I don't know...there was terrorism before 9/11 but it wasn't a household phrase and people weren't scared/paranoid about it all the time. There was very little in the way of homeland security.

I watched the whole thing live from beginning to end, thinking that I was only there 3 months prior.

Interesting fact: Jackie chan was supposed to film there that day, but cancelled due to location change. (!)

i remember the day clearly:

gr.11, about to head into health sciences class. I had seen the news coverage on TV before heading out the door only grasping that a plane had hit the WTC and that it had been done deliberately. what I had not yet grasped was how serious the situation was, and how it would change the world. being an arrogant, misinformed teenager, some friends/classmates and i laughed it off saying stupid shit like "they deserve it".

i think i had gone home during a spare block and during class the second plane had already crashed. it was about here that my reaction turned to "omg, wtf is happening here".



in response to that comment about "get over this already", you cannot give the same value to natural disasters and terrorist attacks. they're simply not the same; it's not a numbers game. and as mentioned earlier, people still mourn the events you mentioned in your post.

the ghost face in the smoke still gives me the creeps ...

my mom woke me up saying ww3 started or something like that; it was unbelieveable

we spent the early morning contacting family in NY (uncle has a restaurant nearby) a couple family members worked in the WTC (well 1 of them actually left a couple months earlier but we didnt know) and luckily for one his company (oddly?) had closed the office for that day

it was quite a shock and then i went to school (cant believe so many of you are damned kids that explains a lot though)



try doing a public, well publicized burning of the Torah at say in Israel or Auschwitz (u'll be in prison so fast just for suggesting it)

hell try doing that with any religious texts in the same, hate filled, context as this latest Quran burning (after all there are videos of people burning the Quran on youtube and American soldiers flushing it down the toilet etc it's all context)

Grade 3 back then...I remember walking into my teacher's classroom when I saw the footage on TV. She had this devastated look on he face as the towers burned. I personally just watched, didn't know what to think.

I think I was 3rd year at UBC... was oblivious to it on the bus ride there... just slept. But when I went to my first class, I think it was the commerce building, they had a little TV in the foyer area, and I started watching there...

i saw a special on the discovery channel just the other day.. there was this part where they were talking about when the building was on fire and everything was silent and all of a sudden all you could hear was this super loud slapping sound, it was apparently the sound of the people jumping out of the building and hitting the pavement, that was really disturbing and sad.. rip

I was at YVR getting off the plane from Hong Kong.

Woke up at about 10 'cause a friend called me and told me to turn to CBC. Got a call about half an hour later from my shift supervisor (starbucks) saying "Don't come in to work, all North American Starbucks are closing; we're a high-profile american company."

Sat there the whole day and watched. Crazy shit.

Man you kids make me feel old.

I had flown into Charlotte NC the day before the attack and was at a client's site in the middle of nowhere Greenville NC. The client was in a panic (hysterical might have been a better word) saying that the WTC and Pentagon had been hit. I would end up being stuck there for 4 more days before flights resumed again.

I remember talking to a few coworkers who had family in NYC. People were definitely in a panic. They shut down our office (I was working in Denver, CO at the time) and sent everyone home that day.

Always interested to hear peoples stories from that day that no one will ever forget.

I can remember that i just came into work at the time, and went to the bathroom and walked by the TV that was turned to the news and thought that it was some Hollywood movie. Then i came out and watched a bit more, and couldn't believe it. Talked to some people at work, and well had to get to work and do my job. Went home later on that day and watched all night long in amazement. I think at home in Vancouver somewhere i still have copies of the special edition paper that came out during the day, i should dig them up.

Did anyone get to watch that documentary on CBS or some american channel that was only shown once about this team that was doing a doco. on a New York fireman team and followed them along when they got called into the situation. They showed the firemen actually in the world trade towers, and you could hear people smashing against the ground who jumped out of the towers. Totally unreal, and sad show to watch. It was only shown on TV once in respect to the people that died that day.

Yeah, I've got that paper (and the one from the following day) as well.

I saw it. I think I've actually got it on VHS somewhere. It's actually a pretty neat documentary, considering everything.

Woke up to my alarm set to CKNW at 8:40 or so. Slapped the snooze pretty quick, but I managed to hear something like twin towers.. new york.. collapse.

Thought about it for a bit, then rolled my ass over and turned on CNN. It looked like a scene out of a movie. Nobody got work done that day.

I was in elementary when 9/11 happened. Being a kid, I was just choked the Simpsons were replaced with news broadcasts.

My dad woke me up that morning and said the same thing. He was quick to assume it was Saddam who did it.

i was up at my physics class and people just turned on the radio about this situation
and the teacher told us to stop listening to this radio

I remember I woke up, checked Revscene, and saw a thread titled something like "OMG THEY HIT THE PENTAGON TOO!"

That was a freaky day

I can't remember if I went to classes that day, but I did listen to the radio on my way to UBC.

I particularly remember the debates that I had with some people on this board about events that happened in the aftermath. I was a young and naive kid back then, so my views have certainly changed. Was it because of 9/11? It's hard to say.

I don't view 9/11 as an attack on our way of life - whatever that is. It was a political statement as much as it was about religion. At the end of the day, it's about power and it was a small group's way of saying, "Get your companies the fuck out of ours and let us run things the way we want them."

I was back at home, have to work that morning. My alarm/radio went off and I was like wtf? I walk downstairs and my dad has CNN on. I'm like, did what I think just happen actually happen? He tells me ya, we watch for like 20 minutes and then the second plane hits the other tower.

Scary day, I to thought WW3 was on the horizon.

wtf.. there someone falling down from there... NASTY... you wont see anything but red blood...

Was watching a documentary last night about some of the events after 9/11. Apparently there was one small stairwell that protected a lot of the survivors. In the accounts of 2 of the rescue workers they were headed to the top of the stairwell and found a guy sitting on top of the rubble.

By the survivor account, wherever he was he just rode the rubble as it was all falling down and somehow ended up on top of it all pretty much ok. Crazy stuff.

Ending gave me chills.

watching as the people dropped from buildings to the ground angers me to no end.. and makes my heart drop.