back to tour for the first time last fall, and it was extra special to go see them in NYC, and tour Ground Zero and all of that stuff.