Where were you ?

[Elkbelch]

I was in Silt Colorado, we were moving our elk camp North of I-70 due to lack of sign in our normal area. We stopped at a small burger shack and everyone was listening to it on the radio. Like someone mentioned, I noticed no planes flying over that night. I had a wife and baby at home ( a baby girl going on her first elk hunt this year) and I was a bit scared. Gas was over $5 in my home town for a bit. That night as I sat by our camp fire and looked West there were flashes of lightning and I couldn’t help wonder if that was LA in a nuclear strike.

Shawn

 

[mmcneil]

Working on a wooden water flume in Purgatory Colorado. The Xcel energy project manager came by and told us what was happening.

 

[Where's Bruce?]

Waiting to hear from family employed inside the WTC. Awful period.

 

[ReddingArcher]

My wife and I were just talking about this. Its one of those moments you'll never forget where you were and what you were doing. I was already at work finishing a house. I didnt have my radio going cause it was real early and I didnt want to piss off any neighbors. I remember the guy I was working with at the time showing up and telling me what had happened.

Things sure have changed from then to now, we were united as a country...

 

[Travis907]

Quote of the day!!
Last year, the nation paused to remember 20 years since the attacks of September 11, 2001. But 21 years later is just as momentous as 20 years later. That's why the rallying cry forged after that fateful day remains "Never forget."Whether it's 10 years, 11 years, 20 years, or 21 years after, the anniversary of 9/11/2001 will remain burned into our national memory forever and ever. No matter how many years have passed. Because never means never!

 

[mdp22]

Was in the USAF on an exercise in Hungary. Got busy real quick.

 

[49ereric]

working for a union contractor at a national fish hatch south of Genoa WI doing Pond and water control structure work.

 

[Oilfieldmiller]

Basic Training at Ft. Benning, GA.

Base and everything locked down for days and I remember weeks afterward some recruits still thinking it was some sort of training exercise. We had NO contact with outside world and was only told what we were told. Came out into completely different world months later.


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[Mojave]

I was in the military, had just gotten home from doing day and night live fire training. I was just about to get into bed for a quick nap when my phone rang and was called back into work……

Thanks for your service

 

[Mojave]

I was on the USS Nimitz we had pulled out of a port call in singapore. Within a few weeks were flying missions in Afghan. Retired in 2013.

 

[magtech]

College, dorm room at the time. Definetly left a mark on me. Hence, crazy me joining the military.

 

[Jstumbaugh]

I was a freshman in college. Got into the elevator at the dorm to head to class and a girl stopped me in the lobby. She was shaken and told me what had happened. Her parents worked in the WTC. Shortly after the second plane hit.

 

[Deadfall]

Southern tip of Colorado waiting on a bull to expire

 

[hunt1up]

High school sophmore English class. When they announced it over the classroom speaker, our teacher said something like, "This is one of those moments where you will remember where you were for the rest of your life." He was certainly right.

 

[Drenalin]

I was at 29 palms just finishing up on the range when they unexpectedly/unexplained hurried us back to the barracks. Hindsight. 29 stumps is/was likely the safest place on earth as not a single human (or other kind) would ever want to step foot there

That's the damn truth.

I was at Lejeune at the time. We spent the afternoon checking and staging equipment, like we thought we'd deploy the next day.

 

[Dos Perros]

I was a fraternity pledge at the time and was on 'walking hours,' when they'd kick us out of the house at 7am every morning. It was my plan to uncomfortably sleep in two connected chairs in our student union, but like the rest of you I was glued to the TV in disbelief.

I remember telling my friend he was an idiot later that day for waiting in line to pay $2.20/gal for gas (I think price was normally $1.20, but prices spiked in the uncertainty).

 

[TheBootBowhunting]

I was in 29 Palms doing a CAX and spent thanksgiving at Camp Rhino.

 

[Spence1875]

I was at the Pentagon as a first responder about 5 minutes after it hit, then worked in the morgue. Spent my whole adult life dealing with these aholes. Started with working Tanzania in 98, then in yemen with the Cole in 2000 followed by 9/11. Two trips to Iraq and 1 to Afghanistan. Those savages are patient and have a long long memory. They will come again when our guard is down after we willing welcome 10,000s of sheep in with some wolves hidden in the mix.

I usually just chill on 9/11 and don’t watch any of it.

Btw. I retired in March. 4 marines and 24 as fed was enough for me, times were changing to much.

 

[Jmort1754]

Waiting to hear from family employed inside the WTC. Awful period.

Makes my ******* blood boil.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I was home for an elk hunt with my dad. I was sleeping late after partying with friends in town the night before.

My mom woke me up on her way to work and said I should get up and turn on the tv, there’s been a terrorist stack in New York.

The highways were empty that day and the radio stations that weren’t covering the event were playing “one love” my Bob marley

On that day a guy I went to Highschool with entered one of the towers and was never seen again, rumor has it that he went into the buildings and climbed the stairs at least a dozen times bring people out with him each time before heading in again one last time right before the building collapsed.