Where were you?

[ddthetide]

i had been at work about an hour, wasn't very busy, had Imus on the radio. the first report they gave was a sightseeing plane hit the twin towers. the Imus crew quickly got corrected information. warner wolf called in and told them a passenger jet had flown by his apartment building and hit the towers. i was 2 minutes from my house and rushed home. had Imus on the radio and msnbc on tv and watched the second plane hit. it was so hard to believe what was happening and warner wolf giving live "play-by-play" of what was happening. the radio stations left Imus on until 11am that morning.

the thing that sticks with me most was the hours after the towers collapsed and for days and months to come, having attack helicopters over head and fighters flying cover. we only live about 15 minutes from Camp David. fighters were over head around the clock for months. mrs d. and i started calling them angels. we live in the flight path when jets get scrambled. that's creepy, low flying, 3/4-to-full throttle as they fly by, everything shakes.
Thank You and God Bless those angels and All the rest men and women in armed forces. survivors and family members of 9-11, peace be with you.

[pdrift1]

Originally Posted by GBBob

On this day 8 years ago?

I was in a rental car heading back to Kansas City airport to fly back to Chicago. Heard about a small plane crashing into a building in NY and then it started getting crazy. Noticed a lot of planes circling the airport as I was pulling in and then the word was out. Watched the first tower collapse at a bar in the airport and realized soon I wouldn't be flying for a while. Got a hotel, ate at Hooters, and then met one of the most beautiful girls I had every seen in my life at a bar. She was from Dallas. We talked forever, fooled around some and we exchanged numbers. The next morning I got on an Amtrak back to Chicago. A very surreal ten hour train ride back and then had to get to O'Hare to get my car out of the lot. It looked like a fortress with military everywhere and snow plows lined up blocking all access. Was searched and then had a guy with a machine gun walk me to my car and follow me out. Drove home, went to call the girl from Dallas, and I had lost the number. And she never called me back either.

bob i'm sorry to here after all that you lost her phone #. should have stayed in kc to comfort her

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by pdrift1

bob i'm sorry to here after all that you lost her phone #. should have stayed in kc to comfort her

Bob it was Uma Thurman wasn't it

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

I was sitting at the stoplight in downtown Fonda listening to Howard Stern and heard the whole thing unfold through his show. Watched the first tower fall on TV with the Sheriff & Jail Administrator of Montgomery County N.Y. and this freaked me out. Delivered the rest of my mail route quickly that morning and then called Karen at work in Albany. The sound of her voice calmed me down a bit, but everything that happened scared the sh*t out of me! It was surreal and the only thing that effected me simliar was the space shuttle disaster a few years before.

[RockHardTen1985]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

I was working uptown that day.

Just before 9am one of my co-workers shouted to the whole site
"My wife just called ! A plane crashed into the World Trade Center !"

With a brief background in the aviation industry, I guessed it must have been
one of those single propeller planes.

When I saw the hole in that building, on one of the TVs, I knew it couldn't have been.

Time to fast forward.........

My family ultimately found out my sister made it to her office about 25 minutes
before her starting time.

She was in the 1st building that got hit on the 97th floor.

After going in and out of the city for the next 36 hours we knew she didn't show up
at any of the hospitals.

I visited the site in December of that year and haven't been back since.

Susan G. Santo was her name. Her name is read out loud along with all of our
friends we lost that day every year at Ground Zero.

Please remember her little girl, her only child, who was just starting kindergarten that week,
who was one of about 1800 children who lost a parent that day.

And remember everyone's lives who were forever altered 8 years ago,
along with all the friends and loved ones who have ever had to deal with
losing one of their own to violent crime and acts of war just like on 9/11/2001,
and on the battlefields.

Susan Gayle Santo

Born September 22, 1976
Taken from us: September 11, 2001

Im sorry.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

I was working uptown that day.

Just before 9am one of my co-workers shouted to the whole site
"My wife just called ! A plane crashed into the World Trade Center !"

With a brief background in the aviation industry, I guessed it must have been
one of those single propeller planes.

When I saw the hole in that building, on one of the TVs, I knew it couldn't have been.

Time to fast forward.........

My family ultimately found out my sister made it to her office about 25 minutes
before her starting time.




She was in the 1st building that got hit on the 97th floor.

After going in and out of the city for the next 36 hours we knew she didn't show up
at any of the hospitals.

I visited the site in December of that year and haven't been back since.

Susan G. Santo was her name. Her name is read out loud along with all of our
friends we lost that day every year at Ground Zero.

Please remember her little girl, her only child, who was just starting kindergarten that week,
who was one of about 1800 children who lost a parent that day.

And remember everyone's lives who were forever altered 8 years ago,
along with all the friends and loved ones who have ever had to deal with
losing one of their own to violent crime and acts of war just like on 9/11/2001,
and on the battlefields.

Susan Gayle Santo

Born September 22, 1976
Taken from us: September 11, 2001

My deepest sympathy to you, and I echo your sentiments!

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

I was working uptown that day.

Just before 9am one of my co-workers shouted to the whole site
"My wife just called ! A plane crashed into the World Trade Center !"

With a brief background in the aviation industry, I guessed it must have been
one of those single propeller planes.

When I saw the hole in that building, on one of the TVs, I knew it couldn't have been.

Time to fast forward.........

My family ultimately found out my sister made it to her office about 25 minutes
before her starting time.

She was in the 1st building that got hit on the 97th floor.

After going in and out of the city for the next 36 hours we knew she didn't show up
at any of the hospitals.

I visited the site in December of that year and haven't been back since.

Susan G. Santo was her name. Her name is read out loud along with all of our
friends we lost that day every year at Ground Zero.

Please remember her little girl, her only child, who was just starting kindergarten that week,
who was one of about 1800 children who lost a parent that day.

And remember everyone's lives who were forever altered 8 years ago,
along with all the friends and loved ones who have ever had to deal with
losing one of their own to violent crime and acts of war just like on 9/11/2001,
and on the battlefields.

Susan Gayle Santo

Born September 22, 1976
Taken from us: September 11, 2001

I'm sorry too.

[Arletta]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

I was working uptown that day.

Just before 9am one of my co-workers shouted to the whole site
"My wife just called ! A plane crashed into the World Trade Center !"

With a brief background in the aviation industry, I guessed it must have been
one of those single propeller planes.

When I saw the hole in that building, on one of the TVs, I knew it couldn't have been.

Time to fast forward.........

My family ultimately found out my sister made it to her office about 25 minutes
before her starting time.

She was in the 1st building that got hit on the 97th floor.

After going in and out of the city for the next 36 hours we knew she didn't show up
at any of the hospitals.

I visited the site in December of that year and haven't been back since.

Susan G. Santo was her name. Her name is read out loud along with all of our
friends we lost that day every year at Ground Zero.

Please remember her little girl, her only child, who was just starting kindergarten that week,
who was one of about 1800 children who lost a parent that day.

And remember everyone's lives who were forever altered 8 years ago,
along with all the friends and loved ones who have ever had to deal with
losing one of their own to violent crime and acts of war just like on 9/11/2001,
and on the battlefields.

Susan Gayle Santo

Born September 22, 1976
Taken from us: September 11, 2001

I can only imagine the horror you and you family wen through that day and the deep grief that followed. I too am sorry for you and your family's loss and hope her little girl is doing well.

We can only hope none of us ever have to go through a day like that again.

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

I was working uptown that day.

Just before 9am one of my co-workers shouted to the whole site
"My wife just called ! A plane crashed into the World Trade Center !"

With a brief background in the aviation industry, I guessed it must have been
one of those single propeller planes.

When I saw the hole in that building, on one of the TVs, I knew it couldn't have been.

Time to fast forward.........

My family ultimately found out my sister made it to her office about 25 minutes
before her starting time.

She was in the 1st building that got hit on the 97th floor.

After going in and out of the city for the next 36 hours we knew she didn't show up
at any of the hospitals.

I visited the site in December of that year and haven't been back since.

Susan G. Santo was her name. Her name is read out loud along with all of our
friends we lost that day every year at Ground Zero.

Please remember her little girl, her only child, who was just starting kindergarten that week,
who was one of about 1800 children who lost a parent that day.

And remember everyone's lives who were forever altered 8 years ago,
along with all the friends and loved ones who have ever had to deal with
losing one of their own to violent crime and acts of war just like on 9/11/2001,
and on the battlefields.

Susan Gayle Santo

Born September 22, 1976
Taken from us: September 11, 2001

Truly sorry and you have a lot of courage for sharing your story

[richard burch]

working about 10 miles away.

[herkhorse]

Very sorry for those who lost loved ones, a horrible day. My sister worked at the WTC on Tuesdays only, but thankfully she didn't go in so early that day.


I was in Denver at an international trade show that started that Tuesday. Monday night I was at the Denver-NY Giants football game with my wife. We had to scalp tickets and it was a bit hard, the first game at the new stadium. We got in sometime in the middle of the first quarter. Our seats were in a handicapped section that was a single row of seats that circles the whole field. We could look straight down at a sea of people, and they shot off fireworks from right behind us. At that point I said, "Damn, I'm glad there isn't a terrorist attack." Wow, little did I know.

I watched the second plane hit on the Today show, and by the time I made it to the lobby where my booth is, the first tower had already gone down. Spent most of the day watching the news with a large crowd of people- only about half of them were Americans, and there were several Arabs. It was surreal.

Several of my friends were actually in the air at the time of the attacks and were diverted to Canada for three days.

For some reason, we spent the night in the van, talking and crying- wondering if we would ever get home, or if things would ever be the same. It was eerily quiet with no planes in the air.

It was a tough year.

[herkhorse]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

I was in bed watching Good Day LA rubbing one out to Jillian Barberie and then they cut to the tragic scene. I still finished.

Man Pants, you are one of a kind, but I guess we already know that.

[pgiaco]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

I was working uptown that day.

Just before 9am one of my co-workers shouted to the whole site
"My wife just called ! A plane crashed into the World Trade Center !"

With a brief background in the aviation industry, I guessed it must have been
one of those single propeller planes.

When I saw the hole in that building, on one of the TVs, I knew it couldn't have been.

Time to fast forward.........

My family ultimately found out my sister made it to her office about 25 minutes
before her starting time.

She was in the 1st building that got hit on the 97th floor.

After going in and out of the city for the next 36 hours we knew she didn't show up
at any of the hospitals.

I visited the site in December of that year and haven't been back since.

Susan G. Santo was her name. Her name is read out loud along with all of our
friends we lost that day every year at Ground Zero.

Please remember her little girl, her only child, who was just starting kindergarten that week,
who was one of about 1800 children who lost a parent that day.

And remember everyone's lives who were forever altered 8 years ago,
along with all the friends and loved ones who have ever had to deal with
losing one of their own to violent crime and acts of war just like on 9/11/2001,
and on the battlefields.

Susan Gayle Santo

Born September 22, 1976
Taken from us: September 11, 2001

I am very sorry for your loss. Thanks for having the strength to share.

Originally Posted by herkhorse

Man Pants, you are one of a kind, but I guess we already know that.

Yeah but I have something in common with Paulie Walnuts and this thread reminded me of it...

http://www.entertonement.com/clips/m...Gualtieri-Cop-

[mclem0822]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

I was working uptown that day.

Just before 9am one of my co-workers shouted to the whole site
"My wife just called ! A plane crashed into the World Trade Center !"

With a brief background in the aviation industry, I guessed it must have been
one of those single propeller planes.

When I saw the hole in that building, on one of the TVs, I knew it couldn't have been.

Time to fast forward.........

My family ultimately found out my sister made it to her office about 25 minutes
before her starting time.

She was in the 1st building that got hit on the 97th floor.

After going in and out of the city for the next 36 hours we knew she didn't show up
at any of the hospitals.

I visited the site in December of that year and haven't been back since.

Susan G. Santo was her name. Her name is read out loud along with all of our
friends we lost that day every year at Ground Zero.

Please remember her little girl, her only child, who was just starting kindergarten that week,
who was one of about 1800 children who lost a parent that day.

And remember everyone's lives who were forever altered 8 years ago,
along with all the friends and loved ones who have ever had to deal with
losing one of their own to violent crime and acts of war just like on 9/11/2001,
and on the battlefields.

Susan Gayle Santo

Born September 22, 1976
Taken from us: September 11, 2001

That's very sad. very sorry for your loss.

[Nascar1966]

I was still in the Navy stationed in Norfolk Virginia. A quick geography leason, Norfolk is less than three hours from Washington DC which we all know the Pentagon had a plane hit it. I lost a good friend there. When the events happened I was at my apartment watching the news. Once I found out about the plane hitting the Pentagon my wife and I went to school to take our son home for the day. We didnt know if Norfolk was the next city to get hit. I was told to pack shower stuff and a change of uniform just in case the base was put into lockdown. Where I worked at also changed work hours due to the new security requirements that were put into effect. These new requirements caused a traffic nightmare.